Endeavours Documentary Film Festival

PUBLISHED May 5th, 2015 07:31 am | UPDATED July 2nd, 2020 02:37 pm

May 14th to 17th 2015 sees the return of the Endeavours Documentary Film Festival. The festival focuses on showcasing the best documentaries from around the world. This year’s films include 2015’s Oscar winner for Best Documentary and a number of other films generating huge interest internationally, and not previously released in Singapore.

Festival Highlights:

• Thursday 14th May, 19:30 @ [The Projector](http://theprojector.sg/)

CITIZENFOUR (114m, USA/Germany, 2014, rating: to be advised) Academy
Award Winner – Best Documentary Feature – 2015

Synopsis: CITIZENFOUR is a real life thriller, unfolding by the minute, giving audiences unprecedented access to filmmaker Laura Poitras and journalist Glenn Greenwald’s encounters with Edward Snowden in Hong Kong, as he hands over classified documents providing evidence of mass indiscriminate and illegal invasions of privacy by the National Security Agency (NSA).

Click [here](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiGwAvd5mvM) to see trailer.

• Thursday 14th May, 21:30 @ [The Projector](http://theprojector.sg/)

NIGHT WILL FALL (NC16, 75m, UK, 2014) Director: Andre Singer

Synopsis: When British, Soviet and American forces liberated Nazi concentration camps in 1945, army and newsreel cameramen recorded the terrible discoveries they made. Later, Sidney Bernstein and his team, including supervising director Alfred Hitchcock, drew on this footage, shot at Bergen- Belsen, Dachau and Auschwitz, to create a harrowing film titled ‘German Concentration Camps Factual Survey’. Narrated by Helena Bonham Carter, the film juxtaposes horrific raw footage and scenes from the 1945 documentary with insights from the survivors, the soldiers who liberated them and the filmmakers who recorded these appalling images.

Click [here](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbB9NCYzQVU) to see trailer.

• Friday 15th May, 19:30 @ [The Projector](http://theprojector.sg/)

RED ARMY (PG13, 85m, USA/Russia, 2014) Director: Gabe Polsky

Synopsis: RED ARMY is a feature documentary about the Soviet Union and the most successful dynasty in sports history: the Red Army hockey team. Told from the perspective of its captain Slava Fetisov, the story portrays his transformation from national hero to political enemy. From the USSR to Russia, the film examines how sport mirrors social and cultural movements and parallels

Click [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_euhvZQMaw) to see trailer.

Festivals: Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, New York Film Festival.


• Saturday 16th May @ [The Projector](http://theprojector.sg/)

THE LAST MAN ON THE MOON (PG, 95m, UK, 2014) Director: Mark Craig

Synopsis: When Apollo astronaut Eugene Cernan stepped off the moon in 1972 he left his footprints and his daughter’s initials in the lunar dust. Only now, forty years later, is he ready to share his epic but deeply personal story. Cernan’s burning ambition carried him to the spectacular and hazardous environment of space and to the moon. But there was a heavy price to pay for the fame and privilege that followed. ‘The Last Man on the Moon’ combines rare archive material, compelling Visual FX and unprecedented access to present an iconic historical character on the big screen.

The Director, Mark Craig was born and lived in Singapore in the 1960’s. His father had quite a love affair with Singapore. He was an artist / art teacher who got a 1-year posting there in the 50’s – and ended up staying for 23 years! He his style was in vogue, and his work was used by the Ministry of Culture to help promote Singapore.

Click [here](https://vimeo.com/92046183 Festivals: Sheffield Doc/Fest, SXSW) to see trailer.

• Friday 15th May

TOMORROW WE DISSAPPEAR (Rating TBC, US 2014)

Directors: Jimmy Goldblum and Adam Weber

Synopsis: At first glance, the Kathputli Colony looks like any other Indian slum. Flies swarm its putrid canals. Children climb on drooping electrical wires. Construction cranes and an ever-expanding metro line loom on the horizon. But Kathputli is a place of fading traditions. For half a century 2,800 artist families have called its narrow alleyways home; there are jugglers and acrobats, puppeteers and painters, folk singers and magicians, many of whom are well- respected artists in India and abroad.

In 2009 the New Delhi government sold Kathputli to developers for a fraction of its worth. The land is to be bulldozed to make room for the city’s first-ever skyscraper, The Raheja Phoenix. We follow three of Kathputli’s most-talented performers as they wrangle with the reality of their approaching eviction. The story begins with the fate of thousands of marginalized performers in Delhi, India. The film chronicles a turning point in the lives of these performers, with the hopes of anticipating what’s to come in India’s future and preserving what’s being left behind.

Click [here](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIKFceQisD8) to see trailer.

The Endeavours Documentary Film Festival is running from Thursday, 14 May to Sunday, 17 May at various locations.

For more information and ticket details, please click [here](http://www.endeavoursdocufilmfest.com/).