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The idea of death metal sweeping a nation torn by political violence might seem absurd—or absurdly fitting—to an outsider, but that’s exactly what happens in Jeremy Xido’s lauded, hyper-real new documentary. Sonia and Wilker run an orphanage in Angola’s capital for a handful of the nation’s thousands of orphans, born into a civil tempest that calmed barely ten years ago. Into the silence that follows war, Wilker and other death metal musicians bring the release of noise, and of a nationwide musical community that comes together in a benefit concert to benefit Sonia’s orphanage. More

For anyone who laments the modern world seeming too small, filmmaker Gonçalo Tocha’s voyage to the smallest of all worlds will inspire and revolutionize. On the two-mile-long island of Corvo exists a civilization which, for 500 years, has sat adrift in the middle of the Pacific, sustaining itself independent of the world economy. Tocha arrives, with few camera crewmen to distort his narrative, documenting his hesitant integration into the community that has eluded written record for so long. More