He, together with six women and four other men, set sail on a specially commissioned raft to cross the Atlantic. The Raft (Marcus Lindeen, 2018) documents a flawed social experiment from the 1970s where anthropologist Santiago Genoves wished to explore human behaviour in a confined setting without access to the outside world. This was the documentary maker on an heroic quest, to track down and expose the war criminal, Klaus Barbie, the infamous 'Butcher of Lyon' and in which he succeeded and procured justice in the name of all who suffered and died because of this man. Marcel Ophuls worked for decades on Hotel Terminus (1988). This got us thinking and talking about other great documentaries where the film-makers had been willing or driven to put in the time: Hoop Dreams (Steve James, 1995) followed the hopes and aspirations of two young basketball protegees over the course of four years, for example. In the Q&A afterwards, Cunningham revealed that he had worked on the film for five years. Watching it was a deeply immersive and highly emotional experience. Irene's Ghost (2018), directed by Iain Cunningham, was a quest to resurrect the memory of his mother who died when he was just three years old. Documentary film-makers have always been well represented at Borderlines and 2019 was no exception.
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