Full Body Documentary Movie Competition Proclaims its 2022 Program

Full Body introduced in the present day the movies comprising its digital 25^th Annual Full Body Documentary Movie Competition, which takes place April 7–10, 2022.  Among the many 37 movies are two world premieres, one North American premiere and three U.S. movies. 

“It’s an honor to current these 37 movies at our twenty fifth annual competition,” stated interim competition director and inventive director Sadie Tillery in a press launch. “I’m humbled by the vary of experiences revealed on display—the palpable tenderness, violence, ache, energy, vulnerability, and resolve witnessed in these works. And I’m equally moved by the dedication and artistry displayed by the filmmakers, who’ve realized these tales in really outstanding methods.”

From the press launch:

This 12 months’s competition takes place completely on-line and consists of Filmmaker Q&As, introduced by Showtime, along with movie screenings. Passes are on sale now at retailer.fullframefest.org. Single tickets to particular person movies shall be accessible for buy on Tuesday, March 29, at 11 a.m. (ET).

Whereas the four-day competition will happen completely on-line, organizers plan to current in-person programming in downtown Durham later this summer time. Three out of doors screenings are at present scheduled to happen at Durham Central Park on August 1, August 15, and August 29. Additional particulars, together with movie titles, shall be introduced within the coming months.

Full Body introduced its choice to go digital for this ’22 choice in December. Mentioned Tillery on the time, “Nothing can change the magic of screening movies collectively in a theater, but we firmly consider the choice to remain on-line for yet one more 12 months is the only option for Full Body presently. The 2021 competition demonstrated that the Full Body crew can produce a significant digital expertise amid the constraints of this second–one which issues to filmmakers, to audiences, and to us.”

The whole choice follows:

NEW DOCS  

Abyssal / France (Director: Alejandro Alonso; Producers: Alejandro Alonso, Oderay Ponce de Leon, Boris Prieto). Raudel lives and works in a ship-breaking yard within the west of Cuba. Haunted by a wierd childhood reminiscence, he’s looking out for ghostly presences. 

After Sherman / United States (Director: Jon-Sesrie Goff; Producers: blair dorosh-walther, Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich). After Sherman is a narrative about inheritance and the tensions that outline our collective American historical past. The director’s exploration of coastal South Carolina—as a web site of delight and racial trauma—by Gullah cultural retention and land preservation is interrupted by the shootings at Mom Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina. 

Aftershock / United States (Administrators: Paula Eiselt, Tonya Lewis Lee; Producers: Paula Eiselt, Tonya Lewis Lee). Following the preventable deaths of their companions attributable to childbirth issues, two bereaved fathers impress activists, birth-workers and physicians to reckon with one of the vital urgent American crises of our time—the U.S. maternal well being disaster.

BABYBANGZ / United States (Director: Juliana Kasumu; Producer: Juliana Kasumu). Anastasia Ebel, proprietor of the BABYBANGZ hair salon in Mid-Metropolis, New Orleans, displays on her persevering with need to domesticate areas of intentional reflection for each herself and her New Orleans neighborhood. 

Chernobyl: The Misplaced Tapes / United Kingdom, Ukraine (Director: James Jones; Producers: Serhiy Solodko, Sasha Odynova). The story of Chernobyl, instructed completely by a newly found hoard of dramatic footage filmed on the nuclear plant through the catastrophe and new, deeply private audio interviews with those that have been there. The movie reveals how Chernobyl and the following cover-up sparked unprecedented mistrust of the authorities, which might ultimately result in the collapse of the Soviet Union. U.S. Premiere 

Chilly & Milly / United States (Director: William D. Caballero; Producers: William D. Caballero, Elaine Del Valle). An animated documentary a couple of devoted caretaker, her chronically in poor health husband, and the facility of timeless love.

Eat Your Catfish / United States, Spain, Turkey (Administrators: Adam Isenberg, Noah Amir Arjomand, Senem Tüzen; Producers: Adam Isenberg, Noah Amir Arjomand, Senem Tüzen). Kathryn’s ALS has left her paralyzed and her household’s relationships in tatters, however she holds on to see her daughter’s marriage ceremony. With darkish humor and extraordinary intimacy, this movie probes the breakdown of a household’s bonds and of a girl’s will to stay. 

Expiration / Canada (Director: Joris Cottin; Producer: Joris Cottin). Within the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, Steeve Day has been affected by ALS for eight years and decides to name for help in dying. On the identical time, nonetheless, visits to hospitals are suspended. Steeve then rents a resort room during which to spend his final days and obtain his family members. U.S. Premiere 

Freedom Hill / United States (Director: Resita Cox; Producer: Resita Cox). Princeville, North Carolina, is the primary city integrated by freed, previously enslaved Africans in America. This historic web site sits on a precipice: It’s step by step being washed away. World Premiere 

Gabor / Canada (Director: Joannie Lafrenière; Producer: Line Sander Egede). Gabor is a unusual, feel-good portrait of Gabor Szilasi, the 94-year-old big of Canadian up to date images. This uplifting immigrant story is an inspiring lesson on how you can develop outdated with class and dignity. U.S. Premiere 

I Didn’t See You There / United States (Director: Reid Davenport; Producer: Todd Chandler). Spurred by the sight of a circus tent that goes up outdoors his Oakland residence, a disabled filmmaker launches into an unflinching meditation on spectacle, (in)visibility, and the corrosive legacy of the “freak present.” 

Kameelah Janan Rasheed: The Fringe of Legibility / United States (Director: Carrie Hawks; Producer: Art21; Collection Producer: Nick Ravich). Immersed in books since childhood, acclaimed text-based artist Kameelah Janan Rasheed is fascinated by the written phrase and its energy to each outline and destabilize how we perceive the world. With a close-up fashion mirroring Kameelah’s personal preoccupation with the fragmentary and barely legible, this movie explores the artist’s expansive concepts and miniaturist course of in her Brooklyn dwelling studio. 

Let the Little Gentle Shine / United States (Director: Kevin Shaw; Producers: Kevin Shaw, Rachel Dickson). A top-ranked elementary faculty in Chicago’s quickest rising neighborhood is a beacon for Black youngsters till gentrification threatens its closure: When an effort emerges to rework the Nationwide Academics Academy right into a highschool benefitting the neighborhood’s wealthier residents, mother and father, college students, and educators struggle to save lots of their beloved faculty.  

Mama Bears / United States (Director: Daresha Kyi; Producers: Laura Tatham, Daresha Kyi). This movie is an intimate, thought-provoking exploration of the journeys taken by Sara Cunningham and Kimberly Shappley, two “mama bears”—conservative, Christian moms whose profound love for his or her LGBTQ+ youngsters has turned them into fierce advocates for all the queer neighborhood—and Tammi Terrell Morris, a younger African American lesbian whose battle for self-acceptance exemplifies why the mama bears are so vitally essential. 

The Martha Mitchell Impact / United States (Administrators: Anne Alvergue, Debra McClutchy; Producers: Beth Levison, Judith Mizrachy). She was as soon as as well-known as Jackie O, after which she tried to take down a president. Martha Mitchell was the unlikeliest of whistleblowers: a Republican spouse who was discredited by Nixon to maintain her quiet. Till now.

Meantime / United States (Director: Michael T Workman; Producer: Michael T Workman). After Tim’s work-related stroke results in troubling indicators of reminiscence loss, his son Michael returns dwelling to Montana. As they spend time collectively, probably the most since Michael’s childhood, they reckon with the previous that haunts Tim. Meantime is a deeply private exploration of reminiscence, guilt, labor, and the try to protect the fleeting. 

Mija / United States (Director: Isabel Castro; Producers: Isabel Castro, Tabs Breese). Doris Muñoz is an formidable younger music supervisor whose undocumented household relies on her capability to launch pop stars. When she loses her largest consumer, Doris hustles to find new expertise and finds Jacks—one other daughter of immigrants for whom “making it” isn’t only a dream, it’s a necessity. 

Transfer Me / United States (Administrators: Kelsey Peterson, Daniel Klein; Producers: Kelsey Peterson, Daniel Klein). At 27, Kelsey Peterson, the movie’s co-director, dove into Lake Superior and emerged paralyzed. Now, the previous dancer has a chance to bounce once more however is grappling with a call to take part in a cutting-edge scientific trial, which forces her to confront hope and acceptance, physique and spirit. World Premiere 

Night time Journey / New Zealand (Director: Todd Karehana; Producer: Samantha Dutton). When a mom of ten returns every evening to the outdated household dwelling to feed stray cats, her son questions the connection of those visits to the demise of his brother.

No Soy Óscar / United States, Mexico (Director: Jon Ayon; Producer: Emily R Smith). A primary-generation Latinx father journeys by unceded lands within the border areas between the U.S. and Mexico in quest of the place the place Óscar Alberto Martínez Ramírez and his younger daughter, Angie Valeria, drowned. 

The Panola Undertaking / United States (Administrators: Rachael DeCruz, Jeremy S. Levine; Producers: Rachael DeCruz, Jeremy S. Levine, Yara Bishara, Melissa Fajardo). The Panola Undertaking chronicles the journey of Dorothy Oliver to get the folks of her small city of Panola, Alabama, vaccinated. Almost 99 p.c of Panola’s adults have now acquired the shot in a state with one of many lowest vaccination charges within the U.S. The movie illuminates how an often-overlooked rural Black neighborhood comes collectively in artistic methods to outlive. 

Paper Metropolis / Australia, Japan (Director: Adrian Francis; Producer: Melanie Brunt). In 1945, the U.S. firebombed Tokyo, destroying 1 / 4 of town and killing 100,000 folks. Now, in a society that’s quickly forgetting, three aged survivors struggle to go away behind a public document of their experiences. Paper Metropolis explores what we select to recollect, and purpose to overlook—and the implications of these decisions. 

The Silent Shore / France (Administrators: Nathalie Giraud, Timothée Corteggiani; Producers: Anne Bruneau, Nathalie Giraud, Timothée Corteggiani). Well-known fantasy creator Pierre Dubois and his spouse, Aline, speak concerning the lack of their teenage daughter, Melanie, who dedicated suicide after a heartbreak. 

 Soldat Ahmet / Austria (Director: Jannis Lenz; Producers: David Bohun, Lixi Frank). Ahmet, a champion boxer with Turkish roots and an expert soldier within the Austrian military, begins taking performing classes. Onstage, he comes head to head along with his personal inner battles. North American Premiere 

The Territory / Brazil, Denmark, United States (Director: Alex Pritz; Producers: Will N. Miller, Sigrid Dyekjær, Lizzie Gillett, Darren Aronofsky). When a community of Brazilian farmers seizes an space of protected Indigenous territory, a younger Indigenous chief and his mentor should discover new methods to struggle again.

To Know Her / United States, Hong Kong (Director: Natalie A. Chao; Producer: Natalie A. Chao). Filmed a long time aside on the identical miniDV camcorder, To Know Her is a poetic exploration of a household’s relationship with the filmmaker’s mom.

Video Go to / United States (Director: Malika Zouhali-Worrall; Producer: Malika Zouhali-Worrall). Every week, scores of individuals go to the Brooklyn Public Library to see their incarcerated family members by way of free video calls. Video Go to tells the story of two moms and their sons, in addition to the librarians who negotiate each day to maintain the households related. 

We Met in Digital Actuality / United Kingdom (Director: Joe Looking; Producer: Joe Looking). Filmed completely inside a VR world, this vérité documentary captures the joy and stunning intimacy of a burgeoning cultural motion, demonstrating the facility of on-line connection in an remoted world.

What We Go away Behind / United States, Mexico (Director: Iliana Sosa; Producers: Emma D. Miller, Iliana Sosa).After a lifetime of bus rides to the U.S. to go to his youngsters, Julián quietly begins constructing a home in rural Mexico. In filming his work, his granddaughter crafts a private and poetic love letter to him and his homeland. 

ᎤᏕᏲᏅ (What They’ve Been Taught) / United States (Director: Brit Hensel; Producers: Taylor Hensel, Adam Mazo, Kavita Pillay, Tracy Rector). Filmed on the Qualla Boundary and Cherokee Nation, ᎤᏕᏲᏅ (What They’ve Been Taught) explores expressions of reciprocity within the Cherokee world, that are delivered to life by an elder and first language speaker’s story. Circling an intersection of custom, language, and land, with a dedication to sustaining steadiness, this movie was created in collaboration with impartial artists from each the Cherokee Nation and the Japanese Band of Cherokee Indians. 

INVITED PROGRAM 

1970 / Poland (Director: Tomasz Wolski; Producer: Anna Gawlita). 1970: Hanging staff in communist Poland are demonstrating towards value will increase. Violent authorities repression grows because the revolt intensifies. Utilizing stop-motion animation to deliver phone recordings to life, Tomasz Wolski has composed a extremely exact and prodigious movie that appears at labor and riot from the angle of the oppressors.

Accepted / United States (Director: Dan Chen; Producers: Jason Y. Lee, Dan Chen, Jesse Einstein, Mark Monroe). 4 highschool seniors in rural Louisiana are pushed to their breaking level at T.M. Landry, an unconventional faculty well-known for sending its graduates to elite universities. 

The Exiles / United States, Taiwan, France, China (Administrators: Violet Columbus, Ben Klein; Producers: Maria Chiu, Violet Columbus, Ben Klein). Documentarian Christine Choy tracks down three exiled dissidents from the Tiananmen Sq. bloodbath with a view to discover closure on a movie she started taking pictures in 1989 however then deserted.

Navalny / United States (Director: Daniel Roher; Producers: Diane Becker, Melanie Miller, Shane Boris, Odessa Rae). Enthralling and intimate, Navalny unfolds with the tempo of a thriller because it follows Russian opposition chief Alexei Navalny in his quest to determine the boys who poisoned him in August 2020. Providing extraordinary entry to the investigation, the movie can also be a research of Navalny the person—a pacesetter intent on reform who is not going to be cowed by something.

Skate Desires / United States, Japan, Cambodia (Director: Jessica Edwards; Producers: Erin Owens, Jessica Edwards). Skate Desires, the primary characteristic documentary concerning the rise of ladies’s skateboarding, profiles a gaggle of ladies whose pursuit of self-expression, equality, and freedom have created a global motion of independence and empowerment. 

Keep Prayed Up / United States (Administrators: D.L. Anderson, Matt Durning; Producers: Shirlette Ammons, D.L. Anderson, Mikel Barton, Phil Prepare dinner, Matt Durning, Leslie Raymond, Lena C. Williams). The one factor mightier than Lena Mae Perry’s electrifying voice is her religion. She’s spent the final 50 years because the steadfast bandleader of The Branchettes, a legendary North Carolina gospel group. This spirited celebration invitations audiences into “Mom” Perry’s close-knit neighborhood because the 82-year-old strives to increase The Branchettes’ sacred music ministry ever ahead.

Unseen Skies / United States (Director: Yaara Bou Melhem; Producer: Yaara Bou Melhem). Director Yaara Bou Melhem’s Unseen Skies explores the evolution of state and company surveillance. Her docu-journey follows celebrated visionary artist Trevor Paglen on one in all his most audacious initiatives thus far—the launching of an art work into house to indicate that our skies are greater than the unique playground of the military-industrial advanced.