20th Ex Oriente Film projects revealed for Sunny Side of the Doc session
The 20th Ex Oriente Film Workshop, from the Institute of Documentary Film, has announced the projects selected to participate in
Living in the trash
IDENTITY: From the 2022 Cannes Film Festival, an intense look into the lives of the neglected and forgotten.
The «fragile memory» of the man behind the camera
MEMORY: A Ukrainian filmmaker turns to a forgotten photo archive as his grandfather’s memory starts fading away.
Choices of war
CONFLICT: Sergei Loznitsa’s sombre documentary, The Natural History of Destruction, re-examines the heavy bombing of British and German cities during World War Two, posing the question – ‘is it morally acceptable to kill civilian populations as a means of war?’
Chilean documentary ‘Malqueridas’ awarded at Cannes Docs
Four Chilean films in their editing stage were part of Docs-in-Progress Showcase #Chile at #Cannes Film Festival’s market Marché du
From distant observer to ally
CLIMATE: A remote Russian geophysicist seeks to restore the Ice Age ecosystems.
Devoted to a double life
RELIGION: After decades of living a secret life, a filmmaker travels to a Japanese monastery in an exploration of truth, faith and love.
She wrote what she could not live
BIOGRAPHY: Based on the unpublished diaries of Patricia Highsmith, Loving Highsmith draws a vivid portrait of one of the most prolific female authors.
Lives lost, opportunities wasted
CHINA: Looking back in anger at the lost chances to help China attain democracy, 30 years after Tiananmen Square.