The 8th Golden Tree International Documentary Film Festival has collected 4325 films from 142 countries for competitions. The films will be evaluated for 6 prizes, including Golden Tree Award and Best Documentary Feature. After 30 preliminary and 5 pre-selection judges assessing the films from 4325 to 1000 to 100, finally the official selections of the 8th Golden Tree Festival have names of 47 films.
The Official Selections
Long Documentary
Project Title
Country of Origin
Directors
The Artist and the Power of Thought
Brazil
Elder Fraga
Alone
Iran
Jafar Najafi
Waters of Pastaza
Portugal
Inês T Alves
Rojek
Canada
Zaynê Akyol
After the Bridge
Italy
Davide Rizzo, Marzia Toscano
Ladies Only
India
Rebana Liz John
Go, friend, go
Italy
Gabriele Licchelli, Francesco Lorusso, Andrea Settembrini
Elis & Tom
Brazil
Roberto Oliveira
The Last Human
Denmark
Ivalo Frank
Kim's Video
United States
Ashley Sabin, David Redmon
LAGUNARIA
Italy
Giovanni Pellegrini
ALIVE
Russian Federation
Konstantin Selin
UP THERE
Italy
Bartolomeo Pampaloni
Lyd
Palestine, State of
Rami Younis, Sarah Ema Friedland
Senza paura (Fearless)
Italy
LUCIANO TORIELLO
AAMELAT. JORNALERAS DE LA GUERRA
Spain
Eva Parey
TO SEE THE SNOW LEOPARD
Russian Federation
Anna Ganshina
From Afar Every Mountain Range is Blue
Brazil
Neto Borges
Rebelled
Spain
Andrea Gautier, Tabatta Salinas
Light upon light
Egypt
Christian Suhr
One or More
China
ZHOU Hongbo
Guranay
China
A Gu
Mo Yan
China
ZHANG Tongdao
Rosewood with Noble Character
China
ZHANG Yiqing
Medium Documentary
| Project Title | Country of Origin | Directors |
| What the soil remembers | Ecuador | José Cardoso |
| Les chenilles | France | Michelle Keserwany, Noel Keserwany |
| Maryam | Iran | Elnaz Zhalehchin |
| The Dream of a Horse | Iran | Marjan Khosravi |
| MASQUERADES | France | Claire Second |
| SOL | Syrian Arab Republic | zahra Alboudi |
| Violet Gave Willingly | Canada | Claire Sanford |
| Serpent in the West | Spain | Yessica Hurtado Martínez |
| A FADING MELODY | China | Gang Zhao |
| Submerged | India | Iqbal Hussain |
| Sound of Tibetan Guest | China | ZHAO Fengyi |
| The National Park of China Panda | China | ZENG Hairuo |
Short Documentary
| Project Title | Country of Origin | Directors |
| Symphony of The Knots | Iran | Hossein Ranjbar Shirazi |
| SURCOS | Ecuador | César Cárdenas Gordon |
| Shirampari: Legacies of the River | Peru | Lucía Flórez |
| 6.14 | Ireland | David Ian Bickley |
| Carpenter | Iran | Xelîl Sehragerd |
| For every girl, a forest | USA | Nacho Corbella, Lucy Martens |
| Will You Look At Me | China | Shuli Huang |
| Stones | Armenia | Arman Ayvazyan |
| The things you don't know about me, mum | Italy | Daniela Lucato |
| LA LIXEIRA - the invisibles' dignity | Italy | GUIDO GALANTE, ANTONIO NOTARANGELO |
| A Fantastic Yang Opera | China | XU Haoyang, SU Mengyuan |
These films will be screened during the festival in Paris and compete for the final prizes.