WINNERS: January 2025 DOC Festival

A showcase of the best Documentary Films in the world today:

BEST Feature Film: THE CLOSURES
BEST Short Film: LA LIXEIRA – the invisibles’ dignity
BEST Micro-Short: I AM A VERY SPECIAL BEING
BEST Direction: MITAYO
BEST Environmental Film: SPECTRUM OF CONSUMPTION: A CONSERVATION STORY
BEST Nature Film: BETWEEN CLOUDS AND GLASS

SEE FULL HIGHLIGHTS OF EACH FILM:

I AM A VERY SPECIAL BEING, 4min., Denmark
Directed by Marcus Mandal
40-year-old Christian is diagnosed with autism.
He wrote the lyrics for this song about who he is – and he sings it himself.

https://www.citizendane.com/productions/public-film/i-am-a-very-special-being

MITAYO, 16min., Peru
Directed by Marco Alvarado
Mitayo is the Amazonian word that describes the time of fishing in a hamlet called Aguanomuyuna in the Chazuta district in the city of Tarapoto of the San Martín Region in the jungle of Peru.
https://www.instagram.com/oswaldosalaswilliams/

BETWEEN CLOUDS AND GLASS, 12min., USA
Directed by Mykhailo Bogdanov
A look at the monumental problem of bird collisions in Chicago, the deadliest city for birds, just ahead of Houston and Dallas. According to scientists, what happens in Chicago can affect bird populations across North America. As many as one billion birds die each year in the United States due to building collisions, but there are people who care and work hard to change this.

http://mykhailobogdanov.com/
https://www.instagram.com/mykhailobogdanov

SPECTRUM OF CONSUMPTION: A CONSERVATION STORY, 21min., USA
Directed by Colleen Kelley
Spectrum of Consumption is an observational film following a group of women hunters in Montana, and their relationship to public land, conservation, and alternatives to the industrial food complex.

LA LIXEIRA – the invisibles’ dignity, 12min,. Italy
Directed by GUIDO GALANTE, ANTONIO NOTARANGELO
Maputo, the capital city of Mozabimque, has one or may be two million inhabitants. A few neighborhoods have houses or more precisely brick shacks, some paved roads, mostly a wide range of huts without basic sanitation services, where day by day men, women and children scrape food together in slow and quiet despair-the only chance they have to survive.

THE CLOSURES, 72min., France
Directed by Lucia Arellano
After many years, Rafael decides to report the principal of his school for sexual assault. As part of the process he had to give his testimony in the same building where his guerrilla father was murdered at the hands of the police.

http://www.cinando.com/cintamanifilms
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https://www.twitter.com/cintamanifilms