Category Archives: Recommendations

MILISUTHANDO
Set in past, present, and future South Africa — an invitation into a poetic, memory-driven exploration of love, intimacy, race, and belonging by the filmmaker, who grew up during apartheid but didn’t know it was happening until it was over.

Director:
Milisuthando Bongela

Producer:
Marion Isaacs

Festival Section:
World Cinema Documentary Competition

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THE LONGEST GOODBYE
Social isolation affects millions of people, even Mars-bound astronauts. A savvy NASA psychologist is tasked with protecting these daring explorers.

Director/Producer:
Ido Mizrahy

Producers:
Nir Sa’ar, Paul Cadieux

Festival Section:
World Cinema Documentary Competition

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IS THERE ANYBODY OUT THERE?
While navigating daily discrimination, a filmmaker who inhabits and loves her unusual body searches the world for another person like her, and explores what it takes to love oneself fiercely despite the pervasiveness of ableism.

Director:
Ella Glendining

Producer:
Janine Marmot

Festival Section:
World Cinema Documentary Competition

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IRON BUTTERFLIES
In summer 2014, sunflower fields and coal mines in eastern Ukraine turned into a 12 square kilometer crime scene. A multi-layered investigation into the downing of flight MH17, in which a butterfly-shaped shrapnel was found in the pilot’s body, implicated the state responsible for a war crime that remains unpunished.

Director:
Roman Liubyi

Producers:
Andrii Kotliar, Volodymyr Tykhyy, David Armati Lechner, Isabelle Bertolone, Trini Götze

Festival Section:
World Cinema Documentary Competition

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FANTASTIC MACHINE
From the first camera to 45 billion cameras worldwide today, the visual sociologist filmmakers widen their lens to expose both humanity’s unique obsession with the camera’s image and the social consequences that lay ahead.

Directors/Producers:
Axel Danielson, Maximilien Van Aertryck

Festival Section:
World Cinema Documentary Competition

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THE ETERNAL MEMORY
Augusto and Paulina have been together for 25 years. Eight years ago, he was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. Both fear the day he no longer recognizes her.

Director/Producer:
Maite Alberdi

Producers:
Juan de Dios Larraín, Pablo Larraín, Rocío Jadue

Festival Section:
World Cinema Documentary Competition

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AGAINST THE TIDE
Two friends, both Indigenous fishermen, are driven to desperation by a dying sea. Their friendship begins to fracture as they take very different paths to provide for their struggling families.

Director/Producer:
Sarvnik Kaur

Producer:
Koval Bhatia

Festival Section:
World Cinema Documentary Competition

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20 DAYS IN MARIUPOL
As the Russian invasion begins, a team of Ukrainian journalists trapped in the besieged city of Mariupol struggle to continue their work documenting the war’s atrocities.

Director/Producer:
Mstyslav Chernov

Producers:
Michelle Mizner, Raney Aronson-Rath, Derl McCrudden

Festival Section:
World Cinema Documentary Competition

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5 SEASONS OF REVOLUTION
An aspiring video journalist in her 20s finds herself already facing self-reckoning. Born in Damascus, Syria, Lina starts to report on the events around her until she is compelled to become a war reporter and, later, the unexpected narrator of her own destiny.

Director:
Lina

Producers:
Diana El Jeiroudi

Festival Section:
World Cinema Documentary Competition

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BEYOND UTOPIA
Hidden camera footage augments this perilous, high-stakes journey as we embed with families attempting to escape oppression, ultimate revealing a world most of us have never seen.

Director:
Madeleine Gavin

Producers:
Jana Edelbaum, Rachel Cohen, Sue Mi Terry

Festival Section:
US Documentary Competition

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