Christchurch Programme International Competition
DOCNZ’s official selection of international documentaries competing for top honours in Best International Feature, Best International Medium and Best International Short.
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The 11th HourUSA Leonardo DiCaprio’s The 11th Hour looks at the state of the global environment including visionary and practical solutions for restoring the planet’s ecosystems.
Civil StatusRussia The most significant events of people’s lives — wedding, divorce, birth and death — encountered in the everyday routine of a registry office.
Description of a MemoryIsrael Nearly 50 years after Chris Marker’s 1960 impressionist film about Israel, "Description d'un combat", Dan Geva creates a new cinematic dialogue with the original…
FreeheldUSA Lieutenant Laurel Hester, a dying New Jersey police officer, fights to transfer her pension to her domestic partner, Stacie Andree.
The Importance of Being MLABRIDenmark/Thailand The outside world is closing in on the Mlabri, who have kept their identity and language alive in Northern Thailand. How will they adapt in an ever-modernising country?
Jerusalem is Proud to PresentIsrael Plans for World Gay Pride events in Jerusalem cause a rift in the city with the LGBT community on one side, and Jewish, Muslim & Christian religious leaders on the…
JR: Street ExpoThe Netherlands JR — Street Expo follows French documentary photographer JR as he photographs the Paris ghettoes, and brightens up the streets by illegally pasting posters of his…
Knee DeepUSA At 11, Josh was put to work full-time on the family farm and promised that will all be his later. When Dad died and Mum decided otherwise, murder came to mind...
Lost in LiberiaGermany/Switzerland A young expat is sent by the Red Cross to Liberia in Western Africa, and tries to reunite parents with their children who got separated during the civil war.
My Daughter the TerroristNorway What makes anyone want to blow themselves up for a cause? We join two Sri Lankan female soldiers and share their dreams, childhood experiences and their families’…
