S1.E53 ∙ Best of Daily Docs

Finally we have a Singaporean film with a hero=heroine who does not end up dead, amok, or punished for her carnal aspirations.

Scadia: The Known World looks at the overlap between fantasy and daily life for a group of historical re-creators in the Southern United States. Unlike other historical reenacting groups, members of the Society for Creative Anachronism put more emphasis on an idealized notion of chivalry over historical accuracy.

Journal de Bord d'un Bateau fantôme is a silent science-fiction movie. Traveling to discover a new planet, a new world. It's like if for the first time a (human?) being makes the first footstep on a new orb. The new planet is The Earth, Amazonian Region. Their inhabitants appear to us in their daily life, without any possibility for us to really understand what they are doing, because they look like aliens. Journal is a film about the Others, about the idea of The Other. It's about the Man.

Nazareno is another man who was born and works on the continent, but nowadays survives on the island. Crossing the river is part of his routine. Under it, every day, flows the "Big River" flooded with unresolved stories.