Oliver Stone’s controversial South American film “South of the Border,” the Afghanistan-set Sundance favorite “Restrepo” and Davis Guggenheim’s “Waiting for ‘Superman’” are among the films that will be presented at June’s Silverdocs Documentary Festival, one of the key annual showcases for nonfiction filmmaking.
The opening night attraction at the Washington, DC festival will be “Freakonomics,” a collaborative film that features contributions from noted documentary filmmakers Alex Gibney, Morgan Spurlock, Eugene Jarecki, Rachel Grady and Heidi Ewing, and Seth Gordon.
The AFI-Discovery Channel Silverdocs Documentary Festival will take place from June 21 through June 27 in and around Washington. Its 102 films, representing 54 countries, were chosen from more than 2,000 submissions.
The festival will also include a retrospective of films from Guggenheim honoree Frederick Wiseman; it runs concurrently with the International Documentary Conference.
Films will screen in five different sections: Sterling US Feature Competition, Sterling World Feature Competition, Sterling Short Film Competition, Silver Spectrum and Spotlight Programs.
More information is available at http://silverdocs.com/
The full program:
SPOTLIGHT PROGRAMS
Monday, June 21:
OPENING NIGHT: FREAKONOMICS Alex Gibney, Morgan Spurlock, Eugene Jarecki, Rachel Grady and Heidi Ewing, and Seth Gordon.
Tuesday, June 22:
WAR DON DON and HOLYWARS
MICROCOSMOS (1996) Claude Nuridsany and Marie Pérennou.
Wednesday, June 23:
SPOTLIGHT FILM: SOUTH OF THE BORDER Oliver Stone (above)
CENTERPIECE SCREENING: WAITING FOR "SUPERMAN" Davis Guggenheim
Thursday, June 24:
The Charles Guggenheim Symposium celebrates Frederick.
Discussion with Wiseman moderated by filmmaker Davis Guggenheim.
Friday, June 25:
WORLD PREMIERE: ON COAL RIVER
SPOTLIGHT FILM: STONES IN EXILE Stephen Kijak
Saturday, June 26:
SPOTLIGHT FILM: UTOPIA IN FOUR MOVEMENTS
WORLD PREMIERE: THE DISAPPEARANCE OF MCKINLEY NOLAN
CLOSING NIGHT: THE TILLMAN STORY Amir Bar-Lev
SILVER SPECTRUM
BARBERSHOP PUNK / USA, 2010, 83 minutes (Directors: Georgia Sugimura Archer and Kristin Armfield
BILL CUNNINGHAM NEW YORK / USA, 2010, 84 minutes (Director: Richard Press
THE DEVILLES / Denmark, 2009, 56 minutes (Director: Nicole Horanyi
FAMILY AFFAIR / USA, 2010, 80 minutes (Director: Chico Colvard
FREEDOM RIDERS / USA, 2009, 113 minutes (Director: Stanley Nelson
GOODBYE, HOW ARE YOU? / Serbia/Montenegro, 2009, 60 minutes (Director: Boris Mitic)
GRACE, MILLY, LUCY… CHILD SOLDIERS / Canada, 2010, 73 minutes (Director: Raymonde Provencher)
HIS & HERS / Ireland, 2009, 80 minutes (Director: Ken Wardrop)
THE INVENTION OF DR. NAKAMATS / Denmark, 2010, 57 minutes (Director: Kaspar Astrup Schtoder)
LA ISLA-ARCHIVES OF A TRAGEDY / Germany/Guatemala, 2010, 85 minutes (Director: Uli Stelzner)
LAST TRAIN HOME / Canada, 2009, 87 minutes (Director: Lixin Fan)
LIVING ROOM OF THE NATION / Finland, 2009, 74 minutes (Director: Jukka Kärkkäinen)
MAKING THE BOYS / USA, 2009, 90 minutes (Director: Crayton Robey)
MARWENCOL / USA, 2010, 88 minutes (Director: Jeff Maimberg)
MEN WHO SWIM / Sweden, 2010, 56 minutes (Director: Dylan Williams)
MY SO CALLED ENEMY / USA, 2010, 87 minutes (Director: Lisa Gossels)
THE OTHER CITY / USA, 2009, 93 minutes (Director: Susan Koch)
THE PEOPLE VS. GEORGE LUCAS / USA, 2010, 97 minutes (Director: Alexandre O. Philippe)
THE RED CHAPEL / Denmark, 2009, 87 minutes (Director: Mads Brügger)
RESTREPO / USA, 2010, 93 minutes (Directors: Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington)
RIDE, RISE, ROAR / USA, 2010, 87 minutes (Director: David Hillman Curtis)
SECRETS OF THE TRIBE / UK/Brazil/Venezuela, 2010, 96 minutes (Director: Jose Padiha)
SOUTH OF THE BORDER / USA, 2009, 78 minutes (Director: Oliver Stone)
STONES IN EXILE / UK, 2010, 61 minutes (Director: Stephen Kijak)
UTOPIA IN FOUR MOVEMENTS / USA, 2010, 75 minutes (Directors: Sam Green and Dave Cerf)
WAR DON DON / Sierra Leone, 2010, 85 minutes (Director: Rebecca Richman Cohen)
WASTE LAND / UK/Brazil, 2010, 95 minutes (Director: Lucy Walker)
WE DON’T CARE ABOUT MUSIC ANYWAY… / France/Japan, 2009, 80 minutes (Director: Cédric Dupire)
THE WOODMANS / China/Italy/USA, 2010, 82 minutes (Director: C. Scott Willis)
USIP "PEACEBUILDING ON SCREEN" STRAND
BUDRUS / Israel/Palestinian Territories/USA, 2009, 82 minutes (Director: Julia Bacha)
FOUND / Canada, 2009, 6 minutes (Director: Paramita Nath)
GRACE, MILLY, LUCY… CHILD SOLDIERS / Canada, 2010, 73 minutes (Director: Raymonde Provencher)
LA ISLA-ARCHIVES OF A TRAGEDY / Germany/Guatemala, 2010, 85 minutes (Director: Uli Stelzner)
MY SO CALLED ENEMY / USA, 2010, 87 minutes (Director: Lisa Gossels)
WAR DON DON / Sierra Leone, 2010, 85 minutes (Director: Rebecca Richman Cohen)
WISEMAN RETROSPECTIVE PROGRAM
BASIC TRAINING / 1971, 89 minutes (Director: Frederick Wiseman)
BLIND / 1986, 132 minutes (Director: Frederick Wiseman)
CENTRAL PARK / 1989, 176 minutes (Director: Frederick Wiseman)
MODEL / 1980, 129 minutes (Director: Frederick Wiseman)
SINAI FIELD MISSION / 1978, 127 minutes (Director: Frederick Wiseman)
WELFARE / 1975, 167 minutes (Director: Frederick Wiseman)
STERLING US FEATURE COMPETITION
BEYOND THIS PLACE / Switzerland, 2010, 92 minutes (Director: Kaleo La Belle)
CAMERA, CAMERA / USA/Laos, 2009, 60 minutes (Director: Malcolm Murray)
CIRCO / Mexico/USA, 2010, 75 minutes (Director: Aaron Schock)
THE DISAPPEARANCE OF MCKINLEY NOLAN / USA/Cambodia/Vietnam, 2010, 85 minutes (Director: Henry Corra)
HOLYWARS / UK/Spain, 2009, 72 minutes (Director: Stephen Marshall)
THE KIDS GROW UP / USA, 2009, 91 minutes (Director Doug Block)
MONICA AND DAVID / USA, 2009, 67 minutes (Director: Alexandra Codina)
MY PERESTROIKA / USA/UK/Russia, 2010, 87 minutes (Director: Robin Hessman)
ON COAL RIVER / USA, 2010, 81 minutes (Directors: Francine Cavanaugh and Adams Wood)
SONS OF PERDITION / USA, 2010, 85 minutes (Directors: Tyler Measom and Jennilyn Merten)
WO AI NI MOMMY (I LOVE YOU MOMMY) / China/USA, 2009, 76 minutes (Director: Stephanie Wang-Breal)
STERLING WORLD FEATURE COMPETITON
THE ARRIVALS / France/French Embassy, (2009), 111 minutes (Directors: Claudine Bories and Patrice Chagnard)
AS LILITH / Israel, 2009, 78 minutes (Director: Eytan Harris)
BUDRUS / Israel/Palestinian Territories/USA, 2009, 81 minutes (Director: Julia Bacha)
FAMILIA / Sweden/Peru/Spain, 2010, 82 minutes (Directors: Mikael Wiström and Alberto Herskovits)
A FILM UNFINISHED / Germany/Israel, 2009, 87 minutes (Director: Yael Hersonski)
INTO ETERNITY / Finland, (2010), 73 minutes (Director: Michael Madsen)
PRESUMED GUILTY / Mexico, 2009, 92 minutes (Directors: Roberto Hernández and Geoffrey Smith)
REGRETTERS / Sweden, 2010, 59 minutes (Director: Marcus Lindeen)
SPACE TOURISTS / Switzerland, 2009, 98 minutes (Director: Christian Frei)
STEAM OF LIFE / Finland, 2010, 82 minutes (Director: Joonas Berghāll and Mika Hotakainen)
THE WOMAN WITH THE FIVE ELEPHANTS / Germany/Switzerland/Ukraine, 2009, 92 minutes (Director: Vadim Jeydrenko)
STERLING SHORT COMPETITION
ALBERT’S WINTER / Denmark, 2009, 30 minutes (Director: Andreas Koefad)
ARIRANG – LETTER TO BARACK / Germany/North Korea, 2010, 8 minutes (Director: Gerd Konrad)
ARSY-VERSY / Slovakia, 2009, 24 minutes (Director Miro Remo)
BETWEEN DREAMS / Finland/France/Russian Federation, 2009, 11 minutes (Director: Iris Olsson)
BIG BIRDING DAY / USA, 2010, 13 minutes (Director: David Wilson)
BORN SWEET / USA/Cambodia, 2010, 28 minutes (Director: Cynthia Wade)
BYE BYE NOW / Ireland, 2009, 15 minutes (Director: Aideen O’Sullivan)
CORNER PLOT / USA, 2010, 11 minutes (Director: Ian Cook)
THE DARKNESS OF DAY / USA, 2009, 25 minutes (Director:Jay Rosenblatt)
THE FAUX REAL / USA, 2010, 21 minutes (Director: Suzanne Hillinger)
FLAWED / Canada, 2010, 12 minutes Director: (Andrea Dorfman)
FOUND / Canada, 2009, 6 minutes (Director: Paramita Nath)
THE HERD / Ireland, 2008, 4 minutes (Director: Ken Wardrop)
HOLDING STILL / Germany/USA, 2010, 26 minutes (Director:Florian Riegel)
THE HOUSEKEEPER / Scotland, 2009, 13 minutes (Director: Tali Yankelevich)
IF THESE WALLS COULD TALK / Ireland, 2009, 12 minutes (Director: Anna Rodgers)
I’M JUST ANNEKE / USA, 2010, 11 minutes (Director: Jonathan Skurnik)
KEEP DANCING / USA, 2010, 21 minutes (Director: Greg Vander Veer)
LAST ADDRESS /USA, 2009, 9 minutes (Director: Ira Sachs)
LIES / Sweden, 2009, 13 minutes (Director: Jonas Odell)
LISTENING TO THE SILENCES / UK, 2009, 11 minutes (Director: Pedro Flores)
MARIA’S WAY / Scotland/Spain, 2009, 15 minutes (Director: Anne Milne)
MISSED CONNECTIONS / USA, 2010, 9 minutes (Director: Mary Robertson)
A MOTH IN SPRING / USA/Canada, 2010, 26 minutes (Director: Yu Gu)
MRS BIRK’S SUNDAY ROAST / UK, 2009, 6 minutes (Director: Kyoko Miyake)
NOTES ON THE OTHER / Spain, 2009, 13 minutes (Director: Sergio Oksman)
ON THE RUN WITH ABDUL / UK/France, 2009, 24 Minutes (Directors: James Newton, Kristian Hove Sorensen and David Lalé)
OVERNIGHT STAY / USA, 2009, 9 minutes (Director: Daniela Sherer)
PARA FUERA: PORTRAIT OF DR RICHARD J BING / USA, 2010, 9 minutes (Director: Nicholas Jasenovec)
PLASTIC AND GLASS / France, 2009, 9 minutes (Director: Tessa Joosse)
THE POODLE TRAINER / USA/Russia, 2009, 8 minutes (Director: Vance Malone)
PRAYERS FOR PEACE/ USA, 2009, 8 minutes (Director: Dustin Grella)
QUADRANGLE / USA, 2010, 20 minutes (Director: Amy Grappell)
SELTZER WORKS/ USA, 2010, 7 minutes (Director: Jessica Edwards)
THEY ARE GIANTS / Netherlands, 2009, 13 minutes (Director: Koert Davidse)
THIS CHAIR IS NOT ME /UK, 2010, 10 minutes (Director: Andy Taylor Smith)
TRASH-OUT /USA, 6 minutes (Director: Maria Fortiz-Morse)
UNEARTHING THE PEN / UK/Uganda, 2009, 12 minutes (Director: Carol Salter)
THE VEIL / Italy, 2009, 18 minutes (Director: Mattia Colombo)
WORLD CHAMPION / Estonia, 2009, 35 minutes (Director: Moonika Siimets)
