EDOC 2020
Line-up del Festival de cine documental Encuentros Del Otro Cine Edición XIX -- Ecuador --
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- DirectorAndrés DuqueStarsNikita KhrushchevKaterina KlodtThis wild and hallucinatory film explores the mysterious forests of a remote territory on the Finnish-Russian border, an idyllic setting where folklore, magic, and traumatic histories intersect.
- DirectorMarcelo GomesA small village in the Brazilian outback is considered the nation's capital of jeans. It's also a microcosm that depicts modern day capitalism and its transgressions.
- DirectorEzequiel YancoStarsUriel AlcarazBrian AlcarazYuliana AlcarazA puma stalks Pueblo Nación Ranquel, an indigenous community in Argentina. Hunting is a rite of passage, and the older boys want to kill the puma. But Uriel chooses a different path.
- DirectorSimón UribeDeep in the misty jungle of southern Colombia, between treacherously steep mountain slopes, stands an unfinished concrete bridge as an absurd symbol of human folly. Once intended as a link in the new "bypass" that was supposed to replace the perilous old road from Pasto to Mocoa, it's now a bizarre attraction for day trippers taking selfies and kids doing motorcycle stunts. In 1991 a devastating landslide hit the old road, known as the "trampoline of death", killing dozens of people. An engineer in his jeep describes it as madness that this lethal road was constructed like this back in the 1940s. After all, Catholic missionaries had already found a better route decades earlier. Local residents view the futuristic design of the new bridge under construction on their laptops. Workers pour concrete in the midst of mud and fast-flowing waters, unaware of the impending doom. It's as if there's a conspiracy between nature, politicians and foolish arrogance.
- DirectorAntón TerniStarsValeria CostaÓscar FernándezPablo ZelisLookout is a film about a way of perceiving life beyond our common senses through an intimate portrait of the daily life of Pablo, blind since age three, who lives by himself on a wild area close to Montevideo, Uruguay, where he makes liquors and records poems.
- DirectorMiguel HilariA lyrical and mystical documentary about an indigenous community who migrated to the city and have returned to their small mountain village in the Andes to honor the memory of their ancestors for a festival of the dead. The film blurs the boundaries between past and present, individual and community, urban and rural, dreams and reality.
- DirectorFernando RestelliStarsPedro EstabriJuan Pablo EstabriJesica Natalia QuevedoA sixty-year-old watchman of buildings under construction has a second chance in life to be a father.
- DirectorAndrey PaounovStarsChristoAn uncensored look into the artistic process and personal relationships of Christo, an artist known for his large-scale installations. For the first time since the passing of his wife and partner, Jeanne-Claude, Christo sets out to realize, The Floating Piers, a project they conceived together many years before.
- DirectorIsabella WillingerStarsDavid ChalmersChuckMark CoeckelberghHow will we live together with artificial intelligence? What will we win, what will we lose? The documentary shows us tomorrow's world today.
- DirectorAbou Bakar SidibéMoritz SiebertEstephan WagnerMount Gurugu overlooks the Spanish enclave of Melilla on northern Africa's Mediterranean coast. The European Union and Africa are separated here by a high-security border facility consisting of three fences. Refugees, mostly from the sub-Saharan region, live in the tree-covered foothills, from where they try to cross the land border between Morocco and Spain. One of them is Abou Bakar Sidibé from Mali, who in Les Sauteurs is both the protagonist and the one doing the documenting.
- DirectorGabrielle BradyStarsArthur FloretPoh Lin LeeWhile the yearly crab migration takes place and locals perform rituals for ghosts, a therapist works in Christmas Island's asylum seeker detention center.
- DirectorSérgio Da CostaMaya KosaStarsEmilie BréthautAntonin IvanidzePaul SauteurA young man, posted to a bird shelter as part of his rehab, joins a soft spoken community that includes a mice breeder, a vet, a keeper, and a first aid giver.
- DirectorMaite AlberdiCarlos Araya DíazDiego AyalaIn a country at the end of the world, the highest authority of the Catholic church lands. The Pope comes to bring the word of God, but Chile awaits him with the most important religious crisis in its history.
- DirectorAmparo GarridoStarsAmparo GarridoAn encounter with the overwhelming beauty that is revealed when engaging with the world with sight and hearing.
- DirectorFederico BorgiaGuillermo MadeiroStarsAntonio OstaJuanjo OstaTen years after winning a world title in bodybuilding in Russia and becoming a star of said discipline in Mexico, Antonio Osta (43) leads a life of austerity in the Uruguayan rural town where he grew up. He resides there with his son Juanjo (17), a sensitive teenager who keeps him company and confronts him openly. Suffering from acute kidney disease which keeps him from competing professionally, Antonio is stuck in limbo, halfway between his glorious past and the impossibility of being who he once was. However, he is unwilling to give up his lifestyle, even if it kills him. In an attempt to reinvent himself, and seeking a better future for his son, Antonio plans a comeback to the Mexico bodybuilding scene, where he may relive his glory days.
- DirectorAndrea TestaIn shades of gray, the calm, static shots show young female visitors to a public hospital in Argentina. This is the place where teenage girls have to make a decision about the new life growing inside them. A few of them have, at a very young age indeed, already had children. For others, the idea of a future as a mother is new and terrifying. In many cases, though, having an abortion isn't a decision to be taken for granted. Some of the girls have learned from childhood that getting pregnant is your own fault, and you have to accept the consequences. What they know about abortion comes from horror stories of clandestine practices in backstreet clinics. The hospital gynecologists and other staff, who can be heard but not seen, ask the girls about their well-being, their relationship, their family ties, and how they see the future-with or without a child. In these intimate and non-judgmental conversations, the girls respond with powerful candor in their most vulnerable moments.
- DirectorOskar AlegriaStarsOskar AlegriaA documentary drawn from the director's own family experiences, of living alone in the woods for several months.
- DirectorMaíra BühlerDowntown São Paulo, Brazil. An Apartment Building: 7 floors, 28 rooms, 107 residents who all have in common the addiction to crack. Over the course of several months, life in a social housing - part of a city hall "damage reduction" program about to be extinguished - is revealed. Characters on a hallucinated hunt for bonding and fighting passionately for life can be seen as the camera drifts through hallways, rooms, elevators, stairs; day and night. In this claustrophobic place, anything can happen.
- DirectorJonathan PerelStarsJonathan PerelExplores the role of big corporations in helping pogroms by the Argentine junta against dissidents.
- DirectorAndrés Di TellaOver several days and nights, a young couple read letters between Torcuato and Kamala (he from Argentina and she from India), the filmmaker's parents. The letters, written over decades, from the 50s to the 70s, recollect their trips and speak of love and idealism, but also of pain and broken dreams. An intimate tale of the 20th Century.
- DirectorFelipe Monroy
- DirectorPatricio GuzmánStarsJorge BaraditVicente GajardoFrancisco GazitúaPatricio Guzmán left Chile more than 40 years ago when the military dictatorship took over the government. However, he never stopped thinking about a country, a culture and a place on the map.
- DirectorEliza CapaiStarsMarcela JesusLucas 'Koka' PenteadoNayara SouzaYoung Brazilians make history in this radical document. Initially they are fighting for education, then their subversive actions take on a new dimension.
- DirectorIgnacio AgüeroIs it possible for a building to change the life of a neighborhood? Yes, more so when it makes the view of the Province and the Andes Mountains disappear.