20. IFF Watch Docs: About Dignity in Old Age
For Soda, the prism of the camera is a tool for learning about the world from the level of carte blanche, from the level of a child looking at it with senses and emotions, not experience.
For Soda, the prism of the camera is a tool for learning about the world from the level of carte blanche, from the level of a child looking at it with senses and emotions, not experience.
Bahman Kiarostami, son of the prominent Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami, who died a few years ago, fulfills the principles of cinema-as-eye in his “Exodus”. Here he grabs the camera and simply – observes people. From this unusually simple and natural, as it seems, act of observation results very much.
In “The Border Fence” one can see better than anywhere else, how strongly the natural, as it seems, desire to help people who lost home clashes with subcutaneous fear of the Other fueled by the media and regulated by law…
Pozdorovkin’s film cleanses human consciences, blaming technological progress for all evil that employees whose rights are limited, must endure.
Maing’s goal was to draw public attention to the problem of the quota system of policy the New York’s police force.