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What Will Win the New Documentary Prize at Cannes?
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What Will Win the New Documentary Prize at Cannes?

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Christopher Campbell
May 15, 2015
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Cannes Film Festival

The Cannes Film Festival is trying to address its documentary problem. Since 1976, only five nonfiction features have been selected for the official competition. This drought came after decades of prominently featured documentaries, frequently two or more in a single year. As I argued in an article this time last year, this recent drought is more than l…

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