DOKUBAKU INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL
DokuBaku International Documentary Film Festival is announcing its program for the second edition of the festival that will take place on October 4-9, 2018. The festival will showcase 38 feature and short films in total from 33 countries. Short films that have been selected for the main competition were clustered around three themes. Appearing, which features stories about unfamliar people and objects appearing and transforming the space and people. Women that combines stories about women, different paths they take in countries they live, in their personal stories, struggles and courage and sometimes acceptance of their fate. Spaces, which includes stories involving the space, the cities we live in, how they affect us and what kind of memories are linked to them.
The festival will start with the opening film, Ouaga Girls (2017), on October 4 at Baku Puppet Theater and will continue until October 9 in six different locations across central Baku.
The Landmark Hotel will host the screening of four movies: "See you in Chechnya", "24th Street", "Short Competition 2" and "Doel" .
"SEE YOU IN CHECHNYA" (2016)
1999, Georgia. A young fine-arts student in Tbilisi falls in love with a French woman he met by chance. She is a war photographer and he decides to go with her on the Chechnya front. Parachuted in the middle of the fights, he bonds with a group of reporters risking their lives to cover this brutal conflict. His life will be deeply moved by this experience. Ten years later, he takes the same path, but the other way.
(Fri 5 October | 17:30 | Landmark CineClub)
"24th STREET" (2017)
China doesn't have a lot of room anymore for peddlers like Su. He set up a ramshackle restaurant next to a construction site on 24th street in Hangzhou, but of course, he neglected to obtain a permit. Unsurprisingly, the authorities send him and the other illegal dwellers away. Unfazed, Su and his girlfriend Qin find another place for their restaurant, only to be sent away again. Su then decides to go back home to the countryside, where his wife and children, along with Qin's family, still live. After being away for 30 years, the couple isn't exactly welcomed back with open arms. Filmmaker Zhiqi Pan usually observes Su and Qin's adventures without comment but does step in on occasion, such as when the unscrupulous Su is trying to cheat people. With its colorful main character, 24th Street offers an original twist to the story of modernizing China-and those on the fringe who can't keep up.
(Sat 6 October | 14:00 |Landmark CineClub)
"SHORT FILM COMPETITION 2 - WOMEN
Stories about women, different paths they take in countries they live, in their personal stories, struggles and courage and sometimes acceptance of their fate. This short film competition will include: "Shelter", "Snowy Roads", "A WoMan" and "Tanya".
(Sat 6 October | 16:30 |Landmark CineClub)
"DOEL" (2018)
Frederik Sølberg's fun, quirky, and slow cinematic film about the outskirts of Europe is a portrait of a ghost town and it's 26 inhabitants trying to hold on to the dream that their city is a city and their home is a home. Doel is a ghost town in Belgium surrounded by a nuclear power plant, a gigantic container dock, and the port of Antwerp. For decades the inhabitants have been battling the authorities who want to tear the town down and build a new container dock. Now there are only 26 inhabitants left - a colorful crowd of common and uncommon people clinging to the idea of keeping their vandalized and abandoned town alive.
(Sun 7 October | 14:00 | Landmark CineClub)For further information about the Documentary Film Festival or about each movie visit:
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