Festival Year: 2007


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Highlighting the innovative and varied documentary work that calls the internet home, features over a dozen videos that premiered online at sites such as YouTube,…

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2007 Garrett Scott Grant
Robin Hessman, Lee Lynch, Garrett Scott

The 2007 Garrett Scott Development Grant is awarded to Robin Hessman, director of Russia’s Pepsi Generation and Lee Lynch, director of The Last Buffalo Hunt.…

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8 Bit
Marcin Ramocki, Justin Strawhand

An international movement encompassing conceptual artists, gamers, and electronic musicians subverts the symbolic logic and power structures inherent in game design. These artists grew up…

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ABC Africa
Abbas Kiarostami

Abbas Kiarostami’s first film about life outside of his native homeland, shot exclusively on digital video. ABC Africa started with a commission from the United…

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Adrian and Mariah (excerpt)
Ross McElwee

An almost random selection of moments and scenes from diary and home movie footage shot over the last 18 years, primarily of the filmmaker’s children,…

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Alice Sees The Light
Ariana Gerstein

The ever-increasing use of artificial lights has chased the darkness from our world. Alice laments the loss of her view of the universe, one of…

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Angels in the Dust
Louise Hogarth

In the dusty outskirts of a deeply divided nation, the Bothshabelo orphanage offers sanctuary to hundreds of South Africans in need. Con and Marion Cloete…

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The Ants
Kaoru Ikeya

In the Japanese army, “ant soldiers” were those fighting men, many of them drafted, who performed the lowest and dirtiest jobs of war. Some of…

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Backyard
Ross McElwee

During the summer before his second year at film school, Ross McElwee conceived of two separate films. The first was to document his younger brother’s…

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Banished
Marco Williams

A group of people are forcibly removed from their homeland. This isn’t the Middle East or ethnic cleansing in Eastern Europe, but good old racism…

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The Battle of Algiers
Gillo Pontecorvo

Gillo Pontecorvo’s brilliant rendering of the Algerian guerrilla struggle against the French colonialists in the 1950s. Made in collaboration with former liberation activists, this fictional…

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Beyond Selinunte
Salvo Cuccia

While framed around a nostalgic return visit by Professor Vincenzo Tusa, who first saw Selinunte in 1949 and later supervised the archaeological work, this film…

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Blessed Are the Dreams of Men
Jem Cohen

Haunting in its simplicity, this short film captures a group of anonymous travelers as they drift through an unidentified landscape. A lovely reminder of the…

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Blockade
Sergei Loznitsa

From 1941 to 1944 German troops descended on Leningrad, causing inconceivable destitution and loss of life. Using only found footage from Moscow archives and an…

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Bob Dylan: 65 Revisited
D A Pennebaker

For three weeks in 1965, D A Pennebaker followed Bob Dylan’s concert tour of the United Kingdom. The result was Dont Look Back, a film…

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Bright Leaves
Ross McElwee

North Carolina produces more tobacco than any other state in America. This film describes a journey taken by our filmmaker across the social, economic, and…

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Building a Broken Mousetrap
Jem Cohen

This concert film captures one performance by the Dutch band the Ex, 25-year veterans of the underground avant rock scene. Much like Fugazi, whom Jem…

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Castells
Gereon Wetzel

In the narrowest of streets, amongst the largest of crowds, a 30-foot human spire ascends above balconies. Swarms of spectators surround the tower’s foundation, and…

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