The story of Tracy Edwards, a 24-year-old cook on charter boats, who became the skipper of the first ever all-female crew to enter the Whitbread Round the World Race in 1989. This is a film that doesn't leave you: the images of gigantic waves and ice bergs and superhuman levels of courage and endurance are hard to process. If it were a work of fiction you would dismiss it as Hollywood hype: but it's not, find out more...
Todd Field's long awaited return to filmmaking following a 16-year absence since 'Little Children' (2006). Lydia Tár (Cate Blanchett), an internationally renowned composer and conductor within the world of classical music, is preparing for her latest recordings as chief conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. As she prepares, issues in Tár's personal and professional life cause fract find out more...
The music doc has long settled into a format: uncritical interviewees, archive footage, rise, fall, difficult comeback. But this one finds a terrific subject in Kathleen Hanna, the smart, dynamic, confrontational co-founder of the 1990s Riot Grrrl movement and lea find out more...