The Best of WATCH DOCS
| The Best of WATCH DOCS |
 | Hold Me Tight, Let Me Go |
| Kim Longinotto / United Kingdom / 2007 / 100min | |
| Oxford’s Mulberry Bush is a boarding school for children expelled from other schools for aggressive behavior. Traumatic experiences underlie the students’ serious psychological issues. Teachers outnumber students two to one and must face torrents of profanity, spitting and physical aggression. Their heroic efforts to change destructive behavior models are sometimes rewarded with success. “Hold Me Tight, Let Me Go” is [read more] |
 | Losers and Winners |
| Ulrike Franke, Michael Loeken / Germany / 2006 / 96min | |
| The world’s most modern coking plant was built in Dortmund in 1992. Closed only eight years later because it was unprofitable, a Chinese company then bought it and decided to take the entire behemoth home. The filmmakers spent 18 months observing Chinese workers’ huge project to dismantle and move this industrial giant: disassembly in the West – reassembly in the [read more] |
 | One Minute to Nine |
| Tommy Davis / USA / 2007 / 83min | |
| After 18 years of marriage, Wendy worked up the courage to call the police after yet another beating from her husband. Despite pleas from Wendy and her neighbors, the police fail to intervene. Wendy calls the police again several hours later, this time to report that she killed her husband. Convicted of first-degree murder, she is sentenced to 10 years [read more] |
 | The Existence / Istnienie |
| Marcin Koszałka / Poland / 2007 / 69min | |
| In this powerful film about the passage of time, Marcin Koszałka filmed the final trials of a terminally ill prominent theater actor. In a search for immortality and the desire to make his mark, he wants to play yet another role in a film, the leading role. He also wants to contribute to science and donates his body to the [read more] |
 | The Operation / Die Massnahme |
| Kerstin Nickig / Germany / 2007 / 37min | |
| Kerstin Nickig wants to know why 347 young men were arrested and beaten in Blagoveshensk in Bashkortostan, an autonomous republic of the Russian Federation. Officially, the Ministry of Internal Affairs approved the raid to fight crime. That, however, is only a cover up to conceal the tension between authority and local communities in many Russian republics. Ludmila Alexeyeva of Moscow’s [read more] |