Lucy Walker — Director (12)

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Of Night and Light: The Story of Iboga and Ibogaine (2023)
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What if there was an easy treatment for drug addiction, PTSD, and more “untreatable” afflictions? For many people, this is simply a pipe dream that probably wouldn’t be scientifically feasible. To some, however, there is already an effective treatment for the disease that afflicts over 20 million Americans: a psychedelic compound known as ibogaine. It’s found in the iboga plant that grows across the Republic of Congo and has been credited with helping former addicts heal from their withdrawals. However, for as many benefits as it could bring, ibogaine is far from a perfect solution.

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The Stimming Pool (2024)
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The Neurocultures Collective / Benjamin Brown …
other title: 游泳池
Created by a collective of neurodivergent filmmakers in an attempt to provide an alternative and artistic take on what it's like to live with neurodivergence in a chaotic world not made for those who are different. A young man loves b-movies and runs his own film club. A woman fills out questionnaires and is undergoing an eye-tracking test. An office worker walks around with blue earplugs on his ears. A picture book tells the story of a superhero-like dog person who watches over people with disabilities. ‘The Stimming Pool’ is an experimental and sometimes magical hybrid film created by filmmaker Steven Eastwood and a collective of five different neurodivergent artists. Usually, people with different brains are the subject of films, but here they are behind the wheel. For example, how does it feel to walk into a completely full pub where everyone is chatting, playing table tennis and drinking beer? And where does the neurodivergent eye look in that situation? Shot curiously on crisp, beautiful 16mm film by ‘Aftersun’ cinematographer Gregory Oke, the different stories weave imaginatively in and out of each other. 源自:

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Devil's Playground (2002)
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Lucy Walker actor: Velda Bontrager / Joann Hochstetler …
other title: 恶魔的游乐场 / 惡魔的遊樂場 …
Devil's Playground is a 2002 documentary film by Lucy Walker about the alleged Amish rite of passage called Rumspringa. The film follows Amish teenagers who enter the "English World" to decide whether they will be baptised as adults in the Amish community. They deal with problems in the outside world, which the Amish refer to as "the Devil's Playground," that do not exist in their home communities, including alcohol and drugs.

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Buena Vista Social Club: Adios (2017)
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other title: 乐士浮生录:再会 / 弦满夏湾拿(港) …
In 1996, Cuban bandleader Juan de Marcos Gonzalez, British producer Nick Gold, and American guitarist Ry Cooder convened in Havana to produce a Cuban-Malian collaboration. When the Malians couldn’t get visas, the team turned their attention to reviving a forgotten generation of legendary son cubano musicians and formed an on-the-fly ensemble: the Buena Vista Social Club. Two decades since that fateful first session, we catch up to these master musicians, as they reflect on the magical unfolding of their lives—from humble origins to the evolution and surprising revival of their careers, all against the backdrop of Cuba’s dramatic history. Brimming with unseen concert, rehearsal, and archival footage, this film is an emotional, shimmering celebration of music’s power to transcend age, ideologies, and class, and to connect us to each other through our souls.

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The Crash Reel (2013)
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露西·沃克 actor: Kevin Pearce / 肖恩·怀特 …
other title: 眩晕 / 事故录像 …
The Crash Reel tells the story of a sport and the risks that athletes face in reaching the pinnacle of their profession. This is Kevin Pearce’s story, a celebrated snowboarder who sustained a brain injury in a trick gone wrong and who now aims, against all the odds, to get back on the snow.

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Bring Your Own Brigade (2021)
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other title: 带上你的队伍 / 브링 유어 오운 브리게이드 …
A character-driven verité and revelatory investigation takes us on a journey embedded with firefighters and residents on a mission to understand the causes of historically large wildfires and how to survive them, discovering that the solution has been here all along.

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Countdown to Zerø (2010)
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★ 7.0 6 ratings
other title: 数到零 / 카운트다운 투 제로 …
Although the Cold War is behind us, the threat of nuclear disaster remains very real. Director Lucy Walker discusses the invention of the atomic bomb and brings the story into the present day, examining the possibility of nuclear calamity under the categories of "Madness," "Accident" and "Miscalculation." With narration by Gary Oldman, the film includes a hypothetical sequence of a nuclear explosion in New York City's Times Square, timed to coincide with the New Year's Eve countdown.

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Waste Land (2011)
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★ 8.4 11 ratings
露西·沃克 / Lucy Walker … actor: Vik Muniz
other title: 웨이스트 랜드 / Lixo Extraordinário …
An uplifting feature documentary highlighting the transformative power of art and the beauty of the human spirit. Top-selling contemporary artist Vik Muniz takes us on an emotional journey from Jardim Gramacho, the world's largest landfill on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, to the heights of international art stardom. Vik collaborates with the brilliant catadores, pickers of recyclable materials, true Shakespearean characters who live and work in the garbage quoting Machiavelli and showing us how to recycle ourselves.

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The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom (2011)
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★ 7.5 27 ratings
other title: 海啸与樱花 / 津波そして桜 …
On 11 March 2011, an earthquake caused a tsunami to hit the Tōhoku (Northeast) region of Japan. In this film, survivors of the tsunami rebuild as cherry blossom season begins. The film is a stunning visual haiku about the ephemeral nature of life–and of the healing power of Japan's most beloved flower.