Edinburgh International Film Festival · 2011
A variety of intriguing documentaries from around the world, selected with the assistance of the Sheffield Doc/Fest team.
14 films · 14 reviews
The film appears to have had a long and somewhat troubled genesis of its own.
(Country: US, Germany, UK, Netherlands, Belgium, France; Year: 2011; Director: Marie Losier; Stars: Lady Jaye Breyer P'Orridge, Genesis P-Orridge) , Official site
This is a tough but beautiful landscape and it has bred tough but beautiful people as director Alma Har'el's film goes on to elegantly illustrate.
(Country: US; Year: 2010; Director: Alma Har'el)
Lucy Walker's chilling documentary serves as a reminder that the threat of a nuclear bomb going off somewhere in the world to devastating effect has not diminished just because it has slipped from the public consciousness.
(Country: US; Year: 2010; Director: Lucy Walker; Stars: Graham Allison, James Baker III, Bruce Blair, Tony Blair, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Matthew Bunn, Richard Burt, Jimmy Carter, Mike Chinoy, Joseph Cirincione, Richard Cizik, Thomas D'Agostino, F.W. de Klerk, Pascal Fias, Alexander Glaser) , Official site
Alterman's camera languidly soaks up the landscape, lingering long enough so that we can appreciate both the beauty of the setting and the surprising dialogue created between it and Christiaan's artwork.
(Country: Portugal; Year: 2011; Director: Jarred Alterman)
Ali Samadi Ahadi paints a poetic and heartfelt portrait of a nation oppressed.
(Country: Germany; Year: 2010; Director: Ali Samadi Ahadi) , Official site
Frequent languid pacing and an occasional tendency to rehash similar points and stories lends the film a roughshod quality. Technically it's excellent.
(Country: Germany; Year: 2010; Director: Lorenz Knauer; Writer: Lorenz Knauer; Stars: Jane Goodall)
The more knowledge of and interest in L.A. Raeven you bring to this film, the more you are likely to get out of it.
(Country: Netherlands; Year: 2010; Director: Lisa Boerstra)
This carefully crafted and wonderfully edited documentary stands as a warm and absorbing tribute to Tanja Liedtke's work, her impact on the dance scene around her and as a testimony to the joys of creativity itself.
(Country: Australia; Year: 2011; Director: Bryan Mason, Sophie Hyde; Stars: Tanja Liedtke) , Official site
Manages to do justice to Makeba’s wonderful talent and noble activism.
(Country: Finland, Germany; Year: 2011; Director: Mika Kaurismäki; Writer: Don Edkins, Mika Kaurismäki; Stars: Miriam Makeba)
Connolly and Raymond capture both the pressure and exhilaration of practice and performance and include plenty of footage of the teenagers simply going about the process of growing up and learning to work together.
(Country: Australia; Year: 2010; Director: Bob Connolly, Sophie Raymond; Stars: Karen Carey) , Official site
The film quietly and confidently draws us in to the lives of one particular family of shepherds, and their ordinary struggle for survival.
(Country: Romania, Ireland; Year: 2011; Director: Dieter Auner) , Official site
Everson's non-technique may hold a harsh mirror up to our implicit involvement in his subject's plight, but his approach quickly becomes disheartening.
(Country: US; Year: 2011; Director: Kevin Jerome Everson)
The movie also has much to say about this none-too-subtle take on voyeurism, and the nature of unexpurgated creativity uninhibited by copyright.
(Country: Australia; Year: 2011; Director: Matthew Bate; Writer: Matthew Bate; Stars: Mike Mitchell, Daniel Clowes, Henry S. Rosenthal, Mitchell Deprey, Eddie Guerriero, Ivan Brunetti, Peter Haskett, Raymond Huffman) , Official site
The film is crammed full of archive footage, talking heads and some cracking music.
(Country: US; Year: 2011; Director: Morgan Neville; Stars: Carole King, Bonnie Raitt)
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