Icarus Films | Featured Filmmakers

Alice Arnold

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 22:23:10 GMT

A non-fiction filmmaker and an educator, her films and photography work explore the urban environment and visual culture.

Shôhei Imamura

Sat, 30 Mar 2013 16:12:22 GMT

The only Japanese director to twice win the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival. Shôhei Imamura has been described by The New York Times as "one of the most significant Japanese filmmakers of the postwar generation."

Bill Morrison

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 05:03:26 GMT

Director of Decasia, described by The Village Voice film critic J. Hoberman as "the most widely acclaimed American avant-garde film of the fin-de-siècle."

Nancy Buirski

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 21:18:35 GMT

Director, producer and curator Nancy Buirski is the founder and was the director of the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival for ten years.

Updated: Olivia L. Carrescia Page

Wed, 07 Sep 2011 16:31:22 GMT

The page now includes her latest release: A Better Life

John Akomfrah

Wed, 07 Sep 2011 16:29:21 GMT

An artist, lecturer, and writer as well as a filmmaker, his twenty-year body of work is among the most distinctive in the contemporary British art world.

Updated Susan Vogel Filmmaker Page

Fri, 20 May 2011 23:04:40 GMT

Featuring the latest release: Fold Crumple Crush

NOSTALGIA FOR THE LIGHT at IFC Center, NYC

Tue, 15 Mar 2011 16:18:25 GMT

Tickets for NOSTALGIA FOR THE LIGHT are on sale now online, including for the Friday & Saturday 8:10pm shows featuring a Q&A with Patricio Guzman — book now!

Updated: Patricio Guzmán

Mon, 24 Jan 2011 20:53:46 GMT

With updated biographical information and featuring his latest Icarus Films release: Nostalgia for the Light

Jihan el-Tahri

Tue, 16 Nov 2010 15:34:40 GMT

An Egyptian-born, French filmmaker, author and news correspondent, el-Tahri’s films include the Emmy-nominated HOUSE OF SAUD, THE PRICE OF AID and most recently, BEHIND THE RAINBOW.

Djo Tunda Wa Munga

Sat, 13 Nov 2010 15:56:53 GMT

Founder of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s first production company, Suka Productions!, director/producer Djo Tunda Wa Munga’s films include STATE OF MIND, VIVA RIVA! and CONGO IN FOUR ACTS.

Helga Reidemeister

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 01:50:45 GMT

Reidemeister’s award-winning films reveal the balance of power within society that determines the lives of individuals, especially those of women.

Maren Grainger-Monsen

Wed, 13 Jan 2010 05:57:11 GMT

A physician and award-winning filmmaker, who is currently Filmmaker in Residence and Director of the Program in Bioethics and Film at the Stanford University Center for Biomedical Ethics.

A very special event: Conference honoring filmmaker and professor Elizabeth Fernea

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:12:48 GMT

Icarus Films is proud to announce a conference organized by the University of Texas Austin in honor of the late professor Elizabeth "BJ" Fernea.

Fernea was a leading scholar, author and filmmaker whose work focused on Women's Issues in the Middle East. Her memoir “Guests of the Sheik: An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village” (1965) which detailed her immersion into the lives of the women of Al-Nahra, was a national bestseller.

The conference will take place from October 15 to 17 and is free and open to the public. Click here for more details and a list of speakers, and click here to download the information poster.

For a complete list of Elizabeth Fernea's films distributed by Icarus Films, please click here.

New Video - Chantal Akerman Moving Through Time & Space

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 19:48:28 GMT

"This exploration/homage arrives in the form of a lecture/conversation, breaking some conventions, not unlike the object/subject of the event, Chantal Akerman, filmmaker and video artist. Two Akerman experts discuss her work in the kick-off event to an exhibition at MIT’s List Visual Arts Center."

Eugenio Polgovsky

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 05:35:36 GMT

In 2004 Polgovsky received Mexico’s National Youth Prize. His new documentary,"The Inheritors," produced with support of the Hubert Bals Fund and Visions Sud Est had its world premier at the 65th Venice Film Festival.

Heddy Honigmann discusses People vs. Subjects

Sat, 28 Feb 2009 01:19:52 GMT

In a recent interview at the San Francisco International Film Festival, Heddy Honigmann, director of FOREVER, O AMOR NATURAL, and the upcoming OBLIVION, discusses her attitude toward documentary filmmaking.

Sergei Loznitsa

Sat, 28 Feb 2009 01:06:43 GMT

This young Russian filmmaker has brought a fresh new approach to the art of historical compilation documentaries with award-winning films such as BLOCKADE and REVUE.

Yuka Sekiguchi

Sat, 28 Feb 2009 01:06:06 GMT

The documentaries of Yuka Sekiguchi, even the more intensely personal ones, revolve around a search for Japanese identity, as seen from both Japanese and international perspectives.

Director Ilan Ziv on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 06:15:16 GMT

Ilan Ziv, director of JESUS POLITICS, released an article with journalist Daoud Kuttab on the conflict between Israel and Palestine and how the region could be saved by an international tribunal.

Anand Patwardhan's Statement on the Tragedy in Mumbai

Fri, 12 Dec 2008 06:09:06 GMT

Award-winning Indian filmmaker Anand Patwardhan released a statement on the recent terror attacks in Mumbai. Patwardhan has been making political documentaries for nearly three decades. He has relentlessly pursued diverse and controversial issues that are at the crux of social and political life in India.

Hartmut Bitomsky

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 06:26:11 GMT

Former film critic and editor of Germany's famous film magazine Filmkritik, Hartmut Bitomsky has produced more than forty critically-acclaimed, award-winning documentary films over the last thirty years.

Lynne Sachs

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:55:08 GMT

Lynne Sachs had been painting and writing poetry for years when, in 1983, she began to make films, in particular documentaries, often with an unconventional, experimental approach.

Olivia L. Carrescia

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 20:42:25 GMT

Olivia L. Carrescia has worked as a researcher, producer and editor for the past 25 years in the US and Europe. Her award winning Mayan trilogy (Todos Santos Cuchumatan and The Survivors, and Mayan Voices: American Lives) has been distributed internationally and is now available for the first time on one DVD.

Nina Davenport

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 16:48:44 GMT

Nina Davenport, director of the new release Operation Filmmaker, has a unique and personal style of documentary filmmaking that has earned her numerous awards and grants.