EDOC 2019
Line-up del Festival de cine documental Encuentros Del Otro Cine Edición XVIII -- Ecuador --
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- DirectorChristopher WalkerTHE STORY OF HOW ONE SMALL AMAZON TRIBE IS FIGHTING FURIOUSLY TO DEFEND THEIR FUTURE - AND OURS.
- DirectorKim LonginottoStarsLetizia BattagliaMariachiara di TrapaniEduardo RebullaItalian photographer Letizia Battaglia spends her career documenting the life and crimes of the Mafia.
- DirectorKiko GoifmanClaudia PriscillaStarsLinn da QuebradaJup do BairroLinikerA documentary that follows Mc Linn Da Quebrada, a black trans woman, performer and activist living in impoverished São Paulo. Her electrifying performances (with plenty of nudity) brazenly take on Brazil's hetero-normative machismo.
- DirectorIris ZakiA pop-up film studio becomes a social laboratory for encounters with camera-shy (but not conflict-averse) Israeli settlers on the West Bank.
- DirectorVadym IlkovStarsAnatoliy BelovMy father is my mother's brother is a portrait of one family. It moves between the social bottom and the depths of bohemian life. The artist and singer Tolik, his sister Anya and his niece Katya are struggling through the daily life filled with love, soul searching, loneliness and illness.
- DirectorIván OsnovikoffBettina PerutChola and Football are a couple of street dogs that live in the Los Reyes skatepark. A microcosm is organized around them, composed of things, animals and young adolescents in conflict with an adult world that they reject but are required to enter.
- DirectorPamela YatesFrom a historic genocide trial to the overthrow of a President, 500 YEARS tells a sweeping story of mounting resistance played out in Guatemala's recent history through the actions and perspectives of the majority indigenous Mayan population, who now stand poised to reimagine their society.
- DirectorSebastiano d'Ayala ValvaComposer Giacinto Scelsi believed his work came to him from the gods. Discover the mysterious beauty of his world and his music.
- DirectorAdam PunzanoJoe TuckerStarsNina GualingaTwo tribes in the Ecuadorian Amazon struggle to preserve their culture and way of life against oil company encroachment.
- DirectorMilo RauStarsSylvestre BisimwaJean-Louis GilissenVénantie Bisimwa Nabintu20 years of atrocities due to greed claimed the lives of over 6 million people in Congo. Milo Rau collects details from survivors and perpetrators. 3 trials were heard exposing one of the most horrific cases of inhumanity in world history.
- DirectorJuan Carlos LucasIn this docufiction about a unique guitar technique, it isn't always clear if myths are being investigated or created.
- DirectorAïda Maigre-Touchet
- DirectorDario AguirreStarsCesar AguirreDario AguirreMariuxi GuevaraDarío Aguirre moved from Ecuador to Germany to be with Stephanie, but from the very first day there was a third party in their relationship:the government. They issued him ten visas in fifteen years. A long trail of papers, stamps, permits, and restrictions connected Darío to Germany while also keeping him at a distance. Then one fine day the mayor of Hamburg invites Darío to become a German citizen. A confession of love? Darío responds with a tender, ironic road movie that traces his intertwined journey from the country of his fathers to the country of his children.
- DirectorRobert BaharAlmudena CarracedoStarsMaría MartínFrancisco FrancoAdolf HitlerThe Silence of Others reveals the epic struggle of victims of Spain's 40-year dictatorship under General Franco, who continue to seek justice to this day. Filmed over six years, the film follows the survivors as they organize the groundbreaking 'Argentine Lawsuit' and fight a state-imposed amnesia of crimes against humanity, and explores a country still divided four decades into democracy. Seven years in the making, The Silence of Others is the second documentary feature by Emmy-winning filmmakers Almudena Carracedo and Robert Bahar (Made in L.A.). It is being Executive Produced by Pedro Almodóvar, Agustín Almodóvar, and Esther García.
- DirectorIair SaidFlora Schvartzman is a ninety-year old spinster who has been wishing to die from the day she was born. Distanced from her family, she decides to contact them again in order to organize her own death. Iair, her great-nephew, is the first one to become interested in her... and in her apartment without heirs.
- DirectorChristian FreiMaxim ArbugaevStarsMaxim ArbugaevGeorge ChurchChristian FreiOn the remote New Siberian Islands in the Arctic Ocean, hunters are searching for the tusks of extinct mammoths. There is a gold rush fever in the air. The price for white gold has never been so high. The thawing permafrost not only releases precious ivory. The tusk hunters find a surprisingly well-preserved mammoth carcass. Such finds are magnets for high-tech genetic scientists. They want to bring the extinct woolly mammoth back to life à la "Jurassic Park". Resurrecting the mammoth is a first manifestation of the next great technological revolution. Man becomes Creator. Genesis two point zero. A Film about the secrets and mysteries hidden within nature and the fundamental difference in view of creation and the role of man in it.
- DirectorGabriel PaezStarsArcadio BalónAmbrosio Galo Tigrero GonzabayJuan Esteban QuimiSacachún tells the story of the few elders of a dry village about to disappear, who have been waiting for the return of San Biritute, the God of rain, for more than 60 years, kidnapped by local authorities and now his return is their only hope. Justin, the only child in town plays alone while waiting for the school to reopen. An essay on old age and the fear of death. A story about a group of elders and their tireless struggle for the respect of their culture and their different ways of understanding the faith. Where the need for water is the main argument that supports their demands and the ancestral culture is presented as heritage for generations to come, if their people survive after they leave.
- DirectorCristóbal Valenzuela BerríosWhen a celebrated sculpture briefly went missing from a Rodin exhibition in Santiago, the "theft" turned out to be a provocative statement, masterminded by a precocious art student. His actions sparked a public outcry and a furious debate on the nature of art itself. This lively and perceptive documentary revisits the scene of an extraordinary incident that captured the world's attention and challenged the global art community.
- DirectorFederico Atehortúa ArteagaStarsAracelly ArteagaCarlos AtehortúaWhile a director makes a film about this the origins of Cinema in Colombia, suddenly, his mother, apparently suffers a strange mental disease: without explanation she stops talking. This situation forces him to stop his film and starts recording his mother's everyday activity, trying to understand what possibly is happening to her. The director decides to revisit his family's past and finds a video footage of a children's theater play, shot by his mother, in which he himself acts as a false guerrilla fighter. This discovery brings him back to his original film and leads him to find the relationship that exists between the origins of Colombian cinema and what the media called "falsos positivos" a painful recent even in which it was found out that the army killed innocent youngsters and dressed then up as guerrilla fighters to give the impression they were winning the armed conflict.
- DirectorVitaliy ManskiyStarsVladimir PutinTony BlairAnatoliy ChubaysA rare glimpse at the young Putin and the vast political machine that brought him to power.
- DirectorAya KoretzkyStarsAya KoretzkyJiro KoretzkyAtsushi SugitaThe portrait of a father as seen through the eyes of his daughter by means of a photo album. A travel diary from the 1970s, starting in Japan and around the world. Father and daughter cross views on the memories of the old images and words, sharing the will to bring them to the present day.
- DirectorNebojsa SlijepcevicStarsNina BatinicMarin BlazevicSandra Dekanic"Srbenka" is a film about peer violence toward children of different nationality in Croatia. It examines how the generation born after the war copes with the dark shadows of history.
- DirectorMargarita MartinezThis is the story of the tortuous, and ultimately successful negotiations between the Colombian government and the hemisphere's oldest guerrilla movement in Havana, Cuba. But after decades of violence, making peace is harder than making war. Colombians are at a crossroads: can they win the peace? Or will the cycle of violence take yet another turn?
- DirectorTeresa ArredondoCarlos Vásquez Méndez"In September 1973, days after the coup d'état, 19 workers of a paper company disappeared after being arrested for their participation in the labor union or in left parties. 40 years later a policeman broke the pact of silence, revealing the participation of the private company CMPC in the death of these 19 men. Today the case remains open"
- DirectorAlisa KovalenkoStarsAlina ShilovaHome Games is a broken fairytale depicting a crucial moment in the life of Alina, a 20-year-old "million dollar baby" from Kyiv, whose passion for football has a chance of saving her from poverty.
- DirectorSheila M. SofianStarsRaquel AndersonAnthony BakerDarnell BaldwinA documentary that examines the work of James McCloskey. Mr. McCloskey founded Centurion Ministries, an organization whose mission is to free prisoners who have been wrongfully convicted of murder. It asks how innocent people could be convicted of murder, what could be done to prevent such injustices in the future, and what happens to these innocent people when they are released from prison after years of incarceration?
- DirectorRosine Mfetgo MbakamEnter the Jolie Coiffure hair salon in the African Matonge district of Brussels, where charismatic owner Sabine presided over customers' flirting, gossiping, and harrowing tales of immigration.
- DirectorAlexander HickStarsJwikamey TorresThe Arhuacos are the guardians of the forest and the ice of Colombia highest mountain, the Sierra Nevada Santa Marta. They draw from this unique environment a preserved and singular spirituality. For the first time a director was invited to visit the heartland of the sacred mountain. Hick tells the story of resistance which is a voyage through space and time: from the shores of the Caribbean to the stars that light up the night on the glacier and from the encounter with the first colonizing whites to the return of the warriors following FARC's laying-down of arms.
- DirectorLuke LorentzenStarsJuan OchoaFer OchoaJosue OchoaIn Mexico City's wealthiest neighborhoods, the Ochoa family runs a private ambulance, competing with other for-profit EMTs for patients in need of urgent help.
- DirectorAnja KofmelStarsSusanne-Marie WrageMegan GayChristian WürtenbergCroatia, 7th of January 1992: In the middle of the war a young journalists' body is being found dressed with an uniform of the international mercenary group. 19 years later, his cousin Anja Kofmel detects his story.
- DirectorNikolaus GeyrhalterWith precisely composed shots and detailed interviews with local police officers, hikers, farmers and small business owners, the film explores the few square kilometers at the Brenner Pass, telling an urgent story of Europe in the process.
- DirectorMaria RamosStarsDilma RousseffJair BolsonaroJosé Eduardo CardozoThe Trial documents the trial of Dilma Rousseff, focusing on the defense team, who struggles to prove her innocence against a majority vote by a Congress riddled with corruption. A tale of betrayal and corruption, the film presents Rousseff's personal story: herself imprisoned and tortured by the country's former military dictatorship, she now faces impeachment accused of fiscal crimes. Rousseff declares herself innocent and accuses the right-wing opposition of perpetrating a parliamentary coup d'état. The Trial witnesses how the impeachment triggers a profound political crisis in Brazil. It looks at the collapse of the democratic institutions and at the economic and geopolitical interests at the very heart of this crisis. The film offers a behind-the-scenes look at this historical moment. The filmmaker was granted unique access to the defense team, to deputies and senators and to President Rousseff herself. Ramos' technique is wholly observational, without interviews and narrations. The camera captures physical and conversational interactions in private and political spheres while offering viewers a glimpse of the outdoor mass demonstrations.