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Sundance 2007 preview: World Documentary Comp
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January 18 to 28, 2007
Counting Down:
• “Acidente” (Brazil), directed by Cao Guimaraes and Pablo Lobato, an experimental, poetic expression of everyday life culled from images of 20 cities in Menas Gerais, Brazil.
• “Bajo Juarez, The City Is Devouring Its Daughters” (Mexico), directed by Alejandra Sanchez, an examination of the societal corruption backdropping the many cases of sexual abuse and murders of women in a Mexican industrial border town.
• “Cocalero” (Bolivia), directed by Alejandro Landes, which follows the campaign of Aymaran Indian Evo Morales to becomed the first indigenous president of Bolivia. World premiere.
• “Comrades In Dreams” (Germany), directed by Uli Gaulke, a look at four people in different parts of the world who bring cinema to locals.
• “Crossing the Line” (U.K.), directed by Daniel Gordon, which recounts the life of one of the few Americans who defected to North Korea during the Cold War.
• “Enemies of Happiness” (Denmark), directed by Eva Mulvad and Anja Al Erhayem, an account of the victory of a 28-year-old Afghani woman in the 2005 parliamentary election.
• “Hot House” (Israel), directed by Shimon Dotan, which examines how Israeli prisons have become a breeding ground for future Palestinian leaders and terrorists.
• “In the Shadow of the Moon” (U.K.), directed by David Sington, a comprehensive account of the American Apollo space program. World premiere.
• “The Future Is Unwritten” (Ireland.U.K.), directed by Julien Temple, a look at Joe Strummer and the punk rock generation.
• “Manufactured Landscapes” (Canada), directed by Jennifer Baichwal, which focuses on the work of photographer Edward Burtynsky and his portraits of the transformation of landscapes due to industry and manufacturing.
• “The Monastery: Mr. Vig and the Nun” (Denmark), directedby Pernille Rose Gronkjaer, about how an 82-year-old male virgin and a Russian nun transform the former’s castle into an Orthodox Russian monastery.
• “On A Tightrope” (Norway/Canada), directed by Petr Lom, which uses the efforts of four orphans to learning tightrope walking to express the struggle of the Uighur Chinese Muslim minority to reconcile religion and communism.
• “Three Comrades” (Drie Kameraden) (Netherlands), directed by Masha Novikova, an account of how the lives of three lifelong friends are devastated by the war in Chechnya.
• “A Very British Gangster” (U.K.), directed by Donal MacIntyre, a up-close look at Dominic Noonan, the head of one of Britain’s best known crime families, in Manchester.
• “VHS — Kahloucha” (Tunisia), directed by Nejib Belkadhi, about a self-styled filmmaker in a poor Tunisian community.
• “Welcome Europa” (France), directed by Bruno Ulmer, about the struggles of Kurdish, Moroccan and Romanian immigrants in Europe.
