July 15, 2023
DokuFest is pleased to announce a selection of films for its celebrated special programme View From the World.
A careful selection of 10 films only, it will nevertheless bring to the festival some of the finest and boldest nonfiction work of the year, including Berlinale, Sundance and IDFA winners. Among them are returning filmmakers to the festival, such as Oscar nominated Chilean filmmaker Maite Alberdi with the beautiful and emotional The Eternal Memory, a celebrated filmmaking duo Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel with their gruesome but equally fascinating De Humani Corporis Fabrica, the winner of 2022 Green Dox Competition of DokuFest, Viera Čákanyová, with the unclassifiable yet magnificent Notes from Eremocene and Colombian filmmaker Theo Montoya with hybrid doc Anhell69, a follow up to its short Son of Sodom that screened at the festival in 2020.
A pair of IDFA winners is also part of the selection, namely Apolonia, Apolonia by Lea Glob, a wonderful portrait of artist Apolonia Sokol shot over 13 years and Manifesto by Angie Wichito, a disturbing look at Russia today as seen through the videos posted by teenagers on social media.
Rounding up the selection are two films about family and the relationship of filmmakers with family members; Red Herring by Kit Vincent and Songs of Earth by Margreth Olin, and a strange one about the history of doorbell and the surveillance culture, titled Home Invasion by Grame Arnfield.
