#doxa 2022

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Fire of Love (dir. Sara Dosa) x DOXA 2022.

[It] documents the extraordinary lives of married French volcanologists Katia and Maurice Krafft who were trailblazing pioneers obsessed with capturing footage of active volcanoes before dying tragically in a pyroclastic flow on Mount Unzen in Japan in 1991. [...] Dosa uses the quirky couple's own decades worth of material compiled to tell their incredible real-life story of love and lava.

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We Feed People (dir. Ron Howard) x DOXA 2022.

[It] follows gregarious, Spanish-born celebrity chef José Andrés’ mission to provide meals in the wake of natural disasters starting with the 2010 Haiti earthquake through his World Central Kitchen non-profit NGO. [...] Howard chronicles the famous cook’s relentless determination to feed the hungry (as the title would suggest) in devastated areas as fast as possible against the red tape of emergency humanitarian aid.

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1970 (dir. Tomasz Wolski) x DOXA 2020.

Filmed like a historical thriller, [...] Wolski dramatizes the violent response of the communist government of the Polish People’s Republic to the public protests of December 1970 after the sharp increase in food prices and general economic crisis. Using marionette puppets, stop-motion animation, and archival audio, the hybrid documentary chronicles the bureaucratic banality of authoritarian evil.