Eye For Film >> Festivals >> Doc/Fest >> 2020 >> Rebellions
The festival is running a June and autumn schedule, indicated in italics below.
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The Filmmaker’s House and Welcome To Chechnya
Antonio & Piti (Antonio And Piti)
(Country: Brazil; Year: 2019; Director: Vincent Carelli, Wewito Piyãko)
Screening in autumn 2020
Piti, a white Brazilian woman, is married to Antonio, a man from the Ashaninka indigenous community. It was a revolutionary decision back in the 70s - now, as their son runs for a mayorship, they recall their story.
The Art Of Living In Danger
(Country: Germany, Iran; Year: 2020; Director: Mina Keshavarz)
Screening in autumn 2020
It all begins in the past: with Mina Keshavarz’s grandmother, who was a victim of domestic violence. In Mina’s present, a group of Iranian feminists has founded a campaign called "Stop Domestic Violence Against Women" - she documents their story.
Bakoroman
(Country: Burkina Faso; Year: 2012; Director: Simplice Ganou)
Screening in June
Tracks five young Bakoroman on the road from their village to Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso's capital city, in pursuit of a better life.
Blow It To Bits (On va tout péter)
(Country: France; Year: 2019; Director: Lech Kowalski)
Screening in June
Documentary, set in a factory. A musical with lyrics written by workers who have had enough.
Camagroga
(Country: Spain; Year: 2019; Director: Alfonso Amador; Writer: Alfonso Amador, Sergi Dies)
A portrait of the unique agricultural centre la Huerta de Valencia, where tiger nuts are grown and turned into the regional drink horchata.
Screening in autumn 2020
Camagroga and Blow It To Bits
Constructions (Konstrukcijas)
(Year: 2019; Director: Ilona Bruvere)
Screening in autumn 2020
The story of the house of the famous Latvian translator and poet Uldis Berzins, his everyday life and his rebel son, together with translations, poems and his best friend, a KGB agent.
Corporate Accountability (Responsabilidad Empresarial)
(Country: Argentina; Year: 2020; Director: Jonathan Perel)
Screening in June
During the Argentinian dictatorship, local and international companies had an active role in preparing lists of workers to be abducted, supplying information for the military forces. Perel reveals the truth as he visits the companies today.
The Filmmaker’s House
(Year: 2020; Director: Marc Isaacs)
When the Filmmaker is told his next film must be about crime, sex or celebrity to get funded, he takes matters into his own hands and begins shooting in his home with a cast of characters connected to his own life.
Screening in autumn 2020
The Koro Of Bakoro: The Survivors Of Faso
(Country: Burkina Faso, France; Year: 2017; Director: Simplice Ganou; Writer: Simplice Ganou)
Screening in June
The director returns to film one of the men he captured on camera before as children - now 29, to see the challenges he faces.
Our Land, Our Altar (A Nossa Terra, o Nosso Altar)
(Country: Portugal; Year: 2020; Director: André Guiomar)
Screening in autumn 2020
The story of the Aleixo neighbourhood, inhabited by low income families and on the brink of being torn down.
Welcome To Chechnya
(Country: US; Year: 2020; Director: David France)
This searing investigative work shadows a group of activists risking unimaginable peril to confront the ongoing anti-LGBTQ pogrom raging in the repressive and closed Russian republic.
Screening in June
We’re Still Here
(Country: UK; Year: 2020; Director: Melissa Herman)
Screening in June
London's housing is under attack. We're Still Here was filmed over four years as developers - hand in glove with councils and housing associations - knock down estates to build housing that ordinary people can't afford.
We Have Boots
(Country: US, Hong Kong; Year: 2020; Director: Evans Chan)
Screening in June
Consideration of the Umbrella Movement of 2014, also known as the Occupy Movement.
Where’s Edson? (Cadê Edson)
(Country: Brazil; Year: 2019; Director: Dácia Ibiapina da Silva)
Screening in autumn 2020
Documentary about The Homeless Workers Occupation movement in Brasilia.
Your Mother's Comfort (Aconchego da tua Mãe)
(Country: US, Brazil; Year: 2020; Director: Adam Golub)
Screening in June
With the impending election of an extreme-right wing president in Brazil, trans activist and politician Indianara Siqueira fights to defend the LGBT homeless shelter she founded called CasaNem.
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