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DOC NYC · 2014

DOC NYC 2014

International Perspectives

Programme

8 films · 1 review

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Every Last Child

Parents in Pakistan desperately try to protect their children from the scourge of polio.

(Country: UAE, Pakistan; Year: 2014; Director: Tom Roberts; Writer: Tom Roberts)

The Kingdom Of Dreams And Madness (Yume to kyôki no ohkoku)

Review preview for The Kingdom Of Dreams And Madness

The mood is that of an office in which at any moment, anything is possible, a little bit like in the films created here.

Anne-Katrin Titze · 5 out of 5
Documentary about famed animation Studio Ghibli.

(Country: Japan; Year: 2013; Director: Mami Sunada; Stars: Hideaki Anno, John Lasseter, Hayao Miyazaki, Toshio Suzuki, Isao Takahata)

Full review See: Article on DOC NYC 2014 highlights

Marmato

Colombia is the centre of a new global gold rush, and Marmato, a historic mining town, is the new frontier. Filmed over the course of nearly six years, Marmato chronicles how townspeople confront a Canadian mining company that wants the $20 billion in gold beneath their homes.

(Country: US; Year: 2014; Director: Mark Grieco)

Miss Tibet: Beauty In Exile

A young woman ravels a long way to enter a Himalayan beauty pageant, an act which is reshaping her cultural identity.

(Country: India, US; Year: 2014; Director: Norah Shapiro; Stars: Tenzin Khecheo, Lobsang Wangyal)

The Return

For young women who were raised Catholic in Poland learn of their Jewish heritage.

(Country: US; Year: 2014; Director: Adam Zucker; Stars: Tusia Dabrowska)

A Small Section Of The World

A group of women take a sustainable approach to coffee growing that dramatically improves the prospects of their rural community.

(Country: Costa Rica, Italy, US; Year: 2014; Director: Lesley Chilcott; Writer: Nick Davidge)

Vessel

A radical seafaring attempt to provide abortions.

(Country: US, Tanzania, Spain, Portugal, Poland, Pakistan, Netherlands, Ireland, Indonesia, Ecuador; Year: 2014; Director: Diana Whitten; Stars: Rebecca Gomperts)

When People Die They Sing Songs

A 93 year old stroke victim and Holocaust survivor works with her daughter and music therapist to try and recover memories of what happened in the past.

(Country: US, Russia; Year: 2014; Director: Olga Lvoff; Writer: Olga Lvoff, Vasily Lvov)