9th Iran International Documentary Film Festival
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- DirectorAlexander NanauStarsHovarth Ilie Nicusor Gabriel PetreAndreea Violeta PetreAna-Maria Badulescu PetreTotonel (10) and his sisters, Andreea (14) and Ana (17), are waiting for their mother to come back home from prison. As they grow up, each of them learns how to survive on their own, hoping that when their mother returns, the family will be reunited.
- DirectorClaudine BoriesPatrice ChagnardAs unemployment rises, a busy human resources agency teaches clients, mostly inexperienced young people, how to become more appealing to potential employers. Some accept this as necessary evil, others condemn it as excessive conformism.
- DirectorChico PereiraPablo needs to stop smoking. Why? Because his wife, family and doctor say he should. But Pablo is a stubborn man. He has worked in the mercury mines of Almadén, Spain, risking his life daily. He has had five severe heart attacks and smoked 20 Winston's a day since he was 12. Now in his seventies, Pablo spends most of his day in front of the TV, surrounded by a cloud of smoke, with his back turned firmly towards a village that has lived through better times. Pablo represents the last generation of Almadén mercury miners, an age-old profession with over 2,000 years of history. Through a straightforward depiction of life's everyday moments, Pablo's Winter explores the decay of the local mining culture, but above all, pays homage to its real protagonists: the miners and their families.
- DirectorJorge PelicanoStarsMiguel BorgesA psychiatric hospital. The inner world of schizophrenia. An actor looking for his character.
- DirectorKristof BilsenStarsHenrietteSimon NgolaVan NzaiElephant's Dream is a portrait about three State-owned institutions and their workers in DR Congo, providing insight into their daily lives and survival in the third largest city of Africa, Kinshasa.
- DirectorHans Ulrich GoesslAngelos Rallis'A Place for Everyone' explores the human geography of a Rwandan village two decades after the genocide. Survivors and killers still live next to each other and a new generation of young Rwandans has grown up in a society that under goes a fragile reconciliation process. Filmed over the course of more than four years, 'A Place for Everyone' provides an intimate portray of two young Rwandans, a girl of the survivors group and a boy of the killers group, in their quest for love and hate, revenge and forgiveness.
- DirectorThierry MichelStarsMartin SpinhayerDenis Mukwege MukengereHillary ClintonWinner of the Sakharov Prize 2014, Doctor Mukwege is internationally known as the man who mends thousands of women who have been raped during the 20 years of conflicts in the East of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, one of the poorest countries on the planet, despite its extremely rich sub-soil. His endless struggle to put an end to these atrocities and denounce the impunity enjoyed by the perpetrators is not welcome. At the end of 2012, the Doctor was the target of another attempt on his life, which he miraculously survived. Threatened with death, this doctor with an exceptional destiny now lives cloistered in his hospital in Bukavu under the protection of the United Nation peacekeepers. But he is no longer alone in his struggle. The women to whom he has restored physical integrity and dignity, stand beside him, true activists for peace, hungry for justice.
- DirectorRehad Desai34 miners were killed in South Africa in 2012. A police cover-up was suspected.
- DirectorLyric R. CabralDavid Felix SutcliffeStarsKhalifah Ali Al-AkiliMike HealeyAli Kareem(T)ERROR is the first documentary to place filmmakers on the ground during an active FBI counterterrorism sting operation. Through the perspective of "Shariff", a 63-year-old Black revolutionary turned informant, viewers get an unfettered glimpse of the government's counterterrorism tactics and the murky justifications behind them. Taut, stark and controversial, (T)ERROR illuminates the fragile relationships between individual and surveillance state in modern America, and asks who is watching the watchers.
- DirectorLaurent Bécue-RenardThe warriors in Of Men and War have come home to the United States, but their minds remain on the battlefield. Anger consumes them long after their return from the front. Like figures from a Greek tragedy, all have traumatic memories that haunt them to this day. At The Pathway Home, a first-of-its-kind PTSD therapy center, the film's subjects resolve to end the ongoing destruction of their wellbeing. Their therapist, who is also a Vietnam Vet, helps the young men forge meaning from their trauma. Over years of therapy, the film explores their grueling paths to recovery, as they attempt to make peace with their past, their families and themselves.
- DirectorJack RiccobonoStarsRobert Duane BrownKevin Fineday Jr.Albino GarciaWhen Rob Brown, a Native American gang leader on a remote Minnesota reservation, is sentenced to prison for a fifth time, he must confront his role in bringing violent drug culture into his beloved Ojibwe community. As Rob reckons with his past, his seventeen-year-old protégé, Kevin, dreams of the future - becoming the biggest drug dealer on the reservation. Terrence Malick presents this haunting and visually arresting nonfiction film about the gang crisis in Indian Country.
- DirectorMatthew HeinemanStarsTim FoleyJosé Manuel 'El Doctor' MirelesPaco ValenciaFilmmaker Matthew Heineman examines the state of the ongoing drug problem along the U.S.-Mexican border.
- DirectorAdam KahanStarsRahsaan Roland KirkBetty NealsSteve TurreThe story of multi-instrumentalist Rahsaan Roland Kirk; who went from blind infant, to child prodigy, to adult visionary, to political activist, and finally to paralyzed showman. A seemingly superhuman musical force who played literally until the day he died.
- DirectorGabriela Domínguez RuvalcabaAmalia has lost her memory and looks for traces of her past, in old Super-8 and Betamax movies, trying to restore her identity. During the rebuilding process we will begin a journey in search of the roots of memory. The exploration of the locations delimit the monologue that is produced in the character?s mind, it evokes lost moments in the hippocampus while it meditates and interprets the footage film.
- DirectorLydie Wisshaupt-ClaudelThe Californian military base, Twentynine Palms, is a transit point for very young Marines who stay there after returning from Iraq or Afghanistan. How can they"kill" time from now on?
- DirectorAmy KohnA documentary about Christian Courtship, an alternative to dating that seeks to ensure physical and emotional purity until marriage. Kelly, a 33 year old virgin, renounces dating believing that her parents along with God should find her husband. Problem is, her parents think she is crazy. Enter the Wright family who become her spiritual parents. They finally discover a promising suitor, but when his religious beliefs conflict with theirs, they wonder whether he is really the man God has chosen.
- DirectorDavid SievekingStarsMargarete SievekingMalte SievekingDavid SievekingFilmmaker David Sieveking portays the home care of his mother who, like 2 million other people in Germany, suffers from Alzheimer's Disease. David's parents had been a part of the student movement in the sixties and led an open relationship, which is now put to the test dramatically by the disease. The whole family has to deal with the smoldering conflicts to find a new solidarity.
- DirectorEdu MarínOlivier AlgoraGood night, Sarajevo is the story of a voice. The voice of the Bosnian journalist Boban Minic and Radio Sarajevo during the siege of his city in the Bosnian War . A voice that night after night moved its listeners away from the brutality. Today, guided by a new mission, Minic, returns to Sarajevo.
- DirectorUsha RaoGautam SontiThe promise of a global city is being used to bulldoze Bangalore, India's I.T. capital, at the expense of the people who live in it. To whose advantage?
- DirectorBingol ElmasStarsHale AlkinliNevin BektasSevinc BektasThe relationship between an old single-floor house and her neighbor residence. There is the pink house and her ex-residents on one side, and the new neighbors on the other side. We witness their feelings and views about each other, and their dreams about the city, of course together with the scenery from their windows.
- DirectorMaria TarantinoThe city of Brussels, the capital of Europe we think we know but actually never see. From the rooftops of buildings to their underground foundations, a celebration of the city that still breathes freely.
- DirectorRomany SaadThree kids work as drivers in the streets of Cairo.
- DirectorSoon-Mi YooInterweaving footage from the director's three visits to North Korea with songs, spectacle, popular cinema and archival footage, Songs from the North takes a different look at this enigmatic country typically seen through the distorted lens of jingoistic propaganda and derisive satire. Challenging the meaning of freedom, love, patriotism and ultimately the human condition, it tries to understand, on their own terms, the psychology and popular imaginary of the North Korean people and the political ideology of absolute love which continues to drive the nation towards its uncertain future.
- DirectorPatricio GuzmánStarsMartín CalderónCristinaPatricio GuzmánDelving into the nearly-religious significance of water, this profound rumination on memory and loss bridges the gap between its mystical origins, Pinochet's coup d'état, and the secret of a mother-of-pearl button at the bottom of the sea.
- DirectorKiur AarmaHardi VolmerStarsTõnu AavPeedu OjamaaArtemiy TroitskiyThe Gold Spinners is a story about the birth, glory, and disappearance of a peculiar, invisible, and mighty business empire, the film studio Eesti Reklaamfilm, the only company producing commercials in the Soviet Union.