Glory of Documentary Screening Section is curated by West Lake International Documentary Festival for the purpose of cultivating audience and focusing on excellent documentaries at home and abroad through the screening of outstanding international documentaries and Q&A, presenting the academic vision, cultivating documentary audience, arousing discussions of cutting-edge topics, and helping documentaries infiltrate into people's life, so as to create a documentary art feast for the public.
2023 IDF Screenings
AFTER WORK
- Country/Area of Production： Sweden, Italy, Norway
- Language of Dialogue： English, Italian
- Runtime： 81min
- Director： Erik Gandini
- Type of Work： Feature-Length
- Producer： Jesper Kurlandsky
Introduction: Our society is a work society. From childhood weare taught to be result oriented and competitive. As automation and artificialintelligence exceed human capacity, we willbe forced to rethink the role work plays in our lives: the majority of jobs that exist today could vanish in a few decades. The debate about the consequences of this has b…
PreviewArrival of a Ship at Shitang
- Country/Area of Production： China
- Language of Dialogue： Chinese Dialect
- Runtime： 12min
- Director： ZHU Zhaohui
- Type of Work： Short
- Producer： CHEN Sifan
Introduction: Virtual Reality Achieves Realism. With twenty-four sections of VR documentary footage, it forms a twelve-minute immersive short song. The land and the coastline, the humans and the natives, the endless flow, the endless life. Thanks to the advancement of technology, we are able to update the visual language again, the scene is the story,…
PreviewFROM THE GRAND CANAL
- Country/Area of Production： China
- Language of Dialogue： Chinese
- Runtime： 57min
- Director： Jingting LIU
- Type of Work： Short
- Producer： Jiawei SHEN
Introduction: Cao Haijun and his wife, who have been sailing on the canal for many years, plan to transport. the last batch of goods this year and return home for the Chinese New Year. Due to the continuou adjustment of the unloading plan, they can only travel south all the way, and the distance from home is getting farther and farther. The closing dat…
PreviewFlower Chasers
- Country/Area of Production： China, Netherlands, USA
- Language of Dialogue： Chinese (Dialect), Mandarin
- Runtime： 27min
- Director： Zhiqi PAN
- Type of Work： Short
- Producer： Jia ZHAO
Introduction: Beekeeping is an ancient and traditional profession in China. Each spring, beekeepers are constantly on the move with their bees, their path depending on the temperature and seasonal changes, in hopes of harvesting quality honey in order to get a good financial return. But this traditional industry is facing many challenges due to factor…
PreviewMr. Tang
- Country/Area of Production： China
- Language of Dialogue： Chinese
- Runtime： 95min
- Director： SU Xia, S Hongyu
- Type of Work： Feature-Length
- Producer： WEN Sa, HU Jun
Introduction: A story about old town residents guarding their homes, and their attachment to their land. Tang Naitang is the third-generation descendant of Tang Rensen, a celebrity in Lanxi of Qing Dynasty. Having three daughters and two sons, he and his wife, Wang Baodi, had been living comfortably and peacefully in their ancestral house, No. 63 of T…
PreviewSilence in the Dust
- Country/Area of Production： Singapore, France, USA, China
- Language of Dialogue： Chinese
- Runtime： 95min
- Director： LI Wei
- Type of Work： Feature-Length
- Producer： QIU Yang, Catherine Dussart, YAN Ying
Introduction: Residing in the beautiful and peaceful mountainsof Southwest China praised by generations of poets, three sisters and brothers’ lives are however trapped by the deadly pneumoconiosis. The entire family is stuck in this seemingly endless suffering while watching their father silently vanishing from the world.
PreviewTrip To Lost Days
- Country/Area of Production： Singapore, China
- Language of Dialogue： Chinese
- Runtime： 74min
- Director： SHEN Ruilan
- Type of Work： Feature-Length
- Producer： GUO Xiaodong
Introduction: Train attendant Xiao He just quit his job anddecided to to become a monk. Sometimes inhis dreams, he would return to the train from his previous life, on never-ending rails, moving between compartments and entering the memories of the train passengers. During a late summer storm, Xiao He goes to look for a good friend who had already beco…
PreviewSay God Bye
- Country/Area of Production： Switzerland
- Language of Dialogue： French, English, German
- Runtime： 124min
- Director： Thomas Imbach
- Type of Work： Feature-Length
- Producer： Thomas Imbach, Andrea Štaka
Introduction: SAY GOD BYE tells the story of a teenager’s transformation into a filmmaker under the spell of the cineaste who has lived and worked on Lake Geneva since 1975: Jean-Luc Godard. Fascinated by the already legendary filmmaker, Thomas dreams of becoming his assistant. He writes to JLG, asking him if he could “look over his shoulder” while he …
PreviewVIVA VARDA!
- Country/Area of Production： France
- Language of Dialogue： French
- Runtime： 68min
- Director： Pierre-Henri Gibert
- Type of Work： Feature-Length
- Producer：
Introduction: Agnès Varda, iconoclastic instigator of the New Wave, reinvented what film could look like and what stories they could tell. Varda herself is an instantly recognisable figure, who we have come to know through her own lens. VIVA VARDA! reveals a brand new perspective on the influential filmmaker’s life and work, with never-before-seen arch…
PreviewJANE CAMPION, THE CINEMA WOMAN
- Country/Area of Production： France
- Language of Dialogue： French, English
- Runtime： 98min
- Director： Julie Bertuccelli
- Type of Work： Feature-Length
- Producer： Estelle Fialon – Les Films du Poisson
Introduction: A pioneer among filmmakers, Jane Campion was the first woman to win the Palme d’Or at Cannes, for THE PIANO, and this year won Best Director at the Academy Awards for THE POWER OF THE DOG. In 40 years of work, she has carved out a unique place for herself in the traditionally masculine pantheon of cinema. A visual and iconoclastic directo…
PreviewCINÉMA LAIKA
- Country/Area of Production： France, Finland
- Language of Dialogue： English, Finnish, French
- Runtime： 81min
- Director： Veljko Vidak
- Type of Work： Feature-Length
- Producer： Emmanuelle Felce, Veljko Vidak
Introduction: In a small village in Finland, which has relied solely on metallurgical activities for the past two centuries, Aki Kaurismäki and his friend, the poet and writer, Mika Lätti are constructing their own cinema theater within an old foundry. Employing recycled wood, metal, and pre- owned furniture, Kaurismäki and the residents of Karkkila co…
PreviewTIME BOMB Y2K
- Country/Area of Production： USA
- Language of Dialogue： English
- Runtime： 80 min
- Director： Brian Becker, Marley McDonald
- Type of Work： Feature-Length
- Producer： Brian Becker
Introduction: When the year 2000 approached, rumblings. spread from computer engineers to the mainstream consciousness about a ubiquitous error in computer code that could cause the. world’s computerized systems to grind to a halt. This fully archival feature (no interviews, verité, etc.) documents the countdown to Y2K against the backdrop of the mass …
PreviewKNIT’S ISLAND
- Country/Area of Production： France
- Language of Dialogue： English, French
- Runtime： 95min
- Director： Ekiem Barbier, Guilhem Causse, Quentin L’helgoualc’h
- Type of Work： Feature-Length
- Producer： Boris Garavini
Introduction: Somewhere on the Internet, there is a space of 250 square kilometres in which individuals gather in community to simulate a survivalist fiction. Under the guise of avatars, a film crew enters this place and makes contact with the ’locals’’ This mysterious, post-apocalyptic rural landscape is revealed as a meeting place, where stories, ide…
PreviewArdent Other
- Country/Area of Production： France
- Language of Dialogue： French
- Runtime： 16 min
- Director： Alice Brygo
- Type of Work： Short
- Producer： Luc-Jérôme Bailleul
Introduction: A stunned crowd faces a fire. The threat has no name, a diffuse anguish spreads. Fear needs to be conjured, fire must be turned into a sign.
PreviewPost-Soviet Symphony
- Country/Area of Production： Russia
- Language of Dialogue：
- Runtime： 11 min
- Director： Alexey Evstigneev
- Type of Work： short
- Producer： Alexander Evseev, Maxim Dobromyslov
Introduction: If architecture is “frozen music”, then the facades of houses are its score. Exploring the architecture of the post-Soviet space, we are trying to understand how this centuries-old symphony could sound and look, and most importantly, what kind of conflict it speaks to the modern viewer.
PreviewGeorge-Peterland
- Country/Area of Production： Sweden
- Language of Dialogue： Swedish
- Runtime： 15 min
- Director： Christer Wahlberg, Sebastian Rudolph Jensen
- Type of Work： Short
- Producer： Christer Wahlberg
Introduction: Five eight-year-olds founds the imaginary world ‘George-Peterland’. A dreamy forest land with. cute chickens everywhere, to which you can travel by just closing your eyes. When the school interfere and rules take over the imaginary world, it becomes a nightmare. YOU SHALL NOT EAT CHICKEN. YOU MUST LOVE YELLOW. YOU MUST BELIEVE IN THE CHIC…
PreviewSUPER NATURAL
- Country/Area of Production： Portugal
- Language of Dialogue： English, Portuguese
- Runtime： 85min
- Director： Jorge Jácome
- Type of Work： Feature-Length
- Producer： Pandora da Cunha Telles, Pablo Iraola, Ukbar Filmes, Daniela Ribeiro, Teatro Praga
Introduction: SUPER NATURAL is a film that talks and listens, that interferes and seeks out those who are beholding it. Its desire is to abandon the screen, to take a look at those who look at it, and listen to them, but also to be smelled and seen beyond what is being seen.
SUPER NATURAL is a transcendent experience occurring outside of the body, of a…
PreviewPARADISE
- Country/Area of Production： France, Switzerland
- Language of Dialogue： Yakut
- Runtime： 89min
- Director： Alexander Abaturov
- Type of Work： Feature-Length
- Producer： Rebecca Houzel, Alexander Abaturov, Luc Peter
Introduction: In the summer 2021, an exceptional heatwave and drought led to giant fires that ravaged 19 million hectares of land in northeastern Siberia. In this region at the heart of the taiga lies the village of Shologon soon to be blanketed by a thick cloud of smoke. Spread by the wind, the black ashes carry alarming news: the forest is on fire an…
PreviewHaulout
- Country/Area of Production： UK
- Language of Dialogue： Russian
- Runtime： 25 min
- Director： Evgenia Arbugaeva, Maxim Arbugaev
- Type of Work： Short
- Producer： Evgenia Arbugaeva, Maxim Arbugaev
Introduction: On a remote coast of the Siberian Arctic in a wind-battered hut, a lonely man waits to witness an ancient gathering. But warming seas and rising temperatures bring an unexpected change, and he soon finds himself overwhelmed.
PreviewNest
- Country/Area of Production： Denmark, Iceland
- Language of Dialogue： Icelandic
- Runtime： 22 min
- Director： Hlynur Pálmason
- Type of Work： Short
- Producer： Snowglobe, Join Motion Pictures
Introduction: A story of siblings building a tree house together over the course of a year. We experience the beauty and brutality of the seasons, as we follow them through their struggles and moments of joy.
PreviewThis Woman
- Country/Area of Production： Malaysia
- Language of Dialogue： Chinese
- Runtime： 90 min
- Director： Alan Zhang
- Type of Work： Feature-Length
- Producer： Yong Liao
Introduction: THIS WOMAN features the story of an ordinary woman who, at the age of 35, lost the job that she had for the previous ten years. Upon the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, she returned to hometown from Beijing to find ways of living for herself, her parents, and her child. In an effort to pursue everyday life, she navigated different inti…
PreviewKind Hearts
- Country/Area of Production： Belgium
- Language of Dialogue： Dutch
- Runtime： 87 min
- Director： Olivia Rochette, Gerard-Jan Claes
- Type of Work： Feature-Length
- Producer： Ruben Desiere
Introduction: Billie and Lucas, a young Brussels couple, both leave for university facing a year rife with change. Visions of the future, doubts about relationships and the expectations of adult life make up the main material for their conversations with friends and each other. KIND HEARTS paints a candid portrait of the formative but also uncertain fa…
PreviewAnselm
- Country/Area of Production： Germany
- Language of Dialogue： German, English
- Runtime： 93 min
- Director： Wim Wenders
- Type of Work： Feature-Length
- Producer： Karsten Brünig
Introduction: In ANSELM, Wim Wenders creates a portrait of Anselm Kiefer, one of the most innovative and important painters and sculptors of our time. Shot in 3D and 6K-resolution, the film presents a cinematic experience of the artist’s work which explores human existence and the cyclical nature of history, inspired by literature, poetry, philosophy, …
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