Brainwashed Sex-Camera-Power, Sky Hopinka’s Kicking the Clouds, Shanti Thakur’s Terrible Children and
Abby Epstein’s The Business of Birth Control are among the 32 international documentaries screened for
the IDSFFK in the non-fiction category.

A wave of tributes to the art of documentation and the bygone filmmakers of the underrated legacies
from lesser-known lands also enrich the screens. Malian director Fatou Cissé’s A Daughter's Tribute to
Her Father, Giuseppe Tornatore’s Ennio: El Maestro, and Inés Toharia’s Film, The Living Record Of Our
Memory engage in the storytelling of the lives of filmmakers and the quest to preserve the art of
filmmaking. While Inside The Uffizi explores the tensions between the needs for conservation and
renewal of Renaissance art, Dirndlschuld and Rampart recollect the traces of the spatial and temporal
past and that which was lost in the oblivion of time.

Nina Menke’s insightful documentary Brainwashed Sex-Camera-Power, has toured across 13 countries
and festive venues including the Sundance(USA), Berlinale (Germany) Thessaloniki Int’l Film Festival of
Greece. An outright portrayal of the politics of gender and language in films, and a representation of
Nina Menke’s years-long lecture series, “Sex and Power: The Visual Language of Oppression” through
the gynocriticism of 175 cinematic shots are a few of the takeaways from this remarkable documentary.
Nina Menke’s narrative in this docu criticizes and deconstructs the idea of the male gaze and
objectification of women in a manner that engages the conscience of spectators.

A unique interrelation between children and the environment is also engrossingly depicted in Namibian
director Huebschle’s The forests of deserted land and Iranian director Maral Alizadeh’s Sympathy
Syndrome.

Remembered things and The Kaiser of Atlantis also stand apart in experimenting with retrieving the past
annals and documenting the present discourse on how we remember the cultural and political incidents
that took place hundreds of years ago.