Projects in categories: Documentary

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This powerful virtual reality documentary series allows audiences to experience the alarming events of January 13, 2018, in Hawai‘i. This first chapter opens on an ordinary Saturday morning, when the entire population of Hawai‘i received a startling text message from the state Emergency Management Agency: “BALLISTIC MISSILE THREAT INBOUND TO HAWAI‘I. SEEK IMMEDIATE SHELTER. THIS IS NOT A DRILL.” As cellular communication networks collapsed and panic took hold of the population, 1.4 million people — as well as their friends and relatives across the globe — came to understand the real, growing, and urgent nature of today’s nuclear threat. Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2022 - New Frontier - World premiere Official Selection SXSW Film Festival 2022

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Deep in Lithuania's Labanoras Forest, a small community of locals is haunted by the past. To survive the war against Soviet oppression, they had to live in silence. Only now can they bear witness to the horrors that happened there.

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After 40 years of solitude, a spirited elderly hermit opens his life to young female director as he tackles ill health, a declining memory, and questions whether he can live out his last years in the wilderness he calls home. Official Selection Glasgow Film Festival 2022 - World premiere

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The story of Princess Diana is told exclusively through contemporaneous archive creating a bold and immersive narrative of her life and death. Turning the camera back on ourselves, it also illuminates the profound impact she had and how the public’s attitude to the monarchy was, and still is, shaped by these events. Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2022 - World premiere

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Explores the creative relationship and songs from Nick Cave and Warren Ellis' last two studio albums, "Ghosteen" and "Carnage". Official Selection Berlin International Film Festival 2022 - World premiere

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Filmed entirely inside the world of VR, this documentary captures the excitement and surprising intimacy of a burgeoning cultural movement, demonstrating the power of online connection in an isolated world. Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2022 - World Cinema Documentary Competition - World premiere

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A documentary-dance film which explores the legacy of Soviet architecture in Kharkiv, Ukraine. Moving fluidly between interview and dance, the film playfully investigates the dynamic impact that these buildings have on the people who live with them. Official Selection PÖFF Shorts - Black Nights Film Festival 2022 Official Selection Arquiteturas Film Festival 2022 - Winner - Audience Choice Award

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A daughter explores her mother's past experiences of sexual abuse, the trauma that lies within, and the way it shapes their relationship and inherited fear. Official Selection DOK Leipzig Film Festival 2022

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Fearless Nepali mountaineer Nirmal Purja embarks on a seemingly impossible quest to summit all 14 of the world's 8,000-meter peaks in seven months.

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A hawk, a chicken, a rat, a tree, a departed father, his struggling daughter and her distant child who has recently returned home. Within each body lies the reflections of all others.

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After ten years apart, a Scottish filmmaker tries to reconnect with her closest cousin. Once so similar, their paths were separated by war. As they piece together memories of Syria, they begin to wonder - 'What happened to our family?' Official Selection Berlinale 2022 - Generation 14plus - Crystal Bear Award

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As our world strains under the weight of unprecedented global migration and colonial extraction, this animated virtual reality documentary immerses participants in one of the largest forced migrations in human history: the 1947 Partition of India and Pakistan. CHILD OF EMPIRE takes audiences through a deeply personal perspective of this epic historical event. Two men from the Partition generation — Ishar Das Arora, an Indian Hindu who migrated from Pakistan to India, and Iqbal-ud-din Ahmed, a Pakistani Muslim who made the opposite journey — share childhood memories of their experiences while playing a board game. Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2022 - New Frontier - World premiere