The 15 documentaries in this section are ready to welcome audiences in the lives of a series of remarkable characters. The first one is the famed musician Nick Cave, the hero of the fascinating 20.000 Days on Earth, screened at Berlin and Sundance, where it won the best Directing and Best Editing awards. The second one is a boxing superhero – The Trials of Muhammad Ali by Bill Siegel combines archival footage and new interviews.
In Fuoristrada, a mechanic decides to become a woman and, as transgender, he marries a Romanian woman, Mariana. The touching Julia by J. Jackie Baier chronicles 10 years in the life of a Lithuanian student who ran away from home to Berlin, where he pretended to be a girl and became a prostitute. Three teenagers are trying to find a way out of their degenerate world in Sickfuckpeople (Best Documentary in Sarajevo and Raindance 2013) and another three teenagers go in search of a place where an autistic man can find physical love in The Special Need (Leipzig DOK trophy 2013).
Concerning Violence, presented in Sundance and Berlin, has as its starting point the classic book "The Wretched of the Earth" and documents the fight for freedom in the third world while Normalization tries to find an answer to a troubling question: who were the decision makers in the most notorious trial in Czechoslovakian history? Pine Ridge (Best Scandinavian Documentary - Goteborg 2014) is a complex portrait of a special world – the inhabitants of the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota –, while The Great Museum, is a passionate demonstration about how interesting life in a museum really is. Last but not least, the audiences will also be able to see Sacro GRA, the first documentary to ever win the Golden Lion in Venice.
