by Cameron Massey | Oct 16, 2019 | 2019 Documentaries, All 2019 Films
“The Russian Five” (USA, 2018, 102m) “The Russian Five” (USA, 2018, 102m) In the late 1980s, the Detroit Red Wings work to finally break a 42-year Stanley Cup drought by extracting players from the Iron—curtain Soviet Union and, in the process, change the way North...
by Cameron Massey | Oct 16, 2019 | 2019 Documentaries, All 2019 Films
“For Sama” (USA, in Arabic, 2019, 100m) “For Sama” (USA, in Arabic, 2019, 100m) An intimate and epic journey into the female experience of war. The story of Waad al-Kateab’s life through five years of the uprising in Aleppo, Syria, as she falls in love, gets...
by Cameron Massey | Oct 16, 2019 | 2019 Documentaries, All 2019 Films
“Scheme Birds” (Sweden, 2019, 90m) “Scheme Birds” (Sweden, 2019, 90m) As her childhood turns into motherhood, a teenage troublemaker comes of age in her fading Scottish steel town. But in a place where “you either get knocked up or locked up,” innocent...
by Cameron Massey | Oct 16, 2019 | 2019 Documentaries, All 2019 Films
“Reinventing Rosalee” (USA, 2018, 90m) “Reinventing Rosalee” (USA, 2018, 90m) Rosalee Glass, a former Holocaust survivor taken prisoner to a Siberian gulag during WWII, moves to America and transforms her destiny. In her 80s she begins an acting career, in her 90s...
by Cameron Massey | Oct 16, 2019 | 2019 Documentaries, All 2019 Films
“Maiden” (USA, 2018, 97m ) “Maiden” (USA, 2018, 97m ) Tracy Edwards, a 24-year-old cook in charter boats, became the skipper of the first ever all-female crew to enter the Whitbread Round the World (33,000 miles) . in 1989. To get there she remortgaged her home,...
