2010 Festival Highlights
How I Filmed the War
One the most successful films ever made, The Battle of the Somme, shot and edited by Geoffrey H. Malins during the First World War, is brilliantly decoded in this riveting experimental doc that unravels fascinating secrets and manipulations. A compelling contemplation of the ownership of history plays out on intertitles taken from excerpts of Malins’s controversial autobiography juxtaposed with conflicting historical accounts and emotionally devastating clips from the original film. Dispatched to the front as Britain’s “Official Kinematographer,” Malins filmed from the muddy trenches to capture the valour and...
The "Socalled" Movie
If Woody Allen and Lil Wayne had a love child it would be Josh Dolgin, a.k.a. "Socalled". Hip-hop meets klezmer music in this kaleidoscopic portrait of the unstoppable gay musician, magician, songwriter, visual artist, and filmmaker.
The Woman with the 5 Elephants
Great writers create text that moves; great translators inhabit that movement. At 85, Swetlana Geier is the leading translator of Dostoyevsky into German. Inexhaustible and independent, she weaves stories that unlock the secrets of her craft.
General Orders No. 9
A stunning and accomplished work, this experimental doc contemplates the signs of loss and transformation in the American South as potent metaphors for personal and collective destiny.
American Radical: the Trials of Norman Finkelstein
As a devoted son of Holocaust survivors, a disgraced academic, and a fierce critic of Israeli policy, it’s never been easy for Professor Norman Finkelstein. This intimate portrait captures the lonely fight of this passionate and complex provocateur.
