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The 22nd Camden International Film Festival (CIFF) begins September 17, bringing documentaries from around the world to Camden and Rockland, Maine through September 20. We have rounded up the 9 science and technology-themed features to look out for, with descriptions excerpted from the festival’s programmers.
ALEA JACARANDAS. Dir. Hassen Ferhani. U.S. Premiere. “In Algiers, a writer embarks on a poetic mapping of jacarandas, those purple-flowering trees from Latin America. His filmmaker son follows him on this intimate journey. “
ARGONAUTS AT THE END OF HISTORY. Dir. Sierra Pettengill. World Premiere. “A group of sailors from the USSR join a race around the world, navigating wild seas, personal tragedy, and the end of the Cold War.”
ATLAS OF DISAPPEARANCE. Dir. Manuel Correa. North American Premiere. “ATLAS OF DISAPPEARANCE exposes Valle de los Caídos, where technology unearths the truth buried beneath fascist monumentality.”
BOATBUILDERS. Dir. Luke Lorentzen. North American Premiere. “Across four seasons, the skilled craftspeople of Maine’s Brooklin Boat Yard meticulously transform planks of Douglas fir, mahogany, and cedar into a 56-foot wooden sailboat—both a fading, time-honored tradition and a delicate business to manage.”
CARL SAGAN: WE ARE MADE OF STAR STUFF. Dir. Nanette Burstein. Maine Premiere. “An intimate portrait of visionary astronomer, author and television star Carl Sagan, whose groundbreaking ideas transformed our understanding of the cosmos and human existence.”
CEREMONY. Dir. Banchi Hanuse. Maine Premiere “When the Nuxalk trace their vanished ooligan through settler tapes and a land claim filed the very day smallpox arrived, their radio station becomes courtroom, confessional and conjuring ground; there, an older law insists: the fish and the people return together or not at all.”
EVEREST: THE OTHER SIDE. Dirs. Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin. Maine Premiere. “Elite ski mountaineers Jim Morrison and Hilaree Nelson share an audacious dream: to climb up and ski down the direct North Face of Everest, taking on one of the most dangerous routes on the world’s tallest mountain. Blending breathtaking spectacle and romance, this is an epic story of resilience and transcendence.”
REPLICA. Dir. Choua Liang. U.S. Premiere. “Young Chinese women turn to AI companions in search of the love they feel is missing from their lives — but are chatbots the answer, or are they standing in the way of real human connection?”
WHISPERS IN THE WOODS. Dir. Vincent Munier. “In the deep snow of the Vosges mountains in France, a father breaking trail urges his son to follow in his footsteps. Wildlife photographer and filmmaker Vincent Munier earned these woods from his own father. Together, three generations of naturalists wait in blinds for the appearance of lynx, deer, owls, and the near-mythical capercaillie.”
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