Documentary film competiton
15 films
Dreaming Arizona
dir. Jon Bang Carlsen
dok2022
‘A documentary fantasy played out by real people,’ – is how the director described his film bordering on observation and creation, cinema and theatre. The protagonists are five secondary school students from a town in Arizona and the main theme involves feelings, traumas and dreams of these young people.
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Is There Anybody Out There? (Czy jest tam ktoś?)
dir. Ella Glendining
dok2023
The film director and protagonist in one defies stereotypes related to otherness and disability. Despite a severe body deformity, she lives her life to the fullest and finds fulfilment as a woman and artist. To find out whether there are people with a similar affliction elsewhere in the world, she sets off on a journey.
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Lazaro and the Shark. Cuba under the Surface
dir. William Sabourin O´Reilly
dok2022
Even a carnival is a political issue in Cuba. Organised in Santiago de Cuba, a fiesta in the conga rhythm commemorates the outbreak of the revolution but above all it is the only opportunity for the residents to express their local identity. It may also be a call for freedom, which does not please the communist authorities.
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Motherland
dir. Alexander Mihalkovich, Hanna Badziaka
dok2023
The practice of hazing in the Belarussian military has a lot in common with political terror. This is why Svetlana does not believe that her son committed suicide in the barracks. Somewhere else, another young man is putting on a uniform. Their parallel lives make a shocking image of the post-Soviet reality.
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Much Ado about Dying
dir. Simon Chambers
dok2022
The director returns from India to London to take care of his elderly uncle. David, a former actor, is a single gay man, an eccentric and colourful person. The plan was to record a farewell, but the uncle is not intent on dying. He gives his nephew one last lesson.
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My Name Is Happy
dir. Nick Read, Ayse Toprak
dok2022
In 2015, Turkish-Kurdish singer Mutlu Kaya was shot in her own house. The film authors follow the life of the girl who decided to bring the culprit to justice and put up a fight for the recovery of her voice becoming the symbol of opposition against the impunity of perpetrators of honour killings.
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dir. Aniela Gabryel
dok2023
A theatre or a sect? Art or violence? For the first time the members of the legendary theatre collective Workcenter founded by Jerzy Grotowski speak so frankly about their experiences related to work using the methods devised by one of the greatest revolutionaries in Polish and international theatre.
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Signs of War
dir. Juri Rechinsky, Pierre Crom
dok2022
The war which is raging in Ukraine now began nine years ago. French reporter Pierre Crom documented that period and today, using words and images, he talks about his experiences from the front and Ukrainian streets as well as the forebodings, sometimes surreal, that harbingered a full-scale invasion back then.
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Silent House (Khaneye Khamoosh)
dir. Farnaz Jurabchian, Mohammad Reza Jurabchian
dok2022
These walls witnessed the history of Iran as well as the turbulent story of three generations of a family residing in a Teheran villa for over half a century when the world around them was in tumult and everything was changing. Women played a particular role in all this.
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Songs of Earth
dir. Margreth Olin
dok2023
Many years go the director left her family home. Today, she returns to the mountainous region of Western Norway with a camera, walking in the footsteps of her parents and ancestors in order to answer the question: where do I come from? Her family story is transformed into a breadth-taking poem, both visual and auditory.
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The Dmitriev Affair
dir. Jessica Gorter
dok2023
Deep inside the Russian forests, against the wishes of the authorities, 60-year-old Yuri Dmitriev searches for mass graves from the era of Stalin’s terror against his own people - until one day he is arrested and sentenced to 15 years in a penal colony. Following Yuri closely, the film paints a shocking picture of the way the Russian state rewrites history and treats its citizens.
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The Hostage Takers
dir. Puk Damsgaard, Søren Klovborg
dok2023
They were called the Beatles because before they joined the ISIS, they had grown up in the UK. They were the ones who kept watch over Western hostages and inflicted particular cruelty. The interviews with jihadists were confronted with the memories of victims, negotiators and witnesses, which makes a true documentary thriller.
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The Land You Belong
dir. Elena Rebeca Carini
dok2023
From Northern Italy to Bucharest is a long way to go for the film director in search for her biological family. This journey is also an expedition inside her own identity. Adopted by an Italian couple in her early childhood, she has no idea what the missing Romanian piece of the puzzle will be like.
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Unpaved (Bezdroża)
dir. Mikael Lypinski
dok2023
The film director focuses his camera on a small community living in the mountainous forests of Oregon. People live there in a Spartan way, on their own terms and in close contact with nature, animals and each other. Their life is far from idyllic but the protagonists have found their own place on Earth.
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Who I Am Not
dir. Tunde Skovran
dok2023
Sharon was a finalist of the Miss South Africa beauty pageant, while Dimakatso is a well-known activist. What they share is intersexuality, i.e. they possess traits of both sexes. Meanwhile, the world requires them to unambiguously declare their identity, which is not always in line with their subjective feelings.
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