DOXA: Guest curators for French French and Trumped! Now What?
DOXA Documentary Film Festival 2017: Curated Programs
DOXA has two extraordinary guest curators this year: Thierry Garrel (French French) and David Beers (Trumped! Now What?).
David Beers (founder of The Tyee) selected three films that give context and meaning to our current electoral moment. Ada for Mayor follows fiery housing activist Ada Colau who became the mayor of Barcelona. PACmen is an inside peek into the political campaign of Dr. Ben Carson, who briefly polled ahead of Donald Trump in the 2015 run for the Republican nomination. Jacob Smth’s Waking the Sleeping Giant follows an intersectional coalition of activists, politicians and ordinary people fighting for genuine democracy.
DOXA is very proud to offer this, our third, and very special edition of French French with six new films, and a program of the work of the most seminal filmmaker Chris Marker including Chris Marker Never Explain, Never Complain, a new film portrait from Jean-Marie Barbe and Arnaud Lambert.
Additional films include Claire Simon’s Le Concours, an in-depth and intimate look at the students looking to gain a place in La Fémis, one of the most famous and prestigious film schools in the world. Jérôme Clément-Wilz’s Être-Cheval (Horse-Being) examines the experience of a transgender ex-schoolteacher named Karen who submits to the rigorous training of ‘Pony Play”. Anthropologist and filmmaker Eliane de Latour tenderly captures the life of the Go (sex workers) in the ghettos of Abidjan in Little Go Girls.
Along the sidewalks and cafés of Seine-Saint- Denis, groups of young men talk about love, desire, sex, and race in Alice Diop’s Vers la tendresse. Brûle la mer follows the plight of Maki and his two brothers, who fled Tunisia after the 2011 Jasmine Revolution. The Parisian suburb of Aulnay-sous-Bois garnered international attention after the violence and rioting of 2005. Director Olivier Babinet spent more than three years working with a dozen teen residents, posing questions about family and relationships, hopes and dreams in Swagger.
DOXA Documentary Film Festival runs May 4 –14, 2017. Tickets are available online HERE. DOXA is presented by The Documentary Media society, a Vancouver-based non-profit, charitable society.
