Documentary

• Title: Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat
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Director Johan Grimonprez‘s film is an unusually structured documentary blending music, soundbites, interviews, archival footage, and narration from different sources to examine jazz, decolonization, subversion, autonomy, political assassination, and Cold War clashing ideologies all through the lens of the murder of prime minister Patrice Lumumba of the newly independent Congo which was unwittingly aided by Louis Armstrong in his role as an ambassador to Africa.

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• Title: Blink (2024)
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After learning that three of their four children suffer from a degenerative eye condition which will gradually leave them blind, a family sets off around the world to pack a lifetime of experiences and wonders in a single year. The documentary from Edmund Stenson and Daniel Roher chronicles the French Canadian family’s travels across the world through a variety of locales balancing the emotions of wonder and awe with fear, sadness, and impending loss.

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• Title: Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg
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Told through the use of an unpublished memoir found after her death, Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg looks back at the life of model, actress, and Rolling Stones‘ muse Anita Pallenberg with a large section of the film devoted to her relationships with Brian Jones and Keith Richards. The documentary from Alexis Bloom and Svetlana Zill is most notable for the vintage photos and video footage of Pallenberg’s life incorporated into the film.

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