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Popular Documentary Movies
Blue Eyes and Colorful My Dress
Full of self-confidence, three-year-old Zhana explores her neighbourhood in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. A fresh look at the world, at places and people who fascinate, who make one laugh, who challenge or are challenged by the little explorer.
Was bleibt | Šta ostaje | What Remains / Re-visited
In 2008 and 2009, Clarissa Thieme travelled through Bosnia-Herzegovina, setting up her camera at places where war crimes took place during the nineties. Now she returns to the same locations a decade later: what traces are left behind by a violent past?
Doctor Clown
Coffee machine repairman Roma decides to become a hospital clown at the age of 40. Now he has to joke about terrible diseases, look positively into the eyes of death and cheerfully amuse those who are not laughing at all. A few days in the life of hospital clowns.
Aunt Lucía
A portrait that tells us about destiny, through the life of Lucía, the last midwife on the plateau of Jala, municipality of Nayarit.
100 rokov klubu 1919-2019: ŠK Slovan Bratislava
She Asked Me Where I Was From
She asked me where I was from. So I told her about a place far away from here. And about how we had to leave. Personal film about being (the child of) refugees in a digital age.
Shéár Avory: To Be Continued
The coming of age story of Shéár Avory, a 17 year old trans* aspiring social justice advocate in Los Angeles who navigates housing instability and familial dependency on their journey to adulthood. Shéár depends closely on their mother for continued access to their medical transition, though struggling in her recovery from addiction, she is unable to always offer Shéár the support they need. An observational piece, the film aims to ask, what does coming into adulthood actually look like, for a young Black trans* femme in today’s America?
Roundtable Conversation
In Roundtable Conversation, Anderson brings together family members of Black men who have died in police custody or psychiatric units; mental health and legal professionals; activists and artists who reflect on violence as it relates to institutional racism. Through their discussion, the people gathered round the table communicate what needs to be done in order to free the Black mind.
The Church Forests of Ethiopia
In Ethiopia, church forests are withstanding environmental destruction — but just barely.
letter to a friend
A close friend is asked to start an investigation before an inevitable act occurs. Interlacing images, textures, movements, traces, and sounds from over a century, this film recounts in minute detail a home and street in Bethlehem.
Sunday Is Soccer Day
20 years ago, Vila Verde found the path to community autonomy in lowland football. Through Carlinhos' passion, we see the trajectory of the Vila Verde Football Championship.
The Sun and the Looking Glass – for one easily forgets but the tree remembers
Ein Qiniya, a small Palestinian village in the West Bank, occupied since 1967. This is where Milena Desse is to make her own enquiries: how can one decipher remaining traces and reconstruct History? How can one shine a light, as they say, on such places? Determined to unfold the layers and work out the creases like so many clues about some buried history, the young director strives like an archaeologist, equipped with a magnifying glass and a camera.
Body: Its Autobiography
A documentary that shows a body in social and family isolation, but the distance is not caused by the coronavirus, but by being a transvestite. Renata Carvalho is a character of herself, her voice tells us the historicity/transcestrality of her body and the structural transphobia.
Abstracted / Family
Koki Tanaka questions the coordinates and the mechanisms that contribute to the formation of a family through his video work, where the notion of “family” is not one based on blood relation, but refers to a “quasi-family,” wherein a group of people who happen to share the same time and space are united.
A Remembering of Disremembering
Told through the tales of love of a retiring film projectionist and a late-blooming actress, the short documentary delves into the journey of Manila’s oldest movie theater from grandiosity to obsolescence.
A So-Called Archive
With a forensic lens, Onyeka Igwe's A So-Called Archive interrogate the decomposing repositories of Empire. Blending footage shot over the past year in two separate colonial archive buildings - one in Lagos, Nigeria, and the other in Bristol, United Kingdom - this double portrait considers the 'sonic shadows' that colonial images continue to generate, despite the disintegration of the memory and their materials. It mixes the genres of the radio play, the corporate video tour and detective noir, with a haunting and critical approach to the horror of discovery.
Wait for the Sun
In the city by the sea, stay yourself and wait for the sun without losing hope. One location – 5 stories. Vladivostok 2019.
Héctor Martínez: Una Sombra en la ciudad
Héctor Martínez, a veteran football player, singer of West Indian music and traditional cook, tells us aspects of his life, which brings us closer to the popular history of Cali in the mid-20th century, a city in constant transformation that neglects his memory.
Fear(less) and Dear
Hongkongers have been experiencing extremely difficult times due to the political movement caused by anti-Extradition Bill since the summer of 2019 followed by the COVID-19 pandemic. This film explores Hongkongers’ fear in various dimensions, be it a concept or actual physical experience, personal or political, private or public, or the mixing of these pairs.
I Stared Fire Forever
"Io ho fissato il fuoco per sempre" is an investigation into the act of looking and being looked at, a history of the (not) archived gaze. The gaze of the filmed subject, that of the camera, and that of the spectator trigger a participatory obsession, made of eyes in action. Someone threatens or affects the quiet of our vision and taking your eyes off too early, you know, could be fatal.
Rotating Stones
A film about walking in a certain direction, with the decision to move away from its path, thereby causing a mutation in the brain cells themselves because the pattern has been broken as humanity has been going in a particular direction, which is conflict.
Thakhi
In Aymara language, "thakhi" means “path”. It is this path that Natali takes from Brazil to Bolivia, from the present to the past. Between the departure of a long trip to an end that starts other directions. Sometimes in the Andean essence, the most important lessons are where the dualities live, in the detours along the way. A rediscovery of its ancestral existence.
The Flame of the Spent Hour
Hour by hour the ancient face of repeated / Beings changes, and hour by hour, / Thinking, we get older. / Everything passes, unknown, and the knower / Who remains knows he knows not. / But nothing, Aware or unaware, returns. / Equals, therefore, of what isn’t our equal, / Let us preserve, in the heat we remember, / The flame of the spent hour. Ricardo Reis (Fernando Pessoa)
Thanadoula
Layering real-life details with an otherworldly magic, Thanadoula recounts the story of an end-of-life doula brought to her calling through the loss of her beloved sister.
Coal Story, Bro
An overview of the effects of coal power, as told from the point of view of townsfolk residing near coal plants.
Dogs of Home
Bosnia was divided by war in the 1990s. The older population stayed while the younger population left. The film’s two mediums, documentary and animation, fluctuate along the border of two worlds, which separated time and historical events but are united by a longing for home and family. People are like dogs: they never forget their way home.
Errances
She is hot, she is cold, she has felt her neck getting heavier, her cheeks harden, she complained, then she began to see the carpet swarming with snakes, the walls deforming, the faces shrink around her.
Anthony Blake: el Sol es el cerebro de la Tierra
