{"id":32893,"date":"2018-02-15T09:57:21","date_gmt":"2018-02-15T13:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brazilianpress.com\/v1\/?p=32893"},"modified":"2018-02-15T13:04:10","modified_gmt":"2018-02-15T17:04:10","slug":"going-places-the-eyes-never-met-through-the-2018-doc-fortnight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brazilianpress.com\/v1\/2018\/02\/15\/going-places-the-eyes-never-met-through-the-2018-doc-fortnight\/","title":{"rendered":"Going places the eyes never met through the 2018 Doc Fortnight"},"content":{"rendered":"

In its 17th edition, Doc Fortnight, MoMA’s prestigious documentary festival showcasing new, inventive filmmaking in non-fiction storytelling will take audiences to places the eyes never met and introduce to incredible stories of extreme humanitarian significance, premiering more than 20 productions February 15\u201326. Here are 8 titles to look forward to.<\/p>\n

LIYANA<\/strong><\/p>\n

Through the imagination of orphan children living in a community shelter in Swaziland, the story of an infant heroine is created in directors Aaron and Amanda Kopp’s moving and heartbreaking award-winning feature. As they narrate the girl’s tragic journey of losing her parents to HIV and running for survival, their stories merge and reflect the same levels of abuse and hopelessness. Mixing animation, dramatization and truthful testimonies from the children, the directors efficiently capture the beauty of both landscape and kids, in contrast with the despicable trauma and the uncertainty of future they must deal with.<\/p>\n

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MR. GAY SYRIA<\/strong><\/p>\n

A very touching and personal in-depth investigation in the lives of a group of gay Syrian refugees living in Turkey and participating in the acclaimed Gay World Contest. Winner of the Human Rights Award at both Chicago and Sarajevo Film Festivals, director Ayse Toprak looks at their dilemmas such as romantic separations, prejudice, traumas of war, threats of freedom, the path to asylum, and mostly their family bonds and issues with accomplished results. It develops essential focus on a contestant who’s been married and has a daughter in order to find acceptance in society. A very timely account on the individual quest for respect among the LGBT community.<\/p>\n

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NOISELESS<\/strong><\/p>\n

Directors Gilles Lepore, Michal Madracki and Maciej Madracki follow a group of film extras in Morocco, documenting their rehearsals for their “close-up”, their perspectives on cinema and how the industry has affected their lives. Through inventive, poetic images of the vast desert and brilliant editing, the directors create a revelatory statement on the power and influence of art and cinema, collecting insightful testimonies from young and old actors, all looking for escape and redemption through the process of movie-making.<\/p>\n

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SE\u00d1ORITA MARIA<\/strong><\/p>\n

An exquisite, strangely beautiful and melancholic observation on the activities of a lonely indigenous transvestite living in a remote mountainous village in Colombia. Award-winning accomplished documentarian Rub\u00e9n Mendoza’s absorbing, visually breathtaking and complex narrative, chronicles her ambiguous, mysterious and mostly delusional emotions with profound accuracy on the right to be oneself. Mendoza also compiles a courageous mosaic of societal prejudice, religious standards, faith and loneliness, while contemplating the peaceful landscape, a place that feels closer to heaven.<\/p>\n

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MAMA COLONEL<\/strong><\/p>\n

Director Dieudo Hamadi documents the routine of a female captain of the police in the never-ending consequences of Civil-war Congo, an area affected by rape, violence, homicide, children abuse and witchcraft practices. Gathering disturbing images of the contaminating violence all over town, it’s a shocking testimony on abuse of all sorts, especially children.<\/p>\n

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GREEN RIVER<\/strong><\/p>\n

Directors Alvaro and Diego Sarmiento delve into the Peruvian Amazon, documenting the lives of a Yakurunas family as the man ventures the waters and the woman cultivates the land. Gorgeously shot with deeply inspired observations on the plenitude of waters, the infinite green and skies, it’s a delicate and inclusive unique look at the sacred pulmonary forest.<\/p>\n

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THE SILENT TEACHER<\/strong><\/p>\n

In Maso Chen’s dramatic doc, a family grieves the death of the mother, who now serves her corpse as an instrument of pathological study in a University in Taiwan. A strong look at family endurance and resilience and the connection between the living and the dead.<\/p>\n

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CALABRIA<\/strong><\/p>\n

Winner of Best Doc at Doclisboa International Film Festival, director Pierre-Fran\u00e7ois Sauter’s road movie, digs deep on the immigrant issue, as two drivers cross the country in order to bring a dead Calabrian worker back home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In its 17th edition, Doc Fortnight, MoMA’s prestigious documentary festival showcasing new, inventive filmmaking in non-fiction storytelling will take audiences to places the eyes never met and introduce to incredible stories of extreme humanitarian significance, premiering more than 20 productions February 15\u201326. Here are 8 titles to look forward to. LIYANA Through the imagination of orphan children living in a community shelter in Swaziland, the story of an infant heroine is created in directors Aaron and Amanda Kopp’s moving and heartbreaking award-winning feature. As they narrate the girl’s tragic journey of losing her parents to HIV and running for survival, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32896,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,16],"tags":[],"views":2087,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brazilianpress.com\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32893"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brazilianpress.com\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brazilianpress.com\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brazilianpress.com\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brazilianpress.com\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32893"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.brazilianpress.com\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32928,"href":"https:\/\/www.brazilianpress.com\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32893\/revisions\/32928"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brazilianpress.com\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brazilianpress.com\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brazilianpress.com\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brazilianpress.com\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}