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IDA Announces FallDocs Series: ‘Sugarcane,’ ‘I Am: Celine Dion,’ ‘Black Box Diaries,’ ‘The Last of the Seawomen’ And More To Get Oscar Boost
The IDA has announced the first 11 films selected for its FallDocs "For Your Consideration" series.
After years of silence, the forced separation, assimilation and abuse many children experienced at these segregated boarding schools was brought to light, sparking a national outcry against a system designed to destroy Indigenous communities. Unfolding like a thriller and combining secret investigative recordings, vérité shooting and emotional first-person video, her quest becomes a landmark case in Japan, exposing the country’s desperately outdated judicial and societal systems. Director Johan Grimonprez explores a moment when jazz, colonialism, and espionage collided, constructing a riveting historical rollercoaster that illuminates the political machinations behind the 1961 assassination of Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba.
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