Janis: Little Girl Blue
Janis Joplin’s evolution into a star from letters that Joplin wrote over the years to her friends, family, and collaborators.
Genre: Documentary, Music
Director: Amy J. Berg
Actors: Cat Power, D. A. Pennebaker, Dick Cavett, Janis Joplin, Karleen Bennett, Laura Joplin, Michael Joplin, Peter Albin
A Moon of Nickel and Ice
The Siberian city of Norilsk, above the Arctic Circle, was established here for the nickel and other metal deposits. Built under Stalin by Gulag prisoners—who numbered some 650,000 between 1930…
Lust for Gold: A Race Against Time
A team of modern adventurers is on a quest for gold in the mountains of eastern Arizona.
A Stone in Our Heart
A mother and a daughter struggle to climb the Swiss Alps while they dig into a past that the mother has spent years suppressing. The daughter was sexually abused by…
Back to the Drive-in
A feature-length documentary that goes behind the scenes to get to know the families who own and operate drive-in theaters.
Women of Steel
Forty years ago, Wollongong’s Jobs for Women Campaign, with director Robynne Murphy among its leaders, took on Australia’s most powerful company BHP – and won. But when the 1980s steel slump devastated the city’s economy, the women were forced into the courtroom. Their struggle plays out against a background of…
Eight Hundred Times Lonely
Anna Hepp meets with renowned German director Edgar Reitz in one of Germany’s most famous cinemas: the Lichtburg in Essen. Reitz talks about his life, his view of art and…
Don’t Rest in Peace
Sharron Prior, a 16-year-old girl from Pointe-Saint-Charles, was found dead in Longueuil in 1975, three days after she disappeared. This documentary will highlight the quest of a bereaved family who…
A Sense of Justice
A Sense of Justice, immerses us In a law firm in this same city. There, we can find Christine Mengus and Nohra Boukara, specialized in the rights of foreigners, supported…
The Last Black Sea Pirates
This is a modern pirate story complete with a captain, a mutinous crew of outlaws, a princess, her wedding dress and untold riches. Only one thing is missing: the ship….
Daddy and the Warlord
In postwar Liberia Clarice Gargard searches the truth concerning her father’s dubious connection to warlord Charles Taylor.
Machete Maidens Unleashed!
In the final decades of the 20th century, the Philippines was a country where low-budget exploitation-film producers were free to make nearly any kind of movie they wanted, any way…
Capturing the Friedmans
An Oscar nominated documentary about a middle-class American family who is torn apart when the father Arnold and son Jesse are accused of sexually abusing numerous children. Director Jarecki interviews…