Documentary Feature Films / Cannes International Film Week
The Cannes International Film Week is an online streaming film festival meant to showcase innovative world cinema from around the world by up-and-coming artists.
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Prophet Town (United States) by Dan Howlett
This documentary follows the extraordinary political awakening of Hildale, Utah, a town long dominated by the imprisoned fundamentalist prophet Warren Jeffs, whose influence continues to shape every aspect of life through religious control, land ownership, and fear. At the heart of the film is Do...
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The Universe of Me, Brent Everett (Canada) by Francis Luta
Bodies abound in ecstasy when you’re gay porn legend BRENT EVERETT. A muscle god whose boyish good looks have been weathered by time. Documentarians follow him to tell a story about career reinvention, but instead lead down a ten-year path of self destruction.
Running time: 01:45:00 -
Yalla, Baba! (Belgium, Lebanon, Netherlands, Qatar) by Angie Obeid
Angie (34) takes her father Mansour (74) on a roadtrip from Brussels to Beirut by car in an attempt to retrace the same path he took 42 years ago. However, the route is no longer the same, and neither is their relationship.
Running time: 01:40:00 -
Bacon’s Histories: Study for a Portrait (Germany, UK) by Martha Parsey
A motion picture artwork in 8-parts starring Francis Bacon, David Sylvester, Jeremy Irons, Sinéad Cusack, John Gielgud, Alec Guinness and Richard Burton, BACONS HISTORIES: Study for a Portrait explores the influence of the Histories on Francis Bacon's painting, from Greek drama and Egyptian sculp...
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Cosmographies (Chile) by Juan Francisco Salazar
Cosmographies is a hybrid film that draws from modes of speculative fiction, observational and poetic documentary, activism, and Indigiqueer approaches. Māori astrobiologist Xuê Noon (played by Australian/Māori artist Victoria Hunt) finds solace in Mars in 2051 as a leader from the Aotearoa Space...
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Seed (Belgium) by Dries Meddens
After his mother passed away, Dries discovers his father’s bipolarity. The care this mental illness imposes in his young adult life leaves no place for mourning over his mother’s death. Countering the way society and psychiatry crudely and ruthlessly treat his father absorbs all his attention. Ev...
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Me and the one I used to be (Argentina) by Maria Constanza Niscovolos
Adriana Lestido is a fundamental figure in Argentine photography. Her work reveals a loving and stark look at captivity, motherhood, and the most primitive basic human impulses. Over time, she strips away the human figure and approaches elements in their pure state through landscape. In "Me and W...
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Coda (Singapore) by Jac Min
An intimate portrait of Victoria Chorale, a Singaporean, alumni community choir led by Nelson Kwei, as he prepares them for a return to the international competition stage in Tokyo for the first time in 18 years. And possibly also their last ever. CODA is an observation of the relationship betwee...
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Creative Force (United States) by Alex LeMay
A feature length documentary that explores the courageous exploits of ordinary Ukrainians who channel their professional skills into acts of bold defiance, culminating in a gripping journey across a war zone to deliver vital supplies to a friend on the front lines.
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Nothing to See Here: Watts (United States) by Michael Soenen
A Defiant Act of Radical Self-Representation that Unites Enemies and Saves Lives. What happens when an outsider rides with police officers through Watts, a 2.1 square mile neighborhood in South Los Angeles, long known as one of the most violent and divided communities in the country? That night,...
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Let it Dance (Australia) by Carolyn Corkindale
Born of a poor family in Paris, Guy Detot transforms himself through passion and luck into an international ballet dancer, dancing with Pina Bausch in The Rite of Spring. Guy moves to Australia for love and originates work with Australian Dance Theatre, before being aged out of ballet and embarki...
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Where is Love? (United Kingdom) by Trojan Women Project
The extraordinary story of the first ever Arabic production of the musical Oliver! with a junior cast of Syrian refugee children, in Jordan, supported by Sir Cameron Mackintosh
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Forced Renewables (Spain) by Francisco Javier Fernández Bordonada
In Lopera, a small town in Jaén, the promise of ecological transition turns into a nightmare. Centuries-old olive groves, the legacy of generations of farmers, are being uprooted to make way for massive photovoltaic plants, in an unfair battle between powerful corporations and a community fightin...
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Hong Kong - Ga Yau (Germany) by marco di noia
Hong Kong - Ga Yau is a documentary about the protest movement that has been shaking Hong Kong since June 2019.
The movement was triggered by a proposed law that would have allowed the extraditions to mainland China of Hong Kong citizens, but soon it morphed into a larger revolt against China’s ... -
Ahab Was Here: Reflections on Moby Dick (Bulgaria) by Todor "Tosh" Lichev
“Ahab Was Here: Reflections on Moby Dick” rips away the drapes of theatrical pretense to expose the glorious mess of creation as a Bulgarian theater company tackle the white whale of literature—Melville's Moby Dick. Through intimate portraits of the director, writer, costume designer, musician, p...
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Aldo Baldin - A Life for Music (Brazil) by Yves Goulart
Aldo Baldin - A Life for Music is an operatic documentary that unfolds talented tenor Aldo Baldin as he journeyed from humble beginnings in the countryside of Brazil to becoming one of the greatest lyrical singers in the world of his time. He sang with the greatest conductors, performed in the m...