FestivalMillennium Docs Against Gravity was born from a dream of an event presenting the best documentary films in our country. After 20 years, it can be said that this dream has come true. The festival became a platform for exchanging different thoughts, views and views on the world," said the festival manager Arthur Liebhart during the beginning gala.
What will we see in 10 days on large screens (12-21 May)? Further follow-up of the subjective review of the civilian Affairs Week.
We've written about titles of 20 years and about the Main Competition. Here is another category – Amnesty global Award. And a fewer selected stories about human rights, the threat of life, freedom, dignity, happiness.
War: Ukraine and the Balkans
Information and reports from the war in Ukraine scope us all day. However, Eastern Front offers different materials and a unique look at this tragedy. A look at Yevhen's eyes, a associate of the Ukrainian wellness battalion "The Hospitals". It consists of volunteers. It was created in 2014, with about a 1000 people. The battalion carries first aid to combat soldiers, evacuates them to hospitals.
Eastern Front, photograph 20. MDAG 2023From the start of the war, Evhen recorded everything around. First bombs falling on Kiev, hundreds of thousands of refugees, friends with whom he went into the army. The first six months of war are full of tragedy that unfolds around it.
In the dramas of another war, in the Balkans, he introduces the movie ‘Investigators’. Vladimir Dzuro was the first investigator of the Hague Court to analyse war crimes in the erstwhile Yugoslavia. 30 years ago, he collected evidence against the perpetrators of cultural cleansing.
We'll meet the people who survived the massacre. We'll know their impressions, their stories. How did they remember what happened?
Regime: North Korea
Human suffering and tragedies are connected with the communicative of refugees from North Korea – “Escape from utopia”. Materials twisted with a hidden camera, honest conversations show the governments of Kim Jong Un as a government based on brainwashing, cruelty, torture, isolation and propaganda.
The Ro family, including tiny children and grandmother, thanks to the aid of Pastor Seungeun Kim, embarks across the Jal River and Chinese mountains to Thailand. Soyeon Lee tries to bring his boy from North Korea to South Korea, where he lives...
How does a dictator who scares the planet with atomic weapons treat his own citizens?
Digital surveillance: China
A threat of war, a dictatorship... What else?
Another kind of threat to human freedom he says "surveillance for the general good". A journey to China shows how profoundly surveillance based on large Data can penetrate our lives. How precisely is power able to control people, utilizing technology to monitor society.
Surveillance for the general good, photograph 20. MDAG 2023“In China, data collection has taken a caricature turn – you know more about citizens than they do themselves”, says the film’s description.
Daily human elections are assessed by an experimental Chinese surveillance system. This is technology in the hands of unlimited power.
We look at images of human tragedies, suffering, oversight, and oppression from power. And it's hard to believe that all this is happening almost in front of us. Here and now. In the large 21st century. Or it happened in the late last century.
