GIFT • 2018
DIRECTOR: Robin McKenna
COUNTRY: Canada
RUNTIME: '79
SYNOPSIS: Inspired by Lewis Hyde’s beloved classic The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World, GIFT is a tribute to something that can’t be measured or counted, bought or sold. It’s a reflection on the creative process, the reasons we labour in service of our gifts, and a celebration of the imagination.
NOMINATIONS:
• Best Feature Doc
FEATURE DOCS
EXISTIR ES RESISTIR • 2019
56DIRECTOR: Javier Díaz Muriana
COUNTRY: Spain
RUNTIME: '56
SYNOPSIS: Trapped within walls, resisting the settlers, remaining on their land, detained for protesting, imprisoned under military law, in Palestine you exist or resist. From the ethnic cleansing of 1948 (Nakba) to the present day, the Palestinian population continues to resist the coup of Zionism with stoic heroism.
This web documentary tackles the reality of the people through some of its protagonists. Stories of resistance on both sides, with a focus on the joint struggle of Israelis and Palestinians against a system of colonization that seeks to normalize the dystopia of Israeli apartheid in the world.
NOMINATIONS:
• Best Feature Doc
DEPOIS DO DIA 23 • 2019
DIRECTOR: Lucas Millecco
COUNTRY: Brazil
RUNTIME: '75
SYNOPSIS: “What's your name”, asks the image of my father on a old family footage. I don't answer. I grew up hearing about this hero, an impossible fable. I was the shadow of a dead man's utopia, similar, lonely. I don't keep him in mind. Mother and brother, on the other hand, remembers everything and never stopped mourning. In time, I become past, searching my identity.
NOMINATIONS:
• Best Feature Doc
