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Popular Documentary Movies
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
Don't Cry for Me Sudan: Shukran Baba
Tonj, Sudan is the land with only desperation from poverty and war. This is the story about priest also doctor, educator, musician and architect Lee Tae-seok’s work and hidden episode behind.
Vimff - World Tour 2020
Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival - VIMFF 2020 - February 21st - March 1st, 2020 | An annual international film festival in Vancouver
Vanishing Point
Through the voices of young islanders, Vanishing Point tackles the possible disappearance of the Îles-de-la-Madeleine, resulting from the frequent storms and climate change.
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The Letter
Karisa’s city-life is interrupted when his Grandma back home is called a witch and receives a death threat. Returning to his rural village to investigate, he finds a frenzied mixture of consumerism and Christianity is turning hundreds of families against their elders, branding them as witches as a means to steal their ancestral land.
Overwhelming Attraction
Based on Soviet technicolor melodramas from the 1950s the film recreates the macabre choreographies of poststalinism. Everybody is spying on everybody else. Nobody is sure anymore how their sweetheart looks like.
When You Hear The Divine Call
Michael Nyawade was 22 years old when he left Kenya and his family in 1990 to look for greener pastures in Europe. Although he always kept the thought of his motherland alive. After 30 years he decided to return to Kenya definitively. The Dutch-born filmmaker Festus Toll travels after his uncle and poetically investigates what the concept of home means to Michael, himself and his newborn cousin Genson Kiumbi. The three family generations each have to deal with it in their own way. Moral issues, the search for identity, old and new visual material come together in this short documentary about the meaning of home for a half-European, half-African child.
The Believers
The Believers is a wry, quietly observant film that captures secular and non-secular rituals practiced by the average Singaporean. In juxtaposing the ceremonial and the everyday, the work gently teases out commonalities across different practices, establishing a sense of kinship and alluding to a common humanity.
República do Mangue
The Mangrove Zone of Rio de Janeiro was a well-known area of prostitution that faced several persecutions throughout the 20th century. Between 1954 and 1974, the Mangue Republic was established in the region, a representative regime, which under medical control and police surveillance, women decided who should take over the administration of the houses of prostitution. Based on surviving images, the film proposes another look at this memory of dispute and resistance.
The Love of Tapang Tree
With her days numbered, Madam Ong decided to unveil her deepest secret to her son — Ming. With the camera all setup, she spoke of her early life as a wife of the commander of a guerrilla force during the British colonial era in Borneo, Sarawak. A love story in times of war. She was one of the only two survivors to live to tell the tale. Moved by Ong’s story, her son decided to teamed up with the Director and contemporary dancer — Kuan, to retrace Ong’s footsteps, in hope to know more about her personal story as well as the untold history during the era. Along the journey, Kuan got more and more attached to Ong’s story, being a women herself, she was particularly moved by the love that Ong showed for her former husband — Commander Yong, whom Ong would symbolise as a Tapang Tree, the strongest tree in Borneo rainforest, a tree that gave her all the support she needed in life. The day Yong was shot death, the Tapang Tree fell, Ong’s world collapsed.
Lyuba and Lyuba
The last days of August: in the early morning a cool fog is felt on the skin, the ranetki in a barrel of water seem to be silver, the rustling of birches is heard everywhere, and in the country house everything is shaking because of the trains passing very close, but it seems to you that these are some kind of huge animals pass by and, perhaps, look in the windows in the evenings, while the lights are on there. You go out on the porch of the house and the movie begins.