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Anubumin
The Atomic Soldiers
A Night at the Garden
Some Joy in this Struggle
Personal Truth
(English friendly)
- Anubumin
- directed by Zanny Begg and Oliver Ressler, Austria/Australia 2017, 18'
- Dependent on international aid, the small island nation of Nauru in the Pacific is where Australians detain those they want to keep out. Ressler and Begg's film contains unique hidden-camera recordings from centers where asylum seekers are held in inhumane conditions. The images are accompanied by the words of former employees, whistle-blowers who describe the tragic situation of people sentenced to remain indefinitely in a tropical hell.
- The Atomic Soldiers
- directed by Morgan Knibbe, USA/Netherlands 2018, 22'
- After half a century, the atomic soldiers who were forced to remain silent share their shocking testimonies. In Morgan Knibbe's film, the last living witnesses to American nuclear tests from the 1950s describe an experience that changed their lives forever.
- A Night at the Garden
- directed by Marshall Curry, USA 2017, 7'
- Curry's film, which was put together from several archival takes, creates the impression of a retro-futuristic work of science fiction that describes the world after the global triumph of the Third Reich. And yet what we see on-screen really happened: in 1939, a few months before the outbreak of war, a rally of American Nazis took place in New York's Madison Square Garden that was attended by more than 20,000 people.
- Some Joy in this Struggle
- directed by Jean-Gabriel Périot, France 2017, 22'
- An experimental director who is a favorite of WATCH DOCS, Jean-Gabriel Périot, portrays women for whom choral singing is a form of resistance against an oppressing reality and a way out of isolation. Thierry Escaich's composition for Périot's lyrics is performed by the protagonists and musicians from the Paris Opera.
- Personal Truth
- directed by Charlie Lyne, UK 2017, 18'
- On 4 December 2016, Maddison Welch traveled from his hometown of Salisbury, North Carolina, nearly 500 km to reach Washington and the Comet pizzeria, where he fired off an AR-15 rifle three times. Welch's motives are well known. Internet e-mails, allegedly stolen by a Russian hacker collective, unequivocally indicated that the Washington pizzeria was a cover for a gang of child traffickers led by Hillary Clinton. In his devilish and dynamically edited creative documentary, Charlie Lyne analyzes the phenomenon of fake news and shows there is only a very thin line separating common sense from belief in conspiracy theories.
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