DOCS – Mill Valley Film Festival

TURN EVERY PAGE – THE ADVENTURES OF ROBERT CARO AND ROBERT GOTTLIEB

United States CREATE BAMPFA, Rafael 3 Oct 16, Oct 7 DOCS Mind the Gap Film

CREATE | MIND THE GAP | DOCS US 2022, 112 min, Director: Lizzie Gottlieb Fifty years, five books, four thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight pages…and counting. Lizzie Gottlieb’s gripping documentary focuses on the intersecting life's…

TUKDAM – BETWEEN WORLDS

mvff 2022 Estonia, Finland, Ireland SPIRIT Rafael 3, Virtual Oct 12, Oct 14, Oct 6 DOCS Film

SPIRIT | DOCS Finland, Ireland, Estonia 2022, 91 min, Director: Donagh Coleman Is it possible to die in a consciously controlled way? The Tibetan Buddhist tradition of “tukdam,” a practice of meditating at the deepest level of consciousness…

TOWN DESTROYER

mvff 2022 United States Rafael 3, Roxie Theater, Sequoia 2, Virtual Oct 14, Oct 15, Oct 6, Oct 8 DOCS Mind the Gap Film

MIND THE GAP | DOCS US 2022, 55 min, Director: Alan Snitow, Deborah Kaufman Is art’s role to provoke or placate? What happens when it no longer reflects current societal views? These questions and many more were the subject of hot debate…

THE YOUNG VOTE

mvff 2022 United States TRAILBLAZERS BAMPFA, Sequoia 2, Virtual Oct 10, Oct 6, Oct 8, Oct 9 DOCS Active Cinema, Mind the Gap Film

TRAILBLAZERS | ACTIVE CINEMA | MIND THE GAP | DOCS US 2022, 67 min, Director: Diane Robinson As the United States teeters toward theocracy, it is painfully clear that the stakes in the upcoming midterm elections are nothing short of the life,…

THE QUIET EPIDEMIC

mvff 2022 United States Rafael 3, Sequoia 1, Virtual Oct 10, Oct 6, Oct 8 DOCS Active Cinema, Mind the Gap Film

ACTIVE CINEMA | MIND THE GAP | DOCS US 2022, 101 min, Director: Lindsay Keys, Winslow Crane-Murdoch While true to its title in tone, directors Lindsay Keys and Winslow Crane-Murdoch’s documentary probe into the medical establishment’s…

THE GRAB

United States GROW Sequoia 1, Sequoia 2 Oct 10, Oct 7 DOCS Mind the Gap Film

GROW | DOCS US 2022, 104 min, Director: Gabriela Cowperthwaite This gripping, of-the-moment documentary connects some of the dots in humanity’s oldest struggle: the fight over resources. With an elegant, eye-opening throughline, filmmaker…

THE ART OF EATING: THE LIFE OF M.F.K. FISHER

mvff 2022 United States CREATE Rafael 1, Sequoia 1, Virtual Oct 11, Oct 13, Oct 6 DOCS Film

CREATE | DOCS US 2022, 85 min, Director: Gregory Bezat “I don’t know how to do anything else,” M.F.K. Fisher once said of her writing, in a feat of understatement. San Francisco director Gregory Bezat’s well-balanced documentary…

STILL WORKING 9 TO 5

United States LAUGH Lark Theater, Rafael 2 Oct 14, Oct 16 DOCS Mind the Gap Film

LAUGH | MIND THE GAP | DOCS US 2021, 95 min, Directors: Camille Hardman, Gary Lane The iconic 1980 screwball feminist revenge comedy that put the plight of women office workers on blast steps back into the spotlight in this fun and fascinating…

SOPHIA

United States TRAILBLAZERS Rafael 1, Rafael 2 Oct 14, Oct 15 DOCS Mind the Gap Film

TRAILBLAZERS | MIND THE GAP | DOC US 2022, 89 min, Director: Crystal Moselle, Jon Kasbe An exploration of brilliance and frailty in the pursuit of artistic perfection, Crystal Moselle and Jon Kasbe’s documentary follows ingenious but unsettled…

SEARCHING FOR SUGAR MAN

United States Sequoia 2 Oct 7 DOCS Film

DOCS US 2012, 86 min, Director: Malik Bendjelloul Detroit-born Sixto Rodriguez may be the best singer-songwriter you’ve never heard of. Though a respected early 1970s folk musician, he faded into obscurity after his first two albums failed…