Open City Documentary Festival
Celebrating the art of non-fiction, Open City Documentary Festival creates an open space in London to nurture and champion the art of creative documentary and non-fiction filmmakers.
To mark our recent 10th anniversary edition, we are delighted to partner with True Story to present a selection of highlights from across the festival's past programmes.
SInce its inception in 2011, Open City has coincided with an extraordinarily vibrant and vital period in non-fiction filmmaking and this handpicked selection provides a snapshot of the expansive and innovative filmmaking that the festival has been fortunate to showcase during its first decade.
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Movements of a Nearby Mountain - Trailer
In a remote, abandoned industrial site near a centuries-old ore mine in the Austrian Alps, a self-taught mechanic runs a business exporting used cars to his native Nigeria.
Dir. Sebastian Brameshuber - 86min - 2019 - Austria
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Movements of a Nearby Mountain
Dir. Sebastian Brameshuber - 2019 - Austria/France - Languages: Igbo, German, English - Subtitles: English
In a remote, abandoned industrial site near a centuries-old ore mine in the Austrian Alps, a self-taught mechanic runs a business exporting used cars to his native Nigeria. As he pursues hi...
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The Swing - Trailer
An assured, emotionally rich film about the lies a family tells to keep their patriarch happy. After sixty years of marriage, Antoine and Vivi have lost their most beloved daughter; but no one has dared to tell the bedridden nonagenarian Antoine, lest his heart crack.
Dir. Cyril Aris - 74min - ...
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The Swing
Dir. Cyril Aris - 2018 - Lebanon - Language: Arabic, French, Italian - Subtitles: English
An assured, emotionally rich film about the lies a family tells to keep their patriarch happy. After sixty years of marriage, Antoine and Vivi have lost their most beloved daughter; but no one has dared to ...
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Flight of a Bullet
Dir. Beata Bubenec - 80min - 2017 - Russia/Latvia - Language: Russia - Subtitles: English
"Beata Bubenec’s single-take documentary opens on a blown-out bridge in Ukraine’s heavily contested Donbass region. A local man—taking exception to being filmed—is bundled into a car by armed forces and dri...
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Baronesa
Dir. Juliana Antunes - 2017 - Brazil - Spoken language: Portuguese - Subtitles: English
Andreia wants to move out. Leid is waiting for her husband, who is in prison. They are neighbours in a poor suburban slum of Belo Horizonte, Brazil, trying to escape the daily dangers of a drug traffic war ha...
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Cheonggyecheon Medly: A Dream of Iron
Dir. Kelvin Kyung Kun Park - 2011 - Republic of Korea - Language: Korean - Subtitles: English
"The Cheonggye stream runs through the center of Seoul. Today a popular urban recreation area with clear water, promenades and leafy plants, the Cheonggyecheon was, until only eight years ago, a filthy ...
