Women on Top: Legacies of Women in Global Cinema
This winner of the Venice Film Festival's top prize, the Golden Lion, is a bone-deep look at photographer Nan Goldin's fight against addiction and the institution responsible for her pain through her gritty lens.
Directed by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Laura Poitras, All the Beauty and the Bloodshed is an epic, emotional, and interconnected story about internationally renowned artist and activist Nan Goldin told through her slideshows, intimate interviews, groundbreaking photography, and rare footage of her personal fight to hold the Sackler family accountable for the overdose crisis. The film is only the second documentary to win the top prize at the Venice Film Festival. [122 min; documentary; English]
"Already a robust director, Laura Poitras has leveled up with a towering and devastating work of shocking intelligence and still greater emotional power... This is an overwhelming film." — Sophie Monks Kaufman, IndieWire
"All the Beauty and the Bloodshed remains, at heart, a simple and intimate profile of a woman who sees art and activism as one and the same." — Ben Croll, The Wrap
"The film is a gem—a supple, unpredictably structured and deeply personal portrait of its primary subject, the photographer, visual artist and activist Nan Goldin." — Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune
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