COMMUNITY SCREENING OF AWARD - WINNING FILMS

DOCUMENTARIES 2

Prizes will be awarded after the screening!

A community film screening means that in addition to the screening and discussion, members of the jury asked incoming filmmakers to present their country’s culture in some other way (e.g., typical drink or food, music, dance, singing, etc.).

Céline Rouzet

(FRA):                          

A Distant Thud In The Jungle

85 min.

(2020)                            

trailer               

The rough highlands of Papua New Guinea have become the land of plenty for tourists in search of exoticism and foreign oil companies looking for new fields. Tribes get paid to dress up for visitors while a local Huli family and their clan have agreed to sell their land to ExxonMobil with dreams of modernity. But the money never comes and they are now caught between rival tribes, greedy politicians and one of the most powerful multinationals in the world. Tourists point their cameras on dances that have lost their meaning. And a world is disappearing without a sound.