Author Archives: basiltsiokos

TO HOLD A MOUNTAIN
In the remote highlands of Montenegro, a shepherd mother and daughter proudly defend their ancestral mountain from the threat of becoming a NATO military training ground, stirring memories of the violence that shattered their family.

Directors:
Biljana Tutorov, Petar Glomazić

Producers:
Biljana Tutorov, Petar Glomazić, Quentin Laurent, Rok Biček

Country of Origin:
Serbia/France/Montenegro/Slovenia/Croatia

Festival Section:
World Cinema Documentary Competition

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SILENCED
After #MeToo broke the cultural silence on gender violence, international human rights lawyer Jennifer Robinson fights against the weaponization of defamation laws to silence survivors.

Director:
Selina Miles

Producer:
Blayke Hoffman

Country of Origin:
Australia

Festival Section:
World Cinema Documentary Competition

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SENTIENT
An investigation into laboratory research on animals exposes a hidden world in which it’s not just the animals getting hurt. The story of Dr. Lisa Jones Engel, a primatologist turned animal welfare advocate, asks whether harming animals and ourselves in science’s name is justified.

Director:
Tony Jones

Producer:
Ivan O’Mahoney

Country of Origin:
Australia

Festival Section:
World Cinema Documentary Competition

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ONE IN A MILLION
Filmed over 10 years, one girl’s epic journey from Syria to Germany and back again. She and her family navigate war, exile, and heartbreak in a foreign land, illuminating the complexities of the refugee experience.

Directors:
Itab Azzam, Jack MacInnes

Producers:
Raney Aronson-Rath, Will Anderson, James Bluemel, Andrew Palmer

Country of Origin:
UK

Festival Section:
World Cinema Documentary Competition

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KIKUYU LAND
As a Nairobi journalist probes a land battle entangling the local government and a powerful multinational corporation, covered wounds are revealed and family secrets are exposed.

Directors:
Andrew H Brown, Bea Wangondu

Producers:
Moses Bwayo, Andrew H Brown, Bea Wangondu, Mike Morrisroe, Joseph Njenga

Country of Origin:
Kenya

Festival Section:
World Cinema Documentary Competition

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HANGING BY A WIRE
A routine school commute turns terrifying when a cable car’s wire snaps, leaving eight passengers — including six schoolboys — dangling 900 feet above a ravine in the remote Himalayan foothills. With 10 hours before the remaining cable is expected to fail, a group of rescuers races to save them.

Director:
Mohammed Ali Naqvi

Producers:
Mohammed Ali Naqvi, Bilal Sami

Country of Origin:
USA/UK/Pakistan

Festival Section:
World Cinema Documentary Competition

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EVERYBODY TO KENMURE STREET
In May 2021, a U.K. Home Office dawn raid triggers one of the most spontaneous and successful acts of civil resistance in recent memory. In Scotland’s most diverse neighborhood, hundreds of residents rush to the streets to stop the deportation of their neighbors.

Director:
Felipe Bustos Sierra

Producers:
Ciara Barry, Felipe Bustos Sierra

Country of Origin:
UK

Festival Section:
World Cinema Documentary Competition

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CLOSURE
After his teenage son goes missing, Daniel scours the depths of the Vistula River, torn between the dread of a fatal leap and the hope that his son may still be alive.

Director:
Michał Marczak

Producers:
Monika Braid, Michał Marczak, Rémi Grellety, Katarzyna Szczerba, Karolina Marczak

Country of Origin:
Poland

Festival Section:
World Cinema Documentary Competition

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BIRDS OF WAR
The love story of a London-based Lebanese journalist and a Syrian activist and cameraman as told through 13 years of personal archives across revolutions, war, and exile.

Directors:
Janay Boulos, Abd Alkader Habak

Producers:
Sonja Henrici, Janay Boulos, Abd Alkader Habak

Country of Origin:
United Kingdom/Syrian Arab Republic/Lebanon

Festival Section:
World Cinema Documentary Competition

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ALL ABOUT THE MONEY
A son of one of America’s wealthiest families creates a communist revolutionary base in rural Massachusetts as a means of disrupting the capitalist system he grew up in, but has now come to despise. It’s the starting point of an astonishing journey.

Director:
Sinéad O’Shea

Producers:
Sinéad O’Shea, Claire McCabe, Harry Vaughn, Katie Holly, Sigrid Dyekjær

Country of Origin:
Ireland

Festival Section:
World Cinema Documentary Competition

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