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2021 | Color | 160:00

Examining the most powerful movie images of the last decade, filmmaker Mark Cousins updates his classic The Story of Film with A New Generation. Spanning from 2010 to 2021, Cousins spins an epic and hopeful tale of cinematic innovation around the globe as he helps uncover new ways of seeing and being in our eclectic, voluminous digital age.


Country: Reino Unido
Direction: Cousins; Mark
Script: Cousins; Mark
Production: Archer; John, Glynn; Clara
Participation year at FICM: 2021

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The Story of Documentary Film

The Story of Documentary Film
This series reviews the history of the documentary from its beginnings to the present day. It also re-examines genre classics alongside striking new discoveries and forgotten works from around the world. Structured chronologically, yet interspersed with standalone thematic sections, the series challenges preconceived notions about what a documentary is. See More

A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things

A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things

Wilhelmina Barns-Graham was a painter, visionary, and singular thinker. In 1949, Barns-Graham, then 36 years old, climbed the Grindelwald Glacier, where she had an aesthetic and spiritual epiphany that rewired her brain and transformed her art. She spent the rest of her life painting it. Diving deep into her art and life, the film explores themes of gender, neurodiversity, climate change, and the nature of creativity from youth to old age.

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Cinema Has Been My True Love: The Work and Times of Lynda Myles

Cinema Has Been My True Love: The Work and Times of Lynda Myles

Lynda Myles, an influential connoisseur of cinema, reflects on her adventures in the film culture she helped establish. From 1973 to 1980, as the first female director of any festival, Myles transformed the Edinburgh Film Festival into a vibrant, iconoclastic mecca of discovery, championing the work of overlooked auteurs such as Hitchcock, Sirk, and Sam Fuller.

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