2018 Munich DOK.fest
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- DirectorRaymond DepardonBy French law, anyone admitted into the hospital without their consent must be seen by a judge within 12 days. That judge must decide whether these psychiatric hospital patients can be allowed back into society.
- DirectorHesam EslamiSix years in the life of an adolescent crime gang that breaks into cars in the streets of Tehran.
- DirectorSarita KhuranaSmriti MundhraStarsSima TapariaA Suitable Girl follows three young women in India struggling to maintain their identities and follow their dreams amid intense pressure to get married. The film examines the women's complex relationship with marriage, family, and society.
- 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.
- DirectorMikala KroghA Year of Hope is about life on the streets of Manila. You will hear the horrible stories of Pablo, Justin, and some of the other boys. Thankfully their lives change during their year in Stairway Foundation. It's an NGO located on an island in the Philippines far away from Manila. They're there to get a proper education, eat nutritious food, have fun, and be introduced to new things. But sadly even in a place like Stairway, the gruesome streets of Manila are still lurking in the backs of the children's minds.
- DirectorSusan KoenenSyrian refugee Ahmad (12) just arrived in The Netherlands. While he is busy integrating in Dutch society and trying to make Dutch friends, it turns out he's also on a personal, heart-warming mission.
- DirectorReem SalehIn one of the poorest neighborhoods of Cairo, the community is the only way for hope.
- DirectorMartin DiciccoTime is measured by kilometer, distance by border.
- DirectorMohamed SiamStarsAmal GamalNagua SaidEsraa MamdouhAmal is fourteen years old when she goes to Tahrir Square in Cairo during the Arab Spring to showcase. With youthful hubris she goes straight to the danger. This coming of age film follows her in the years that follow, a period in which the fearless Amal seeks her own identity in a country in transition.
- DirectorJRAgnès VardaStarsAgnès VardaJRJeannine CarpentierDirector Agnes Varda and photographer/muralist J.R. journey through rural France and form an unlikely friendship.
- DirectorCaroline PariettiCyprien PonsonA glimpse at the Penan people of Sarawak, on the island of Borneo, and the challenges faced with the increased threat of deforestation and the changing landscape of their habitat.
- DirectorDavid SpaethBastian, who grew up in the DDR, is unemployed and father to a handicapped son. He envies the ostensibly carefree lifestyle of the uptown parents of Munich. He aims to get his son into a kindergarden which is equally trendy as it is traditional, right in the center of Munich-Schwabing. The application process is extremely tough, the parents themselves are the ones who select. How will he ever succeed with his meager existence? Bastian decides to cheat. He changes his identity in order to further his luck and it works! With his polished biography and a special needs child, he is accepted into the exclusive and privately financed institution. It seems like everyone here is different to Bastian - successful, well educated and carefree. He is fascinated and wants to be like them. As he realizes that there is over quarter of a million Euros on the kindergarten's bank account, he decides to extend his fraud in an adventurous way. Perfect father, trustworthy helper, careerist, financial manager. Thought through in minute detail, he ruthlessly stages the ideal Bastian, the Bastian of his wildest dreams, who everyone wants to meet and applauds. And no one suspects, because who would ever cheat a kindergarten?! Until the bomb explodes.
- DirectorAndres VeielStarsJoseph BeuysCaroline TisdallRhea Thönges-StringarisA documentary about the 20th century German sculptor and performance artist Joseph Beuys.
- DirectorWilfried MeichtryStarsChristophe SermetSabine TimoteoHow do we live our dreams and ideals? Swiss travel journalist Katharina von Arx and French photographer Freddy Drilhon, who came closer during a journey through the South Seas in the 1950s, put their dreams above reality.
- DirectorBart SimpsonStarsOscar NiemeyerBrasília was built in the 1950s in what was then the relatively empty interior plateau of Brazil. It was created out of nothingness for various reasons including to show what a great country Brazil was/is in showcasing it as its new capital, and to usher in a new urbanism with one of the goals to eliminate class divisions. The city plan by Lúcio Costa, called Plano Piloto, contains a major axis comprised of government buildings designed by Oscar Niemeyer, and a secondary axis sprouting from either side which contains all other urban functions, each separated into its own sector. The plan was designed ultimately to house a population of 500,000 after which satellite cities would be built to accommodate any others required to support the functions of Brasília. In being designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site, Plano Piloto cannot be changed. Approximately half a century later, several Brasílians talk about the reality of how Brasília and its surrounding satellite cities ultimately developed, and in general the difficulties of eking out a holistic life in the city in it not being at all what Costa and Niemeyer envisioned in how it was supposed to function for the average Brasílian. While some of those interviewed are directly affected by Brasília itself - one an architect who works in the Federal District planning department, and another, training to be a phone counselor, a "Brasília" souvenir seller on the side - and thus have some stake in the future of Plano Piloto, most are average Joes or Janes Public who must learn to survive within what is largely considered this emotionally and practically harsh environment.
- DirectorStefan BohunStarsLília Mafalda Lopes da Silva RibeiroMatthias BohunJakob BohunA personal film about grief and farewell, about serenity and arrival as well as reunion and retrieval.
- DirectorLucien Castaing-TaylorVerena ParavelStarsRenée HarteveltIssei SagawaJun SagawaCaniba is a film that reflects on the discomforting significance of cannibalistic desire in human existence through the prism of one man, Issei Sagawa, and his mysterious relationship with his brother, Jun.
- DirectorMichael David BeamishJasmin HeroldLocated in northern Canada, Fort McMurray is home of the Athabasca Oil Sands, the largest industrial project on the planet. A place of unbridled opportunities where dreams can be fulfilled. Here, people from all over the world pursue their fortunes. DARK EDEN explores the reality behind the dream of a better life. What is lost and what is gained in the pursuit of happiness? And unexpectedly, the films turns out to be a very personal one.
- DirectorJude RatnamSri Lanka 1983, Jude Ratman is five years old. On a red train, he flees the massacre of the Tamils instigated by the liberal majoritarian government. Now a filmmaker, he takes the same train from South to North. As he advances, the traces of the violence of the 26-year-old war and the one which turned the Tamil's fight for freedom into a self-destructive terrorism pass before his eyes. Reminiscing the hidden souvenirs of fighters and Tamil Tigers, he unveils the repressed memories of his compatriots, opening the door to a new era and making peace possible again.
- DirectorThomas HaemmerliStarsLupe HaemmerliPablo HaemmerliAna RoldánA humorous personal and essay film addressing architecture, habitation, space, density, xenophobia, gentrification and urban development.
- DirectorMelanie LiebheitGereon WetzelFour young German law students have to quickly grow into the roles of experienced, respected lawyers when they are sent to represent their university in the worlds biggest international law competition, the Jessup Moot Court. Faced with a fictional case based in the Snowden incidents, they have to become experts on mass surveillance, terrorism and cyber attacks, and learn what it means to succeed and fail as a team.
- DirectorFranziska SchönenbergerJayakrishnan SubramanianStarsHemachandran BaskaranHemalatha BaskaranBaskaran DhanabalBaskaran left India for Dubai with high hopes but came back in a coffin. His widow Sundari didn't believe he committed suicide, so the relatives recruit cousin and filmmaker Jayakrisahnan Subramanian to uncover, what really happened. On his research, Jayakrishnan discovers that his cousin's fate symbolizes the exploited dreams of thousands others and the consequences they have to face when they wake up.
- DirectorShevaun MizrahiStarsÍzzet Cemak AlpokayRoger DumasHalit HorozA Tarkovskian dream-like landscape, featuring the inhabitants of a Turkish retirement home where pranksters, artists and old casanovas seduce us to confront the true nature of time.
- DirectorNitesh AnjaanStarsMette HolmWhen Mette Holm begins to translate Haruki Murakami's debut novel Kaze no uta o kike, Hear the Wind Sing, a two-meter-tall frog shows up at an underground station in Tokyo. The Frog follows her, determined to engage the translator in its fight against the gigantic Worm, which is slowly waking from a deep sleep, ready to destroy the world with hatred. More than twenty years ago, Mette read a novel by Haruki Murakami, who had yet to reach literary stardom. Back then, she had no idea how the Japanese author's imagined worlds would steadily shape and transform her own. Since then Mette Holm has spent thousands of hours translating Murakami's puzzling and widely discussed stories to his Danish readers. Stories that continuously spellbind and challenge millions of devoted readers all over the planet. As Mette struggles to find the perfect sentences capable of communicating what Murakami's solitary, daydreaming characters are trying to tell us, the boundary between reality and imagination begins to blur.
- DirectorMartti KaartinenNiklas KullströmStarsFrank SkogMichael O'FlahertyA journey through Mongolia, Japan, China and South Korea, narrated by the journals of Finnish linguist, diplomat and journeyman G.J. Ramstedt (1873-1950).