Best of Documentary 1 – 2014
The first of two sessions of the best International and Australian documentaries in competition.
Screening: Tue 14 Jan, 4.30pm | Running Time: 111 mins | Classification: Under 15yrs to be w/adult
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Horrie
Greece, April 1941 and the Nazis are pushing hard but we’re still holding firm. Say hello to the 2nd/1st Machine Gun Battalian and their secret weapon – Horrie the hero dog of the Mediterranean!
- Running Time: 10 min
- Year: 2013
- Country: Australia
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Letters From Pyongyang
When the letters from a North Korean relative stop coming a Korean-Canadian father and son embark on an urgent quest into the heat of a rarely seen North Korea in search of long lost family members separated by political conflict for more than a half-century.
- Running Time: 28 min
- Year: 2012
- Country: Canada
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Jambo Amani
A group of Congolese FDLR militiamen have decided to renounce violence surrender their weapons and enter the reintegration programme of the United Nations. Happy to leave behind the troubled mountains of North Kivu, they take a helicopter to City of Goma where a new life is about to begin.
- Running Time: 32 min
- Year: 2013
- Country: Spain
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Patio
At the yard they play football dance “Caopeira” and talk about freedom.
- Running Time: 17 min
- Year: 2013
- Country: Brazil
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Live Through This
Can a man embrace his mother’s killer? A film about the ultimate act of forgiveness.
- Running Time: 8 min
- Year: 2013
- Country: Australia
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Slomo
Depressed and frustrated with his life Dr. John Kitchin abandons his career as a neurologist and moves to Pacific Beach. There he undergoes a radical transformation into SLOMO trading his lab coat for a pair of rollerblades and his IRA for a taste of divinity.
- Running Time: 16 min
- Year: 2013
- Country: USA