A showcase of the best Documentary & Experimental Films from the last year.
AUDIENCE AWARD WINNERS:
Best Feature Film: MUITO AMORE – Jews and Judaism in Amazonia
Best Story: ALASKA RESCUE STORY
Best Direction: ALONG THE THREAD OF THE OTHER
Best Visual Design: LANA TONG: A Tailer Made Tour
Best Performances: 2 CAN PLAY: Ava Della Pietra video
Muito Amor – Jews and Judaism in Amazonia, 61min., Israel
Directed by Malka Shabtay
An Israeli Anthropologist traveling throughout Amazonia to meet the descendants of the Moroccan Jews who immigrated to this region since 1810. Together they are sharing their unique story of resilience and persistence in this special part of the world, as well as their daily lives and their deep feelings towards their Jewish origins, which sometimes still exist only in their hearts.
https://www.facebook.com/malka.shabtay
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-muito
ALASKA RESCUE STORY, 40min,. USA
Directed by Mark D. Rose
This Alaska Bush Pilot makes an all out effort to save the last Caribou in Alaska, but nearly pays the ultimate price in the process.
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-alaska-rescue
ALONG THE THREAD OF THE OTHER, 80min., France
Directed by Herve Marcotte
After my first long documentary, “Encounter with remarkable souls”, with focus on the meaning of life, I am exploring the concept of self-realization with two 25 years old young adults. The film is a quest for an unknown treasure that cannot be found alone. Like the red thread of a fulfilled life !
http://www.verissimusfilms.com/en/2024/
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-along-the-thread-of-the-other
Lana Tong: A tailor made tour, 10min., Hong Kong
Directed by Sing Jantzen Tse
Lana Tong, a tour guide who migrated to Hong Kong less than a decade ago, guides audiences through a post-pandemic Hong Kong undergoing rapid shifts in its political and socio-cultural landscape. Her journey is disrupted by two disembodied voices—native narrators steeped in Hong Kong’s 80s to 00s ethos. Offering corrections rooted in a native perspective and drawing from their upbringing in Hong Kong’s 80s to 00s milieu, they recount the city’s geography and the values of freedom championed by earlier generations, paradoxically steering Lana to rediscover the city through their lens. Amid the tides of time, questions arise: Can a city’s soul survive relentless tides of change? Will its people cling to inherited ideals, flee, or forge new meaning from the fragments?
https://www.instagram.com/singmoki/
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-lana-tong
2 can play (Ava Della Pietra – official music video), 2min., USA
Directed by Azzie Scott
https://www.instagram.com/avadellapietra/
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-2-can-play-wildsound
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