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Gogol Bordello's international makeup is one of their greatest strengths, as each member brings the identity of their musical culture into the band. The documentary Scream of My Blood focuses on Eugene Hütz's journey from Ukraine to the United States, as well as the immigration stories of the other band members. The film explores the theme of identity and the importance of cultural inclusivity, emphasizing that there's a seat at the table for everyone and that staying true to one's roots enriches society.

For more than 20 years, Gogol Bordello has entertained audiences around the world with their "Gypsy Punk" style. Headed by Ukrainian-American frontman Eugene Hütz, Gogol Bordello grew from New York City's punk rock scene and added a uniquely global flair to their sound and aesthetic, ultimately emerging as one of the most commercially and creatively successful groups in a scene that once included legendary East Coast...

Sound Unseen, the music documentary festival held in Minneapolis, is returning with a slew of rock docs including Alison Ellwood’s Cyndi Lauper film Let the Canary Sing and the North American premiere of Peter Doherty: Stranger In My Own Skin about the Libertines co-founder.

The 24th iteration of the festival runs between November 8-12.

Let The Canary Sing will open the festival on Wednesday November 8 and Katia de Vidas’s Doherty film closes the festival on Sunday November 12.

“We’re thrilled to be bringing some of the best and most buzzed about music documentaries and fiction films of the year to Minneapolis”, said Sound Unseen Festival Director Jim Brunzell. “The entire team has done an incredible job and after the success of last year’s festival, we hope the Twin Cities and greater Minnesota audiences will bring the same energy and excitement to Sound Unseen more than ever.”

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Gogol Bordello has been mixing Ukrainian folk songs with rock and roll for over two decades. Still, the current war in Eastern Europe makes frontman Eugene Hütz’s heritage more relevant than ever. That’s why, in the first scene of Scream of My Blood: A Gogol Bordello Story, the beat of drums is overlapped with the disturbing sound of bombs exploding on Ukrainian soil. Directed by Nate Pommer and Eric Weinrib, the documentary retraces the history of the punk group while also discussing how music is a powerful tool for preserving culture, denouncing injustices, and lifting people’s spirits in challenging times.

Some things are best in small doses. Cheesecake and Ketamine come to mind. The more-is-not-necessarily-better conundrum confronts the creators of “Scream of My Blood: A Gogol Bordello Story,” a Vice News documentary about the punk folk band Gogol Bordello and Eugene Hütz, the band’s charismatic lead singer. Hütz also doubles as a Ukrainian activist/raconteur/resident deep thinker. He can be a lot. Audiences’ appreciation of the doc will depend on their patience with Hütz, a man whose intentions are good even if his volume is always set to 11.

Directors Nate Pommer and Eric Weinrib have the difficult task of trying to explain a 24-year-old cult band in 99 minutes. It is very much an immigrant story. There’s an early shot of Hütz swaggering onstage with the band — a mélange of violinists, drummers and guitarists — and baptizing the audience with his beer.

But soon the film drops into Hütz’s origin story.

Eugene Hütz, founder and frontman with U.S. gypsy punk band Gogol Bordello, would likely to have ended up a painter wearing “dirty pants and long hair” had his parents not left the Soviet Union when he was 16.

“I would probably have become a painter, as there was more of a path paved in that in my family,” he says. “I was drawing most of my childhood and my uncle – Mikhail Mykolayev – is a pretty well-known painter who still lives in Kyiv.”

Fresh from playing a brief, impromptu solo guitar gig at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival, following the international premiere of a new documentary about the band, “Scream of My Blood: A Gogol Bordello Story,” Hütz fits the bill, although his khaki cargo pants are not paint spattered.

The singer was born in Kyiv, Ukraine, but the Hütz family left years of Communist oppression behind and moved to Western...

At this time last year, the organizers of the Karlovy Vary international film festival — the biggest cinema event in the Czech Republic and the premium A-list festival for all of Eastern Europe — were scrambling. The Russian invasion of Ukraine, just a few months earlier, had disputed the entire region. Filmmakers from Prague to Tallinn were rushing to show their support for the Ukrainian people and their battered industry. When the Odesa International Film Festival (Oiff), scheduled for July 2022, had to be canceled, festivals near Ukraine joined forces to show cross-border solidarity. Poland’s Warsaw Film Festival stepped up to host Odesa’s competition program. The PriFest in Kosovo opened up its schedule to screen full-length and short films by Ukrainian debutant directors.

And in Karlovy Vary, a festival best-known for its stunning location — in the number one spa town of the Czech Republic — and glamorous celebrity guests, organizers hosted the Oiff’s selection of works-in-progress,...

Vice News has released the trailer for its documentary “Scream of My Blood: A Gogol Bordello Story,” which will be showing at Karlovy Vary Film Festival next week.

The film had its world premiere at Tribeca Film Festival earlier in June and Nate Pommer, who directed alongside Eric Weinrib, was awarded a special jury mention. The jury said the film was being recognized “for the enduring use of art as a weapon against cant and authoritarianism.”

The jury added: “We are grateful to the director for translating Gogol Bordello’s rebellious joy and rage at remaining human and vibrant in the face of everything time has thrown in its path.”

The film is an intimate, career-spanning portrait of Ukrainian-born punk musician Eugene Hütz. It chronicles Hütz’s childhood journey to the U.S., his rise to fame with punk band Gogol Bordello and his return to Ukraine after the Russian invasion.

Exclusive: It’s going to get loud at the Tribeca Festival.

Vice News announced today the feature documentary Scream of My Blood: A Gogol Bordello Story will premiere at the festival on June 13, a film Vice describes as “a wild punk-rock-doc that explodes off the screen.”

Scream of My Blood, directed by Nate Pommer and Eric Weinrib, centers around musician Eugene Hütz, leader of the punk band Gogol Bordello, who immigrated to the United States from Ukraine as a kid. After Russia’s full-scale invasion of his native country last February, the filmmaking team followed him as he returned to Ukraine with his band to perform for Ukrainian soldiers.

“Through never-before-seen photo and video archives spanning two decades – including concert performances, backstage moments and intimate interviews – Scream of My Blood follows the epic journey of Eugene Hütz, Gogol Bordello frontman and one of the greatest storytellers of our time, as...

Progress is cool, but at what cost? In the latest “Vice Versa” documentary from Vice TV, a small group of retirees take on Elon Musk — the eccentric billionaire whose SpaceX vision has upended Boca Chica, a formerly sleepy beach town in Texas.

The folks who intended to live out their golden years in the coastal hamlet say Musk’s mission to Mars has forced them out of their homes. Musk is the third-richest person in the world. These few holdouts are nowhere near that list.

Watch the trailer via the video above. The doc debuts Monday on Vice.

SpaceX, founded in 2002, arrived in Boca Chica in search of a place to launch rockets, build out a luxury resort, and eventually send one million people to Mars by 2050. In the process, Musk and his crown jewel of a company have been accused of wrecking the wildlife corridor and intimidating local retirees...

Michael Moore revealed on his Instagram page over the weekend that mail bomb suspect Cesar Sayoc originally made an appearance in his latest documentary, “Fahrenheit 11/9.” Moore and his crew filmed a February 2017 Trump rally in Melbourne, Florida, and the director said his intent during the shoot was to only film the crowd responding to Trump and not Trump himself. The camera picked up Sayoc in the crowd, but the footage didn’t make it into the final “Fahrenheit 11/9″ cut.

“You’ve seen the photos of him on the news over the past couple days — a slight, normal, everyday American. But those are from before,” Moore wrote as an introduction to the footage. “Here with our footage I can show you what he had actually become — overdosed on steroids in what looks like some desperate attempt to hang on to what was left of his manhood.”

Sayoc was arrested October...

After Cesar Sayoc Jr. drove around in a white van with a photo of Michael Moore with a bullseye on it, the Fahrenheit 11/9 director realized that this was not the first time he has seen Sayoc, who was arrested Friday in connection with a series of bombs mailed to CNN, prominent Democrats and critics of Donald Trump.

Moore took to Twitter to share a video of Sayoc in Melbourne, Florida at Trump’s first “Trump 2020 Re-election Rally” in 2017. The footage was for Fahrenheit 11/9, but didn’t make the final cut.

“My direction to my producer Basel Hamdan and our longtime collaborator Eric Weinrib was to Not film Trump, but rather only film the people who came out to see him,” said Moore in a post on his website. “My feeling was, after one month in office, we didn’t need to hear anything more from Trump’s mouth — we already...

To help sift through the increasing number of new releases (independent or otherwise), the Weekly Film Guide is here! Below you’ll find basic plot, personnel and cinema information for all of this week’s fresh offerings.

Starting this month, we’ve also put together a list for the entire month. We’ve included this week’s list below, complete with information on screening locations for films in limited release.

See More: Here Are All the Upcoming Movies in Theaters for July 2016

Here are the films opening theatrically in the U.S. the week of Friday, July 1. All synopses provided by distributor unless listed otherwise.

Wide

The Bfg

Director: Steven Spielberg

Cast: Bill Hader, Jemaine Clement, Mark Rylance, Penelope Wilton, Rebecca Hall, Ruby Barnhill

Synopsis: The Bfg is no ordinary bone-crunching giant. He is far too nice and jumbly. It’s lucky for Sophie that he is. Had she been...

It’s never too early to start planning a trip to the movies. Now that July is upon us, we wanted to have a place for movie fans to see every film opening in theaters for the entire month. We’ve separated the wide releases from the arthouse/specialty offerings for each week, giving you the best of both worlds. (Synopses are provided by festivals and distributors.)

For more of what’s on the horizon, you can also bookmark our calendar page, where we’ll update releases for the rest of the year. In the meantime, enjoy your time at the theaters!

Week of July 1 Wide

The Bfg

Director: Steven Spielberg

Cast: Bill Hader, Jemaine Clement, Mark Rylance, Penelope Wilton, Rebecca Hall, Ruby Barnhill

Synopsis: The Bfg is no ordinary bone-crunching giant. He is far too nice and jumbly. It’s lucky for Sophie that he is. Had she been...

It’s hard to be surprised by anything the legendarily outspoken Roseanne Barr does, but even by her standards, her presidential campaign generated a lot of talk. The Golden Globe-winning comedian turned more than a few heads when she announced her intention to run for President of the United States back in 2011. Barr didn’t emerge victorious, of course — though she did come away with about 50,000 votes in the popular election) — but her experience attempting to disrupt the American democracy did spawn a different kind of win: Eric Weinrib’s revealing documentary, “Roseanne For President!,” which tracks Barr’s campaign through its many highs and lows.

“The whole point of it is to shine a light on our election system, which is totally corrupt and fixed,” Barr told IndieWire in a recent interview. “That’s what I think of the system. That’s what I think of this election.”

She...

“Roseanne for President!” follows Roseanne Barr’s 2012 Presidential campaign on the “Green Tea Party” ticket, in which she advocated, among other positions, for the legalization of marijuana and the return of the guillotine as capital punishment. Barr’s campaign received a divided response from the public, with some claiming that it was a publicity stunt approaching performance art, while others argued that it was a genuine attempt to reach the highest office in the country. She eventually lost to candidate Jill Stein, but Barr later announced she would run on the Peace and Freedom Party. By the end of her campaign, Barr received over 65,000 votes nationwide. Watch the trailer for the film above, featuring talking heads from Michael Moore, Rosie O’Donnell, Sandra Bernhard, and more.

Read More: Tribeca: Roseanne Barr On Why She Considers Herself ‘President for Life’

Barr began her career in stand-up comedy in the early 1980’s...

Eric Weinrib’s documentary Roseanne For President!, which premiered at the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival, will hit theaters on Fourth of July weekend smack in the middle of a presidential campaign. IFC Films has acquired rights and set a July 1 bow for the docu, which follows the comedian’s 2012 run for the White House via the Peace and Freedom Party. The dark comedy centers on Barr’s campaign from its inception when she announced her run on The Tonight Show in August 2011…...

Plus: Gkids executives join Angelina Jolie on The Breadwinner as executive producers; and more…

Outfest top brass announced the complete line-up of 162 films from 19 countries on Thursday ahead of the July 7-17 festival.

Opening the festival is Samuel Goldwyn Films’ The Intervention, Clea Duvall’s directorial and screenwriting feature debut, while Vertical Entertainment’s Other People closes the event.

“I am proud and honoured to present a program that focuses on the most talented queer voices across all media – from film to television to the web,” said Outfest executive director Christopher Racster.

For full details click here.

Slamdance Presents will release Claire Carré’s directorial debut Embers, which closed the 2016 Slamdance Film Festival, on August 5 at the ArcLight Hollywood. The Orchard will release the film at the same time on VOD.Gkids announced that CEO and founder Eric Beckman and senior vice-president of distribution David Jesteadt will serve as executive producers alongside Angelina Jolie Pitt and others...

Did you know that Roseanne Barr came in sixth place in the 2012 presidential election? Despite only making the ballot in three states, the former Roseanne star nabbed 65,000 votes in the general election, and filmmaker Eric Weinrib was along to cover it all. Now Weinrib's turned his footage into a new documentary, Roseanne for President, which follows Barr's campaign through her early efforts to secure the Green Party nomination — she lost to mild-mannered doctor Jill Stein, who seems politely baffled by Roseanne's presence in the race — to her rapturous reception in the Peace and Freedom Party, while also running through Barr's groundbreaking entertainment career. The day after the documentary's premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival, we spoke to Roseanne over the phone about her run, the state of American politics, and why she doesn't want people to protest.One of the things I was thinking about while watching...

Read More: Tribeca: Matthew Heineman on the Wild and Troubling Ride of Making 'Cartel Land'Roseanne Barr got a lot of attention at the Tribeca Film Festival earlier this week from her disclosure that she is losing her eyesight due to macular degeneration and glaucoma. As tragic as that news may be, hopefully it helps draw attention to the primary reason she was at the festival: her inspiring, gusty run for President in 2012, as documented in Eric Weinrib's intimate and moving "Roseanne for President!," which world premiered at the festival over the weekend. "I wanted to run for President since I was a little girl," Roseanne explained to Indiewire just prior to the film's first screening. "The first time I heard it was possible I really wanted to do it. I was five or six years old, and I've had a fantasy about it ever since. I...

Read More: 12 Must-See Films at the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival "Roseanne for President!" centers around the famous, controversial comedian Roseanne Barr during her run for president in 2012. Despite Roseanne making people laugh for a living, her campaign was not a joke, as she aimed to be a voice for the working. The film not only provides a glimpse into the strange world of "other" party politics, but it also paints a revealing portrait of Roseanne's life and career.  In the above clip, we see Roseanne address a crowd of her supporters. Her passionate speech dispels of criticisms one might have of her running for president as a publicity stunt, as she jokingly acknowledges that her political views might've ended her career anyway. "Roseanne for President!" will make its world premiere April 18 at the Tribeca Film Festival. Read More: Meet the 2015 Tribeca Filmmakers #23: Eric Weinrib Paints a Revealing Portrait of...

Roseanne Barr's 2012 U.S. presidential campaign is getting the big-screen treatment. Writer, director and longtime Michael Moore collaborator Eric Weinrib is helming Roseanne for President! -- a behind-the-scenes documentary about the actress and her bid to unseat President Barack Obama. Video: Roseanne Barr Warns Obama Over Medical Marijuana on Letterman Barr announced her decision to run for president on The Tonight Show With Jay Leno in August 2011 and exactly one year later won the nomination of the Peace and Freedom Party. She appeared on the ballot in California, Colorado and Florida, racking up more than 65,

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