Best Documentary Features - 2019 Oscar contenders
The 2019 documentary Oscar shortlist is now being presented (as the short films and animations are) in around 15 urban areas nation-wide. Previous Filmleaf reviews of 9 of the 15 are linked below. Several were omitted earlier in this tread because they weren't really theatrical releases, and some, which are unlinked, have not been seen by yours truly. (Jan. 4, 2019):
CHARM CITY - Marilyn Ness [about Baltimore's three recent most violent years]
COMMUNION/KOMOUNIA - Anna Zamecka [children taking on adult family burdens, in Poland]
CRIME + PUNISHMENT - Stephen Maing [NYPD cops reveal illegal quota practices]
DARK MONEY - Kimberly Read
THE DISTANT BARKING OF DOGS - Simon Lereng Wilmont (SFIFF)
FREE SOLO - (Jimmy Chin, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi
HALE COUNTY, THIS MORNING, THIS EVENING - (ND/NF)
MINDING THE GAP - Bing Liu (SFIFF)
OF FATHERS AND SONS/KINDER DES KALIFATS (2017) - Talal Derki [Following a radical Islamist family in Syria]
ON HER SHOULDERS - Alexandra Bombach
RBG - Julie Cohn, Betsy West
SHIRKERS - Sandi Tan - [Available on Netflix] [A lost feature film found]
THE SILENCE OF OTHERS/EL SILENCIO DE OTROS/ Almudena Carracedo, Robert Bahar [About the Franco regime in Spain]
THREE IDENTICAL STRANGERS - Tim Wardle
WON'T YOU BE MY NEIGHBOR - Morgan Neville
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