SXSW is all-encompassing right now but I got a couple of emails yesterday reminding me that time marches on. Miami International Film Festival announced yesterday that João Moreira Salles’ Santiago won the Knight Grand Jury Prize, with Special Mentions going to Santa Fe Street (Calle Santa Fe) and A Paper Tiger (Un Tigre de Papel).

I had the fortune of seeing Santiago during the Tribeca Film Festival as one of their world cinema films that was available for download through Jaman during the fest. It is a beautiful and engaging film. Also, STRANDED: I come from a plane that crashed on the mountains won the Audience Award. Congrats to the filmmakers and I hope Miami went off without a hitch!

Also, the AFI Dallas fest announced their film line-up for this year’s incarnation, which I’m hoping to head north for at the end of the month. Doc competition films after the jump or download the whole program.

Circus Rosaire
For nine generations, the Rosaire family has entertained audiences all over the world with their legendary animal acts. However, the circus industry is changing and the Rosaires have fallen on hard times. Their poignant way of dealing with tragedy and hilarious relationships with one another capture the circus they call life.

Crawford
In 1999, George W. Bush buys a ranch in Crawford, Texas, calls it ‘home’ and wins the Presidency. What happens to the 705 people who lived in Crawford first?

Dinner with the President: A Nation’s Journey
From on-the-street interviews to audiences with religious leaders to dinner with the President of Pakistan, the film takes the temperature of a culture on issues from politics to women’s rights.

I.O.U.S.A.
I.O.U.S.A. boldly examines the rapidly growing national debt and its consequences for the United States and its citizens.

Intimidad
Cecy and Camilo – ages 21 – recently migrated to Reynosa, Mexico from Santa Maria, Puebla with a dream to buy land and build a home. A year later they return to their rural hometown to reunite with their daughter. What seems like a satisfying reunion turns into a confusing dilemma that transforms the course of their marriage.

Iron Ladies of Liberia
Iron Ladies of Liberia is an intimate observational documentary that goes behind the scenes with Africa’s first freely elected female head of state, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, President of Liberia. The film explores the challenges facing the President and the extraordinary women surrounding her as they develop and implement policy to rebuild their ravaged country, and prevent a descent back into civil war.

More Shoes
Struggling filmmaker Lee Kazimir reads the words of Werner Herzog, who said that filmmakers should skip film school and instead “make a journey alone, on foot, for a distance of 5,000 kilometers, let’s say from Madrid to Kiev.” Kazimir takes the advice literally, walking for six months and through seven countries, documenting the journey with a video camera.

Split: A Divided America
Shocking and informative, SPLIT: A DIVIDED AMERICA takes a behind the scenes look at the partisanship dominating our politics. Balancing candid discussions with citizens coast to coast and commentary from some of the sharpest minds analyzing government and society today, it’s a cross country investigation of democracy in America.

Stop The Presses: The American Newspaper in Peril
The woes of the American newspaper put democracy at risk. As paid circulation, ad revenue and stock prices plummet, can the Internet take up print journalism’s historic role as the public’s chief watchdog?

STRANDED: I come from a plane that crashed on the mountains
One of the greatest survival stories of all time is finally told by the survivors themselves. In October 1972, a rugby team from Uraguay boarded a plane for a game that they would never play. Their plane crashed in the Andes. 16 of the original 45 passengers managed to stay alive for 72 days on a frozen glacier. How they did it became a story that shocked the world.