Documentary Shorts


Childfree
directed by: Sara Bahramjahan
Iran / 2021 / 35 mins.
Location: Landmark’s E Street Cinema
Time: Saturday, March 5th – 5:15pm
See this in our film block: TWO NEW FILMS FROM IRAN
(March 5) – $9 (+ Eventbrite fee) HERE or AT THE DOOR
What drives Iranians who decided to have no children and how do they fit in.




Magdalene’s Lies
directed by: Julie Laurenz
South Africa / 2021 / 26 mins.
Location: Landmark’s E Street Cinema
Times: Saturday, March 5th – 1:00pm + Sunday, March 6th – 2:30pm
See this in our documentary film block: OTHER PERSPECTIVES
(March 5) – $11 (+ Eventbrite fee) HERE or AT THE DOOR
(March 6) – $11 (+ Eventbrite fee) HERE or AT THE DOOR
To some Magdalene is a “Mother Teresa”, to other’s she is a rotten crook. The real Magdalene is revealed.




Pineland/Hollywood
directed by: Debi Cornwall
USA / 2021 / 10 mins.
Location: Landmark’s E Street Cinema
Times: Saturday, March 5th – 3:15pm + Sunday, March 6th – 2:30pm
See this in our documentary film blocks: ART INTERSECT WITH LIFE AND OTHER PERSPECTIVES
(March 5) – $11 (+ Eventbrite fee) HERE or AT THE DOOR
(March 6) – $11 (+ Eventbrite fee) HERE or AT THE DOOR
At a traffic stop, distinguishing reality from fantasy becomes the difference between life and death. Using fair-use clips from almost 200 Hollywood films to tell one true story.




The Militiaman
directed by: David Peter Hansen
USA / 2021 / 31 mins.
Location: Landmark’s E Street Cinema
Times: Saturday, March 5th – 1:00pm + Sunday, March 6th – 2:30pm
See this in our documentary film block: OTHER PERSPECTIVES
(March 5) – $11 (+ Eventbrite fee) HERE or AT THE DOOR
(March 6) – $11 (+ Eventbrite fee) HERE or AT THE DOOR
In the hills of rural Pennsylvania, the leader of a local militia must prepare his men for the turbulent political landscape of 2020 while at war with his own conscience.




Regreso
directed by: Wijdane Balbiyar
USA / 2021 / 5 mins.
Location: Landmark’s E Street Cinema
Times: Saturday, March 5th – 1:00pm + Sunday, March 6th – 2:30pm
See this in our documentary film block: OTHER PERSPECTIVES
(March 5) – $11 (+ Eventbrite fee) HERE or AT THE DOOR
(March 6) – $11 (+ Eventbrite fee) HERE or AT THE DOOR
Achraf, a Moroccan teenager, tried to escape poverty by swimming his way from Africa to Europe.




Avish Khebrezadeh’s Seven Silent Songs
directed by: Avish Khebrehzadeh
USA / 2021 / 4 mins.
Location: Landmark’s E Street Cinema
Time: Saturday, March 5th – 3:15pm
See this in our documentary film block: ART INTERSECT WITH LIFE
(March 5) – $11 (+ Eventbrite fee) HERE or AT THE DOOR
What do a baby rhino, soldiers on stilts and humans dragging a whale mean to Iranian artist Avish Khebrehzadeh? Watch as she draws the figures for her video, “Seven Silent Songs” and her grand, wall-sized drawing, “Tree of Life in Blue,” temporarily installed at the National Gallery of Art.




Remnants of Memory
directed by: Michael Arlen Davis, Jyll Johnstone
USA / 2021 / 25 mins
Location: Landmark’s E Street Cinema
Time: Saturday, March 5th – 3:15pm
See this in our documentary film block: ART INTERSECT WITH LIFE
(March 5) – $11 (+ Eventbrite fee) HERE or AT THE DOOR
Fine Art Photographer Charles Johnstone explores the vivid canals and ancient passageways of Venice, Italy in search of a new book project.





Dajla: cinema and oblivion
directed by: Arturo Dueñas Herrero
Spain / 2020 / 15 mins.
Location: Landmark’s E Street Cinema
Time: Saturday, March 5th – 3:15pm
See this in our documentary film block: ART INTERSECT WITH LIFE
(March 5) – $11 (+ Eventbrite fee) HERE or AT THE DOOR
In Dakhla, a forgotten refugee camp in southern Algeria, there is a film festival, the Fisahara.




Entrance and Exit of Mascha B.
directed by: Laura Engelhardt
Germany / 2020 / 14 mins.
Location: Landmark’s E Street Cinema
Time: Saturday, March 5th – 3:15pm
See this in our documentary film block: ART INTERSECT WITH LIFE
(March 5) – $11 (+ Eventbrite fee) HERE or AT THE DOOR
At a big architectural visualization company, delicate operations give rise to a photorealistic rendering to promote a yet-to-be-built office space.




My Brother is Deaf
directed by: Peter Hoffman Kimball
USA / 2021 / 10 mins.
Location: Landmark’s E Street Cinema
Times: Saturday, March 5th – 1:00pm + Sunday, March 6th – 2:30pm
See this in our documentary film block: OTHER PERSPECTIVES
(March 5) – $11 (+ Eventbrite fee) HERE or AT THE DOOR
(March 6) – $11 (+ Eventbrite fee) HERE or AT THE DOOR
A boy learns that his younger brother is deaf and tries to understand.


