Best Documentary Feature Film, 2008
Kantata Takwa
Originally filmed in 1991 but completed only in 2008, this is a poetic film in which a number of Indonesian artists bear witness to events…
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Filmed during the massive Israeli war on Lebanon in the summer of 2006, 33 Days follows the real-life stories of four people: a theatre director working with children who take shelter in a theatre after their homes are destroyed, a frontline journalist struggling to cover the war from a television station under fire, an aid worker coordinating emergency relief efforts for thousands of displaced people, and a news-desk director trying to cope not only with the war but with her new-born baby.
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