MDAG Docs Against Gravity 2023
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- DirectorLila RibiStarsSteven LaureysLila Ribi spent years filming her grandmother, Greti, constantly repeating the same question: "what is there after death". The centenarian invariably gave the same reply: "Nothing". Disagreeing with her grandmother's opinion, the film-maker set off in search of different perspectives.
- DirectorSam GreenStarsEdgar ChoueririJoanna FangSam GreenExplores the elemental phenomenon of sound and its power to bend time, cross borders, and profoundly shape our perception of the world around us.
- DirectorAnnie ErnauxDavid Ernaux-BriotStarsBlanche Madeleine Dumenil DuchesneAnnie ErnauxDominique ErnauxHome videos shot by Ernaux and her family from 1972 to 1981 and feeds into the themes of her work over the past 60 years.
- DirectorAhsen NadeemAfter decades of living a secret life, a filmmaker travels to a strict Japanese monastery in search of guidance but the only monk who will help him prefers ice cream and heavy metal over meditation.
- DirectorNicolas PhilibertStarsMamadi BarriWalid BenzianeSabine BerlièreFollows patients and caregivers at a psychiatric centre with a unique floating structure located in the middle of the Seine river in central Paris.
- DirectorKim HopkinsStarsColin EgglestoneHarry NichollsJoe OgdenBradford Movie Makers is one of the oldest amateur filmmaking clubs in the world. Once a thriving community, these days the membership is dwindling and the group struggle to keep the wolf from the door.
- DirectorTheo MontoyaStarsAlejandro HincapiéCamilo MachadoAlejandro MendiganaA funeral car cruises the streets of Medellin, while a young director tells the story of his past in this violent and conservative city. He remembers the pre-production of his first film, a Class-B movie with ghosts.
- DirectorLea GlobStarsApolonia SokolLea GlobOksana ShachkoThe talented Apolonia grows up seeking her place in the art world while grappling with the agonies and joys of womanhood and relationships in a world dominated by patriarchy, capitalism, and war.
- DirectorTomás BojarAdéla KomrzýArtistic endeavor isn't about competing; even so, applicants still have to be placed in order of merit at the academy's entrance exams. But how do you assess artistic talent? And what role can art play in today's world?
- DirectorGiulia GiapponesiStarsIlkay AkkayaStefano BellottiCesare BermaniFrom the hymn of the partisans to the fight song of the new generations around the world, hit of the most famous international artists and soundtrack of the Netflix series La Casa de Papel. Almost a century after its birth, the power of Bella Ciao does not stop. The film recounts the mysteries, genesis and history of the Resistance song, which reappears wherever somebody fights against injustice. An unstoppable song, today a patrimony of humanity in the struggle for freedom.
- DirectorMichael GlawoggerMonika WilliStarsBirgit MinichmayrFiona ShawRobin A Townsend"I want to give a view of the world that can only emerge by not pursuing any particular theme, by refraining from passing judgment, proceeding without aim. Drifting with no direction except one's own curiosity and intuition." (Michael Glawogger) More than two years after the sudden death of Michael Glawogger in April 2014, film editor Monika Willi realizes a film out of the film footage produced during 4 months and 19 days of shooting in the Balkans, Italy, Northwest and West Africa. A journey into the world to observe, listen and experience, the eye attentive, courageous and raw. Serendipity is the concept - in shooting as well as in editing the film.
- DirectorMatteo ParisiniStarsStefano AccorsiLuigi Ghirri, an internationally renowned Italian photographer, wrote regularly throughout his life. His photography is reflected in his writing, which is at the same time a poetic affirmation, an existential argument, a diary that questions the present times. Starting from his writings, the documentary will retrace the crucial stages of the photographer's life. It will be a journey to the places of the province, a study of lands, water, hills, infinite horizons. It will be a research on his photographic work, conceived not in terms of a single image, but as an alphabet in which each image exists only thanks to the others. The companions of this journey will be the artists Franco Guerzoni and Davide Benati, the art historian Arturo Carlo Quintavalle, the printer Arrigo Ghi, the photographer Gianni Leone, the musician Massimo Zamboni and finally the family, which represented for Ghirri the feeling of belonging to an ordinary but united community. Stefano Accorsi will give voice to Ghirri's texts.
- DirectorSarah VosHow can we be more inclusive? That is a question that many companies ask themselves, including the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. And there the search for more diversity turns out to be more difficult than expected.
- DirectorMoses BwayoChristopher SharpStarsKagga JaysonBarbie KyagulanyiBobi WineFollows Ugandan opposition leader, activist and musical star Bobi Wine. He used his music to fight the regime led by Yoweri Museveni, the person who led the country for 35 years.
- DirectorCamilla HallJennifer TiexieraStarsEvgeny AfineevskyArthur AgeeMukunda AnguloFilmmakers examine the impact that well-known documentaries and their commercial success have had on the lives of their subjects. They focus on the ethics and responsibility inherent in documentary filmmaking.
- DirectorSimon WallonStarsBonnie TimmermannPaul AusterSteve BuscemiA portrait of legendary casting director Bonnie Timmermann. An homage to the craft of acting.
- DirectorDaniel Asadi FaeziMila ZhluktenkoA summer's day in a former German military barracks: children forced to flee Ukraine have found refuge here. In their games, they discover military symbols from the past and link them to their present experiences.
- DirectorLaura PoitrasStarsNan GoldinDavid VelascoMegan KaplerFollows the life of artist Nan Goldin and the downfall of the Sackler family, the pharmaceutical dynasty who was greatly responsible for the opioid epidemic's unfathomable death toll.
- DirectorSébastien LifshitzIn the '50s and '60s, deep in the American countryside at the foot of the Catskills, a small wooden house with a barn behind it was home to the first clandestine network of cross-dressers.
- DirectorTrinh T. Minh-haProminent feminist film scholar Trinh presents a hugely imaginative cultural critique of China that resists the idea of a single historical narrative, instead evoking the plurality of indigenous perspectives. Combining travelogue-style video footage shot in the 1990s during her visit to rural areas of the country, with poetry, folk songs and oral histories, the film ruminates on China in the past, present and future tenses. Weaving through the concept of harmony and memory, What about China? holds a mirror to the women and children the filmmaker encounters in their communal spaces, reflecting on what has been lost and what we are in the process of forgetting. Yet Trinh never speaks for or about her subjects - always inviting the voices of women to participate in shaping the narrative.
- DirectorAdnane BarakaFollows Mohamed a nomad and Abderrahmane a renowned Moroccan scientist. Mohamed is in his fifties who lives with his family in a tent in a remote area of the eastern Moroccan desert.
- DirectorSarvnik KaurStarsRakesh KoliGanesh NakhawaBombay fishermen Rakesh and Ganesh are inheritors of the Koli knowledge system of harvesting the sea following the moon and the tides. Rakesh has kept faith in the traditional fishing methods; Ganesh has instead embraced technology.
- DirectorKristy Guevara-FlanaganStarsJane FondaBrittany Taylor VisserJoey SolowayAn examination of how the nude female body is hypersexualized, under attack and exploited on and off screen in Hollywood.
- DirectorJennifer BaichwalStarsDewayne 'Lee' JohnsonCali BaldelomarMichelle BaldelomarThe powerful story of a former Bay Area groundskeeper who took on Monsanto after a terminal cancer diagnosis.
- DirectorLuke McManusStarsGemma DunleavyJohn Francis FlynnJohnny FlynnA Musical Trip Through Dublin's North Inner City