I have the opportunity to screen movies to a somewhat sizeable audience quite regularly, and I need some recommendations, because my knowledge only extends so much. The audience will go from somewhat politically engaged to extremely radicalized, knowledgeable people (as much politically as with movies).

Be it an experimental documentary which subverts a whole political question, an astute analysis of a geopolitical situation, an emotionally devastating (or potentially hopeful) fiction, or just a very sensible poetic essay in the Chris Marker style or documentary like Paris is Burning, I need it all.

Preferably not something mainstream as that kind would already be widely available to watch for most and the goal is to widen the audience of lesser known movies that need to be shown just as much. Like really very obscure stuff preferably.

Thank you comrades.

edit : here's your list:

spoiler

Come and see

Tender Comrade

The North Star

Reds

My Brothers and Sisters to the North

The Spook Who Sat By The Door

Harlan County, USA

Matewan

Robocop

Z

Stop Filming Us

Gaza Fights for Freedom

Nuit et Brouillard

Der Fall Gleiwitz

Network

Dog Day Afternoon

The Unknown War

Weekend

La Chinoise

Blue Gold

Syriana

Dominion

Earthlings

Carnage

Okja

Lucio

The Act of Killing

The Look of Silence

The planet of the Humans

Seaspiracy

Hypernormalization

Hotel Terminus

Man With A Movie Camera

The Organizer (i compagni)

Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion

Property is No Longer a Theft

The Working Class Goes to Heaven

Hara-Kiri

The Human Condition

Pitfall

Woman in the dunes

Good Morning

Night and Fog in Japan

Three Resurrected Drunkards

Death by Hanging

Canoa: A Shameful Memory

Xala

Sorry to Bother You

Black Gold

Barry

The Times of Harvey Milk

Las Sandinistas


  • Multihedra [he/him]
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    edit-2
    2 years ago

    Ever subscribe to Means.tv? They have a ton of documentaries that are significantly left of average.

    I remember one about the Congo being good, Stop Filming Us I think it was called.

    Gaza Fights for Freedom is on there too (probably YouTube or at least somewhere else as well I’d guess)

    My main point was to have a look at what they have, mainly because it would probably convenient to have a relatively large cache in one place

    There’s undoubtedly a bunch of goofy shit there too, might have to dig a bit

    • ViveLaCommune [any]
      hexagon
      ·
      2 years ago

      well no I didn't know about it and thanks a lot for introducing me to it ! I'm gonna dig in