CPHDOX 2009 INT by CPH Filmfestivals

CPH:DOX 2009

Contents

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Welcome Juries Gala

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COMPETITIONS DOX:AWARD NEW:VISION AWARD SOUND & VISION AWARD AMNESTY AWARD DANISH:DOX AWARD SHORT:DOX AWARD

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ARTIST IN FOCUS Philippe Grandrieux Nathalie Djurberg Vincent Moon

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SPECIAL FOCUS 09 Made in Sweden P:O:R:N:O RE:THINK DOX:POLITICS New Deal Iran Vs. Iran Urban Change

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DOX:REGULARS TOP:DOX Seminars

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DOX:EXPANDED Concerts and Parties Special Screenings

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DOX:INDUSTRY DOX:FORUM DOX:MARKET DOX:LAB

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Doc Alliance CONTACTS INDEX OF FILMS

CREDITS Festival Director: Tine Fischer Programme Committee: Tine Fischer (responsible), Niklas Engstrøm, Thure Munkholm, Mads Mikkelsen, Mads Bacher. Film Preview Group: Niklas Engstrøm (responsible), Thure Munkholm, Mads Bacher, Tine Fischer, Mads Mikkelsen, Daniella Eversby, Malou Leth Reymann, Louise Højgaard Johansen, Mathilde Rosendahl Philipsen, Synnøve Kjærland, Marie Louise Siim DOX:MARKET & DOX:FORUM: Riina Spørring Zachariassen, Tine Mosegaard, Jonas Jessen, Ursula Marcussen DOX:FORUM Graphics design: Majbrit Linnebjerg / Banalic Event Production: Niklas Engstrøm (responsible), Marie Skovgaard, Kaspar Jensen, Thinh Duc Tran, Anders Lindegaard, Stine Fagerholt, Amalie Linde, Eva Kanstrup, Mads Mikkelsen, Nadia Adamsen Faber, Daniella Eversby, Lykke Fogtmann, Kirstine Barfod, Casper Rasmussen, Carl Emil Ammundsen, Marie Louise Siim Marketing and PR: Daniella Eversby (responsible), Rikke Rasmussen, Lykke Fogtmann, Sandra Sveinbjørnsson

CPH:DOX’s official main sponsors are: The Capital Region of Denmark, Playstation, DR, The Danish Ministry of Culture, The Danish Film Institute, Politiken, Copenhagen City Council, Jameson CPH:DOX’s sponsors and contributors are: Alexandra Institute, The American Embassy, Amnesty, CKU, Danish Union of Journalists, Danish Association of Film Directors, EU-nævnet, FAF, IMS, LO, MEDIA, Merkur Bank, Nordisk Filmfond, Nordisk Film & TV fond, Nordisk Kulturfond, Danish Producers Association, Statens Kunstråd, the Embassy of the Czech Republic, TV5monde, UBOD, Vi KBH’R CPH:DOX has collaborated with: Air France, artFREQ, Bazar Music Shop, Cinemateket, Clearchannel, COOP/ Kvickly, Copenheroes, Doc Alliance, Dok Leipzig, DOX:WISE, DSB, East Silver, EAVE, Escho, E-sport Danmark, Europcar, Fair Trade, Fera, Filmkopi, Forbrugerrådet, the French Embassy, Institut Français, Goethe Institut, Greenway, IDDF Jihlava, Joe and the Juice, Kent kaffe, KILROY travels, Lindeman, MBR, Manden med Cameraet, Meyer, Montana, Planete Doc Review, Pumpehuset, Rust, the Swedish Film Institute, Skt. Petri, National Gallery of Denmark, Støberiet, SUPERmarked. org, Third Ear, Tim’s Cookies, VEGA, Vester Kopi, Visions du Reel Nyon, WIFT

Web Editor: Mads Bacher

Catalogue: Niklas Engstrøm, Thure Munkholm, Mads Mikkelsen, Tine Fischer, Louise Voss Bendixen, Louise Højgaard Johansen, Kristoffer Horn Jensen, Janne Kristensen, Lise Nielsen, Vibeke Bryld, Kaspar Jensen, Marie Skovgaard, Ida Brixtofte Nielsen, Carl Emil Aamundsen & Claus Kjær.

Graphic design and layout: Mads Bacher Poster- and front page photograph: Jesper Pedersen, Sofie Holten Poster- and front page layout: Emil Hartvig Andersen Fotograf: Lasse Bech Martinussen Festival trailer: Directors: Jesper Pedersen and Sofie Holten Cinematography: Nadim Carlsen Editing: Sofie Holten Produced by: READY-MADE Typography and production: Andreas Steinmann

Translation: Andrew Blackwell

Advertisement sales: MBR/Musikbranchens Reklamebureau

Festival Producer: Kirstine Barfod (responsible),Casper Rasmussen, Andreas Steinmann

Print: Vester Kopi, 2009, 1,000 copies. Reprinting permitted on condition of mention of source.

Catalogue Editor: Mads Bacher

Press: Vibeke Bryld (responsible), Ida Brixtofte Nielsen, Lasse Andreasen Print Coordinator: Patricia Drati Rønde Guest Coordinators CPH:DOX: Kirstine Barfod, Casper Rasmussen Guest Coordinators DOX:FORUM: Riina Spørring Zachariassen, Ursula Marcussen Guest Coordinators DOX:LAB: Mette Sø, Jakob Svensson. Web: Mads Bacher & Andreas Steinmann. Volunteer Coordination & Production: Lena Bredlund DOX:LAB: Mette Sø (responsible), Jakob Svensson, Jonas Jessen, Solveig Søholm. YOUNG:DOX: Nadia Adamsen Faber, Kristoffer Horn DOX:CLUB: Kristoffer Horn, Kirstine Barfod, Casper Rasmussen Cities on Speed: Kristoffer Horn (responsible), Nadia Adamsen Faber DOC ALLIANCE: Tine Fischer, Daniella Eversby DR:DOX: Daniella Eversby (responsible), Kaspar Jensen, Kristian Møller Jørgensen, Kirstine Barfod, Casper Rasmussen

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As in previous years, we are here to offer you a quality selection of independent filmmaking from around the world. This year more than ever we have made it our finest ambition to devote ourselves to the discovery of the new auteurs of tomorrow. Curiosity, discovery and a hopefully free mind have formed our choices, we truly hope that the festival can encourage all these talented filmmakers to pursue a personally devoted and free thinking cinema. We know that it is not an easy job - between business constraints and commercial realities – but we are here to support it. Artist in focus This year we will screen more than 200 films. Needless to say we are proud to welcome each of them. But three singular and extraordinary talents have been carefully selected as this year’s ’Artist in Focus’. For the first time in Denmark we are delighted to introduce the Swedish artist Nathalie Djurberg. Recently honored with the Silver Lion for the best young artist at the 53rd Venice Biennale, Djurberg has caught attention with her clayanimated films - a play of sexual reminiscence, evocations of the macabre, of violence and the subtle pleasures of cruelty and a vague depravity. Her narratives evoke ambiguous feelings of anxiety and malaise. We are also happy to introduce the man behind one of the most interesting attempts at redefining the relationship between film and music. His name is Vincent Moon, he has been around on the www for some time now, and he has proposed an agenda for the music documentary far away from the industrial promo approach so often dominating this genre. Last but not least, we are deeply honored to welcome one of European art cinema’s most compelling voices. His name is Philippe Grandrieux, and he is by far working at one of the most advanced points in contemporary cinematic research, He has worked in fiction, documentary essay and installation, all the time returning to the most profound and obscure sources of representational desire. Why make images? What purpose do they serve?

DOX:LAB In the spirit of supporting new talent, CPH:DOX this year launches an exclusive talent workshop, handpicking a small number of young, international filmmakers and artists to participate in an experimental documentary laboratory. The idea is to create a space where unauthorized cinematic forms can be explored and developed. By handpicking a group of filmmakers with very different backgrounds in terms of culture, film history, narrative traditions, educational backgrounds and different methods of and access to production we hope to stimulate a dialogue based new aesthetic. The participants will develop and produce 12 films in teams of two, which will be screened during the next edition of CPH:DOX. We cannot wait to see, what these carefully arrangedmarriages will bring us. DOX:LAB will be a returning lab and production program for young filmmakers taking place during CPH:DOX each year. DOX:FORUM Finally we are more than happy to welcome you once again and for the third time to our oneof-a-kind distribution platform: DOX:FORUM. The Forum was initiated with a strong belief in the creative, free and auteur-driven documentary film and an equally insisting and realistic belief in the distribution of exactly these types of films. 14 new, challenging documentary projects primarily in post-production will be presented to an excellent line-up of major international funds, sales agents, buyers, distributors, broadcasters, online platforms, festivals, museums, curators and other film and art institutions, The right match is always breathtaking, we will do our best to make it happen. Tine Fischer Festival Director

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DOX:AWARD JURY

Gerwin Tamsma (Netherlands)

Sophie Fiennes (UK)

Frederic Boyer (France)

Christoffer Boe (Denmark)

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Hana Makhmalbaf (Iran)

DOX:AWARD JURY Frederic Boyer (France) Frédéric Boyer was appointed the director of the prestigious Director’s

Cannes, Boyer in 1994 established Videosphere, a video shop dedicated

Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival at the beginning of 2009. Boyer

solely to arthouse films. The shop later grew into a chain, which be-

joined the Director’s Fortnight committee in Cannes in 2003, where he

came the largest of its kind in Europe.

as a programmer paid special attention to films from the USA, Great Britain, Australia, Eastern Europe and Scandinavia. Before his time in

Christoffer Boe (Denmark) Christoffer Boe, born in 1974, studied film and media at The University

selected for Venice Days and Toronto International Film Festival, where

of Copenhagen and subsequently trained at The National Film School

he won the Prix du Jury Jeunes. His third feature, ‘Offscreen’, was re-

of Denmark where he graduated in 2001.

leased in 2006 and won the fantastic Jury Prize in Austin as well as

Boe’s career as a filmmaker made a flying start with the Camera d’Or

the Altre Visioni prize in Venice. Most recently, Christoffer Boe made

newcomer award for his feature ‘Reconstruction’ at the Cannes Film

a portrait of the scandalised Danish businessman Klaus Riskær in the

Festival in 2003. ‘Reconstruction’ is written by Boe himself in collabo-

documentary ‘Riskær – Avantgarde-kapitalisten’ . Boe is co-founder of

ration with the screenplay guru Mogens Rukov. In 2005, Boe contin-

the production company Alphaville Pictures.

ued his narrative and visual style in the feature ‘Allegro’, which was

Hana Makhmalbaf (Iran) Iranian director, born 1988 in Teheran, and daughter of the acclaimed

Prize in San Sebastian in 2007. Her second feature, the controversial

director Mohsen Makhmalbaf. At the age of 8, she made herself known

‘Green Days’, which premiered at the film festivals in Venice and Toron-

with her first short film ”The Day My Aunt Was Ill”. The film gained

to in 2009, is a mixture of fiction and reality and documents the run-up

international attention at the Locarno Film Festival in 1997, when she

to the elections in Iran, as well as hithertoo unseen mobile phone foot-

was just 9 years old. 14-year-old, Hana directed the documentary ”Joy

age of the bloody protests after the elections. Hana studied film studies

of Madness” in Afghanistan. At the age of 18, she filmed her first fea-

at Makhmalbaf’s film school during 8 years. She works as a director,

ture ”Buddha Collapsed Out Of Shame” in Bamian, Afghanistan. The

photographer and screenwriter. Hana has also published her first book

film won various prestigious awards, among others the Crystal Bear

”Visa for one Moment” in 2003.

and the Peace Film Award in Berlin in 2008, as well as the Special Jury

Sophie Fiennes (UK) Sophie Fiennes has made films since 1998 and is acclaimed for her

film and psychoanalysis, presented by Slavoj Zizek, and she has before

unique observational eye and strong sense of cinematic style. Fiennes

made shorter projects with subjects including Lars von Trier (Lar From

often takes a collaborative approach to filmmaking and has worked

1-10) and UNICEF’s humanitarian activities. The projects currently

together with artists and thinkers from the dancer/choreographer

under development include ‘Over Your Cities, Grass Will Grow’, a film

Michael Clark to the philosopher/psychoanalyst Slavoj Zizek. Sophie

project with the artist Anselm Kiefer, ‘Grace Jones, The Musical Of My

Fiennes’s films have been shown in cinemas and at festivals all around

Life’, a digital video project with the singer and performer Grace Jones

the world, including Sundance, Telluride, Locarno, Toronto, Rotterdam,

as well as ‘The Pervert’s Guide To Ideology’ – another collaboration

Edinburgh, Sydney and London. Recent projects include ‘The Pervert’s

with Slavoj Zizek.

Guide To Cinema’ (2006), which examines the relationship between

Gerwin Tamsma (Netherlands) Gerwin Tamsma is the programmer of one of the world’s most ac-

the festival’s Hubert Bals Fund, which aims to help filmmakers from

claimed film festivals, the Rotterdam International Film Festival. Be-

developing countries. Gerwin Tamsma is also responsible for the festi-

fore he came to Rotterdam, he worked as a freelance film critic and

val’s Bright Future section for young filmmakers and takes part in the

editor and wrote contributions for, among others, NRZ Handelsblad

selection of films for the Tiger Award competition. He has also curated

and Dutch Film Yearbook. He is now responsible for the programming

a number of retrospective series as well as special programmes for

of the Rotterdam festival’s features from Korea, China, Spain and Latin

the festival. He has sat on both national and international juries, among

America as well as Scandinavia. In addition, he is on the committee of

others in Vancouver, Bafici in Buenos Aires and CinDi in Seoul.

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NEW:VISION AWARD JURY

Sally Berger (USA)

Nicolaus Schafhausen (Germany)

Anselm Franke (Germany)

Eduardo Thomas (Mexico)

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Raya Martin (Philippines)â&#x20AC;¨

NEW:VISION AWARD JURY Anselm Franke (Germany) Anselm Franke is the artistic director of Ekstra City Centre for Con-

In addition, he writes for a number of magazines, including pictogram

temporary Art in Antwerp and former director of exhibitions at KW

and Metropolis M. Current projects as curator include Mimétisme (Ex-

Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin until 2006. He is still active

tra City, 2008) and curated solo exhibitions of Peter Friedl and Smadar

in Berlin, where he works as a curator for ‘Forum Expanded’ at the

Dreyfus, and he is also working on an exhibition of drawings by the leg-

Berlin International Film Festival. In 2008, he was appointed curator

endary Russian filmmaker and theoretician Sergei Eisenstein. Franke

at the acclaimed arts biennial Manifesta 7 and the Brussels Biennial.

is currently completing his PhD at Goldsmith’s College in London.

Sally Berger (USA) Sally Berger is curator at the department of film at the Museum of

individual installation shows by Magdalena Campos Pons and Seoung-

Modern Art in New York. In 2001, she co-founded Documentary Fort-

ho Cho. Upcoming exhibitions include the media installation Maya Der-

night, an annual festival that presents current trends in documentary

en’s legacy as well as retrospective series with Sally Potter (April 2010)

films and new media. Her exhibitions range from experimental films to

and Barbara Hammer (September 2010). In connection with Modern

documentaries and features, and include retrospective series of Harun

Mondays at MoMA, she has presented modern artists such as Brody

Farocki, Su Friedrich, Bahman Ghobadi, Mahamat Saleh Haroun, Kim

Condon, Donigan Cumming, Andrea Greyer, Sharon Hayes, Isaac Julien

Longinotto, Alanis Obomsawin and Abderrahmane Sissako, as well as

and Carey Young.

Raya Martin (Philippines)  Even if he was only born in 1984, the Philippine Raya Martin has al-

pino film scene. Martin trained at The Film Institute of The University

ready experienced standing in a sold-out screening theatre in Cannes

of the Philippines, but in terms of style and subject-matter, he is a

proclaiming his self-written manifesto for a film revolution in the

self-taught loner. His films like to build on the both privileged and pe-

Philippines. Martin’s style is political, self-conscious and conceptually

ripheral position of the outsider, who has the ability to perceive things

challenging like that of few other living directors, and he has earned

critically, above all the after-effects of colonisation in the third world.

a corresponding attention at international festivals – among others CPH:DOX, with last year’s focus on exactly the young and radical Fili-

Eduardo Thomas (Mexico) Eduardo Thomas represents the Mexican documentary film festival

Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam and works as an artist and DJ along-

Ambulante, a new and ground-breaking festival, which in collaboration

side his work as programme editor of Ambulante.

with Canana Cinepolis and Morelia International Film Festival has the ambition of promoting documentary films in Mexico as well as abroad. The festival has recently exported its programme to countries like Norway, Cuba and the UK. Eduardo Thomas has an MA in Fine Arts from

Nicolaus Schafhausen (Germany) Nicolaus Schafhausen has been the artistic director and administrative

discussion, Schafhausen has placed special emphasis on team work

director of Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art in Rotterdam

and has as a result managed to put together a team of international

since 2006 and was appointed the curator for the German pavilion at

curators and theoreticians.

both the 52nd and 53rd Venice Biennale. Schafhausen was the artistic

Schafhausen has curated and co-curated a number of shows outside

director of Künstlerhaus Stuttgart from 1995 to 1998, where he created

his own institutions, among other things at Stedelijk Museum Amster-

a model for art mediation that set a trend among similar institutions in

dam, Nasjonalmuseet for Kunst, Arkitektur og Design in Oslo and Kun-

the 90s. In 1999, he was named the director of Frankfurter Kunstverein,

stbau in Munich. In 2008, Schafhausen co-curated the first Bruxelles

which under his leadership reclaimed its high standing both nation-

Biennial. In 2010, he will curate the Platform Festival in Seoul together

ally and internationally. At Witte de With, which focuses on theory and

with Sunjung Kim.

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SOUND & VISION AWARD JURY

DJ SPOOKY (USA)

Caroline Sascha Cogez (Denmark)

Le Gammeltoft (Denmark)

Erika Wasserman (Sverige)

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J贸hann J贸hannsson (Iceland)

SOUND & VISION AWARD JURY DJ SPOOKY (USA) Paul D Miller aka DJ Spooky that Subliminal Kid is a concept artist, au-

Quartet, Killa Priest, Steve Reich, Yoko Ono and Sonic Youth’s Thurston

thor and musician based in New York. He has exhibited at the Whitney

Moore. He also composed and wrote the music for Slam, which won

Biennial, the Venice Architecture Biennale, the Andy Warhol Museum

awards in both Cannes and Sundance. In 2007, Miller travelled to Ant-

and a number of other places. He has among other things written for

arctica to record images and sounds for his work Terra Nova: Sinfonia

The Village Voice and Artforum and is also the editor of the magazine

Antarctica – a blend of audiovisual frequencies and classical music,

21c. In 2004, he published the book Rhythm Science and most recently

which will be performed at CPH:DOX.

Sound Unbound in 2008. DJ Spooky has recorded and collaborated with a broad range of musicians, including Ryuichi Sakamoto, Kronos

Jóhann Jóhannsson (Iceland) Critics have called Jóhann Jóhannsson Iceland’s foremost genre-

the music for nine theatre productions and for a number of modern

defying multi-instrumentalist. He has 10 albums under his belt, and

dance performances. Jóhann has toured throughout the world with his

music for film and theatre plays a central role in Jóhannsson’s work.

ensemble, which apart from a piano, a keyboard and Jóhannsson’s own

He has composed music for eight features in Iceland as well as Den-

electronica includes a string quartet and a percussionist. His tours have

mark, Mexico and the USA, and he has also written the music for sev-

taken him to Japan, China, Latvia, France, the USA, Ireland, the Czech

eral documentaries, short films and TV series. Most recently, he has

Republic and now Denmark again.

written and composed the music for the Danish documentarist Max Kestner’s city portrait, ‘Dreams in Copenhagen’, and his CV includes

Erika Wasserman (Sverige) Erika Wasserman was born in 1978 and grew up in Sweden. She works

Toronto 2006), which was Sweden’s Oscar contender in 2007. Before

as a producer for the production company “Fasad”. Fasad has been be-

Erika Wasserman was employed as producer at Fasad, she worked for

hind various critically acclaimed productions over the past few years,

the production company Atmo (Metropia, Videocracy, Gitmo), where

most recently the feature ‘Burrowing’, which premiered at the Berlin

she produced a documentary TV series and participated in the develop-

Film Festival in 2009. At the moment, she is developing a new produc-

ment of numerous features.

tion with the same director, which is planned to be shot in the spring of 2010. Fasad is also the co-producer of ‘Falkenberg Farewell’ (Venice,

Le Gammeltoft (Denmark) Le Gammeltoft is well established in the Danish music industry, the

tion ‘Sound of Copenhagen’ and starting the ‘Klub Rolig’ at Ideal Bar,

Danish and international DJ scene and media world. She is best known

which focuses on quiet, melancholy and thoughtful music. Le Gammel-

as a radio host on P3. But she is also an industrious and respected DJ

toft, who also has an MA in English and Culture and Cultural Agency,

under the name ‘Le Mans’ – both here in Denmark in the Copenhagen

founded the company communicable.dk in 2003 and has for many years

club scene and in international clubs such as ‘Tape’ in Berlin, ‘Keybar’

worked as a freelance journalist, among other things for fashion and

in New York and ‘La Fleche D’Or’ in Paris. Together with her friend and

culture magazines.

colleague Kjeld Tolstrup, she has participated in releasing the compila-

Caroline Sascha Cogez (Denmark) Danish/French director, trained at the Danish film school “Super16”.

videos as a means of identity. Caroline has lived in London for a number

Caroline has written and directed a long row of award-winning shorts.

of years, where she worked for MTV and VH1. Her passion for music has

Her dark and intelligent humour combined with a poetic taste for style

been a source of inspiration for many collaborations and film projects.

have seen her films make it to be shown at international film festivals

In the past few years, Caroline has toured with The Raveonettes and

and on TV channels all over the world. She started working for the film

Peaches, and worked on film projects on the crossroads between fiction

industry as an assistant director for Lars von Trier, while studying so-

and documentary.

ciology at Roskilde University, and wrote her dissertation about music

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AMNESTY AWARD JURY

James Der Derian (UK)

Maja Borg (Sweden)

Reza Hari (Iran)

Helle Faber (Denmark)

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Ryan Harrington (USA)

AMNESTY AWARD JURY Ryan Harrington (USA) Ryan Harrington is the programme director for documentary films

of cinema-distributed documentaries for four years. During his time

at the Tribeca Film Institute, where he administers the Gucci Tribeca

there he was behind the Oscar-nominated films Murderball and Jesus

Documentary Fund and develops other initiatives within documentary

Camp as well as the Sundance favourites My Kid Could Paint That and

film production. He has himself produced the films 21 Below, Entre

American Teen. Other films include Barbara Kopple’s Bearing Witness,

Nos, P-Star Rising and the upcoming film Hungry in America (Kristi

Annie Sundberg and Ricki Stern’s The End Of American and Alexis Ar-

Jacobson & Lori Silverbush) and Radio Unnameable. Earlier, Har-

quette’s She’s My Brother.

rington was production manager at A&E IndieFilms in the department

Reza Hari (Iran) The Iranian film director Reza Haeri lives and works in Teheran, where

as well as worked with video installations. He has received numerous

he writes for numerous Iranian newspapers as well as for the BBC. He

international awards for his latest film Final Fitting and is currently in

has also collaborated with institutions such as ARTE and Channel4 and

the process of shooting the film All Restrictions End, which through a

is now the head of International Affairs at the Iranian Documentary As-

focus on the development of Iranian clothes and fashion also looks at

sociation. Over the past 12 years, Reza Haeri has made documentaries

the nation’s concurrent historical development.

and made his debut in 1998 with the documentary Do You Know Mr. Kiarostami? Since then he has made documentaries about taxi drivers in Teheran, the rock band 127, love affairs across national borders,

Helle Faber (Denmark) Helle Faber has a long career behind her at the Danish broadcasting

film producer at Bastard Film, where she works today. Faber has pro-

company Danmarks Radio. After graduating from the Danish School of

duced the award-winning film Enemies of Happiness as well as other

Media and Journalism in 1991, she was employed as a scheduler and

succesful documentaries such as Max Kestner’s Verden i Danmark and

host of the youth programme P4 on P1, following this she worked as a

Nanna Frank Møller’s Let’s Be Together. Faber has also produced this

news reporter. Ten years ago, Helle Faber turned towards working with

year’s Cities on Speed film Shanghai / Space, also directed by Nanna

documentaries, first in documentary series for DR, before taking the

Frank Møller.

step from TV documentary to film documentary as the documentary

James Der Derian (UK) James Der Derian graduated from Oxford University and is now a re-

tary leadership of the American army due to the film’s controversial ap-

search professor at Watson Institute of International Studies at Brown

proach to the implementation of Human Terrain systems in war zones.

University, where he heads the Innovating Global Security and Media

The film can be seen in this year’s film programme. Apart from his

Project. Apart from a number of book publications – among them Virtu-

academic activities, James Der Derian works as a reviewer and editor

ous War, Critical Practices in International Theory and Antidiplomacy –

of various international publications, he is a guest lecturer at numer-

Der Derian has directed and produced three documentaries with Udris

ous European universities, among others Copenhagen University, and

Films, VY2K, After 9/11 and Human Terrain. The latter film caused a

now he’s back in Denmark again, this time as a jury member of the

large debate after its premiere among senior academics and the mili-

Amnesty Award.

Maja Borg (Sweden) At an early age, Maja Borg started writing, producing and directing

documentary filmmaking. The topics in Maja Borg’s films are highly

films. She trained at the Film and TV department at the Edinburgh Col-

diverse and most recently she has tackled contemporary topics such

lege of Art, where she graduated with the documentary Look at Lucia.

as the crisis of capitalism and the global economic downturn. Her films

Maja Borg’s films move along the border between documentary, fiction

have won several awards and have been shown at festivals all over the

and experimental, and she competently fuses the languages of these

world.

genres and creates a visually rich form of expression. She manages in her unique way to renounce alluring genre definitions, and her filmic style combines elements of animation, experimental film and classic

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DANISH:DOX AWARD JURY

Anna J. Ljungmarker (Sweden)

Marcus LindĂŠen (Sweden)

Mikel Cee Karlsson (sweden)

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DANISH:DOX AWARD JURY Anna J. Ljungmarker (Sweden) Anna J. Ljungmarker is the director of BoostHbg, a new Swedish talent

at BoostHgb, Anna J. Ljung is involved with the development of the

development initiative. She has worked in the film industry since 1994,

DocLounge club, which in 2006 started as a new initiative to present

at first as a director/producer until she found her true passion – project

and show documentaries. DocLounge is so far established in Sweden,

development. Apart from working as a developer, Anna J. Ljung has

Denmark and Finland.

been a tutor at Swedish film schools, festivals and for EDN, European Documentary Network, as well as acted as editor and consultant of short and documentary films at Film i Skåne. To supplement her work

Marcus Lindéen (Sweden) Marcus Lindén is a recently graduated director from Dramatiska In-

men. Before he joined the world of film and theatre, Marcus Lindén has

stitutet in Stockholm and has just completed his first, long documen-

among other things worked as a journalist and host on various cultural

tary ‘Regretters’ – about two Swedish men who have changed their

programmes for SVT, and attended art schools in Sweden and abroad

sex twice – for the Swedish production company ATMO. ‘Regretters’ is

– among others Kunsthøjskolen in Holbæk.

based on his internationally translated theatre play of the same name, which again was based on a radio interview that he made with the two

Mikel Cee Karlsson (Sweden) Mikel Cee Karlsson’s background is in music videos - and in the world

his childhood home town, and which can be seen in this year’s special

of professional skateboarding, where he performed kick-flips long be-

series ‘Made in Sweden’. Mikel Cee Karlsson is currently working on

fore he turned to making films. Karlsson has directed a long string of

a longer documentary about José González, which is due to premiere

artistically significant videos for musicians such as Fever Ray and José

next year.

González (many of them together with Andreas Nilsson). Earlier this year, he premiered his critically acclaimed debut feature ‘Greetings From the Woods’, which was shot during the course of four years in

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White Stripes Gala DIRECTOR: Emmett Malloy

It’s almost like having a second Christmas when we pre-start the festival with a gala evening in the name of blues rock. We will kick off the night with a screening of ‘The White Stripes Under Great Northern Lights’ - the grainy tour portrait of the unusual duo with the high hipster factor. The film will of course be presented by none less than Jack White himself, who will also be present for the subsequent Q&A together with the film’s director, Emmet Malloy, and the rest of the film crew. Later that evening, same-said White can be experienced in his latest project, as he appears at the music venue Vega with Dead Weather. Together with Alison Mosshart (The Kills), Dean Fertita (Queens of the Stone Age) and Jack Lawrence (The Raconteurs), the band has demonstrated with its debut album ‘Horehound’ that they know their rock’n’roll to the bone, as they play a grimy and effective round of garage rock. And the party doesn’t end there: at 24:00 hrs, we will move two floors down, as we have revamped Idealbar for an afterparty using The Stripes’ signature colours, and we can only hope that Mr. White might want to perform another show with either his Nashville guitar or behind the turntables.

SCREENING DATES Grand Thursday 5/11 18:00 hrs.

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Original title The White Stripes Under Great White Northern Lights Country USA Year 2009 Running time 93 min. Production Three Foot Giant, Woodshed Films Producer Mike Sarkissian Distribution Monotone Inc. / Three Foot Giant

Opening Gala: Dreams in Copenhagen LIVE DIRECTOR: Max Kestner

On Friday November 6, CPH:DOX bids you welcome to this year’s opening gala ceremony in the beautiful new concert hall of The Danish Broadcasting Corporation. We are proud to present the world premiere of ‘Dreams in Copenhagen’ with a very special guest: the renowned Icelandic composer and musician Jóhann Jóhannsson, who will hold a unique live performance of the soundtrack he has composed for the film. The performance has come about through a collaboration with DR’s Youth Ensemble under the direction of Morten Ryelund. ‘Dreams in Copenhagen’ is Max Kestner’s latest work in a series of films that portrays all aspects of life in Denmark. This time round he takes us into Copenhagen’s apartments and backyards to tell

Original title Drømme i København Country Denmark Year 2009 Production Upfront Films Producer Henrik Veileborg Distribution Upfront Films Aps

us fragments of stories about the people who live there. Stories about shared children, transport, side-step sex, real estate equity, immigrant children and estate agents. But ‘Dreams in Copenhagen’ is also about the physical framework of the city. The modern city in film is one of the places where fiction and documentary are most intimately linked, and ‘Dreams in Copenhagen’ continues a long cinematic tradition of using the city as the actual protagonist. The images of Copenhagen let you encounter the places we already know, but also take you on a journey of discovery, as Max Kestner presents the city in a new and totally different light.

SCREENING DATES DR Koncerthuset Friday 6/11 21:00 hrs.

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Olafur Eliasson: Space is Process DIRECTOR: Jacob Jørgensen, Henrik Lundø

Olafur Eliasson is widely heralded as one of the most important artists of his generation. His work merges art, science, and natural phenomena to create extraordinary multisensory experiences. Challenging the passive nature of traditional art-viewing, he engages the observer as an active participant, using tangible elements such as temperature, moisture, aroma, and light to generate physical sensations. ‘Seeing Space’ gives us a unique look at a creative movement out of the ordinary and follows Eliasson from 2004 to 2009 during the taxing work with, among other things, The Waterfalls project in New York and the large ‘Take Your Time’ exhibition at MoMA and PS1 last year. But we are also taken on a small photo safari somewhere out in the magnificent Icelandic moon landscapes. Light, space and sensory perception are - both in their natural and artificial forms - key concepts in an aesthetic that is borne by simple and clear ideas, and which are first realised fully in their encounter with the spectator. If it sounds abstract, there is all the more reason to see what it’s about. Here, Eliasson namely demonstrates some of his experiments himself in vignettes that use the cinema screen as an optical aid. Inspiring, thought-provoking and playful.

SCREENING DATES DOX:CLUB Monday 9/11 19:00 hrs. / Stærekassen Saturday 14/11 17:00 hrs.

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Original title Olafur Eliasson: Seeing Space Country Denmark Year 2009 Running time 75 min. Production JJ Film Producer Jacob Jørgensen & Mads Jørgensen Distribution JJ Film ApS v/Jacob Jørgensen

COMPETITIONS DOX:AWARD NEW:VISION AWARD SOUND & VISION AWARD AMNESTY AWARD DANISH:DOX AWARD SHORT:DOX AWARD

DOX:AWARD

10 films have been selected to compete for this year’s DOX:AWARD. The 10 films vary greatly, but they are nonetheless all films that deserve to be highlighted for their ability to insist on the documentary film as an artistic genre in itself. Since the first edition of the festival, CPH:DOX has been committed to focus on documentaries that constantly challenge the genre and our understanding of the entire idea of the documentary film project. We have also made it our mission to look out for new names and talents, and not least to create a platform for them here and now and in the year’s to come. This year, we will present four debut features: ‘77 Doronship’, ‘El Puesto’, ‘The Invention of Dr.

Nakamats’ and ‘Mr Governor’. Four films that bear witness to four unique new talents. They will be joined by two of art cinema’s absolute darlings, namely the Portuguese Pedro Costa and the incessant provocation-auteur Harmony Korine. And last, but not least, we are proud to be able to host the world premieres of three brand new Danish films: ‘Dreams in Copenhagen’ by Max Kestner, ‘My Father from Haifa’ by Omar Shargawi and Kasper Astrup Schröder’s ‘The Invention of Dr. Nakamats’. DOX:AWARD (5,000 euros) is kindly sponsored by DR.

Dreams in Copenhagen DIRECTOR: Max Kestner

WORLD PREMIERE ‘Dreams in Copenhagen’ is Max Kestner’s latest film in a seriesof films that portrays all aspects of life in Denmark. This time round he’s taking us into Copenhagen’s apartments and back yards and tells us fragments of stories about the people who live there: stories about shared children, transport, side-step sex, real estate equity, immigrant children and estate agents - they are the stories about Denmark’s capital, Copenhagen. But ‘Dreams in Copenhagen’ also focuses on the city’s physical framework. The film is a depiction of the city, its life and its architecture. It’s about the houses we live in, the street doors we enter and exit, and the streets we move about on. The modern city in film is one of the places where fiction and documentary are most intimately linked, and ‘Dreams in Copenhagen’ continues a long cinematic tradition of using the city as the actual protagonist. The images of Copenhagen let you encounter the places we already know, but also take you on a journey of discovery, as Max Kestner presents the city in a new and totally different light.The soundtrack is composed by the Icelandic musician Jóhan Jóhansson.

SCREENING DATES DR Koncerthuset Friday 6/11 21:00 hrs. / Grand Saturday 14/11 16:30 hrs.

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Original title Drømme i København Country Denmark Year 2009 Running time 70 min. Production Upfront Films Aps Producer Henrik Veileborg Distribution Upfront Films Aps

Trash Humpers DIRECTOR: Harmony Korine

SCANDINAVIAN PREMIERE The uncontrollable provo-auteur of American film, Harmony Korine, is back in ‘Gummo’-land with his brand new outsider exposé, which takes place in a post-apocalyptic America on the other side of financial crises, tornado tragedies and terrorist attacks. It’s Halloween all year round for Harmony Korine, whose borderless no budget aesthetic has set a fashion far beyond the field of filmmaking. The masked ‘Trash Humpers’ of his fourth film are no exception, and they embark on a senseless spree of performative vandalism and bizarre songs, as if they were in-bred members of a family consisting of chainsaw massacrers and Tod Browning’s circus freaks. Korine has filmed his sarcastic parody of the sleek shock value aesthetics of reality show culture with an antiquated video format with frequent blackouts, and he dissolves any kind of meaningful differentiation of genres with his handheld vérité recordings of the grotesque human inferno of invisible America. Field trip or fiction? Actually: both. And

Original title Trash Humpers Country USA Year 2009 Running time 78 min. Production O’Salvation Cine Ltd / Alcove Entertainment Producer Charles-Marie Anthonioz Distribution O’Salvation Cine Ltd

on this point he is in line with the ideal of his mentor Werner Herzog about depicting an ecstatic truth.

SCREENING DATES Grand Friday 6/11 19:00 hrs. / Gloria Monday 9/11 21:30 hrs. / Dagmar Friday 13/11 21:30 hrs.

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Ne change rien DIRECTOR: Pedro Costa

SCANDINAVIAN PREMIERE Pedro Costa’s latest film is more dark than light, and the same goes for the French diva Jeanne Balibar’s voice. The Portuguese director, who again underlines his position as one of our time’s most important and uncompromising filmmakers, follows his art-punk muse during the recording of the ‘Paramour’ album and onto the stage - with short digressions to the theatre and to a café in Tokyo. The images enshroud Balibar in a darkness that can only be broken by the dust that shines under the limelight at a smoky Parisian nightclub. Here, the slim singer delivers goosebumps-inducing performances, which open with the almost frightening ‘Torture’ (written by the film legend Kenneth Anger), and which constantly balances between atmospheric brittleness and crackling guitar sounds. ‘Ne change rien’ is a document about the back-breaking creative process, which in Costa’s ascetic view is elevated to a study of light and shade, the likes of which have not been seen since the French and German films of the 1920s. Costa signs his portrait of the cult star Balibar with a sense of respect that shines out of the black-and-white images, and which dissolves all sense of time. An aesthetic experience of the rare kind, which has to be seen in the darkness of the cinema.

SCREENING DATES Grand Monday 9/11 16:30 hrs. / Cinemateket Sunday 15/11 16:30 hrs.

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Original title Ne change rien Country Portugal, France Year 2009 Running time 100 min. Production Sociedade Optica Tecnica Producer Abel Ribeiro Chaves Distribution Red Star Cinema

Videocracy DIRECTOR: Erik Gandini

In a videocracy the image rule. And in Italy, all the images are owned by one man. Silvio Berluscon’s videocratic revolution started in the early 1970s and reached its temporary peak when he was re-elected last year for his third term in office. Silicone breasts and politics enter into a systematic symbiosis, and Berlusconi has himself chosen his minister for equal opportunities among his former TV bimbos. Power is dressed up as entertainment and a dream of fame that has seduced the entire nation. Erik Gandini from the hip Swedish company ATMO grew up in Italy himself, and he zaps around with conscious style in the surrealistic stream of images. From the hopeful karate-singer via the powerful TV agent with Mussolini on his mobile phone, to the ultra-cynical ‘pimp’ of the paparazzi who blackmails the rich and famous - and to a final glimpse of the media fantom Berlusconi, whose white plastic smile remains hanging in the air long after the TV cameras have been switched off.

Original title Videocracy Country Sweden Year 2009 Running time 85 min. Production Atmo Media Network AB Producer Kristina Åberg Distribution Atmo Media Network AB

SCREENING DATES Dagmar Wednesday 11/11 19:00 hrs. / Grand Sunday 15/11 16:30 hrs.

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77 Doronship DIRECTOR: Pablo Agüero

SCANDINAVIAN PREMIERE A chain-smoking elderly chatterbox from Argentina crashes over at his highly pregnant daughter-in-law in a small bohemian apartment in Paris. She is alone and waiting for her boyfriend, who one day went out to get some cigarettes and never came back. Together, the two of them embark on a quest to find the lost boyfriend/son/ father-to-be, whose only presence is a whispering and sad voice. ‘77 Doronship’ tests the theory that a film can become a documentary if only the budget is low enough - and ends up proving that this kind of distinction doesn’t apply to a film that exhibits such an eminent sense of presence and unpredictability in its pictorial language. The sad reality turns into the raw material of fantasy and poetry, which the Argentinian director Pablo Agüero uses to sculpt his dreams.

Original title 77 Doronship Country France, Argentina Year 2009 Running time 74 min. Production Charivari Films, Sureno Films Producer Elise Jalladeau, Pablo Aguero Distribution INCAA - Instituto Nacional de Cine y Artes Audiovisuales (INCAA)

SCREENING DATES Vester Vov Vov Wednesday 11/11 19:00 hrs. / Posthus Teatret Friday 13/11 19:00 hrs.

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The Invention of Dr. Nakamats DIRECTOR: Kaspar Astrup Schröder

WORLD PREMIERE The 80-year-old Japanese inventor Dr. Nakamats is the brain behind such useful devices as the very first floppy disk (years ahead of IBM), brain-stimulating tea, the water-powered bike taxi and a motor that is run by light photons. In fact, he holds the world record in inventions, and with over 3,300 patents he’s well ahead of Edison’s thousand. Dr. Nakamats enjoys an almost royal level of respect in Japan, where he has his own fan club - and among the poor businessmen, who almost unwillingly end up insulting him with something as prosaic as money. But who is he, this mysterious mastermind from Tokyo? And where does his unstoppable drive to bring new things to the world come from? The audience has to come up with its own answer, but there are definitely enough clues to be gleaned from this film. One even becomes a bit mad as one watches the headstrong genius, who gets his best ideas in the seconds before he’s about to drown. But one can understand the admiration for this man, and shares the hope that he

Original title The Invention of Dr. Nakamats Country Denmark Year 2009 Running time 55 min. Production Plus Pictures Aps Producer Mette Heide Distribution Plus Pictures Aps

can keep his public promise to live until he’s 144 years old. NB!! Dr. Nakamats will himself be present during the festival to present the film together with the director Kaspar Astrup Schröder.

SCREENING DATES Grand Saturday 7/11 21:30 hrs. / Dagmar Sunday 15/11 19:00 hrs.

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Mr Governor DIRECTOR: Måns Månsson

The influence of the 1960s American direct cinema documentary tradition has long been under fire for its alleged monopoly on filmic objectivity, formulated in long and patiently observing takes without further commentaries. ‘Mr Governor’, however, confirms with artistic authority that patience is a virtue that doesn’t age, and that genres aren’t solid formulas. Månsson has himself explained the starting point of his critically acclaimed film about Uppsala’s own governor, Anders Björck, by referring to an old childhood fascination with this paternal statesman that he saw so much on TV when he was a kid. But his film is not a traditional portrait. Månsson - trained at the Royal University College of Fine Arts in Stockholm - examines all the changes that an apparently static picture goes through, if only it is given a chance to stay on the screen. The footage - shot over a year, depicting ceremonies and diplomatic rituals - is here presented in pure black-and-white 16mm images, which give us a hint of the price

Original title H:R Landshövding Country Sweden Year 2009 Running time 85 min. Production Anagram Produktion AB Producer Martin Persson Distribution Anagram Produktion AB

to be paid for life-long duty.

SCREENING DATES Vester Vov Vov Saturday 7/11 19:00 hrs. / Grand Thursday 12/11 16:30 hrs. / Grand Saturday 14/11 12:00 hrs.

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The Windmill movie DIRECTOR: Alexander Olch

EUROPEAN PREMIERE When Richard P. Rogers died in 2001, he left behind over 200 hours of film footage of his life. A gigantic amount of raw material for a cinematic autobiography, which he was working on for 25 years and never managed to complete. Maybe, as he himself says in this reconstruction by his friend and pupil Alexander Olch, for fear of standing face to face with himself. The privileged film professor from Harvard grew up in an environment that would have been worthy of F. Scott Fitzgerald, among aristocrats and easy-living bons vivants in an intellectual and comfortable bourgeois environment on the American east coast. But also among personal tragedies and family malaise, which is more than alluded to in Olch’s epic wickerwork of scenes from a life on the sunny side. Despite his obvious talent and perceptive nature, Rogers considered himself an artistic fiasco, who spent his life being haunted by his background. But ‘The Windmill Movie’s sophisticated mirror room of self-perception contradict him

Original title The Windmill Movie Country USA Year 2009 Running time 80 min. Production SCM Production Producer Susan Meiselas Distribution The Film Desk

and fulfil his dream of uniting his life with film.

SCREENING DATES Dagmar Saturday 7/11 19:00 hrs. / Dagmar Friday 13/11 19:00 hrs. / Posthus Teatret Saturday 14/11 19:00 hrs.

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My Father from Haifa DIRECTOR: Omar Shargawi

WORLD PREMIERE Two years ago, Omar Shargawi won great acclaim for his violent revenge drama ‘Go With Peace, Jamil’, which portrayed an until then unknown part of the Copenhagen neighbourhood Nørrebro with a raw nerve and authenticity. In his latest film, Shargawi has turned his equally inquisitive and vital camera away from Copenhagen’s criminal underworld towards the political and personal story of his own father. Shargawi senior, who also acted in his son’s first film, fled as a child from Palestine and ended up after many years in Denmark, where he settled and founded a family. Now he’s longing to revisit Haifa. But if you’ve been through a bit too much and aren’t the youngest person any more, it’s a long way from Nørrebro to Haifa, where the childhood home stands today. He may be grumpy and obstinate, but he’s a worldly-wise man with a good heart. A difficult, but not impossible task for a son who also wants to know all the places and stories left behind.

SCREENING DATES Grand Sunday 8/11 21:30 hrs. / Empire Bio Saturday 14/11 17:30 hrs.

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Original title Fra Haifa til Nørrebro Country Denmark Year 2009 Running time 52 min. Production Zentropa Producer Carsten Holst Distribution Zentropa

El Puesto DIRECTOR: Aurélien Lévêque

WORLD PREMIERE Some films tell stories as if they come off an assembly line. Others stick to what’s visible without moulding it into filmic fast food served in individual portions, instead conjuring up a special and magical sense of space and time, where one can almost smell the damp grass and get a natural high from the thin mountain air. One such film is the 28-year-old French debut director Aurélien Lévêque’s ‘El Puesto’, which in a consistent combination of sensual 16mm images and epic cinemascope frames its solitary, unfathomable protagonist within the vast and painterly landscapes of the Argentinian wilderness. His name is Marin, and out of nothing grows an almost mythical drama about this prehistoric colossus of a man. One can hardly sit still when he tames a wild stallion with nothing but his bare fists, or when he suddenly lifts a flaccid beaver out of a dark waterhole. Lévêque is with him and has an extra eye for the black dogs, which patiently sit in a perfect circle around the chopping block, while Marin’s only friend

Original title El Puesto Country France Year 2009 Running time 74 min. Production Celluloïd Films Producer Aurélien Lévêque Distribution Celluloid Films

chops out the meat.

SCREENING DATES Posthus Teatret Saturday 7/11 21:15 hrs. / Posthus Teatret Friday 13/11 21:15 hrs. / Grand Saturday 14/11 19:00 hrs.

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NEW:VISION AWARD

NEW:VISION AWARD is the competition programme for filmic experiments on the crossroads between documentary and artistic reflection. Provocative and challenging, but also poetic and abstract. The programme consists of works from both visual arts and film. From the short, poetic moment via the cinematic essay to formal experiments and philosophical genre excursions past the limits of reality. They are films that rather strive for the impossible than make do with the average â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and video works that critically investigate the status of images in our times. The nominated works all insist on the documentary as a form of artistic expression,

and share a formal and methodological curiosity, which is of paramount importance for the continued development of documentary film. The cinematic styles of the future are being created here, and there is enough food for both inspiration and critical thought in the widely diverse artistic expressions in this series. NEW:VISION AWARD (5,000 euros) is kindly sponsored by the Danish Association of Film Directors and FAF â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the Danish association of Film and TV workers.

Everness DIRECTOR: Alejandro Cesarco

INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE Everness is a film installation by artist Alejandro Cesarco made up of 5 chapters: a remake of the very last scene of James Joyce’s ‘The Dead’, a monologue on the meaning of tragedy, a breakfast scene, and two songs: one from the Spanish civil war and another from Brasil’s Tropicalista movement. It addresses the revision of public and private history, while tangentially describing ideas typically associated with moments of youth: a first love, the loss of innocence, and a somewhat naive, romantic, yet sincere, political and affective conviction towards the real. In this context Everness also deals with our difficulty or inability to perceive and understand our affective experience and that of others.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket Sunday 8/11 18:30 hrs. / Cinemateket Sunday 15/11 19:00 hrs.

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Original title Everness Country Uruguay Year 2008 Running time 12 min. Contact Tanya Leighton Gallery

Out of Love DIRECTOR: Birgitte Stærmose

WORLD PREMIERE There is something about ‘Out of Love’ that one cannot quite put ones finger on. A feeling of deep unreality and of something that also feels so real that one feels captured by its stranglehold. We are in Kosovo, among the city’s street children, in 2009. The film is built from a small selection of these children. But we are as far from observational documentarism as one can make it. The film’s director Birgitte Stærmose is looking for something else. She wants to tell a story that rises above street level; a story about the children and their loss, grief, survival and humanity. A story that goes much further than the story of the individual, instead tackling their collective history and thus a reality that is much broader. We meet children in something that could be real situations - on the streets and city squares - but then something happens. They speak, and what they say is much larger than their own individual language. They are monologues written for them in a narrative, well-formulated and literary language.

Original title Ønskebørn Country Denmark Year 2009 Running time 29 min. Production Alphaville Pictures Copenhagen Producer Jesper Morthorst Distribution Alphaville Productions Copenhagen

A strange sense of unreality takes over while the distance between us and them grows larger. A distance that protects the children and preserves their entirely private grief. But also a distance that lifts both the children and their stories into a space that makes space for an artistic reflection.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket Sunday 8/11 18:30 hrs. / Cinemateket Sunday 15/11 19:00 hrs.

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A-Bit-To-Bite DIRECTOR: Laura Horelli

INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE Private and public space consistently flow together in the Finnish artist Laura Horelli’s ‘A-Bit-To-Bite’, where her own mother appears in two widely different versions: in Horelli’s reading of her personal and revealing diaries, and on TV as a kitchen expert and host of the 1970s’ Finnish children’s TV show. Just like the American Alex Bag and the Swedish Anders Kreuger, Horelli turns her childhood’s wasted hours in front of the TV into an artistic analysis of herself and of the society that reflects itself in simple and edifying narratives. The TV mother cooks food and tells stories together with a big mouse, while the cancer sufferer of the diaries wearily reflects on her life and her choices - even that of having children. ‘A-Bit-To-Bite’ transposes the media-ethnographic approach of Horelli’s earlier works into a highly personal sphere, where pathos is nonetheless kept at arms’ length.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket Sunday 8/11 18:30 hrs. / Cinemateket Sunday 15/11 19:00 hrs.

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Original title Haukka-Pala Country Finland Year 2009 Running time 28 min. Contact Galleri Barbara Weiss

Another Life Without Sundays (Brown Triumph) DIRECTOR: José Arnaud-Bello, Sebastián Córdova EUROPEAN PREMIERE Another Life Without Sundays (Brown Triumph) is structured like a building and follows a vertical narrative as it registers some of the more sinister aspects of the relationship between architecture and those that live in it. The main character is a modern building. The film develops through the sole use of still images and subtitles. While the images present what appears to be a descriptive survey of the interior of a 1950s building, the subtitles offer a series of rumours and stories about the place as if one were being guided through the building by an old, gruff and grumpy tenant. By this association of text and image another building takes form; one that pushes the question of the construction of space away from the architectural object and into a cinematic space where fragments of information are assembled

Original title Another Life Without Sundays (Brown Triumph) Country Mexico Year 2008 Running time 14 min. Distribution José Arnaud-Bello & Sebastian Córdova

as clues in a story of architectural suspense.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket Sunday 8/11 18:30 hrs. / Cinemateket Sunday 15/11 19:00 hrs.

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In Between Days DIRECTOR: Naomi Kawase & Isaki Lacuesta

SCANDINAVIAN PREMIERE ‘In Between Days’ is the result of a short meeting between the two filmmakers Naomi Kawase and Isaki Lacuesta in Barcelona last year. A formal ‘brief encounter’, which kicked off a cinematographic pen-friendship between Japan and Spain, where each of them works. Lacuesta sent the first filmic postcard to Kawase, who answered him with a portrait of the people around her that she cares for. The correspondence advances through the impressionistic stream of images, which reflects the two filmmaker’s reflections on time and memory in light and bright colours. And from each of their corners of the world, the two overcome their geographical and linguistic barriers in an intimate and personal documentary style marked by a great sensual directness. Naomi Kawase is one of Asian documentary’s most original and personal voices, while the young and internationally acclaimed Isaki Lacuesta belongs to a new generation of adventurous Spanish filmmakers.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket Saturday 7/11 18:30 hrs. / Cinemateket Sunday 15/11 16:45 hrs.

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Original title In Between Days Country Spain, Japan Year 2009 Running time 40 min. Distribution CCCB Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona

Madam Butterfly DIRECTOR: Tsai Ming-Liang

SCANDINAVIAN PREMIERE Not much is left of Puccini’s original love story - about an American lieutenant and a 15-year-old geisha, who ends up being abandoned and taking her own life - in this uncompromisingly anti-aesthetic video experiment by the Taiwanese auteur and festival hero Tsai Ming-liang, which extends across a long and desperate moment of confusion at Kuala Lumpur’s central station, only to end up on a bed in a lonely hotel room. Nor are there many traces of either the picturesque sophistication of his early films or the scandalously taboo-breaking escapades of ‘The Wayward Cloud’. But the tragedy is intact, and so is Tsai Ming-liang’s signature in the temporal elongation of his teasing images. How little narration can a moving image contain? And will the two lovers ever have each other? One of the most consistent minimalists of Asian filmmaking has embarked

Original title Madam Butterfly Country Italy, Taiwan, France Year 2009 Running time 36 min. Production Homegreen films, House on fire, Lucca film festival Distribution Homegreen Films

on a battle against the emotional excesses of classical opera - and he can claim an underplayed victory.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket Saturday 7/11 18:30 hrs. / Cinemateket Sunday 15/11 16:45 hrs.

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In Comparison DIRECTOR: Harun Farocki

SCANDINAVIAN PREMIERE It’s a sheer delight to watch Harun Farocki’s film, which in all its captivating simplicity depicts something as fundamental and surprisingly beautiful as the production of bricks in three different continents. Not just because of the photographic tranquility of the images or their temporal elongation, but also because it’s high time we remind ourselves where money ultimately comes from. ‘In Comparison’ compares (but doesn’t rank) the production of the most basic unit of the modern world in Burkina Faso, India and Europe. That’s how it goes, and that’s how it should be. Farocki observes the creation of bricks from the clay pit to the finished house in a meditative and rhythmic sequence, which speaks for itself rather than formulating a specific argument in political economy. And the silent speech of the images is all the clearer for it. After his past few years’ work with video and installations, one of European documentarism’s most reflective talents doesn’t only renew himself, but also the way one can look at things.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket Sunday 8/11 19:00 hrs. / Cinemateket Thursday 12/11 18:30 hrs.

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Original title Zum Vergleich Country Germany Year 2009 Running time 61 min. Production Harun Farocki Filmproduktion Distribution Harun Farocki Filmproduktion

Pollphail DIRECTOR: Matthew Lloyd

SCANDINAVIAN PREMIERE On the Scottish west coast lie the dilapidated remains of an economic and architectural utopia. Pollphail is a ghost town, constructed in straight, modernist lines during the oil rush of the 1970s as a mainland satellite for the colossal oil platforms of the North Sea, and built upon an optimism that turned out to be somewhat less well-founded. The conceptual and self-sustaining island community and shipyard was meant to supply the area with manpower and machine power, but until this day not one single person has lived in the otherwise completed town. But today it still stands there, like a stray thought cast in concrete and made to last for ever - at least until now. An art photographer and a local entrepreneur lead us around in the sad product of a notion of the future that never came, and introduce us to the philosophy behind the monumental fiasco. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Pollphailâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; demonstrates with aesthetic flair that the the abstract relationship between political ideologies and historical space always

Original title Pollphail Country UK Year 2009 Running time 10 min. Production Clarity Productions Producer Carina Wilson Distribution Clarity Productions

contains a human background. Even if it takes a few years before the picture is developed.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket Sunday 8/11 19:00 hrs. / Cinemateket Thursday 12/11 18:30 hrs.

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The Impossible DIRECTOR: Sylvain George

INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE Formal experiments and tough political activism are not necessarily contradictions in the French director Sylvain George’s cinematic universe. Taking its starting point in radical revolutionaries such as Rimbaud, Lautréamont, Dostojevskij and Walter Benjamin, Sylvain George portrays the Europe of illegal immigrants in his most ambitious work to date. Through five chapters, which among other things derive their titles from the aforementioned authors, and which from a formal perspective find their expression in the intersection between Jean Epstein and Jonas Mekas, the immigrants’ previously so promising dream of a new identity and a new life in Europe changes before our eyes. Through prosaic everyday moments that are woven together with a great compositorial and rhythmic talent, George gives all the paperless immigrants a voice and a sense of dignity. And like another Virgil in Dante’s Inferno, he at the same time takes us on a tour through the most unsettling blind spots of European integration policy.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket Sunday 8/11 21:00 hrs. / Cinemateket Saturday 14/11 16:30 hrs.

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Original title L’Impossible - Pages arrachées Country France Year 2009 Running time 135 min. Production Noir Production Producer Sylvain George Distribution Noir Production

Nathalie Djurberg DIRECTOR: Nathalie Djurberg

INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE Nathalie Djurberg, who is also visiting this year’s festival as ‘Artist in Focus’, is presented here with a collection of eerie animations. ‘Badain’ is a satirical adaptation of a real 19th century painting, which depicts a black slave who is given to the queen of Sweden as a gift. In ‘Camels Drink Water’, two camels save a poor boy without legs from dying of thirst in the desert, enabling him to court three pale and flabby old ladies in laced underwear in ‘Hungry Hungry Hippos’. ‘It’s the Mother’, on the other hand, talks about an entirely different and hair-raising story about the female body in a monstrous mirror image of nature’s dubious order. And in ‘Johnny’, a curious teenage boy,

Original title Nathalie Djurberg Country Sweden Year 2009 Running time 40 min. Contact Zach Feuer Gallery

who is spying on three naked nymphs in a forest, gets more than he bargained for when they finally discover him. ‘Putting Down the Prey’ realises an eskimo’s (escape) fantasy of becoming one with nature. And in the bathroom farce ‘Tiger Licking Girl’s Butt’, the eponymic tiger poses the ever-relevant question: ‘Why do I have this urge to do things over and over again?’ The question is thus passed on to you.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket Friday 6/11 19:00 hrs. / Gloria Saturday 14/11 17:00 hrs.

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I Love the Game of the Hockey DIRECTOR: ROBIN FÄRDIG

INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE It’s not all hip hop and bling bling out in the strange reality - or lack of reality - of the suburbs. Alexander Bengtsson is 20 years old and a hardcore fan of the local hockey heroes of Frölunda Indians. In fact, he talks about little else in the first-time director and poet Robin Färdig’s film about everyday life outside Gothenburg. But somewhere or other, something’s badly rotten. The camera almost sluggishly glares at Alexander and his parents and friends, and only pans away when they nervously cast a sidelong glance into its expressionless glass eye. ‘I Love the Game of the Hockey’ challenges the ethics of the visible and is a promising taster for Färdig’s upcoming feature, which is also filmed out in the sticks on a non-existent budget.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket Friday 6/11 19:00 hrs. / Gloria Saturday 14/11 17:00 hrs.

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Original title I Love the Game of the Hockey, en dokumentärfilm om det som inte är hiphop i förorten Country Sweden Year 2009 Running time 22 min. Distribution Robin Färdig

Subtitles DIRECTOR: Anders Kreuger

EUROPEAN PREMIERE One can learn a lot from watching television - at least if you see a programme 30 years after it was made. Especially children’s television of the 1970s is a generous source for critical reflection about how an entire generation grew up in front of the idiot box. ‘Subtitles’ is an episode of Swedish children’s television from 1972, shown in its full length, and commented via subtitles by the curator and artist Anders Kreuger, who came across the eye-opening material during an archeological dig in the national television archives. A stone, a piece of string and an empty matchbox are all that the two long-haired and velvet-dressed hosts need to have some fun

Original title Subtitles Country Sweden Year 2008 Running time 25 min. Distribution Anders Kreuger

and to get their anti-materialistic message across to the children who didn’t really understand much of the programme’s well-meant political tenor. With few and simple means, Kreuger manages to dissect both the progressive ideals of the 1970s, his own childhood and civic education in the modern Swedish welfare state. Try a bit of tax-financed, home-grown food for thought.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket Friday 6/11 19:00 hrs. / Gloria Saturday 14/11 17:00 hrs.

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A Man Screaming Is Not a Dancing Bear DIRECTOR: Allora, Cazadilla

INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE In the video work A Man Screaming Is Not a Dancing Bear, artists Allora & Calzadilla cut abruptly between gently flowing images of a lush river landscape, a dilapidated interior in an abandoned house, and footage of a young man who, standing outside the window of the house, drums rhythmically on the slats of a Venetian blind. The footage was recorded last year in New Orleans and the Mississippi delta, where hurricane Katrina wreaked havoc in 2005. It points to an almost impossible poetry in an everyday scene situated within a ruined, deserted house. Like many other social housing projects in the area, this house has not yet been renovated and is left a wreck with all the traces of the damaging flood. Like in other works by Allora & Calzadilla, the audio consists of an alternative musical performance, referring to both music and the alternative use of existing objects, as a means to social survival. In the videos of Allora & Calzadilla, the two artists take their point of departure in situations which, in varying ways, refer to political and cultural realities. They have a special eye for how small everyday occurrences can act as images or metaphors of overall global contexts. With these situations from all across the world the artists seek to open our minds to ways of rethinking our world order and our relationships with each other.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket Wednesday 11/11 19:15 hrs. / Cinemateket Sunday 15/11 14:45 hrs.

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Original title A Man Screaming Is Not a Dancing Bear Country Puerto Rico Year 2008 Running time 12 min. Contact Lisson Gallery

Petropolis - Aerial Perspectives on the Alberta Tar Sands DIRECTOR: Peter Mettler SCANDINAVIAN PREMIERE The Canadian director Peter Mettler, whose monumental magnum opus ‘Gambling, Gods and LSD’ has been shown at an earlier edition of CPH:DOX, has moved skywards in a helicopter in his latest film ‘Petropolis’ and filmed a precise and hypnotic film about one of the world’s largest industrial energy projects, Alberta Tar Sands in northern Canada. The area, which is roughly the size of England, is an enormous oil reserve, and from an environmental perspective it’s one of those industrial areas that NGOs are looking at with their most critical suspicion. But ‘Petropolis’ is neither a consequence analysis nor a doomsday prophesy, but moreover a landscape, which in all its monumental silence speaks its own, clear language. The film moves in a constant flow between abstraction and the concrete - from the structural and poetic view of the landscape to the concrete view of

Original title Petropolis - Aerial Perspectives on the Alberta Tar Sands Country Canada Year 2009 Running time 43 min. Production Grimthorpe Films Distribution Autlook Filmsales GbR

giant yellow machinery that is digging into black sand. Mettler has chosen an aesthetic distance and filmed the landscape from an ‘aerial perspective’, thereby transforming the industrial scenery into a piece of unrivalled political land art.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket Wednesday 11/11 19:15 hrs. / Cinemateket Sunday 15/11 14:45 hrs.

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Shell of Shells DIRECTOR: Hondartza Fraga

WORLD PREMIERE â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Shell of Shellsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; is a video made from night-vision footage of a cityscape. The narrative unfolds in the ambivalence between spectacle and threat. Noise, light and smoke seem to be a statement of fugacity and the power of artifice but if their context is challenged so is their meaning. The role of the viewer keeps shifting from vigilant watcher to passive witness as the action is structurally fragmented. Hondartza Frage works with video, photography and drawing researching the tensions between different image-making systems, analogue and digital technologies and how they affect the way we understand images.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket Wednesday 11/11 19:15 hrs. / Cinemateket Sunday 15/11 14:45 hrs.

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Original title Shell of Shells Country UK Year 2009 Running time 7 min. Distribution Sheffield Contemporary Art Forum

O’er the Land DIRECTOR: Deborah Stratman

The centrepiece of Deborah Stratman’s visual essay is the incredible story of a jet pilot who in 1959 catapulted himself out of his malfunctioning plane at a height of 15 kilometres, and who only after an over 40 minute long fall through a pitch-black thunderstorm, surrounded by lightning and ice-cold temperatures, managed to place his feet on the ground. A fantastic story, which is told by the pilot himself, and which in itself is reason enough to buy a ticket for the hypnotically fascinating ‘O’er the Land’. Stratman has named her reflection on freedom and defence after a verse in the American national anthem, and she takes an insider’s look at her country’s military and social self-perception. A theatrical reenactment of a historical battle in the middle of a forest becomes a surrealist climax (the spectators are sitting in small golf cars drinking coke), while a

Original title O’er the Land Country USA Year 2008 Running time 52 min. Production Pythagoras Distribution Pythagoras

visit to a ‘gun club’, where weapons enthusiasts meet out in nowhere and shoot away at an invisible enemy, is an eerie and depressing sight.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket Wednesday 11/11 18:30 hrs. / Cinemateket Sunday 15/11 18:30 hrs.

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POW-WOW DIRECTOR: Richard Bartle

WORLD PREMIERE ‘Pow-wow’ is an eight-year long project that began on the 20th January 2001, the inauguration date of President George W. Bush, and was completed on the the 20th January 2009, the date he left office. During this time, Richard Bartle has traced and documented the rise and fall of world leaders, laboriously reproducing their images on a series of small canvases through a process which reflects and measures the almost daily changes and disruptions in the political arena. Each canvas catalogues the recent political history of a specific state or republic and serves to capture each new leader’s ascent to power. Their subsequent political demise is then charted by erasing or burying them beneath the image of their successor. Political stasis is suggested in the more readable images. In others, the dense palimpsest of innumerable layers evokes a more volatile or unstable past. The images are presented with a soundtrack - the preamble to the United Nations declaration of human rights, read out simultaneously by UN interpreters in several languages - which imitates the layered and often incomprehensible nature of the images.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket Wednesday 11/11 18:30 hrs. / Cinemateket Sunday 15/11 18:30 hrs.

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Original title POW-WOW Country UK Year 2009 Running time 6 min. Distribution Sheffield Contemporary Art Forum

No False Echoes DIRECTOR: Wendelien van Oldenborgh

INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE In Europe, radio developed as a state controlled instrument, used to edify the masses through speeches and lectures. ‘No False Echoes’ recalls this history of radio and talks about Dutch radio in colonial Indonesia. On behalf of the Dutch government Philips not only exported radio technology to the colony, but also started producing the radio programmes, in order to ensure their innocent, uplifting content, and to keep any unwanted political voices off the ether. While the Dutch colonisers found nostalgic comfort in reports about St. Nicholas, the Indonesian people were busy developing their own nationalist self-awareness. ‘No False Echoes’ deals with these simultaneous yet opposing nationalist movements, against the background of the current revival of nationalist sentiments in The Netherlands. The setting is the former main building of Radio

Original title No False Echoes Country Netherlands Year 2008 Running time 30 min. Producer Wendelien van Oldenborgh Distribution Wendelien van Oldenborgh

Kootwijk, an architectural monument to modernism and progress, yet also clearly a building that is vacant and has lost its function. The voices that construct ‘No False Echoes’ are not improvising or searching, but rather assertive, at times almost didactic, fitting the nature of a radio programme. As in a radio talk show, the Dutch perspective is discussed by two experts on radio history and an analyst of today’s political tendencies. The voice of the Indonesian independence movement is represented by a political pamphlet from 1913, Als ik eens Nederlander was (If I were a Dutchman). This provocative manifesto is recited by Salah Edin, the Moroccan-Dutch rap artist known for his biting criticism of today’s perception of immigrants. SCREENING DATES Cinemateket Wednesday 11/11 18:30 hrs. / Cinemateket Sunday 15/11 18:30 hrs.

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Outlandish - Strange Foreign Bodies DIRECTOR: Phillip Warnell

SCANDINAVIAN PREMIERE On the deck of an abandoned fish trawler in the middle of the polar sea, a lonely squid floats around in a small aquarium. A crystal-clear and unforgettable image. And an enigmatic metaphor for the French philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy’s thoughts about the relationship between the body and the outside world that presses itself onto it. Seated by his desk and with his back against a wall of books, Nancy reads out eight short chapters about the corporal integrity of the self and about our illusory experience of the unassailability of the bodily fort, based on his own experiences and on the books he wrote while simultaneously going through a heart transplant and a difficult form of cancer. Abstract issues, maybe, but they nonetheless become immediate and relevant in Philip Warnell’s beautiful and luminous images. ‘Outlandish - Strange Foreign Bodies’ is not just a visually impressive interpretation of the renaissance of the body in philosophy, but also a testimony of the charismatic Nancy’s intellectual fearlessness.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket Wednesday 11/11 21:45 hrs. / Cinemateket Saturday 14/11 18:30 hrs.

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Original title Outlandish - Étranges Corps Étrangers Country UK Year 2009 Running time 20 min. Distribution Philip Warnell

TRYPPS 1-6 DIRECTOR: Ben Russell

The American Ben Russell is still relatively unknown in Europe, even if his films have been shown at prestigious international festivals and galleries. Things have started to change, however, and the six short films in his experimental ‘TRYPPS’ series demonstrate why - and how. Despite their material formality, his early attempts at a soundless and abstract ‘cinéma pur’ are not devoid of the abstract, political comment that has become his self-conscious signature in the later works. Russell’s interest in the ethnographic appear in the third installment’s dreamlike documentations of the noise scene in Rhode Island, while his political occupations are released in a

Original title TRYPPS 1-6 Country USA Year 2009 Running time 52 min. Distribution Ben Russell

politico-psychedelic Rorschach test in the fourth of the ‘TRYPPS’. It is, however, his most recent efforts in anthropological metadocumentarism which are promising to bring about his breakthrough. Shot in Dubai and Malobi respectively, parts five and six point to the methodical reworking of the ethics and aesthetics of a classical documentary genre with a burdened history and lots of blanks yet to be explored. The six ‘TRYPPS’ forms an artistic development with a common philosophical denominator: film is above all a material phenomenon with a potential that is far from being thoroughly explored. And Russell is something as rare as a political formalist, who doesn’t shy away from challenging his audience, but who rewards the trust of the attentive spectator with ample generosity. Note: the fourth part of the six ‘TRYPPS’ could be dangerous for people suffering from epilepsy. SCREENING DATES Cinemateket Wednesday 11/11 21:45 hrs. / Cinemateket Saturday 14/11 18:30 hrs.

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Lunch Break DIRECTOR: Sharon Lockhart

The American Sharon Lockhart is one of the few artists who enjoys equal recognition as a filmmaker as she does as a photographer. At the same time, the influence of one art form is consistently present in the other. This is also true for her latest work, which combines the cool observation of photography with the narrative disposition of the film image - only to end up undermining both in a formal minimalism that challenges the (bad) habits of visual perception. The title’s ‘Lunch Break’ takes place at a dockyard in Maine, where the remnants of the American working class are spending their time eating, talking and taking a nap. In one long take, the camera moves through a long corridor in slow motion (which in a generous/ironic gesture extends the workers’ break), and captures the human qualities that structuralist documentary filmmaking is less known to appreciate. But also the lighting is carefully designed by her role model James Benning (who could be seen at last year’s CPH:DOX) and Becky Allen.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket Saturday 7/11 14:00 hrs. / Cinemateket Friday 13/11 16:30 hrs.

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Original title Lunch Break Country USA Year 2008 Running time 83 min. Distribution Arsenal filmverleih GmbH

The Sounding Lines are Obsolete DIRECTOR: John Price

SCANDINAVIAN PREMIERE He looks like a small Neil Armstrong on the surface of the moon, but in reality heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s on his way to Halloween in his silver-coloured space suit. The Canadian filmmaker John Price has filmed his mesmerisingly beautiful black-and-white home movie as an anthropological study of an invisible envoy from another planet, with his own children playing the representatives of a future human race. The filmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s observer thereby watches life on our planet with both a sense of known familiarity and the unaccustomed view of a stranger through a 16mm camera that floats in an ethereal orbit around the small astronaut and his sister. Price processes his films right down

Original title The Sounding Lines are Obsolete Country Canada Year 2009 Running time 11 min. Distribution John Price

to their chemical foundations to create his light-sensitive style. The silhouette of a climber, who hangs with all his weightless fragility between outer space and nothingness thereby gets recorded on the image like a fossilised imprint from a time and a place that once was - or maybe one day will come to be. The soundtrack is self-evidently superfluous, and so is each attempt to come up with something resembling an explanation.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket Friday 6/11 21:00 hrs. / Husets Biograf Monday 9/11 21:00 hrs. / DOX:CLUB Wednesday 11/11 18:00 hrs. / DOX:CLUB Sunday 15/11 16:30 hrs.

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Schamdruck DIRECTOR: Ulf Aminde

WORLD PREMIERE Two people meet at night and peculiar music is the result. A third person joins in, and a curious ménage à trois takes shape in the cold limelight of the neon street lights. The anonymity of public space is already a brutal setting for the small farces and tragedies of everyday life, so why not? Under the direction of the Berlin-based video artist Ulf Aminde, the dreary concrete surroundings are reflected in the black impenetrability of face masks, in a theatrical parody on social customs in a suburban setting, where one is quickly given a telling-off for not minding ones own business. Aminde works with performative stagings of the restrictive norms of social interaction in

Original title Schamdruck Country Germany Year 2009 Running time 12 min. Distribution Ulf Aminde

the public arena, be it the semi-private home or an apartment block, the artificial setting of an IKEA kitchen or life in a subway station. But Aminde’s improvised analysis of the way we live today also prods the collective fear of random violence and of making the wrong move.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket Friday 6/11 21:00 hrs. / Husets Biograf Monday 9/11 21:00 hrs. / DOX:CLUB Wednesday 11/11 18:00 hrs. / DOX:CLUB Sunday 15/11 16:30 hrs.

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Otolith III DIRECTOR: The Otolith Group

WORLD PREMIERE The London-based Otolith Group makes films that make even the steadiest among us feel dizzy. The artist duo Anjalika Sagar and Kodwo Eshun have named themselves after the pip in our inner ear that governs our sense of balance, and which is consistently driven into over-gear by their fractal-philosophical montage labyrinths. ‘Otolith III’ thus follows up on the group’s two preceding, but independent works in a historical reflection on time, memory and the events that never happened - in this case a Satyajit Ray film, which the Indian master director is now confronted with by four of its (non)actors. Like with their French role models Marker, Godard and

Original title Otolith III Country UK Year 2009 Running time 49 min. Distribution The Otolith Group

Resnais, the political is ever-present - as thought and expression - in the works of The Otolith Group, whose reality-based science fiction neutralises mental gravity without losing touch with what’s real. This also goes for the group’s latest work, which pays homage to all the unfinished films, which were born in minds, forgotten again and consigned to oblivion by the flow of time.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket Friday 6/11 21:00 hrs. / Husets Biograf Monday 9/11 21:00 hrs. / DOX:CLUB Wednesday 11/11 18:00 hrs. / DOX:CLUB Sunday 15/11 16:30 hrs.

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Rip In Pieces America DIRECTOR: Dominic Gagnon

SCANDINAVIAN PREMIERE Rest in pieces, America! Dominic Gagnon turns no blind eye in his ultra-intense collage film which consists entirely of more or less anonymous webcam clips that due to their controversial or explicit nature have been flagged and meanwhile removed from video sites such as YouTube. Well-formulated conspiracy theorists, badtempered grass-roots activists and religious arms fanatics, who use the webcam as both a means to preach and to confess, have all been filtered by the censor, but stored by Gagnon, who neither comments nor embarks on any finger-pointing. For who decides what can be thought and said? And what is paranoia, if you know that you’re right? ‘RIP’ is an uncensored, in-your-face assault on political correctness and on most American institutions. But it also has a bizarre, performative element, which makes it more of a souvenir from the days before Obama was given the Nobel Peace Prize. If only one of the people portrayed is right, the Americans are really in trouble...

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket Tuesday 10/11 18:30 hrs. / Byens Lys Saturday 14/11 21:00 hrs.

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Original title Rip In Pieces America Country Canada Year 2009 Running time 62 min. Production FILM 900 Producer Dominic Gagnon Distribution zéro distribution

Not to Scale DIRECTOR: Steve Hawley

WORLD PREMIERE How can it be so difficult not to reveal something about a film where absolutely nothing happens? ‘Not to Scale’ might require a lot of patience, but it’s not a drag to watch, as the simple and uniquely evocative images from an idyllic English country village pass by in a calm tempo, accompanied by twittering birds and a lone car in the distance. It’s summer, and everything radiates with peace and tranquility. But where are all the inhabitants? The streets are deserted, and the only things that move are the leaves in the wind. Something is not quite the way it should be, and sooner or later one realises that the romantic motifs from the village’s clean-

Original title Not to Scale Country UK Year 2009 Running time 10 min. Distribution Sheffield Contemporary Art Forum

scrubbed garden ponds are hiding a neurotic fantasy about complete control. The acclaimed English artist Steve Hawley has over 30 years’ experience working with film and video, and here he calmly undermines the audience’s potential expectation that the filmic image should have some kind of anchoring in the tangible world.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket Monday 9/11 18:30 hrs. / DOX:CLUB Sunday 15/11 19:00 hrs.

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Untitled DIRECTOR: Alex Bag

EUROPEAN PREMIERE Prehistoric video formats are the new Super8 when it comes to critical-nostalgic parodies on the popular culture of the recent past. It is therefore not so surprising that Alex Bag has adopted the washedout low-res images and primitive chroma key technology of the 1970s in her neo-psychedelic satire on the kind of children’s television that she herself grew up with, and has elevated the expressive potential of the video effects to a triumphant anti-aesthetic level. As a child, Alex Bag could watch her mother every evening as the host of the children’s TV show, and now the New York-based video artist herself takes up the role of a spaced-out, medication-influenced central figure who is accompanied by a sarcastic dragon. Alex Bag drools through her sentences with great effort, while apocalyptic medieval sceneries appear across the green-screen behind her - and a bum in a wheelchair plays Bowie to the children on his guitar. The work was commissioned by the Whitney Museum in connection with Bag’s first solo exhibition.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket Monday 9/11 18:30 hrs. / DOX:CLUB Sunday 15/11 19:00 hrs.

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Original title Untitled Country USA Year 2009 Running time 38 min. Contact Elizabeth Dee Gallery

White Wind DIRECTOR: Nikolai Nekh

INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE Visual arts gave up the idea ages ago, but within film it is still a widespread notion that production value and artistic value are identical - the higher the quality of sound and image, the better. And that aesthetic history has a linear shape with a technological evolution that is headed towards something that is nothing less than perfect visual pleasure. In this case, ‘White Wind’ represents a long-surpassed stage in this development. An ethnographic road documentary from Siberia - shot on pixellated Hi-8 video with the wind blustering into the microphone - that doesn’t indicate why we should even be watching these scenes from a drunk wedding and a

Original title Vento Branco Country Portugal Year 2008 Running time 20 min. Contact Nikolai Nekh

tour around the mini-golf course. Meanwhile, the historical format influences the reality status of the images in both an aesthetic and social direction. What impact does the look of an image for example have on our cultural understanding and prejudices? And what mindset is reflected by the new high definition ecstasy? The answers are blowing in the wind across the Siberian motorways.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket Monday 9/11 18:30 hrs. / DOX:CLUB Sunday 15/11 19:00 hrs.

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SOUND & VISION AWARD

As always, this year’s SOUND & VISION AWARD includes a variety of works from the music documentary genre. From classical music to The Doors, from minimal techno to jazz and noise. From portraits of the ever-active punks from the 1980s, Einstürzende Neubauten and The Pop Group’s Mark Stewart, to fascinating French portrayals of the Japanese underground in the ingenious ‘We Don’t Care About Music Anyway’ and Vincent Moon’s portrait of the screaming philosopher Kazuki Tomokawa, ‘La Faute Des Fleurs’. But it’s first and foremost the year of indie-rock in documentary land – and brand new films about Devendra Banhart, The White Stripes and the

fantastic indie-festival All Tomorrow’s Parties should cause excitement among many indie hearts. In our focus series about Vincent Moon we will supplement the programme with new films about Mogwai and Arcade Fire. And we simply can’t resist mentioning the two Danish contributions: ‘Insurgentes’ and ‘Stages’ – both made by fast-growing young filmmakers, with a fine sense of cinema as the medium of images. After all, music films are about both sound & vision. SOUND & VISION AWARD (5,000 euros) is kindly sponsored by TV5 Monde.

The White Stripes Under Great White Northern Lights DIRECTOR: Emmett Malloy

There is no doubt that The White Stripes have long been the coolest cats in town. And unlike many others, their hipster factor has turned out to be a permanent feature. The director Emmett Malloy has followed the mythical duo on its 2007 tour through Canada, which turned out to be hard to beat in terms of originality and energy. The plan to conquer Canada wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t just about holding classic stadium concerts, but had the ambition to be surprising each time, in each new city. We experience White Stripes as they perform a show in a city bus in Winnipeg, at a bowling alley in Saskatoon and to a YMCA day camp in Toronto. There are just as many crazy concerts as there are cities on the tour itinerary, and Malloy is there all along. Between the gigs and the visits to the closed-off backstage area, he has turned his observant camera towards the relationship between Jack and Meg: the duo, which started out being married and later proclaimed to be brother and sister. The duo, whose one half does all the talking, while the other hardly ever utters a word. The duo, which makes grainy blues rock in black, white and red. An expression that Malloy has chosen to continue in the film, which in a most delicate way makes use of the bandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s signature colours and pop art scenography.

SCREENING DATES Grand Thursday 5/11 18:00 hrs. / Grand Saturday 7/11 19:00 hrs. / Grand Friday 13/11 21:30 hrs.

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All Tomorrow’s Parties DIRECTOR: Jonathan Caouette, All Tomorrow’s People

When ‘All Tomorrow’s Parties’ is reviewed as a DIY concert film, this is to be taken literally. The film, which portrays the cult festival by the same name, is an intoxicating patchwork of images recorded with everything from video cameras to mobile phones, with Vincent Moon and Jonathan Caouette as the artistic masterminds in the editing suite. The concept for the festival is quite simple: get a band to unite its favourite musicians at a holiday camp during the low season and add a music-loving and laid-back audience. Let them jam, climb up in trees and play concerts together all weekend, and you end up having what Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore describes as “the ultimate mix tape”. The film is an eclectic blend of recordings with and by artists such as Portishead, Grinderman, Mogwai and Slint, and it is impossible not to be enchanted by ATP’s wonderful world, where one both lives in huts with an ocean view and plays mini-golf with one’s biggest indie heroes.

Original title All Tomorrow’s Parties Country UK Year 2009 Running time 82 min. Production Warp X Producer Luke Morris Distribution Warp Films

SCREENING DATES Empire Bio Friday 6/11 22:30 hrs. / Empire Bio Wednesday 11/11 22:30 hrs. / Grand Saturday 14/11 21:30 hrs.

SOUND & VISION AWARD 75

Insurgentes DIRECTOR: Lasse Hoile

WORLD PREMIERE “Art is an extension of yourself”, says Steven Wilson, who is best known as the frontman of the progressive rock band Porcupine Tree. The man behind several of the band’s music videos, Danish Lasse Hoile, who has also made works for Opeth and Dream Theater, follows the reflective Brit during the release of the 2008 solo album, which has also given this sensationally visionary debut feature its title. With gloomy, existential images, which look as if they are influenced by everything from Tarkvosky to 70s splatter films and The Knife’s visual universe, ‘Insurgentes’ portrays Wilson as a complex musician, human being and a savage vinyl devotee, who has made it his personal project to smash, burn and destroy iPods in his battle against the mp3 format and what he sees as our age’s devaluation of music. There is plenty of destruction, distortion and noise in both Wilson’s sound and Hoile’s images, and the film becomes larger than the sum of its artistic input, thanks to the mutual understanding between the two. Steven Wilson will himself be present at the screening on the 13th of November for a conversation with Lasse Hoile about today’s music culture. Maybe he will even have the time to destroy a few iPods.

SCREENING DATES Gloria Friday 6/11 17:00 hrs. / Gloria Friday 13/11 21:30 hrs.

76 SOUND & VISION AWARD

Original title Insurgentes Country UK, Denmark Year 2009 Running time 77 min. Production Desperit Meshers Producer Lasse Hoile, Steven Wilson Distribution Lasse Hoile

The Family Jams DIRECTOR: Kevin Barker

WORLD PREMIERE Even if the long-haired, long-bearded, Jesus-like neo-hippie with a bare stomach doesn’t think that he’s making folk music, The Family Jam’s music nonetheless oozes of folk. When Devendra Banhart, Joanna Newsom and Vetiver embarked on an American tour in 2004, the band member Kevin Barker brought along a handheld camera. With it, he filmed the entire tour from the American east coast to the west coast. The film develops from Barker’s personal video diary, which he himself has filmed, edited, produced and directed, to an intimate road movie and a musical close-up and portrait of a moving character. Just like Banhart and co’s intimate family jams - where everyone joins in to play, sing and stamp along - the film radiates a sense of presence, joy and love for music. And it definitely doesn’t get worse with the guest appearances of Antony Hegarty, Esper and Banhart’s great role model, Linda Perhacs.

Original title The Family Jams Country USA Year 2009 Running time 81 min. Production Neptune’s Thimble Producer Kevin Barker Distribution Kevin Barker

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket Saturday 7/11 21:30 hrs. / Empire Bio Tuesday 10/11 22:30 hrs. / Empire Bio Friday 13/11 22:30 hrs. / Grand Sunday 15/11 21:30 hrs.

SOUND & VISION AWARD 77

Off Ways DIRECTOR: Uli Schueppel

The industrial anarchists Einstürzende Neubauten were the first band from the West to hold a concert in the former GDR after the fall of the Berlin wall. On 21st December 1989, Blixa Bargeld & co packed their band van with drills and guitars, and ventured from Kreuzberg to Lichtenberg. A chaotic journey across several cultural lightyears, which ended with a historic concert in front of thousands of fans, who so far had only heard the group on illegally imported bootleg tapes. The underground director Uli Schüppel was there all along, and for the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall he has woven his original footage from 1989 together with a portrait of today’s Berlin. Worlds collide, both when a socialist GDR journalist interviews the black-clad nihilists about the social value of their music, and when France’s president François Mitterand suddenly turns up. ‘Off Ways’ is a magnificent document from one of the few moments in history when everyone could be a hero.

Original title Von Wegen (Elektrokohle) Country Germany Year 2009 Running time 90 min. Production Schueppel Films Producer Uli M. Schueppel Distribution Schueppel Films

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket Friday 6/11 19:45 hrs. / Cinemateket Tuesday 10/11 16:45 hrs. / Grand Friday 13/11 19:00 hrs. / Grand Sunday 15/11 19:00 hrs.

78 SOUND & VISION AWARD

And I Ride, And I Ride DIRECTOR: Frank Vialle

WORLD PREMIERE If Leonard Cohen were a French guitarist, his name would be Rodolphe Burger, he’d be a professor of philosophy and he’d live somewhere out in the snow-clad mountains of northern France. Here, he’d record his records with his friends and colleagues in his homebuilt studio, smoke cigarettes, talk to his old neighbour and watch the seasons pass. There is a man who fits that description, and it’s not surprising that he’s a cool cat to the bone. Rodolphe Burger of French experimental rock band Kat Onoma is the kind of musician who lets moods beget his music, and his floating playing doesn’t distinguish genres such as jazz, blues and post-punk. To put it succinctly, Burger’s sound is cinematic, and this can be felt in ‘And I Ride, And I Ride’. Much like last year’s portrait of Patti Smith, ‘Dream of Life’, the first-time director Franck Vialle shrouds his virtuoso friend in impressionistic and atmospheric images. Rodolphe Burger can also be seen in Pedro Costa’s ascetic ‘Ne change rien’ together with the

Original title And I Ride, And I Ride Country France Year 2009 Running time 105 min. Production Atopic Producer Christophe Gougeon Distribution Atopic

French diva Jeanne Balibar.

SCREENING DATES Posthus Teatret Sunday 8/11 19:00 hrs. / Gloria Thursday 12/11 21:30 hrs.

SOUND & VISION AWARD 79

We Don’t Care About Music Anyway... DIRECTOR: Cédric Dupire, Gaspard Kuentz

SCANDINAVIAN PREMIERE Cédric Dupire & Gaspard Kuentz’s hypnotic work challenges the boundaries of both the artistic and the political. Filled with febrile dream visions and snap shots of Tokyo’s radically vibrating underground, the film is a simultaneously unobtrusive and hard attack on a world where normality has turned life into hell. With its incisive commentary on conformist consumer society, several of the film’s protagonists start out in the quickly growing scrap yards in the outskirts of the city and create instruments and sounds with what other people would consider waste. They throw themselves headlong into hyper-intelligent discussions about music, life and politics - and enrich us with a number of beautifully shot concerts, which range from cacophonous industrial noise to energetic no-wave. ‘We Don’t Care About Music Anyway...’ is a unique film about a group of originals, whose eccentric visions simply have to be seen on the big screen. Meet Otomo Yoshihide, Sakamoto Hiromichi, Yamakawa Fuyuki, Numb, Saidrum... and your world will never be the same again!

SCREENING DATES Byens Lys Saturday 7/11 21:00 hrs. / Cinemateket Friday 13/11 21:30 hrs.

80 SOUND & VISION AWARD

Original title We Don’t Care About Music Anyway... Country France Year 2009 Running time 80 min. Production Studio Shaiprod, Cityzen TV, Shai Productions, Zadig Productions Producer Jérôme Aglibert Distribution Studio Shaiprod

La faute des fleurs DIRECTOR: Vincent Moon

WORLD PREMIERE To see ‘La Faute des fleurs’ is like being hit by a spaceship. A very Japanese spaceship. After having been told by a fan that here was a story that he shouldn’t miss out on, Vincent Moon travelled to Japan to meet the 59-year-old Japanese folk singer and cult figure Kazuki Tomokawa, also known as ‘the screaming philosopher’. From that moment on, the director’s world had changed completely - and unsuspecting audiences who go and see ‘La Faute des fleurs’ can expect the same. Because Tomokawa, who at first sight looks like someone taken from a yakuza film, but who has in fact acted in films by both Nagisa Oshima and Takashi Miike, loses it completely. And he burns his bridges during a wild drinking spree, where he is constantly in danger of reaching out for yet another bottle instead of his guitar. This deeply moving portrait brings Tomokawa, his bungled relationship with his son and his passion for gambling at bike races to life. ‘La Faute des Fleurs’ is a quantum leap for Vincent Moon.

Original title La faute des fleurs Country France Year 2008 Running time 70 min. Production Temporary Areas Producer Naohito Koike, Naoki Ohzeki, Vincent Moon Distribution Vincent Moon

SCREENING DATES DOX:CLUB Thursday 12/11 19:00 hrs. / Gloria Sunday 15/11 17:00 hrs.

SOUND & VISION AWARD 81

Villalobos DIRECTOR: Romuald Karmakar

SCANDINAVIAN PREMIERE With his uncompromising portrait of the internationally acclaimed micro-house musician Ricardo Villalobos, the controversial German director Romuald Karmakar has completed his trilogy on electronic music and the pulsating club scene at the beginning of the new century. Through close, eye-opening interviews with the otherwise withdrawn DJ, the film introduces his working methods and thought processes, and we are invited to an exclusive visit at the famous Berghain Club in Berlin. In these wild, fluorescent scenes, Villalobos sends us on a solid techno trip, of a kind that has rarely been seen on film. In 2003, Karmakar portrayed the Berlin Love Parade in ‘196 BPM’ and a few years later he filmed the European techno scene in ‘Between the Devil and the Wide Blue Sea’ (CPH:DOX 2006) - but there is no doubt that this last film is the magnum opus of the trilogy. ‘Villalobos’ is a simultaneously super-intimate and ultra-hard film about the master of minimal techno, whose love for classical music and intelligent thoughts about our age and about techno culture can only increase our fascination of ‘Villalobos’. PARTY: After the screening on 7th November at 22:30 hrs in Vega, LOMIDHIGH will invite you to dance. Read more under DOX:EXPANDED - concerts & parties.

SCREENING DATES Vega Saturday 7/11 22:30 hrs. / Cinemateket Friday 13/11 21:45 hrs.

82 SOUND & VISION AWARD

Original title Villalobos Country Germany Year 2009 Running time 119 min. Production Pantera Film Producer Romuald Karmarkar Distribution Pantera Film GmbH

Stages DIRECTOR: Uffe Truust

WORLD PREMIERE Over the course of their teenage years, the seven members of Dúné have achieved much more than most people do in an entire lifetime. So when ‘Stages’ condenses two years of the band’s life into a 90-minute road movie, it’s not surprising that the seams are threatening to split. From rehearsals at the youth club to a student party - and directly on to playing in front of 20,000 spectators in Germany with a colossal third-day hangover. The debut director Uffe Truust, who has previously made music videos for the band, manages to get right into ‘bed’ with the band. Both when they discuss their relationship issues in the tour bus and when one of the seven members is hit by an emotional jet lag somewhere between Moscow and Tokyo. ‘Stages’ is an honest and candid portrait of seven vulnerable youths, who together have realised their dream of the wild rock’n’roll life. But who also stick together through thick and thin, when it’s time to pay the costs in the form of constant demands

Original title Stages Country Denmark Year 2009 Running time 90 min. Production Beat Film Producer Stine Boe Jensen Distribution Beat Film

and expectations. It’s full speed ahead all the way through, and one doesn’t doubt one second that the world is waiting for them.

SCREENING DATES Byens Lys Friday 6/11 20:00 hrs. / Dagmar Thursday 12/11 21:30 hrs. / Cinemateket Sunday 15/11 21:45 hrs.

SOUND & VISION AWARD 83

Memory & Desire: 30 Years in the Wilderness with Stephen Duffy and The Lilac Time DIRECTOR: Douglas Arrowsmith SCANDINAVIAN PREMIERE Lightyears separate the Stephen Duffy presented in Douglas Arrowsmith’s atmospheric portrait film from the young and arty punk lad who started Duran Duran but dropped out after a year to focus on his solo career. Today’s Duffy is a 49-year-old gentleman with a goatee and a face that bears witness to a long-lived life devoted to art. As a 20-year-old he attended arts college, painted his eyes black and quoted Fitzgerald and Dorothy Parker in his dark songs. He has tried most music genres, from introspective and gloomy punk to the kind of neon-coloured pop that he himself calls ‘synth pop marxism’, and in the past 20 years he has regularly seduced a small but devoted following with his band The Lilac Time and their beautiful folk-pop songs. The portrait of Stephen Duffy is the portrait of an artist who insists on art, magic and poetry - and with his sensual Super8 images and strongly personal approach, Arrowsmith brings all three of these elements to glowing life.

Original title Memory & Desire: 30 Years in the Wilderness with Stephen Duffy and The Lilac Time Country Canada, UK Year 2009 Running time 83 min. Production Bogus Frontage / Felt Films Producer Douglas Arrowsmith Distribution Felt Films

SCREENING DATES Gloria Saturday 7/11 17:00 hrs. / Dagmar Tuesday 10/11 16:30 hrs. / Husets Biograf Sunday 15/11 18:30 hrs.

84 SOUND & VISION AWARD

On/Off: Mark Stewart - From The Pop Group To The Maffia DIRECTOR: Toni Schifer SCANDINAVIAN PREMIERE Mark Stewart, one of Britain’s most innovative artists, brought the revolutionary Bristol punk to the masses 30 years ago and thereby sowed the seeds for a music scene that over the years has developed continually and gone on to produce bands such as Massive Attack, Tricky and Portishead. The film portrays Mark Stewart’s musical flirt with a long list of genres from Pop Group’s danceable punk aesthetic via New Step and

Original title On/Off: Mark Stewart - From The Pop Group To The Maffia Country Germany Year 2009

industrial Hip Hop to The Maffia’s dub massacre.

Running time 91 min.

The director Toni Schiffer followed Mark Stewart over a period of

Production Monitorpop Entertainment

three years and has made a detailed and often intimate portrait of the artist, supported by a number of interviews with, among others, Adrian Sherwood (On.U Sound), Daniel Miller (Mute Records), Nick Cave, Douglas Hart (The Jesus & Mary Chain), Fritz Catlin (23 Skidoo),

Producer Toni Schifer Distribution Toni Schifer

Mike Watt (Minutemen, The Stooges) and Massive Attack. What’s more, the film is filled with hitherto unseen concert footage of The Pop Group.

SCREENING DATES Husets Biograf Friday 6/11 18:30 hrs. / Grand Thursday 12/11 19:00 hrs. / Gloria Saturday 14/11 21:30 hrs.

SOUND & VISION AWARD 85

Timeless Harvest DIRECTOR: Martin Verdet

SCANDINAVIAN PREMIERE ‘Timeless Harvest’ is a film about music - the life that music creates, and the life that surrounds music. Martin Verdet’s beautiful and atmospheric film follows the internationally acclaimed composer Per Nørgård, the cello maestros Valter Despalj and Ralph Kirschbaum as well as the Kroger Quartet in their work with music at Frederiksdal Manor on Lolland. The film follows the passing of the seasons, while the audience is taken onto a journey into the world of music through the portrayal of life at Frederiksdal - from the detailed work in the rehearsal room to the machines’ toiling of the heavy earth. With its painterly and sensual images and an unprecedented sense of musical and human detail, Martin Verdet has created a cinematic masterpiece, which brilliantly complements the work of the artists. Never before has the work process of classical music been portrayed with such a passionate nerve and vulnerability. At the screening on the 14th of November, the director Martin Verdet will talk about the film, followed by a world premiere of a new cello piece by Per Nørgård, played by the leading Nørgård interpreter Jakob Kullberg. Read more about the event on DOX EXPANDED - Concerts and Parties.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket Sunday 8/11 14:15 hrs. / Stærekassen Saturday 14/11 14:00 hrs.

86 SOUND & VISION AWARD

Original title Timeless Harvest Country France Year 2009 Running time 59 min. Production Z’azimut Films Producer Nicole Zeizig Distribution Z’azimut Films

To Be Or Not To Be DIRECTOR: Frank Scheffer

INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE European music is made to be heard. Persian music is made to not be heard. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s how the Iranian-born composer and conductor Nader Mashayekhi defines the difference between the music he has inherited and the music he has learned to love abroad. After 35 years of studies in Vienna, he returns to Tehran to make the impossible possible. In a country where western sounds are seen as blasphemous and superficial, he starts a symphony orchestra that performs pieces by Mahler, Bach and John Cage. In his attempt to bridge the gap between East and West, Mahsayekh combines classical western instrumentation with the melancholy poetry of Persia in his own compositions. The result is a unique and challenging auditory experience, which is accompanied by almost metaphysically beautiful imagery of desert landscapes.

Original title To Be Or Not To Be Country Netherlands Year 2009 Running time 70 min. Production Pieter van der Huystee Film & TV Producer Pieter Van der Huystee Distribution Pieter van der Huystee Film & TV

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket Sunday 8/11 16:30 hrs. / Dagmar Thursday 12/11 16:30 hrs.

SOUND & VISION AWARD 87

The Delian Mode DIRECTOR: Kara Blake

SCANDINAVIAN PREMIERE Once you have heard the theme tune of ‘Doctor Who’, you never forget it again. The woman behind the gloomy electronic track, which entered British households for the first time in 1963, is Delia Derbyshire, who was employed at BBC’s Radiophonic Workshop in the 1950s, where innovative work was being done, but where the employed never got the recognition for being the composers they in fact were. Derbyshire was ahead of most people, and with her persevering work on the times’ latest technology, the reel tape recorder, she created a renewed form of electronic music with field recordings that she looped, manipulated and turned on its head. Her melodic and almost joyfully revealing recordings have to this day inspired bands such as Portishead, White Noise and Sonic Boom. When synthesisers made their breakthrough in the 1970s, time was running out for Derbyshire, and today anybody with a hidden inner musician can do the same on the computer - but Delia Derbyshire created the foundation. Kara Blake provides an original visualisation of the pioneering electronic music through nostalgic BBC footage, dark collages and split screens that give the electronic cut up a renewed meaning.

SCREENING DATES Gloria Saturday 7/11 21:30 hrs. / DOX:CLUB Friday 13/11 18:00 hrs.

88 SOUND & VISION AWARD

Original title The Delian Mode Country Canada Year 2009 Running time 25 min. Production Philtre Films Producer Kara Blake, Marie-Josée Saint-Pierre Distribution Vidéographe Distribution

Varese: The One All Alone DIRECTOR: Frank Scheffer

SCANDINAVIAN PREMIERE (OUT OF COMPETITION) He has inspired musicians from Frank Zappa to John Cage, Penderecki and Stockhausen and was called ‘the stratospheric colossus of sound’ by Henry Miller. The French-born Edgard Varèse (1883-1965) renewed modern composed music with his concept of music as ‘organised sound’. In his work, Varèse was constantly on the lookout for new sources of sound, which found a direct expression in his many collaborations with sound technicians, scientists and instrument makers. He was also one of the first people to use tape recorders and electronic devices, which is why he was considered by many to be the father of electronic music. With his intelligent combination of both visual and acoustic archive material, Frank Scheffer’s fine portrait film digs, like Varèse, deep into the structure of tonal music - and into the man behind Edgard Victor Achille Charles Varèse and his work, which despite its huge reputation only includes a few finished compositions.

Original title Varese: The One All Alone Country Netherlands Year 2009 Running time 93 min. Production Kasander film Producer Kees Kasander Distribution Kasander Film

SCREENING DATES Gloria Saturday 7/11 21:30 hrs. / DOX:CLUB Friday 13/11 18:00 hrs.

SOUND & VISION AWARD 89

When You’re Strange: A film about The Doors DIRECTOR: Tom DiCillo SCANDINAVIAN PREMIERE (OUT OF COMPETITION) The Doors are one of the most mythologised bands ever - not least thanks to Jim Morrison’s characteristic career cocktail consisting of an insatiable appetite for life and a paradoxical death wish that made him meet his end at the age of just 27. ‘When You’re Strange’ is the first official documentary that tells the story of the group and consists entirely of original footage from the period of 1965 to 1971, supplemented with sensational extracts from Jim Morrison’s own, freakish experimental road movie ‘Highway’. The material is nothing less than a historical and cinematic scoop and has not been shown before the American independent director Tom DiCillo was given access to the unique film spools. We are there when Morrison and the organist Ray Manzarek meet each other at the film school at UCLA, until they a few years later stand in the limelight before thousands of fans - but also when they go off the rails under the psychedelic Californian sun. There are miles of cinematic eye candy for film lovers, and a new life for the sound of the ever young revolution.

Original title When You’re Strange: A film about The Doors Country USA Year 2008 Running time 90 min. Production Rhino Entertainment Company Producer John Beug, Jeff Jampol, Peter Jankowski, Dick Wol Distribution Rhino Entertainment Company

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket Friday 6/11 22:00 hrs. / Empire Bio Sunday 8/11 22:30 hrs. / Grand Saturday 14/11 19:00 hrs.

90 SOUND & VISION AWARD

Ed Thigpen: Master Of Time, Rhythm And Taste DIRECTOR: Don McGlynn

EUROPEAN PREMIERE (OUT OF COMPETITION) Apart from being an incredible musician with a rare feel for music, the drummer Ed Thigpen is also a human being whose life has brought him to many places: grown up in Saint Louis and Los Angeles, he worked together with the likes of Dinah Washington and Bud Powell at an early age. Later, he spent many years living in Copenhagen. A musician - but also a teacher and a Christian family father - who constantly seeks out new means of expression. In his personal, multifaceted portrait film, the Copenhagen-based American director Don McGlynn tells the story of Thigpen, whose work has included collaborations with Oscar Peterson, Ray Brown, Herbie Hancock and Ella Fitzgerald, but who has also enriched the Jazz world with his own two bands, “Ed Thigpen Trio” and “Ed Thigpen Scantet”. He has

Original title Ed Thigpen: Master Of Time, Rhythm And Taste Country USA, Denmark Year 2009 Running time 91 min. Production Donald McGlynn

participated on no less than 900 albums.

Producer Donald McGlynn

Both the director Don McGlynn and Ed Thigpen will be present at the

Distribution Donald McGlynn

film’s premiere.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket Sunday 8/11 14:00 hrs.

SOUND & VISION AWARD 91

itching feature films www.cphpix.dk 92 SOUND & VISION AWARD

AMNESTY AWARD

AMNESTY AWARD is CPH:DOX’s competition programme for films that focus on various aspects of the struggle for human rights. This year’s nominated films reach far and wide, and we get to tour the entire planet. From the melancholy sound and image collage ‘Isolation’ about Iraq veterans to ‘Murder’, Andreas Johnsen’s harrowing account of Nicaragua’s insanely strict abortion laws, which hits you like a blow to your chest. ‘Murder’ reveals one aspect of Latin America’s problems with creating a just society – José Padilha (who has previously won the AMNESTY

AWARD with ‘Bus 174’) shows another with his beautiful and extremely touching ‘Garapa’. A continental leap takes us on to Boris Bertram’s brand new ‘Tank City’ about life and the opportunities for artistic epxression in Siberia’s most polluted city – and to the intelligent examination of seemingly banal social rituals in modern China. AMNESTY AWARD (5,000 euros) is kindly sponsored by Merkur Bank.

Garapa DIRECTOR: José Padilha

SCANDINAVIAN PREMIERE The word ‘garapa’ refers to the mixture of warm water and sugar that poor Brazilian families give to their children when there isn’t any food in the house - and that’s often the case. Many of them have to survive on handouts and food rations from the ‘Zero Hunger’ programme. But the rations are only enough for one small meal a day, and the result is malnutrition and disease. Women try in vain to keep their large families together, while the men often turn to drinking to soothe their frustration at not being able to find work or make the crops grow. An alcoholic husband sells his family’s meagre food supplies and even the toilet to be able to finance his cachaça abuse. The heart-rending realities and the desperate conditions are captured in unsentimental black-and-white images, which bring us very close to a brutal Brazilian reality. José Padilha won the Amnesty Award for his ‘Bus 174’ at the first CPH:DOX in 2003.

Original title Garapa Country Brazil Year 2009 Running time 106 min. Production Zazen Producóes Audiovisuais Producer José Padilha, Marcos Prado Distribution Zazen Producóes Audiovisuais

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket Saturday 7/11 16:45 hrs. / Vester Vov Vov Saturday 14/11 19:00 hrs. / Vester Vov Vov Sunday 15/11 19:00 hrs.

96 AMNESTY AWARD

Fixer: The Taking of Ajmal Naqshbandi DIRECTOR: Ian Olds

SCANDINAVIAN PREMIERE In april 2007, the 24-year-old Afghan journalist Ajmal Naqshbandi was executed by Taliban warriors. Ajmal had been taken hostage together with an Italian journalist, for whom he had worked as a fixer. A fixer is a person who makes use of local contacts to facilitate access to interviews and news stories for foreign journalists. It’s a risky job to venture far into Taliban territory, where law and disorder are enforced by armed extremists - but Ajmal has a family to feed. After an intense month, the Italian is liberated and given a hero’s welcome back at home, while Ajmal becomes a pawn in a savage political game when Hamid Karzai’s government refuses to negotiate any further with the Taliban. The film documents Ajmal’s last half year alive and exposes a corrupt and violent Afghan reality.

Original title Fixer: The Taking of Ajmal Naqshbandi Country USA Year 2009 Running time 84 min. Production G Films Producer Ian Olds, Christian Parenti, Nancy Roth Distribution G Films

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket Wednesday 11/11 15:00 hrs. / Dagmar Friday 13/11 16:30 hrs.

AMNESTY AWARD 97

Tank City DIRECTOR: Boris Bertram

WORLD PREMIERE In a city that is best known for contaminating its citizens with high levels of radioactivity, two young people turn to dance as a way of dealing with the heritage of the nuclear reactors. The Russian industrial town Chelyabinsk, situated at the foot of the Ural Mountains in western Siberia, is one of the planet’s most radioactive places. During the cold war it was one of the Soviet Union’s secret cities that was taking part in the development of the first Soviet nuclear bomb. But the city of Chelyabinsk also has one of the most vibrant dance scenes in Russia. In ‘Tank City’, we follow a group of young dancers during the production of a new dance show, which is about losing gravity as a human being. The film is a rare example of a documentary dance and environmental film. The film examines how dance as an art form gives youths a possibility to express themselves freely. ‘Tank City’ is a film about radioactive bodies, dance and survival. And about being young in the aftermath of one of the largest radioactive disasters of the 20th century.

SCREENING DATES Statens Museum for Kunst Thursday 12/11 20:00 hrs.

98 AMNESTY AWARD

Original title Tankograd Country Denmark Year 2009 Running time 58 min. Production Barok Film Producer Sara Stockmann Distribution Barok Film

Murder DIRECTOR: Andreas Johnsen

WORLD PREMIERE The Catholic Church is fanatically ‘pro-life’. Nonetheless, it sends an unknown number of pregnant Nicaraguan women straight to their deaths. It has always been illegal to have an abortion in Central America’s poorest country, but ahead of the Nicaraguan presidential elections in 2006, the former socialist revolutionary leader Daniel Ortega entered an unholy alliance with the the church in his battle to obtain more votes among the strongly faithful electorate and promised to even criminalise therapeutic abortion, which can only be conducted if a birth is threatening the mother’s life. Ortega became president, and Nicaragua’s parliament pushed through a horrifying change in the law, which means that carrying out any kind of abortion can be punished with up to 8 years in prison - both for the pregnant woman and the doctor involved. But at the same time, pregnancy itself can be a death sentence. CPH:DOX is hosting the world premiere of Danish filmmaker Andreas Johnsen’s powerful and

Original title Murder Country Denmark Year 2009 Running time 60 min. Production rosforth.com Producer Andreas Johnsen Distribution Rosforth & Rosforth

violently intense ‘Murder’, which follows the people who are defying the law to save lives - and thereby put their own lives at risk.

SCREENING DATES Dagmar Sunday 8/11 16:30 hrs. / Byens Lys Thursday 12/11 21:00 hrs.

AMNESTY AWARD 99

Isolation DIRECTOR: Luke Seomore, Joseph Bull

WORLD PREMIERE Stuart Griffiths has served in the British army for five years when he decides to resign. He ends up homeless on the streets of London, just like roughly 36,000 other ex-soldiers. His problem is far from unique, and Griffiths here moves - with his own story as a starting point and through conversations and photographs that bear witness to their mutual understanding of the nightmare-inducing experiences - into the world of soldiers who have returned home. Having been a war photographer in Northern Ireland, Griffiths main form of expression is the picture, and Luke Seomore and Joseph Bull’s debut abounds with naturalistic portraits of soldiers during and after a battle, scarred and lacking limbs. But the film is also visually haunting in its own right. With its impressionistic night footage it describes a tendency of our times that is rarely talked about. And the war’s effects on a human being are given an unprecedented depth thanks to an aesthetic à la David Lynch. CPH:DOX are proud to host the world premiere of this new, longer version of ‘Isolation’.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket Saturday 7/11 15:00 hrs. / Cinemateket Friday 13/11 19:15 hrs.

100 AMNESTY AWARD

Original title Isolation Country UK Year 2009 Running time 74 min. Production Institute for Eyes Producer Hannah Lack Distribution I F Eyes LTD

Erasing David DIRECTOR: David Bond

INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE What do we really know about what others know about us? The English filmmaker David Bond leaves behind his little daughter and pregnant wife to find out. With two private detectives on his heels, he flees across Europe’s surveillance universe, while simultaneously leaving behind revealing trails in the form of phone calls, cash withdrawals, Facebook updates and other digital fingerprints. Bond’s own daughter was one of 25 million British, whose personal data was last year leaked due to an error in public IT. This encouraged him to try escaping from the all-observing eye of electronic Big Brother and to go underground for a month, which quickly turns out to be more easily said than done. The self-effacing project are taxing to both body and soul, as the expressionless detectives round in on our man. In the meantime, security experts, professional spies and other (anti) authorities give us their opinion on the state of privacy in the 21st century - and it doesn’t look good.

Original title Erasing David Country UK Year 2009 Running time 78 min. Production Green Lions Films Ltd Producer Ashley Jones Distribution Green Lions FIlms Ltd

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket Monday 9/11 16:45 hrs. / Cinemateket Sunday 15/11 14:00 hrs.

AMNESTY AWARD 101

Once Upon A Time Proletarian DIRECTOR: Xiaolu Guo

SCANDINAVIAN PREMIERE During the production of her feature film ‘She, a Chinese’, the Chinese director Xiaolu Guo felt an urge to also tell her stories outside the filter of fiction. She therefore simultaneously shot ‘Once Upon A Time Proletarian’, 12 lyrical and politically revealing essays, 12 moving and thought-provoking looks through the keyhole at a postMaoist China, where dreams and disillusion go hand in hand. Meet the penniless farmer who has nothing but his pride and his working morale to hold on to, the two millionaires who update each other on the movements of the stock exchange, the new Russian prostitutes, and the worker at a weapons factory, who nostalgically recalls the Maoist era, when everything was better. And meet the forwardlooking youth, which dreams of becoming famous in the West. The director’s own sadness and concern about the state of the country is constantly present under the surface of the beautifully composed images, and now and again one can catch a glimpse of the greatness and heroism of the past, which, however, is always most visible when it’s being compared with the realities of today.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket Friday 6/11 18:00 hrs. / Dagmar Thursday 12/11 21:30 hrs.

102 AMNESTY AWARD

Original title Women Cengjing De Wuchanzhe Country China Year 2009 Running time 75 min. Production Chapter Two Films Producer Guo Xiaolu, Pam Casey Distribution Memento Films International

Their Life is Somewhere Else! DIRECTOR: Mona Rafatzadeh

EUROPEAN PREMIERE Escalators and everyday chit-chat in Tehran’s top-modern metro. More and more women fill the platform, until finally a train finally arrives and comes to a halt with great yellow letters on the side reading ‘WOMEN ONLY’. Mona Rafatzadeh, who is still a film student at the university of Tehran, portrays the isolated life of women in the metro in ‘Their Life is Somewhere Else’. The static images soberly register the calm and orderliness that can be found in the metro system. But Mona Rafatzadeh’s partially hidden camera also captures the women’s alternating silence and small-talk, their yawns and the sale of colourful underwear, chewing gum, black veils, sunglasses,

Original title Their Life is Somewhere Else! Country Iran Year 2009 Running time 13 min. Producer Mona Rafatzadeh

gucci bags and mobile phones. ‘Their Life is Somewhere Else’ has already earned much international attention, and it will be exciting to follow the young and promising Mona Rafatzadeh’s further development down the road that in the past year has put Iranian documentary back on the cinematic world map.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket Saturday 14/11 16:45 hrs.

AMNESTY AWARD 103

Tehran Without Permission DIRECTOR: Sepideh Farsi

SCANDINAVIAN PREMIERE Sepideh Farsi recorded her impressionistic vox-pops without asking anyone for permission. Not because there is a general filming ban in Iran’s populous capital, but if you don’t ask nobody is going to say no. Equipped with her mobile phone as her digital ‘kino eye’, ‘Tehran Without Permission’ takes a kaleidoscopic insider look at a society where tensions are simmering - especially among that half of the population which is under 25 years old. Persian graffiti and angry rap texts are rarely mentioned when the Islamic regime proudly exports its own, biased story of a strong and unified nation to Western media through its own TV stations. As a result, Farsi’s low-fi street poetry hits one with an all the more unexpected force.

Original title Tehran Bedoune Mojavez Country France/Iran Year 2009 Running time 83 min. Production Rêves d’Eau Productions Producer Javad Djavahery Distribution Rêves d’Eau Productions

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket Saturday 14/11 16:45 hrs.

104 AMNESTY AWARD

Hotel Sahara DIRECTOR: Bettina Haasen

SCANDINAVIAN PREMIERE Europe is just a stone’s throw away from North Africa - at least if you judge by the maps. In reality, the journey from one continent to the other is both a long and dangerous one for the many illegal immigrants, who each year try to cross the Strait of Gibraltar. In ‘Hotel Sahara’, we follow a number of Africans, who have different takes on the dream about ‘the European paradise’. Some of them have fantasies about careers as footballers and streets without dust, and have therefore already consigned their fate into the hands of local smugglers. Others harbour no illusions and would rather build up a meaningful life right where they are. What they all share is a sense of unfairness at having been born in the wrong place: in an Africa where one doesn’t have the same opportunities as in the rest of the world. With a sober approach, which both registers beauty and decay, polluted deserts with plastic bags lining all the sandbars and wonderful sunsets over hazy mirages, we follow the film’s

Original title Hotel Sahara Country Germany Year 2008 Running time 85 min. Production Gebrueder Beetz Filmproduktion Producer Christian Beetz Distribution Deckert Distribution GmbH

protagonists in their respective countries. Just as their fates remain unclear, the film provides no final answers.

SCREENING DATES Dagmar Monday 9/11 16:30 hrs. / Vester Vov Vov Friday 13/11 19:00 hrs.

AMNESTY AWARD 105

Presumed Guilty DIRECTOR: Roberto Hernández, Geoffrey Smith

EUROPEAN PREMIERE The 26-year-old rapper and break dancer ‘Tonio’ Zuniga Rodriguez is imprisoned in Mexico City, and his sentence for murdering a young man means he has another 20 years in prison to look forward to. The only thing is that he hasn’t committed the murder, and his family is desperately trying to fight for his release. But it’s an uphill struggle against a decaying legal system and a corrupt police force, which receives a cash reward for each arrest. Two young idealistic lawyers take on the case and demand renewed access to the documents. They soon reveal that Tonio’s defence lawyer was working with a fake licence, and the case is reopened. The documents are all spread out in the tight legal office of the prison, and Tonio does everything to convince the judge that he’s innocent. But this is more easily said than done in a country where ruthless coincidence rules both the streets and the courtrooms.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket Tuesday 10/11 21:45 hrs. / Cinemateket Friday 13/11 19:00 hrs.

106 AMNESTY AWARD

Original title Presumed Guilty Country Mexico Year 2008 Running time 88 min. Production Abogados con Cámara Producer Layda Negrete, Roberto Hernández, Martha Sosa, Yissel Ibarra Distribution Films Transit

Defamation DIRECTOR: Yoav Shamir

Driven by a personal curiosity and armed with a naive inquisitiveness à la Michael Moore, the Israeli director Yoav Shamir tries to find out how antisemitism is expressed today. To find an answer, he among other things follows a group of Israeli school children on their educational trip to Auschwitz under the motto “Never forgive. Never forget!” And he tries to understand, what exactly it is that the powerful American-Jewish lobby organisation Anti-Defamation League does. There are many interests and great emotions at play when the opinions of editors, rabbis, intellectuals, left-wing activists and ordinary Israelis are confronted with each other. The DanishIsraeli production is an entertaining, thought-provoking and at times disconcerting look at how complex and and self-perpetuating the discussion about antisemitism is.

Original title Defamation Country Israel, Denmark, USA, Austria Year 2009 Running time 93 min. Production SF Films, Reveal Productions, Cinephil, Knut.Ogris.Films Producer Karoline Leth, Philippa Kowarsky, Knut Ogris, Sandra Itkoff Distribution Austrian Film Commision

SCREENING DATES Dagmar Saturday 7/11 16:30 hrs. / Husets Biograf Monday 9/11 18:30 hrs.

AMNESTY AWARD 107

American Radical: The Trials of Norman Finkelstein DIRECTOR: DAVID RIDGEN & NICOLAS ROSSIER SCANDINAVIAN PREMIERE (OUT OF COMPETITION) Professor Norman Finkelstein is a man who makes tempers boil. His theories about how Israel is exploiting the Holocaust and antisemitism to justify its present aggressions towards the Palestinians has made him one of America’s most controversial intellectuals. Critics call him the self-hating Jew and Holocaust denier, while students and colleagues praise his courage to practice free research. As a child of Holocaust survivors, he has been born into the heart of the subject, and especially his mother has influenced his view of the world. But who is this impassioned man, who cries like a child when he is confronted with the world’s injustices - while deriding the Jews’ own crocodile tears? This documentary tells us a captivating story about an uncompromising fireball, who has to pay a high price for his convictions. Norman Finkelstein will himself be present at the screening on November 12.

SCREENING DATES Grand Thursday 12/11 21:30 hrs. / Cinemateket Sunday 15/11 19:15 hrs.

108 AMNESTY AWARD

Original title American Radical: The Trials of Norman Finkelstein Country USA, Canada Year 2009 Running time 84 min. Production Baraka Productions Producer David Ridgen & Nicolas Rossier Distribution Baraka Productions

Bananas DIRECTOR: Fredrik Gertten

SPECIAL SCREENING OUT OF COMPETITION Fredrik Gertten’s documentary has caused quite a stir, leading one of the world’s largest fruit producers, Dole Food, to sue the director for libel. The film follows the lawsuit of twelve plantation workers in Nicaragua against Dole Food - a lawsuit of historic dimensions given that it is the first time that Latin American plantation workers have managed to bring about a jury trial within the American legal system. The charge levelled against Dole is that the company used pesticides that led to infertility. The LA-based lawyer Dominguez ‘Accidentes’ Dominguez has earned his riches through compensation suits - hence the middle name - but it’s no small task to take up the battle against one of the world’s largest corporations, with all the legal and financial muscle it has at its disposal. A fact that both Dominguez and the director Gerrten have since had to experience at first hand. After the screening on 12 November, the film’s producer LiseLense Møller, Judith Kyst, the general secretary of Fairtrade and

Original title Bananas Country Sweden Year 2009 Running time 80 min. Production WG Film Producer Lise-Lense Møller & Margarete Jangård Distribution WG film

Morten Emil Jensen, the political advisor of DanChurchAid will talk about banana production from both a historic and contemporary perspective. Afterwards, CPH:DOX and Fairtrade will offer banana smoothies from Joe and the Juice and banana cake from Tim’s Cookies made by bananas from AgroFairs.

SCREENING DATES Grand Sunday 8/11 14:00 hrs. / Grand Thursday 12/11 19:00 hrs. / Grand Sunday 15/11 14:00 hrs.

AMNESTY AWARD 109

Human Terrain DIRECTOR: James Der Derian, David Udris & Michael Udris

SCANDINAVIAN PREMIERE (OUT OF COMPETITION) The latest trick of modern warfare is the Human Terrain System, a cultural understanding programme launched by the American military in 2006. With guns in one hand and a basic course in anthropology in the other, American soldiers are prepared to move in and defeat the enemy in exposed areas of Afghanistan and Iraq. HTS is a controversial programme that has caused much debate among anthropologists and which is seen by many as a militarisation, which compromises the ethics of the academic disciplines. In â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Human Terrainâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;, the American film director, professor and expert in international politics James Der Derian gives us an interesting look at the methods behind HTS, while in the same breath questioning the validity of its methods. Through interviews with programme designers, out-posted soldiers and various scientists, the ethical considerations are discussed in connection with the implementation of these kinds of programmes in new war situations. After the screening, Der Derian and co-producers Michael & David Udris, Copenhagen University professor Lene Hansen and the Afghanistan expert Peter Dahl Truelsen will debate the problems of using military cultural programmes such as HTS.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket Tuesday 10/11 19:15 hrs.

110 AMNESTY AWARD

Original title Human Terrain Country USA Year 2009 Running time 85 min. Production Oxyopia Productions and Udris Film in collaboration with the Global Media Project Producer James Der Derian, David Udris & Michael Udris Distribution Global Media Project

Survival Song DIRECTOR: Yu Guangyi

SCANDINAVIAN PREMIERE (OUT OF COMPETITION) A poetic and spectacular Chinese winter landscape is the backdrop for the curious story of the Han family. Mr Han, his wife and Xiao Lizi, the herdsman they employ, have occupied an abandoned house in a desolate mountain area. The house has been evacuated in connection with the state’s water reservoir project, and is constantly facing the threat of demolition. Mr Han is a wild boar hunter, but the primitive and fragile walls of his home conceal some intense everyday dramas. The herdsman Xiao Lizi is regarded as a dog and is fed with leftovers, accused of peeing on the wife’s clothes and among other things has to punish himself with slaps to the face. The Chinese authorities tear down the roof of the building, and it is all ‘the fucking Party’s fault’, as Mr Han says. The larger political realities that are woven into the small story constantly shine through. ‘Survival Song’ is a beautiful example of how intriguing the documentary format can be when it conveys remote and isolated

Original title Little Li Country China Year 2008 Running time 94 min. Production Dongfengxincun Producer Yu Guangyi Distribution Fanhall

realities.

SCREENING DATES Vester Vov Vov Sunday 15/11 19:00 hrs.

AMNESTY AWARD 111

DANISH:DOX AWARD

A new generation of Danish directors and producers are currently travelling around the world and returning home with a number of awards and a level of recognition that most countries can only dream about. To follow this development CPH:DOX has initiated an award for the best Danish documentary. The selected films reach far and wide: from visual experiments via courageous genre fusions to classic portrait films. We have done our best to keep our eyes and ears open

for new talents. This is why we this year – even more than last – can present an impressive lineup of first-time filmmakers. We wish them all the best in the years to come. DANISH:DOX AWARD (5,000 euros) is kindly sponsored by the Danish Producers’ Association.

Complaints Choir DIRECTOR: Ada Bligaard Søby

WORLD PREMIERE What are you complaining about? This is the question that two Finnish artists have journeyed out to ask people in all four corners of the world in documentary director Ada Bligaard Søby’s docu-musical. Their aim is not to pour salt in the wounds of the world’s grumpy complainers, but to let everyone vent their dissatisfaction about everything from parking fines to climate change in a liberating chorus of whining harmonies. We are taken to places such as Chicago and Singapore, and even if the cultures vary, it’s obvious that complaining is a basic human trait, and it is tackled with a deadpan approach by the two Finns. Ada Bligaard Søby has, in a short space of time, made her mark as an original new name in the Danish film world, among other things with last year’s poetic New York postcard ‘Black Heart’. With ‘Complaints Choir’ she is adding a promising first feature to her resume. After the premiere on 7 November, we invite you to a drink at Grand’s café and to a meeting with the musician Hyæne, who has contributed slanted and beautiful tones to the soundtrack of ‘Complaints Choirs’. Hyæne will perform with his new setup NIKOLAS, a mechanic and mental breakdown of African viking dub, which wraps white magic and feminine pathos together into a long forgotten beat. Even people without legs can dance, if they really want to.

SCREENING DATES Grand Saturday 7/11 21:30 hrs. / Byens Lys Sunday 15/11 17:30 hrs.

114 DANISH:DOX AWARD

Original title Complaints Choir Country Denmark Year 2009 Running time 56 min. Production Fine & Mellow Productions A/S Producer Morten Kjems Juhl Distribution Fine & Mellow Productions A/S

The DeVilles DIRECTOR: Nicole Horanyi

WORLD PREMIERE Can one become too old for rock’n’roll? Teri Lee and Shawn have been together since they were 17. That eventually has become a long time ago, and they now live in a pastel-coloured house in L.A. with their three teenage children. Teri swings her legs as a professional burlesque dancer at a local strip joint, and Shawn is the lead singer of a garage punk band with the fitting name ‘Standard and Poor’. But even if the Marilyn Monroe hair is sitting perfectly, the dream of the everlasting teenage life is slowly beginning to show signs of ageing. The crisis is tangible and the relationship is suffering. ‘The Devilles’, though, is first and foremost an American love story with Las Vegas as its final destination, as well as a reportage from a self-made world of retro coolness, where self-promotion and true feelings are not contradictions in terms.

Original title The DeVilles Country Denmark Year 2009 Running time 55 min. Production SF Filmproduktion Producer Karoline Leth Distribution SF Filmproduktion

SCREENING DATES Empire Bio Saturday 7/11 22:30 hrs. / Posthus Teatret Saturday 14/11 21:15 hrs.

DANISH:DOX AWARD 115

Mumbai Disconnected DIRECTOR: Camilla Nielsson, Frederik Jacobi

WORLD PREMIERE If traffic is communication, then the permanent traffic jam in Mumbai has long severed the connections between the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s inhabitants. And if uncontrolled growth is a disease, then Mumbai has cancer. This is the opinion of Veena, who does everything she can to halt the expansion of the road network above the rooftops in her neighbourhood. But Mr Das, who has the ungrateful job of being the official leader of Mumbaiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s extreme traffic makeover, has other plans. Just like the family father Yasin, who has just saved enough money for a super-cheap Nano car, which is forecast to strongly multiply the current number of 550 new cars in Mumbay every day - and to get the already nasty pollution to follow suit. Everything that can go wrong apparently has gone wrong a long time ago in the Indian metropolis. But what about the future?

Original title Mumbai Disconnected Country Denmark Year 2009 Running time 58 min. Production Upfront Films Aps Producer Henrik Veileborg, Jesper Jack & Anna-Maria Kantarius Distribution Upfront Films Aps

SCREENING DATES DOX:CLUB Sunday 8/11 20:00 hrs. / Grand Friday 13/11 16:30 hrs.

116 DANISH:DOX AWARD

Shanghai Space DIRECTOR: Nanna Frank Møller

WORLD PREMIERE With over 20 million inhabitants spread over an area of 7.000 km2, Shanghai is one of the world’s largest megacities. And with up to 125,000 people per square kilometre, the Chinese megapolis is also one of the places with the highest population density on the planet. But space is running out. In fact, it’s running out so quickly that there is no longer room for all the people who have lived their entire lives in the city. One of them is Xu, and his little family faces being moved to the suburbs. In the middle of a whirlwind of change, the ageing Xu accepts the situation with stoic calm, and relates to the new times like he’s always done: by taking pictures of them. In Nanna Frank Møller’s film, photography becomes a symbol - and possibly a tacit criticism of elusiveness and the symbolic lack of space in modern China.

Original title Shanghai Space Country Denmark Year 2009 Running time 56 min. Production Bastard Film A/S Producer Helle Faber Distribution Bastard Film A/S

SCREENING DATES DOX:CLUB Sunday 8/11 20:00 hrs. / Grand Friday 13/11 16:30 hrs.

DANISH:DOX AWARD 117

Bogotá Change DIRECTOR: Andreas M. Dalsgaard

WORLD PREMIERE Not long ago the Colombian capital Bogotá was considered one of the world’s most dangerous cities. At an altitude of over 2,600 metres up in the Andes mountains, seven million people were fighting a daily battle against drug crime, corruption, poverty and, not least, against each other. But in 1995 the colourful and independent Antanas Mockus surprised many by being elected to become the city’s Mayor, after having been fired as the vice-chancellor of the university where he had mooned his ungovernable students in a fit of rage. Mockus’s anarchistic and untraditional methods set about a social revolution that meant that Bogotá today is a role model for cities such as New York and Mexico City. ‘Bogotá Change’ tells the story about how this happened, and shows that politics in fact can be both funny and deeply inspiring.

Original title Bogotá Change Country Denmark Year 2009 Running time 55 min. Production Upfront Films Aps Producer Anna-Maria Kantarius, Jesper Jack & Henrik Veileborg Distribution Upfront Films Aps

SCREENING DATES Husets Biograf Thursday 12/11 21:00 hrs.

118 DANISH:DOX AWARD

Cairo Garbage DIRECTOR: Mikala Krogh

WORLD PREMIERE Cairo is the mother of all garbage cities. The streets are drowned in waste and entire social groupings survive solely through collecting, sorting and selling the left-overs of other people. The garbage people, as they are called, live a parallel life in the foul-smelling neighbourhoods of Cairo, while the city’s authorities are feverishly trying to convince their citizens about the advantages of modern renovation. The restaurant owner, the private garbage companies and local associations are all trying to do something about the 10,000 tonnes of garbage that is produced in Cairo every single day. And while the authorities are discussing, the companies are dreaming and the people’s associations are moralising, the garbage people are celebrating a wedding in the church of trash - surrounded by exactly the garbage that the entire city is trying to get rid of. A grimy story that is hard to wash off.

Original title Cairo Garbage Country Denmark Year 2009 Running time 55 min. Production Danish Documentary Production, Nimbus Film Producer Sigrid Dyekjær Distribution Nimbus Film

SCREENING DATES Husets Biograf Thursday 12/11 21:00 hrs.

DANISH:DOX AWARD 119

Kim DIRECTOR: Morten Meldgaard

WORLD PREMIERE One gets the impression of a unique human being in the debutant director Morten Meldgaard’s collage portrait of the Danish freedom fighter Kim Malthe-Bruun, who was captured and executed by the Nazis at the end of the Second World War. But as a surviving relative says about him: “He was a human being among human beings, not a saint in the underground.” This is worth remembering, as it was precisely the thought of human dignity and equality that made the young sailor decide to stay on land and join the resistance movement. The story of Kim is told by his sister, his war-time girlfriend as well as through the letters and diaries he left behind, which were later published and now enjoy the status of a modern classic. One can sense the increasing commitment in the young man’s mature and well-formulated thoughts about freedom and responsibility, and hearing his last lines from the death row of Vestre Fængsel is a harrowing experience. But, above all, the film is a life-affirming story about the struggle for freedom in a world which is larger than oneself.

SCREENING DATES Posthus Teatret Friday 6/11 19:00 hrs. / Grand Tuesday 10/11 16:30 hrs.

120 DANISH:DOX AWARD

Original title Kim Country Denmark Year 2009 Running time 93 min. Production Barok Film Producer Sara Stockmann Distribution Barok Film

Into Eternity DIRECTOR: Michael Madsen

WORLD PREMIERE Nuclear waste is produced daily and has been for 50 years. The need for CO2-neutral energy sources is likely to increase the production in the coming decades. So far, all nuclear waste is in interim storages most of which are on the surface, vulnerable to natural or man-made disasters. Safe and permanent ways to store nuclear waste are vital, and the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s very first attempt at a permanent repository is presently being dug into solid rock in Finland. The facility must last 100.000 years and be able to withstand climate change, seismic activity, rising sea levels, erosion, and ground water leakages that could spread radioactive and radiotoxic contamination. However, while the past can help us predict physical and geological future scenarios, it offers little help when it comes to human behaviour and cultural scenarios. What do we know about society 100, 500 or 1000 years from now? How will society be structured and who will be in charge of the facility? After an ice age or two - will anybody

Original title Into Eternity Country Denmark Year 2009 Running time 85 min. Production Magic Hour Films Producer Lise Lense-MĂ¸ller Distribution Magic Hour Films

remember that it is there? Will anybody understand the nature of its payload? Do we have a moral obligation to warn future generations of the waste we left behind? How? How and where do we store the warning? Hopefully, someone will have come up with some answers by the time the facility is finished - 120 years from now. With stunning images from the facility, thought provoking interviews with the experts dealing with these questions, and a film inside the film aimed at the future, Into Eternity will take us on a journey filled with wonder, humour, and deadly serious questions. SCREENING DATES Grand Tuesday 10/11 21:40 hrs. / Posthus Teatret Wednesday 11/11 21:15 hrs.

DANISH:DOX AWARD 121

Albert’s Winter DIRECTOR: Andreas Koefoed

WORLD PREMIERE In Albert’s world, playfulness and seriousness go hand in hand. His mother is suffering from cancer, but he’d prefer not to talk about it or about the grief it causes. As an 8-year-old, he also has other things to think about, such as the singing test at Sankt Annæ school, which will determine if he will be accepted next year, or the worries about losing ones playmates if one changes schools. But the film also depicts the small and large moments of happiness, such as being dressed up as a carrot or to see ones grandfather defy the temperatures and jump into the ice-cold winter sea. Albert’s winter is Andreas Koefoed’s graduation film from the documentary department at the National Film School of Denmark, and it demonstrates the director’s fine eye for the subtle moments of everyday life and for Albert - a gem of a protagonist, who thinks about things and dares to say what grown-ups don’t want to talk about. With his observing, poetic style, Koefoed lets the cold and grey nature of winter seep trough the images. Just like the film’s family, the audience is left looking forward to springtime.

SCREENING DATES Gloria Tuesday 10/11 21:30 hrs. / Byens Lys Sunday 15/11 16:00 hrs.

122 DANISH:DOX AWARD

Original title Alberts vinter Country Denmark Year 2009 Running time 30 min. Production The National Film School of Denmark Producer Caroline Blanco Distribution Andreas Koefoed

My Lost Generation DIRECTOR: Vladimir Tomic

WORLD PREMIERE Art has alway been a clever way to access the memories and traumas of childhood. This is also true for Vladimir Tomic’s documentary selfportrait. Tomic was born in Yugoslavia right after Tito’s death, but fled during the war to Denmark, and while he was digging up the roots of his childhood, he could watch the images of his Bosnian countrymen in concentration camps on TV. In ‘My Lost Generation’, Tomic tells his own as well as his generation’s story by examining what a war can do to a human being. It’s a frightening project, but it’s only through filming that he can overcome his traumas. Fear, violence, scars and distrust are unavoidable premises for the identity-less director, who with his training background from the Danish Royal Academy of Fine Arts manages to communicate his experiences in a visual, raw and poetic way.

Original title My Lost Generation Country Denmark Year 2009 Running time 31 min. Production Vladimir Tomic Producer Vladimir Tomic Distribution Vladimir Tomic

SCREENING DATES Gloria Tuesday 10/11 21:30 hrs. / Byens Lys Sunday 15/11 16:00 hrs.

DANISH:DOX AWARD 123

Restless in Paradise DIRECTOR: Olavi Linna

WORLD PREMIERE Solf is the kind of provincial town you move away from and never go back to, even if it in 2006 was officially named the most perfect town by the Finns. At least right until the film director Olavi Linna’s brother Kyösti decided to move back. The two brothers always dreamt of leaving their home town while listening to Bowie’s ‘Starman’, but Kyösti, who in the meantime has lived in both Paris and Milan, is now in need of the security of a home and is seeking out the native soil of his childhood. Here, he receives the advice from an old friend, who himself never managed to make the big move, but who in return has clocked 130,000 km on his exercise bike in his own living room. But what is Kyösti looking for? And is it at all possible to be happy in a town like Solf? ‘Restless in Paradise’ (maybe) finds the answer in the poetry of banal everyday life - in the light that mirrors the window’s formations on the living room wall, and in the naked beauty of northern Finnish nature. As the two brothers’ mother soberly concludes, one can easily become happy, if only one is in touch with ones feelings. Even in Solf.

SCREENING DATES Empire Bio Friday 6/11 17:30 hrs. / Cinemateket Tuesday 10/11 21:30 hrs.

124 DANISH:DOX AWARD

Original title Rastløs i Paradis Country Denmark, Finland Year 2009 Running time 40 min. Production Upfront Films Producer Jesper Jack Distribution Upfront Films

Heart Of Mine DIRECTOR: Camilla Magid

WORLD PREMIERE The mining town Mount Isa is situated far out in nowhere. The work in the mines is tough and dirty, and the same goes for the nightlife after work. And for every six men in the city there is only one woman left in the small and isolated town. What, then, makes 20,000 mine workers want to stay? And what should one do with ones unrelenting pride if one’s all alone in the world? These are questions asked by the promising young director Camilla Magid in her mid-course film project at the alternative Copenhagen film training programme Super16. ‘Heart of Mine’ presents a gallery of characters like a Nick Cave song and ventures behind the toughness and the primitive masculinity of some of the tough guys in the wild. Many of the men have left behind their wives and children to work in the mines, and they now live in a deep, self-imposed solitude several thousand kilometres away from their families. Maybe to cope with themselves better, maybe in a yearning for a sense of freedom that can only be

Original title Heart Of Mine Country Denmark Year 2009 Running time 23 min. Production Safina Film / Just A Brand Productions Producer Malthe Koch Distribution Just A Brand Productions

found when one has left everything behind.

SCREENING DATES Empire Bio Friday 6/11 17:30 hrs. / Cinemateket Tuesday 10/11 21:30 hrs.

DANISH:DOX AWARD 125

Turf War in No Man’s Land DIRECTOR: Suvi Andrea Helminen

WORLD PREMIERE This is the story about mankind’s attempt to leave its fingerprints on the last bit of untouched nature. 5 countries are trying to make claims to the seabed surrounding the North Pole, one of them being Denmark (through Greenland). Borders have to be drawn. The UN has laid out a set of rules. The territorial war of today is scientific - it is about collecting the most convincing data to prove that the underwater bedrock is an extension of the respective countries. This is the framework of this story that takes place on the first DanishSwedish expedition to collect data in the Arctic ice sea. No icebreaker has ever been in the area before, because the ice is so thick and nature so harsh. In the middle of the great nothingness, the expedition meets up with a huge Russian atomic icebreaker ‘50 years of Victory’ that assists with breaking the way through the thickest ice. Denmark is now dependant on the political opponent in the battle for the North Pole, namely Russia. During the expedition, we follow the course of events mainly through Lars-Georg Rödel from the Danish group and through the Swedish expedition leader Anders Karlqvist, whose stories and viewpoints about being on the expedition are unfolded. Should every spot on the planet be divided and conquered?

SCREENING DATES Posthus Teatret Friday 6/11 21:15 hrs. / Cinemateket Monday 9/11 21:30 hrs.

126 DANISH:DOX AWARD

Original title Turf War in No Man’s Land Country Denmark Year 2009 Running time 70 min. Production Nordlys Film Producer Suvi Andrea Helminen Distribution Nordlys Film

Talk About Love DIRECTOR: Else Bro Thuestad

WORLD PREMIERE Else Bro Thuestad’s broken heart takes her to New York by coincidence. But she is far from done with love, and in a random apartment block in the city she stops the inhabitants in the hallway and, armed with a handheld camera, asks them the overwhelming and intrusive question: what is love? Surprisingly enough, they all - both young and old - have an answer and a love story to talk about. One woman has had enough of it, and another one has never experienced it - apart from in her dreams. The classical answer is that love is the selfless surrender to another human being. One gentleman in the hallway gives us a different answer: to love is to

Original title Talk About Love Country Denmark Production DFI / Filmværkstedet / DR Producer Else Bro Thuestad Distribution DR Undervisning

forestall the loss of the loved one. It comes straight from the heart, and in ‘Talk About Love’ the microcosm of the building becomes an image of something much larger. The film takes us to the corridors, into the intimate rooms and right into the hearts of its inhabitants.

SCREENING DATES Posthus Teatret Wednesday 11/11 19:00 hrs. / Byens Lys Sunday 15/11 19:30 hrs.

DANISH:DOX AWARD 127

Me And My Nose DIRECTOR: Ziska Szemes

WORLD PREMIERE Ziska Szemes is Swedish, but there’s not many Swedes who believe this. For her nose says something else, and people consistently assume she’s a foreigner. Armed with a camera, she moves onto the street and asks passers-by how they interpret her looks. She also goes to a plastic surgeon and gets prepared for the big nose job that will make sure that she in the future can be a Swede in peace. There is plenty of space for fun in Szemes’s self-portrait, both frontal and in profile, so that her nose really gets the attention it deserves. Using her nose as a lever, she has accomplished a personal portrayal of the search for ones own identity.

Original title Me And My Nose Country Denmark Year 2009 Running time 29 min. Production Klassefilm Producer Lise Saxtrup Distribution Klassefilm

SCREENING DATES Posthus Teatret Wednesday 11/11 19:00 hrs. / Byens Lys Sunday 15/11 19:30 hrs.

128 DANISH:DOX AWARD

Me and the Jewish Thing DIRECTOR: Ulrik Gutkin

WORLD PREMIERE “Hi, my name is Ulrik, I’m a Dane, and I’m Jewish.” That’s how Ulrik Glutkin introduces his charming self-portrait, and that’s how succinctly it can be put. But things are still not quite that simple, as his girlfriend Signe is neither Jewish nor Christian, and when their son Felix is born, the great question arises as to whether he should be circumcised, like the Jewish tradition prescribes, or if he can avoid the procedure, as his mother insists. The result is large discussions in the family, and Ulrik thinks a lot about how he can pass on his Jewish heritage to his first-born child. ‘Me and the Jewish Thing’ takes a close look at the meaning of religion for a family in the 21st century, and its subject-matter has triggered a debate about the pros and cons of circumcision, and about the role of religion in everyday life. The film is a simultaneously entertaining and serious portrait from modern Copenhagen.

Original title Mig og jøderiet Country Denmark Year 2009 Running time 43 min. Production Copenhagen Film Company Producer Casper Høyberg Distribution Copenhagen Film Company

SCREENING DATES Posthus Teatret Wednesday 11/11 19:00 hrs. / Byens Lys Sunday 15/11 19:30 hrs.

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New Danish Screen 1

The talent development scheme of the Danish Film Institute, New Danish Screen, presents the latest films from its cinematic greenhouse, many of which have been selected to participate in the festival’s competition programme. ‘Kim’ (directed by Morten Meldgaard) is a collage portrait of the Danish freedom fighter Kim Malthe-Bruun, who died in German captivity at the end of the war and who left behind a unique human impression. ‘Romeo & Julius’ (directed by Sabine Hviid) stages Shakespeare’s tragic romance with two young boys in the main parts. ‘Out of Love’ (directed by Birgitte Stærmose) is an alternatively tough, artistic experiment shot among the street children of today’s Kosovo, where the scars from the war are still visible. And in ‘Affæren i Prag’ (directed by Christoffer Emil Bruun) the journalist Niels Barfoed and Marina Schepeleran embark on a historic journey back to the Czech Republic, where Barfoed handed over an award to the later president Vaclav Havel - a journey that turns out to be full of unpleasant surprises.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket Thursday 12/11 20:00 hrs.

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NEW DANISH SCREEN 1 Kim Dir. Morten Meldgaard Romeo & Julius Dir. Sabine Hviid Out of Love Dir. Birgitte Stærmose Affæren i Prag Dir. Christoffer Emil Bruun

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The evening continues with two programmes, the first of which starts off with an unperturbed look at gender, body and culture. ‘Nobody Passes Perfectly’ (directed by Saskia Bisp) uses stylised tableaus to portray two people, for whom all of these three concepts are variable. The 80-year-old Japanese inventor in ‘Dr. Nakamats’ (directed by Kaspar Astrup Schröder) gets his best ideas under water and is the creator of thousands of brilliant inventions - and who is ‘big in Japan’ for good reasons. The other programme takes off in Finland’s officially most perfect country town. ‘Restless in Paradise’ (directed by Olavi Linna) follows two brothers who return home to the street of their childhood and ask themselves why. ‘Mirror’ (directed by Joakim Ladefoged) is the aesthetic highlight of the evening, as

NEW DANISH SCREEN 2 Nobody Passes Perfectly Dir. Saskia Bisp Dr. Nakamats Dir. Kaspar Astrup Schröder Restless in Paradise Dir. Olavi Linna Mirror Dir. Joakim Ladefoged The DeVilles Dir. Nicole Horanyi

it uses dialogue-free black-and-white images to portray a group of bodybuilders during their training for a contest. ‘The DeVilles’ (directed by Nicole Horanyi) is a retro-cool rock’n’roll couple who have made it past 40 and who now have to resort to dramatic means to reinvent love. PARTY: the New Danish Screen evening concludes with a party at the Asta Bar in Cinemateket.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket Thursday 12/11 22:30 hrs.

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Listening Nights DIRECTOR: Lisbeth Jessen

WORLD PREMIERE - OUT OF COMPETITION It’s not always easy to be young, but throughout the past 30 years, troubled youth in Denmark have had one steady shoulder to cry on. In the radio programme ‘Tværs’ the phone lines have been open to three decades of youth generations, where Tine Bryld has listened, guided, helped and shaken courage into youths with small and larger problems. ‘Tine på tværs’ follows the production of the very last Tværs programme in the autumn of 2008. Here, we hear some of the conversations that Tine Bryld has had since Tværs was broadcast for the first time in 1972, and we meet some of the people that Tine Bryld has helped. We also meet Tine Bryld privately, and hear her thoughts about her life long engagement with young people and the huge responsibility in bringing back belief and trust in life - also to the ones who has totally lost it.

Original title Tine på Tværs Country Denmark Year 2009 Running time 58 min. Production Upfront Films Producer Jesper Jack Distribution Upfront Films

SCREENING DATES Dagmar Sunday 8/11 21:00 hrs. / Grand Wednesday 11/11 21:30 hrs. / Lejlighed i Larsbjørnstræde 5 Friday 13/11 20:00 hrs.

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AFFÆREN I PRAG DIRECTOR: Christoffer Emil Bruun

WORLD PREMIERE In October 1986, the journalist Niels Barfoed travelled to Prague to hand over the peace prize of the newspapers Politiken and Dagens Nyheter to Charta 77 and Vaclav Havel, who at the time was one of the leading critics of the Czech political system. What he does not know is that he and his fellow traveller, the Czech-born Martina Schepelern, are being watched by exactly this system and captured in a report that is now in the national archive. Barfoed and Schepelern returns to Prague 22 years later with this report in their hands. For this report turns out to reveal a totalitarian Eastern Europe - much worse than they, and everyone else, knew about at the time. The journey offers a joyful reunion with Vaclav Havel, who since receiving the award became free Czechoslovakia’s first president; but it also becomes a gloomy and far from nostalgic look at the past. DEBATE: after the film, Niels Barfoed will be joined by the politician

Original title Affæren i Prag Country Denmark Year 2009 Running time 42 min. Production Plus Pictures Producer Mette Heide Distribution Plus Pictures

and former foreign minister Niels Helveg-Petersen to talk about the possibilities to support dissidents in Eastern Europe in those days and the consequences one could face. The debate will be moderated by the film’s director, the historian and journalist Christoffer Emil Bruun.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket Monday 9/11 19:15 hrs.

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HURRY HOME DIRECTOR: Laurits Munch-Petersen

WORLD PREMIERE Gitte and Susie are left on their own when their husbands go to Afghanistan to fight the Taleban. Søren and Anders not only leave behind their wives, but also their children and their everyday lives in Denmark. While the battles are fought in the war zone, the two women can nervously follow the drama in front of the TV screen, while they harbour an unspoken wish that exactly their husbands avoid getting hit. They have to overcome the challenges of everyday life and all its happy moments on their own. Gitte expresses her feelings and thoughts through video diaries, which she films and sends to her husband. Susie’s good memories with her husband, on the other hand, are portrayed as a past that will never return. Laurits MunchPetersen’s ‘Skynd dig hjem’ is a moving and nerve-racking close-up look at families whose lives are directly affected by a faraway war.

SCREENING DATES Empire Bio Sunday 8/11 17:30 hrs. / Dagmar Wednesday 11/11 16:30 hrs.

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Original title Skynd dig hjem Country Denmark Year 2009 Production Fridthjof Film A/S Producer Ronnie Fridthjof Distribution Fridthjof Film A/S

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10 24.-29.SEP. 2010 NORWAY BERGEN - NORWAY 21ST EDITION

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SHORT:DOX AWARD

SHORT:DOX AWARD is a new online competition, where the audience decides which film should walk away with the award worth 2,000 euros. The ten nominated films can be streamed and downloaded on our website, www.cphdox.dk, where three lucky short film fans can also win a portable PSPgo. Documentary filmmaking is going through a rapid development. New digital video equipment has enabled a creative freedom, which is especially mirrored in short films. The short format is a playground and a laboratory, where both established and upcoming filmmakers can test their new ideas and pursue a

personal vision without succumbing to compromises. A freedom shared by the nominated films, and which is expressed by the programmeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ten poetic and unorthodox snapshots from the real world. The aim of SHORT:DOX AWARD is to test new and alternative distribution platforms for intelligent and artistically original short films, and to support the growth of documentary filmmaking. The award for the winning film is meant as a financial support for future film projects. SHORT:DOX AWARD (2,000 euros) is kindly sponsored by PSPgo.

175 DIRECTOR: David Gutierrez Camps

The railroads have for ever gripped the imagination of those filmmakers who don’t see the camera as a story-telling machine but as an instrument to discover those aspects of reality that one overlooks in everyday life. With the experimental ‘175’, David Guttierez Camps films himself into the the tradition of New York independents like Shirley Clarke and Rudolph & Jacob Burckhardt and explores the natural abstractions that present themselves during a subway trip through the Capital of the World. Lights, sounds and visual rhythm unite in a kinetic snapshot, and movement itself becomes a representation of all the things that can happen in five New York minutes.

Original title 175 Country USA Year 2009 Running time 5 min. Production Flying Lemon Producer John Bartleby Distribution Flying Lemon Films