DOKer 2018: Main Competition
Moscow International Documentary Film Festival DOKer 2018
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- DirectorOlya SchechterA story of a sniper fighting for the pro-Russian rebels in Eastern Ukraine.
- DirectorBernadett Tuza-RitterStarsMarishBernadett Tuza-RitterA European woman has been kept by a family as a domestic slave for 10 years. Drawing courage from the filmmaker's presence, she decides to escape the unbearable oppression and become a free person.
- DirectorMaasja OomsA disturbing, observing film portraying the daily life and deepest emotions of a young, homeless girl who is in danger of derailing.
- DirectorClément CogitoreIn the Siberian forest, away from any civilization, a feud is opposing two families whose houses are separated by a river. In the middle of the river stands an island where the kids of the two families are meeting on their own.
- DirectorKlaudiusz ChrostowskiStarsKonrad SerwotkaKonrad(18) lives in a small mining town in southern Poland. He looks up to his favorite action movie heroes, spends hours on the gym and signs up for a body building competition.His life changes after he revisits his childhood passion for acting.Will he find his own way? CALL ME TONY is a coming of age story about the time when the whole world expects us to have answers but all we have is questions.
- DirectorAnastasiya MiroshnichenkoThe soulless atmosphere of a women's penitentiary destroys the prisoners' personality, kills all femininity in them. The film looks at the rationality of the long prison terms for mothers separated from their children.
- DirectorEmmanuel GrasStarsKabwita KasongoLydie KasongoTrials tribulation dreams and aspirations of a young farmer earning a living making and selling charcoal in Congo.
- DirectorBálint RévészThree grandsons embark with their grannies on an anarchic journey into the past - a complex road movie about intergenerational dialogue in Great Britain, Germany and Hungary.
- DirectorMartín FarinaStarsMartin AllevaYesica Ivana BanegasFernando BrunoFrancisco Cruzans is a young man from Buenos Aires suburbs, who was filmed from his first days of life and for more than 25 years, until today. From there, an archive that links him to his maternal family, stands out for the frustrations and longings of parents, grandparents and great-grandparents to carry out the original desire to form a family.
- DirectorMatteo MaggiCristiana PecciStarsBrando GiannoniPanu HeikkurinenMatteo MaggiThe 5th Sun is the story of three Italian filmmakers attempting to film a documentary on Wanderlust, the eternal need to travel and to feel like a vagabond. They decide to follow Panu, a Finnish traveler, on a road trip from Helsinki (Finland) to Cairns (Australia), chasing a full solar eclipse. They start their journey by land, without a plan, letting Panu wander towards Australia. A week before the eclipse something goes wrong, but what seems to be the failure of the documentary turns out to be its only possible ending. The meta-narrative of The 5th Sun is the final twist for the resolution of the documentary.
- DirectorWang YangIn 2016, the last textile weaving factory from the communist era in North-West China was demolished. 'Weaving' follows two textile worker families during the five year demolition process as they struggle to adapt to outside change while trying to keep their families intact. Where old and new social values collide, their story allows us to take a closer look inside China's changing family dynamic in an increasingly materialistic and complex society.
- DirectorTill SchauderStarsShahryar AhadiZari AhadiLeili BazarganThis rap-punk-rock documentary tells the story of Iranian musician Shahin Najafi who is forced into hiding after hardline clerics issue a fatwa for his death, incensed by a rap song that focuses on the oppression of women and human rights abuses. Shahin's frantic escape leads to an impossible romance when he falls in love with the granddaughter of the first Prime Minister of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Their backgrounds make their relationship a modern-day Romeo and Juliet.
- DirectorElena GutkinaGenrikh IgnatovFather and son live alone in the small house near the forest. They almost never go out. Each day reminds the previous one. It forms by the rituals of the son, which father tries to follow.