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Categories
- New Docs
- Special Programming
- Career Award: William Greaves
- Curated Series: Migrations
- Sidebar: Inhabiting Space
- Party
- Panel / Workshop
The Fight
Ends: 12:30pm
The Fight
This extraordinary fight movie, starring Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier, tracks Ali's first effort to reclaim his heavyweight title from Joe Frazier after it was stripped from him because of his radical politics.
The Mosquito Problem and Other Stories
Ends: 12:20pm
The Mosquito Problem and Other Stories
Along the Danube in northern Bulgaria lies the sleepy and mosquito-ridden town of Belene, where the residents hold on to hopes of an atomic future, but are unable to deal with their troubled past.
Life. Support. Music.
Ends: 12:15pm
Life. Support. Music.
After a devastating brain hemorrhage fells a musician, he and his family mount an enormous and inspiring struggle for rehabilitation.
What Do We Want, When Do We Want It / SNEAK PEEK
Ends: 12:25pm
What Do We Want, When Do We Want It
Ideas of activism, urgency, and religious faith (captured in a letter between Thomas Merton and Czeslaw Milosz) flow in counterpoint to the casual soundtrack and visual pacing of this thought-provoking rumination on American protests of military activity in Iraq.
SNEAK PEEK
With revealing court footage and probing interviews, this film masterfully presents the trial of Slobodan Milosevic before the United Nations war crimes tribunal at The Hague.
Migrations Panel
Begins: 11:00am
Ends: 12:30pm
In an extension of the 2008 Curated Program, filmmakers from the series discuss their work with curator Lourdes Portillo and moderator Pedro Lasch.
Garrett Scott Awardees
Begins: 11:15am
Ends: 12:15pm
This program will feature excerpts from the 2008 Garrett Scott Documentary Development Grant recipients' works-in-progress.
Alpha Cine Demo
Begins: 1:00pm
Ends: 2:00pm
Hosted by Alpha Cine Labs, Seattle.
Everything you always wanted to know about digital to film transfers.
The Order of Myths
Ends: 2:45pm
The Order of Myths
The secret societies and young kings and queens of Mardi Gras in Mobile, Alabama, inhabit a world invested in many traditions, including segregation.
CENTER FRAME: Body of War
Ends: 3:15pm
CENTER FRAME: Body of War
Body of War chronicles the physical and mental struggles of soldier Thomas Young after he returns home from Iraq paralyzed by a bullet to his spine. Now in a wheelchair, he painfully and courageously transforms himself into an anti-war activist, traversing the country to speak out for peace.
State of the Doc
Begins: 1:30pm
Ends: 3:00pm
Industry leaders come together to talk about the current state of documentary distribution.
Salim Baba / The Horseman
Ends: 3:50pm
Salim Baba
On the streets of Kolkota, India, Salim Baba runs a "cinema cart" with a one-hundred-year-old hand-cranked projector. Children trail this enchanting relic of an earlier age for a glimpse of a flickering magical world." 145,"In Swaziland, a country ravaged by AIDS, elderly women—or "gogos"(grandmothers)—take care of children
The Horseman
This is the story of Stig-Anders, a truly old-fashioned farmer whose epic love for his horses and the remote Swedish village they call home represents the last of a dying breed.
Beautiful Son
Ends: 3:30pm
Beautiful Son
In their quest for answers to their son's autism, one family offers a comprehensive look at this heartbreaking condition, examining possible causes and seeking alternative treatments.
Diaries (1971-1976)
Ends: 6:40pm
Diaries (1971-1976)
In this intensely personal memoir, pioneering documentary filmmaker Ed Pincus shows us how he embodied the utopian hopes, fears, and neuroses of the sixties generation when he set out to create an enlightened, unconventional life through his filmmaking practice.
The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo
Ends: 5:25pm
The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo
Filmmaker Lisa F. Jackson, a gang rape survivor herself, documents the tragic plight of women and girls in the Democratic Republic of Congo who are raped in the name of war.
Encounters At the End of the World
Ends: 5:45pm
Encounters at the End of the World
In his first documentary since Grizzly Man, Werner Herzog travels to the farthest point of Antarctica to film a group of over a thousand unwavering individuals who battle unimaginable conditions in search of scientific discovery.
The Betrayal (Nerakhoon)
Ends: 6:15pm
The Betrayal (Nerakhoon)
Exquisitely photographed over twenty-three years, this epic film follows one family of Laotian refugees who escaped the ravages of the Vietnam War to resettle in the United States.
American Teen
Ends: 6:35pm
American Teen
An intimate look at the lives, hopes, and dreams of four high school seniors living in a small Indiana town.
William Greaves Career Award
Begins: 5:00pm
Ends: 6:30pm
Full Frame honors the work of pioneering filmmaker William Greaves.
Today the Hawk Takes One Chick
Ends: 8:20pm
Today The Hawk Takes One Chick
In Swaziland, a country ravaged by AIDS, elderly women—or "gogos" (grandmothers)—take care of children, many of them orphans. But what will happen when the gogo is gone?
Calavera Highway
Ends: 8:55pm
Calavera Highway
The sweeping story of a family of seven brothers grappling with the meaning of masculinity, fatherhood, and a legacy of rootless beginnings.
Breadmakers / Alone in Four Walls
Ends: 9:15pm
Breadmakers
A brief and loving portrait of the Garvald Bakery, where a devoted team of workers with learning disabilities prepare breads for all of Edinburgh.
Alone in Four Walls
Teenage boys in a Russian prison tell their stories under a sympathetic yet incisive gaze.
Man on Wire
Ends: 9:25pm
Man on Wire
In 1974, young Frenchman Philippe Petite spent an hour balancing on a high wire suspended between the new Twin Towers of the World Trade Center before being hauled off by police. Through meticulous recreations and intimate interviews with all involved, this moving film unveils the intricate preparations for what was to become the "artistic crime of the century."
Boogie Man
Ends: 9:40pm
Boogie Man
The rollicking, controversial story of Lee Atwater, a blues-playing kingmaker who helped elect three Presidents, reshaped American politics, and rocked the (Grand Old) Party.
La Tropical
Ends: 11:30pm
La Tropical
Reminiscent of La Buena Vista Social Club, but even more sensuous.The rhythm of Cuba refracted through the sights and sounds of a nightclub, and the world of that club captured in the provocative compositions of a world-class photographer.
Song of a Sperm Donor / Surfwise
Ends: 12:10am
Song of a Sperm Donor
This short movie pits the right to know against the need to know and nature against nurture as it brings new meaning to the phrase "Whose your Daddy?"
Surfwise
Trading in a budding medical career for surfing in the 1950s, Dr. Dorian"Doc" Paskowitz built his own way of life, traveling the continent in a 24-foot-long camper with his wife and nine kids in tow.
City of Cranes / Tehran Has No More Pomegranates!
Ends: 12:00am
Tehran Has No More Pomegranates!
Fusing hypnotic visual aesthetics with satirical humor, Tehran Has No More Pomegranates embraces the documentary tradition of the city symphony for a wry look at Tehran's cultural and political history.
City of Cranes
Crane operators offer us an unparalleled view of London as their huge, graceful machines sweep and pluck above the city's skyline.
El cielo gira
Ends: 12:50am
El cielo gira (The Sky Turns)
The filmmaker travels to the village in Northern Spain where she was born to produce this breathtakingly beautiful meditation on place. Just as she thinks the village is on the brink of extinction, she finds it renewed by a wave of new migrants.
Bulletproof Salesman
Ends: 12:20am
Bulletproof Salesman
When the United States invaded Iraq, it presented the Perfect War for Fidelis Cloer, supplier of luxury armored vehicles and self-confessed war profiteer.