Documentary
Thursday shot from filmmaker Galen Johnson's high-rise apartment during COVID-19 “lockdown” in Winnipeg, captures people going about their daily routines in the city's eerily empty streets, yards and parking lots, on their balconies and on the riverbanks. The extreme distance and the diminutive scale of humans is paired with sound close-ups—a combination that embodies the strange, heightened intensity of feeling of the time, knowing an era-defining tragedy is happening yet being so physically removed.
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
The Unfinished Journey
Call into Silence
Alone
The Tickle King
A 3 Minute Hug
Haida Carver
The Sacred Art of Tibet
Dinosaurios en 3D
Visions of Europe
You'll Never Guess What Happened Next
The Royal Visit
High Cities of Bone
Arabian Coffee
The Last Cruise
Find Fix Finish
Heart of the Bear
Color-Blind
Apache
Jordan River Anderson, The Messenger
There's Something in the Water
SIMILAR MOVIES
The Unfinished Journey
IMDB 6 | Dec , 1999
A short about American life and history produced for the millennium New Year's Eve celebration.Call into Silence
IMDB 10 | Jan , 1965
A documentary about the artistic and verbal expressions of mentally ill people.Alone
IMDB 6.6 | Jan , 2017
This investigation into the layers of mass incarceration and its shaping of the modern black American family is seen through the eyes of a single mother in New Orleans, Louisiana.The Tickle King
IMDB 6.9 | Feb , 2017
Featuring new, previously unseen footage documenting the bizarre and unsettling things that happened to filmmakers David Farrier and Dylan Reeve as Tickled premiered at film festivals and theaters in 2016. Lawsuits, private investigators, disrupted screenings and surprise appearances are just part of what they encounter along the way. Amidst new threats, the duo begins to answer questions that remained once the credits rolled on Tickled, including whether the disturbing behavior they uncovered will ever come to an end.A 3 Minute Hug
IMDB 6.5 | Nov , 2018
As daylight breaks between the border cities of El Paso, Texas, and Juarez, Mexico, undocumented migrants and their relatives, divided by a wall, prepare to participate in an activist event. For three minutes, they’ll embrace in no man’s land for the briefest and sweetest of reunions.Haida Carver
IMDB 0 | Jan , 1964
On Canada's Pacific coast this film finds a young Haida artist, Robert Davidson, shaping miniature totems from argillite, a jet-like stone. The film follows the artist to the island where he finds the stone, and then shows how he carves it in the manner of his grandfather, who taught him the craft.The Sacred Art of Tibet
IMDB 0 | Jun , 1972
An accurate depiction of the basic tenets of northern Mahayana Buddhism, cast into living or "experiential" form, consistent with powerful mantras heard on the soundtrack of the film. Tarthang Tulku, a Tibetan Lama, was the advisor.Dinosaurios en 3D
IMDB 0 | May , 2012
Not so long ago there were monumental movie theaters in the streets and avenues of Madrid, the capital of Spain, authentic cathedrals erected during the golden age of film exhibition, now converted into 3D dinosaurs, whose remains speak of the past and somehow anticipate the future.Visions of Europe
IMDB 4.9 | May , 2004
Twenty-five films from twenty-five European countries by twenty-five European directors.You'll Never Guess What Happened Next
IMDB 10 | Aug , 2023
Shot during King Krule's Shhh Tour, this concert film includes a series of stripped-back intimate shows.The Royal Visit
IMDB 0 | Nov , 1939
This feature documentary offers a complete record of the 1939 Royal Tour of Canada by King George VI and Queen Elizabeth. The film opens as the royal couple makes a stop in Québec city, where Premier Duplessis greets them. They then visit Montréal and meet mayor Camilien Houde. A visit to Ottawa brings them to Parliament, where Prime Minister MacKenzie King is present. The visit continues throughout Ontario, the prairies, and western Canada. The Royal couple also makes a brief stop in Washington and meets President Franklin Roosevelt. They then stop in on the Maritime provinces before boarding a Royal yacht for the journey back to England.High Cities of Bone
IMDB 6.3 | Feb , 2017
Karlon, born in Pedreira dos Húngaros (a slum in the outskirts of Lisbon) and a pioneer of Cape Verdean creole rap, runs away from the housing project to which he had been relocated.Arabian Coffee
IMDB 5.2 | Jan , 1968
'Coffea arábiga' was sponsored as a propaganda documentary to show how to sow coffee around Havana. In fact, Guillén Landrián made a film critical of Castro, exhibited but banned as soon as the coffee plan collapsed.The Last Cruise
IMDB 6.6 | Mar , 2021
Using intimate footage recorded by passengers and crew, The Last Cruise is a first-person account of the nightmare that transpired aboard the ill-fated Diamond Princess cruise ship, which set sail from Japan on the earliest days of the COVID-19 pandemic.Find Fix Finish
IMDB 0 | Jan , 2017
Find Fix Finish delves into the stories of three US-Drone pilots revealing the clandestine operational strategies practiced by the US Government.Heart of the Bear
IMDB 0 | Feb , 2021
A woodsman from the Catskills helps a group of people get through the COVID-19 pandemic with a daily livestream.Color-Blind
IMDB 4 | Aug , 2019
A synaesthetic portrait made between French Polynesia and Brittany, Color-blind follows the restless ghost of Gauguin in excavating the colonial legacy of a post-postcolonial present.Apache
IMDB 0 | Jan , 1953
Short about the daily life of the Apaches, including their ceremonies.Jordan River Anderson, The Messenger
IMDB 8 | Sep , 2019
The story of a young boy forced to spend all five years of his short life in hospital while the federal and provincial governments argued over which was responsible for his care, as well as the long struggle of Indigenous activists to force the Canadian government to enforce “Jordan’s Principle” — the promise that no First Nations children would experience inequitable access to government-funded services again.There's Something in the Water
IMDB 7.1 | Sep , 2019
Elliot Page brings attention to the injustices and injuries caused by environmental racism in his home province, in this urgent documentary on Indigenous and African Nova Scotian women fighting to protect their communities, their land, and their futures.