‘No Other Land,’ ‘Queendom,’ ‘Black Box Diaries,’ ‘Sugarcane’ & More Make IDA’s Shortlist Of Year’s Top Documentaries
deadline.comThe International Documentary Association today released its shortlist of contenders for Best Feature Documentary and Best Short Documentary, a possible harbinger of Oscar success.
Among the features making the list is No Other Land, a documentary by a collective of Palestinian and Israeli filmmakers that has yet to secure U.S.
distribution. It has won awards at festivals from Berlin and Busan to Belfast and beyond. Queendom, a film about the extraordinary Russian drag performance artist Jenna Marvin continues its surge, making the IDA shortlist after securing a place on the DOC NYC shortlist of the year’s best documentaries.
National Geographic’s Sugarcane, about atrocities at a so-called Indian residential school in Canada, continued its strong pre-Oscar awards run by making the IDA list of contenders.
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