Monrovia, Indiana

By

Frederick Wiseman

Monrovia, Indiana explores a small town in rural, mid-America and illustrates how values like community service, duty, spiritual life, generosity and authenticity are formed, experienced and lived along with conflicting stereotypes. The film gives a complex and nuanced view of daily life in Monrovia and provides some understanding of a way of life whose influence and force have not always been recognized or understood in the big cities on the east and west coasts of America and in other countries.

Festivals & Awards

Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival 2019 – Special Jury Prize

Venice Film Festival, 2018

Toronto International Film Festival, 2018

Filmfest Hamburg, 2018

New York Film Festival, 2018

BFI London Film Festival, 2018

Doclisboa, 2018

Viennale, 2018

Festival Do Rio, 2018

Geneva International Film Festival, 2018

Mar del Plata, 2018

ZINEBI International Film Festival of Bilbao, 2018

Cork Film Festival, 2018

IDFA, 2018

Belgrade Auteur Film Festival, 2018

Goteborg Film Festival, 2019

Press

Viviana Andriani / Aurélie Dard - Rendez Vous Press

‘Monrovia, Indiana’ is an immersive wonder, thanks to Wiseman’s masterful ability to assemble images that lead from one painterly visual to the next.

Indie Wire

Like all of Wiseman’s films, “Monrovia, Indiana” possesses almost meditative power.

The Washington Post

Original title: Monrovia, Indiana

Production: Zipporah Films Inc.

Nationality: USA

Year of production: 2018

Running time: 143'

Language: English

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