Focus Brazil : Navigating the Future
In the “national jeans capital,” a small Brazilian town transformed by neoliberalism, residents share their intense work routine and dreams.
WAITING FOR THE CARNIVAL
- Marcelo Gomes
- 2019
- Brazil
- s.t. English
- 86 min
International Feature Competition
In this first feature, filmmaker Rob Rice makes his own rules, steering clear of the sensationalist and glib to produce a work of rare creative freedom.
WAY OUT AHEAD OF US
- Rob Rice
- 2022
- United States
- s.t. French
- 87 min
Panorama - Essentials
With this compelling essay, the filmmaker and theorist builds on 40 years of cinematographic work of great intellectual vitality.
WHAT ABOUT CHINA?
- Trinh T. Minh-Ha
- 2022
- United States, China
- s.t. English
- 135 min
Short and Medium-Length International Competition
Armed with courage and a restless Super 8, the filmmaker offers a moving personal essay with a masterly aesthetic, focusing on an irredeemable and painful family rift.
WILL YOU LOOK AT ME
- Shuli Huang
- 2022
- China
- s.t. English
- 20 min
UXdoc
The journey of a nine-year-old boy taken from his family and placed by force in a residential school.
WILLIAM
- Sonia Bonspille Boileau
- 2022
- Canada (Quebec)
- 30 min
Closing film
BC Hydro is building a third dam on Peace River. The First Nations living there are fighting fiercely to stop this harmful project.
WOCHIIGII LO: END OF THE PEACE
- Heather Hatch
- 2021
- Canada (British Columbia & Alberta)
- s.t. English
- 84 min
Focus Brazil : Navigating the Future
For over five centuries, colonization has appropriated Indigenous bodies, cultures, languages, and souls. Ziel Karapotó creates a ritualized reimagining of history.
THE WORD BECAME FLESH
- Ziel Karapotó
- 2019
- Brazil
- s.t. English
- 6 min