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Dick Johnson Is Dead â the largely acclaimed Netflix release in which filmmaker Kirsten Johnson (
Cameraperson) finds myriad ways to kill her father on camera â was not the only documentary released last year in which a female filmmaker puts the focus on her old man.
Film About a Father Who, which was the opening-night film at last yearâs Slamdance Film Festival and will be playing virtually at the Belcourt starting Friday, has Lynne Sachs doing a dark, deep dive into the life of her father, Ira Sachs. The younger Sachs mostly does this by patching together home-video clips and other footage she and her fam have shot throughout the decades on various formats.