EDOC 2019
by rafael-super-tramp | created - 06 May 2019 | updated - 06 May 2019 | PublicLine-up del Festival de cine documental Encuentros Del Otro Cine Edición XVIII -- Ecuador --
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1. Spears from All Sides (2019)
90 min | Documentary
THE STORY OF HOW ONE SMALL AMAZON TRIBE IS FIGHTING FURIOUSLY TO DEFEND THEIR FUTURE - AND OURS.
Director: Christopher Walker
Votes: 12
2. Shooting the Mafia (2019)
94 min | Documentary
Italian photographer Letizia Battaglia spends her career documenting the life and crimes of the Mafia.
Director: Kim Longinotto | Stars: Letizia Battaglia, Mariachiara di Trapani, Eduardo Rebulla, Santi Caleca
Votes: 716
3. Bixa Travesty (2018)
75 min | Documentary, Biography, Music
A documentary that follows Mc Linn Da Quebrada, a black trans woman, performer and activist living in impoverished São Paulo. Her electrifying performances (with plenty of nudity) brazenly take on Brazil's hetero-normative machismo.
Directors: Kiko Goifman, Claudia Priscilla | Stars: Linn da Quebrada, Jup do Bairro, Liniker, As Bahias e a Cozinha Mineira
Votes: 588
4. Unsettling (2018)
70 min | Documentary
A pop-up film studio becomes a social laboratory for encounters with camera-shy (but not conflict-averse) Israeli settlers on the West Bank.
Director: Iris Zaki
Votes: 56
5. My Father Is My Mother's Brother (2018)
76 min | Documentary, Drama, Family
My father is my mother's brother is a portrait of one family. It moves between the social bottom and the depths of bohemian life. The artist and singer Tolik, his sister Anya and his niece ... See full summary »
Director: Vadym Ilkov | Star: Anatoliy Belov
Votes: 45
6. Los Reyes (2018)
78 min | Documentary
Chola and Football are a couple of street dogs that live in the Los Reyes skatepark. A microcosm is organized around them, composed of things, animals and young adolescents in conflict with... See full summary »
Directors: Iván Osnovikoff, Bettina Perut
Votes: 364 | Gross: $0.02M
7. 500 Years (2017)
105 min | Documentary
From a historic genocide trial to the overthrow of a President, 500 YEARS tells a sweeping story of mounting resistance played out in Guatemala's recent history through the actions and ... See full summary »
Director: Pamela Yates
Votes: 80
8. The First Motion of the Immovable (2018)
80 min | Documentary
Composer Giacinto Scelsi believed his work came to him from the gods. Discover the mysterious beauty of his world and his music.
Director: Sebastiano d'Ayala Valva
Votes: 27
9. The Last Guardians (2017)
45 min | Documentary
Two tribes in the Ecuadorian Amazon struggle to preserve their culture and way of life against oil company encroachment.
Directors: Adam Punzano, Joe Tucker | Star: Nina Gualinga
10. The Congo Tribunal (2017)
100 min | Documentary
20 years of atrocities due to greed claimed the lives of over 6 million people in Congo. Milo Rau collects details from survivors and perpetrators. 3 trials were heard exposing one of the most horrific cases of inhumanity in world history.
Director: Milo Rau | Stars: Sylvestre Bisimwa, Jean-Louis Gilissen, Vénantie Bisimwa Nabintu, Colette Braeckman
Votes: 108
11. The Devil's Tuning (2018)
52 min | Documentary
In this docufiction about a unique guitar technique, it isn't always clear if myths are being investigated or created.
Director: Juan Carlos Lucas
Votes: 7
13. Land of My Children (2018)
88 min | Documentary
Darío Aguirre moved from Ecuador to Germany to be with Stephanie, but from the very first day there was a third party in their relationship:the government. They issued him ten visas in ... See full summary »
Director: Dario Aguirre | Stars: Cesar Aguirre, Dario Aguirre, Mariuxi Guevara, Olaf Scholz
Votes: 8
14. The Silence of Others (2018)
96 min | Documentary
The Silence of Others reveals the epic struggle of victims of Spain's 40-year dictatorship under General Franco, who continue to seek justice to this day. Filmed over six years, the film ... See full summary »
Directors: Robert Bahar, Almudena Carracedo | Stars: María Martín, Francisco Franco, Adolf Hitler, José María Galante
Votes: 2,366 | Gross: $0.07M
15. Flora's life is no picnic (2019)
64 min | Documentary, Biography, Comedy
Flora Schvartzman is a ninety-year old spinster who has been wishing to die from the day she was born. Distanced from her family, she decides to contact them again in order to organize her ... See full summary »
Director: Iair Said
Votes: 131
16. Genesis 2.0 (2018)
Not Rated | 112 min | Documentary
On the remote New Siberian Islands in the Arctic Ocean, hunters are searching for the tusks of extinct mammoths. There is a gold rush fever in the air. The price for white gold has never ... See full summary »
Directors: Christian Frei, Maxim Arbugaev | Stars: Maxim Arbugaev, George Church, Christian Frei, Peter Grigoriev
Votes: 557
17. Sacachun (2018)
73 min | Documentary
Sacachún tells the story of the few elders of a dry village about to disappear, who have been waiting for the return of San Biritute, the God of rain, for more than 60 years, kidnapped by ... See full summary »
Director: Gabriel Paez | Stars: Arcadio Balón, Ambrosio Galo Tigrero Gonzabay, Juan Esteban Quimi, Matilde Ramírez
Votes: 15
18. Robar a Rodin (2017)
80 min | Documentary
When a celebrated sculpture briefly went missing from a Rodin exhibition in Santiago, the "theft" turned out to be a provocative statement, masterminded by a precocious art student. His ... See full summary »
Director: Cristóbal Valenzuela Berríos
Votes: 81
19. Mute Fire (2019)
83 min | Documentary, History
While a director makes a film about this the origins of Cinema in Colombia, suddenly, his mother, apparently suffers a strange mental disease: without explanation she stops talking. This ... See full summary »
Director: Federico Atehortúa Arteaga | Stars: Aracelly Arteaga, Carlos Atehortúa
Votes: 145
20. Putin's Witnesses (2018)
102 min | Documentary
A rare glimpse at the young Putin and the vast political machine that brought him to power.
Director: Vitaliy Manskiy | Stars: Vladimir Putin, Tony Blair, Anatoliy Chubays, Mikhail Gorbachev
Votes: 1,505
21. A Volta ao Mundo Quando Tinhas 30 Anos (2018)
Not Rated | 110 min | Documentary
The portrait of a father as seen through the eyes of his daughter by means of a photo album. A travel diary from the 1970s, starting in Japan and around the world. Father and daughter cross... See full summary »
Director: Aya Koretzky | Stars: Aya Koretzky, Jiro Koretzky, Atsushi Sugita
Votes: 301
22. Srbenka (2018)
70 min | Documentary
"Srbenka" is a film about peer violence toward children of different nationality in Croatia. It examines how the generation born after the war copes with the dark shadows of history.
Director: Nebojsa Slijepcevic | Stars: Nina Batinic, Marin Blazevic, Sandra Dekanic, Tatjana Dragicevic
Votes: 361
23. The Negotiation (IV) (2018)
89 min | Documentary, History, War
This is the story of the tortuous, and ultimately successful negotiations between the Colombian government and the hemisphere's oldest guerrilla movement in Havana, Cuba. But after decades ... See full summary »
Director: Margarita Martinez
Votes: 54
24. The Crosses (2018)
80 min | Documentary
"In September 1973, days after the coup d'état, 19 workers of a paper company disappeared after being arrested for their participation in the labor union or in left parties. 40 years later ... See full summary »
Directors: Teresa Arredondo, Carlos Vásquez Méndez
Votes: 35
25. Home Games (2018)
86 min | Documentary
Home Games is a broken fairytale depicting a crucial moment in the life of Alina, a 20-year-old "million dollar baby" from Kyiv, whose passion for football has a chance of saving her from poverty.
Director: Alisa Kovalenko | Star: Alina Shilova
Votes: 50
26. Truth Has Fallen (2013)
60 min | Documentary, Animation
A documentary that examines the work of James McCloskey. Mr. McCloskey founded Centurion Ministries, an organization whose mission is to free prisoners who have been wrongfully convicted of... See full summary »
Director: Sheila M. Sofian | Stars: Raquel Anderson, Anthony Baker, Darnell Baldwin, Aleksandr Bible
Votes: 79
27. Chez jolie coiffure (2018)
71 min | Documentary
Enter the Jolie Coiffure hair salon in the African Matonge district of Brussels, where charismatic owner Sabine presided over customers' flirting, gossiping, and harrowing tales of immigration.
Director: Rosine Mfetgo Mbakam
Votes: 63
28. Thinking Like a Mountain (2018)
91 min | Documentary
The Arhuacos are the guardians of the forest and the ice of Colombia highest mountain, the Sierra Nevada Santa Marta. They draw from this unique environment a preserved and singular ... See full summary »
Director: Alexander Hick | Star: Jwikamey Torres
Votes: 64
29. Midnight Family (2019)
Unrated | 81 min | Documentary, Action, Crime
In Mexico City's wealthiest neighborhoods, the Ochoa family runs a private ambulance, competing with other for-profit EMTs for patients in need of urgent help.
Director: Luke Lorentzen | Stars: Juan Ochoa, Fer Ochoa, Josue Ochoa, Manuel Hernandez
Votes: 2,018
30. Chris the Swiss (2018)
90 min | Documentary, Animation, Biography
Croatia, 7th of January 1992: In the middle of the war a young journalists' body is being found dressed with an uniform of the international mercenary group. 19 years later, his cousin Anja Kofmel detects his story.
Director: Anja Kofmel | Stars: Susanne-Marie Wrage, Megan Gay, Christian Würtenberg, Michael Würtenberg
Votes: 556
31. The Border Fence (2018)
G | 112 min | Documentary
With precisely composed shots and detailed interviews with local police officers, hikers, farmers and small business owners, the film explores the few square kilometers at the Brenner Pass, telling an urgent story of Europe in the process.
Director: Nikolaus Geyrhalter
Votes: 258
32. The Trial (2018)
140 min | Documentary, History
The Trial documents the trial of Dilma Rousseff, focusing on the defense team, who struggles to prove her innocence against a majority vote by a Congress riddled with corruption. A tale of ... See full summary »
Director: Maria Ramos | Stars: Dilma Rousseff, Jair Bolsonaro, José Eduardo Cardozo, Eduardo Cunha
Votes: 1,476
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