All Films From Documentary & Cinéma Vérité
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AL NAKBA: The Palestinian Catastrophe 1948
By Benny Brunner
NetherlandsDIR Benny Brunner & Alexandra Jansse
AL NAKBA: The Palestinian Catastrophe 1948 (documentary, Israel-Germany-The Netherlands, 1997). Arguably the first film that seriously tackles the historic events that lead to the creation of 750.000 Palestinian refugees at the end of the first Israeli-Arab war of 1948. Based on historian Benny Morris’…
“If you will it, it is no dream,” wrote the founder of political Zionism Theodor Herzl in 1902, prophesizing the creation of a utopian Jewish state.
One hundred years later, some of the harshest critics of Israel’s occupation policies are Israelis themselves – a small minority of intellectuals, political…
The film chronicles the daily life of two Palestinian middle-class professionals who live in the shadow of “The Wall” in the greater Jerusalem area.
THE CONCRETE CURTAIN is a sequel to THE WALL which I made a year earlier for Dutch TV.
Photography: Eytan Harris.
Editor: Simon Bunt.
Director: Benny…
Chronicles of a cultural destruction: The story of 60,000 looted books.
“Farewell my library! Farewell mansion of wisdom, temple of philosophers, institute of science, council house of literature!” Khalil Sakakini
The film will reconstruct in a multi-faceted approach the looting – by the newly born…
The German Blood
By Masha Kozlova
RussiaDIR Mariya Kozlova
PROD Igor Geleyn
SCR Mariya Kozlova
DP Ivan Finogeev
CAST Lyubov Kostina
Lyubov Kostina was born in the concentration camp in the city of Schweinemünde . She has German blood in her veins. Her mother felt all bitterness of first fascist, and then Stalin’s concentration camps. Grandma reared little Lyuba. Nobody in school or at home loved the girl because, it was known…
Ursdon: The Teritory of Loneliness
By Masha Kozlova
RussiaDIR Mariya Kozlova
PROD Vladimir Akoev
DP Dmitriy Rakov
40 years ago there were more then 500 houses in the Caucasian village of Ursdon. Now there are only 3 left. The strong men live here…
A really strong man would never show his power. The real shaman is the same. He would never shout about it. His fame is spread by the word of mouth. Everybody knows him, and everybody keeps the secret. He has no gongs and no honors. He is doomed to live in the complete darkness and to go behind the…
An attempt to interpret Patrick Suskind’s novella “Double Bass” as a documentary.
This is my first movie in 35 mm film (10 min). The idea of creating a documentary trilogy of the life of Highlanders was born at that moment in Ossetia. It has been fully implemented only in 2007, with output of films about shamans and herder Victor.
The Majestic is a poetic documentary following the extraordinary life of Ron West who owns the worlds oldest silent film cinema “The Majestic,” in Pomona, Queensland, Australia.
01-06-2009
“Skin" is a 4-6 minute webisode that follows Sydney’s body modification martyr, Joeltron, as we explore the reasons and struggles behind his obscure form of self-expression. It’s Dexter meets an MTV style documentary.
The extraordinary lives of teenage new travellers revealed by the young people themselves.
A documentary about George Eastman, who single-handedly founded Eastman Kodak, one of the most recognizable brand names in history. This film explores what George was really like and what lead him to his eventual suicidal death.
The Big Brother State is an educational film about what politicians claim to be protection of our freedom but what we refer to as repressive legislation.
Since terrorism has become a global threat, especially after 9/11, governments all over the world have started enforcing laws which, so the governments…
You're meant to like them
By Peter Snelling
United KingdomDIR Peter Snelling
PROD Mandy Rathbone
DP James Price
Is your family normal?
A teenager fights the government to keep his life and his friends.
Herb Weitz is the owner of the oldest and few remaining bookbinding stores in New York City. He is a 70-year old man who is passionate and dedicated to his craft. But Herb is not your ordinary senior citizen. Love to Hate, Hate to Love will explore his exceptional personality and his unconventional…
Two brothers and their raccoon named Big Boy
I Know You is a personal documentary revealing how the search for a new relationship can actually reveal the foundation of an old one. Filmmaker Bruce Parsons, along with his father, search his hometown to try and meet his grandfather for the first time.
Four short stories – the winter, spring, summer and autumn transfer cyclicity of the Russian-Chinese relations on border of two countries. Attitudes of two small cities which are being on opposite coast – the Russian Blagoveshchensk and Chinese HeiHe, develop differently.
The old dacha
By Nastia Tarasova
RussiaDIR Nastia Tarasova
SCR Elena Shirokovskih
DP Irina Shatalova
Documentary fantasy.
A summer day in 1964, a dacha near Moscow, a playing child, adults who are about to go to the river. Through these pastoral images pierces the sound of a typewriter importunately: in this dacha a “samizdat” (self-publishing) typography is at work. In the evening when the next issue…
This is a selection – totalling 33 min. – from the last film I’ve directed. The full (82 min.) film examines in nine chapters what has happened to us Israelis after 60 years of independence; what went wrong; how we turned from victims to victimizers.
The film starts and ends with a musical scene; it…
“The Time Machine” tells the story of Wilfredo Alvarez, a Honduran man who immigrated to America 11 years ago and has been working in a small watch shop in Grand Central Terminal for the past 2 years. In it, we explore his story, we learn about the intricate craft of watchmaking, and we listen to his…
My dad decides to fix one of our kitchen chairs…
Children of the Great Lake
By Nastia Tarasova
RussiaDIR Nastia Tarasova
SCR Elena Shirokovskih
DP Irina Shatalova
Northern Baikal. A place of former construction of BAM. Here, behind destiny of the lost generations, almost is not visible Beauty and Greatness of Huge Lake. Only warning sound of the shaman’s drum reaches from mountains. But also it does not speak about the future well-being…
The Light of the White Sea. Film 1
By Nastia Tarasova
RussiaDIR Nastia Tarasova
SCR Nastia Tarasova, Konstantin Zakashanskii
DP Irina Shatalova
Eleven years lighthouse keeper Alexey lived on island Zhuzhmui. Every morning he communicate by radio with Arcady – lighthouse keeper from island Rombak. Beacons were lit on islands every evening. All these years they shone regularly, but while once one of them has gone out.
Film festivals:
The Jury…
Sunday / Dimanche
By Noemi Veberič Levovnik
FranceDIR Noemi Veberic Levovnik
CAST Franci Levovnik, Danica Levovnik
I filmed my grandparents. Without words, just silence cut by short music intervals. Outside there is snow, and inside?
Kabalan
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PhilippinesDIR Carlo Labrador-Pangalangan
CAST Louie Marie Londres, Cristine Joy Abastillas, Shena Mae Armentia, Cleto Cordero, Arlene Ferando, Natasha Daza, Rhoan Belgira, Rich Chelle Muyco-Bustamante
A short documentary portrait of Louie Marie Londres.
THE FIRST BEND IN THE DOCUMENTATION SESSIONS
Tyler Bowen. Rattlesnake Lake. Wednesday March 17, 2010.
About THE BENDS OF FORMATION:
This is about community- this is about truth. This is about facing ourselves in order to dismantle ego. In other words, this is the act of channeling mind to extreme levels…
Missives from days of a flaneur in Havana, Cuba.
The mystical crumbling jewel.