How objective can the camera be? Using the cinéma vérité technique, filmmakers from Iran, France, Oakland, and Serbia take a fly-on-the-wall&nbsp;approach to life unfolding in front of them. Featuring the short films THE YEAR OF THE ROBOT, SHADEGAN, HUNTSVILLE STATION, and THEN COMES THE EVENING. Runtime: 88 minutes

As a series of archival documents detailing the first contacts and dialogue between a robot gifted with an artificially created autonomy and human beings, it studies cognitive dissonance, a minute, mysterious relational space sitting between the two actors.

The Year of the Robot (L'Année du Robot)

As a series of archival documents detailing the first contacts and dialogue between a robot gifted with an artificially created autonomy and human beings, it studies cognitive dissonance, a minute, mysterious relational space sitting between the two actors.

A day in the life of a 12-year-old fisherman on his boat in Shadegan Pond, Iran. He worries about the uncertain future of Shadegan Pond and his own future should the Pond cease to exist.

Shadegan

A day in the life of a 12-year-old fisherman on his boat in Shadegan Pond, Iran. He worries about the uncertain future of Shadegan Pond and his own future should the Pond cease to exist.

Every weekday, dozens of inmates are released on parole from Huntsville State Penitentiary, the largest prison release center in Texas. With a bus ticket voucher and $100 release check, most of them take in their first moments out with phone calls, cigarettes, and quiet reflection at the Greyhound station up the block. In this pivotal moment, between incarceration and freedom, a myriad of complicated emotions arise before the bus arrives to take them home.

Huntsville Station

In the pivotal moment between incarceration and freedom after being released from prison, a myriad of complicated emotions arise before the bus arrives to take them home.

The documentary depicts the bittersweet life of two grannies living isolated on the hills of Eastern Bosnia. Emphasizing the intangible cultural heritage through the presentation of chants and rituals for taming the adverse weather, hail, and storm, Then Comes the Evening reflects the simplicity and purity of their way of life, as well as their painstaking work.

Then Comes the Evening

The documentary depicts the bittersweet life of two grannies living isolated on the hills of Eastern Bosnia.

QA: Shorts - "Verite"

Documentary Shorts 2: Verité

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