Showcase of the best FILMS in the world today.
Audience Award Winners:
BEST SHORT FILM: CAMPESINOS: AMERICA’S UNSUNG HEROES
BEST DIRECTION: THOSE WHO LEAVE, AND THOSE WHO STAY
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: SCHOOL
BEST SOUND & MUSIC: THE ISMAILZAIS
Watch the Audience Feedback Video for each film:
THOSE WHO LEAVE, AND THOSE WHO STAY, 30min., China, Documentary
Directed by Joe Poni
In the rural village in southern China, the establishment of pylons forces the three families to face different worries about relocation. This is a microcosm of a group of ordinary people under the torrent of current Chinese era. Driven by modernisation, they move towards an unknown future.
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FOSS, 7min., USA, Documentary
Directed by Creighton Dolezal, Joseph Fabiano
A basketball court sits on top of a pizza joint in Woodstock, Illinois. The owner of both was one step away from making the 1996 USA Olympic basketball team.
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CAMPESINOS: AMERICA’S UNSUNG HEROES, 22min., USA, Documentary
Directed by Joe Poni
This documentary helps tell the stories of California farmworkers and documents their perseverance during one of the most challenging times in recent history, the COVID-19 pandemic.
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SCHOOL, 29min., Kosovo, Documentary
Directed by Berkant Curi
The documentary “School” is about the struggle of a minority community trying to keep their language alive in a multicultural village through a little girl who is alone in her class. This documentary shows how diversity in a country is actually a treasure for its population, but this treasure sometimes has positive and sometimes negative reflections on individuals.
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THE ISMAILZAIS, 14min., USA, Documentary
Directed by Nate Robards, Peter Nichols
A family of Afghan refugees navigates life in America.
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WHAT HAPPENED YESTERDAY?, 9min., USA, Documentary
Directed by Eric Bomba-Ire
Clive, a fifty-two-year-old accountant walks daily for miles with no direction and no plan. It is freestyle fitness and meditation all-in-one. But what seems like simple routine exercise reveals an act of grieving and persevering through loss.
Three years ago, with big plans ahead of his 49th birthday, Clive couldn’t have anticipated the life changing decision he had to make on the day of his birthday: keep his mother alive or remove her from life support.
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Documentary Film Festival. Los Angeles & Toronto 