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FIDBA (Buenos Aires International Documentary Film Festival), biggest Documentary Film Festival of Iberoamerica, and the first International Documentary Film Festival in Argentina, is having its 8th edition online this year. We are proud to participate at this festival with four of our documentary feature films. The festival will open up September 9th and it will be online streaming films until September 20th, geoblocked to the territory of Argentina. (https://chainwitcher.com)

In Human Rights competition, available online from September 14th is our film Shadow Flowers (South Korea) by Seung-Jun Yi. Film logs protracted struggle of a North Korean housewife sabotaged and denied by an absurd and hypocritical political situation of reverse defection. In one woman’s desire for reunification with her loved ones, we observe an even larger one in the complicated politics, propaganda and history of Korea as a whole.

Another film in Human Rights competition, available online from September 24th, is our new Proton Cinema production by first time director Ábel Visky –Tales from the Prison Cell (Hungary, Croatia, UK) coproduced by Taskovski Films. With World Premiere in Fipadocs Biarritz and selected at Hot Docs, this film explores family relationships between incarcerated parents and children showing how being in jail affects the lives of a household and imaginary worlds can build a bridge to reconnect family members.

In Focus Cinema, available online from September 17th, comes Venice double awarded film by Barbara Paz Babenco: Tell Me When I Die (Brazil). The film that received the Conch award for Best Documentary Film at Mumbai International Film Festival on its Indian Premier follows the life of Paz’s life partner, the late South American filmmaker Hector Babenco, who was selected ‘for its intimate and celebratory portrayal of the Brazilian film director and his reflections of life — and death’.

In Genres and Generations selection, from September 20th, cowgirl rodeo film Glitter and Dust (Germany) by Anna Koch and Julia Lemke will become available online. The film tells a story of four girls living in the lonely vastness of the USA share one passion: The wild world of rodeo. Although they move about in the powerful imagery of the American prairie and the myths of the Wild West, they give it new resonance and break free of it. (sunnyflowerdelivery.com) In a world which used to belong to their fathers and brothers, they prove that “you ride like a girl” is not an insult but a compliment.