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Films by Strand

Each night of Doc/Fest 2008, we showcased films from our curated Strands.

  1. Arts Docs |
  2. Bent Docs |
  3. Comedy Doc |
  4. Cross-Platform Doc |
  5. Doc Europe |
  6. Doc International |
  7. Doc UK |
  8. First Cut |
  9. Japanese Strand |
  10. Music Docs |
  11. Russian Focus |
  12. Short Films |
  13. Special Screenings
Film Still Film Information Strands, Festivals, Awards Like this? Don't miss...
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Yodok Stories

Director(s):
Andrzej Fidyk
Country:
Norway
Year:
2008
Length:
75 minutes
Format:
35 mm
Language:
Korean, English
Screening:
04 Nov 13.45 - Showroom 2
07 Nov 21.45 - Showroom 3
Strands:
Doc Europe 
Festivals:
Tribeca Film Festival 2009, IDFA 2008 
Awards:
  • Petition, American Radical, Home From Home,

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Blood in the Mobile (work in progress screening)

Director(s):
Frank Piasecki Poulsen
Country:
Denmark
Year:
0
Length:
80 minutes
Format:
HDCam
Language:
English
Screening:
06 Nov 12.15 - SIF Studio
Strands:
Doc Europe 
Festivals:
 
Awards:
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Dealing with Time

Director(s):
Xavier Marquis
Country:
France
Year:
2008
Length:
52 minutes
Format:
Digital Betacam PAL
Language:
English, French
Screening:
05 Nov 09.45 - Showroom 1
06 Nov 14.30 - SIF Studio
Strands:
Doc Europe 
Festivals:
Aljazeera International documentary festival 2009, Istanbul Documentarist 2009 
Awards:
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Disco & Atomic War

Director(s):
Jaak Kilmi
Country:
Estonia, Finland
Year:
2009
Length:
78 minutes
Format:
Betacam SP PAL
Language:
Estonian, Finnish, English, Russian
Screening:
06 Nov 21.40 - Showroom 3
08 Nov 12.35 - Showroom 2
Strands:
Doc Europe 
Festivals:
Pärnu International Documentary and Anthropology Film Festival, 5.-26.07.09 2009, Love & Anarchy, Helsinki, Finland, 17.-27.09.09  
Awards:
“The Best Estonian Film 2009”, Pärnu International Documentary and Anthropology Film Festival
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Home from Home

Director(s):
Sung-Hyung Cho
Country:
Germany
Year:
2009
Length:
99 minutes
Format:
35 mm
Language:
German, Korean
Screening:
08 Nov 19.30 - Showroom 3
07 Nov 14.30 - Showroom 2
Strands:
Doc Europe 
Festivals:
 
Awards:
  • Moving To Mars:A Million Miles From Burma, Yodok Stories, The Thorn In The Heart, Pink Taxi

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Sacred Places

Director(s):
Jean-Marie Teno
Country:
Cameroon, France
Year:
2009
Length:
70 minutes
Format:
Digital Betacam PAL
Language:
French with English subtitles
Screening:
07 Nov 19.00 - SIF Studio
06 Nov 10.00 - Showroom 2
Strands:
Doc Europe 
Festivals:
San Francisco 2009, Hot Docs 2009, Los Angeles Film Festival 2009, Silverdocs 2009, Encounters 2009, Durban International Film festival 2009 
Awards:
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The Inheritors

Director(s):
Eugenio Polgovsky
Country:
Mexico
Year:
2008
Length:
90 minutes
Format:
HDCam
Language:
Spanish, Nahuatl
Screening:
08 Nov 19.00 - Showroom 1
04 Nov 21.15 - Library Theatre
Strands:
Doc Europe 
Festivals:
Festival de Cine de Venezia (Venice Film Festival) Orrizzonti section, competition. Berlinale, "Generation" section, Competition. Opening Film, first documentary screened in the section afeter 32 years, it opened the section to documentary. "Bright future" Rotterdam Film Festival. Official selection: Guijon, Spain-Pamplona- Indie Lisboa, Portugal- Cinema du Reel, France. Visions du Reel, Switzerland,Taiwan Film Fest. Viennale, Viena, Austria.-Thessaloniki, Grece.-Brisbane, Australia. Guadalajara Film Festival, México. Festival de la Memoria de Tepoztlan, México. Expresión en Corto, Guanajauato, México. Docs DF. 2009 
Awards:
Grand Prize "Coral" 30th Festival de Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano, La Habana, Cuba. "Ariel" Academy award, Best documentary, Mexican Academy of Film Arts and Sciences, Mexico 2009. "Ariel" Academy award, Best editing, Mexican Academy of Film Arts and Sciences, Mexico 2009. "FEISAL" Best documentary, Guadalajara Film Festival, Mexico 2009. Amnesty International Prize, Ljubjiana Film Festival, Slovenia 2009. Amnesty International Prize, Indie Lisboa Festival, Portugal 2009. "Zapata" award, Best documentary 3er Festival de la Memoria, Tepoztlan, México, June 2009. Julio Pliego-TvUnam award, for Best documentary 3er Festival de la Memoria, Tepoztlan, México, June 2009. Best documentary International competition, 13th FIDOCS, Premio de UNICEF a la Mejor Película que promueva los derechos del niño, DIVERCINE, Festival Internacional de Cine para Niños y Jóvenes, Uruguay, 2009. Mejor Largometraje Documental, DIVERCINE, Festival Internacional de Cine para Niños y Jóvenes, Uruguay, 2009.,
  • Kings Of Pastry, Far From Gone, Petition

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The Thorn In The Heart

Director(s):
Michel Gondry
Country:
France
Year:
2009
Length:
82 minutes
Format:
Digital Betacam PAL
Language:
French
Screening:
08 Nov 22.15 - Showroom 3
Strands:
Doc Europe 
Festivals:
Cannes 2009 
Awards:
  • October Country, All Tomorrow's Parties, Sergio

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The Living Room of the Nation

Director(s):
Jukka Kärkkäinen
Country:
Finland
Year:
2009
Length:
74 minutes
Format:
Digital Betacam PAL
Language:
Finnish (with English subtitles)
Screening:
06 Nov 16.40 - SIF Studio
05 Nov 09.30 - Showroom 4
Strands:
Doc Europe 
Festivals:
Motovun Film Festival, Motovun, Croatia 2009, The 6th Planete Doc Review Film Festival, Warsaw, Poland 2009, DocPoint, Helsinki, Finland 2009, Tampere 39th International Short Film Festival, Tampere, Finland 2009, The Transilvania International Film Festival, Cluj-Napoca, Romania 2009, Documentarist – Istanbul Documentary Days, Istanbul, Turkey 2009, European Film Festival Palic, Subotica, Serbia 2009 
Awards:
Special Mention, Tampere 39th International Short Film Festival, Tampere, Finland, March 2009
  • Disco And Atomic War, Erasing David, Bastardy

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Nobody Passes Perfectly

Director(s):
Saskia Bisp
Country:
Denmark
Year:
2009
Length:
43 minutes
Format:
Digital Betacam PAL
Language:
English, Danish, German
Screening:
07 Nov 12.45 - Showroom 1
08 Nov 13.55 - SIF Studio
Strands:
Bent Docs, Doc Europe 
Festivals:
Odense International Film Festival 2009, CPH:DOX 2009, Copenhagen Gay & Lesbian Film Festival 2009 
Awards:
Audience Award , Copenhagen Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
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PianoMania

Director(s):
Lilian Franck, Robert Cibis
Country:
Germany
Year:
2009
Length:
93 minutes
Format:
35 mm
Language:
German
Screening:
07 Nov 14.15 - Showroom 3
08 Nov 12.15 - Showroom 3
Strands:
Music Docs, Doc Europe, Arts Docs 
Festivals:
Diagonale Graz 2009, Locarno FF 2009, Zurich FF 2009 
Awards:
Semaine de la Critique in Locarno, Locarno FF
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Pink Taxi

Director(s):
Uli Gaulke
Country:
Germany
Year:
2009
Length:
80 minutes
Format:
35 mm
Language:
Russian
Screening:
05 Nov 17.10 - Showroom 2
06 Nov 15.15 - The Void - Howard St Cinema
Strands:
Russian Focus, Doc Europe 
Festivals:
Internationale Hofer Filmtage 2009 
Awards:
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Videocracy

Director(s):
Erik Gandini
Country:
Sweden, Denmark
Year:
2009
Length:
80 minutes
Format:
35 mm
Language:
Italian, English
Screening:
06 Nov 19.20 - Showroom 3
07 Nov 09.30 - Showroom 3
Strands:
Doc Europe 
Festivals:
Venice Film Festival 2009, Toronto Film festival 2009, Hamptons Film Festival 2009, Warsaw Film Festival 2009 
Awards:
Special Jury Award, Sheffield Doc/Fest
  • Disco And Atomic War, All Tomorrow's Parties, Winnebego Man, Yodok Stories

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Cinetrain

Director(s):
Denes Nagy, Nikita Sutyrin, Monica Baptista, Jochem De Vries, Andrei Tanase, Iris Olsson
Country:
Russia, France
Year:
2008
Length:
63 minutes
Format:
Digital Betacam PAL
Language:
English, Russian, Hungary, German
Screening:
04 Nov 13.30 - Library Theatre
08 Nov 10.00 - SIF Studio
Strands:
Russian Focus, Doc Europe 
Festivals:
Critic's week, Cannes 2009 
Awards:
Golden Frog, Lago Film Festival
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Videomappings : Aida, Palestine

Director(s):
Till Roeskens
Country:
France
Year:
2009
Length:
46 minutes
Format:
Betacam SP PAL
Language:
Arabic (english subtitles)
Screening:
05 Nov 17.10 - SIF Studio
06 Nov 21.40 - SIF Studio
Strands:
Doc Europe 
Festivals:
FID Marseille 2009 
Awards:
Grand Prix of the French Competition, FID Marseille
  • Voices from El-Sayed, American Radical: The Trials Of Norman Finkelstein, Petition

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