THE BASS OF WOMEN • 2019
DIRECTOR: Joana Fornós
COUNTRY: Spain
RUNTIME: '66
SYNOPSIS: “The Bass Of Women” creates a space for debate and community among women who represent the Sound System scene in Barcelona, with the purpose and objective of making their work visible, as well as creating a constructive criticism to reach a real equality of opportunities, and build a more inclusive and respectful scene among all people.
NOMINATIONS:
• Best Feature Doc
FEATURE DOCS
THE PINK INDIAN AGAINST THE INVISIBLE BEAST • 2019
DIRECTOR: Tiago Carvalho
COUNTRY: Brazil
RUNTIME: '70
SYNOPSIS: Between the 40's and 70's, the public health physician Noel Nutels travelled around inland Brazil providing medical care to indigenous, rural and riverside populations. Noel filmed many of his expeditions on 16mm film. In 1968 he was invited to speak on the indian situation at a parliamentary inquiry commission, a few days before the radicalization of the dictatorship in Brazil. His unpublished films and the record of his speech at the commission come together in "The Pink Indian Against the Invisible Beast" to denounce what Nutels called the historic massacre against indigenous people.
NOMINATIONS:
• Best Feature Doc
SELF-SUSTAINABLE • 2019
DIRECTOR: Elias Saez
COUNTRY: Argentina
RUNTIME: '76
SYNOPSIS: Faced with the terrifying disinterest of the rulers for reversing environmental destruction, citizen proposals for change and resistance grow in the world. In Argentina, social movements face giants of agro industry, mega mining and clearing, with concrete and effective actions. A local documentary filmmaker tracks this silent transition revolution and finds initiatives that could become a powerful network of change. Knowing them changes your consciousness and your way of living in the world. Can you modify yours? Challenge ourselves and create new good choices is the only possible way out.
NOMINATIONS:
• Best Feature Doc
