20th EDOC 2021
Official Selection -- Festival de cine documental Encuentros Del Otro Cine
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- DirectorRadu CiorniciucStarsGica EnacheVali EnacheRica EnacheIn the wilderness of the Bucharest Delta, nine children and their parents lived in perfect harmony with nature for 20 years until they are chased out and forced to adapt to life in the big city.
- DirectorTheo AnthonyStarsTheo AnthonyKeaver BrenaiRobert CunniffA far-ranging look at the biases in how we see things, focusing on the use of police body cameras.
- DirectorAlicia CanoStarsAndreina MenoniGiulietto MenoniOrlando MenoniBetween imagination and memory, between the sides of the Atlantic Ocean, BOSCO is both a fable about time and a search to build an image of a place that exists beyond cartography and reality. Bosco is an Italian village of 13 inhabitants surrounded by chestnut trees that devour it day after day. Its forestial origin imposes itself also as its destiny. An ocean apart, in Uruguay, from his swivel chair Orlando, with 103 years, pushes us on a journey that becomes a fable. Between Bosco and Salto, between imagination and memory, a dialogue is built, giving birth to landscapes that exist beyond time and reality. Filmed over 13 years, Bosco explores what remains when everything seems bound to disappear.
- DirectorMercedes GaviriaStarsMercedes GaviriaVíctor GaviriaAfter studying abroad, Mercedes returns to Colombia to work on the next film by her father, the famous Víctor Gaviria. Fluctuating between admiration and reproach, Mercedes constructs a private diary that goes beyond familial conflicts to question the place of women in the film world, which is still strongly ingrained with a patriarchal mindset.
- DirectorBruno Santamaría RazoStarsDayanara de Dios CisnerosEstrella Rodríguez PardoYulesci Castañeda ManjarrezTells the story of a teenager who dreams of dressing up as a woman in a fishing village in the Mexican state of Nayarit.
- DirectorIrene Gutiérrez TorresStarsJuan Bautista LópezAlberto SantanaMiguel SotoDeep in the Cuban jungle, 3 veterans from the Angolan War partake in a secret ritual: to train again as the soldiers they once were; the last samurai of the Cuban Revolution, ready to take on the enemy.
- DirectorAvi MograbiStarsDani VilenskiShlomo GazitRoni HirschsonAn account of Israeli occupation of the Palestinian Territories in the West Bank and Gaza Strip with statements from Israeli soldiers about their service there.
- DirectorCarolina AdriazolaJosé Luis SepúlvedaStarsCristian DonosoVictoria DonosoCatalina FloresA woman strives to find her identity through a supervillain, dancer and mother in the Bajos de Mena town which is known as "Chile's biggest ghetto" in Puente Alto, Santiago.
- DirectorLaura Herrero GarvínAt the Barba Azul cabaret in Mexico City, The women dance and drink with the men who can afford it. In the upstairs toilets, "Mami", in exchange for a trip looks after their bags and even tries to support them.
- DirectorNuria GiménezIt combines fragments of Vivian Barrett´s diary with footage by Léon Barrett over the 40s through to the 60s of the 20th century.
- DirectorCristina HanesIsabella RinaldiArya RotheSomi and her husband met and fell in love while fighting alongside the Naxalites, a communist guerrilla group that has been fighting since the '60s for the rights of the tribal communities of India. After a decade of armed struggle, the couple deserted the movement and surrendered to the police. Ever since, they have been striving to forge a new identity, educate their two children, and eventually reconcile their violent past with the fervent desire to integrate into the hostile Indian society.
- DirectorAnaïs TaracenaIn the 1970s, journalist Elías Barahona, also known as "The Mole", infiltrated the heart of one of the most repressive governments in Guatemalan history. The film captures the moments when revelations from the past explore the cracks in the walls of silence that surround the country's secret history.
- DirectorMarianne Hougen-MoragaEstephan WagnerStarsHorst SchaffrikJürgen SzurgeliesHelga BohnauThe inhabitants of a German colony in Chile share a dark past with violence and sexual abuse, but react in widely different ways when confronted with it today.
- DirectorSalomé JashiDocumentary follows trees that are transported, at great expense and inconvenience, from the coast of the Republic of Georgia to the private garden of that country's former prime minister.
- DirectorSofie BenootLiesbeth De CeulaerIsabelle TollenaereStarsLashay T. WarrenIn the Mojave Desert lies the unfinished city of California, planned in the sixties to receive thousands of inhabitants, like Los Angeles or San Diego. Today, in the middle of empty streets, the city has a few more than 10 thousand people. The trio of Belgian directors follows these new pioneers, that look for new beginnings, telling about their experiences, giving names to streets or making long walking journeys of exploration of the space.
- DirectorCarolina MoscosoRecording the everyday was always a way of relating to the world. One night the rape happened and everything changed, although the search continued. When revisiting these images, a dialogue arises between light and darkness, while the strangeness remains before the world.
- DirectorPatricio GuzmánStarsPatricio GuzmánVincent DavyHortensia AllendeAfter decades of fascist rule in Chile, Patricio Guzman returns to his country to screen his documentary, Battle of Chile, which until the time of the filming was banned by authorities. His audience, a new generation of Chileans who remember little of the revolution and ensuing coup reflect on their experience of watching the film after so many years of suppression.
- DirectorMaría Fernanda RestrepoThe history about the family of Restrepo brothers and what they're doing until nowadays for solve the mystery of the dissapearence of the Restrepo brothers made by the "Ecuador's National Police"
- DirectorHeddy HonigmannStarsVíctor TalledoSeñor EnglishMercedes AguilarIn 1992, Peru was just emerging from one of its darkest moments in its entire republican history (1821- onwards). A cataclysmic economic meltdown and over 10 years of death and conflict brought upon by the Sendero Luminoso guerrilla had left deep scars in the Peruvian population. Furthermore, Alberto Fujimori had just dissolved the congress and senate in order to obtain extraordinary faculties and implement harsh economic measures. It is amidst this critical moment in the history of Perú that filmmaker Heddy Honigmann chronicles the views and lives of 14 real life taxi drivers in Lima. They represent the perseverance and ingenuity with which the everyday man survived and overcame the turbulence of the times in order to achieve advancement for themselves and their families.
- DirectorRoss McElweeStarsAdrian McElweeRoss McElweeFilmmaker Ross McElwee (Sherman's March, Bright Leaves) finds himself in frequent conflict with his son, a young adult who seems addicted to and distracted by the virtual worlds of the internet. To understand his fractured love for his son, McElwee travels back to St. Quay-Portrieux in Brittany for the first time in decades to retrace his own journey into adulthood. A meditation on the passing of time, the praxis of photography and film, and the digital versus analog divide.
- DirectorVictor KossakovskyViktor Kossakovsky was one of 101 children born in Leningrad on Wednesday 19 July 1961. Three decades later he tries to trace the people whose birthday he shared.
- DirectorRoberto MinerviniStarsSara CarlsonColby TrichellTim CarlsonSara, a girl being home-schooled on a goat farm alongside her 11 siblings, finds her devout values challenged after she meets Colby, an amateur bull rider.
- DirectorTalal DerkiStarsAbdul Basset SarootA look behind the barricades of the besieged city of Homs, where for nineteen-year-old Basset and his ragtag group of comrades, the audacious hope of revolution is crumbling like the buildings around them.
- DirectorLuis OspinaStarsRamiro ArbeláezAlejandra BorreroBeatriz CaballeroA documentary made by Luis Ospina, the last one of Caliwood, the name of a group of three friends that used to make movies in Colombia in the 60-80's years.
- DirectorJosé CardosoAn enigmatic presence haunts the depths of the Amazon rainforest, where an indigenous Achuar teenager has disappeared. His family decides to consult with a Shaman, who, immersed in a trance, reveals that the devil took the young man.