Food, Glorious Food!
Dig into OVID's collection of films that celebrate food and drink and the people who make it! Newest additions include Matt Mahurin's bitingly funny docu-comedy I Like Killing Flies, starring Kenny Shopsin – a prickly, profanity-prone man dishing up bites of wisdom while cooking up a storm, serving up a charming slice of New York history. Other highlights include Sara Dosa's The Last Season on Central Oregon's wild mushroom hunting, and The Art of Cooking with Fire about self-taught Bittor Arginzoniz, who achieved world fame as a grill genius with his restaurant Asador Etxebarri, ranked as one of the best restaurants in the world.
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The Art of Cooking with Fire
Directed by Iñaki Arteta • Documentary • With Bittor Arginzoniz • 2019 • 84 minutes
Self-taught Bittor Arginzoniz has achieved world fame as a grill genius with his restaurant Asador Etxebarri, ranked as third best restaurant in the world world in 2019. His personality and the place where he liv...
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The Birth of Sake
Directed by Erik Shirai • Documentary • 2015 • 93 minutes
A beautiful and immersive portrait of life at the 144-year old Yoshida Brewery, a producer of world class sake. With changing times ahead and new regime led by the 6th generation heir, this is a rarified look at the personal and professio...
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The Last Season
Directed by Sara Dosa • Documentary • 2014 • 78 minutes
Amid the bustling world of Central Oregon's wild mushroom hunting camps, the lives of two former soldiers intersect. Roger, a 75 year-old sniper with the US Special Forces in Vietnam, and Kouy, a 46 year-old platoon leader of Cambodia's Khm...
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I Like Killing Flies
Directed by Matt Mahurin • Documentary • With Kenny Shopsin • 2004 • 78 minutes
In 2002, an unusual eatery called Shopsin's loses its lease after 32 years. Filmmaker Matt Mahurin goes inside the diner to figure out its gastronomic appeal, and paint a portrait of its colorful owners Kenny and Eve...
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A Chef's Voyage
Directed by Remi Anfosso • Documentary • With David Kinch, Christine Muhlke, Jenny Yun, Kristofer Lord, Mitch Leinhard • 2020 • 90 minutes
A Chef's Voyage follows the celebrated American Chef David Kinch and his team from Manresa, their 3 Star Michelin restaurant in California, for a one-of-a-ki...
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Eat This New York
Directed by Andrew Rossi • Documentary • With Daniel Boulud, Sirio Maccioni, Keith McNally, Danny Meyer, Drew Nieporent, Ruth Reichl, Jean-Georges Vongerichten, Tim Zagat • 2004 • 85 minutes
Featuring culinary luminaries Daniel Boulud, Sirio Maccioni, Keith McNally, Drew Nieporent, Jean-Georges ...
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The Raw and the Cooked: A Culinary Journey Through Taiwan
Directed by Monika Treut • Documentary • With Robin Winkler, Pannai, Huan-ru Ke, Heng-hong Liu, Raymond Wu, Nabu, Fu-yu Wang Ladibisse, Joy Hui-yi Hu, Sumi • 2012 • 84 minutes
Taiwan is known around the world as having one of the most diverse cuisines in Asia, and food is the foremost passion of...
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Soul of a Banquet
Directed by Wayne Wang • Documentary • 2014 • 78 minutes
Director Wayne Wang (THE JOY LUCK CLUB) takes us into the world of Cecilia Chiang, the woman who introduced America to authentic Chinese food. Chiang opened her internationally renowned restaurant The Mandarin in 1961 in San Francisco and ...
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The Chef's Wife
Directed by Anne Le Ny • Drama • With Emmanuelle Devos, Karine Viard, Roschdy Zem • 2014 • 91 minutes
Two of the most critically acclaimed actors in modern French cinema, Karin Viard and Emmanuelle Devos, star together for the first time as two women who want more out of life-at work and at home...
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Our Blood is Wine
Directed by Emily Railsback • Documentary • With Jeremy Quinn, Ramaz Nikoladze, Giorgi Natenadze, Mariam Iosebidze, Luarsab Togonidze • 2018 • 78 minutes
Filmmaker Emily Railsback and award-winning sommelier Jeremy Quinn provide intimate access to rural family life in the Republic of Georgia as ...
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Cuban Food Stories
Directed by Asori Soto • Documentary • With Ernesto Perez Medina, Migdalia Armas Rieche, Gilberto De Armas Rieche, Lazaro Yohan Machin, Felix "Felito" Manuel Berenger • 2018 • 82 minutes
From director Asori Soto and the executive producers of Jiro Dreams of Sushi comes a unique film about food, ...
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Chocolate Road
Directed by Tanya Chuturkova • Documentary • With Susumu Koyama, Maribel Lieberman, Mikkel Friis-Holm • 2021 • 92 minutes
Chocolate Road is a discovery of where chocolate comes from. Three renowned chocolatiers - Maribel Lieberman, Susumu Koyama and Mikkel Friis-Holm - take us through the proces...
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Streit's: Matzo and the American Dream
Directed by Michael Levine • Documentary • 2016 • 83 minutes
For more than 90 years, the Streit’s matzo factory sat in a low-slung tenement building on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. While other matzo companies modernized, Streit’s remained a piece of living history, churning out 40 percent of the...
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Good Food
Directed by Mark Dworkin, Melissa Young • Documentary • 2008 • 73 minutes
Something remarkable is happening in the fields and orchards of the Pacific Northwest. After leaving the land for decades, family farmers are making a comeback. They are growing much healthier food, and more food per acre,...
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The Price of Progress
Directed by Víctor Luengo • Documentary • With Angelika Hilbeck, Gilles-Eric Seralini, Bernard Url, Nathalie Moll, Jean-Phillippe Azoulay • 2019 • 80 minutes
In the urgent context that shapes much of the discourse on the future of agriculture in the E.U., "The Price of Progress" delves into the ...
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When Banana Ruled
Directed by Mathilde Damoisel • Documentary • 2017 • 52 minutes
Bananas are everywhere: Americans eat nearly 10 billion of them per year, consuming more pounds of bananas than apples and oranges combined.
WHEN BANANA RULED tells the story of the men who made bananas the most ubiquitous fruit in...
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Red Persimmons
Directed by Shinsuke Ogawa, Peng Xiaolian • Documentary • 2001 • 90 minutes
The ostensible subject of this remarkably beautiful film is the growing, drying, peeling and packaging of persimmons in the tiny Japanese village of Kaminoyama. The inhabitants explain that it is the perfect combination ...
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Anais Goes to War
Directed by Marion Gervais • Documentary • 2014 • 46 minutes
Anaïs is a determined and energetic 24-year-old with a dream: to have her own farm and make herbal teas from her plants in Brittany. But getting there won't be easy.
While Anaïs clearly loves spending her days among aromatic plants—pr...
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Family Business
Directed by Tom Cohen • Documentary • 1982 • 90 minutes
Part of the acclaimed Middletown series.
Howie Snyder is an archetype: a retired Marine colonel in his mid 40s, he is an American entrepreneur struggling to make his business succeed.
Howie's Shakey's Pizza franchise in Muncie, Indiana em...
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Food Coop
Directed by Tom Boothe • Documentary • 2017 • 97 minutes
FOOD COOP takes us deep into the belly of the Park Slope Food Coop, one of America's oldest cooperative food supermarkets, with a healthy dose of insight and wit.
Nestled deep in New York City, which, for many, exemplifies both the glory ...
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Mondovino the Series: The Human Drama (And Comedy) of Wine-Making
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Epic in scope, this multi-generation, globe-trotting saga covers not only the entire gamut of wine making, but wine's place in a treacherously globalized and hyper-marketed world. From the billionaire power brokers of Napa Valley, to the aristocratic rivalries of competing Florentine dynasties, t...
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Egg Cream
Directed by Nora Claire Miller, Peter Miller & Amy Linton • Documentary • 2020 • 15 minutes
EGG CREAM is a short film about the enduring meaning of a beloved chocolate soda drink born on the Jewish Lower East Side. The egg cream contained neither eggs nor cream – it was a product of necessity an...
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Impromptu
Directed by Bruce Alcock • Animation • 2013 • 10 minutes
Impromptu takes a look at the redemptive power of food, wine, music and love through the eyes of a modern man. Chuck is in his element, cooking and listening to Chopin with his baby daughter, imagining what he will say to his wife Sylvie o...
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Lunch Love Community
Directed by Helen De Michiel • Documentary • 2015 • 78 minutes
LUNCH LOVE COMMUNITY is a beautiful and engaging story of how a diverse group of pioneering parents and food advocates came together to tackle food reform and food justice in the schools and neighborhoods of Berkeley, CA.
Through a ...