THANK-YOU
We are so grateful you could take part in the 2021 Castlemaine Documentary Festival – In the Clouds Take 2!
We hope you enjoyed a cosy, warm winter lockdown documentary weekend!
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Welcome to Chechnya
With searing urgency, Welcome to Chechnya, shadows a group of activists who risk unimaginable peril to confront the anti-LGBTQ program raging in the repressive and closed Russian republic.
WINNER Best Documentary, Film Critics' Circle of Australia
China’s 3Dreams
"In the 1970s, we had three dreams: a watch, a wireless and a bicycle".
What are the dreams of the Chinese people today?
Laurel Canyon – A Place In Time
Everything they touched turned to music.
Laurel Canyon, pulls back the curtain on the mythical world of Laurel Canyon in Los Angeles, providing an up-close look at the lives of the musicians who inhabited it.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
RAISE THE BAR
How controversial can one basketball team of eight-year-old girls be? Very!
This is a story of 8–13-year-old girls, who wanted to change the paradigm in women’s basketball in Iceland. But it could happen anywhere.
Maxima
One woman’s fight against corporate greed.
An indigenous woman from the Peruvian Andes who cannot read or write, stands up to the largest gold producer in the world, US-based Newmont Mining Corporation.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
Bitter Love
On a Russian cruise ship – the Maxim Gorky , a floating microcosm, a large and varied gallery of passengers is drifting down the Volga.
Everyone on board is yearning for something in their lives.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
Faith and Branko
This intimate story chronicles the relationship between musicians Faith and Branko over seven years. In 2011, Faith travels from England to Serbia to learn gypsy accordion. She falls hard for Roma violinist Branko, and despite language barriers, they fall in love through music.
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