DOCNZ: The New Zealand International Documentary Film Festival

 
 

World Cinema

From Argentina, North Korea, Dubai, Germany, Australia, Brazil, Spain, Turkey, India, USA to New Zealand, these ten top-rated international documentaries take us on journey into their communities with intimate portraits of individuals and the societies they live in.

Displaying 1-10 of 10 films.

  
  • B1

    Brazil/China/France Brazil’s most celebrated judo practitioner is blind. How Antonio Tenorio competes in both regular and Paralympic championships, and aims for a gold medal in Beijing.

  • El Club

    Spain Will these Spanish sports club members overcome personal crises to find liberation? Protagonists aged 12 to 80 include an aspiring Olympic swimmer and a young gay man.

  • Contact

    Australia What happens when, to protect them from a rocket test, Australian police try to round up twenty people who’ve never before encountered modern society? Rocks move.

  • Farewell

    The Netherlands A love story in a Zeppelin summarizes the world’s high hopes before the Crash of 1929.

  • Journey from Zanskar

    USA Seventeen four-to-twelve-year-old kids follow 2 monks across a 17,500 foot Kashmir mountain pass into Tibet (narrated by Richard Gere).

  • Kiri Wai Inner Skin

    France, Netherlands, UK Can a non-Maori truly appreciate the significance of getting a culturally inspired tattoo?

  • Muezzin

    Austria/Turkey With “Idol” type shows topping world charts, Turkey’s mosques have joined the trend. Muezzins across the country compete to become the country’s best-known.

  • Mundo Alas An Alternative Tour

    Argentina A group of disabled performers take the road trip of their lives.

  • My Father, My Uncle

    Germany An ethnic Iraqi adopted by a German mother seeks out his roots, and finds they come with strings.

  • The Red Chapel

    Denmark Two Danish comedians adopted from North Korea, one disabled, visits their birth country. Do they or their home country suffer the culture shock?

 
  
 
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Documentary Edge Festival 2010

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