Query: Penal system documentary films that are not about law enforcement in the United States
Domain: films
Relevant documents:
Four Men in Prison
Waseskun
No Burqas Behind Bars
12 Angry Lebanese: The Documentary
Life Somewhere Else
Love Crimes of Kabul
The Phantom (2021 film)
Out of Bounds (2005 film)
Journey Back to Youth
The Mouth of the Wolf (2009 film)
Hangman's Graveyard
Bunso
La Corona (film)
The Impossible Itself
A Hard Name
P4W: Prison for Women
Minoru: Memory of Exile
Death and the Judge
Evidence from documents: Four Men in Prison: '''''Four Men In Prison''''' is a 1950 documentary film about English prison conditions
Waseskun: '''''Waseskun''''' is a 2016 documentary film written and directed by Steve Patry about the Waseskun Healing Centre, a Correctional Service of Canada healing lodge run by Canadian Indigenous people for Indigenous inmates, situated in Quebec's Lanaudière region.
No Burqas Behind Bars: '''''No Burqas Behind Bars''''' is a 2012 Swedish feature-length documentary film made by Maryam Ebrahimi and Nima Sarvestani on life in a women's prison in Afghanistan.
12 Angry Lebanese: The Documentary: ''''12 Angry Lebanese: The Documentary''''' is a 2009 Lebanese documentary film directed, written and produced by Zeina Daccache, which chronicles efforts to stage an adaptation of Reginald Rose's 1954 teleplay ''Twelve Angry Men'' with inmates inside Beirut's Roumieh Prison It premiered at the 2009 Dubai International Film Festival.
Life Somewhere Else: '''''Life Somewhere Else''''' () is a 1995 short documentary film directed by Walter Salles. It tells the story of Maria do Socorro Nobre, a Brazilian woman who, while serving a 20-year prison sentence, becomes inspired by the story of Polish artist Frans Krajcberg, and becomes pen pals with him.
Love Crimes of Kabul: '''''Love Crimes of Kabul''''' is a 2011 documentary film following select cases of inmates at Badam Bagh women's prison in Kabul, Afghanistan, where half are jailed for "moral crimes" such as adultery, premarital sex and running away from home.
The Phantom (2021 film): It follows Carlos DeLuna, who was arrested in 1983 for the murder of a woman, and protested his innocence he was executed, stating another had committed the crime.
Out of Bounds (2005 film): documentary films: a 2005 French documentar
Penal system documentary films that are not about law enforcement in the United States: The Iwahig prison on the island of Palawan in the Philippines is an open air penal colony covering 38,000 hectares of jungle and coastland.
After a probationary period, long-term prisoners are allowed to become farmers, fishermen or wardens, as the prison is self-supporting and self-managed.
Journey Back to Youth: documentary films that are not about law enforcement in the United States: a 2001 documentary film by Russian film makers Alexander Gutman and Sergei Litviakov. The film is an interview of four German women who tell the story of four young German girls from East Prussia placed into a Soviet labor camp at the end of World War II according to Stalin's decisions about mobilization of Germans for reconstruction works in the USSR.
Penal system: a Soviet labor camp at the end of World War II
The Mouth of the Wolf (2009 film): Penal system documentary films: '''''The Mouth of the Wolf''''' (original title: ''La bocca del lupo'') is a 2009 biographical drama/documentary film
that are not about law enforcement in the United States: It follows an Italian man named Vincenzo Motta (also known as Enzo) who is serving a long sentence in a Genoa prison.
Hangman's Graveyard: The film follows an archaeological investigation at Toronto's old Don Jail beginning in September 2007.
Bunso: '''''Bunso''''' (''The Youngest'') is a documentary by Filipino filmmakers Ditsi Carolino and Nana Buxani.
Three boys, Tony, 13, Diosel, and Bunso, 11, are struggling to survive in a crowded Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center in Cebu, alongside adult rapists and murderers.
La Corona (film): a 2008 short American documentary film about a beauty pageant in a Colombian prison for women
The Impossible Itself: ''''The Impossible Itself''''' is a 2010 documentary film produced and directed by Jacob Adams to cover the 1957 San Francisco Actor's Workshop production of the Samuel Beckett stage play ''Waiting For Godot'' that was taken to San Quentin Prison and performed before its inmates, with an examination of an earlier incarnation of ''Godot'' as performed by inmates at the Luttringhausen Prison in Germany in 1953.
A Hard Name: Another of the film's subjects was abused as a child while a resident at the Mount Cashel Orphanage in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador.
P4W: Prison for Women: '''''P4W: Prison for Women''''' is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Janis Cole and Holly Dale and released in 1981. The film profiles several female inmates at the Prison for Women of Kingston Penitentiary.
Minoru: Memory of Exile: a 1992 animated documentary about the Japanese Canadian internment by Michael Fukushima. The film recreates the experiences of the filmmaker's father, Minoru, who as a child was sent along with his family and thousands of other Japanese Canadians to internment camps in the interior of British Columbia.
Death and the Judge: '''''Death and the Judge''''' is a 2018 documentary film directed by Hassan Khademi.
The film narrates the life and career of Nourollah Aziz-Mohammadi, an Iranian criminal judge who has issued more than 4 thousand death sentences during his career.
The film won the AIFIC Award at the Iran's Cinema Verite Film Festival and the Bertha Fund Award at the Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival.
Reza Hosseini points out that the film has its weaknesses, but the appeal of the subject and the stubbornness of the filmmaker make it spectacular.
Salahedin Ghaderi (from Kharazmi University) provides a sociological review of the film and calls it a "good text" for sociological inquiry.