Kinofilm at The Poly: Documentaries

A programme of documentaries from across 4 continents. Meditations on mortality and family: mourning, memorials, and medical ethics; the need for closure, the desire to move on, and the impossibility sometimes of ever doing so. All this, plus the disruptive effects of a chicken in the home, in this collection of strangely true stories. 

 

Dir/Wri Ben Holman 

Brazil | 16 min | 15

Alan Duarte has lost nine close family members to gun violence in his favela community in Rio de Janeiro. Now, through his boxing project, he’s fighting to build a better future for his son and his community.

 

Dir Lauren Knapp 

USA | 18 min 54 sec | 15

Introducing Dr. Carlo Musso, a physician who has overseen Georgia’s lethal injection team since 2003.

 

Dir/Prod/Wri Edvard Karijord, Bendik Mondal

Cast: Tore Karijord, Karin Karijord, Knut Karijord,  Torill Karijord 

Norway | 20 min | 15

On the 8th of October 2013, Geir Karijord went missing in Romsdal Valley, Norway. Left in an emotional limbo, without closure, his family tries to determine what happened.

 

Dir/Prod/Wri Mohammadreza Vatandoust

Cast: Robabe Bakhshi 

Iran | 13 min 25 sec | PG

The building of the Lafour dam in Northern Iran resulted in a number of villages having to be evacuated, as they would be submerged under water. But one old woman has a reason to stay behind...

 

Dir/Wri/Prod Jánik von Wilmsdorff

Cast: Paul Friedrich Freitag 

Germany | 11 min 12 sec | 15

Paul's home is now like a ghost town, attracting rubberneckers every day, from all over the world. But since his birth, Paul himself has never gone farther than a few kilometres from this place, because his heart belongs here. 

 

Dir/Prod Rishi Chandna

Cast: The Bharde Family 

India | 13 min 56 sec | 15

There lives of a middle-class suburban Mumbai household are turned upside down when the eccentric patriarch brings home a baby chick for his cats to play with...