A journalistic tour-de-force, Johan Grimonprez’s explosive “Shadow World”, based on Andrew Feinstein’s book of the same title, exposes the global arms trade as a system defined by corruption. Blending archival footage and expert interviews, it traces connections between disparate players – linking the Saudi royal family, Margaret Thatcher’s son, Tony Blair, the Obama administration, and the Salvadoran Contras – and shows how war and profit shape the modern world.
* Film recommended for ages 12 and over.
Screenplay Johan Grimonprez, Andrew Feinstein
Cinematography Nicole MacKinley Hahn
Editing Per K. Kirkegaard, Pedro Collantes de Teran Bayonas, Dieter Diependaele
Sound Josh Berger, Allan Zaleski, Bill Chesley
Music Karsten Fundal
Producers Joslyn Barnes, Anadil Hossain
Co-producers Signe Byrge Sørensen, Emmy Oost
Production Dillywood, Louverture Films
Co-production Onomatopee Films, Final Cut for Real
Narrated by Eduardo Galeano
AUDIO: English
SUBTITLE: Romanian
27
April,
Monday
Cinema Elvire Popesco
8:30 PM
94'
Followed by Q&A with director Johan Grimonprez
Johan Grimonprez - Filmmaker
Johan Grimonprez
Filmmaker
Johan Grimonprez is a filmmaker, multimedia artist, and curator whose critically acclaimed work moves between theory and practice, art and cinema, beyond the dualisms of documentary and fiction, self and other, mind and brain, to weave new pathways for perceiving our realities. His film “dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y” (1997, in collaboration with novelist Don DeLillo) premiered at documenta X and was named by the Guardian among the “30 greatest works in the history of video art.” “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat”, his latest feature, is Oscar-nominated for Best Documentary Feature, premiering at Sundance 2024, where it won the Cinematic Innovation Award, and later the Persistence of Vision Award at SFFilm and the Audience Award at Thessaloniki.
awards and festivals
Best Documentary Feature – Documentary Competition – Edinburgh International Film Festival 2016 Special Mention of the Jury – Documentary Competition – Guanajuato International Film Festival 2016 Tribeca Film Festival 2016 San Francisco International Film Festival 2016 Valladolid International Film Festival (Seminci) 2016 Vancouver International Film Festival 2016 Durban International Film Festival 2016 International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) 2016 Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival 2016 DokuFest International Documentary and Short Film Festival 2016