Laura Huertas Millán: Toward a decolonized ethnography
This hallucinatory excursion into the Amazon jungle and its ruins is built on the recollections of an indigenous man who used to work for a Colombian drug lord.
International Short and Medium-Length Competition
Bangalore’s biggest urban lake is covered in toxic foam. And yet, life goes on. A captivating, meditative essay on humans’ place in the environment.
The Lake and The Lake
- Sindhu Thirumalaisamy
- 2019
- India, United States
- s.t. English
- 39 min
International Feature Competition
Testimonials from the residents of a building in West Jerusalem, and some visual experiments, form a portrait of a society victimized by its own acts of aggression.
Land Mine
- Tirtza Even
- 2019
- United States, Israel, Palestine
- s.t. French or English
- 86 min
The State of the World
The last residents get ready to leave the soon-to-be-demolished White Building in Phnom Penh. An admirable first feature about a place steeped in memory and history.
Last Night I Saw You Smiling
- Kavich Neang
- 2019
- Cambodia, France
- s.t. French or English
- 78 min
Laura Huertas Millán: Toward a decolonized ethnography
In Mexico, weavers from a matriarchal indigenous community use a pre-Hispanic technique, which the filmmaker captures in an elegant tribute to craft and liberty.
La libertad
- Laura Huertas Millan
- 2017
- France, Colombia
- s.t. English
- 29 min
Natural Stories
Through a touching portrait of two stray dogs in Santiago, Los Reyes is a subtle look at the fate of the marginalized in a willfully blind society.
Los Reyes
- Bettina Perut, Iván Osnovikoff
- 2018
- Chile, Germany
- s.t. French or English
- 78 min