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Edinburgh announces documentary line-up

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British director Chris Waitt’s A Complete History of My Sexual Failures and fellow Briton James Marsh’s Man on Wire [+see also:
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will have gala screenings at the Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF), which runs June 18-29.

Errol Morris’ Berlin winner Standard Operating Procedure will also have a gala at the festival, whose Document section will have a further 19 films and all 22 selected documentaries will be in the running for the Best Feature Documentary Award.

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Other selections include Werner Herzog’s Encounters at the End of the World, Erik Nelson’s Dreams with Sharp Teeth, Peter Geyer’s Jesus Christ Savior [+see also:
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, Alexandra Westmeier’s Alone in Four Walls, Phie Ambo’s Mechanical Love, Jerzy Sladkowki’s Paradise, Corinna Villari-McFarlane’s Three Miles North of Molkom, Neasa Ni Chianain’s Fairytale of Kathmandu, Xiaolu Guo’s We Went to Wonderland, Gideon Koppel’s Sleep Furiously, Daniel O’Connor and Neil Ortenberg’s Obscene, Ron Davis and Stewart Halpern’s Pageant, Margaret Brown’s The Order of Myths and C. Karim Chrobog’s War Child.

EIFF artistic director Hannah McGill said, “The scope and quality of the documentaries we have viewed this year is incredibly impressive. It was very hard to whittle them back to this list, so these are the best of the best. We have films that hone in very close to personal issues; films that draw attention to critical world issues; and films that opt to emphasise the humour or spectacle or music in their stories. It’s an incredibly diverse array of work from a set of extremely talented filmmakers – the new as well as the known. To present celebrated experts in their field alongside less familiar names – is precisely what we strive for throughout the festival.”

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