ALIEN ON STAGE • 2020

DIRECTOR: Danielle Kummer, Lucy Harvey

COUNTRY: United Kingdom

RUNTIME: '87

SYNOPSIS: This is a story about a unique crew of Dorset Bus Drivers whose amateur dramatics group decide to ditch doing another pantomime and try something different. Having never done anything like it before, they spent a year creating a serious adaptation of the sci-fi, horror film, Alien; finding ingenious solutions to pay homemade, homage to the original film.

NOMINATIONS:
• Best Feature Doc

FEATURE DOCS

EARTH CASTLE • 2020

DIRECTOR: Oriane Descout

COUNTRY: France

RUNTIME: '95

SYNOPSIS: It is not always possible to know where our yearnings can lead us. When Oriane began her journey, she had no idea that fate would take her to the interior of Brazil. Guided by the dream of creating an anti-capitalist utopia, she arrived in Rio Pomba, state of Minas Gerais and met her partner Márcio, "Marreco", and agroecology. Oriane's decision was radical: she left her country and left wage employment to grow her own food and build a collective, self-managed, sustainable and ecological society in the countryside. And so, Oriane erected her utopian "Earth Castle".

NOMINATIONS:
• Best Feature Doc

THE CONSCIENCE OF CLOTHING

• 2020

DIRECTOR: Patrick Kohl

COUNTRY: Germany

RUNTIME: '100

SYNOPSIS: What does "making fashion" mean to the people producing our clothes and accessories? Fashion-Blogger Willy Iffland and journalist Helen Fares visit diverse actors in different positions in the industry to get intimate and honest insights.

It’s a roadtrip and a progressive personal development story, translated through permanent reflexion of our two protagonists Helen Fares and Willy Iffland – taking a deep dive into the heart of Cambodia’s garment industry.

NOMINATIONS:
• Best Feature Doc