Doc 60 – 5

Total: 65 mins 53 secs

Using disciplines relating to cinema verite, observation and re-examining the past, our ‘Documentary 6’ block follows three diverse stories which look at helping others.  We follow a traumatised volunteer sent to Senegal as part of an NGO, watch a carpenter help the community carving out wooden legs, and follow a Spanish mortician as he deals with drowned bodies washing upon the shore.

Tuesday 17th October Available for 48 hrs from 3:00pm
Thursday 5th October 1:40pm - Light Cinema Screen 2 Sunday 8th October 3:00pm - KUDOS Cinema

Red Ears

Paul Drey
Germany, 2022
30:00 mins
13 years after his civil service in a hospital in Thiès, Senegal, Paul challenges his memories and traumas. With old video footage, interviews and animations he questions his role as a volunteer within the German system of development aid.

Filmakademie Baden - Württemberg

Carpenter

Xelîl Sehragerd
Iran, 2023
13:53 mins
An old Kurdish man, Hussein Mahmood, who is a carpenter tries to make artificial legs for people who have lost their legs.

Cadáver

Benjamin Schildknecht Kodboel
United Kingdom, 2022
22:00 mins
A mortician has found an unusual line of business. He collects the bodies of people who have drowned trying to reach Spain, then repatriating them to their home countries. He firmly believes everyone has the right to be offered a rightful memorial, but being ill with cancer himself, Martín, must re...