Beginning the second half of this year’s World Cinema Documentary Competition: Kalyanee Mam’s A RIVER CHANGES COURSE, on the radical transformations taking place in the filmmaker’s native Cambodia.
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2013 Sundance Docs in Focus: A RIVER CHANGES COURSE
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2013 Sundance Docs in Focus: PUSSY RIOT – A PUNK PRAYER
This year’s World Cinema Documentary Competition reaches the halfway point: From the Russian Federation/UK, Mike Lerner and Maxim Pozdorovkin’s PUSSY RIOT – A PUNK PRAYER, a look at the controversial trial of the radical feminist activists.
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2013 Sundance Docs in Focus: THE MOO MAN
Wrapping up today’s look at the World Cinema Documentary Competition: From the UK, director Andy Heathcote and co-director Heike Bachelier’s THE MOO MAN, a portrait of a small-scale British dairy farm.
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2013 Sundance Docs in Focus: THE MACHINE WHICH MAKES EVERYTHING DISAPPEAR
Next in Sundance 2013’s World Cinema Documentary Competition: From Georgia/Germany, THE MACHINE WHICH MAKES EVERYTHING DISAPPEAR, in which director Tinatin Gurchiani offers a glimpse at contemporary Georgian life inspired by audition interviews.
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2013 Sundance Docs in Focus: GOOGLE AND THE WORLD BRAIN
Continuing my spotlight on this year’s World Cinema Documentary Competition: From the UK/Spain, Ben Lewis’ GOOGLE AND THE WORLD BRAIN, about the international controversy behind the Internet giant’s quest to copy the world’s books.
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2013 Sundance Docs in Focus: FIRE IN THE BLOOD
Next up in Sundance’s 2013 World Cinema Documentary Competition: From India, Dylan Mohan Gray’s FIRE IN THE BLOOD, on the battle to secure affordable treatment for AIDS in the developing world.
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2013 Sundance Docs in Focus: FALLEN CITY
Moving over to the 2013 World Cinema Documentary Competition: From China, Qi Zhao’s FALLEN CITY, a meditation on the aftermath of the devastating 2008 Sichuan earthquake.
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2013 Sundance Docs in Focus: VALENTINE ROAD
Today’s Sundance doc profiles open with the sixteenth and final film in the 2013 US Documentary Competition: VALENTINE ROAD, Marta Cunningham’s insightful investigation into a fatal school shooting.
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2013 Sundance Docs in Focus: TWENTY FEET FROM STARDOM
Wrapping up today’s profiles is the penultimate film in the 2013 Sundance US Documentary Competition: Morgan Neville’s TWENTY FEET FROM STARDOM, a celebration of music’s largely unheralded backup singers.
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2013 Sundance Docs in Focus: NARCO CULTURA
Heading into the final stretch of this year’s US Documentary Competition: Shaul Schwarz’s NARCO CULTURA, about the impact of Mexico’s drug wars on Mexican and Latino-American pop culture.
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