DOKer 2019: Short Competition
Moscow International Documentary Film Festival DOKer 2019
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- DirectorSophia FeuerTyler MacriConcerning three groups of children from disparate upbringings, A Black Hole is a Black Hole in the Ground intimately depicts the strange, ephemeral realities that arise on evenings of play, when dimensions of space and time, not fully cemented by adulthood, begin to dissolve. Parking lots, hen houses, and brownstone apartments become the dwellings of many strange creatures; coyotes are rendered forest spirits, neighbors as martians, and night crawlers as flesh-eating meteorite worms. Employing sci-fi, documentary and ethnography techniques, a state of mind particular to early youth is sublimated - weight is lent to shadows as vast as space, ripe with discoveries both minuscule and immense.
- DirectorCorina Schwingruber IlicUnder the spell of mass entertainment on the high seas.
- DirectorFatima MatousseFamily in Exile is an intimate documentary, set in Morocco, about the conflicts within the filmmaker's family. It is a daughter's quest to understand her father's refusal, over many years, to interact with her and her mother. Through a series of revealing conversations with family members, stories touching on gender tensions, religious beliefs, and parent/child relationships are evoked. It is a personal visual letter of resistance by a daughter to a dictatorial father.
- DirectorAlison JamesStarsSonicBuddhaClaudiaIn outback Australia, a wild camel is captured and fitted with a tracking device known as a Judas Collar.
- DirectorMatt KayStarsHiyori KonA female sumo wrestler fights against tradition and stigma to win her place in the ring.
- DirectorTeo GuillemStarsTeo GuillemCristina PérezArmchairs, feet, mattresses, mops, arms, memories, tubes, plastic. A whole army of objects dances and twists in this particular traveling choreography. A man tries to overcome a ghost from the past, a wonderful, terrible and impossible to forget ghost.
- DirectorAndreas BoschmannOf my parents exactly one video tape remained. I found it after almost 20 years and I realized: My sister and me never have talked about our loss. We grew up with our grandparents in a Russian-German ghetto somewhere in rural Germany. I want to know what she feels. And I want her to know what I feel.
- DirectorJuanita OnzagaCrocodile-men, a mystic river, some kids that like fishing and a war that ends share the same Colombian land; Bojaya. In this place, villagers have strange beliefs and celebrate the "Novenario" death ritual. This might be the beginning of a very long story, where spirits and humans meet each other to learn what is there to life after the end of war.
- DirectorMasha OsipovaBleak shots of Russian clinics set the tone. Then the telephone rings. On the other end of the line, Masha Osipova's parents are asked to explain why they sent her to children's sanatoria in her childhood. In these clinical government institutions, children were lodged free of charge in the Soviet era. Back then it was a privilege, but the deep impressions (drastic procedures, far from home) they left on Masha have had a negative impact on her life today.
- DirectorNatalia KoniarzA man takes his previously estranged father on a trip. They go to a place of solitude in the mountains where they had once built a lodge. Surrounded by raw nature, they confront their own weaknesses together. The father makes another attempt to rebuild his relationship with his son. The son counts on his father's help in building a dam on a stream. Working together provides the pretext for a conversation.
- DirectorManuela GrayThe Number is a short documentary film that looks at the myths and markings of South Africa's prison 'Number' gangs A secret code spelt out and spoken across the bodies of the inmates. The film immerses its audience in the world of the Number gangs, their history, personal journeys, codes and body markings.
- DirectorRishi ChandnaStarsAasim BhardeCelestine BhardeNusrat BhardeIn a cramped suburban apartment in Mumbai, an eccentric patriarch and his family consider killing and eating their hell-raising pet rooster, so that they can reclaim their normal lives.