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World Cinema Documentary Competition

The document summarizes a film festival program featuring documentaries and narrative films from different countries. It provides short descriptions of 14 films, including their country of origin, director, and cast where included. The films cover topics like mourning, locksmith visions, neighborhood violence, life in Communist Bulgaria, and bodily experimentation. It also lists two documentary competitions featuring films about music icon Nick Cave and archival material on liberation struggles.

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World Cinema Documentary Competition

The document summarizes a film festival program featuring documentaries and narrative films from different countries. It provides short descriptions of 14 films, including their country of origin, director, and cast where included. The films cover topics like mourning, locksmith visions, neighborhood violence, life in Communist Bulgaria, and bodily experimentation. It also lists two documentary competitions featuring films about music icon Nick Cave and archival material on liberation struggles.

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Lilting/ United Kingdom (Director and screenwriter: Hong Khaou) The world of a Chinese mother mourning the untimely

y death of her son is suddenly disrupted by the presence of a stranger who doesn't speak her language. Lilting is a touching and intimate film about finding the things that bring us together. Cast: Ben Whishaw, Pei-Pei Cheng, Andrew Leung, Peter Bowles, Naomi Christie, Morven Christie. World Premiere.DAY ONE FILM Lock Charmer (El cerrajero)/ Argentina (Director and screenwriter: Natalia Smirnoff) Upon learning that his girlfriend is pregnant, 33-year-old locksmith Sebastian begins to have strange visions about his clients. With the help of an unlikely assistant, he sets out to use his newfound talent for his own good.Cast: Esteban Lamothe, Erica Rivas, Yosiria Huaripata. World Premiere To Kill a Man/ Chile, France (Director and screenwriter: Alejandro Fernandez Almendras) When Jorge, a hardworking family man who's barely making ends meet, gets mugged by Kalule, a neighborhood delinquent, Jorge's son decides to confront the attacker, only to get himself shot. Even though Jorge's son nearly dies, Kalule's sentence is minimal, heightening the friction. Cast: Daniel Candia, Daniel Antivilo, Alejandra Yaez, Ariel Mateluna. World Premiere Viktoria/ Bulgaria, Romania (Director and screenwriter: Maya Vitkova) Although determined not to have a child in Communist Bulgaria, Boryana gives birth to Viktoria, who despite being born with no umbilical cord, is proclaimed to be the baby of the decade. But political collapse and the hardships of the new time bind mother and daughter together. Cast: Irmena Chichikova, Daria Vitkova, Kalina Vitkova, Mariana Krumova, Dimo Dimov, Georgi Spassov. World Premiere Wetlands/ Germany (Director: David Wnendt, Screenwriters: Claus Falkenberg, David Wnendt, based on the novel by Charlotte Roche) Meet Helen Memel. She likes to experiment with vegetables while masturbating and thinks that bodily hygiene is greatly overrated. She shocks those around her by speaking her mind in a most unladylike manner on topics that many people would not even dare consider. Cast: Carla Juri, Christoph Letkowski, Meret Becker, Axel Milberg, Marlen Kruse, Edgar Selge. North American Premiere White Shadow/ Italy, Germany, Tanzania (Director: Noaz Deshe, Screenwriters: Noaz Deshe, James Masson) Alias is a young albino boy on the run. His mother has sent him away to find refuge in the city after witnessing his father's murder. Over time, the city becomes no different than the bush: wherever Alias travels, the same rules of survival apply. Cast: Hamisi Bazili, James Gayo, Glory Mbayuwayu, Salum Abdallah. International Premiere

WORLD CINEMA DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION Twelve documentaries by some of the most courageous and extraordinary international filmmakers working today. 20,000 Days On Earth/ United Kingdom (Directors: Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard) Drama and reality combine in a fictitious 24 hours in the life of musician and international culture icon Nick

Cave. With startlingly frank insights and an intimate portrayal of the artistic process, this film examines what makes us who we are and celebrates the transformative power of the creative spirit. World Premiere Concerning Violence/ Sweden, U.S.A., Denmark, Finland (Director: Gran Hugo Olsson) Concerning Violence is based on newly discovered, powerful archival material documenting the most daring moments in the struggle for liberation in the Third World, accompanied by classic text from The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon. World Premiere The Green Prince/ Germany, Israel, United Kingdom (Director: Nadav Schirman ) This reallife thriller tells the story of one of Israels prized intelligence sources, recruited to spy on his own people for more than a decade. Focusing on the complex relationship with his handler, The Green Prince is a gripping account of terror, betrayal, and unthinkable choices, along with a friendship that defies all boundaries. World Premiere. DAY ONE FILM

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