The new year promises an incredible lineup of documentaries , check out some new titles on our slate for 2025 and their release date.
I AM MARTIN PARR
Since the 1970s, English photographer Martin Parr has held up a sometimes tender, sometimes critical and always mischievous mirror to our times, forcing us to take a hard look at how consumer society has shaped our lives. Discover the maverick behind some of the most iconic images of the past century on an intimate and exclusive road trip across England with the uncompromising Parr, whose subjects, frames and colours have revolutionised contemporary photography.
From Bristol‚ where he lives and has set up his incredible foundation to the seaside resort of New Brighton‚ where he will return with us after 40 years to reshoot his most famous work‚ The Last resort‚ I Am Martin Parr is the portrait of an extraordinary photographer who revolutionized contemporary photography by inventing a political‚ humanist and accessible photographic language.
In UK cinemas from 21 February. More info here.
ERNEST COLE: LOST AND FOUND
Ernest Cole, a South African photographer was the first to expose the horrors of apartheid to a world audience. His book House of Bondage, published in 1967 when he was only 27 years old, led him into exile in NYC and Europe for the rest of his life, never to find his bearings. Raoul Peck recounts his wanderings, his turmoil as an artist and his anger, on a daily basis, at the silence or complicity of the Western world in the face of the horrors of the Apartheid regime. He also recounts how, in 2017, 60,000 negatives of his work were discovered in the safe of a Swedish bank.
Ernest Cole: Lost and Found is in UK cinemas from 7 March, more info here.
DIG! xx
DIG! XX is the 20th anniversary extended edition of the rock documentary DIG!, which adds new narration by The Brian Jonestown Massacre’s Joel Gion, features 40+ minutes of never-before-seen footage, and brings this epic tale through to today.
DIG! XX looks at the collision of art and commerce through the star-crossed friendship and bitter rivalry of dueling rock bands — The Dandy Warhols and The Brian Jonestown Massacre. Through their loves and obsessions, gigs, arrests and death threats, uppers and downers, and ultimately to their chance at a piece of the profit-driven music business, they stage a self-proclaimed revolution in the music industry.
In cinemas for one-night-only on 25 March. More info here.