Doker 2016 Profile
A thoughtful and clear text taken from the site of Doker:
Moscow International Documentary Film Festival DOKer has stemmed from the project of the same name which screens independent non-fiction. DOKer project is aimed at analyzing and screening in Russia various genres and forms of the world’s documentaries as a separate line of cinema in all its esthetic and socio-cultural diversity.
The Festival focuses on independent documentary cinema that incorporates both poetic narrative and social blockbusters; footage and mockumentary; art-house and science-fiction; classic and experiment.
The Festival organizers are convinced that films about real characters from all over the world can break down old stereotypes and bring together people of polar mentalities. Finely-told documentary stories can help find ways of understanding another culture and establish common ground when realities clash. Such films can also help bring closer aspirations and hopes of other people and even find the meaning of life.
This year the Festival invites the public to look at the world through the eyes of documentary makers from dozens of counties and share universal emotions, reflections and aspirations. From the opening sequence the viewer is projected into an unknown reality and within an hour may get familiar with strange culture and traditions from around the world, learn many facts and phenomena and become intimate with various characters.
Photo from the Ugandian and Finnish production “Leaving Africa” that is at Doker 2016.
