Each film is the best of the best of DOCUMENTARY films from around the world in the last year.
AUDIENCE AWARDS:
Best Film: Relics of Love and War,
Best Direction: Surviving Alone: The Tale of Simone
Best Micro-Short: Throw It Back
Best Story: Nothing But Blue
SEE THE LINEUP OF FILMS:
NOTHING BUT BLUE, 16min., Germany
Directed by Sebastian Bechtel
NOTHING BUT BLUE is a 16-minute short film about German Olympic surfer Tim Elter – and his uncompromising passion for one of the most extreme and primal forms of surfing: tube riding.
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Surviving Alone: The Tale of Simone, 15min., UK
Directed by Claire Tomlinson
Simone is the last Greater Bamboo Lemur in Ranomafana, a protected rainforest in south-east Madagascar. After a happy start in life, surrounded by family, Simone finds herself alone, as members of her family disappear one by one.
Throw It Back, 8min., Canada
Directed by Vicente Gacitua, Lucas Vollicks
A story about a young man who started his own vintage store in North Bay called Talbots Throwback. He shows his love of vintage items, and explains why it is so important to keep these items alive.
Relics of Love and War, 45min., Canada
Directed by Keith Lawrence Lock
This documentary takes an existential approach to time and memory within the context of Chinese Canadian history during World War Two. Using still photos and contemporary footage, filmmaker Keith Lock narrates how his mother married his father in Australia and shares inside stories of his father and twelve other Chinese Canadian veterans who volunteered for the top secret suicide mission, OPERATION OBLIVION, at a time when Chinese Canadians did not have the right to vote, could not swim in pools, or hire white women in their businesses.
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