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Official Selection
Official Selection
Biografilm presents every year its official competition including ten documentaries and biopics running for the Lancia Award | Biografilm Festival.
Here’s a few titles we’ve been proud to select:
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Candyman: The David Klein Story - by Costa Boates
Candyman tells the amazing true story of David Klein, an eccentric candy inventor from LA, who in 1976 had a once in a lifetime epiphany and came up with the concept of Jelly Belly jellybeans. These colourful beans came in numerous shockingly realistic fla...Read more -
Big River man - by John Maringouin
Martin Strel isn't your usual athlete. He's a big-bellied Slovenian, who eats horse burgers, drinks two bottles of red wine a day (even while swimming) and, when he tackled the Amazon in 2007, was 53 years old. Martin swims rivers to bring attention to the...Read more -
The Fall of Fujimori - by Ellen Perry
In a nation besieged by bloody insurgents and appalling poverty appears a humble candidate who vows to fight for the poor and disenfranchised. Riding a crest of popular support, this political unknown storms into the elections and wins the Presidency. Afte...Read more -
In A Dream - by Jeremiah Zagar
Over the past four decades, Isaiah Zagar has covered more than 50,000 square feet of Philadelphia with stunning mosaic murals. In A Dream is a documentary feature film that chronicles his work and his tumultuous relationship with his wife, Julia. It follow...Read more -
The Cats of Mirikitani - by Linda Hattendorf
"Make art not war" is Jimmy Mirikitani's motto. This 85-year-old Japanese American artist was born in Sacramento and raised in Hiroshima, but by 2001 he is living on the streets of New York with the twin towers of the World Trade Center still ominously anc...Read more
