ENC: DeMiner + Find Fix Finish (Short)

The Bioscope is proud to welcome back The Encounters South African International Documentary Film Festival.

Tickets: R60

DeMiner

Dir Hogir Hirori, Shinwar Kamal
Sweden | 2018
83 minutes

In what has been described as the non-fiction counterpart to Kathryn Bigelow’s Hurtlocker, comes a film that chronicles the bravery of Iraqi IED-defuser; Colonel Fakhir Berwari. Leaning awkwardly on his prosthetic leg he bends and swiftly, surely, disarms kitchen pots refashioned as cruel mines using simple tools – a pair of clippers and a knife. In his first year stationed in Mosul he defused more than 600 of them. An amateur home video enthusiast, Fakhir captures countless hours of footage during his courageous demining missions. The archive is artfully sculpted into an emotive portrait of a man whose gritty determination to save as many innocent lives as possible remains resolute, despite the constant threat of losing his own life in the process. Winner of the silver medal Special Jury prize at IDFA in
Amsterdam, The DeMiner is certain to become a festival favourite.

Awards:
Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival 2017 - Best Feature-Length
Documentary

Find Fix Finish
Dir Sylvain Cruiziat & Mila Zhluktenko
Germany | 2017
19 minutes

In the skies above Afghanistan, drones are flying, directly controlled from a screen somewhere in the United States. All it takes is to go through a fixed series of protocols, press a button, and the target is eliminated. In this short documentary, drone pilots talk about this chilling work.