Documentary Films - Venice Film Week
The Venice Film Week is an annual week-long event showcasing independent films with an edge. The event was created by independent filmmakers, for independent filmmakers, with the sole purpose to showcase and screen new and upcoming talent.
Running during, but independent from the Venice Film Festival (Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica), the Venice Film Week focuses on the unconventional, the unusual, the underground, the intuitive, the innovative, the minimalistic and the true artists of our time.
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Eîdòn (Italy) by Simone Bardi
From the depths of memory, a mysterious voice recounts the triumphs and growing shadows of the Po Delta, where a balance has been broken, perhaps forever. Amidst the mists of the past and the uncertainties of the present, the ecological resilience of a family of fishermen from the Sacca di Scardo...
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Ottilie Moore’s Protégé Charlotte Salomon (United States) by Dana Plays
Charlotte Salomon embarked on the creation of widely eccentric artistic endeavor to save her own life after learning she was the sole survivor of her maternal line all of whom committed suicide. That endeavor was Life? or Theater? – an epic autobiographical work of art created by German-Jewish a...
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Darlings of Fortune (Austria) by Melike Yağız-Baxant
The German word "Glück" can be translated as luck, happiness and fortune. But are they synonymous? Do we really need luck to be happy? Is fortune something we find or something we create? Is happiness sufficient by itself? These questions are handled by a group of teenagers of the Sir Karl Poppe...