CPH:DOX 2010 INT catalog by CPH Filmfestivals

copenhagen international documentary film festival

4 - 14 nov 2010

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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 Harmony Korine Animal Collective & Danny Perez

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SPECIAL FOCUS Visual Albums TELE:VISIONS Double Take DOX:LAB Enjoy Poverty Food on Film

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DOX:REGULARS TOP:DOX Seminars Events and Parties AUDIO:VISUAL

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DOX:INDUSTRY DOX:FORUM DOX:MARKET DOX:LAB Doc Alliance

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Contacts Index and films

CREDITS Festival Director: Tine Fischer

DOX:CLUB: Frederik Schnoor (responsible), Marco Sewohl

Programme editors: Tine Fischer (responsible), Niklas K. Engstrøm, Mads Mikkelsen

Doc Alliance: Tine Fischer, Daniella Eversby

Programme Assistant: Pawel Mielniczyk Film Preview Group: Mads Mikkelsen (responsible), Tine Fischer, Niklas K. Engstrøm, Pawel Mielniczyk, Vibeke Bryld, Patricia Drati Rønde DOX:FORUM & DOX:MARKET: Daniella Eversby (responsible), Truls Nordstrand Jacobsen, Jasmin Blom, Rebecca Bro DOX:LAB: Patricia Drati Rønde (responsible), Jacob Svensson, Solveig Søholm Jørgensen Live / Event Programme: Niklas K. Engstrøm (responsible), Marie Moltke Brøchner, Lina Lindquist, Frederik Schnoor, Mads Bacher, Michael Noer, Marie Skovgaard, Nadia Faber, Mads Mikkelsen AUDIO:VISUALS: Niklas K. Engstrøm (responsible), Frederik Schnoor, Boris Schiøler Seminar Programme: Tine Fischer (responsible), Niklas Engstrøm, Daniella Eversby, Tine Mosegaard, Synnøve Kjærland, Lina Lindquist, Mads Mikkelsen Marketing & PR: Mads Bacher (responsible), Hans Frederik Jacobsen, Silke Brandes, Julie Koch Fahler, Kenneth Darré Web Editor: Mads Bacher Catalogue Editor: Mads Bacher & Mads Mikkelsen Programme Catalogue: Mads Mikkelsen (responsible), Mads Bacher, Tine Fischer, Niklas K. Engstrøm, Morten Jensen, Ida Brixtofte Nielsen, Patricia Drati Rønde, Louise Højgaard Johansen, Marianne Lentz, Anne Colson, Lena Bøgild Willard, Daniella Eversby Catalogue Editor DOX:FORUM: Rebecca Bro Translation: Andrew Blackwell Production: Susanne Thygaard (responsible), Frederik Sølberg, Lisa Barkholz International production: Nikolaj Ehlers Press: Lena Bøgild Willard Press Assistant: Anne-Lill Bøndergaard Brok International PR and Communication: Patricia Drati Rønde (responsible), Charlotte Nordland, Anne Colson Print Coordinator: Casper Andersen Guest Coordinator CPH:DOX: Nikolaj Ehlers, G iovanna Ottolini, Cecilie Waitz Søborg, Solveig Søholm Jørgensen Volunteer Coordinator: Anna Sofie Kluge Hedegaard, Giulia Triolo YOUNG:DOX: Rikke Lindum Poulsen (responsible), Marie-Louise Siim

Poster/Festival Identity: Silke Brandes Graphic Design & Layout: Mads Bacher Web: Mads Bacher, Andreas Steinmann Festival Trailer: Idea: (Michael Noer), Jeppe Kolstrup Director: Jeppe Kolstrup Cinematographer: Jeppe Kolstrup Editor: Jens Høll Produced by: 360 Production Production: Andreas Steinmann Advertisement Sales: Nikolaj Ehlers CPH:DOX’s official main sponsors are: DR, Politiken CPH:DOX’s public contributors are: Danish Film Institute, The Branding Denmark Fund, Copenhagen City Council, Danish Ministry of Culture CPH:DOX’s award sponsors are: Danish Association of Film Directors, Canon, DR, FAF, Merkur Andelskasse, Danish Producers Association, TV5monde CPH:DOX’s official sponsors og contributors: Braunstein, DSB, Hotel27, Europcar, TNT, Vester Kopi, Danida, Amnesty International, Hotel 27, CKU, Swedish Film Institute, Filmkopi, Nordisk Film, Institut Français, Vi KBH’R, Ambassade de France au Danemark, Statens Kunstråd, UBOD, Nordisk Film & TV Fond, IMS CPH:DOX’s has collaborated with: Air france, The American Embassy, BTG Shift, Cinemateket, Clearchannel, Comtech, Dansk Biavler Forening, Danish Union of Journalists, Danida, DDS, Deliways, Det kolde gys, The Embassy of the Netherlands, The Embassy of Poland, Din nye ven, Doc alliance, Dok Leipzig, DOX:BIO, EAVE, Erik Bagger, Escho, FDB, Finlands instituttet, Filmværkstedet, Gearguys, Goethe Institute, Guanghzou, Hal D, HAY, IMS, Jeounju, Jihlava, Junkbusters, KPH, Kødbyens Fiskebar, Madkastellet, Media, Metro, Meyer, Netkom, Notkin, Den Obelske Familiefond, Operation Dagsværk, Planete Doc Deview, Playstation, MUBI, Politikens publikumspris, RIZ RAZ, Scanomat, SIK, Sing Thehus, SoupANatural, The Danish National Gallery (Statens Museum for Kunst), Støberiet, Tango & Vinos, Third Ear, Teori & Praksis, Vangsgaard, Vega, Visions du reel, WIFT Print: Vester Kopi, 2010, 1,500 copies. Reprinting permitted on condition of mention of source. CPH:DOX – Festival Secretariat: Tagensvej 85 F DK 2200 Copenhagen N Tel. +45 33 93 07 34 Fax: +45 33 12 75 05 CPH:DOX operates under the Copenhagen Film Festivals Foundation: Director: Jørgen Ramskov Marketing Director: Per Hedegaard Board: Søren E. Jakobsen, Jens Gehl, Jon Stephensen, Nina Crone, John A. Tønnes.

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INFO Newsletter Sign up for our newsletter on www.cphdox.dk. Every day during the festival, we are sending out newsletters with the latest updates, tips for the day’s absolute must-sees and news on special offers. Info counter If you have any questions that are not answered in this programme – or if you want to buy one of our posters, t-shirts, duffle bags or discount cards – then come and see us at our info counters at Cinemateket. Calendar We have printed a pocket-friendly festival calendar, which can be found in cinemas and at cafés.

Tickets Tickets for individual screenings can be bought in the cinemas. Unless stated otherwise, the tickets cost 70 kr. You can also buy a discount card for 350 kr, which gives you access to six performances for the price of five. The discount card is valid for all film screenings, but not for seminars. DOX:CLUB For the third year in a row CPH:DOX opens our own cinema/ club/venue/hangout/bar DOX:CLUB. In 2008 DOX:CLUB was located in the Meatpacking District and in 2009 it was in a tent in the courtyard of Kunsthal Charlottenborg. This year it will occupy the Teater Grob at Nørrebrogade 37 in the middle of the city. During the ten festival days the theatre will be hosting film screenings, debates and, not least, concerts.

CINEMAS Cinemateket Gothersgade 55 Tel. 33 74 34 12 cinemateket.dk

Gloria Biograf Rådhuspladsen 59 Tel. 33 12 42 92 gloria.dk

Teater Grob Nørebrogade 37 Tel. 35 30 05 00 grob.dk

Dagmar Teatret Jernbanegade 2 Tel. 70 13 12 11 dagmar.dk/kino.dk

Grand Teatret Mikkel Bryggersgade 8 Tel. 33 15 16 11 grandteatret.dk

Vester Vov Vov Absalonsgade 5 Tel. 33 24 42 00 vestervovvov.dk

Empire Bio Guldbergsgade 29F Tel. 35 36 00 36 empire.dk

Posthusteatret Rådhusstræde 1 Tel. 33 11 66 11 posthusteatret.dk

Planetariet Gammel Kongevej 7 Tel. 33 12 12 24 tycho.dk

Borups Højskole Frederiksholms Kanal 24 Tel. 33 12 34 45

Den Danske Filmskole Theodor Christensens Plads 1 Tel. 32 68 64 00

Palads Axeltorv 9 Tel. 33 14 76 06 kino.dk

OTHER VENUES Bakken i Kødbyen Flæsketorvet 17-19 bakkenkbh.dk Bremen Nyropsgade 39-41 Tel. 70 26 32 67 Botanisk Have Øster Farimagsgade 2B Tel. 35 32 22 22

Det Kolde Gys Helgoland Tel. 50 42 18 50 Geologisk Museum Øster Voldgade 5 Tel. 35 32 23 45

Det Grøndlandske Hus Løvstræde 6 Tel. 33 91 12 12 Hal D Strandgade 100 Tel. 70 26 70 80

Støberiet Blågårds Plads 3 VEGA Enghavevej 40 Tel. 33 25 70 11 vega.dk Statens Museum for Kunst Sølvgade 48-50 smk.dk

10 / SERIE Photo: Ada Bligaard SĂ¸by (kimberle, 2010)

WELCOME Welcome to the 8th edition of CPH:DOX As in previous years we are here to support and devote ourselves to the discovery of the new auteurs of tomorrow. Last year the DOX:AWARD was handed over to Harmony Korine’s controversial, genre-defying borderline film Trash Humpers. A brave jury decision and a statement that in many ways has been and still is a strong encouragement to seek out films in the margins of the undefined. As Herzog so blatantly puts it: ”Fact creates norms, and truth illumination”. We hope that the field of non-fiction will walk the illuminating path in ever increasing ways. Artist in focus In the tradition of supporting a free thinking cinema we have this year asked some very extraordinary people to help us curate two of this year’s most essential programs. The invitation is a carte blanche, and the result is wild and unexpected. American provo-auteur Harmony Korine and the visionary American indietronica-group Animal Collective have in each their very personal ways selected a line-up of films that not only defies easy categorizations but also more profoundly pushes the boundaries of non-fiction to a place far beyond the imaginable. Korine has curated a film programme that - like his own films,- all together re-defines the cinema of the real. A beautiful line-up of films that deeply live on the verge of Herzog’s ’ecstatic truth’. Korine’s work has been a constant reference for CPH:DOX since the early beginning of the festival, and we are excited to present a visionary selection of works in a beautiful variety of formats. Animal Collective has for the last decade defined the innovative indie scene, where music becomes part of a space that also includes visual art, film and performance. The band has along with their long time collaborator Danny Perez curated a programme of documentaries, abstract animation, hallucinatory adventures, psycho-horror, and cult classics. The surrealistic metaphor of film viewing as a waking dream state is close. DOX:LAB In the spirit of supporting new talents CPH:DOX last year launched an exclusive production laboratory, handpicking a small number of young, international filmmakers and artists to participate in an experimental film workshop. 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 we hope to stimulate a dialogue based new aesthetic. The participants will in teams of two develop and produce 10 films that will hopefully rock the shaky ground of non-fiction cinema. We know that working in new territories - between established genres and commercial realities – is not an easy job, but we are here to support it. DOX:FORUM Finally, we are more than happy to welcome you to a brand new version of DOX:FORUM. Forum is from 2010 relaunched as a financing and co-production forum. As in previous editions Forum is dedicated to supporting the creative, free and auteurdriven documentary films. The 25 selected projects will be presented in three sections: The FICTIONONFICTION category representing a line-up of challenging works in the ever-growing hybrid landscape between fiction and non-fiction. The CINEMA category for high-end theatrical films, and the ART category for film projects conceptualized to be screened both within the institution of cinema and that of visual arts. The film projects will be presented to an excellent line-up of major international funds, sales agents, buyers, distributors, broadcasters, online platforms, festivals, museums and other film and art institutions. We cross our fingers and hope to see lots of unexpected alliances. Welcome to CPH. Tine Fischer Festival Director

DOX:AWARD JURY

PETER KNEGT (CAN)

MARK COUSINS (UK)

VINCA WIEDEMANN (DK)

VIOLETA BAVA (ARG)

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SAFDIE BROTHERS (USA)

DOX:AWARD JURY

MARK COUSINS (UK) Mark Cousins is a man of many talents. Apart from making docu-

and Roman Polanski. Cousins has worked on several projects and

mentaries, he has also found the time to head the Edinburgh Interna-

films in an ongoing working relationship with Tilda Swinton. Together

tional Film Festival and edit several books on film, among them ‘The

they devised ‘The Ballerina ballroom Cinema of Dreams’, as well as

Story of Film’ from 2004. Since 2001, he has written for ‘Prospect’,

co-founded the 8 ½ Foundation, a movie project for kids. Their next

and directed as well as presented BBC2’s ‘Scene for Scene’ which in-

collaboration will be ‘Scotston’, a movie about a girl who sings when

cluded interviews with, among others, Martin Scorcese, David Lynch

she’s anxious.

PETER KNEGT (CAN) Peter Knegt is the Associate Editor of New York based indieWIRE.

national Film Festival, the Hot Docs Canadian International Docu-

com, where he has worked since 2006, covering film festivals around

mentary Festival, Image+Nation, Montreal Gay and Lesbian Film and

the world. He has contributed as a writer to several publications in-

Video Festival and several others. He is currently working on a book

cluding ‘Variety’, ‘Xtra!’, ‘Exclaim’, ‘Cannes Market News’, ‘Hitfix’ and

on Canadian queer issues.

‘Playback’, served as juror at the film festivals in Dubai, Cleveland, Atlanta and Toronto. He has also worked for the Reel Asian Inter-

VIOLETA BAVA (ARG) Violeta Bava has worked at the Buenos Aires International Independ-

has participated in several film workshops related to Latin Ameri-

ent Film Festival (BAFICI) since its beginning in 1999, and is both

can film development, as well as curated programmes for various

its programmer and the co-director of the Buenos Aires Laboratory

international film festivals. Bava is the co-founder of ‘Ruda Cine’, a

(BAL), a leading co-production market for Latin American independ-

film production company that focuses on Latin American Independ-

ent film projects. Since 2002, she has taught Cinema Aesthetics and

ent Cinema.

Ethics at Centro de Investigación Cinematográfica in Buenos Aires,

SAFDIE BROTHERS (USA) The brothers and directors Josh and Ben Safdie live in New York.

were premiered at the Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes. Their first fea-

They already founded their production company ‘Red Bucket Films’

ture collaboration, ‘Go Get Some Rosemary’, was premiered at the

at high school, and have produced various shorts and features, in

Directors’ Fortnight in 2009 and was shown at Sundance in 2010.

addition to working individually with photography and illustration /

Their latest short film ‘John’s Gone’ premiered at the 67th Venice

sculpturing respectively. Both Ben’s short ‘The Acquaintance of a

Film Festival.

Lonely John’ and Josh’s first feature ‘The Pleasure of Being Robbed’

VINCA WIEDEMANN (DK) Vinca Wiedemann does many things. She originally trained as a film

Most recently, she has been working independently as a producer,

editor at the Danish Film School, where she has been teaching since.

author and screenplay consultant, and has among other things col-

Over the years, she has among other things worked as a consultant

laborated with Pernille Fischer Christensen, Jan Troell, Thomas

and lecturer at numerous schools and institutions, and as a jury and

Vinterberg and Christoffer Boe. Wiedemann has recently worked

committee member at cultural institutions and festivals all over the

together with Lars von Trier on the development of his screenplay

world. She worked for several years at the Danish Film Institute as a

for ‘Melancholia’.

feature film consultant and artistic director for New Danish Screen.

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NEW:VISION AWARD JURY

HILA PELEG (ISR)

JOAN YOUNG (USA)

GERALDINE GOMEZ (FRA)

MARK SLADEN (UK)

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HELEN DE WITT (UK)

NEW:VISION AWARD JURY

JOAN YOUNG (USA) In 1995 Joan Young joined the curatorial staff of the Guggenheim

for display in 2011, and ‘Youtube Play, A Biennal of Creative Video’,

Museum in New York. In her capacity as Curator of Contemporary

a collaborative project with Youtube. She also contributes to the mu-

Art, Young has worked on a large number of projects, including the

seum’s publications.

exhibitions of Hugo Boss Prize winners Rirkrit Tiravanija, Tacita Dean and Emily Jacir. Her two most recent projects both revolve around video: a retrospect of video works from the Guggenheim collection

HILA PELEG (ISR) Hila Peleg is a Berlin-based curator and filmmaker. Born in Tel Aviv,

Italy. She is the founder and artistic director of the newly started bi-

Peleg studied Art History at Goldsmiths University in London, where

annual festival ‘Berlin Documentary Forum’ at Berlin’s Haus der Kul-

she is currently a PhD candidate in Curatorial Knowledge and Visual

turen der Welt. Her film ‘A Crime Against Art’ toured festivals around

Culture. She has curated exhibitions for KW Institute for Contempo-

the world, and won the NEW:VISION award at CPH:DOX in 2008.

rary Art and the HAU theatre in Berlin, as well as Extra City Kunsthal Antwerpen and European Biennial of Contemporary Art at Trento,

GERALDINE GOMEZ (FRA) Geraldine Gomez has always sought to cross the borders between

ries. In 2005, she launched ‘Hors Pistes’, a multidisciplinary event

cinema, visual art and new technology. Holder of a thesis on the his-

focusing on new trends in contemporary image through screenings,

tory of contemporary art, Gomez plies her interest to several diverse

meetings and performances.

projects. As the head of ‘Nouveaux Territoires’ at the Pompidou Center since 2002, she has discovered and shown innovative and experimental cinema, in a constant attempt to push borders and bounda-

MARK SLADEN (UK) Mark Sladen is the director of Kunsthal Charlottenborg. Before com-

The Face of History’, co-curated with Kate Bush and a large-scale

ing to Charlottenborg, Sladen was head curator at ICA and before

motorised installation by Jeppe Hein. In 2006, Sladen was one of the

that he worked at the Barbican Centre in London, first as Curator

curators of Momentum, the biennial of work focusing on emerging

and subsequently as Senior Curator. Here he was responsible for

artists from the Nordic region, held in Moss in Norway. In addition,

curating modern and contemporary art projects, including large-

Sladen has worked extensively as a writer, contributing articles to

scale loan exhibitions. Sladen’s projects at the Barbican included: ‘In

publications such as ‘Frieze’, ‘Art Review’ and ‘Artforum’.

HELEN DE WITT (UK) Helen de Witt is festivals producer at the British Film Institute, re-

the Scala and Electric cinemas in London. She subsequently became

sponsible for the delivery of the London Film Festival and the Lon-

the first head of cinema at the Lux Centre for Film Video and Digital

don Lesbian and Gay Film Festival. She has taught Film and Media

Arts in London. From there she was appointed head of the BFI’s Pro-

Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London for many years and

gramme Unit before moving to the Festival department.

has published articles on independent cinema, artists’ film and video – and football. After starting her career in independent cinema exhibition and specialised distribution, she became the programmer of

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SOUND & VISION AWARD JURY

COUNT MARTINDT CALLY VON CALLOMON (UK)

RAYMOND SALVATORE HARMON (USA)

MAYA ALBANA (DK)

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SOUND & VISION AWARD JURY

COUNT MARTINDT CALLY VON CALLOMON (UK) The British multi-artist Count Martindt Cally Von Callomon can claim

programme. Von Callomon has been the art director at the legendary

to be many things. Drummer, filmmaker, music guru and bicycle en-

Island Records, curated various film programmes, manages Nick

thusiast. He moves effortlessly through the British music industry,

Drake’s musical heritage, and this summer he cycled from one end

and has among other things designed the cover art for The Cranber-

of Britain to the other on a Penny Farthing.

ries, U2, P.J. Harvey and Scott Walker, marketed Elton John and U2, and been the manager of The The, which are featured in this year’s

MAYA ALBANA (DK) Maya Albana is a documentary director, singer and author. Since

album ‘God Bless Education’ in 2004. In 2007, she graduated as a TV

1992, she was part of the pop group Nice Device. Since the band’s dis-

producer from the Danish Film School, and produced the first season

solution, Maya Albana has worked within the TV industry, where she

of ‘X Factor’ on DR1. In 2008, she directed ‘Martin’s Diary’, a video

has been the host and producer of ‘Freebee’ on TV3 and ZTV, and in

diary in 13 episodes, following which she published the book ‘Martin,

1999 she produced the youth programme ‘Puls’ on TV2. In April 1999,

Eventyret, Ørum og X Factor’. The following years, Maya Albana has

the 25-year-old singer released her first solo album, followed by the

directed various TV programmes for, among others, DR1 and TV2.

RAYMOND SALVATORE HARMON (USA) Raymond Salvatore Harmon has accomplished more than seems

media and experimental films touches upon and shakes up areas

humanly possible, and he always moves on the limits of the area

such as anthropology, philosophical discourse and contemporary

he’s involved in. Be it either as a record producer, a graffiti artist,

art. Harmon’s visually abstract performance film ‘Chronicle’ with The

a filmmaker, a VJ or a curator. He has embarked on critically ac-

Chicago Underground Trio was premiered at CPH:DOX in 2007. After

claimed collaborations with artists as different as Andrew Bird,

a childhood in Detroit’s borderland and a decade in Chicago, Harmon

Richard Bishop, Philippe Petit, Wolf Eyes, Magik Markers, Chicago

now lives in London.

Underground Trio and Exploding Star Orchestra. His work with new

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AMNESTY AWARD JURY

CAROLINE KAMYA (UGA)

GAYLE FERRARO (USA)

JEFF ZIMBALIST (USA)

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AMNESTY AWARD JURY

CAROLINE KAMYA (UGA) Caroline Kamya took her degrees in Architecture and Urban design,

young people in Uganda. Her critically acclaimed debut feature film

as well as TV documentary at Bartlett and Goldsmith in London,

‘Imana’ opened at the Berlin International Film Festival. At this year’s

where she also worked several years for the BBC. She then re-

CPH:DOX, she is showing her newest film ‘Chips and Liver Girls’,

turned to her home country of Uganda to set up iVAD, which is now

which she co-directed with Boris Bertram and which was commis-

the leading production house in Uganda. Kamya also set up a non-

sioned as part of the DOX:LAB programme. Her next film, ‘Firefly’,

profit training arm of iVAD, providing education in TV production for

will be shown at the Rotterdam Film Festival in 2011.

GAYLE FERRARO (USA) Gayle Ferraro, who studied at both Harvard, Boston and Oxford, has

exposed prostitution and human trafficking in Myanmar. ‘Ganges:

over the years made films which always focus on the personal – and

River to Heaven’ from 2004 is her exploration and portrait of the cit-

incredible – stories. Her first film, the critically acclaimed ‘Sixteen

ies, burials and events at the Indian river, which mean the life and

Decisions’ from 2000, followed a group of impoverished women from

death for millions of people. This year, she is showing her latest film

Bangladesh, who try to overcome their fate through ambitious en-

‘To Catch a Dollar’ at CPH:DOX, a film about the Nobel laureate Mu-

trepreneurship. The next project was ‘Anonymously Yours’, which

hammad Yunus, which is shown as part of the ‘Enjoy Poverty’ series.

JEFF ZIMBALIST (USA) Jeff Zimbalist is an Emmy-nominated screenwriter, director and

in five continents and in 34 American cities. Jeff has won a schol-

editor, whose films have been shown on HBO, MTV, PBS, UK4 and

arship from the Ford Foundation and has produced documentaries

BBC, as well as being distributed in cinemas all over the world. His

in developing countries for the United Nations, the World Bank and

film ‘Favela Rising’ won 36 international awards, including IDFA’s

the Inter-American Development Bank. Most recently, Jeff and his

‘Film of the Year’ and Tribeca’s ‘Best New Director’ and was also

brother Michael have directed ‘The Two Escobars’, which can be seen

shortlisted for an Oscar. Since then, the film has been distributed

at CPH:DOX 2010.

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DANISH:DOX AWARD JURY

KLARA GRUNNING-HARRIS (DK)

DUNJA GRY JENSEN (DK)

MARTIN DE THURAH (DK)

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DANISH:DOX AWARD JURY

KLARA GRUNNING-HARRIS (DK) Klara Grunning-Harris studied art in Paris and moved to San Fran-

international coproduction. Klara Grunning-Harris has also headed

cisco in 1993, where she graduated in film production at The Acad-

the Norwegian KUDOS Family, whose ambition is to be a leading

emy of Art University in 1997. Since then she has worked as an in-

distributor on all media platforms, and she has had her own produc-

dependent producer, director, consultant, photographer and project

tion company Hell in a Handbasket. From 2010, she is employed as a

manager – since 1999 for ITVS, Independent Television Service in San

documentary film consultant at the Danish Film Institute.

Francisco, where she led the establishment of the department of

DUNJA GRY JENSEN (DK) Dunja Gry Jensen studied screenwriting at the Danish Film School.

Happy’ (Henrik Ruben Genz). Gry also trained as a tutor at North

Apart from writing the screenplays for TV series such as ‘Taxa’, ‘Unit

by Northwest and among other things teaches at the Danish Film

1’ and ‘Blue Collar White Christmas’, she has also written short,

School.

documentary and feature screenplay, including ‘Verden i Danmark’ (Max Kestner), ‘Dreams in Copenhagen’ (Max Kestner) and ‘Terribly

MARTIN DE THURAH (DK) Martin de Thurah graduated as an animation director from The Dan-

falder’, which were selected for the festivals in Venice and Cannes

ish Film School in 2002, and was the visual designer of Christoffer

respectively. He has also also exhibited paintings and other works

Boe’s ‘Reconstruction’ (2002) and Max Kestner’s ‘Max by Chance’

of art at Århus Kunstmuseum, Arken and Charlottenborg, among

(2004). De Thurah has made a large number of music videos for

other places.

ground-breaking Danish and international musicians, and has directed the short films ‘We Who Stayed Behind’ and ‘Ung mand

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Opening Gala / Erotic man

We are happy and proud to be able to present the Danish premiere of Jørgen Leth’s long awaited film ‘Erotic Man’ (see Dox Award). The entire country is invited to attend the event, as CPH:DOX in collaboration with our own documentary film club DOX:BIO sees to it that both the film and an exclusive live interview are streamed to 40 cinemas across the country. REEL TALENT - new award for Danish documentary talent: The Association of Danish Film Directors and CPH:DOX have established a new award, which will be handed out for the first time at this year’s opening ceremony. The Reel Talent award is a talent award which is given to a Danish documentary film director, who with his or her first film has demonstrated a very special cinematic eye. The award is handed out as a collegial pat on the shoulder to a director heading for the stars, and is an incentive for the director to continue the promising filmic vision of the first films. We hope that the award is an encouragement to fly even higher and to keep up the courage to explore new possibilities within the activity of filmmaking.

SCREENING DATES Store Vega: Wednesday 3/11 19:00 hrs.

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Special screening: happy people - a year IN the taiga Werner herzog presents a film by Dmitry Vasyukov

EUROPEAN PREMIERE In ‘Grizzly Man’, Werner Herzog turned the rediscovered footage of an individual’s struggle into his own story about man and nature, thereby creating one of the most groundbreaking documentaries of recent times. With the new ‘Happy People - a Year in the Taiga’, the visionary master director has once again adopted an already existing work and added his own distinctive voice (and his matter-of-fact view of nature). This time, the Russian director Dmitry Vasyukov’s documentary series about life in the frozen and magnificent Siberian wilderness has been turned into one-and-a-half hours of pure magic, where one almost feels physically present every single moment. There are no telephone lines, no running water and no medical help out in the Siberian wilderness. The few human beings that live there have over centuries learned to survive on nature’s own premises - and to handle a bear attack, if necessary. Herzog admires the independent and proud life beyond the reach of ‘civilisation’, and Vasyukov’s cinematography captures the magnificence of the vast surroundings, with its layers of snow that are several meters thick. It’s like being there oneself and having one of the greatest narrators of documentary filmmaking in the sidecar of the snowmobile.

Original title Happy People - A Year In The Taiga Country Germany Year 2010 Running time 94 min. Production Studio Babelsberg Producer Charlie Woebcken, Christopher Fisser, Vladimir Perepelkin, Nick N. Raslan Distribution Studio Babelsberg

SCREENING DATES Grand: Saturday 6/11 16:40 hrs. / Grand: Tuesday 9/11 21:30 hrs. / Grand: Saturday 13/11 19:00 hrs.

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

DOX:AWARD

13 films have been chosen to compete for this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s DOX:AWARD. The nominated films are our selection of this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s outstanding, international documentaries. They stand out thanks to their strong personal vision, their cinematic qualities, and by insisting on the rightful place of documentaries on the cinema screen. Since the first edition of the festival, CPH:DOX has been committed to documentaries that constantly challenge the genre and our understanding of the idea of what could be called the documentary project. Exploring the boundaries between documentary and fiction has been a constant part of this project since the beginning, and has been essential in shaping the profile of CPH:DOX in parallel with being the defining tendency in contemporary filmmaking over the last decade. This year no less, and we are excited to present a selection of magnificent films that in very different ways explore the potential of cinema from a both subjective and personal viewpoint. Many (if not all) of the films nominated for this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s DOX:AWARD walk the line between fact and fiction, with the cinematic reference to the real as their common point of departure. From the poetic and personal, to the political and (thought)provoking, in 13 excellent films that represent the medium at its finest. DOX:AWARD is a prize of 5,000 Euros. The award is kindly sponsored by DR.

Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow DIRECTOR: Sophie Fiennes

Like ruins from a future that is yet to come, the seemingly meaningless and unusable structures tower above the desert-like wastelands which surround the German artist Anselm Kiefer’s home and studio. An artificial wasteland undergoing constant change, excavated by subterranean labyrinths and made by one of the most idiosyncratic artists of our times, whom the British auteur documentarist Sophie Fiennes (‘The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema’) portrays with the precision of a space probe and the eye of a painter. Kiefer works with heavy materials such as concrete, molten lead, ash and ground glass, and the greatness in his peculiar project is revealed with each corner that the camera passes in its inner architecture, accompanied by Jörg Widmann and György Ligeti. ‘Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow’ documents the last days before Kiefer changed residence away from his colossal work, and the film was one of the absolute highlights at this year’s festival in Cannes - both as an insight into a creative process, whose strange patterns makes one dizzy, and as an artistic and sensual experience in its own right, made for the special space of the cinema.

Original title Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow Country UK/France/Netherlands Year 2010 Running time 105 min. Production Sciapode Producer Sophie Fiennes, Kees Kasander, Emilie Blezet Distribution Sciapode

SCREENING DATES Grand Teatret: Saturday 6/11 12:00 hrs. / Dagmar Teatret: Wednesday 10/11 19:00 hrs. / Grand Teatret: Saturday 13/11 12:00 hrs.

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The Arbor DIRECTOR: Clio Barnard

One constantly feels one step behind in Clio Barnard’s ‘The Arbor’, which is named after the dreary residential area somewhere in northern England where the film takes place. For Barnard turns the British penchant for miserable social realism on its head in his theatrical ‘real life’ production of the theatre success written by Andrea Dunbar, who was only 19 when she wrote the play - before going on to drink herself to death 10 years later. The film follows the complicated relationship between Dunbar and her grown-up daughter, and is based on several years’ research and interviews with the family. Tape recordings are lip-synched by actors in a living room setting with neither walls or a roof, but set on a field in The Arbor. It looks like nothing seen before, but Barnard’s film is fortunately far easier to watch than to describe. The desperate cycle of addiction, self-destruction and violence is rooted deeply in society, and ‘The Arbor’ is a courageous and innovative attempt to give it a form. Literally a piece of kitchen sink theatre, which would have made Bertolt Brecht proud and which one is left thinking about for a long time.

Original title The Arbor Country UK/Japan Year 2009 Running time 90 min. Production Artangel production Producer Tracy O’Riordan Distribution Artangel

SCREENING DATES Dagmar Teatret: Sunday 7/11 16:40 hrs. / Posthus Teatret: Wednesday 10/11 19:00 hrs. / Grand Teatret: Saturday 13/11 21:30 hrs.

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In the Future DIRECTOR: Mauro Andrizzi

WORLD PREMIERE The Argentinian filmmaker Mauro Andrizzi has looked into the crystal ball to give us his take on the future of cinema - or at least on how film can still reinvent itself and continue to subsume us. ‘In the Future’ is an episodic collection of small stories, and a love affair between genres. Tragedies and farces, ghost stories, kissing, mysterious telephone calls in the middle of the night, and the mellow man whose girlfriend has acted in a porn movie. The action is set somewhere between the familiarity of a video-diary and the soul-bearing of reality TV. But the luminous and alternately black/white and colourful images lift the narrations to a poetic point where nothing is definite and everything is possible. In the meantime, the questions are piling up. What’s it all about? And what is for real? One possible answer lies in the brief, abstract excursions that the camera sets off on between two episodes of the soap opera that is the lives of others. ‘In the Future’ was screened at the film festival in Venice, but is now premiering here in a longer, extended version with a 15 minute epilogue.

Original title En El Futuro Country Argentina Year 2010 Running time 67 min. Production Mono Films Producer Mauro Andrizzi Distribution Mauro Andrizzi Mono Films

SCREENING DATES Dagmar Teatret: Saturday 6/11 21:30 hrs. / DOX:CLUB / Teater Grob: Tuesday 9/11 16:30 hrs. / Grand Teatret: Saturday 13/11 19:00 hrs.

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Detroit Wild City DIRECTOR: Florent Tillon

WORLD PREMIERE Welcome to the city of Detroit, ‘the Murder Capital of the USA’, where the grass is growing over the parking lots and the houses are abandoned. Here, a new life is slowly beginning to take form and take over the deserted city. But even if the writing on the wall has a different and more apocalyptic meaning, there is no reason to panic. ‘Detroit Wild City’ looks with the wandering gaze and cool, philosophical distance of the outsider at the changes in urban landscapes in a historical moment when a ‘post-’ is written before ‘utopias’, ‘humanity’ and ‘dollar capitalism’. Invisible disasters have ruined the city, and all that is left are traces in the form of radio adverts about debt relief, flocks of stray dogs, and a mysterious pile of burned New Age books. But on the fringes of it all, people have started to reorganise themselves in autonomous societies, where settlers are growing vegetables and still believe in the future - just not as an extension of the present. Florent Tillon keeps a level head and like a French Jim Jarmusch he turns his selective camera to where new ideas grow in the ruins of the 20th century’s belief in eternal progress. And where the knowledge that something new is going to happen is a rare piece of good news.

Original title Detroit Wild City Country France Year 2010 Running time 80 min. Production Ego Productions Producer Pierre-Emmanuel Fleurantin Distribution Ego Productions

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Sunday 7/11 19:00 hrs. / Grand Teatret: Wednesday 10/11 21:30 hrs. / Grand Teatret: Saturday 13/11 16:40 hrs.

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The Good Life DIRECTOR: Eva Mulvad

WORLD PREMIERE 20 Euros for two weeks. This is what two women, mother and daughter, have to make do with in Eva Mulvad’s black family portrait from Portugal’s costa del sol. But things haven’t always been like that. The Danish family used to be wealthy and passed down a fortune across several generations - a fortune that has now been used up. The adult daughter Anne Mette grew up believing that money grows on trees and that it was only a matter of going to the bank when she was out of them. But suddenly the bank account also has no more funds available, and for the first time in her life she has to overcome the taboo of finding herself a job. A period of (self-)reproach begins, and tragedy is lurking behind the comedy that ‘The Good Life’ also is. The golden days of the past are over, and all that is left are the family’s two last aristocrats, who are as out of touch with reality as you can make it. ‘The Good Life’ sends an affectionate nod to the American Maysles brothers and the documentary classic ‘Grey Gardens’. And yet, Mulvad’s film is in a league of its own with its deeply personal and grim tale, which reveals the director’s sharp eye for the characters of reality - two women, who with their paradoxical, unsympathetic charm could not have been invented any better had one tried.

Original title The Good Life Country Denmark Year 2010 Running time 83 min. Production Danish Documentary Production Producer Sigrid Dyekjær Distribution Danish Documentary Production

SCREENING DATES Grand Teatret: Saturday 6/11 19:00 hrs. / Dagmar Teatret: Wednesday 10/11 16:40 hrs. / Dagmar Teatret: Sunday 14/11 19:00 hrs.

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The Four Times DIRECTOR: Michelangelo Frammartino

One of the most astounding films at this year’s Cannes film festival. On the surface, it is a simple study of life’s course in a small country village in the southern Italian province of Calabria. But - without saying too much - there is much more at stake. An old shepherd is spending his last days in a small medieval village. He is herding goats, and spends his days battling with unruly snails and other anarchic elements of nature - while he in a quiet and slightly superstitious way fights his own battle to make his body last just a little bit longer. But one only just manages to settle down in ones seat and get acclimatised to a story about an old man, when he suddenly and undramatically drops out of the narration. Instead, the story focuses on the wry coincidences and wild trivialities of everyday life, where the B-roles are played by humans and the absolute A-roles are played by everything ranging from pine trees and wild dogs to unruly goats. A film, which in a masterful way balances between black humour, poetic immediacy and existential everyday reflection with a sense of the complexity of the smallest details.

Original title Le quattro volte Country Italy, Germany, Switzerland Year 2010 Running time 90 min. Production Coproduction Office Producer Susanne Marian, Philippe Bober, Gabriella Manfré, Andres Pfaeffli Distribution Coproduction Office

SCREENING DATES Gloria: Saturday 6/11 21:45 hrs. / Grand Teatret: Saturday 13/11 14:20 hrs. / Cinemateket: Sunday 14/11 19:15 hrs.

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I’m Still Here DIRECTOR: Casey Affleck

Joaquin Phoenix took the whole world by surprise when he last year let his hair and his beard grow, and dropped out of the jet set life of Hollywood to pursue a questionable career as a rapper. After an almost autistic appearance in the David Letterman show and a fight in a fancy nightclub in LA, the rumours of Phoenix’s mental short-circuiting made the headlines of both tabloids and serious newspapers. The truth was that the charismatic star had turned himself into a fictional character in a role-play. A social and viral experiment, which could only take place due to Phoenix’s fame and skilful, media-savvy manipulation of the attention that goes with it. Casey Affleck documented Phoenix’s lost year, and ‘I’m Still Here’ is a tightrope-walker’s play with - and intelligent comment on - the media’s meaningless interest in celebrities. A meticulously prepared chaos, which realises nothing less than the old dream of the avant-garde: to break down the boundaries between art and life.

Original title I’m Still Here: The Lost Year of Joaquin Phoenix Country USA Year 2010 Running time 107 min. Production They Are Going to Kill Us Productions Producer Casey Affleck, Joaquin Phoenix, Amanda White Distribution: Magnolia Pictures (Int) Angel (DK)

SCREENING DATES Empire Bio: Friday 5/11 22:30 hrs. / Grand Teatret: Saturday 6/11 21:30 hrs. / Grand Teatret: Tuesday 9/11 16:30 hrs.

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...And Everything Is Going Fine DIRECTOR: Steven Soderbergh

The American independent director Steven Soderbergh effortlessly switches between huge Hollywood blockbusters and small, incisive niche projects with a human focus. Perhaps not so surprisingly, ‘... And Everything Is Going Fine’ belongs to the latter group, and in his minimalistic debut as a documentary filmmaker Soderbergh also returns to his starting point: the confession, and again in the lone company of a video camera. But this time it is his late friend Spalding Gray who lays his cards on the table - but not in the way that reality TV has taught us to expect. Behind Gray’s unobtrusive manner was a dazzling speaker who spellbound audiences with his monologues about all the seemingly small things that in the end make up a human life. It is these speeches that, without further explanation, make up the film’s jigsaw puzzle of a biography. And which possibly uncovers traces to Gray’s tragic death in 2004, under circumstances that could indicate suicide. In the end, his own words is all he left behind, and they are exactly the material that Soderbergh’s invisible hand pieces together with precision and human insight to form a philosophical and endearing image of the man behind.

Original title ...And Everything Is Going Fine Country USA Year 2010 Running time 89 min. Production Magnolia Pictures Producer Joshua Blum, Amy Hobby, Kathie Russo Distribution Magnolia Pictures

SCREENING DATES Gloria: Thursday 4/11 21:45 hrs. / Cinemateket: Sunday 7/11 21:00 hrs. / Dagmar Teatret: Sunday 14/11 16:30 hrs.

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Son of God DIRECTOR: Khavn la Cruz, Michael Noer

WORLD PREMIERE The wild boys at school, Philippine Khavn de la Cruz and Danish Michael Noer (‘The Wild Hearts’, ‘R’) are behind this febrile dream of a film about a dwarf who is idolised as God’s son by his deeply religious followers in the Philippines. Noer is the white explorer heading a kamikaze expedition, which starts in Manila’s densely populated streets and continues deep into the jungle, where it culminates in a spiritual (re)birth through a hole in the ground. For the many million faithful in the Philippines, the divine has a real existence, and when God’s small son is surrounded by his fans and heals a cancer-suffering man with his guts hanging out of a hole in the stomach, one has to acknowledge that it’s only our welfare society that has waved goodbye to the age of miracles. And it is only here that a long and highly chaotic slum trip has its beginning. Produced within less than half a year and with a budget no more than €11.000, ‘Son of God’ is the closest you can get to a modern mondo movie, but it is also a cunning commentary on western ideas of faith and superstition in the warmer countries. ‘Son of God’ is a part of the talent and development project DOX:LAB. The film will also be screened in a short version (see DOX:LAB p. 180)

Original title Son of God (short version) Country Philippines/Denmark Year 2010 Running time 30 min. Production DOX:LAB Distribution Michael Noer

SCREENING DATES Posthus Teatret: Friday 5/11 21:15 hrs. / Gloria: Tuesday 9/11 21:45 hrs. / Grand Teatret: Friday 12/11 16:40 hrs.

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The Autobiograpy of Nicolae Ceausescu DIRECTOR: Andrei Ujica

Several decades of modern history and over a thousand hours of footage has been made into a dizzying ‘autobiography’ of the communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, who from 1965 to 1989 ran Romania with an iron fist and increasing megalomania. An autobiography, because Andrei Ujica’s epic masterpiece consists entirely of footage from Ceausescu’s time in power which - apart from an horrifying trial that bookends the film depicts him the way he liked to see himself. In other words, a piece of vain fiction, and a façade that hid the real conditions in the impoverished country. Without commenting on the alternately frightening, fascinating and bizarrely comical archive images, Ujica’s virtuously edited film takes the propaganda of the personal cult to its absurd conclusion - a state where everything is artificial but the politics. Even the dictator’s personal 35mm home movies from the marble palace, and those from a trip to Kim Il-sung’s North Korea where he was welcomed by millions of people in a grotesque parade. ‘After all, a dictator is simply an artist who is able to fully put into practice his egotism. It is a mere question of aesthetic level, whether he turns out to be a Baudelarie or Bolinteneanu, Louis XVI or Nicolae Ceausescu.’ (Andrei Ujica).

Original title Autobiografia Lui Nicolae Ceausescu Country Rumania Year 2010 Running time 180 min. Production Icon Production Producer Velvet Moraru Distribution Mandragora

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Sunday 7/11 14:15 hrs. / Husets Biograf: Wednesday 10/11 18:00 hrs. / Grand Teatret: Sunday 14/11 13:30 hrs.

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You Are All Captains DIRECTOR: Oliver Laxe

The children in this orphanage in Tangiers may not have many belongings, but nobody can take away their fantasy, energy and enormous sense of curiosity. A good starting point for a good film, which the Frenchman Oliver Laxe does not make do with filming from an anthropological distance. He involves the children in the actual production, and teaches them about lighting, lenses and 16mm filmmaking equipment, which the children on the other hand do not think can live up to the digital cameras of the tourists. They do not think that the story works either, and a young agitator shouts out in the middle of the lesson: ‘A film should have a story. You can’t make a film this way!’ And on top of it all, the locals are not too keen on being filmed. Laxe’s artistic idealism is dramatically tested in a film that echoes the methods of Abbas Kiarostami and the collective filmmaking experiments of the 1960s, and ends in a colourful disappearance act, which - like the rest of the film - could be pure fantasy. The staging is visibly present in Oliver Laxe’s meta-film, but the children’s reactions and spontaneous lack of manners are genuine enough. And so is their mysterious fascination with film, which is revealed in beautiful black-and-white images. ‘You Are All Captains’ took home the FIPRESCI award in Cannes.

Original title Todos vós sodes capitáns Country Spain Year 2010 Running time 78 min. Production Zeitun Films Producer Felipe Lage Distribution Memento Films International

SCREENING DATES Posthus Teatret: Sunday 7/11 17:00 hrs. / Dagmar Teatret: Thursday 11/11 21:30 hrs. / Dagmar Teatret: Saturday 13/11 16:40 hrs.

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At the Edge of Russia DIRECTOR: Michal Marczak

INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE One of the Russian army’s last existing outposts, seen through the young eyes of a 19-year-old rookie. In the midst of the vast and frozen nothingness, and more than a thousand kilometres from the nearest tree, a handful of old soldiers and their young assistant are left to deal with themselves, the magnificent nature and the antiquated political ideas that keeps them on their toes, as they ward off invisible enemies from the Russian borders. Young Aleksey has to gain the respect of his ageing superiors in the more or less absurd and pointless rituals and routines of everyday life. ‘The Edge of Russia’ does not criticise, but instead provides a human image of isolated men who are looking for refuge from the unwieldy chaos of civilian life within the self-inflicted order and discipline of the army. A discipline that is only interrupted by vodka and sad songs. Unforgettable characters, their secrets and demons from their lives as civilians, marked by a special ‘Russian’ blend of melancholy and manly bravery. The young Polish director Michal Marczak’s dazzling debut brings the spectator right up to the border of a fallen empire, whose political ambitions and harsh nature are united in a spectacular metaphor for a modern Russia, which itself remains out of the picture.

Original title Koniec Rosji Country Poland Year 2010 Running time 72 min. Production Ozumi Films Producer Marianna Rowinska Distribution Against Gravity

SCREENING DATES Posthus Teatret: Sunday 7/11 19:00 hrs. / Grand Teatret: Wednesday 10/11 19:00 hrs. / Dagmar Teatret: Friday 12/11 16:40 hrs.

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Erotic Man DIRECTOR: Jørgen Leth

EUROPEAN PREMIERE ”It’s a film told from a man’s point of view. It is based on my sensitivity. It is not a democratic film. It is very egocentric.” Jørgen Leth The film has been ten years in the making, and over time it has grown to become what the director himself has called an artistic testament. It is simultaneously his most personal and most provocative film. A film about growing older, about losing, about the special moments one remembers, and about the director’s own circling around the essence of eroticism. Can one measure the erotic? Can one frame it? Can one even define it? We embark on a journey in the footsteps of eroticism. Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Belém, Jacmel, Dakar, Manila - the film’s alter ego Jørgen Leth looks for women, who want to take part in a film about the essence of eroticism while he reflects on the erotic experience. It is a journey out into the world, but in the nature of things it is also a journey into the man himself to register the erotic, to seek its form and its meaning. A man, who looks at women - who look at the woman. And a film that penetrates into the man’s own memories of the long-lasting love and the fleeting sexual encounters - in a form that balances the poetic and blunt reality of the flesh and the gaze, and the seductive narrative form of fiction.

Original title Det erotiske menneske Country Denmark Year 2010 Running time 90 min. Production Zentropa Entertainments Coproduction/Auto Images AB Producer Marianne Christensen Distribution Trust Films

SCREENING DATES Grand Teatret: Wednesday 3/11 19:00 hrs. / Store Vega: Wednesday 3/11 19:00 hrs. / Grand Teatret: Wednesday 10/11 14:20 hrs. / Grand Teatret: Thursday 11/11 14:20 hrs. / Grand Teatret: Saturday 13/11 10:00 hrs.

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2011

Documentary Film Festival

Feb.11- MAy. 5

6 years

NEW:VISION AWARD

NEW:VISION AWARD is the competition programme for cinematic experiments from the laboratory between documentary and artistic reflection. Provocative and challenging, radical and borderline, poetic and abstract â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and always with the courage to explore. The programme consists of works from both the world of visual art and of film. From the short, poetic moments via the cinematic essay to philosophical genre excursions beyond the limits of reality. These are works that will rather strive for the impossible than make do with the average, and works that critically investigate the status of images in our time. The nominated works for the NEW:VISION AWARD all insist on the documentary as a form of artistic expression and share a formal and methodological curiousity, which is of paramount importance for the continued development of the documentary film. The film language of the future is created here, and there is enough food for both fresh inspiration and critical thought in the widely diverse artistic expressions in this series. NEW:VISION AWARD is kindly sponsored by FAF â&#x20AC;&#x201C; The Association of Danish Film and TV Workers.

Ruhr DIRECTOR: James Benning

It is hard reproduce in words the experience of a James Benning film, but it is very easy to embrace it in the darkness of the cinema. Also this new work is a small lesson in watching films, with one of the absolute masters of American documentary behind the camera, whom he this time has taken along to the heavily industrialised Ruhr district in western Germany. In seven static scenes we are shown a glimpse of the indefinable space of modern reality, from a deserted motorway tunnel via a packed mosque to a gigantic steel plant. A time travel that moves towards the film’s monumental and almost psychedelic finale. It may look minimalistic, but make no mistake: Benning, (who was Artist in Focus at CPH:DOX in 2008), has 40 years’ experience in creating images and sounds that run rings around the people who do not pay close attention. The key is rhythm and timing, and paradoxically the result feels infinitely varied and lively, and often very funny. With ‘Ruhr’, meanwhile, Benning has swapped 16mm celluloid for HD video, and turned the sharpness and detail of the digital image into a conscious element with both aesthetic and political resonance. Has the film lost its direct relation to reality through its move to video? Or are we witnessing a new beginning?

Original title Ruhr Country USA Year 2010 Running time 120 min. Production Schaf Oder Scharf Film Producer Zorana Musikic Distribution Schaf Oder Scharf Film

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Sunday 7/11 hrs. 18:30 / Gloria: Tuesday 9/11 17:30 hrs. / Cinemateket: Thursday 11/11 18:30 hrs.

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The Regretters DIRECTOR: Marcus Lindeen

‘The Regretters’ is a documentary based on a theatre play, in turn based on a radio show. All of which is made by Marcus Lindeen, who hereby has his debut as a filmmaker. Two widely different people share an unusual story. They were both born as men, they both changed sex, and they both regretted doing so. But this is also where the similarities end. The flamboyant Orlando was one of the first people to go through the physical operation that turned him into a woman, and one of the very few people who also took the journey back again. Michael, on the other hand, regretted his decision right after his operation, and is now longing to go back. The two meet on a stage in a dark TV studio, and talk their hearts out in a two-way interview, which would even leave the most progressive gender theoretician reeling. The personal story is, of course, close at hand, like in Orlando’s almost ten year long relationship with a man who did not know about his partner’s past. But the current social norms are also reflected in the encounter with those who do not fit in, and they leave us with a complex story about seeking happiness without compromising.

Original title Ångrarna Country Sweden Year 2010 Running time 58 min. Production Atmo Media Network AB Producer Kristina Åberg Distribution Det Svenske Filminstitut

SCREENING DATES Posthus Teatret: Monday 8/11 19:00 hrs. / Cinemateket: Tuesday 9/11 19:00 hrs. / Gloria: Saturday 13/11 17:30 hrs.

NEW:VISION AWARD / 45

Paria DIRECTOR: Adryan Linden

EUROPEAN PREMIERE There is an ethnic cleansing going on, in the midst of global society and right before our eyes. Those who are different and genetically unwanted are spotted even before they are born, and they will soon be an extinct race. Adryan Linden has decided to speak out, and armed with Nietzsche he calls to both theoretical and militant combat against the homogeneous society and against a form of cleansing, which (also) has an obvious aesthetic dimension. Linden suffers from muscular atrophy and has not left his apartment in seven years. His own days are soon numbered, and before it is too late he wants to do his best to make the world aware of the political ideology behind the medical interventions that prevent handicapped children from being born. ‘Paria’ is Linden’s resistance pamphlet, and the question is not why it is politically controversial - but why we would think it is so in the first place.

Original title Paria Country Sweden Year 2010 Running time 30 min. Production Unga Rörelsehindrade Producer Jonas Franksson Distribution SFI

SCREENING DATES Posthus Teatret: Monday 8/11 19:00 hrs. / Cinemateket: Tuesday 9/11 19:00 hrs. / Gloria: Saturday 13/11 17:30 hrs.

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Double Tide DIRECTOR: Sharon Lockhart

Sharon Lockhart is both a photographer and a filmmaker, and both sides are more clearly evident than ever before in ‘Double Tide’, which in its own way is as much a photograph as it is a film. And which in both cases can be seen as a tightly structured experiment in letting the two media approach each other in a symbiotic hybrid image. Or, rather, in two. ‘Double Tide’ (apparently) consists of merely two images, separated by one (visible) cut. The motif is nothing less romantic than the sun rising over a bay surrounded by fir trees. One lonely being is trudging around in the dark mud, in the process of carrying out some indefinable work, while the early morning light is slowly spreading across the sky. The effect is almost inexplicable: among the directors who in more recent years have made observant minimalism modern again, Lockhart is possibly the most radical. But her works are also always made of humanistic material, which imbue the carefully choreographed compositions with a rare sense of beauty, which give simple physical labour a proud sense of dignity. A pictorial experience that is made for the specific space of a cinema.

Original title Double Tide Country USA/Austria Year 2010 Running time 99 min. Production Gladstone Gallery Distribution Lockhart Studio

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Thursday 4/11 18:30 hrs. / Cinemateket: Sunday 7/11 16:30 hrs. / Gloria: Thursday 11/11 17:30 hrs.

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Make It New John DIRECTOR: Duncan Campbell

John DeLorean is best known for having provided the name for the DeLorean DMC12, better known as the car from ‘Back to the Future’. A futuristic symbol for the dream of never-ending progress along the roads of industry and individualism. But DeLorean did more than just lend his name. The entrepreneur and son of Romanian immigrants worked his way up from the bottom to a top position at General Motors, put his entire vision in the silver-coloured miracle, and ended up leaving both his dream and his factory in ruins after having invested everything and lost it all in a spectacular bankruptcy. ‘Make it New John’ is the young Irish artist Duncan Campbell’s take on a topical story from the recent past. A past, which nonetheless is far enough away to take on a fictional veil, which happens through a fascinating montage of archive footage from the 1980s and imaginary interviews with the workers involved. For Campbell’s film is not just about DeLorean himself, but also about the thousands of human beings working at the assembly lines, who only managed to build 9000 units of his DMC12 before the bubble burst.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Saturday 6/11 18:30 hrs. / Cinemateket: Saturday 13/11 14:00 hrs.

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Original title Make It New John Country UK Year 2009 Running time 55 min. Producer Duncan Campbell Distribution LUX

Get Out of the Car DIRECTOR: Thom Andersen

Los Angeles is the city of cars. But if you get out of the car, you get to see a different city. Not least if you see it through the lens of Thom Andersen, which turns away from the thoroughfares and below the surface by focusing on the essentially superficial in the billboards, façades and symbols that are synonymous for modern American culture, but which ends up being more of an (art) historic abstraction than the current urban reality in the largest city of the USA. Thom Andersen’s latest film is both a critique of and an unabashed declaration of love for his home city Los Angeles, and an invitation to park the car and take a fresh look at the city’s flip-side. ‘Get Out of the Car’ is shot on 16mm in vivid popart colours, which guide the viewer’s eyes towards traces of life in the dehumanised cityscapes, and which remind us of the traditions of both Edward Hopper and Andy Warhol. The soundtrack is a musical mix of commentaries and evergreens, and together they create a magnificent and independent sequel to Andersen’s modern city symphony ‘Los Angeles Plays Itself’ (2003).

Original title Get Out of the Car Country USA Year 2010 Running time 35 min. Producer Thom Anderson Distribution LUX

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Saturday 6/11 18:30 hrs. / Cinemateket: Saturday 13/11 14:00 hrs.

NEW:VISION AWARD / 49

Let Each One Go Where He May DIRECTOR: Ben Russell

SCANDINAVIAN PREMIERE American independent director Ben Russell lives up to the expectations for his first feature film with a formally experimental and mysterious work, which has already marked a ‘before’ and ‘after’ in the part of the film world that still believes in the camera’s potential to explore the world and see it anew. ‘Let Each One Go Where He May’ was shot in Surinam and is named after a myth, where the end of slavery is announced in local jargon. Two brothers follow in the footsteps of their forefathers and embark on a journey, which in their days led them to a life in freedom - and to an esoteric dance ritual with halloween masks and strap-on dildoes on the market square of a small country village. The camera stays close on their heels, and with just 13 takes lasting 10 minutes each (the equivalent to the length of a reel of 16mm film) it captures the journey’s spiritual character without dialogue or commentaries. A cinematic masterpiece, which employs simple means to review the classic (power) relations between the visitor and the participants of the ethnographic film - and which possibly even manages to turn it all upside down. But ‘Let Each One Go Where He May’ is above all an entirely unique experience, and a reminder that a film camera can be a magical instrument in the right hands.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Wednesday 10/11 16:30 hrs. / Cinemateket: Sunday 14/11 18:15 hrs.

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Original title Let Each One Go Where He May Country USA Year 2009 Running time 135 min. Production Ben Russell Producer Ben Russell Distribution Ben Russell

TRYPPS #7 (BADLANDS) DIRECTOR: Ben Russell

INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE The first six parts of Ben Russell’s Trypps film series brought him the New Vision Award at CPH:DOX 2009. In this, the latest installment in the series, he continues his journey - or rather, trip - into trance and transcendence with its registration, reflection and abstraction of a young woman’s LSD trip in the Badlands National Park. A simple, yet perplexing setup of a mirror and some brass bells add to the psychedelic atmosphere in a masterful, hypnotic film that sets out as almost romantic document, but slowly starts warping and changing reality in front of our very eyes. A dreamy, cinematic mirror image - or mirage - of the badlands of Terence Malick and a wonderful, new highlight in Russell’s oeuvre.

Original title Trypps 7 Country USA Year 2010 Running time 10 min. Production Ben Russell Producer Ben Russell Distribution Ben Russell

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Wednesday 10/11 16:30 hrs. / Cinemateket: Sunday 14/11 18:15 hrs.

NEW:VISION AWARD / 51

Out DIRECTOR: Roee Rosen

The Israeli filmmaker Roee Rosen is not afraid to provoke. ‘Out’ is a sadomasochistic attempt at political exorcism between two women, where one is ‘possessed’ by Israel’s former defence minister Avigdor Lieberman - an extremely right-wing man, whose influence has to be exorcised with spanking and abstract theory. The ritual looks as if it comes straight from a horror film, but culminates in an absolutely unforgettable finale, where Russian laments and accordion music accompany the symbolic emptiness after the exorcism.

Original title Tse Country Israel Year 2010 Running time 35 min. Producer Roee Rosen Distribution Roee Rosen

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Monday 8/11 21:15 hrs. / Cinemateket: Thursday 11/11 16:30 hrs.

52 / NEW:VISION AWARD

Found Footage (The Fourth Wall) DIRECTOR: Clemens von Wedemeyer

World Premiere Clemens von Wedemeyer’s ‘Found Footage (The Fourth Wall)’ is one film in a lineup of eight works which together make up the installation ‘The Fourth Wall’. An ambitious installation which circles around the in anthropological terms - ‘first meeting’ with isolated ethnic groups. The project takes its starting point in the legendary Tasaday case from the early 1970s, where a Philippine tribe was discovered on the island of Mindanao. The small ‘stone age-like’ tribe became a huge media sensation overnight, but later turned out not to be as undiscovered as first assumed. Since then, the Philippine government has declared them ‘authentic’, but there is still great doubt as to how far their life-style and way of dressing was authentic or not. Wedemeyer’s work focuses on Tasaday as the ultimate media performance.

Original title Found Footage (The Fourth Wall) Country Germany Year 2009 Running time 31 min. Distribution KOW-Berlin

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Monday 8/11 21:15 hrs. / Cinemateket: Thursday 11/11 16:30 hrs.

NEW:VISION AWARD / 53

marxism today (prologue) DIRECTOR: Phil Collins

‘marxism today (prologue)’ was produced for the Berlin Biennale earlier this year by the British visual artist Phil Collins. Collins placed adverts in a number of newspapers in former East Germany, looking for teachers and academics who had taught marxist-leninist philosophy in the GDR or USSR. Three selected women openly reflect on their times as teachers and about the changes that the past 20 years have brought with them. For the participants, the loss of their jobs after the collapse of the socialist regimes didn’t just entail a personal identity crisis, but to a large extent also an undermining of the core of their public integrity. But ‘marxism today (prologue)’ is not so much a film about loss and longing than it is an unprejudiced look at what the structural core of the teaching really was. Apart from interviews with the women, the film also consists of archive materials from different educational contexts, among them an unforgettable state school discussion about the subject of how far the western European car factory workers were subject to systematic oppression. It is both entertaining, complex and far from the current, national discussion about ‘the red henchmen’ - leftists operating in Danish television in the 1970’s.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Monday 8/11 21:15 hrs. / Cinemateket: Thursday 11/11 16:30 hrs.

54 / NEW:VISION AWARD

Original title marxism today (prologue) Country Germany Year 2010 Running time 35 min. Production Shady Lane Productions Producer Phil Collins, Sinisa Mitrovic Distribution Shady Lane Productions

Home Movie (Domashnyee Kino) DIRECTOR: John Price

EUROPEAN PREMIERE The Canadian filmmaker John Price manipulates his films right down to the chemical emulsion in order to create his light-sensitive expressions, and he has shot his mesmerisingly beautiful â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Home Movieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; on some old reels of Russian 35mm film that were stored too long in a damp cellar, before he loaded them in his camera to immortalise his two children. The finished images are therefore in a state of advanced dissolution, and remind us more of psychedelic science fiction films with a hint of Tarkovsky than of normal home movies. The result is infinitely alien and fascinating, and nonetheless has a familiar touch and a loving sense of attention, which one cannot avoid feeling privileged to witness. The two children run around in their snowsuits, get to know the world, and take a nap in the back seat of an open car, and everything is as it should be. This is one film that must be seen on the cinemascope screen.

Original title Home Movie (Domashnyee Kino) Country Canada Year 2010 Running time 35 min. Production 1273503 Ontario Limited Producer Lea Carlson Distribution John Price

SCREENING DATES Gloria: Monday 8/11 17:30 hrs. / Cinemateket: Wednesday 10/11 21:30 hrs. / Cinemateket: Saturday 13/11 16:30 hrs.

NEW:VISION AWARD / 55

I Touched Her Legs DIRECTOR: Eva Marie Rødbro

WORLD Premiere They are the descendants of David Bowie’s ‘Young Americans’, and they are both invincible and as fragile as a deer caught in the headlights. Eva Marie Rødbro’s impressionistic montage of snapshots from suburbia is both a deeply poetic as well as an anthropological study of the selfdestructive rites of passage of teenage life. Like in last year’s postcard from a young Greenland, ‘Fuck You Kiss Me’, Rødbro demonstrates in her latest work a special knack of being able to capture the fragile sensitivity of youth - and to convert it into restless images, which with a rhythmic verve and a digital plasticity find their inspiration all the way back in the cinematic ideals of 1920s avant-garde cinema, while at the same time approaching something new and modern. The grainy night vision aesthetic is never more important than the bare presence of the youths, and the film reminds us that documentarism is also about how one sees things, and not just what one looks at. Eva Marie Rødbro is trained as a photo artist and lives in Amsterdam.

Original title I Touched Her Legs Country Denmark/Netherlands Year 2010 Running time 14 min. Production Eva Marie Rødbro Producer Eva Marie Rødbro Distribution Eva Marie Rødbro

SCREENING DATES Gloria: Monday 8/11 17:30 hrs. / Cinemateket: Wednesday 10/11 21:30 hrs. / Cinemateket: Saturday 13/11 16:30 hrs.

56 / NEW:VISION AWARD

Yellow Waste / Blue Heaven DIRECTOR: Martin Køhler Jørgensen

WORLD PREMIERE The United States really only exists in the minds of Americans, so for the visiting foreigner it is just a question of renting a car and accepting it all as a mirage without directions or vanishing points. Thus is the rationale of the two Danish artists Claus Carstensen and Peter Bonde in ‘Yellow Waste / Blue Heaven’, a pitch-black and elliptic road movie/docu-noir down the American highways. And there seems to be tacit agreement to behave accordingly among the small group of middle-aged men in freshly ironed shirts and Richard Nixon masks, who together set off towards unknown lands. An abandoned race track, a gun club, a swimming pool, a motorway diner and an endless motorway are the genre-symbolic settings for their mysterious journey which is documented thoroughly with polaroid pictures en-route. There are traces of a classical Hollywood plot, but even in daylight, Martin K. Jørgensen’s enigmatic and evocative film looks as if it has been shot in the middle of the night, and makes do with impressionistic fragments to show instead of telling.

Original title Yellow Waste / Blue Heaven Country Denmark Year 2010 Running time 19 min. Production Marlow film Producer Thomas Andersen Distribution Rebus Film

SCREENING DATES Gloria: Monday 8/11 17:30 hrs. / Cinemateket: Wednesday 10/11 21:30 hrs. / Cinemateket: Saturday 13/11 16:30 hrs.

NEW:VISION AWARD / 57

Real Snow White DIRECTOR: Pilvi Takala

WORLD PREMIERE A fake Snow White wreaks havoc in Disneyland and forces the poor guards to work overtime in Pilvi Takala’s performative disguise stunt ‘Real Snow White’, which with simple means and great effect exposes the fear of the real in the midst of an artificial candy floss paradise. ‘The absurd logic of the ‘real character’ and the extreme discipline of Disneyland become apparent when a real fan of Disney’s Snow White is banned from entering the park in a Snow White costume. As visitors are encouraged to dress up and a lot of costume-like merchandise is sold at the park, the full costumes are only sold for children. The Disney slogan ‘Dreams Come True’ of course means dreams produced exclusively by Disney. Anything even slightly out of control immediately evokes fear of the real, possibly dark and perverse dreams coming true. The fantasy of the innocent Snow White doing something bad is so obviously real, that the security guards and management refer to it when explaining why the visitor can’t enter the park dressed up as Snow White.’ - Pilvi Takala.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Tuesday 9/11 18:30 hrs. / Cinemateket: Friday 12/11 16:30 hrs.

58 / NEW:VISION AWARD

Original title Real Snow White Country Finland Year 2009 Running time 9 min. Production Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Masa Projesi Producer Raphaël Siboni Distribution Pilvi Takala

Magic for Beginners DIRECTOR: Jesse Mclean

If TV and religion have something in common, it is the promise of ecstasy. Screaming teenagers, sentimental karaoke muzak and tear-jerking close-ups are television’s answer to religion’s transgression of the limits of the possible, and become symptoms of the occult potential of both. Hence this course in magic for beginners, which celebrates an unlikely marriage between Andy Warhol and Kenneth Anger, until a story about telepathy and transcendence interrupts the transmission with a deafening, stroboscopic intermezzo featuring the noise/drone band Oneida. Leonardo DiCaprio is running the show from a VIP lounge off-screen, and sets into motion a mass-psychotic ceremony outside the darkened windows of his limousine. Jesse McLean’s neo-psychedelic TV hallucination finds its material from moving images in a wealth of different formats, and raises the obtrusive question: can emotions be artificial? In any case ‘Magic for Beginners’ corrects Marx’s dictum and underlines that if religion is opium, then TV is ecstasy for the people. Note: ‘Magic for Beginners’ is not recommended for people suffering from epilepsy.

Original title Magic for Beginners Country USA Year 2010 Running time 20 min. Production Jesse Mclean Producer Jesse Mclean Distribution Jesse Mclean

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Tuesday 9/11 18:30 hrs. / Cinemateket: Friday 12/11 16:30 hrs.

NEW:VISION AWARD / 59

Le vele di Scampia DIRECTOR: Tobias Zielony

WORLD PREMIERE A pyramidal / futuristic residential area lit from the inside by pale neon lights is the monumental setting of Tobias Zielony’s silent ‘Le vele di Scampia’, which is named after the film’s suburban location north of Naples, where the rate of unemployment is approaching 50 per cent and drugs and random violence are the order of the day. On the face of it, this is an ideal setting for a piece of solid social realism (Matteo Garrone’s mafia film ‘Gomorrah’ from 2008 was also shot here), but with Zielony’s time-lapse technique the modernist neighbourhood turns into the set of a science fiction nightmare. ‘Le vele di Scampia’ is animated from 7000 individual still photos taken at nighttime, and conjoined to give a sublimely alienating effect. Like in his other works, Zielony focuses especially on the younger inhabitants in the gigantic complex, and on the way they occupy space. It all ends with fireworks, as if to celebrate the triumph of gloom.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Tuesday 9/11 18:30 hrs. / Cinemateket: Friday 12/11 16:30 hrs.

60 / NEW:VISION AWARD

Original title Le vele di Scampia Year 2009 Running time 9 min. Distribution KOW-Berlin

In Free Fall DIRECTOR: Hito Steyerl

The free fall of the stock markets takes on the metaphoric form of a Boeing 707-700 4X-JYI in Hito Steyerl’s latest work, which in three segments plays with the thought of (another) impeding crash in the capitalist cycle of production and consumption. However, ‘In Free Fall’ is not structured as an argument. Steyerl’s collage of images both ready- and self-made rather follows the whims of the imagination, and alternates between pop and politics before reaching an explosive climax on on an airplane cemetery in the Californian desert - a place where old planes come to be blown up for spectacular use in Hollywood action films. An elderly captain explains from a tricycle, while a small video monitor illustrates the imaginary disasters. Steyerl’s celebratory criticism is anarchic and fun, while at the same time sending shivers down the viewer’s spine.

Original title In Free Fall Country Germany Year 2010 Running time 32 min. Distribution Neuer Berliner Kunstverein

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Tuesday 9/11 18:30 hrs. / Cinemateket: Friday 12/11 16:30 hrs.

NEW:VISION AWARD / 61

Nostalgia I, II, III DIRECTOR: Omer Fast

WORLD PREMIERE The three segments in Omer Fast’s new installation piece ‘Nostalgia’ mirror each other in a simple motif, which changes meaning for every corner one passes in its tricky architecture. Three stories about illegal migration seen from three different perspectives, marked by radical stylistic shifts. From the documentary portrait of the first segment to a reflexive casting process in split-screen, where the director performs a preparatory (and highly comical) interview with an emigrant and former child soldier from Nigeria, and a possible subject for his film. In the third segment hopeful Englishmen migrate to Africa in a future scenario, which to the last detail is decorated like a 1970s thriller made for tv. The three segments are intended to run in loops, and will for this cinema screening be shown in sequence.

Original title Nostalgia I, II, III Country Israel, Germany, France Year 2010 Running time 48 min. Production Natasha Dack Producer Natasha Dack Distribution GB Agency

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Monday 8/11 18:30 hrs. / Cinemateket: Saturday 13/11 18:30 hrs.

62 / NEW:VISION AWARD

Jack Straw’s Castle DIRECTOR: Rosalind Nashashibi

WORLD PREMIERE Rosalind Nashashibi’s two-part film is shot on Hampstead Heath, a park in London, which is known locally as a cruising spot for homosexuals. Voyeurism and meta-filmic transparency are the two poles between which the camera alternates, while we observe the obscure rituals of nighttime. Random encounters, pick-ups, and preparations for a large scale film shoot is all taking place between the trees. The woods are lit by giant floodlights, a scene which from the wings looks like an outtake from ‘Close Encounter of the Third Kind’. The rituals performed are structured according to rules and codes that remain enigmatic to the viewer, as if the aim was to explore the customs of the locals by way of antropological observation. However, there is reason to step lightly into the unknown. Mysterious, romantic - and constructed down to the last detail.

Original title Jack Straw’s Castle Country UK Year 2009 Running time 17 min. Distribution LUX

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Monday 8/11 18:30 hrs. / Cinemateket: Saturday 13/11 18:30 hrs.

NEW:VISION AWARD / 63

Burning Bush DIRECTOR: Vincent Grenier

EUROPEAN PREMIERE A pretty picture of a bright red euonymus bush becomes a piece of abstract and wordless illusionist art of an unsettling force through Vincent Grenier’s observant optics. The beauty of nature is a romantic motif with a tradition rooted in decorative realism, which nonetheless refers to an idealised reality behind its superficial appearance - approximately like God, when he, according to the Bible, manifested himself to Moses in the shape of a burning bush. But the miracles, however, are man-made in ‘Burning Bush’, which uses photographic perfectionism to refute the metaphysical idea that an image is somehow connected to what it represents. The cinematic image is relative, and determined by technology. Grenier brings the heavily theoretical ‘structuralist’ experimental film of the 1970s into the present day, where HD video has opened up new opportunities for cinematic research. But ‘Burning Bush’ is nonetheless very easy to watch - a digital mirage with a full-frontal, expressive force, which confronts its viewer with pure colours, light, and sounds.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Monday 8/11 18:30 hrs. / Cinemateket: Saturday 13/11 18:30 hrs.

64 / NEW:VISION AWARD

Original title Burning Bush Country Canada Year 2010 Running time 9 min. Production Vincent Grenier Producer Vincent Grenier Distribution Vincent Grenier

Perestroika DIRECTOR: Sarah Turner

INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE Two train rides across Russia become one in Sarah Turner’s supernaturally evocative work ‘Perestroika’. A journey in 1987 with a close friend, and one today, coloured by the memory of a personal loss. Turner herself is only present as a voice and as a reflection in the window, while the black trees and industrial landscapes pass by. Like with Andrei Tarkovsky, Turner’s images are sculpted in time, elegiac and with plenty of space, but also deeply personal and with a rare sense of filmic gravity. All of this in spite of the fact that her essayistic travel diary is closer to a dream to the sounds of tracks than to a philosophical treatise on the dark matter of time and remembrance. Early video contains the constant possibility of abstraction, but it is here woven together with modern HD footage and an earlier, ghost-like soundtrack - the effect being an experience of witnessing several historical moments at the same time. Technology, thinking and sensation in a dense triad. Which stories do we tell about (and to) ourselves? And how are they shaped by the images and sounds that we store en route? ‘Perestroika’ is a film about change - and it ends symbolically at the world’s deepest lake. A mysterious and transcendental cinema experience of a very special kind.

Original title Perestroika Country UK Year 2009 Running time 118 min. Production Film London / Arts Council England Producer Sarah Turner Distribution Sarah Turner

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Thursday 4/11 16:45 hrs. / Posthus Teatret: Monday 8/11 21:15 hrs. / Posthus Teatret: Saturday 13/11 21:15 hrs.

NEW:VISION AWARD / 65

Sculpture Plein-air, Swiecie 2009 DIRECTOR: Artur Zmijewski

WORLD PREMIERE Artur Zmijewski’s works are often politically controversial and interventionist studies of Europe’s historic traumas. However, ‘Sculpture plein-air, Swiecie 2009’ recreates an edifying, if somewhat utopian project from the socialist Poland of the 1960s, where artists and steel workers together created works to abolish class distinctions and make the masses ‘conscious’ of their position in society. In collaboration the workers and the artists develop the concept for a series of sculptures that are set up around town for critical review by skeptical youngsters and passers-by. Zmijewski observes and documents the project that he himself has initiated, without commenting on the relative success of the process and the finished art works. The times may have changed since the 1960’s and the heydays of socialism, but what about artistic idealism and the believe in change?

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Sunday 7/11 21:15 hrs. / Cinemateket: Sunday 14/11 19:00 hrs.

66 / NEW:VISION AWARD

Original title Sculpture Plein-air, Swiecie 2009 Country Poland Year 2010 Running time 22 min. Distribution Foksal Gallery Foundation

Devoir et deroute (Episode 1) DIRECTOR: Frederic Moser & Philippe Schwinger

WORLD Premiere Frederic Moser and Philippe Schwinger’s ‘Devoir et déroute (episode 1)’ is freely inspired by Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville’s tv series ‘France/tour/détour/deux/enfants’ from 1978 (which can be seen in the TELE:VISIONS programme at CPH:DOX 2010). Moser and Schwinger revise the socio-analytic method of Godard and Miéville but pursue the theoretical approach of their series. The modernisation of the Parisian ‘banlieues’ after the Second World War created a ghetto, the social consequences of which have begun to show violently in riots and in images of burning cars lighting up the night. However, this is exactly the view which is nuanced by Moser and Schwinger’s sober and unsensational interviews with the young suburbanites.

Original title Devoir et deroute (Episode 1) Country France Year 2009 Running time 27 min. Distribution KOW-Berlin

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Sunday 7/11 21:15 hrs. / Cinemateket: Sunday 14/11 19:00 hrs.

NEW:VISION AWARD / 67

Squeeze DIRECTOR: Mika Rottenberg

WORLD Premiere If Matthew Barney and Jan Svankmajer got together to make a film it might look something like Mika Rottenberg’s ‘Squeeze’. But then, not quite. For there is a tangible sense of pent-up political (and above all feminist) seriousness at play in the barely 10 square meter large space, which is constantly shrinking around the workers in the grotesque and claustrophobic sweatshop, where the female employees are going about their bizarre business producing art objects from lettuce, rubber and blush. Rottenberg integrates documentary footage of workers in India and Arizona into the scenario, creating a holistic interrelation between geographically distant situations and modes of labour. Bare butts, hands, and a lustful tongue writhering from a hole in the wall are parts of a factory modelled on the body, which is never visible in its entirety. ‘Squeeze’ is among many other things a 21st century critique of the very real alienation of industrial labour - and an unforgettable one of sorts.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Sunday 7/11 21:15 hrs. / Cinemateket: Sunday 14/11 19:00 hrs.

68 / NEW:VISION AWARD

Original title Squeeze Country USA Year 2010 Running time 20 min. Distribution Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery

SOUND & VISION AWARD

We love documentaries. We love music. And we love music documentaries - at least some of them! Being closely linked to both fan culture and commercialism, the genre has many pitfalls to be avoided - and we believe that the selected films here have managed to do so, thereby getting closer to fulfilling the genre’s enormous audiovisual potential. The idea behind the Sound & Vision Award is to show that the music documentary can elevate itself above the average talking head-based fan portrait and that it can have many different faces. From the crazy rock n’ roll attitude of ‘Lemmy’ to the intimate, personal atmosphere of ‘Ain’t In It For My Health’ or ‘The Extraordinary Ordinary Life of José Gonzalez’. And from the luxurious production value of ‘Ride, Rise, Roar’ to the charming DIY-aesthetic of ‘Backyard’ or ‘Werewolves Across America’. Even the playings with fiction that we favour at CPH:DOX is coming into the world of music documentaries, most notably in ‘This Movie Is Broken’ which is, admittedly, only half a documentary - and half a romantic comedy! But it is also present in the sci fi-musical trip of ‘Separado!’ and in ‘Go Quiet’, Dean Deblois’ follow up to the great success of ‘Heima’. All in all, this year’s selection is a strong one - and very much in line with our goal with the Sound & Vision Competition, to show the creative diversity of the music documentary genre. Now, start rocking! SOUND & VISION AWARD (3,000 Euros) is kindly sponsored by TV5 Monde.

Look at What the Light Did Now DIRECTOR: Anthony Seck

Leslie Feist has become a world-famous name thanks to her brilliant solo albums. But to a large degree also thanks to her collectivist spirit, as witnessed in her joint effort with producer and composer Chilly Gonsalez, her band Broken Social Scene - which can be seen in the hybrid film ‘This Movie is Broken’ - and her collaboration with the visual artists who have made her concerts and records a pleasure for more than just the ears. This poetic film about the creative and collective process behind Feist’s latest record ‘The Reminder’ is no exception; with its image-juggling integration of concert footage, Super8 material, photographic art and music videos, ‘Look at What the Light Did Now’ is both an eye- and an ear-opening experience. Feist’s fantastic songs are as crisp as never before and are nicely supported by a number of beautifully orchestrated interviews with the protagonist herself and her many collaboration partners. A must, both for all those who want to know more about the highly likeable singer, and for those who want to know more about the collective spirit that is behind the Canadian indie scene’s global success of recent years.

Original title Look at What the Light Did Now Country Canada Year 2010 Running time 80 min. Production Revolver Films Producer Jannie McInnes Distribution Revolver Films

SCREENING DATES Grand Teatret: Friday 5/11 kl. 19:00 / Dagmar Teatret: Tuesday 9/11 kl. 19:00 / Gloria: Friday 12/11 kl. 21:45 / DOX:CLUB / Teater Grob: Saturday 13/11 kl. 21:30

72 / SOUND & VISION AWARD

This Movie is Broken DIRECTOR: Bruce McDonald

The title is fitting. For it is exactly two films - one documentary and one fictional - that start out from a gripping live recording with the eighteen-man (and woman, including Feist, who can also be seen in ‘Look at what the light did now’) band Broken Social Scene. Around this entirely real concert, the film weaves a twisted love comedy about Bruno, who finally hooks up with the friend he has secretly been in love with - and this just before she is about to move to Europe, more or less for good. Bruno desperately tries to use the farewell evening’s concert with Broken Social Science to turn an inevitable one-night-stand into a true love story. Seen from a documentary perspective, the blending of fiction and reality here makes for an original take on the renewal of the live film genre, and a superb reproduction of the intoxicating feeling of being at a concert. And of being in love.

Original title This Movie is Broken Country Canada Year 2010 Running time 88 min. Production Rhombus Media, Shadow Shows Producer Brandi-Ann Milbradt, Howard Ng Distribution E1 Entertainment

SCREENING DATES Dagmar Teatret: Friday 5/11 kl. 21:30 / Gloria: Monday 8/11 kl. 21:45 / Empire Bio: Friday 12/11 kl. 22:30

SOUND & VISION AWARD / 73

The Extraordinary Ordinary Life of Jose Gonzalez DIRECTOR: Mikel Cee Karlsson, Fredrik Egerstrand

The Swedish/Argentinian musician José Gonzales became known worldwide when his version of ‘Heartbeats’ was used in a Sony commercial, where it accompanied thousands of bouncing rubber balls down a San Francisco road. It was the start of a career, which with its melancholy sound of the debut album ‘Veneer’ left all the sensitive music-lovers around the world breathless. González has since sung his way into folk-people’s hearts with a voice that melts like honey on a baguette, both as a solo artist and as the lead singer of the indie band Junip. As the film’s title indicates, Gonzáles is not your typical musical flâneur who lives his life in the fast lane, in spite of his star status. The bearded singer / songwriter is quite modest and somewhat reserved by nature, but nonetheless an extraordinary personality on the Swedish music scene. His two fellow countrymen Mikel Cee Karlsson and Fredrik Engstrand have followed Gonzáles during three years of his life, while he worked on his second album ‘In our nature’. The film portrays the bearded singer on the road, and during the often winding trajectory of the creative process. It’s as if Gonzáles was filmed from the inside: the film is an exclusive look at the thoughts of a sensitive soul about everything from the movement of photons in the universe to the human being’s development and his own existence - beautifully and captivatingly executed by Karlsson and Engstrand.

Original title The Extraordinary Ordinary Life of José González Country Sweden Year 2010 Running time 74 min. Production Platform Production Producer Erik Hemmendorff Distribution Plattform Production

SCREENING DATES Empire Bio: Saturday 6/11 kl. 22:30 / Grand Teatret: Friday 12/11 kl. 21:30 / Dagmar Teatret: Sunday 14/11 kl. 21:30

74 / SOUND & VISION AWARD

Ain’t In It for My Health: a Film about Levon Helm DIRECTOR: Jacob Hatley

EUROPEAN PREMIERE The frontman of legendary rock group The Band, Levon Helm, has survived sex, drugs and rock n’ roll, bankruptcy and a tough battle against throat cancer which has not been helped by the 70 year-old rock singer’s urge to smoke a spliff now and then. In 2008, he fought his way out of all these troubles and recorded his first album in 25 years, which was rewarded with a well-deserved grammy - and now also with a film. It took the young director Jacob Hatley three years to make his paradoxically life-affirming character study of a man with an existential crisis. The money ran out half-way through the shoot, and the film crew was allowed to move in with the ageing rock singer to save money on renting an apartment in Helm’s home town of Woodstock. And maybe this is why ‘Ain’t In It For My Health’ has become such an up-close and touching work. Not one single scene feels forced in this film that starts in a classical vérité style, but slowly and imperceptibly grows into a story about an old rock-and-roller’s conflict-laden relationship with his past and with the band that once was the centerpiece of his life.

Original title Ain’t In It for My Health: a Film about Levon Helm Country USA Year 2010 Running time 83 min. Production 15 To 50 Productions Producer Mary Posatko, Kenneth Segna Distribution Mary Posatko

Before the film we will show ‘How Old Are You? (15 min.), a short tour film with Robin Pecnold of modern heirs of The Band, Fleet Foxes from Seattle.

SCREENING DATES Vester Vov Vov: Saturday 6/11 kl. 16:30 / Cinemateket: Thursday 11/11 kl. 21:45 / Husets Biograf: Saturday 13/11 kl. 19:00

SOUND & VISION AWARD / 75

Werewolves Across America DIRECTOR: James Hall and Edward Lovelace

WORLD PREMIERE ’I’m kind of useless in the real world’. These are the words of the downand-out guitarist Viking Moses, who is the fascinating and indomitable focal point of this beautiful portrayal of America’s musical backyard. The title’s werewolves are a part of America’s hopeless but hopeful youth, who can’t come to terms with the straight path to career hell. They have gathered in bands such as Phosphorescent, Deer Tick, The Shivers and Real Live Tigers. Wry existences that have all bid farewell to the American dream in order to dress in self-sewn, musical wolf costumes, which don’t bring them any further than the next half-empty concert venue. A brilliant film about ‘Do It Yourself’ as a life form, filled with tragicomic scenes, beautiful Super8 images from suburban America, and set against a 24 carat soundtrack of golden freak folk.

Original title Werewolves Across America Country UK Year 2010 Running time 85 min. Production Pulse Films Producer Thomas Benski Distribution Pulse Films

SCREENING DATES Husets Biograf: Friday 5/11 kl. 21:00 / Gloria: Thursday 11/11 kl. 21:45 / Vester Vov Vov: Sunday 14/11 kl. 21:15

76 / SOUND & VISION AWARD

Ride, Rise, Roar DIRECTOR: David Hillman Curtis

When the former Talking Heads frontman David Byrne decides to go on tour with his latest record ‘Everything that Happens Will Happen Today’, the songs aren’t even finished yet. So the obstinate artist sets himself a deadline in his own way. For Byrne doesn’t do things like everybody else does. Instead of embarking on the usual promotion tour for yet another record, ‘Ride, Rise, Roar’ follows the creation of a piece of innovative stage art which highlights that Byrne’s ambitions stretch further than just writing fantastic music. In parallel, we follow the creation of the album in collaboration with Brian Eno - two highly intuitive creative processes that are woven together elegantly with live performances and interviews with the white-clad - and meanwhile also white-haired - gentleman.

Original title Ride, Rise, Roar Country USA Year 2010 Running time 86 min. Production BBC Producer Anthony Wall Distribution Will Schluter

SCREENING DATES Dagmar Teatret: Thursday 4/11 kl. 21:30 / Vester Vov Vov: Thursday 11/11 kl. 21:15 / Grand Teatret: Saturday 13/11 kl. 23:59

SOUND & VISION AWARD / 77

Brian Eno: Another Green World DIRECTOR: Nicola Roberts

Whether you belong to the kind of people who have taken a couple of hundred mid-afternoon naps accompanied by ‘Music for Airports’ or not, there is plenty of brain vitamins of the best and most inspiring kind in ‘Another Green World’. A musical and philosophical master class with the artist and composer Brian Eno, who over four decades has constantly renewed himself and his music, and who here invites us in to his combined home and record studio, and into his creative mind. The highly likeable Eno finds his artistic inspiration in technology, mathematics, future science and his cats, which sneak around silently. And his vision is so contagious that you catch yourself taking mental notes. ‘Another Green World’ is screened together with the short film ‘My Melody’, that goes from theory in to action on a wild and radiant trip to the trumpet festival in Guca, Serbia.

Original title Brian Eno: Another Green World Country UK Year 2010 Running time 60 min. Distribution BBC

SCREENING DATES Empire Bio: Thursday 4/11 kl. 22:30 / Dagmar Teatret: Sunday 7/11 kl. 19:00 / Grand Teatret: Saturday 13/11 kl. 23:59 / Gloria: Sunday 14/11 kl. 21:45

78 / SOUND & VISION AWARD

My Melody DIRECTOR: Bassem Ajaltouni and Simon Rey

INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE In the Balkans, the mix of religions and ethnic groups has created two regional particularities: 1) tensions, and 2) music. The two directors Bassem Ajaltouni and Simon Rey take the train from Paris to Istanbul to interview artists and understand the particuliar role of music in the Balkans - and to understand where the music comes from. The trip also takes them to the festival in Guca, Serbia, where the trumpets are blaring day and night and the party never goes to sleep. ‘My Melody’ is an impressionistic and poetic journey to the backbeat rhythm of Balkan folk music. Shot in Super-8 and video, black/white and color, and interfused with still images, the imagery is as lively and vibrant as the music itself. ‘My Melody’ is screened together with ‘Brian Eno: Another Green World’.

Original title My Melody Country France Year 2010 Running time 26 min. Production Tertulia Films Producer Brieux Férot Distribution Tertulia Films

SCREENING DATES Empire Bio: Thursday 4/11 kl. 22:30 / Dagmar Teatret: Sunday 7/11 kl. 19:00 / Grand Teatret: Saturday 13/11 kl. 23:59 / Gloria: Sunday 14/11 kl. 21:45

SOUND & VISION AWARD / 79

Separado! DIRECTOR: Dylan Goch, Gruff Rhys

EUROPEAN PREMIERE To some people, Gruff Rhys may be known as the frontman of the Welsh psych-rock band Super Furry Animals. But Rhys is also a solo artist who moves between folk, singer/songwriter and experimental rock. This mixture of styles, genres and expressions is also prevalent in ‘Separado!’, Rhys’s colourful family fable filled with space helmets, folk rock and a bit of bizarre music history. Together with his co-director Dylan Goch, Rhys sets out to find his childhood musical idol and distant relative, René Griffiths. This takes him all the way to Patagonia, and here we are told the story of a Welsh family that emigrated to South America several hundred years ago to escape suppression. ‘Separado!’ tells the history of both the clan and the country, and all the eccentric characters that Rhys meets en route have a story to tell. Rhys and Goch mix science fiction with musical elements, animation and classical documentary, ending up with an effervescent folkloristic bomb full of surprises.

Original title Separado! Country UK Year 2010 Running time 84 min. Production ie ie productions ltd Producer Catryn Ramasut Distribution ie ie productions ltd

SCREENING DATES Vester Vov Vov: Friday 5/11 kl. 21:15 / DOX:CLUB / Teater Grob: Wednesday 10/11 kl. 21:30 / Husets Biograf: Saturday 13/11 kl. 21:00

80 / SOUND & VISION AWARD

Lemmy DIRECTOR: Wes Orshoski, Greg Olliver

There are three things that can survive a nuclear war: cockroaches, capitalism and Lemmy from Motörhead. The man who defines rock-androll and who has survived four decades on the road, as well as a daily intake of at least four packs of cigarettes and one-and-a-half bottles of whiskey, has finally got his own film, and plays the lead role as a leatherclad desperado, as if he was sent from the Wild West to show the puppy-fat rock stars of our times how things are done. He has been doing this for so long that he can, in his own words, ‘remember when rock-and-roll was invented’ - something that few people could get away with saying, but which here comes from a man who doesn’t have to prove anything. The two directors have assembled three years of footage to create a fun and chummy fan film, which is everything else than a traditional hall of fame tribute. For the now 64-year-old Lemmy Kilmister is a surprisingly cheerful acquaintance, who says his honest opinion about everything, and who manages to test-drive a German combat vehicle from the Second World War between a drink and a guest appearance at a stadium concert with Metallica. Don’t try this at home, kids!

Original title Lemmy Country USA Year 2010 Running time 122 min. Production Lemmy Movie LLC Producer Wes Orshoski, Greg Olliver Distribution Vision Music

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Friday 5/11 kl. 21:30 / Dagmar Teatret: Sunday 7/11 kl. 21:30 / Dagmar Teatret: Wednesday 10/11 kl. 21:30 / Grand Teatret: Saturday 13/11 kl. 23:59

SOUND & VISION AWARD / 81

Backyard DIRECTOR: Árni Sveinsson

INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE There is little money, and the studio is 10 square metres big and lies in a small backyard in Reykjavik. But the heart is big in this film about one day in the independent Icelandic music scene. Árni and Árni have decided to improvise their own mini-festival, while the rest of the city is celebrating the annual Reykjavik cultural night. The lineup includes bands like múm, Hjaltalín, Borkó, Sin Fang Bous, Reykjavik!, Retro Stefson and FM Belfast, all playing for local passers-by, tourists and backyard cats. Árni Sveinsson’s ‘Backyard’ captures the characteristic do-it-yourself attitude which has made Reykjavik’s underground scene so artistically strong and successful. Genres are completely secondary for the young musicians, and the only thing that can shut them up is heavy rain. But late summer has plenty of nuances, and the sun returns to the small enclosure, which develops into a party that is larger than anyone expected. A film that confirms that there is a way for Iceland out of the crisis. And that 101 is still the coolest zip code of the North.

Original title Backyard Country Iceland Year 2010 Running time 70 min. Production Kjartanson ehf. Producer Sindri P. Kjartanson Distribution Kjartanson ehf

SCREENING DATES Gloria: Friday 5/11 kl. 21:45 / Empire Bio: Thursday 11/11 kl. 22:30 / DOX:CLUB / Teater Grob: Sunday 14/11 kl. 20:00 + koncert med Hjaltalín

82 / SOUND & VISION AWARD

The Promise: The Making of Darkness On The Edge of Town DIRECTOR: Thom Zimny

Bruce Springsteen’s fourth studio album ‘Darkness On the Edge of Town’ contained no hit songs among its ten tracks. But the working-class boy Springsteen and his treasured E Street Band wrote no less than 70 songs for the record, with varying and alternative versions. ‘The Promise’ for the first time approaches the creative working process that preceded the release of the by now classic record in spring 1978. And this is also where the majority of the film’s material comes from: a wealth of hitherto unseen footage from the years 1976 to 1978. But the boss and his band also accompany the historic material with brand-new interviews. The presence of history is felt most strongly when Springsteen invites us inside the four walls of both his studio and his home to provide a look at the creative and intimate sessions of a musician and a poet.

Original title The Promise: The Making of Darkness On The Edge of Town Country USA Year 2010 Running time 90 min. Production Thrill Hill Productions Producer Thom Zimny Distribution Sony Music

SCREENING DATES Grand Teatret: Sunday 7/11 kl. 19:00 / Grand Teatret: Tuesday 9/11 kl. 21:30 / Grand Teatret: Sunday 14/11 kl. 21:30

SOUND & VISION AWARD / 83

I am Secretly an Important Man DIRECTOR: Peter Sillen

INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE There are decent chances that you don’t know Jesse Bernstein. But if you’re one of those who once thought that everything smelled of teen spirit and that Kurt Cobain could show the true way to Nirvana, then you should buy a ticket for Peter Sillen’s unforgettable portrait film and find out more about this poet, provocateur and performance artist. Until (and long after) his suicide in 1991, Bernstein was one of the most influential voices in Seattle, and his angry, black-humoured records, released by the grunge company Sub Pop, inspired a long line of the city’s grunge and punk musicians, spearheaded by Cobain. Peter Sillen rolls out the entire fascinating story like a spoken-word performance by Bernstein himself, from his polio-suffering childhood via the adult poet’s exorbitant drug abuse and close friendship with William Burroughs to the masterful posthumous album ‘Prison’ (1992). ‘I Am Secretly An Important Man’ has this year’s most fitting title, but could turn Jesse Bernstein into a less well-kept secret. Thinking of the amazing performances he shines with in the film, this would be fully deserved.

Original title I am Secretly an Important Man Country USA Year 2010 Running time 85 min. Production Parts And Labor Producer Alex R. Johnson, Peter Sillen Distribution Parts And Labor

SCREENING DATES Grand Teatret: Saturday 6/11 kl. 21:30 / Empire Bio: Monday 8/11 kl. 17:30 / Empire Bio: Friday 12/11 kl. 17:30

84 / SOUND & VISION AWARD

To The End Of The World DIRECTOR: Andreas Koefoed

WORLD PREMIERE The young Danish band ‘The William Blakes’ have made it into something of a dogma to record their albums in no time and under the dictate of certain, changing rules in a house in Bösebo in Sweden, 300 km from Copenhagen and 10 km from the nearest supermarket. The same is true for their latest record ‘The Way of the Warrior’, which took nine days to ‘invent’, helped by the rule that for each time somebody said ‘no’, one should say ‘yes’. Andreas Koefoed, who last year won the Danish award at CPH:DOX for ‘Albert’s Winter’, followed the band during these nine days - and came home with plenty of charming footage of the four witty guys and their both thought-provoking and funny musical discussions, which he wonderfully manages to embellish with his own melancholy winter atmosphere. ‘To the End of the World’ is a film, which despite its simplicity manages to reach far beyond the traditional recording document and become a film one can see again and again. And yes, we’re talking from experience.

Original title Til Verdens Ende Country Denmark Year 2010 Running time 45 min. Production Andreas Koefoed Distribution Speed of Sound

SCREENING DATES DOX:CLUB / Teater Grob: Thursday 4/11 kl. 21:30 / Grand Teatret: Thursday 11/11 kl. 21:30 / Gloria: Saturday 13/11 kl. 21:45

SOUND & VISION AWARD / 85

Go Quiet DIRECTOR: Dean DeBlois

EUROPEAN PREMIERE Romantics and part-time dreamers, prick your ears! In 2010, Jón ‘Jónsi’ Birgisson from Sigur Rós released his first solo record after fronting his world-famous band for over 10 years, and now the album ‘Go’ has been accompanied by an evocative, filmic ‘home video’. Each of the album’s nine spherical songs - where he for the first time sings in English - are played by Jónsi alone and unplugged, on the guitar, piano, harmonium and, not least, with his charismatic voice, which sounds like an androgynous angel song. Jónsi’s own home is staged in soft close-ups illuminated by sparkling lights, in a beautiful and atmospheric film that is perfect for cold autumn days.

Original title Go Quiet Country UK/Iceland/Canada Year 2010 Running time 45 min. Production Klikk Film Producer John Best Distribution EMI Records

SCREENING DATES Grand Teatret: Thursday 11/11 kl. 21:30 / Gloria: Saturday 13/11 kl. 21:45

86 / SOUND & VISION AWARD

Go Live (OUT OF COMPETITION) DIRECTOR: Aneil Karia

WORLD PREMIERE The Icelandic band Sigur Rós’s lead singer Jónsi has made a virtue of surrounding himself with strong film artists, and ‘Go Live’ is the latest visual masterpiece to come out of these collaborations. While ‘Go Quiet’ silently depicts Jónsi singing in his home on the day after New Year’s Eve, ‘Go Live’ captures the singer before and during the first concert of his visually flamboyant 2010 tour. Like a tribute to the nature surrounding us, the tour saw Jónsi’s angelic voice and the magnificent soundscapes being woven together with visuals of butterflies, flowers and predators hunting their prey. The young and talented filmmaker Aneil Karia has included these mesmerising images in the film in a way that they form a new and almost fictional layer. Through interviews with the otherwise so shy protagonist, we are given an introduction to the thoughts behind both the concert and his solo album ‘Go’, and these interviews function excellently as small breaks between the exceptional concert recordings. Like both ‘Go Quiet’ and Sigur Rós’s concert film ‘Heima’ from 2007, Aneil Karia’s feature debut is a work which seduces the audience with both its sound and its imagery, and which therefore deserves to be seen on the silver screen.

Original title Go Live Country UK/Iceland Year 2010 Running time 74 min. Production Fifty Nine Productions Producer Klikk Film Distribution EMI Records

SCREENING DATES TO BE CONFIRMED

SOUND & VISION AWARD / 87

Lost Inside A Dream - The Story Of Dizzy Mizz Lizzy (OUT OF COMPETITION) DIRECTOR: Theis Molin

WORLD PREMIERE Danish rock group Dizzy Mizz Lizzy experienced their breakthrough already as teenagers, recording two albums that became classics in their home country - and in Japan! - and paved the way for the wave of new bands that sprouted in the Danish rock scene of the mid-1990s. Shortly after, however, the three band members chose to split up and pursue their respective careers as postman, truck driver and - rock star. None of them had dreamed of the fact that their songs would become evergreens among their fans who in 2010 got the chance to see them reunite. In Theis Molin’s brand-new road movie, we join them during their first encounter in the rehearsal room after ten years, up on stage - and behind the wheel of a truck. Old home videos from their first years together have found their place in a film inviting you to a reunion party with three old friends trying to find the spirit of rock ‘n roll again somewhere between the post office and the gas station.

Original title Lost Inside A Dream - The Story Of Dizzy Mizz Lizzy Country Denmark Year 2010 Running time 80 min. Production ArtPeople Producer Christian Møller Distribution ArtPeople

SCREENING DATES Grand Teatret: Thursday 4/11 kl. 21:30 / Grand Teatret: Monday 8/11 kl. 21:30

88 / SOUND & VISION AWARD

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AMNESTY AWARD

Amnesty Award is CPH:DOX’s competition programme for films focusing on various aspects of the struggle for human rights. With this programme, we try to prove that it is possible to tell those important stories that need to be told without losing the aesthetic focus that makes cinema a medium of artistic expression. This can make for some beautifully contradictory experiences of anger and joy at the same time, as in Andrei Nekrasov’s ‘Russian Lessons’ or Sabina Guzzanti’s ‘Draquila’, and of life-affirming melancholy as in the poetic burmese disaster movie ‘Nargis When Time Stopped Breathing’, in Renate Costa’s political family drama ‘Cuchillo De Palo’, or in the Syrian teen tale ‘Shout’. And as this year’s programme shows more than ever, films with a focus on human rights are actually not necessarily depressing – because art can actually change the world, at least small parts of it, as is shown in the most distinguished way in Lucy Walker’s ‘Waste Land’. The programme is diverse and colourful and full of promise - if not always for the world as a whole, at least for the documentary as an art form. AMNESTY AWARD (5,000 Euros) is kindly sponsored by Merkur Andelskasse.

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Aung San Suu Kyi - Lady of No Fear (Out of Competition) DIRECTOR: Anne Gyrithe Bonne

WORLD PREMIERE Aung San Suu Kyi is first and foremost known as the female political opposition leader at the center of many violent troubles in Burma over the past 20 years. What many people don’t know is that she started out as a British housewife in the higher strata of Oxford society, before she returned to her suppressed native country to fight for freedom. Out of the past 20 years she has spent 15 under house arrest with only very little contact to her husband and children. ‘Lady of No Fear’ is a fitting title, and the film gives us a personal approach to the female freedom fighter Suu Kyi - and her self-sacrificing husband, Dr. Michael Aris. Together, they have foregone the traditional life and marriage in favour of promoting freedom in Burma. The film focuses on the personal consequences of having such a strong sense of idealism, and of believing in the ability to overturn a regime. The film is a tribute to the female rebel leader, her first man, and not least the peaceful Ghandi-esque form of rebellion.

Original title Aung San Suu Kyi - Lady of No Fear Country Denmark Year 2010 Running time 60 min. Production Kamilo Films Producer Helle Ulsteen Distribution Kamilo Films

SCREENING DATES Dagmar Teatret: Friday 5/11 kl. 16:40 / Grand Teatret: Tuesday 9/11 kl. 17:00 / Cinemateket: Friday 12/11 kl. 18:45

92 / AMNESTY AWARD

Love During Wartime DIRECTOR: Gabriella Bier

WORLD PREMIERE In the eye of the storm, in one of the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most surveilled conflicts, Osama and Jasmin try to create a life together. It turns out to be a nearimpossible task. When a Palestinian and an Israeli marry, they lose the security and social network that are guaranteed other citizens. Wherever they turn for help, they end up in a catch 22 situation. This is a film about love. A love without legal rights, a Romeo and Juliet story against a political background. Love During Wartime follows the couple on their odyssey from the Middle East, through Germany to Austria. A film about a conflict that everyone has an opinion about, but that few really have any insight into - and about the human right to be able to live together.

Original title Love During Wartime Country Sweden Year 2010 Running time 92 min. Production Story/Pausefilm Producer Tobias Janson Distribution SFI

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Monday 8/11 kl. 16:45 / Cinemateket: Thursday 11/11 kl. 19:00 / Cinemateket: Sunday 14/11 kl. 21:45

AMNESTY AWARD / 93

Waste Land DIRECTOR: Lucy Walker

The Brazilian photographer and visual artist Vic Muniz has specialised in imaginative portraits on everything from diamond dust to syrup, which are exhibited at MoMA and sold for five-figure dollar amounts. But Muniz himself grew up impoverished in Sao Paulo, and art as an exclusive project reserved for the elites is not his style. With the question ‘Can art change people?’, Muniz instead turns art into a social project with a mission. In ‘Waste Land’, Lucy Walker instead follows Muniz during a controversial project in Jardin Gramacho, the world’s largest scrapyard, outside Rio de Janeiro. Here, hundreds of ‘catadores’ are at work collecting rubbish, ordering and sorting it, and earning an absolute minimum wage under desperate conditions. In the hope that art can make a difference, Muniz involves the local rubbish-people in a colourful rubbish orgy of an artwork, which before long hangs alongside Andy Warhol - a project that makes the rubbish-collectors more aware of their own values and ambitions, but also painfully aware of their place on the bottom rung of society. Lucy Walker captures the ethically complex in Muniz’s visual expression and vision, and ‘Waste Land’ has deservedly been lauded all over the world for its moving and life-affirming story.

SCREENING DATES Empire Bio: Saturday 6/11 kl. 17:30 / Grand Teatret: Friday 12/11 kl. 19:00

94 / AMNESTY AWARD

Original title Waste Land Country UK/Brazil Year 2010 Running time 99 min. Production Almega Projects Ltd Producer Angus Aynsley, Hank Levine Distribution E1 Entertainment

Pink Saris DIRECTOR: Kim Longinotto

EUROPEAN PREMIERE One of the documentary world’s most powerful female voices, the British Kim Longinotto (‘Divorce Iranian Style’, ‘Rough Aunties’ et al.) is back with a serving of pink activism, elegantly avoiding the number one pitfall of political documentary, namely self-victimisation, and takes a swipe at the Indian caste system. The pink saris of the title are worn by ‘The Gulabi Gang’, a growing group of mostly younger cast-less women, who are fed up with domestic violence and the regular rapes by father-in-laws. Headed by the charismatic leader Sampat Pal - who bars no holds when she lambasts patriarchy and who doesn’t resist entering into a solid fist-fight if that’s what it takes - the group fights for women’s rights in everyday life. Sampat, who herself had to escape from domestic violence and rape, is a live wire, but Longinotto’s film never succumbs to uncritical hero-worship, and with its depiction of four all-too venomous girls it develops into a far more complex struggle than ‘the girls against the boys’. ‘Pink Saris’ is a beautiful extension of Longinotto’s previous accounts of strong women, and is as unavoidable as the rest of her oeuvre.

Original title Pink Saris Country India/UK Year 2010 Running time 100 min. Production Vixen Films Producer Amber Latif, G Girjashanker Vohra Distribution Vixen Films

SCREENING DATES Grand Teatret: Saturday 6/11 kl. 14:20 / Cinemateket: Tuesday 9/11 kl. 19:15 / Cinemateket: Sunday 14/11 kl. 14:00

AMNESTY AWARD / 95

Draquila - Italy Trembles DIRECTOR: Sabina Guzzanti

The film that made the Italian culture minister boycott Cannes is a shocking revelation of the grotesque misuse of power in Berlusconi’s government, and of its unscrupulous handling of the tragic earthquake, which on 6 April 2009 destroyed the Italian city of L’Aquila, killed 308 people and made 70,000 Italians homeless. A disaster for some, a goldmine for others. In one stroke, public attention turned from corruption accusations and sex scandals to a new, paternal image of Berlusconi, while his friends in the construction industry literally rubbed their hands at the prospects of a juicy monopoly contract. Nonetheless, L’Aquila is still in ruins today, and many earthquake victims are still living in camps. But Berlusconi did not reckon with Sabina Guzzanti.

Original title Draquila - l’Italia che trema Country Italy Year 2010 Running time 90 min. Production Gruppo Ambra, BIM Distribuzione Producer Sergio Bernardi Distribution Wild Bunch

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Thursday 4/11 kl. 19:15 / Grand Teatret: Wednesday 10/11 kl. 16:40 / Grand Teatret: Saturday 13/11 kl. 21:30

96 / AMNESTY AWARD

The Oath DIRECTOR: Laura Poitras

Abu Jandal is a taxi driver in Yemen’s capital Sanaa. But in spite of his prosaic work, the good man has a somewhat less tranquil past. Back in the 1990s, Abu Jandal joined a relatively unknown movement called Al-Qaeda, and slowly rose up the ranks to become Osama Bin Laden’s bodyguard. And then he recruited his brother-in-law Salim Hamdan. Salim first became known as Bin Laden’s chauffeur, and subsequently as the first person to be charged by the United States’ war tribunal in Guantanamo. The Oath follows, in parallel, the daily lives of the two former Al Qaeda members Abu and Salim. Abu drives a taxi, says his prayers with his son, gives interviews to the foreign press and educates young muslim students in his home. Salim is incarcerated in Guantanamo - isolated and cut off from being able to communicate with the outside world, apart from through the letters he sends to his brother-in-law. Captured and free. But even if Abu lives a relatively free life in his home country, he is plagued by a bad conscience about his role in Salim’s situation.

Original title The Oath Country USA Year 2010 Running time 96 min. Production Praxis Films Producer Laura Poitras, Jonathan Oppenheim, Aliza Kaplan, Nasser Arrabyee Distribution Cat & Docs

SCREENING DATES Empire Bio: Thursday 4/11 kl. 17:30 / Dagmar Teatret: Tuesday 9/11 kl. 16:40 / Grand Teatret: Sunday 14/11 kl. 19:00

AMNESTY AWARD / 97

Shout DIRECTOR: Ester Gould, Sabine Lubbe Bakker

A film about the feeling of being high on freedom. 18-year-old Ezat and Bayan have been best friends ever since they were little, and have grown up in the Israeli-occupied Golan heights, right by the closed border to their home country Syria - a border that limits the contact between separated relatives to shouting with a megaphone across no man’s land. They see themselves as Syrians, but according to their passport they have no nationality. Meanwhile, when they turn 18, the two friends are given the chance to study in their dream city Damascus, which is located only a few miles away and which attracts them with its wild parties, warm summer nights and cute girls. But where one also has to be careful what one says if one comes from the other side, and where they won’t manage to see their families for a whole year. The two directors Ester Gould and Sabine Lubbe Bakker capture the experience that everything is new, and do so with a visual flair using wide 16mm images, which are grainy with desert dust and the smoke of countless cigarettes. ‘Shout’ takes a fresh look at an old story in a conflict-ridden region, which the youngsters are now set to inherit. The good news is that they also like to have fun and fool around in that part of the world, and that one could become friends with them in no time.

Original title Shout Country The Netherlands Year 2010 Running time 74 min. Production Pieter van Huystee Film Producer Pieter van Huystee Distribution NPO Sales

SCREENING DATES Empire Bio: Friday 5/11 kl. 17:30 / Dagmar Teatret: Thursday 11/11 kl. 19:00 / Posthus Teatret: Sunday 14/11 kl. 21:15

98 / AMNESTY AWARD

Cuchillo de Palo DIRECTOR: Renate Costa

Some films have qualities so human that they make everything around them seem artificial and calculated. One such film is the 29-year-old Paraguayan debutant Renate Costa’s ‘Cuchillo de Palo’, a low-key and unsentimental example of humanist film art, which combines the personal and the political story to form a simple and touching whole. ‘Cuchillo’ is a detective film, a family exposé, and a photofit picture of Renate Costa’s late uncle, who turns out to have been the black sheep in the family, and who, according to her father (and late uncle’s brother), turns out to be mentioned on the police’s so-called ‘108’-list, a remnant from the military dictatorship of the 1980s, when sexual minorities were persecuted and registered. Costa visits the uncle’s old friends from the cabaret milieu, and not least she tries to chip away at the façade of her conservative colossus of a father. ‘It’s so difficult to understand each other’, she ends up sighing, but maybe there is still hope. In any case, Renate Costa shows the way in her patient and attentive debut, which strikes at the roots of intolerance without promoting its own position.

Original title Cuchillo de Palo Country Spain/Paraguay Year 2010 Running time 95 min. Production Estudi Playtime (Spain) Producer Marta Andreu, Susana Benito Distribution Umedia

SCREENING DATES Husets Biograf: Saturday 6/11 kl. 21:00 / Posthus Teatret: Wednesday 10/11 kl. 21:15 / Husets Biograf: Friday 12/11 kl. 19:00

AMNESTY AWARD / 99

Aisheen (Still Alive in Gaza) DIRECTOR: Nicolas Wadimoff

The break in a run-down school yard is accompanied by exploding grenades. Fishermen who sail too far out to sea end up being under fire. And the animals at the zoo are either starving or stuffed. But there is still life in Gaza, as the subtitle of ‘Aisheen’ indicates. And one can only be impressed by the strongly challenged inhabitants’ will to survive every day in the bitter and exhausting conflict they live in - and which they here manage to put in words. Few weeks after the war between Israel and Palestine in 2009, Nicolas Wadimoff travelled to Gaza to take part in everyday life and to document the destruction at street-level, which rarely reaches the television news in the rest of the world. The rap group DARG Team has made the soundtrack for Wadimoff’s hand-held and intense images, but it is the people he encounters on the way that ‘own’ this film.

Original title Aisheen (Still Alive in Gaza) Country Switzerland/Quatar Year 2010 Running time 86 min. Production Akka Films, Point-du-Jour International, Télévision Suisse Romande, JCC-Jazeera Children’s Channel Producer Fayçal Hassairi, Joëlle Bertossa Distribution Point du Jour Productions

SCREENING DATES Vester Vov Vov: Thursday 4/11 kl. 21:15 / Grand Teatret: Thursday 11/11 kl. 17:00 / Gloria: Sunday 14/11 kl. 17:30

100 / AMNESTY AWARD

Russian Lessons DIRECTOR: Andrei Nekrasov, Olga Konskaya

When the directing duo Andrei Nekrasov and Olga Konskya ventured out from their respective starting-points in Georgia and Russia to shoot ‘Russian Lessons’ in 2009, the result ended up far from being a feel-good tale. The film is a harrowing account of the ‘war’ between Russia and Georgia in 2008, and about its complex historical background. Through reports and interviews, Nekrasov and Konskya try to find out what happened, when several years of political tensions led to the Russian army’s ethnic cleansing of Ossetia and Abhkazia. And with its handheld and rough look, ‘Russian Lessons’ captures the general callousness of war and paints a picture of a power-hungry mega-nation. But ‘Russian Lessons’ is more than just a depiction of war. The difference between Nekrasov and Konskya’s footage and the manipulated Russian media reports is alarming - and it is even more alarming that the West appears to have retold the Russian version of the story year after year. ‘Russian Lessons’ is not just a frightening eye-witness report, but also a highly topical addition to the debate about the media’s coverage of large, political conflicts. For a strongly guided media apparatus can be extremely powerful, and changing the reality that the daily news presents to us means first of all questioning it.

Original title Russian Lessons Country Russia/Norway/Georgia Year 2010 Running time 111 min. Production Piraya Film AS Producer Torstein Grude, Giorgi Arveladze Distribution Piraya Film AS

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Saturday 6/11 kl. 14:00 / Vester Vov Vov: Tuesday 9/11 kl. 21:15 / Posthus Teatret: Sunday 14/11 kl. 19:00

AMNESTY AWARD / 101

Nargis: When Time Stopped Breathing DIRECTOR: Kyaw Kyaw Oo, Maung Myint Aung

No matter how much one tries to shut out reality, one cannot close oneself off from nature. This is what the Burmese regime were forced to realise when cyclone Nargis hit Myanmar’s Ayeyarwaddy delta in May 2008 and cost at least 140,000 people their lives. Deeply affected by the tragedy, a few young Burmese filmmakers assembled a film crew and quickly set off for the delta to document a disaster, the scale of which surprised everyone including the country’s leaders, who were keen to hush up events. In spite of considerable risks the filmmakers have succeeded in creating a film which is every bit as poetic and heartfelt as the title indicates. Told in images that seem to originate from a different planet this documentary displays an ultra-fine balance between melancholy and levelheadedness. In the midst of this inferno of destruction and the ruins of what used to be their homes, are ordinary Burmese people. They have lost everything, but they are still standing, still determined to struggle for survival. ‘Nargis: when time stopped breathing’ is an absolute mustsee for all those who would like to go beyond newspaper headlines and gain an insight into the lives of ordinary people in autocratic Myanmar. An astonishingly humane piece of work that does infinite justice to its protagonists - and the art of filmmaking.

Original title Nargis: When Time Stopped Breathing Country Myanmar Year 2009 Running time 90 min. Production Claire Franklin Film Productions Producer Claire Franklin Distribution Claire Franklin Film Production

SCREENING DATES Grand Teatret: Wednesday 3/11 kl. 21:30 / Vester Vov Vov: Wednesday 10/11 kl. 21:15 / Husets Biograf: Saturday 13/11 kl. 17:00

102 / AMNESTY AWARD

DANISH:DOX AWARD

DANISH:DOX AWARD is this year dedicated to the new talents. Young and upcoming Danish filmmakers, and directors who have one, maybe two films under their belt. A new generation of Danish directors and producers are currently travelling the world and returning with a number of awards and a level of reception that most countries can ony dream about. Still, the continued success of Danish documentaries depends on the supply of new ideas. And on the ambition and artistic talent to give these ideas a form. The films nominated for the DANISH:DOX AWARD all realize this ambition, in widely different ways. From the global point of view in documentaries with a political edge, via the intimate portrait film, to the all-out experimental works marked by a strong, artistic vision. The selected films represent a diversity in expressions characteristic of Danish films these years, and a curiousity that point toward the future. DANISH:DOX AWARD is a cash prize of 5,000 Euros and is kindly sponsored by the Danish Producersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Association.

Homeless DIRECTOR: Ditte Haarløv Johnsen

WORLD PREMIERE The Danish documentary director Ditte Haarløv-Johnsen has said that she prefers making films about people on the edge - about those who are struggling to belong. This project has taken her around the world, and now back to Copenhagen. ‘Homeless’ paints an honest and unsentimental picture of three human destinies whose vagrant lives are inhuman, but far from incomprehensible. We meet Kenny Emil, Nuka and Norto, all of them born and raised in Greenland, and all of them now living on the streets of Copenhagen. Alcohol abuse is another thing they have in common, but the three of them treat their dependency as a part of their self-destructive lifestyle as opposed to a problem in itself. Kenny Emil, Nuka and Norto end up fighting every day, both with each other and with a social system that is often more alienating than supportive. Ditte Haarløv-Johnsen makes the social helpers and authorities step into the background, while leaving center stage to Kenny Emil, Nuka and Norto, whose accounts go straight to the heart. For even if ‘Homeless’ is raw and at times unpleasant, it also offers glimmers of human warmth in the dreams and hopes that can be found next to the bottle.

Original title Hjemløs Country Denmark Year 2010 Running time 55 min. Production Nature & Science Producer Anders Drud Jordan Distibution Nature & Science

SCREENING DATES Empire Bio: Sunday 7/11 kl. 15:00 / Det Grønlandske Hus: Wednesday 10/11 kl. 19:00 / Grand Teatret: Friday 12/11 kl. 14:20

106 / DANISH:DOX AWARD

Trafficking DIRECTOR: Judith Lansade, Sine Plambech

WORLD PREMIERE Escaping poverty is worth the try. But many people end up in the clutches of human traffickers, among them a part of the more than 2,000 foreign prostitutes working in Denmark. For this reason, Copenhagen’s police force introduced a special unit against human trafficking in 2008. But combating the problem is more easily said than done. ‘Trafficking’ follows the investigators Anne and Trine, who with the help of wire tapping, street operations and detective work are trying to assemble witnesses and evidence that could bring down the wirepullers of prostitution. But the police is working in a reality dictated by politics, where the trafficked women are offered little in return for their testimony. The film is a rare insight into an otherwise almost impenetrable and complex world of illegal migration, law, poverty, voodoo, prostitution and globalisation. A world where the best intentions in the fight against the trafficking of women is constantly being challenged. After the screening, the film’s two directors Judith Lansade and the social anthropologist and PhD student at DIIS and Columbia University, Sine Plambech, will take part in a debate about the film and the realities it portrays.

Original title Trafficking Country Denmark Year 2010 Running time 60 min. Production Upfront Films Producer Henrik Veileborg Distribution Upfront Films Aps

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Sunday 7/11 kl. 18:00 / Cinemateket: Sunday 7/11 kl. 18:00 / Vester Vov Vov: Monday 8/11 kl. 21:15 / Vester Vov Vov: Monday 8/11 kl. 21:15

DANISH:DOX AWARD / 107

My Cousin the Pirate DIRECTOR: Christian Sønderby Jepsen

WORLD PREMIERE 28-year-old Nasib lives in Denmark, where he has lived since he arrived in Denmark as an unaccompanied refugee from Somalia at the age of 9. He grew up in an asylum centre, and today lives together with his Danish wife and their three young children in Odense. Nasib has not been to Somalia the past 20 years, but he stays in touch with his family, and now he wants to return to talk to his cousin Abdi to convince him not to become a pirate. For Nasib’s childhood town is the hub of the large-scale Somali piracy, which has developed from being a struggle for freedom to pure criminal activity. Some of the most hard-boiled pirates come from Nasib’s own clan and family, and he ends up standing faceto-face with them on his journey, while the captured ships float right off the coast where he stays with his cousin. ‘My Cousin the Pirate’, made by the award-winning director Christian Sønderby Jensen, is a rare look at the anatomy of piracy where hopes for the future are drowned in civil war, corruption and khat chewing. While Nasib experiences his heavily impoverished homeland and the contrasts between rich and poor close-up, the moment of Abdi’s first raid is drawing closer.

Original title Min Fætter er Pirat Country Denmark Year 2010 Running time 40 min. Production DDF Producer Helle Faber Distribution Munkfilms

SCREENING DATES DOX:CLUB / Teater Grob: Friday 5/11 kl. 19:00 / DOX:CLUB / Teater Grob: Friday 5/11 kl. 19:00 / Dagmar Teatret: Friday 12/11 kl. 19:00 / Dagmar Teatret: Friday 12/11 kl. 19:00

108 / DANISH:DOX AWARD

We Are All Africans. Welcome Home. DIRECTOR: Malene Nielsen

WORLD PREMIERE Taking as its starting-point the Hannah Arendt quote that ‘We should learn to see the world through other people’s eyes’, the filmmaker Malene Nielsen takes us on a playful journey to try and challenge the one-sided western history of Africa, in this case Ethiopia. The film’s framework is a staged talk show, a green sofa environment set up in a street in the middle of Africa’s largest market, Merkato. The director assumes the role of talk-show host and invites passers-by to become the guests. A number of photographs of impoverished children with ballooning stomachs and flies in the corners of their eyes become the focal point of the sofa talks. Do the representations by the powerful western mediators correspond with the guests’ own experiences in one of the world’s poorest countries? Equipped with a curious eye, we move away from the talk show to a sensual and lingering collage of evocative scenes from Addis Abeba’s backwaters. The sound artist Jacob Kirkegaard has joined the trip and he here reinterprets Hannah Arendt: ‘We should learn to listen to the world through other people’s ears’. With his precise aural postcard, Kirkegaard lets us listen to the everyday life of Ehtiopians.

Original title We Are All Africans. Welcome Home. Country Denmark Year 2010 Running time 30 min. Producer Anna-Maria Kantarius Distribution Malene Nielsen

SCREENING DATES DOX:CLUB / Teater Grob: Friday 5/11 kl. 19:00 / DOX:CLUB / Teater Grob: Friday 5/11 kl. 19:00 / Cinemateket: Tuesday 9/11 kl. 14:00 / Dagmar Teatret: Friday 12/11 kl. 19:00 / Dagmar Teatret: Friday 12/11 kl. 19:00

DANISH:DOX AWARD / 109

Tommy DIRECTOR: Sami Saif

WORLD PREMIERE ’Hip hurra, det’ min fødselsdag’ and ‘Disco Tango’ are immortal Eurovision Song Contest classics, which few Danes would not know how to sing along to. Tommy Seebach brought disco to Denmark and made it popular with his very own, charming ‘dansktop’ variety. The man with the big curls and the broad smile was something of a national hero in the 1980s - but the hard life of being an entertainer typecast in the lighter end of show-biz ended up costing him his family and his career. Seebach died under tragic circumstances just 53 years old after battling with alcoholism for several years and finally sobering up. Sami Saif’s ‘Tommy’ is an entertaining and moving film, which the major musical talent has long deserved. From the youth in the rock group ‘Sir Henry and His Butlers’ to the sad ending in 2003. A classic rise and fall story, and a small piece of Danish history seen from a popcultural angle.

Original title Tommy Country Denmark Year 2010 Running time 100 min. Production R-Film Producer Peter Bech Distribution DOX:BIO

SCREENING DATES Grand Teatret: Saturday 6/11 kl. 19:00 / Grand Teatret: Wednesday 17/11 kl. 19:00

110 / DANISH:DOX AWARD

Busker DIRECTOR: Jazbo von Magius Gross

WORLD PREMIERE A musical family portrait is what you get in young debut director Jazbo Gross’s ‘Busker’. Age and musical genres are secondary for the musicians of the film, who live off (and for) playing on Europe’s streets and boulevards. The music is a lifestyle that has been handed down to them over generations. They are performers in spirit, and the rolling stone cliché for once fits their nomadic lifestyle, from Paris and Nice via Milan and Copenhagen to Istanbul. It is all about freedom, and you can hear that from the first to the last verse. ‘Busker’ has the feel of a beat novel and the looks of a genuinely independent documentary, alternating between tableaux style interviews and long takes of the live performances in the streets.

Original title Busker Country Denmark Year 2010 Running time 48 min. Production Brainworks Productions, Zentropa Producer Jazbo von Magius Gross Distribution Jazbo Von Magius Gross

SCREENING DATES Gloria: Sunday 7/11 kl. 17:30 / Husets Biograf: Wednesday 10/11 kl. 21:15

DANISH:DOX AWARD / 111

Fini DIRECTOR: Jacob Schulsinger

WORLD PREMIERE Probably only a family-member would be allowed to bring the camera all the way into the bedroom to capture the moment when granddad Fini opens his eyes. This is what Jacob Schulsinger has done, and thereby he frames his personal portrait film with the natural cycle of a day. Fini is doing alright, but he has started to lose his memory, and even the most ingrained routines can be hard to remember - has he already had his cup of tea, brushed his teeth or played table tennis during the day? We accompany Fini and his wife during his daytime pursuits and his obligatory visits to ‘Pilehuset’, an activity centre for the elderly. The grandmother plays a lesser, but nonetheless decisive role as the backbone of both the man and the film. Each scene with Fini is priceless, from the moment when he is lovingly but firmly forced out of bed in the morning and plays a toddler for the first three minutes, to the crude faces he makes with a twinkle in the eye while having a shave. ‘Fini’ is a loving and loyal portrait of the elderly gentleman’s condition, which leaves him in a constant limbo between recognition and oblivion.

SCREENING DATES Gloria: Sunday 7/11 kl. 17:30 / Husets Biograf: Wednesday 10/11 kl. 21:15

112 / DANISH:DOX AWARD

Original title Fini Country Denmark Year 2010 Running time 29 min. Production Secher & Schulsinger Producer Jacob Schulsinger Distribution Jacob Schulsinger

Manenberg DIRECTOR: Karen Waltorp, Christian Vium

WORLD PREMIERE Manenberg is a suburb of Cape Town, which was built during the apartheid era to house low-income black families. Today, it’s a worn-down and overpopulated slum with enormous social problems, where the prospect of becoming a gangster is more likely than the prospect of creating something new from the ruins of the past - but it is also a neighbourhood with strong ties between the residents of the decrepit townhouses. The directing duo Christian Vium and Karen Waltorp are focusing on the latter in their joint debut, and the result is an attentive and vital film. By profession, Vium and Waltorp are anthropologists, but they combine method and aesthetics in a cinematic whole which is light years away from the traditional methods of the genre and from the paternalistic idea of ‘giving a voice to the excluded’. They look after that themselves. Film can make us present in the moment, and this is what one is in ‘Manenberg’.

Original title Manenberg Country Denmark Year 2010 Running time 58 min. Production Waltorp Vium Producer Karen Waltorp, Christian Vium Distribution Waltorp Vium

SCREENING DATES Empire Bio: Sunday 7/11 kl. 17:30 / Husets Biograf: Thursday 11/11 kl. 19:00

DANISH:DOX AWARD / 113

Der Geist des Lebens DIRECTOR: Deniz Eroglu

WORLD PREMIERE At the bottom of a sea chest in an old house lies a pile of Super-8 reels, waiting to tell the story of the time when the eccentric plutocrat Asger Bøgedahl invited seven artists and scientists from all over the world to participate in a symposium, whose aim was to unite art and science in one comprehensive work: a dance, describing how the spirit of life was born from the cosmos. A triumph of the spirit, realised in its material form by the best minds within each field of practice. And for that matter, the minutely detailed mise-en-scène of ‘Der Geist des Lebens’ is a natural extension of the babylonian project it portrays. Reality is layered in Deniz Eroglu’s Chinese box of stories and ideas, which reflect the predecessors Luis Buñuel, Raoul Ruiz and Jorge Luis Borges without compromising with its own, promising vision. Deniz Eroglu is a student at Funen Art Academy and primarily works in film. His consistent use of archaic film formats such as Super-8 and 16mm refer to both real and imaginary historical events and characters.

SCREENING DATES Gloria: Saturday 6/11 kl. 17:30 / Gloria: Friday 12/11 kl. 17:30

114 / DANISH:DOX AWARD

Original title Der Geist des Lebens Country Denmark Year 2010 Running time 18 min. Production Deniz Eroglu, Robert Nielsen Producer Deniz Eroglu Distribution Deniz Eroglu

The Lake in the Mirror DIRECTOR: Johanna Domke

Once a year a revolution breaks out at the tradition-based boarding school Sorø Akademi. An imaginary rebellion that starts by daybreak and ends ritually on a small island with the burning of a dummy on a bonfire, symbolising the authority of the school’s teachers. ‘Lake in the Mirror’ begins as the memories of a former student revisiting the sites of the events, but progresses towards a different state of realness and becomes a documentation of the staging of the ritual - the alumni himself being the director. But as soon as the ritual sets off, the anger and emotion of the young students boil up to an uncanny level of authenticity. ‘Lake in the Mirror’ deals with nature as a refuge where the rules and hierarchies of society are put out of play - at least until new hierarchies and rituals start regulating the refuge. A rebellious fantasy and a piece of documentary art in one.

Original title Søen i spejlet Country Denmark Year 2009 Running time 17 min. Producer Johanna Domke Distribution Art Agents Gallery

SCREENING DATES Gloria: Saturday 6/11 kl. 17:30 / Gloria: Friday 12/11 kl. 17:30

DANISH:DOX AWARD / 115

The Achromatic Island DIRECTOR: Sofie Thorsen

WORLD PREMIERE Danish visual artist Sofie Thorsen’s ‘The Achromatic Island’ is a film about seeing, but from a concrete and historically specific perspective. Like a conceptual sight test, the film confronts both the spectator and its invisible protagonist with a series of static long takes of the picturesque landscapes on the Limfjord island Fur, where a rare, hereditary eye disease made a large number of the inhabitants colourblind and oversensitive to light in the 1930s. Thorsen’s film tries to recreate the colourblind experience by photographic means, based on an interview with an elderly man who describes the condition, and the personal story also alludes to the changes and challenges that rural Denmark is facing today. ‘The Achromatic Island’ is based on additional medical research, the limits of which only become obvious in Thorsen’s project: is it possible to convey the visible with words? And can the perception of a human being be reproduced photographically?

Original title The Achromatic Island Country Denmark Year 2010 Running time 20 min. Production Sofie Thorsen Producer Sofie Thorsen Distribution Sofie Thorsen

SCREENING DATES Statens Museum for Kunst: Thursday 4/11 kl. 00:00 / Gloria: Saturday 6/11 kl. 17:30 / Gloria: Friday 12/11 kl. 17:30

116 / DANISH:DOX AWARD

The Naked of Saint Petersburg DIRECTOR: ADA BLIGAARD SØBY

Ada Bligaard Søby’s portraits could be set pretty much anywhere on the planet. But she chose Saint Petersburg, and the city leaves an unmistakable mark on the pictorial lyricism of this her latest work. The film is set in biting coldness, but offers absurd and witty observations of the insistent elderly people who sunbathe in the snow and thereby frame the film which also hosts ancers and underground fashion, and a therapist who can not afford an office and sees his clients in his car. Observation and narration form a larger unity in the intimate street images, which are contrasted by the illuminated nostalgia of archive material. Instead of a streamlined and linear narration, Søby elegantly approaches the material of reality through fragmented stories - about a man and a woman, and a woman and a man, in a complicated longdistance relationship.

Original title The Naked of Saint Petersburg Country Denmark Year 2010 Running time 23 min. Production Klassefilm Producer Lise Saxtrup Distribution Klassefilm

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Wednesday 10/11 kl. 19:15 / Cinemateket: Friday 12/11 kl. 19:00

DANISH:DOX AWARD / 117

Empire North DIRECTOR: Jakob Boeskov

WORLD PREMIERE The artist Jakob S. Boeskov marks his debut as a filmmaker with a work that is experimental and boundary-seeking in every possible way. Starring himself in the lead role as a comics illustrator who decides to relinquish his identity to become his cynical, neo-liberal and postmodern alter ego Henrik Höfgren, Boeskov embarks on a controversial art project which aims to dissolve the boundary between art and life - and thus also between fiction and documentary. In the style of the ‘Yes Men’ he develops an ID sniper rifle, which can be used to register political dissidents during demonstrations. The gun becomes a hit at the arms trade show in Qatar. Everybody wants it and Boeskov’s increasing radicalisation leads him further down a critically slippery slope than he wished for at the beginning. ‘Empire North’ is shot on a mobile phone, and is Boeskov’s commentary on the post-9/11 paranoia of the 21st century. A documentary fiction, political critique and a risky social experiment, all in one.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Wednesday 10/11 kl. 19:15 / Cinemateket: Friday 12/11 kl. 19:00

118 / DANISH:DOX AWARD

Original title Empire North Country Denmark Year 2010 Running time 58 min. Production Interpretation Production Producer Camilla Andersen Distribution Interpretation Production

5 Pictures of a Father DIRECTOR: Nadia Josefine El Said

WORLD PREMIERE A childâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s drawing of a man who is always at work. A rock musician with a boring dayjob. A prison guard who dreams of traveling the world. A Soviet cosmonaut in eternal orbit and a father whose spirit is hovering in the sky. In five short portraits, 5 daughters in varying age from a child to an elderly woman, tell stories about their fathers. Staged tableaux, drawings, graphics and archive material illustrate the stories. They create pictures. Pictures of dreams and absence, of fathers and daughters. Nadia Josefine El Saids moving and beautifully crafted, new film is made with tender care for detail and design. A visual and narrative pleasure sculpted from the materials of real life.

Original title 5 Billeder af en Far Country Denmark Year 2010 Running time 21 min. Production Upfront Films Producer Anna-Maria Kantarius Distribution Upfront Films

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Wednesday 10/11 kl. 19:15 / Cinemateket: Friday 12/11 kl. 19:00

DANISH:DOX AWARD / 119

Historisk dokument (OUT OF COMPETITION) DIRECTOR: Thomas Pors

WORLD PREMIERE ’Historïsk dokument’ is a part of the new series of documentaries from the future, where you each day can hear about the important historic events from the people who were there to experience them. Today, the eyewitness Christian Kasper Mathiasen tells his story of a crisis that put Denmark in deep trouble around the turn of the millennium - namely the ‘yeast crisis’.

Original title Historisk dokument Country Denmark Year 2010 Running time 7 min. Production Upfront Films Producer Anna-Maria Kantarius Distribution Upfront Films

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Wednesday 10/11 kl. 19:00

120 / DANISH:DOX AWARD

My Avatar and me (OUT OF COMPETITION) DIRECTOR: Bente Milton, Mikkel Stolt

WORLD PREMIERE An unfortunate film director decides to try his luck in the virtual online world Second Life. Here, he meets the beautiful avatar Helena, who helps him to get going with an excellent career. But when his success goes to his head, he ends up losing everything. His search for Helena leads him to the island Akasha, where he is contacted by some mysterious light creatures. They promise that heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll probably be reunited with his loved one, but that he first has to embark on a journey to a mountain in Nevada, where the computer scientist Danny Hillis is in the process of building a gigantic watch - designed to measure the time over the next 10,000 years.

Original title Min avatar og mig Country Denmark Year 2010 Running time 90 min. Producer Peter Bech, Bente Milton, Mikkel Stolt Distribution DR

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Wednesday 10/11 kl. 19:00

DANISH:DOX AWARD / 121

The Home Front DIRECTOR: Phie Ambo

Good neighbourhoods do not hang on the trees, even if the impartial Fence Inspection authority in ‘The Home Front’ is doing its best to solve neighbourly quarrels, which involves everything from dogs and fence posts to hedge heights and chainsaws on the loose. A man has cut down his neighbour’s trees while she was not at home. ‘She is probably not used to living out in the country’ he says with a smile, and admits that he’ll probably do it again in 3 to 4 year’s time, when the trees on the other side of the fence have grown so tall that they block the sun from shining into his house. ‘I’d rather not be on bad terms with my neighbours,’ he adds. The background music, which imitate the merry sounds of Danish comedies, underlines the sarcasm. The suburban idyll is mixed with solid portions of stubbornness and narrow-mindedness.

Original title Hjemmefronten - fjenden bag hækken Country Denmark Year 2010 Running time 40 min. Production Danish Documentary Production Producer Sigrid Dyekjær Distribution Danish Documentary Production

SCREENING DATES Grand Teatret: Sunday 7/11 kl. 21:30 / Posthus Teatret: Friday 12/11 kl. 21:15

122 / DANISH:DOX AWARD

Fever DIRECTOR: Phie Ambo

The first of two new films by Phie Ambo. ‘Fever’ guides us into the incredibly detailed universe of the illustrator Julie Nord, where small girls in pretty dresses have houses in their bellies, and where chimney smoke turns into phantasmagoric patterns of mouths and hands, cats and bones. A work is created, and doubt is sewn. When is a work complete? Julie Nord is sharing her creative reflections with us through the unobtrusive presence of Ambo’s camera. A small bird ends up making all the difference as yet a beautiful, new work is finished. Nord’s perfectionism is impressive in its minute detail and vast scope, and ‘Fever’ is a guided tour through the mind of an uniquely gifted artist.

Original title Fever Country Denmark Year 2010 Running time 17 min. Production Danish Documentary Production Producer Mille Haynes Distribution Danish Documentary Production

SCREENING DATES Grand Teatret: Sunday 7/11 kl. 21:30 / Posthus Teatret: Friday 12/11 kl. 21:15

DANISH:DOX AWARD / 123

SHORT:DOX AWARD

SHORT:DOX is CPH:DOXâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s online competition for unusual, original and artistic independent shorts. Documentary filmmaking us going through a rapid development. New digital video equipment has enabled a creative freedom which the short film reflects more than any other. The short film is a playground and a laboratory where both already established and upcoming filmmakers can test their new ideas and pursue a personal vision without succumbing to compromises. A freedom that is expressed by these eight poetic and revealing snapshots from the real world. The audience is the jury, and the nominated films can be seen for free on cphdox. dk in the period from October 15 to November 14. Everyone can vote online, and we will draw lots for a Canon IXUS 105 camera among the votes cast. The films in the SHORT:DOX competition will be shown on the big screen at our own DOX:CLUB on November 6. The winning filmmaker will receive a Canon EOS 55D digital SLR with an 18-55 mm zoom lens. The award is sponsored by Canon.

Small Protests DIRECTOR: Zillah Bowes

INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE Rabbit is a left-wing activist and a squatter. And he has a plan. Together with his friends, he wants to expose housing fraud by occupying the house of a local politician. ‘Small Protests’ is just as much the portrait of a young man, who has chosen to live on the limits of society, as it is a film about political protest. The film’s style is almost as radical as Rabbit himself, and traditional narration falls by the wayside in the best punk fashion. The result is a small, intense and original portrait film, which stays close to its protagonist.

Original title Small Protests Country UK Year 2010 Running time 10 min. Production Zed Films Producer Zillah Bowes Distribution Zillah Bowes (Zed Films)