16 July, 2024
DokuFest is pleased to announce a selection of films for its highly praised View From the World strand.
Some of the finest and boldest nonfiction work of the year are among the 10 selected films, yet again a proof of the vitality of the form and the incredible political engagement of many of the featured filmmakers.
In there you’ll find such films as No Other Land, Soundtrack to a Coup D’Etat and Direct Action, a trio of highly political and topical films, as well as two entries coming directly from their world premieres at Cannes Film Festival, namely Lula about the life and ordeals of Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva by Oliver Stone and The Falling Sky, another great film from Brazil by Eryk Rocha and Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha about the Indigenous community of Watorikɨ.
Obscure Night - Goodbye Here, Anywhere by Sylvain George, who will also conduct a master class at the festival, continues the lineup of political films with its look at African migrants stuck at Spanish enclave of Melilla in Morocco in a gorgeous black and white chiaroscuro.
Rounding up the selection are several films, such as Hollywoodgate about the Taliban and their transformation into a military force after the withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan, Copa 71, about a Women’s World Cup in football that hardly anyone has ever heard of, Life and Other Problems, Max Kestner’s meditation on some existential questions and the fascinating I'm Not Everything I Want To Be, Klára Tasovská’s beautifully poetic and deeply moving portrait of a Czech photographer Libuše Jarcovjáková.
See the full list of the films with their descriptions in this link.
