Sarah Dawson
Programmer - International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA)
South Africa
Voted for
| Film | Year | Director |
|---|---|---|
| Mon oncle | 1958 | Jacques Tati |
| Embrace of the Serpent | 2015 | Ciro Guerra |
| Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One | 1967 | William Greaves |
| This Is Not a Burial, It's a Resurrection | 2019 | Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese |
| MOGARI NO MORI | 2007 | Naomi Kawase |
| Hard to Be a God | 2013 | Alexei German |
| A Torinói Ió | 2011 | Béla Tarr |
| The Perfumed Nightmare | 1976 | Kidlat Tahimik |
| Spirited Away | 2001 | Hayao Miyazaki |
| Rizi | 2020 | Tsai Ming-Liang |
Comments
To compare the length of eternity to the duration of cinema's existence takes us into a realm of the absolute - a place of dogma or repetition that favours that which is continually reiterated in superlative terms. So, here, I humbly present a list of films that I find profound and memorable, into whose orbit I have been pulled by the gravity of the weight of my encounter with them, as I travel through the universe of human emotion, sense and thought in this short life I have to live.