Endeavours Documentary Film Festival returns this May, showcasing some of the best documentaries from around the world.
Films include the 2015's Oscar winner for Best Documentary - 'Citizenfour'!
Endeavours Documentary Film Festival 2015
Date: 13 - 17 May 2015
Venues:
- The Arts House
- The Projector
(Check of the full festival lineup here!)
Festival Highlights:
- Citizenfour (14 May, Thursday, 1930 at The Projector)
The Academy Award winner for Best Documentary Feature in 2015 tells a story about a filmmaker Laura Poitras and journalist Glenn Greenwald’s encounters with Edward Snowden in Hong Kong, as he hands over classified documents providing evidence of mass indiscriminate and illegal invasions of privacy by the National Security Agency (NSA).
- Red Army (15 May, Friday, 1930 at The Projector)
Red Army is a feature documentary about the Soviet Union and the most successful dynasty in sports history: the Red Army hockey team. Told from the perspective of its captain Slava Fetisov, the story portrays his transformation from national hero to political enemy. From the USSR to Russia, the film examines how sport mirrors social and cultural movements and parallels. The film was screened at the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and the New York Film Festival.
- Tomorrow We Disappear (15 May, Friday, 2100 at The Arts House)
At first glance, the Kathputli Colony looks like any other Indian slum. Flies swarm its putrid canals. Children climb on drooping electrical wires. Construction cranes and an ever-expanding metro line loom on the horizon. But Kathputli is a place of fading traditions. For half a century 2,800 artist families have called its narrow alleyways home; there are jugglers and acrobats, puppeteers and painters, folk singers and magicians, many of whom are well respected artists in India and abroad. In 2009 the New Delhi government sold Kathputli to developers for a fraction of its worth. The land is to be bulldozed to make room for the city’s first-ever skyscraper, The Raheja Phoenix.
We follow three of Kathputli’s most-talented performers as they wrangle with the reality of their approaching eviction. The story begins with the fate of thousands of marginalized performers in Delhi, India. The film chronicles a turning point in the lives of these performers, with the hopes of anticipating what’s to come in India’s future and preserving what’s being left behind.
- The Last Man On the Moon (16 May, Saturday, 1930 at The Projector)
When Apollo astronaut Eugene Cernan stepped off the moon in 1972, he left his footprints and his daughter's initials in the lunar dust. Only now, forty years later, is he ready to share his epic but deeply personal story. Cernan's burning ambition carried him to the spectacular and hazardous environment of space and to the moon. But there was a heavy price to pay for the fame and privilege that followed. 'The Last Man on the Moon' combines rare archive material, compelling Visual FX and unprecedented access to present an iconic historical character on the big screen.