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Wyeth (Glenn Holsten, 2018).

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Wyeth (Glenn Holsten, 2018).

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Recovery is Possible. Watch Colorful & Inspiring Helping People with Mental Health Challenges 'Hollywood Beauty Salon' [Trailer]

Recovery is Possible. Watch Colorful & Inspiring Helping People with Mental Health Challenges ‘Hollywood Beauty Salon’ [Trailer]

    “I am not my diagnosis. I’m not my symptoms.” ‘Hollywood Beauty Salon’ is a documentary about surviving mental illness and violence, struggling with loss, finding courage for recovery, and discovering the beauty inside of each of us.

“Once everybody else was telling their story I realized I wasn’t by myself.” ‘Hollywood Beauty Salon’portrays life at an intimate beauty parlor inside of the NHS…

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Docs in Theaters: "5 Broken Cameras" and "OC87"

This week's new theatrical releases for documentary include two films with similar approaches. Each is basically in the first-person style, though each protagonist is a relatively amateur filmmaker so both films do involve co-directors assisting the filmmaker-subjects. However, the stories and lives featured in these autobiographical films couldn't be more different.

Be sure to look through the list of other docs continuing their releases, particularly the large expansions of First Position and Jiro Dreams of Sushi, and take note of film festivals going on this week, including Cannes, Seattle International, and Australia's Human Rights Arts & Film.

Here are your two new theatrical releases followed by the weekly list of docs still in cinemas: 5 Broken Cameras

A mostly first-person film by Palestinian farmer Emad Burnat, who inadvertently began the project as a home movie of the birth of his youngest son in 2005. In the years that followed, his initial video camera and four more were busted during the family's non-violent resistance to an encroaching Israeli settlement of their West Bank village. The experienced Israeli filmmaker Guy Davidi co-directed and edited the first-hand footage. While it lost the World Documentary Jury Award at Sundance this year to The Law in These Parts (see below), I presume it's a powerful compliment to that excellent Israeli film about the West Bank court system.

Winner of the World Cinema - Documentary Directing Award at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival.

Opens in NYC at Film Forum on Wednesday, May 30. It is also screening this week at the Seattle International Film Festival. For upcoming openings in other cities, check the film's playdates listings.

A mostly first-person film by Bud Clayman about his life with OCD and Asperger's Syndrome, which cut short his initial plans for a filmmaking career 30 years ago. Helping him out are co-directors Scott Johnston and Glenn Holsten (Saint of 9/11).

Now playing at Village East Cinemas in NYC. For upcoming openings in other cities, check the film's theatrical openings page.

Expanded releases this week (older films, new cities, festivals, some also still playing elsewhere). Links go to screening calendar listings:

Being Elmo - Baker City, OR [5/31]

Buffalo Girls - Sydney, AU [5/29, for Human Rights Arts & Film Festival]

The City Dark - Portland, OR [5/25-5/31]; Mesquite, TX [5/26]; Haverhill, MA [5/30]; Washington, DC [5/30]

Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope - Ferndale, MI [5/31]

Crazy Horse - Amherst, MA [opens 5/29]

A Fierce Green Fire - Petaluma, CA [5/30]

First Position - Asbury Park, NJ; Austin, TX; Baltimore, MD; Bethlehem, PA; Beverly Hills, CA; Boise, ID; Dallas, TX; Des Moines, IA; Eugene, OR; Houston, TX; Indianapolis, IN; Ithaca, NY; Louisville, KY; Maitland, FL; Milwaukee, WI; Monterey, CA; Overland Park, KS; Plano, TX; Plymouth, MA; Portland, OR; Sacramento, CA; San Luis Obispo, CA; Santa Cruz, CA; Santa Fe, NM; Santa Rosa, CA; Sarasota, FL; Scottsdale, AZ; Seattle, WA

Follow Me: The Yoni Netanyahu Story - Sag Harbor, NY; White Plains, NY

Gerhard Richter Painting - Grand Rapid, MI [5/25-5/27]

Guañape Sur - Richmond, VA [5/25-5/26]

Hit So Hard - Portland, OR; Phoenix, AZ [5/25-5/27 & 5/31]; Seattle, WA [5/25-5/31]

Impunity - Richmond, VA [5/25-5/26]

Indie Game: The Movie - Miami, FL [5/25-5/27]; New York, NY [5/25-5/31]; Phoenix, AZ [5/25-5/27]; San Francisco, CA [5/25-5/31]; Toronto, ON [5/25-5/31]; Milwaukee, WI [5/30]; Salt Lake City, UT [5/31]

Inni - Montreal, QC [5/26]; Krakow, PL [5/31]

The Interrupters - Rockford, IL

The Island President - Tacoma, WA; Olympia, WA [5/26-5/30]; Melbourne, AU [5/27, for Human Rights Arts & Film Festival]; Canberra, AU [5/28, for Human Rights Arts & Film Festival]

Jiro Dreams of Sushi - Chicago, IL; Fort Collins, CO; Lambertville, NJ; Las Vegas, NV; Mesilla, NM; Springfield, MO; St. Johnsbury, VT; Wilton, NH; Three Rivers, MI [opens 5/26]; Aspen, CO [opens 5/29]; Stuart, FL [opens 5/29]; Normal, IL [opens 5/31]; Patchogue, NY [opens 5/31]

Joffrey: Mavericks of American Dance - Beaufort, SC [5/29]

Kumare - New York, NY [5/26, for Rooftop Films Summer Series]

The Law In These Parts - Seattle, WA [5/27 & 5/29, for Seattle International Film Festival]

Living Memory - Boston, MA [5/26]

The Loving Story - Hudson, NY [5/25-6/3]

Malick Sidibe - Chicago, IL [5/25-6/3]

Marley - Baltimore, MD; Boise, ID; Hartford, CT; Kailua, HI; Montpelier, VT; Pelham, NY; Rockland, ME; Sacramento, CA; Shreveport, LA; Nevada City, CA [opens 5/27]; Anchorage, AK [opens 5/28]; Pittsburgh, PA [opens 5/29] 

Metal and Melancholy - Brooklyn, NY [5/31]

Never Stand Still - New York, NY [5/25-5/31]; Leicester, UK [5/26]

The Nine Muses - Toronto, ON [5/29]

Nostalgia for the Light - Richmond, VA [5/25-5/26]

Our School - Canberra, AU [5/29, for Human Rights Arts & Film Festival]; Sydney, AU [5/30, for Human Rights Arts & Film Festival]

Payback - Boca Raton, FL [5/25-5/31]; Hudson, NY [5/25-5/30]

Pina - Fort Collins, CO

Portrait of Wally - Toronto, ON

Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview - Little Rock, AR; Shepherdstown, WY; Washington, DC; Providence, RI [opens 5/26]; Three Rivers, MI [opens 5/26]

Surviving Progress - Columbus, OH; New Orleans, LA; Portland, OR

Under African Skies - Adelaide, AU [5/29, for Human Rights Arts & Film Festival] Also still in theaters:

Born to Be Wild 3D (IMAX)

Chimpanzee

Flying Monsters 3D

Last Call at the Oasis

Mansome

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