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Petra Costa offers a cautionary tale as she explores Brazil’s recent political scandals.
Festival Section:
World Cinema Documentary Competition
Country:
Brazil
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2019 Sundance Docs in Focus: THE EDGE OF DEMOCRACY
Petra Costa offers a cautionary tale as she explores Brazil’s recent political scandals.
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2019 Sundance Docs in Focus: THE DISAPPEARANCE OF MY MOTHER
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Beniamino Barrese films his mother as she plans to leave the modern world behind.
Festival Section:
World Cinema Documentary Competition
Country:
Italy
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2019 Sundance Docs in Focus: COLD CASE HAMMARSKJÖLD
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Mads Brügger investigates the possibility of foul play in the 1961 death of the United Nations Secretary-General.
Festival Section:
World Cinema Documentary Competition
Country:
Denmark/Norway/Sweden/Belgium
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2019 Sundance Docs in Focus: ADVOCATE
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Rachel Leah Jones and Philippe Bellaïche explore the Israeli justice system through a passionate Israeli attorney working for Palestinian defendants.
Festival Section:
World Cinema Documentary Competition
Country:
Israel/Canada/Switzerland
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2019 Sundance Docs in Focus: WHERE’S MY ROY COHN?
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Matt Tyrnauer reveals the dark influence of the Machiavellian attorney on today’s polarized political landscape.
Festival Section:
US Documentary Competition
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2019 Sundance Docs in Focus: UNTITLED AMAZING JOHNATHAN DOCUMENTARY
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Ben Berman attempts to document the life of a terminally-ill magician.
Festival Section:
US Documentary Competition
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2019 Sundance Docs in Focus: TIGERLAND
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Ross Kauffman profiles efforts to reverse the decimation of Asia’s wild tiger population.
Festival Section:
US Documentary Competition
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2019 Sundance Docs in Focus: PAHOKEE
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Ivete Lucas and Patrick Bresnan follow four teenagers through their senior year of high school in the Florida Everglades.
Festival Section:
US Documentary Competition
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2019 Sundance Docs in Focus: ONE CHILD NATION
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Nanfu Wang and Jialing Zhang bravely expose the unseen consequences of China’s one-child policy.
Festival Section:
US Documentary Competition
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In Theatres: COMMUNION
Coming to theatres tomorrow, Friday, January 4:
COMMUNION
Director:
Anna Zamecka
Premiere:
Locarno 2016
Select Festivals:
IDFA, Warsaw, DOK Leipzig, Göteborg, True/False, Sarasota, Docaviv, Yamagata Doc
Notable Recognition:
The doc was shortlisted for the Academy Awards.
About:
A Polish teenager is forced to assume adult responsibilities.
Zamecka’s striking debut draws the viewer into the lives of Ola, a 14-year-old girl and Nikodem, her younger brother, who has autism. Their mother abandoned the family to begin a new one with another man, while their father is an alcoholic, leaving Ola to take on the burden of running the household while also attempting to keep up with her studies. If that wasn’t enough, the overwhelmed teen finds herself leading Nikodem in the frustrating task of studying Scripture for his first communion. While there appears to be some element of hybridized filmmaking here, Zamecka doesn’t explicitly foreground any artifice, resulting instead in a compelling, humanistic observational portrait of a remarkably adaptive young girl whose childhood and innocence is slipping away far too quickly.
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