2017 Munich DOK.fest
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- DirectorSagi BornsteinUdi NirA documentary composed entirely of YouTube clips.
- DirectorEva MulvadStarsCharlie SiemThe Norwegian-English elite violinist Charlie Siem is also a model working for the biggest fashion houses. After all measurements Siem has more success than most can dream about. He's also a perfectionist down to every little detail.
- DirectorOmar AmiralayStarsOmar AmiralayMohamed MalasOR THE FIRST TIME I HEARD OF ISRAEL. A man recollects the conflict in the middle east through his personal memory. In this short documentary, Amiralay reflects on the first time he heard of Israel. Through recorded conversations with filmmaker Mohamed Malas, both Amiralay and Malas share their own unique stories and experiences about Israel and Israeli occupation. In the company of fellow Syrian filmmaker Mohammad Malas, the ground-breaking director Omar Amiralay revisits the ruins of the destroyed Golan village of Quneytra, occupied by Israel and then abandoned following the 1973 war.
- DirectorMustafa ÜnlüIn October 2015 there were destructive clashes within and at the borders of Turkey; society was being dangerously polarized. In the midst of all this, numerous democratic institutions organized the Peace and Democracy Rally. 2 explosions took place at 10:04 where groups had gathered. 101 people died and more than 500 were injured. ISIS claimed responsibility for the deadliest attack in the history of Turkey. Ah is a close up to the moment of explosion and after through the feelings, thoughts, senses of 25 survivors who were in the core of that brutal violence action, wounded and lost their relatives.
- DirectorMichal MarczakStarsKrzysztof BaginskiMichal HuszczaEva LebuefA new era is coming, and Warsaw stands uncomfortably at its edge. Art school classmates Christopher and Michal, on the precipice of their own coming of age, restlessly roam their city's streets in search of living forever inside the beautiful moment. Never content with answers, they push each experience to its breaking point, testing what it might mean to be truly awake in a world that seems satisfied to be asleep.
- DirectorPia LenzWhen Djaner, 7, sat down next to his new classmates on his first day at a German primary school, he could hardly believe it. Lena, whose birthday it was, was given a candle and a pen as a gift. The whole class sang to her. In Macedonia, Djaner's former homeland, school was all about being afraid of being beaten. As a member of the Roma community, he fled to Hamburg with his brother Mamud and his depressive mother. Here, in a country which wants to deport him and his family, he yearns for home. Ghofran, 11, initially hoped she would be leaving Germany again soon. She listens to Arabic hip hop and still lives in Syria in her dreams while her father, Adal is battling for the right to stay forever. At school Ghofran meets girls who can do anything. But which parts of this does she want to accept and what is she prepared to give up for it?
- DirectorJacqueline ZündStarsRobert PearsonSteve PhillipsGenji YamadaThe story of three men in search for meaning and happiness in the autumn of their lives.
- DirectorGeorg Stefan TrollerStarsGreg GibsonChia-Wei LoLin-Lin LoBefore Columbine or Virginia Tech, there was Simon´s Rock. Georg Stefan Troller interviews the first school shooter of the 1990´s and paints a clearer picture of an unspeakable tragedy. Troller looks at the incident from all sides as he talks to the killer Wayne Lo´s parents, his lawer, his former teachers. Troller then speaks to Greg Gibson - the father of a victim. Gibson has written a book about the shootings and this documentary was a direct result of the book.
- DirectorLuc SchaedlerStarsThomas SarbacherLoten NamlingPhil HayesA road-movie and a time-travel in the footsteps of the rebellious Tibetan monk Gendun Choephel - revealing a face of old & present-day Tibet that goes against popular clichés.
- DirectorCamila Rodríguez TrianaATENTAMENTE is a film that, through the sensation of the time passing by and the presence of the death that wanders into a nursing home, allows us to feel the life through the illusion that love brings along. Libardo and Alba, a couple of elders who met each other at the nursing home where they live, they fall for, they become boyfriends and start to struggle in order to find fifty thousand pesos to rent a room for one night at a hotel so they can have a privacy moment, since at the nursing home where they live is not possible to have that. While struggling they must face each other, face their fears, their limitations, their pains, their time as well as their fragility so they can construct that moment in which they meet love. A struggle that seems to be easy, but for them is an odyssey against time, against their limitations and their own ghosts.
- DirectorIlija CvetkovskiStarsDionis PashlakovGrozdanka PashlakovaA simple story, but larger than life portrayal of the universal human saga represented through Dionis, a retiring biology professor, his wife and his fantasy of turning his unusual car collection into a museum in a small uneventful town.
- DirectorFabio PaleariThe figure of the Italian Latin Lover investigated through the eyes, stories and experiences of old and young Lifeguards from the most famous Italian Beaches.
- DirectorDalia ReyesBath of life It's a immersive documentary which guides us for an intimate journey to the inner life of a public bath.
- DirectorGeorg Stefan TrollerStarsGeorg Stefan TrollerMike Brown
- DirectorAlexander KleiderStarsHanil AltunergilAlex BäkeLena ChristofYou hated school when you were young? Your kids refuse to get up in the morning, because they feel the same? Maybe this documentary shows a solution... Hidden in one of Berlin's backyards is one of Germany's most ambitious high schools. What makes it so special? It is entirely organized by its students - without any outside funding. The pupils pay their own teachers and decide what they want to learn. No headmaster, no hierarchy and no pressure. And it works? Watch the film and decide yourself. Tired of the pressure and mobbing in state schools, Alex, Mimy and Hanil registered themselves. They have two years time to prepare for the final test which is hold by the government. Due the absence of the typical enemies, the students have to learn to discipline themselves. They are forced to reflect each other, to motivate each other and last but not least, also to support each other. Will they pass the highest school degree successfully even nonbody force them to learn? BERLIN REBEL HIGH SCHOOL is a film about the true meaning of learning. It's a tribute to curiosity, the joy of life and change. Through the eyes of the protagonists the viewer recognize the key errors of our Education System.
- DirectorAndres VeielStarsJoseph BeuysCaroline TisdallRhea Thönges-StringarisA documentary about the 20th century German sculptor and performance artist Joseph Beuys.
- DirectorVincent PouplardRoman and Sifredi have just turned twenty. They are in a shifting state, like their identity.
- DirectorElí Roland SachsI lost my brother to a God named Allah. While Jakob searches for the truth, I search for Jakob. Will we ever find each other?
- DirectorJérôme Le MaireBurning Out is literally a drama about life and death. For two years, the Belgian director Jérôme le Maire followed the members of a surgical unit in one of the biggest hospitals in Paris. Constantly under severe stress, understaffed and subject to severe budget cuts, employees fight each other for resources. Meanwhile the management imposes ever more stringent efficiency and profitability targets. All over Europe burnout has reached epidemic proportions among employees in the public and private sectors. Will we end up killing ourselves? Or will we be able to find meaning and joy at work?
- DirectorHeidi SpecognaStarsSalena GoddenIt all started with a small exercise book. Its page were checkered with the courageous testimonies of 300 Central African women, girls and men. They reveal what Congolese mercenaries did to them. On their own initiative, they gathered together their testimonies in this book. Swiss-German documentary, which premiered at the 2016 Semaine de la Critique of the Locarno Film Festival, where it received the Zonta Club Award.
- DirectorKirsten JohnsonStarsKirsten JohnsonAisha BukarEric W. DavisExposing her role behind the camera, Kirsten Johnson reaches into the vast trove of footage she has shot over decades around the world. What emerges is a visually bold memoir and a revelatory interrogation of the power of the camera.
- DirectorOmar AmiralayThrough mordant social commentary and symbolic irony, Amiralay focuses this film on the chicken farming industry in the rural Syrian village of Sadad. He documents the burdened livelihoods of farmers and the economic policies of the government that encouraged industrial egg productions rather than artisanal trades, a switch that ultimately led to the plight of the Sadad's rural peasant class.
- DirectorMichael PalmStarsLauren AlberqueMargaret BoddeDavid BordwellThe "digital revolution" reached the cinema late and was chiefly styled as a technological advancement. Today, in an era where analog celluloid strips are disappearing, and given the diversity of digital moving picture formats, there is much more at stake: Are the world's film archives on the brink of a dark age? Are we facing the massive loss of collective audiovisual memory? Is film dying, or just changing?
- DirectorRati OneliStarsArchil KhvedelidzeZurab GelashviliMariam PkhaladzeThe lives, dreams, and destinies of extraordinary characters unfold in this impressionist dreamscape amid the ruins of a semi-abandoned mining town.