IDFA 2011 documentary trailers

I used to volunteer at this annual documentary festival as a post-grad. At the festival I had free access to the screenings and hence I would watch about 30-40 documentaries (out of 100-200) per edition. I no longer have the time to volunteer, but I try to catch one documentary per edition. I also go through their program each year and look up the trailers to any documentary that seems interesting. Here are the trailers to the documentaries I would've watched (if I had the time and money) this year:

ANTONIO + SILVANA = 2

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/O3cedyyVcNo" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/O3cedyyVcNo</a>

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Bayou Blue. A documentary by Alix Lambert and David McMahon

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/3lCRtSlNV6E" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/3lCRtSlNV6E</a>

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Big Boys Gone Bananas!*

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/1im8-aY0Njs" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/1im8-aY0Njs</a>

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"A Bitter Taste of Freedom" a film by Marina Goldovskaya. It is a documentary about Anna Politkovskaya.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/5lDdd3b5m6E" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/5lDdd3b5m6E</a>

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/JYKZ4ebuofM" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/JYKZ4ebuofM</a>

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/V82lme4NMu8" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/V82lme4NMu8</a>

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/U_XUbCPAUe0" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/U_XUbCPAUe0</a>

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Coffee, Cake & Crematorium (TRAILER)

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/oqssizx_QVk" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/oqssizx_QVk</a>

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Confessions of an Eco-Terrorist

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/4fpbPiwYV-4" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/4fpbPiwYV-4</a>

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Fortunate Son by Tony Asimakopoulos

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/rARRKqa5AGk" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/rARRKqa5AGk</a>

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Golub

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/Fo4RA80EPlI" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/Fo4RA80EPlI</a>

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A Good Man - Official Trailer - Bill. T Jones documentary

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/fGqo2OfWq8U" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/fGqo2OfWq8U</a>

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Grandma's Tattoos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCLGJRE5NH4

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"Gun Fight" - directed by Barbara Kopple
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcGKGOsXKJc

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Hitler's Children - the whole documentary is up on Youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkb0R4_VTS4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDElSMWykcU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saG4KW8a3SQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVn0WBTvEpU

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The Interrupters (2011) - Official Trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SC1EOm4o_0A

The Interrupters tells the moving and surprising stories of three Violence Interrupters who try to protect their Chicago communities from the violence they once employed. From acclaimed director Steve James and bestselling author Alex Kotlowitz, this film is an unusually intimate journey into the stubborn, persistence of violence in our cities. Shot over the course of a year out of Kartemquin Films, The Interrupters captures a period in Chicago when it became a national symbol for the violence in our cities. During that period, the city was besieged by high-profile incidents, most notably the brutal beating of Derrion Albert, a Chicago High School student, whose death was caught on videotape. The film's main subjects work for an innovative organization, CeaseFire, which believes that the spread of violence mimics the spread of infectious diseases, and so the treatment should be similar: go after the most infected...

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Into Eternity - Official Trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDyvZlw2wpI

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Kano: An American and His Harem trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWmnkUBdS5s

In 1969, an American hero from the Vietnam War relocated to the Philippines, invited hundreds of women to move in with him, and set up a harem in a poor, remote village. In 2001, Victor Pearson was charged with over 80 counts of rape. The following year, he was found guilty on two counts. Although Pearson is now serving two life sentences in Manila, many of his women stand by him, even those who testified against him in court. This convicted rapist and his harem form a dysfunctional family replete with codependency and power issues. Some women even sport tattoos of Pearson's name. He has gotten married a couple times in prison and has even rented apartments in the neighborhood so he can keep the women near him. How far he went in making his own sexual laws becomes increasingly clear as we listen to the women's stories: some of them even brought their children to Pearson in exchange for money. Nonetheless, he did pay for the education of a number of women. In this debut film, we hear Pearson's side of things as well. He sees himself as a father figure who needs the women, but who also must "discipline" them every now and then. As far as any guilt is concerned, he claims not to have raped anyone.