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Sundance Winner ‘A New Kind of Wilderness’ Among Competition Lineup at Thessaloniki Documentary Festival (EXCLUSIVE)
The Thessaloniki Intl. Documentary Festival has revealed its competition lineup, which includes Sundance winner 'A New Kind of Wilderness.'
The mass purges of the regime (spanning from 1975 to 1979 – Pol Pot annihilated 25% of Cambodia’s population) are intertwined with painful memories of the relatives of the bloodthirsty dictator, who today stage an impressive dance performance depicting an encounter between the leader of the Khmer Rouge and his foster mother. In this documentary, valuable archive material is seamlessly combined with the images of the dancers, the traditional costumes, and the descriptions of the significance behind this cultural expression of the Cambodian people, offering a flawless outcome, one that is profoundly melancholic, beautiful and yet at the same time tragic. “Two Strangers Trying Not to Kill Each Other”Jacob Perlmutter and Manon Ouimet, U.K.-Denmark-U.S.International premiereWhen unrecognized artist Maggie Barrett, 75, breaks her femur, her husband Joel Meyerowitz, 84, a world-famous photographer, busier than ever, becomes her carer.
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