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Directed by Dónal Foreman | 74 mins | 2018
An otherwise impossible conversation between two men of different generations, both filmmakers, is instigated via cinema itself in this probing and achingly personal essay film. Dónal Foreman grew up in Dublin, estranged from his father, the documentarian Arthur MacCaig—best known for his fiery 1979 account of the Troubles, "The Patriot Game." With MacCaig having passed suddenly in 2008, aged 60, Foreman digs through his archive in search of belated connection.
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Jaddoland
Directed by Nadia Shihab | 88 mins | 2018
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Film About a Father Who
Directed by Lynne Sachs | 74 mins | 2020
One man, Ira Sachs Sr., refracted through a host of familial voices and a variety of film formats, the technology evolving over the course of 25 years of shooting. As one of the numerous children he sired with different women—with not all of his progeny kn... -
Joonam
Directed by Sierra Urich | 100 mins | 2023
Sierra Urich has never been to Iran, nor can she speak Farsi. Her mother Mitra fled her native country in 1979, on the cusp of the revolution, eventually settling in rural Vermont. Mitra’s own mother followed 16 years later; still, she speaks very little...
