New Films from Great Documentary Filmmakers in Masters of Dox Section

This year, the official section called Masters of Dox is again bringing new titles by some of the most significant documentarians of today.

The docu-horror Rats is the latest title by the Academy Award nominated American director and producer Morgan Spurlock (Supersize Me, Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden, The Greatest Movie Ever Sold). Inspired by the namesake New York Times bestseller, the film Rats plunges deep below the urban surface to explore the life of these notorious rodents, focusing primarily on the epidemics in global metropolises. 

An eerie look at people, on the other hand, comes from the latest film by the Austrian director Ulrich Seidl, Safari, a vacation film loosely based on killing. As antelopes, impalas, zebras, gnus and other animals quietly graze in the African wilderness, German and Austrian tourist hunters – who pay their safari experience big money – drive around, stalk and prey on the animals and when they kill them, the pose with the carcass. Safari premiered at the Venice Film Festival.

The Russian documentary filmmaker Vitaly Manskiy (Pipeline, Under the Sun) returns with his new, intimate and personal documentary Close Relations to his native Ukraine at the eve of the Maidan revolution. His family becomes the subject of a painstaking and thorough analysis of the divided Ukraine and proves that the dichotomy insisted upon in the media, about east versus west, is wrong and mainly misses the point regarding the Ukrainian people's view. 

The Danish documentary director Jon Bang Carlsen (Addicted to Solitude, Just the Right Amount of Violence) is known for his hybrid style combining documentary and live action. His latest film Déjà vuis set many years ago, when he as a boy committed a terrible act that still haunts him. Since then he and his camera have travelled the world in search for redemption. 

The documentary film Every Good Story Is a Love Story by Rajko Grlić and Matjaž Ivanišin will have its world premiere in the Masters of Dox – it is a film about the theatre piece Boris, Milena, Radko and four celebrities behind it: writer and director Dušan Jovanović, actress Milena Zupančić and actors Radko Polič and Boris Cavazza. Also a story about a love triangle, the public artistic life and private lives of the performers.

Audrius Stonys, a great and award-winning Lithuanian documentarian, with his latest title, The Woman and the Glacier takes the audience on a journey to Kazakhstan, to a research station on 3.5 thousand metres of altitude, where a woman lives completely alone and away from the civilisation for the past 30 years, devoted to science and listening to the pulse of our planet.