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  • Leap Before You Look
    Leap Before You Look
    1. A film by Stephane Goldsand
    2. run time 21 minutes 50 seconds

    Faced with his wife's desire to become a mother, a filmmaker goes on a quest to find out how people decide to have kids and identify the sources of his own hesitation. What emerges is an intimate story, peppered with humor and poignancy, where memories and present moments converge in an effort to redefine a couple's future. Leap Before You Look is a first-person short documentary that...  (more)

    POSTED MAR 25 Reviews + Comments Online Press Kit
  • The Dark Side of Green
    The Dark Side of Green (À sombra de um delírio verde)
    1. A film by Cristiano Navarro
    2. run time 29 minutes

    In the southern Mato Grosso do Sul, bordering Paraguay, an indigenous ethnic group with the largest population in Brazil silently fight for their territory to try to halt the advance of powerful enemies. Driven by the continuous process of colonization, more than 40,000 Guarani Kaiowá live today in less than 1% of their original territory. On their land are thousands of acres of sugar cane...  (more)

    POSTED MAR 10 Reviews + Comments Online Press Kit
  • The Conquest of High Passes
    The Conquest of High Passes (Hemels Bewegen)
    1. A film by Wout Conijn
    2. run time 55 minutes

    How to act when you are in top shape mentally but the body doesn't respond that way? Bas, Roelof and Evert are physically handicapped. Nevertheless they embark on a 1000 km bike trip across the Himalayas. From Lhasa to Kathmandu conquering mountain passes over 5000 meters high what makes enormous physical and mental demands to the participants. Bas came into contact as a soldier with a high...  (more)

    POSTED JAN 12 Reviews + Comments Online Press Kit
  • The Colours of Cultural Diversity
    The Colours of Cultural Diversity (Kültürel Farklılığın Renkleri)
    1. A film by Annie G. Pertan & Esra G. Pertan
    2. run time 98 minutes

    Throughout the centuries of the three empires – the Roman, the Byzantine and the Ottoman and now the Turkish Republic; people of different faiths and beliefs have lived together in Istanbul creating a strong cultural heritage. The theme of the documentary is about this cultural heritage. We have interviewed members of the Rum, Armenian, Jewish, Roma, Levantine and Syriac Communities, sixteen...  (more)

    POSTED JAN 08 Reviews + Comments Online Press Kit
  • TuTuMUCH
    TuTuMUCH
    1. A film by Merit Jensen Carr
    2. run time 83 minutes

    TuTuMUCH follows 9 young dancers behind-the-scenes where they plié and pirouette for coveted spots in an intensive 4 week professional ballet summer program. Leaving behind their families and friends, often for the first time, each girl confronts in her own way the painstaking and sometimes rewarding realities of actually living her dream. TuTuMUCH is a glimpse of how it feels to embark on a...  (more)

    POSTED DEC 20 Reviews + Comments Online Press Kit
  • Rock'n'roll...Of Corse
    Rock'n'roll...Of Corse
    1. A film by Lionel Guedj
    2. run time 90 minutes

    Some people’s fates deserved to be known by everyone. Henry Padovani, this young 24-year old Corsican, who arrived in London in December 1976, is one of them. Actor and witness of a period when the alternative and revolutionary trend, the punk movement, arose, this self-taught guitar player went through the 80’s like a meteorite falling from nowhere. From The Police he founded with Stewart...  (more)

    POSTED OCT 07 Reviews + Comments Online Press Kit
  • The Tijuana Project
    The Tijuana Project
    1. A film by John Sheedy
    2. run time 62 minutes

    The Tijuana Project is a documentary film about the people who pick through the trash at the Tijuana garbage dump for survival and the lives of six children who live next to this immense mountain for trash. The stories that the children bring to light cover a range of pressing global themes such as garbage management, recycling, health issues, drug abuse, education, and family. This film is...  (more)

    POSTED SEP 29 Reviews + Comments Online Press Kit
  • WE ARE THE BAUEN
    WE ARE THE BAUEN (NOSOTROS DEL BAUEN)
    1. A film by Didier ZYSERMAN
    2. run time 95 minutes

    The Hotel Bauen was built in Buenos Aires in 1978, under the military dictatorship. In December 2001, while the country sinks into a deep economic crisis, it goes bankrupt; its employees are being made redundant. Left in disarray, about thirty ex-employees invest in the place in March 2003; They become the Bauen workers cooperative. They rehabilitate the hotel and open it for customers in...  (more)

    POSTED SEP 13 Reviews + Comments Online Press Kit
  • The gentle drifting of a haitian child
    The gentle drifting of a haitian child (La dérive douce d'un enfant de Petit-Goâve)
    1. A film by Pedro Ruiz
    2. run time 84 minutes

    The gentle drifting of a haitian child... A sense of form, the whirl of poetry, thinking that is deep and light all at the same time… work that was never meant to be contained. From Port-au-Prince to Paris by way of Montreal, New York and Saint-Malo, The gentle drifting of a haitian child introduces us to one of Quebec’s most charismatic writers and filmmakers, Dany Laferrière. The film...  (more)

    POSTED SEP 01 Reviews + Comments Online Press Kit
  • Postcard To Daddy
    Postcard To Daddy
    1. A film by Michael Stock
    2. run time 85 minutes 12 seconds

    As a child, Michael Stock was sexually abused – by his own father. 25 years later he is still looking for inner peace. In conversations with his family and friends and his own reflections, he paints an ever clearer, if contradictory picture of what happened and of the consequences for each of the family members. Old family films seem to show a happy family – excerpts from Michael’s first...  (more)

    POSTED JUL 30 Reviews + Comments Online Press Kit
  • Water Drums, an ancestral encounter
    Water Drums, an ancestral encounter (Tambores de agua un encuentro ancestral)
    1. A film by Clarissa Duque
    2. run time 72 minutes

    “Water Drums, an ancestral encounter” is a documentary film that shows the strength of the African roots in the Venezuelan musical manifestations. The history of the Afro descendents Venezuelans is set up in the film when the central character finds the ‘water drums’ , a peculiar and stunning musical expression of the region of Barlovento.The aquatic chimes from the water drums will...  (more)

    POSTED JUN 17 Reviews + Comments Online Press Kit
  • ON THE EDGE OF HISTORY - MAJOR DIMITRIS KASLAS
    ON THE EDGE OF HISTORY - MAJOR DIMITRIS KASLAS
    1. A film by Kostas Anestis
    2. run time 52 minutes

    The life of an ordinary man begins along with the 20th century in Pouri, Mount Pelion and meets up with Greece’s contemporary history at key points. The “hidden” Epic of 1941 and the battle at Point 731 against the Italians’ spring attack led by Mussolini himself. Survivors’ tales and documents from Kaslas’ unique archive. The documentary chronicles the subsequent participation of...  (more)

    POSTED MAY 27 Reviews + Comments Online Press Kit
  • Iranian Cookbook
    Iranian Cookbook (Dastore Ashpazi )
    1. A film by Mohammad Shirvani
    2. run time 72 minutes

    Seven middle class housewives live in Tehran. What are they really talking about? Iranian food or Iranian life?  (more)

    POSTED MAY 09 Reviews + Comments Online Press Kit
  • B1
    B1 (B1- Tenório em Pequim)
    1. A film by Felipe Braga
    2. run time 99 minutes

    Antonio Tenorio is a B1: he’s totally blind, and he carries on his judo kimono the red circle that symbolizes it. The documentary follows this professional judo player, one of the few in the world to compete both in Paralympic and regular championships, as he prepares himself to fight for a fourth Paralympic gold medal, in Beijing. Filmed in Brazil, France and China, “B1” narrates an...  (more)

    POSTED APR 22 Reviews + Comments Online Press Kit
  • Bhutto
    Bhutto (Bhutto)
    1. A film by Duane Baughman
    2. run time 115 minutes

    Bhutto unfolds like a Greek tragedy with unsolved murders, political intrigue, family feuds, hijackings, poisonings — you name it. Her story had all the elements from triumph to tragedy. There is a reason why the Bhuttos are called the Kennedys of Pakistan. For the trailer visit the film's website at: http://www.bhuttothefilm.com/trailer.html More on the story at:...  (more)

    POSTED APR 15 Reviews + Comments Online Press Kit
  • THE CHAI-WAN MATCHUP
    THE CHAI-WAN MATCHUP (THE CHAI-WAN MATCHUP)
    1. A film by Chung Chuan
    2. run time 75 minutes

    In 2008, China hosted the Beijing Olympics and Taiwan held a presidential election. The sensitive issue of national identity conflict between the two sides of the strait was again instigated. Taiwanese documentary filmmaker Chung Chuan living in China for the last eight years, utilizes film art to connect Taiwanese at home, in Beijing, and in New York. What Taiwanese show as fervent love for...  (more)

    POSTED MAR 27 Reviews + Comments Online Press Kit
  • Africa Light / Gray Zone
    Africa Light / Gray Zone (Africa Light / Gray Zone)
    1. A film by Tino Schwanemann
    2. run time 13 minutes

    Africa is full of nature’s colors. A colorful experience! The social, political and economical problems of the continent, however, are unsaturated. Neither black nor white, but endless gray. “Africa Light” – as white local citizens call Namibia. The name suggests romance, the beauty of nature and promises a life without any problems in a country where the difference between rich and...  (more)

    POSTED MAR 25 Reviews + Comments Online Press Kit
  • Ghosts
    Ghosts
    1. A film by Morvary Samaré
    2. run time 54 minutes

    Three Canadian men; Abdullah Almalki, Ahmad El Maati and Muayyed Nureddin were detained and tortured for months and years in Syria and, in Ahmad El Maati's case, Egypt. Upon their release, they return to Canada and try to find answers to why they were detained in the first place. An inquiry was struck into their cases in order to determine the role of Canadian agencies and officials in their...  (more)

    POSTED MAR 05 Reviews + Comments Online Press Kit
  • Everyday But Sunday
    Everyday But Sunday
    1. A film by Rosa Russo
    2. run time 17 minutes 30 seconds

    Hiwot Beyene is 12 years old and dreams of becom-ing a doctor. She lives in a small Ethiopian village with her parents and brothers in a two-room hut. Every morning she takes the 1.5 hour walk to school to learn about farming, hygiene and health. After school, Hiwot spends hours on household chores till the evening, when she steals an hour to do her homework.  (more)

    POSTED NOV 20 Reviews + Comments Online Press Kit
  • Mama, to Life!
    Mama, to Life! (Mama, L'Chaim!)
    1. A film by Elkan Spiller
    2. run time 5 minutes 15 seconds

    Mama, L’Chaim! portrays the life of 63 year old Chaim, who lives together with his 96 year old mother, a concentration camp survivor, in an Jewish elderly home in Antwerpen. They are both lively and funny characters, we follow the pain of the Holocaust and laughter of their everyday existence as, with faith and humour, they keep going, never giving up hope. From a drug dealer, Hippy,...  (more)

    POSTED NOV 04 Reviews + Comments Online Press Kit
  • STOLEN
    STOLEN (STOLEN)
    1. A film by Violeta Ayala
    2. run time 78 minutes

    Australian based filmmakers Violeta Ayala and Dan Fallshaw go to the Polisario governed refugee camps in the Algerian desert to make a film about a family reunion. Everything changes when the black Saharawis start to talk about a forbidden subject...their freedom.  (more)

    POSTED OCT 25 Reviews + Comments Online Press Kit
  • MAWLA'S WEDDING
    MAWLA'S WEDDING (LA BODA DE MAWLA)
    1. A film by ZOLTAN ENEVOLD
    2. run time 52 minutes 42 seconds

    Mawla, a young man from Bangladesh living in Madrid (Spain), dreams of having a family. After seven years he decides to go back to his country for the first time in order to find a bride and get married.  (more)

    POSTED OCT 11 Reviews + Comments Online Press Kit
  • Conspiracy
    Conspiracy (Sammensvergelse)
    1. A film by Peter Piotr Kuzinski
    2. run time 10 minutes 38 seconds

    Helene lives together with her paranoid brother Christian. He refuses to take medicines and believes there is poisonous gas coming into the apartment. A film on force medication, paranoia and relationship between a patient and the kinfolk.  (more)

    POSTED SEP 29 Reviews + Comments Online Press Kit
  • Not Reconciled
    Not Reconciled
    1. A film by Jill Daniels
    2. run time 41 minutes

    During the Spanish civil war and its aftermath, thousands of people were executed and thrown into mass unmarked graves. Today people in Spain are beginning to face up to a past that has remained for 70 years an uneasy alliance of a determination to forget. In Not Reconciled, historic accounts of the civil war and Franco’s regime, novels, diaries of republican and fascist fighters, are...  (more)

    POSTED SEP 23 Reviews + Comments Online Press Kit
  • Bittersweet Waters
    Bittersweet Waters (Eaux douces, eaux amères)
    1. A film by Nicolas Ploumpidis
    2. run time 53 minutes

    “Nowadays people just don’t appreciate how important water is. People should save water even more than they save money. We can’t create rain. If we waste water, there will be none left.” Tamil Selvan, farmer of Cuddalore district, Tamil Nadu. Two small villages in southern India now desperately trying to cope with dwindling water resources- from this very grass root level,...  (more)

    POSTED AUG 17 Reviews + Comments Online Press Kit
  • How they Dance
    How they Dance (Hvordan de Danser)
    1. A film by Jesper Ravn
    2. run time 5 minutes 26 seconds

    How They Dance is a documentary about ordinary people who love to dance. The film is a funny and unconventional portrait of these people.  (more)

    POSTED AUG 13 Reviews + Comments Online Press Kit
  • Resonances
    Resonances (Oddzwiek)
    1. A film by Marc Recchia
    2. run time 26 minutes 4 seconds

    In Lodz, Anna alternates between several half-day shifts as an organist, singer and painter. She always wanted to become a nun but it turned out differently. What were her reasons to radically change her life and which questions is she asking herself today? Through her personal stories we discover her singular life-path. Slowly the film sketches the pursuit of liberty of a longing feminist in...  (more)

    POSTED JUL 03 Reviews + Comments Online Press Kit
  • Chasing Che
    Chasing Che (Dar Radepayeh Che)
    1. A film by Alireza Rofougaran
    2. run time 78 minutes

    Chasing Che is the account of a four-year odyssey in which an Iranian businessman, Alireza Rofougaran, switches the course of his life. Inspired by a biography of Che Guevara, which he reads and then translates into Farsi, Alireza embarks on a long odyssey through Latin America and Europe, home movie camera in hand. His mission: to retrace Che's footsteps. In an effort to gain a greater personal...  (more)

    POSTED JUN 21 Reviews + Comments Online Press Kit
  • The Death of the Gazelle
    The Death of the Gazelle (La mort de la gazelle)
    1. A film by Jeremie Reichenbach
    2. run time 45 minutes

    In the North of Niger, somewhere in the borders of Sahara, men are ready to the war. Under the threat of an invisible enemy, isolated by the world, they live looking forward to the fight.  (more)

    POSTED MAY 28 Reviews + Comments Online Press Kit

Resources and Statistics

Latest Festival Winners

  1. 10/11/10HOT DOCS 2010 AWARDS AND PRIZES
  2. 06/23/10Award WInners for MEDIAWAVE’2010
  3. 04/23/10Documentary Edge Awards 2010
  4. 03/05/10Award Winners for the 2009 Cph:Dox Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival
  5. 02/19/10Award Winners for the 2009 Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival
  6. 01/28/10Award Winners for the 2009 Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival
  7. 10/01/09HOT DOCS 2009 AWARDS AND PRIZES
  8. 09/08/09DOCNZ 2009 Award Winners
  9. 08/23/09Full Frame Documentary Film Festival 2009 Award Winners
  10. 07/30/09Cinema Verite 2008 Film Awards
  11. 10/20/082008 Golden Sheaf Award winners of the Yorkton Short Film and Video Festival
  12. 10/20/082008 Tabor FIlm Festival Awards
  13. 10/20/08SCINEMA Festival of Science Film 2008 Winners Announced
  14. 10/20/082008 Award Winners of the Pärnu International Film Festival
  15. 10/20/08The Award Winners of the 2008 MountainFilm in Telluride
  16. 10/20/082008 International Wildlife Film Festival Award Winners
  17. 10/18/08The International Documentary Association (IDA) will award its prestigious 2008 Career Achievement Award to legendary filmmaker Werner Herzog.
  18. 10/18/08The 2008 Encounters Audience Awards!
  19. 10/18/082008 Golden Deers Prize statuettes of Ecofilms awarded
  20. 10/18/08Docúpolis awards for “The Red Race” Best Documentary
  21. 06/27/08SilverDocs Awards the 2008 Winners
  22. 06/27/08Award Winners Announced for the 2008 Message to Man International Documentary, Short and Animated
  23. 04/30/08Kim Cattrall to receive NBC Universal Award of Distinction at 2008 Banff World Television Festival
  24. 04/29/08The Youth Jury Award to the Best Short Film announced at 2008 Encuentros de Cine y Derechos Humanos
  25. 04/28/08ACADEMIA FILM OLOMOUC- 2008 Awards
  26. 04/28/08INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY CHALLENGE WINNERS ANNOUNCED! for 2008 HotDocs
  27. 04/28/08AUDIENCE AWARD WINNER AND TOP TEN ANNOUNCED; CIDA AWARD PRESENTED TO SHOCK WAVES
  28. 04/28/08Award Winners for the 2008 Visions du Reel- Nyon International Documentary Film Festival
  29. 04/24/08Award Winners Announced for the 2008 Cinestrat Film Festival
  30. 04/22/08It's All True - 13th International Documentary Film Festival Award Winner Results

Recent FAB Films

  1. 03/25/11Leap Before You Look
  2. 03/10/11The Dark Side of Green
  3. 01/12/11The Conquest of High Passes
  4. 01/08/11The Colours of Cultural Diversity
  5. 12/20/10TuTuMUCH
  6. 10/07/10Rock'n'roll...Of Corse
  7. 09/29/10The Tijuana Project
  8. 09/13/10WE ARE THE BAUEN
  9. 09/01/10The gentle drifting of a haitian child
  10. 07/30/10Postcard To Daddy
  11. 06/17/10Water Drums, an ancestral encounter
  12. 05/27/10ON THE EDGE OF HISTORY - MAJOR DIMITRIS KASLAS
  13. 05/09/10Iranian Cookbook
  14. 04/22/10B1
  15. 04/15/10Bhutto
  16. 03/27/10THE CHAI-WAN MATCHUP
  17. 03/25/10Africa Light / Gray Zone
  18. 03/05/10Ghosts
  19. 11/20/09Everyday But Sunday
  20. 11/04/09Mama, to Life!
  21. 10/25/09STOLEN
  22. 10/11/09MAWLA'S WEDDING
  23. 09/29/09Conspiracy
  24. 09/23/09Not Reconciled
  25. 08/17/09Bittersweet Waters
  26. 08/13/09How they Dance
  27. 07/03/09Resonances
  28. 06/21/09Chasing Che
  29. 05/28/09The Death of the Gazelle
  30. 04/22/09Havana
  31. 03/07/09Passing Eyes
  32. 12/21/08The Threat
  33. 11/25/08The Province of Lost Film
  34. 11/15/08This is Not a Love Story
  35. 10/26/08Being Frank
  36. 10/19/08Blue Gold: World Water Wars
  37. 10/14/08Flowers of Rwanda
  38. 10/11/08The Last American Freak Show
  39. 10/10/08Pensil
  40. 09/24/08Cycle of Change - Beijing, my old home
  41. 09/11/08A Desire Obtained
  42. 08/19/08Everybody Present!
  43. 08/12/08Unbroken
  44. 07/16/08The Cascade and its Dust
  45. 06/28/08Another Planet
  46. 06/15/08Over My Dad's Body
  47. 05/30/08Fatherhood Dreams
  48. 03/30/08Considering Democracy: 8 Things to Ask Your Representative
  49. 03/20/08Behave
  50. 03/03/08Tony Zear
  51. 02/25/08a disappearance foretold
  52. 02/21/08Of Shadows and Men
  53. 02/11/08Anne and the Reverend
  54. 02/09/08My own 1000 square meters
  55. 02/09/08how i am
  56. 01/26/08A Long Day
  57. 01/23/08Mirror Mirror
  58. 12/26/07Nature's Beauty
  59. 12/22/07Rapping with Shakespeare
  60. 12/18/07River Ways
  61. 11/30/071000 Journals
  62. 11/15/07Word on the Str33t
  63. 11/13/07They Turned Our Desert Into Fire
  64. 10/09/07From The 50 Yard Line
  65. 09/24/07Games of the European Countries
  66. 09/21/07Playing Between Elephants
  67. 09/21/07Every Step You Take
  68. 09/17/07Rock 'n Tokyo
  69. 09/09/07Naked on the Inside
  70. 09/03/07Ilya and Marusya
  71. 07/04/074 Elements
  72. 06/21/07Indestructible
  73. 06/18/07Monster Camp
  74. 06/12/07Village People Radio Show
  75. 06/11/07Scott Walker: 30 Century Man
  76. 06/08/07Two Homelands, Cuba and the Night
  77. 03/13/07Music Is My Life, Politics My Mistress
  78. 03/12/07Hell on Wheels
  79. 02/26/07Darkbeat
  80. 02/26/07Kamp Katrina
  81. 02/17/07Queens of Sound- A Herstory of Reggae and Dancehall
  82. 02/06/07Quilombo Country
  83. 02/03/07Soufre
  84. 09/08/06The Snowman
  85. 09/08/06Tiny Katerina
  86. 09/08/06Transit of Venus
  87. 09/08/06Triumph of Life: The Survivors
  88. 09/08/06The Hobart Shakespeareans
  89. 09/08/06Plagues & Pleasures on the Salton Sea
  90. 09/08/06Radiophobia
  91. 09/08/06Shaken
  92. 09/08/06Single Mum
  93. 09/08/06John & Jane
  94. 09/08/06JUMP
  95. 09/08/06From Shtetl to Swing
  96. 09/08/06Conflict Tiger
  97. 09/08/06Brooklyn: Among the Ruins
  98. 09/08/06A Voice without a Face
  99. 09/08/06Angry Monk
  100. 09/08/06Balloonhat