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Sundance Film Festival · 2010

Sundance Film Festival 2010

World Documentary Competition

This year’s 12 films were selected from 782 international documentary submissions.

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12 films · 5 reviews

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A Film Unfinished

Film reels uncovered in Nazi archives reveal the mechanisms used to stage Warsaw Ghetto life - images which have shaped our view of history.

(Country: Germany, Israel; Year: 2010; Director: Yael Hersonski)

Fix ME

When Palestinian filmmaker Raed Andoni gets a headache that won't quit, he seeks out help and insight in different forms in his hometown of Ramallah.

(Country: France, Palestinian Territories, Switzerland; Year: 2008; Director: Raed Andoni) , Official site

His & Hers (His And Hers)

Review preview for His & Hers

Concentrated insights (without any complicating distractions) into sex, family, the shifts in generations and the continuities of life.

Anton Bitel · 3.5 out of 5
Seventy women talk about the men in their lives.

(Year: 2009; Director: Ken Wardrop; Stars: 70 women) , Trailer

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Kick In Iran

The first female professional Taekwondo fighter from Iran to qualify for the Olympic Games struggles for recognition in a society where women still play a subordinate role.

(Country: Gemany; Director: Fatima Geza Abdollahyan)

Last Train Home

Review preview for Last Train Home

On the one hand this is a very personal tale of one family's struggle to make the best of trying circumstances, but on the other it is a stinging indictment on a political and economic structure that is stretching families to breaking point.

Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
An examination of the impact of migrant working on Chinese family life.

(Country: Canada, China; Year: 2009; Director: Lixin Fan; Stars: Suqin Chen, Changhua Zhan, Qin Zhang, Yang Zhang)

Full review See: Sundance Daily Diary 2010: Happythankyoumoreplease, Restrepo, Last Train Home and Hesher

The Red Chapel (Det røde kapel)

A journalist with no scruples, a self-proclaimed spastic, and a comedian travel to North Korea under the guise of a cultural exchange visit to challenge one of the world’s most notorious regimes.

(Country: Denmark; Year: 2009; Director: Mads Brügger; Stars: Mads Brügger, Simon Jul Jørgensen, Jacob Nossell)

See: Sundance Film Festival 2010: Days Seven and Eight

Russian Lessons

An investigation into Russian actions during the 2008 war in Georgia, revealing the little known story of the ethnic cleansing in the region since the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

(Country: Georgia, Germany, Norway; Year: 2010; Director: Olga Konskaya, Andrei Nekrasov)

Secrets Of The Tribe

Is the academic Anthropology community capable of generating real knowledge about mankind? The scandals and the infighting regarding the representation of indigenous Indians in the Amazon Basin seems to indicate that the answer may be a resounding no.

(Country: Brazil; Year: 2010; Director: José Padilha)

Sins Of My Father (Pecados de mi padre)

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Neither Entel nor Sebastian promote drugs as a lucrative trade - it may have made Escober millions but it ultimately cost him his life and ruined the lives of his loved ones.

Leanne McGrath · 4 out of 5
The story of Pablo Escobar - as recounted by his son and widow.

(Country: Argentina, Colombia; Year: 2009; Director: Nicolas Entel; Writer: Nicolas Entel, Pablo Farina)

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Space Tourists

A humorous and laconic view of the way billionaires depart planet earth to travel into outer space for fun.

(Country: Switzerland; Year: 2009; Director: Christian Frei; Stars: Anousheh Ansari, Jonas Bendiksen, Dumitru Popescu, Charles Simonyi)

Waste Land

Review preview for Waste Land

Walker's documentary is moving, life-affirming and challenges what you think you might know about these people who pick through the rubbish.

Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
Portrait of garbage pickers in Rio who participated in a project with artist Vik Muniz.

(Country: UK, Brazil; Year: 2010; Director: Lucy Walker)

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