Doc.Boston Documentary Film Festival
Facts aren’t always facts, and “alternative facts” don't always lie.
In a world where “truth” is carefully curated, filtered, and viewed through the lens of social media, often the only difference between truth and fiction lies in the perspective through which one views the world.
Documentary films offer a fascinating peephole into a particular reality, at a certain time of a certain person's life. Whether in the form of an expository, a poem, an essay, an observational piece, whether it's dramatized, animated, or based on interviews, documentary films all have a message to send.
How can we make a difference in the world?
Documentary films are not just an avenue through which we can observe real life; they also serve to inform, educate, and critique. They are valuable creations in a day and age where media is increasingly curated and so much more homogenous.
That is why Doc.Boston welcomes all of the above forms of documentary film-making, and even more so, those that transcend boundaries to move fluidly between one and more styles.
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Rojek (Canada) by Zaynê Akyol
Rojek encounters incarcerated members of the Islamic State from all over the world, as well as their wives detained in prison-camps, who are sharing a common dream: establishing a caliphate. Confronted with the fundamentalist beliefs of the jihadists, the film attempts to trace the beginning, the...
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Memories of Occupation and Dialogue for the Future (Greece) by Dimitris Argyriou
Neighboring Greek villages, Pyrgi and Mesovouno, were looted, massacred and burned completely by German troops. Since 2010, the German-Greek cultural association "Dialogos" in Delmenhorst is in close contact with the two villages and succeeded in creating an exchange of students between a German...
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Alone (United States) by S Columbus
Documentary about the difference of being alone and feeling alone.
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The "Madman" and His Ruins (China) by Xiaolong Zhu
A middle-aged man lives in ruins, and his home has been burned down twice. After suffering from a stroke, he even refused government relief, and his neighbors called him a madman and did not want to interact with him. He lives alone, cultivates alone, eats alone, walks around alone... everything ...
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Kneading Love (United States) by Jonathan Lue
A mental health therapist & a stay at home mom become Portland's most unique Pizzaiolos. As the Truong family navigates through the challenges of opening a restaurant, Aaron soon discovers why he left his private counseling career to begin a new one creating pizzas.
Running time: 00:19:22
