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2.06—20.06
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    Beat Film
    Festival
    2 June
    —20 June

    Program

    Gala Premiers
    Music
    One Step Ahead
    Stranger than ficiton
    Overcoming the Distance
    Community

    Gala Premiers

    National premieres of the high-profile festivals’ hits, representing the best in contemporary documentary cinema.

    Aalto

    A journey into the life and work of one of the greatest modern architects, Alvar Aalto

    American Utopia

    Spike Lee documents the former Talking Heads frontman's brilliant Broadway show, based on his recent album and tour of the same name

    Wim Wenders: Desperado

    From Dusseldorf to Paris, and all the way to the desert of Texas, the film traces iconic locations and decisive moments in Wenders' work

    One Man and His Shoes

    A film that tells the hidden story of a brand and its impact on global popular culture from a historical and social lens

    Laurent Garnier: Off the Record

    A look into the life of one of the godfathers of house music, from his emergence on the music scene in the 80's to now

    Girls Can't Surf

    A story of a band of renegade surfers who took on the male-dominated professional surfing world to achieve equality and change the sport forever

    Music

    Music documentaries about rebels and innovators, unknown heroes and forgotten stories, and constant search for a new sound.

    Moby Doc

    A surrealist biographical documentary narrated by Moby as he reflects on his turbulent personal life and iconic music

    Sisters with Transistors

    The untold story of electronic music’s female pioneers

    Crock of Gold

    A look at the life of Irish singer/songwriter and Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan

    A Symphony of Noise

    A journey into the sound worlds of celebrated British musician and sound researcher Matthew Herbert

    The Nowhere Inn

    St. Vincent sets out to make a documentary about her music, but when she hires a close friend to direct

    Under the Volcano

    On a remote Caribbean island, under the shadow of an active volcano, the world's biggest recording artists made music and myth that defined an era

    One Step Ahead

    Films about people who took the courage to do something first, and not merely succeeded, but changed the world around them.
    In partnership with:

    Making a Mountain

    A story of Bjarke Ingels Group CopenHill project, a waste-to-energy plant with an artificial ski slope on the roof

    Playing With Sharks

    Pioneering scuba diver Valerie Taylor, who has dedicated her life to exposing the myth surrounding our fear of sharks

    Bank Job

    A community driven feature film, participatory bank and playful act of economic education and change

    I Am Gen Z

    Surviving in a world broken by Tech

    One Man and His Shoes

    A film that tells the hidden story of a brand and its impact on global popular culture from a historical and social lens

    Laurent Garnier: Off the Record

    A look into the life of one of the godfathers of house music, from his emergence on the music scene in the 80's to now

    Stranger than ficiton

    The program curated by journalist, screenwriter and producer Alexander Gorbachev presents films based on stories that prove the reality could be more striking than any fiction

    You Cannot Kill David Arquette

    Actor David Arquette attempts a rocky return to the sport that stalled his promising Hollywood career

    The Mystery of D.B. Cooper

    The extraordinary, real-life tale of one of the greatest unsolved heists in American history and a case that has taunted the FBI for decades

    Television Event

    An archive-based feature documentary viewing the dramatic climax of the Cold War through the lens of the ABC network

    Some Kind of Heaven

    Behind the gates of a palm tree-lined fantasyland, four residents of America's largest retirement community, The Villages, FL, strive to find solace and meaning

    Set!

    Table setting – for most of us is a chore, but for some it’s a sport

    Alien on Stage

    A unique crew of bus drivers from Dorset and their amateur dramatics group decide to ditch doing another pantomime and try something different

    Overcoming the Distance

    Films about the pursuit of love in a modern world where relationship patterns are rapidly changing, but the longing for intimacy persists
    In partnership with:

    Searchers

    Alternately humorous and touching encounters with a diverse set of New Yorkers as they navigate their preferred dating apps, searching for their special someone

    Jungle

    An intimate and cliché-crushing portrait of a group of girl friends living in northeast Paris screaming “liberté, égalité, sororité”

    Radiograph of a Family

    Images of the Iranian filmmaker's parental home recur throughout this examination of her parents' marriage

    Community

    The collaborative program curated by social projects and independent communities that drive Moscow urban culture forward and help to integrate the screenings into a broader cultural agenda

    Shade Grown Coffee

    An insight into the coffee-making process, all the way from harvesting the ripe cherries to preparing the perfect cup of coffee

    Sheltered

    Behind the doors of a large animal shelter, you can find the tense relationship between humans and animals as well as the unconditional love they have for each other

    Moments Like This Never Last

    No rules. Nothing but time. The artist Dash Snow and a scene are born that both shape and encapsulate downtown NYC post-9/11

    All is one. Except 0.

    The story of the German hackers, told by the protagonists themselves in a montage of found video and audio material