The best documentaries of the year that have been shortlisted for the 2020 Oscar.
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The best documentaries of the year that have been shortlisted for the 2020 Oscar.
An award-winning documentary about the Ochoa family’s private ambulance that operates illegally in Mexico City as a vital rescue force. As police corruption soars, they must raise enough money to legalize the family business.
Lea Tsemel defends Palestinians: from feminists to fundamentalists, from nonviolent demonstrators to armed militants. As an Israeli lawyer who has represented political prisoners for five decades, Tsemel, in her quest for justice, pushes the praxis of a human rights defender to its limits.
Acclaimed Russian director Victor Kossakovsky sets out on a breathtaking journey between waterfalls, icebergs, storms, and rivers, taking the viewers on a deep and viscerally thrilling journey.
Documentarian Nanfu Wang explores the effects of China’s One-Child policy. By combining her personal story with propaganda material, she reveals human rights violations, including the abandonment of infants and forced abortion. An exemplary work of outstanding significance and emotional force.
Hatidze Muratova climbs the staggering mountains of Macedonia to extract honey from the bee colonies hidden away high up in the crevices. When a family of nomads shows up at her doorstep, they threaten her livelihood but also ease her loneliness.
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