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- DirectorAlexandre O. PhilippeStarsAmy NicholsonRodney AscherJohn WatersVictor Fleming's film The Wizard of Oz (1939) is one of David Lynch's most enduring obsessions. This documentary goes over the rainbow to explore this Technicolor through-line in Lynch's work.
- DirectorHanna PolakHanifa and Saeed barely survived the hell that ISIS inflicted on them and their people. Hanifa escaped kidnapping, but her younger sisters were enslaved by the Islamic State. Hanifa embarks on a mission to find them and bring them home.
- DirectorLouis HothothotAs the second-born child during the Chinese one-child policy, director Louis Hothothot was illegal for a while. In his film Four Journeys the Chinese-Dutch filmer exposes family traumas by going back to China and interviewing his parents and his sister. A painful history of Mao's China.
- DirectorAdnane BarakaFollows Mohamed a nomad and Abderrahmane a renowned Moroccan scientist. Mohamed is in his fifties who lives with his family in a tent in a remote area of the eastern Moroccan desert.
- DirectorAdéla KomrzýDoctors Ondrej and Katerina look after their patients to the best of their ability, but they can't prevent their death. Nevertheless, the inevitability of the end isn't the hardest thing they have to face as heads of palliative care at Prague's General University Hospital. A pilot project has emerged at a time when countless options are available to prolong human life; death is a social taboo and everyone has to confront his own mortality. Aware that a classic profile of the hospital would fall short, Adéla Komrzý submits a profoundly humanistic meditation on the ethics of palliative care. Betraying her special brand of empathy, she documents intimate conversations between doctors and their patients which demonstrate that, while there's no good or bad way to die, there's always a means to improve patients' quality of life.
- DirectorShaima Al TamimiStarsSaeeda Al-TamimiSaleh Al-TamimiShaima Al TamimiA heartfelt introspective letter to the deceased grandfather and questions the continuous pattern of movement amongst Yemenis in diaspora.
- DirectorLawrence Abu HamdanStarsMahdi FleifelLawrence Abu Hamdan's 45th Parallel analyzes the contradictions of borders and the laws that govern the liminal space of the Haskell Free Library and Opera House, a municipal building constructed in 1904 that straddles the U.S.-Canadian border. This peculiar site becomes the stage for an investigative monologue about the 2010 shooting of an unarmed 15-year-old Mexican by a U.S. Border Patrol agent and America's remote murders-by-drone in Afghanistan, Yemen, and Pakistan.
- DirectorLászló HalászStarsPéter BreitnerJózsef CzidorErika Tóthné FöldiVilmos was released from prison in 2005 after serving 20 years for manslaughter. He still can't recall what led to the murder, but everyday, he carries the weight of his crime. After his release, he initially lived homeless but over the years he managed to find housing on the outskirts of Budapest. Here, he lives with his animals, whom he considers family. His daily life is complicated by various physical maladies. The film follows Vilmos after he is diagnosed with gastric cancer. It is then that he decides to try to come to terms with the events of his past, with the help of a team of social workers.
- DirectorInna SahakyanStarsAnzhelika HakobyanArpi PetrossianShushan AbrahamyanA genocide survivor becomes a silent movie star: Aurora Mardiganian's odyssey is close to unreal. After losing her family, escaping slavery, and enduring Hollywood greed, she journeys far to tell the world of the Armenian Genocide.
- DirectorAlec MorganTiriki OnusTiriki Onus sets out to uncover the mystery surrounding the life of his grandfather, William Bill Onus - charismatic Aboriginal cultural leader, entrepreneur, theatre impresario and, probably, the first Indigenous filmmaker.
- DirectorMajid Al-RemaihiStarsMajid Al-RemaihiTala KaddouraRehana KhanFilmed on an abandoned fishermen village of Northern Qatar, 'And Then They Burn the Sea' is an ode to the filmmaker's living mother whose memories abruptly left her during the making of the film. Al-Remaihi ruminates on an experience of familial loss of that which cannot be defined but is deeply felt by pairing existing family archives with reenacted dreams. Weaving a myriad of poetry, folk history, and personal archives, the film mirrors a history of maternal mourning rituals that lament their loved ones who may never be returned by the sea. Created in DFI's Short Documentary Lab with Rithy Panh.
- DirectorNikolay Bem
- DirectorDiogo Varela SilvaStarsDiogo Camilo AlvesSebastião Varela
- DirectorZofia KowalewskaStarsWiera KadykinaJakow KaratajewZdzislaw TorhanA 92-year-old Zdzislaw and his 25-year-old granddaughter set out on a 5000 km journey to a remote village in Kazakhstan. For him, this marks a return to where he was exiled as a teenager by the Soviets during WWII. After 70 years, he once again travels to the land of his childhood, in search of his first love, that he was forced to leave behind. The granddaughter is looking to support him through his arduous journey while discovering the reality behind the bedtime stories she heard as a child. Delving into his past, they grow closer. They both get the chance to say goodbye. Grandpa to the journey of his life, granddaughter to her beloved grandpa.
- DirectorNeary Adeline Hay
- DirectorNastia KorkiaStarsAntonio BelvedereFrancesco BonamiTeresa MavicaIn 2014, V–A–C Foundation acquired the 20,000 sq. m former power plant, GES-2, tasking the Renzo Piano Building Workshop with its transformation. This film features footage of its constructions shot over the course of five years.
- DirectorTea LukacStarsDusan BundaloIgor BundaloJepsy ClarSitting in the back of a moving car, different passengers go on the road on the edge of a vast forest. They carry tales about hornet's nests, petitions against nuclear waste, loneliness, carnival treats, folklore traditions, cemetery visits and roads leading home. The forest, serene in the sun, mysterious in the fog and wild on the river, frames the seven stories as they pass by. Containing elements of documentary, ethnography and fiction, Roots is a strangely wondrous and often exhilarating film.
- DirectorManuel BauerA "railroad-movie" following the itinerary of the Central Andino, a mine train pulling an endless string of wagons, which descends from the Peruvian Altiplano at an altitude of 4,800 metres to the shores of the Pacific Ocean. The film witnesses the Andean landscapes transformed by "progress", the open-pit mines that have destroyed entire towns. Leaving open spaces behind it, the train crosses canyons and gorges, impossible slopes and makeshift bridges, invading the roads as it approaches the capital, cutting shanty towns in half. With a politically committed perspective, the film denounces the fatalist paradox of a resource-rich country that is victim of a flagrant step back in terms of health and education. While all of Peru celebrates Independence Day, the festivities punctuated by populist speeches and street parades, its population fluctuates between scepticism and resignation as it talks about the systematic exploitation of its resources, seen disappearing aboard foreign cargo ships on the horizon.
- DirectorClaudine BoriesPatrice ChagnardStarsElise FauchèreNicole FauchèreClaudine BoriesVedette is a cow. Vedette is queen. She was even once queen of the queens of the Alps. But Vedette is getting older. In order to save her the humiliation of being dethroned by young rivals, our neighbors, Elise and Nicole let us look after her for an entire summer. This is where our vision changes : our vision of the cows, of our local neighbors, in short, our vision of the world.