Producer: Crystal Kayiza
The Gardeners follows the Worthy Women of Watkins Street, keepers of one of the oldest Black cemeteries in Mississippi.
Gross National Happiness (Bhutan, Hungary)
Director: Arun Bhattarai, Dorottya Zurbó
Producer: Noémi Veronika Szakonyi, Arun Bhattarai
Amar and Gunaraj are not only close friends, but also Happiness Agents who work together for the Happiness Ministry of Bhutan travelling door to door measuring people’s happiness level while searching for their own among the remote Himalayan mountains. On their mission, they encounter various people chasing their dreams. This satirical road movie through a mosaic of different stories discovers the real desires of a society behind a national identity created by the Happiness Ministry of Bhutan, a closed country for centuries.
The first full-length film, Savvusanna s Sisters , by Anna Hints, an Estonian-French-Icelandic collaboration, has received a $40,000 production grant from the Sundance Institute Documentary Film Fund. 1,100 projects from all over the world applied for support, while 18 were shortlisted.
The producer Marianne Ostrat said that the competition for support from the Sundance Institute Documentary Fund is very intense. It is one of America s most important independent filmmaking organizations. There were 1,100 applications by filmmakers around the world. Of the 18 projects selected, only three have both film directors and producers from Europe, Ostrat said.
She added that going through such a tight selection is a huge recognition and feedback that the film is touching and its completion is considered important. A large number of documentaries supported by the Sundance Institute will be screened at the world s most important film festivals and nominated for an Oscar.
film profile], which proved a happy discovery in the 43rd Cinéma du Réel Festival’s French competition. The action unfolds in July 2018, in the French department of Landes - more specifically, in Hossegor – but a wholly Russian mindset appears to have taken over the region (and the film): This vodka is amazing, it’s so easy to drink. This is the life! When you have a vodka with someone, you immediately understand what frame of mind they’re in .
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Established in the southwest of France over a half-century ago, amidst woodland peppered with pine and silver birch trees, Sokol’s holiday camp does far more than inspire vague reminiscences in Russian families exiled long-term in France. It promises chalets resembling Russian log huts, TVs tuned into Russia-24 news, menus offering plov, buckwheat kasha, herring, borscht with chicken blintzes, and apple pirojkis for dessert, not to mention zakouskis in the evening when roun
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