CPH:DOX 2011 - International Catalogue

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3 - 13 NOVEMBER 2011 COPENHAGEN INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL CPH:DOX IS A PART OF COPENHAGEN FILM FESTIVALS

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INFO tICKets Tickets for individual screenings can be bought in the cinemas.

Unless stated otherwise, the tickets cost 75 kr. You can also buy a discount card for 375 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. 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 then come and see us at our info counters at cinemateket.

DoX:CLUB For the firth year in a row CPH:DOX opens our own cinema/club/ venue/hangout/bar DOX:ClUB. 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.

CREDITS

Festival director: Tine Fischer

DOX:CLUB: Astrid Have, Tine Jespersen

Programmers / Selection Committee: Tine Fischer (responsible), Niklas K. Engstrøm, Mads Mikkelsen

Doc Alliance: Tine Fischer, Daniella Eversby

Programme assistants: Sophia Carnap, Pawel Mielniczyk, Hans Frederik Jacobsen Programme consultant: Benjamin Mirguet Preview group: Mads Mikkelsen (responsible), Tine Fischer, Niklas K. Engstrøm, Sophia Carnap, Adam Thorsmark, Hans Frederik Jacobsen CPH:FORUM & CPH:MARKET: Daniella Eversby (responsible), Michelle Schulze, Anaisa Noemi Schønberg DOX:LAB: Tine Fischer (responsible), Patricia Drati Rønde, Solveig Søholm Jørgensen, Jacob Svensson Live/event programme: Marie Moltke Brøchner (responsible), Adam Thorsmark, Astrid Have, Tine Jespersen, Brit Jensen, Niklas K. Engstrøm AUDIO:VISUALS: Adam Thorsmark (responsible), Niklas K. Engstrøm, Tore Hallas, Frederik Sølberg ART:FILM: Tine Fischer, Daniella Eversby, Sofie Holten, Michelle Schulze Seminars: Tine Fischer (responsible), Niklas Engstrøm, Daniella Eversby, Michelle Schulze, Mads Mikkelsen Marketing & PR: Mads Bacher (responsible), Kirstine Barfod (responsible), Trine Grue Svendsen, Rasmus Fly Filbert, Anne Toft Thomsen, Line Gry Hørup Advertisement sales: Kirstine Barfod (responsible), Anne Toft Thomsen, Kristoffer Skorstengaard Tjalve Fundraising and sponsorships: Kristoffer Skorstengaard Tjalve Web editors: Mads Bacher, Andreas Steinmann Catalogue editor: Mads Mikkelsen Catalague layout and design: Mads Bacher Programme texts: Mads Mikkelsen (responsible), Tine Fischer, Niklas K. Engstrøm, Hans Frederik Jacobsen, Adam Thorsmark, Astrid Have, Casper Rasmussen, Sophia Carnap, Marianne Lentz, Morten Tang, Jesper Andersen, Lars Movin, Thure Munkholm.

Catalogue editor CPH:FORUM: Rebecca Bro Translation: Andrew Blackwell Producers: Susanne Thygaard (responsible), Frederik Sølberg, Julie Koch Fahler, Christoffer Krustrup Press: Marianne Lentz (responsible), Anne Rønne, Astrid Jelstrup, Michelle Hoffery International PR and communication: Daniella Eversby (responsible), Michelle Schulze Print coordinator: Casper Andersen (responsible), Marius Kasperavicius Guest coordinators CPH:DOX: Cecilie Waitz Søborg (responsible), Simone Lone, Ting Ting Ji, Helene Hoby Guest coordinator DOX:LAB: Solveig Søholm Jørgensen Volunteer coordinators: Zainab Aslam, Kathrine Damgaard Pedersen UNG:DOX: Trine Grue Svendsen, Anna Weber Maarbjerg, Selini Halvadaki

CPH:DOX & DR Talent Award: Daniella Eversby, Anaisa Noemi Schønberg, Marie Louise Siim Graphic design: Line Gry Hørup, Rasmus Fly Filbert, Mads Bacher Web: Mads Bacher, Andreas Steinmann Festival trailer: Produced by CPH:DOX Directed by: Thomas Daneskov Cinematography: Jasper Spanning Music: Augusts Rosenbaum, Mads Forsby Sound: Oskar Skriver, Bjørn Gjessing Post: Ghost Sats and production: Andreas Steinmann, Mads Bacher CPH:DOX’s main sponsors: Det Danske Filminstitut, Kulturministeriet, M-Fonden, Københavns Kommune, Danske Filminstruktører, DR, Producentforeningen, Politiken, Merkur Bank, Nordisk Ministerråd, DR & Politiken CPH:DOX’s official sponsors and partners: Danida, Amnesty International, Vester Kopi, DSB, Media Mundus, Det Obelske Familiefond, The Finish Film Foundation, Østerbro Lokaludvalg, Filmkopi, UBOD, IMS, CKU, Århus Festuge, Kunststyrelsen, Wilhelm Hansen Fonden, Nordisk Film & TV fond, Det Svenske Filminstitut, Pressepuljen / UM Print: Vester Kopi, 1000 copies. Reprinting permitted on condition of mention of source CPH:DOX – Festival secretariat: Tagensvej 85 F DK 2200 København N Tel. +45 339 307 34 Fax: +45 331 275 05 CPH:DOX is a part of the Copenhagen Film Festivals Foundation: Director: Lars Hermann Board: Søren E. Jakobsen, Jens Gehl, Jon Stephensen, Nina Crone, John A. Tønnes.

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WELCOME

In the tradition of supporting a free thinking cinema we have again this year done the best we could to look for and devote ourselves to the discovery of the new talents and coming auteurs of tomorrow. It’s been a long summer full of discoveries - as always seeking out films in the margins of the undefined. We are grateful that so many new filmmakers have trusted their films to us and we promise to do our utmost to support them the best way possible.

Guest Curators Last year we shared the process of curating and selecting films by inviting two extraordinary guest curators to participate with each their vision of reality: Harmony Korine and Animal Collective gave us a personal reality check that pushed the borders of non-fiction far beyond the imaginable. The experience of sharing the program was a profound change to the whole festival. More than a mere carte blanche, it was like setting up a dialogue from within, asking what cinema is and how it relates to art in general and lived life specifically. It’s difficult to imagine a program without that dialogue now, so we have continued what was started last year.

Nan Goldin: I’ll Be Your Mirror This year the invitation goes to one of our private heroes, the American photographer Nan Goldin. Nan Goldin has been documenting her own life and that of her friends – her extended family – for more than 30 years. Her snapshot realism has shaped several generations of photographers making her one of the most influential artist of our time. It is hard to comprehend how radical her work was when she started making it in the late 70s. Long before confessional art became highly fashionable she was there insisting on an absolute personal presence behind as well as in front of the camera.

She has managed a very unique balance of personal and aesthetic intimacy in a way that few others have come close to. It favors a complex poetics of exchanges, correspondences, and displacements and it represents - within a documentary context - a radical humanism devoid of any kind of victimization.

Nan Goldin has curated a film program which carries a unique personal intimacy along – reflected in a selection of films that deeply belongs to the same tradition as she herself has worked within since the early years – tearing down the distance (if ever there was one) between art and lived life. From Shirley Clarke’s ’Cool World’ via 70’s New York underground with Vivienne Dick & Lydia Lunch to contemporary auteurs like Argentinian Lisandro Alonso. A beautiful exploration of an expanded field of non-fiction, a field where reality and fiction, just like art and life, constantly is blurred to write a much larger and ever developing story.

“A lot of people seem to think that art or photography is about the way things look, or the surface of things. That’s not what it’s about for me. It’s really about relationships and feelings...it’s really hard for me to do commercial work because people kind of want me to do a Nan Goldin. They don’t understand that it’s not about a style or a look or a setup.

It’s about emotional obsession and empathy … People feel that I’m narcissistic, voyeuristic or vicarious. Or they say I make the viewer vicarious. But I don’t think so. I show my people in their full strength, staring back at you. They’re not victimized by you. They’re not objectified by you.’” Nan Goldin

Ben Russell & Ben Rivers: A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness Next to Nan Goldin we have invited two of the contemporary international film scene’s most visionary filmmakers to curate a film and live program based on their coming, collaborative film, ’A Spell To Ward Off the Darkness’. A mythological project that they were shooting deep in the Norwegian woods when the horrifying massacre at Utøya shook the world this summer. Part in response to the tragic events, part as a dialogue-based insight into the creative process behind the film, the program is orchestrated in three parts: I Solitude II Collectivity III Phenomenology. From the solitude in Sokurov, via the collectivity in Robert Kramer to the pure phenomenology in ’Lucifer Rising’ by Kenneth Anger.

The program is a pure beauty, a rare glimpse into a creative process, an exchange between two people and a rare reflection on the correspondence between film and life. We are deeply proud to be able to present it and we would ourselves have travelled far to catch it.

DOX:LAB – Glorious accidents Two years ago CPH:DOX launched a new project DOX:LAB - an exclusively commissioned production laboratory where a small number of international filmmakers and artists are invited to develop and produce films in pairs of two. The idea is to create a space where unauthorized cinematic forms can be explored and developed and where differences in artistic backgrounds and methodology will stimulate a dialogue based new aesthetic. The pre-arranged marriages are now having a life outside the lab and one of the first completed films this year ‘Accidentes Gloriosos’ premiered during Venice International Film Festival and won the Orrizonti award for best mid length film. We are proud – but most importantly happy to see that what started out as a concept works in real life. We are ready with a new edition and not least with a line-up of twenty of the most talented young filmmakers of today. We wish them all the best and wait for new instant glorious accidents to happen.

CPH:FORUM Last year we re-launched CPH:FORUM as a financing and co-production forum with specific focus on projects in the ever growing landscape between fiction and non-fiction. This year we are taking yet another step into another hybrid landscape by setting up a new platform, ART:FILM, dedicated to support the development and financing of film projects found in the borderland between film and visual arts. We are moving into this field with a new partner, the British arts organization LUX and we are happy to announce the partnership and not least very curious to see what will happen when bringing together the art and film institutions asking them to test new unexplored ways of working together.

We cross our fingers and hope to see lots of unexpected alliances.

Welcome to CPH. Tine Fischer, Festival Director

DOX:AWARD JURY

Mark Peranson

Gertjan Zuilhof

Charles de Meaux

Robert Koehler 12 / JURIES

Marrietta von Hauswolff

DOX:AWARD JURY Mark Peranson Mark Peranson is the editor and publisher of the film magazine Cinema Scope, a member of the selection committee for the Festival del Film Locarno, and a programmer for the Vancouver International Film Festival. His first film ‘Waiting for Sancho’ screened at CPH:DOX in 2008.

Charles de Meaux Charles de Meaux founded the production company Anna Sanders Films in 1997 with Pierre Huygues, Philippe Parreno and Dominique Gonzales-Foerster, inventing a fictitious character, a ghost that symbolizes the space in between cinema and art, a way of freeing the constraining economic circuits of the ‘seventh art’. Charles de Meaux is one of those artists for whom the cinema represents one of the pillars of contemporary art, a realm of experimentation that makes it possible to extend the potential of this field of creativity and re-invest in the questions of pop fiction and imagination that it conveys.

Marrietta von Hauswolff Marrietta von Hauswolff is a script consultant and screenwriter connected to Binger Filmlab, TorinoFilmLab and various independent film companies: SvenskFilmindustri (SF), HeppFilm /Drakfilm, Most Film, Buena Vista, Third Man Film, Memfis, Yellow Bird), as well as international institutes: the Swedish Film Instititute, Balkan Film Fund, Talent Campus Sarajevo and Berlinale, Rutger Hauer Masterclass, Irish Film Board, Filmpool Nord. She is Head of MotherofSons (MOS), a development/film production company based in Stockholm, while is also working as screenwriter for short and feature films within this company. Presently in development with KREV?! – a transmedia/ feature film project – at Power to the Pixel 2010.

Robert Koehler Robert Koehler is a film critic and festival programmer. As a critic he has been writing for Variety, Cinema Scope, Cineaste, The Christian Science Monitor, LA Weekly, and Cahiers du Cinéma, among others. Robert Koehler has served as Director of Programming for AFI Fest since 2009 and is also a member of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association and FIPRESCI. He has contributed chapters to several books and countless film publications.

Gertjan Zuilhof Gertjan Zuilhof has been working as a programmer for the International Film Festival Rotterdam for almost two decades, and is also part of the selection committee of the Hubert Bals Fund. Zuilhof contributes to the general program but also develops more special thematic programs. His research territory has included the German speaking countries, but for quite a few years now Zuilhof shifted his focus from Europe to Asia and more specifically South East Asia. For the IFFR 2010 and 2011 he recently made long research travels in Africa and China, but maintains doing his research mainly in Asia. Zuilhof has been writing film criticism for the cinema monthly Skrien and the cultural-political weekly De Groene Amsterdammer.

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NEW:VISION AWARD JURY

Dennis Lim

Kathy Noble

Sergio Fant

Ji Hoon Jo 14 / JURIES

Charlène Dinhut

NEW:VISION AWARD JURY Kathy Noble Kathy Noble is a curator of Interdisciplinary Projects at Tate Modern in London. She co-curates Tate Modern Live, recently staging new commissions with Michael Clark, Keren Cytter and Katerina Seda and is currently co-curating the programme for the museum’s new Oil Tanks spaces, opening in summer 2012, focusing on film, video, performance and cross-disciplinary work. She writes regularly for Frieze, Art Monthly and other publications and co-directs ‘Performance and Performativity’, a collaborative research group at Tate.

Dennis Lim Dennis Lim is a critic and programmer based in New York. He is the editorial director at the Museum of the Moving Image, where he organizes film programs and edits the Museum’s multimedia magazine Moving Image Source. He is a frequent contributor to The New York Times and The Los Angeles Times, and his work has also appeared in Cinema Scope, ArtForum, Slate, and The Village Voice, where he was film editor from 1999-2006. He teaches in the Cultural Reporting and Criticism graduate program at New York University, and has served on juries at the Buenos Aires, Morelia, Tribeca, San Sebastian, and Vancouver film festivals. Lim has been a member of the selection committee for the New York Film Festival since 2009, and he was the programmer of the 2010 Robert Flaherty Film Seminar.

Charlène Dinhut Charlène Dinhut is part of the curatorial team of Hors Pistes at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. The event explores the hybridity and the liberty operating in contemporary film and video, and presents screenings as well as performances. Charlene Dinhut is also a PhD candidate in aesthetics at Sorbonne in Paris. Her research is about the notion of place in films and videos. As independent curator and teacher she has been working for several events, festivals and distribution structures. She also studied and worked in the field of French contemporary poetry.

Sergio Fant Sergio Fant is the short film programmer of the Venice Film Festival’s Orizzonti sidebar, working mainly in the fields of shorts, experimental cinema, artists’ film and video, and documentary. After graduating in Film Studies and working as a film archivist at the Bologna Cinematheque, he went on conceiving, curating and selecting programs for several Italian festivals and venues. He writes a weekly column on documentary films for the Italian news magazine Internazionale, and recently co-founded the innovative film distribution platform CineAgenzia.

Ji Hoon Jo Ji Hoon Jo has worked at the Jeonju International Film Festival (JIFF) in Korea since 2001 as a programmer and producer of Jeonju Digital Project, a digital short filmmaking project in which three international filmmakers every year are commissioned to make a new work, and the Short! Short! Short! project, a digital short filmmaking project with talented young Korean filmmakers. Ji Hoon Jo is also an executive producer of Jeonju Project Market, which is composed of ‘Producer Pitching’ for Korean young producers, ‘Documentary Pitching’ for Korean Documentary directors, and ‘Work in Progress’ for post-production support for new films of directors of all films that have screened at JIFF.

JURIES / 15

NORDIC:DOX AWARD JURY

Charlotte Cook

Marit Kapla

Chi-huy Yang

Cara Cusumano 16 / JURIES

Line Daugsbjerg

NORDIC:DOX AWARD JURY Cara Cusumano Cara Cusumano is a programmer for the Tribeca Film Festival. Prior to Tribeca, she programmed for the Hamptons International Film Festival for five years, including curating HIFF’s signature Conflict & Resolution sidebar and Oscar-qualifying shorts program. She has led film festival strategy workshops for organizations such as Cinereach and NYC’s School of Visual Arts, and has worked with film organizations including the Brooklyn International Film Festival, European Film Promotion, POV, and the Gold Coast International Film Festival.

Cusumano holds a degree in English Literature, Film, and Art History from Columbia University’s Barnard College, and a Master of Arts in Cinema Studies from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.

Chi-huy Yang Chi-hui Yang is a film programmer, lecturer and writer based in New York. As a guest curator, Yang has presented film and video series with MOMA Documentary Fortnight, UnionDocs, Robert Flaherty Film Seminar, Washington D.C. International Film Festival and Barcelona Asian Film Festival. From 2000-2010 he was the Director and Programmer of the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival, the largest showcase of its kind in the US. Yang is also the programmer of Cinema Asian America, a new On-Demand service offered by US cable company Comcast and currently a Visiting Scholar at New York University’s Asian/Pacific/American Institute.

Marit Kapla Marit Kapla has since 2007 been the Artistic Director of Göteborg International Film Festival, one of the largest film festivals in Northern Europe. Prior to working at GIFF, Kapla has been working as a cultural journalist for various media, and as a researcher and editor at the weekly film review ‘Filmkrönikan’ at national broadcaster Sveriges Television (SVT) in Gothenburg. Marit Kapla is educated in Journalism, Media and Communication at the University of Stockholm, as well as in Literature at Karlstad University.

Charlotte Cook Charlotte Cook is Director of Programming at Hot Docs - one of the leading and largest documentary film festivals in the world, located in Toronto, Canada. She was previously Head of Film Programming at the Frontline Club in London and has also worked for BBC Storyville and The Times.

Line Daugsbjerg Line Daugsbjerg is the Managing Director of Øst for Paradis Distribution, an art-house distribution company related to the Øst for Paradis cinema in Aarhus. Line Daugbjerg is a co-founder of the alternative film school Super8 from which she is educated as a producer making shorts film, documentaries, and theatre. She has worked as production manager, caster, productions assistant on larger feature film, commercials, music videos for companies such as Zentropa, Nordisk Film, M&M productions and Fine & Mellow. She has experience as a teacher in film studies, and has participated in culture communities, workshops, conferences for film, art, culture and underground filmmaking and promotion.

JURIES / 17

DANISH:DOX AWARD JURY

Katrine Hornstrup Yde

Cecilia Lidin

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DANISH:DOX AWARD JURY Katrine Hornstrup Yde Katrine Hornstrup Yde is a film critic and cultural journalist at the leading Danish daily newspaper Information, along with writing for the film magazine Ekko and for Denmark’s Radio (DR). She is educated with an MA in Modern culture, Literature and Cinema studies at Université Denis Diderot, Paris, and Columbia University, New York.

Cecilia Lidin Cecilia Lidin is commissioning editor for documentary film at the Swedish Film Institute. Lidin studied film and journalism at Copenhagen University and at Berkeley, California, since then she has worked with various aspects of documentary film in a number of different countries. Prior to her current position she headed up the EDN (European Documentary Network). Her earlier positions include Artistic Director of the Odense Film Festival, a major role in European Storytellers and Head of Studies at Zagreb Dox Prod. A key figure in European documentary film, Cecilia Lidin has devoted her life to creating opportunities for both young and experienced documentary filmmakers.

Kim Foss Kim Foss is the Managing Director of the Grand Theatre - the longest lasting art-house cinema in Copenhagen, which has been operating since 1913 - and of the related distribution company Camera Film. Kim is the former Head of Programming at Denmark’s first feature film festival, Natfilm Festival, and has previously been working as a film critic for a number of Danish news media.

JURIES / 19

SOUND & VISION AWARD JURY

Jennifer Juniper Stratford

Nicolai Torp

Grant Gee

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SOUND & VISION AWARD JURY Grant Gee Grant Gee is a cinematographer and filmmaker, best known for directing definitive studies of music and musicians. He has been Grammynominated twice, for ‘Meeting People Is Easy’ (2000) – about Radiohead - and ‘Demon Days’ (2006) – about Gorillaz. His feature ‘Joy Division’ premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and won the Sound and Vision award at CPH:DOX 2007. Gee also films and directs short experimental works including ‘City Symphony’ and ‘400 Anarchists and Mr. Fred Zentner’s. The most recent, ‘The Western Lands’, won best short film awards at the Banff and Vancouver film festivals. Gee also shot, edited and made motion graphics for the acclaimed feature documentary ‘Scott Walker: 30 Century Man’ (2006). Gee lives in Brighton with his wife and son.

Jennifer Juniper Stratford Jennifer Juniper Stratford is a photographer and video artist working in her hometown of Hollywood, California. She struggles daily with her love/hate relationship with the movie making industry, which is explored through photographic series and the production of cult movies.

She is a regular contributor to Tiny Voices, Bidoun, Texfield, and Bust Magazine and her works have been shown in galleries worldwide. In addition to making photographs, she directs and produces underground movies and experimental videos with her production company Telefantasy Studios. Its mission is to bend technology to new uses in service of art by using a mixture of current, analogue and practical photography to transport viewers to alternate realms. Jennifer Juniper Stratford is performing live with John Maus at CPH:DOX 2011.

Nicolai Torp Nicolai Torp is the chief editor of the Danish music magazine Soundvenue, one of the leading of its kind with a profile that includes cinema, art, fashion, and culture. Torp has a background in Film and Media studies at the University of Copenhagen, where he earned an MA degree in Film studies and lay the foundation for a long lasting interest in auteur cinema and documentary filmmaking.

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AMNESTY AWARD JURY

Yi Sicheng

Amal Ramsis

Andreas Johnsen

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AMNESTY AWARD JURY Amal Ramsis Amal Ramsis is an Egyptian filmmaker. In 1993 she graduated form the Faculty of Law in Cairo, after which she worked as a lawyer for three years. In 1992, she participated in founding the Women’s Studies Centre, “Maan” (together), in Egypt. In 2002, she obtained a grant from the Spanish Foreign Ministry to study film directing at the “Septima Ars” Cinema School in Madrid, completing her studies in 2005. Starting 2002, she began to write articles in a number of magazines and newspapers including, the Spanish Journal of the Council of Solidarity with Arab Causes. Since 2008 she organizes the Caravan of Arab – Iberoamerican Women Film in collaboration with the Spanish Embassy in Cairo and financed by the Spanish Foreign Ministry. At the same time, she is leading the program’s women’s workshop series known as “Correspondences Between Women.” In 2009 the Arab European Foundation of Granada selected her for its annual grant for arts and literature. Throughout her career in cinema, Ramsis directed a number of short films and documentaries, including “Silence,” “Plateau,” “Beirut is on the Seaside,” “Only Dreams,” “Life” and “Forbidden.”

Yi Sicheng YI Sicheng is the Programme Director of the Yunnan Multi Culture Visual Festival (known as Yunfest, a biennial documentary film festival taking place in Yunnan, China). Yi Sicheng was born in Yunnan, China in 1976 and graduated with a Bachelor in Chinese Language and Literature and a Master’s in Visual Anthropology from Yunnan University. He completed his PhD in Chinese Studies at Kiel University, Germany. He has been the jury member of Humanitarian Awards For Documentaries at the 33rd Hong Kong International Film Festival in 2009.

Andreas Johnsen Andreas Johnsen is a highly prolific director, producer and cinematographer of documentaries, often with a creative focus on human rights issues and cultural expression - especially musical subcultures - on a global scale. His films have been screening at film festivals all over the world. Johnsen has also worked extensively for television, but is now mainly making feature length films. His new film, ‘A Kind of Paradise’, is premiering at CPH:DOX 2011.

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DOC ALLIANCE AWARD JURY

Maxyne Franklin

Demetrios Matheou

Kate Vogel

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DOC ALLIANCE AWARD JURY Demetrios Matheou Demetrios Matheou is a London-based journalist, writer and programmer. He has been the film critic for Scotland’s Sunday Herald newspaper for eight years, while also writing about film for The Independent on Sunday, The Guardian, The Times, Sight and Sound magazine and The Arts Desk website. He is the author of ‘The Faber Book of New South American Cinema’ and a contributor to a number of other film books, including ‘Cinema: The Whole Story’, published this year. In 2010 Matheou was the co-curator of ‘South American Renaissance’, a major retrospective season for The British Film Institute. He has collaborated with a number of Latin American festivals in London, and is currently involved in creating the city’s first Argentine Film Festival.

Maxyne Franklin Maxyne Franklin is the Director of the Channel 4 BRITDOC Foundation. The Channel 4 BRITDOC Foundation brings new thinking to public service delivery in the UK and beyond. The Foundation exists to nurture talent and work with new approaches to documentary filmmaking and funding. In addition to film funding the Foundation also runs the Puma Creative Impact Awards, celebrating the documentary film that has created most significant social impact, and the international Good Pitch event in partnership with the Sundance Institute Documentary Program. The Good Pitch matches filmmakers with NGOs, foundations and other partners to forge coalitions and campaigns that are good for the films as well as for society.

Kate Vogel Kate Vogel worked in documentary commissioning at Channel 4 for 6 years - championing emerging directors through the short-film prime time strand 3 Minute Wonder. Kate has been passionate about making the arts accessible; in 2007 she helped to establish the Jarman Award and set up New Sensations, a new prize for graduate artists with the Saatchi Gallery. She joined Tate Media as a Producer in 2008, with the aim of working closely with artists and the Tate exhibition programme to produce creatively challenging films around the visual arts for television and cinema and online audiences.

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SPECIAL SCREENINGS

We are happy to celebrate a series of spectacular World and European Premieres. From the tender love story in the opening film ’Ballroom Dancer’, to the portrait of a leader without a nation in ’The Price of Kings: Yasser Arafat’. From DOX:AWARD winner Gary Tarn (’Black Sun’, 2006) we are proud to present the grandiose ’The Prophet’. And Jonathan Caouette is back at the festival with his Cannes hit ’Walk Away Renée’ in a new version fresh from the editing table.

We are also very happy to bid welcome to the first Danish live action film in 3-D, ’The Average of the Average’ by award-winning director Michael Madsen (’Into Eternity’). And not least are we happy to host the European Premiere of ’Urbanized’, the last part of Gary Hustwit’s design trilogy following ’Helvetica’ and ’Objectified’ – which will also be the last film to close this year’s festival.

All the directors will of course be present to introduce the premieres of their films.

OPENING GALA: Ballroom Dancer DIRECTOR: Christian Bonke & Andreas Koefoed

WORLD PREMIERE The former world champion in Latin American dancing, Slavik Kryklyvyy, is a resolute man. Ten years ago he was among the world elite of dancing. Today, he is setting out to re-conquer his place on the polished floorboards despite the fact that he is marked by his age, suffering from a serious hip injury, and has an uncontrollable temperament that has scared off all of his former dance partners.

His latest dance partner (and girlfriend), Anna, is meant to help him achieve his goal. With her, his dogged determination and a thoroughly exercised body, Slavik sets off on a journey towards the stars. But as the dream of regaining a place in the limelight seems to drift further and further away, Slavik’s temperament starts to sizzle, and his relationship is put to the test. Slavik is ready to pay the price, for what is love good for if you cannot fulfil the dreams of your life? We are witnessing the drama from the first row, where Slavik’s is fighting his own inner demons on the dance floor. ‘Ballroom Dancer’ provides us with a unique look at the dance world thrown into the bargain, complete with glamour, glitter, Brylcreem hair and thick layers of makeup. The question is if Slavik can keep his composure and dance his way out of the crisis he finds himself in.

Original title Ballroom Dancer Country Denmark Year 2011 Running time 85 min.

Production Danish Documentary Producer Jakob Jønck & Sigrid Dyekjær World Sales / Contact: Danish Documentary Production, Denmark

SCREENING DATES Koncerthuset i DR Byen: Tuesday 1/11 20:00 HRS / Dagmar: Sunday 6/11 19:00 HRS / Cinemateket: Wednesday 9/11 19:30 HRS / Dagmar: Friday 11/11 12:00 HRS

DIRECTOR FILMOGRAPHY Andreas Koefoed: Albert’s Winter (CPH:DOX 2009 - Danish:dox Award Winner), A Day in the Smoke (2008), 12 toner ned (2008), Beg, Borrow or Steal (2006), Storebror Albert (2005). Christian Bonke: Roskilde (2008, co-dir.)

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The Prophet DIRECTOR: Gary Tarn

WORLD PREMIERE The Prophet is inspired by Kahlil Gibran’s classic text. Leaving the city of Orphalese to return home, Gibran’s Prophet delivers a farewell address, revealing a beautiful philosophical insight into living a life shaped by tolerance, warmth and love. Gibran’s book has a timeless style that offers a unique perspective on life and how to live it. Developing ideas first seen in his debut feature Black Sun (winner of the DOX:AWARD at CPH:DOX 2006), Gary Tarn’s film of The Prophet juxtaposes this fictional text against images shot in authentic locations, which creates new meanings and new interpretations of what might be familiar. An intimate reading of the original English-language text by Thandie Newton is woven into a minimalist score for acousic and electronic instruments.

This unique film presents the three elements of image, music and Gibran’s spoken text as counterpoints, sometimes closely knitted together, sometimes apart. At times the correspondence between the elements is more obvious, othertimes less so. It is for each viewer to make their own connections, and create their own interpretations, as the film relates to their own life. The film was shot on a variety of film and video formats, in Lebanon, Serbia, the US and the UK.

Original title The Prophet Country UK Year 2011 Running time 75 min.

Production Land Media Productions Ltd Producer Gary Tarn World Sales / Contact: Land Media Productions Ltd

SCREENING DATES Grand: Wednesday 9/11 19:00 HRS / Grand: Thursday 10/11 14:20 HRS

DIRECTOR FILMOGRAPHY Black Sun (CPH:DOX 2005 - DOX:AWARD Winner)

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The Price of Kings: Yasser Arafat DIRECTOR: Richard Symons

WORLD PREMIERE As the only President in the world without a fully recognised nation state, Yasser Arafat unified the Palestinian people as a revolutionary and iconic leader whilst struggling to forge them a country. Through a series of interviews with his closest family, friends and associates - including his widow Suha - one discovers the legacy of a man who fought to bring peace by violent means as well as by negotiations to one of the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most stubborn conflicts, a goal he was unable to realise within his own lifetime. Built around the inspirational and intimate account of his widow as well as around the elaboration of his political positon and influnce, the film charts his life from his early years as a revolutionary leader to his landmark address to the UN General Assembly in 1974, his role in the Oslo Peace Accords, his besiegement and finally, his unsolved death in a Paris hospital.

Original title The Price of Kings: Yasser Arafat Country UK Year 2011 Running time 75 min.

Producer Joanna Natasegara World Sales / Contact: Spirit Level Film , UK

SCREENING DATES Grand: Thursday 10/11 17:00 HRS / Cinemateket: Saturday 12/11 10:00 HRS

DIRECTOR FILMOGRAPHY Richard Symons: Fear Factory (2009, co-dir. with Joanna Natasegara), Ministry of Truth (2007), The Snake and the Stallion (2002)

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The Average Of The Average DIRECTOR: Michael Madsen

World premiere Denmark’s first 3D documentary is directed by the awardwinning director Michael Madsen (‘Into Eternity’) and deals with - mediocrity. And yet, not quite! For mediocrity is maybe harder to grasp with a formula than one might think. But Middlefart is an entirely mediocre place, as we find out, and this is where the film’s 13 chapters - like ‘Into Eternity’ - try to see the present from a historical perspective. What is important? What defines our times? The 3-dimensional space of the images frame the individual scenes like display cabinets at a virtual museum about ordinary Denmark in the year 2011, while both true and fictitious stories constantly threaten to disrupt the mediocrity. From stories about civil disobedience to the mayor’s visit to a fortune teller, Madsen’s brand new film gets the answers to its questions through anthropological and apparently objective 3-D glasses - and ends with a totally unique reunion with a series of 3D photographs of Middelfart from the 1880s. Michael Madsen brings the traditional ‘Denmark film’ into a new era, which itself will soon be history.

Original title Middelfart i Gennemsnit Country Denmark Year 2011 Running time 55 min.

Production Gallery Tusk, MASSPRODUCTION Producer Michael Madsen World Sales / Contact: Michael Madsen, Denmark

SCREENING DATES Empire: Saturday 12/11 17:30 HRS

DIRECTOR FILMOGRAPHY Into Eternity (CPH:DOX 2009 - Audience Award Winner), Celestial night: A film on visibility (2003)

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Patience (After Sebald) DIRECTOR: Grant Gee

EUROPEAN PREMIERE The award-winning director Grant Gee (Sound & Vision Award at CPH:DOX 2007) breathes new life into the German-born, England-based author W.G. Sebald, who is one of the last decade’s most important authors. Sebald is best known for his works ‘Austerlitz’ and ‘Saturn’s Rings’, which are the basis for Gee’s lyrical interpretation. The novel itself is a genre-challenging mix of fiction and fact, prose and caption. The film tries to get to the bottom of Sebald’s playful and challenging form by adopting it. Is it at all possible to call Sebald’s fabulating geographic image prose ‘literature’? And if not, what is it then? ‘Patience (After Sebald)’ is made out of a picturesque curiosity, and through the original it creates its own unique narrative form. The inspiring effect from the often overlooked Sebald runs like a solid thread through Grant Gee’s films, which instead of remaining a commentary of Sebald’s works ends up becoming a part of the argument.

Original title Patience (After Sebald) Country UK Year 2011 Running time 82 min.

Production Artevents Producer Sarah Caddy, Gareth Evans, Di Robson World Sales / Contacts Soda Pictures

SCREENING DATES Dagmar: Wednesday 9/11 19:00 HRS

DIRECTOR FILMOGRAPHY Western Lands (2007), Joy Division (CPH:DOX 2006, Sound & Vision Award Winner), Fred Zentner’s Cinema Bookshop Was Here (2005), Torsion (2005), Don’t Crash:The Documentary of the Making of the Movie of the Book of the Radio Series of ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’ (2005), Demon Days: Live at the Manchester Opera House (2005) (co-directed by David Barnard), JC-03 (2003), 400 Anarchists (2002), (Tel Aviv) City Symphony (2000), Meeting People Is Easy (1998), Found Sound (1996)

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Undercover Cop DIRECTOR: Brian Hill

WORLD PREMIERE With ‘Undercover Cop’, Brian Hill, one of Britain’s most innovative documentary filmmakers, once again covers one of those topics that are painful far into the democratic soul of the people: the use of undercover police agents. Hill has been given full access to follow Mark Kennedy, the English policeman, who after 7 years as a spy in the British - and European - activist scene was exposed at the beginning of 2011. Part of the film follows Kennedy during the tough period after his exposal, but Hill doesn’t limit himself to the this traditional approach. Instead, the director sets the agent up in front of a green screen and lets him perform his own story, thereby reconstructing the key events during his work as an undercover cop. ‘Undercover Cop’ is a highly topical documentary, which just like ‘Better This World’ (see Amnesty Award) questions how far the state can go in its use of lies and deceit without losing the basic faith of its citizens.

Original title Undercover Cop Country UK Year 2011 Running time 75 min.

Production Century Films Producer James Ross, Katie Bailiff

SCREENING DATES Grand: Saturday 12/11 16:40 HRS / Cinemateket: Sunday 13/11 10:00 HRS

DIRECTOR FILMOGRAPHY Selected filmography: Climate of Change (2010), The Not Dead (CPH:DOX 2007), Songbirds (2005, CPH:DOX 2007), Feltham Sings (2002), Drinking for England (1998)

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Walk Away Renée DIRECTOR: Jonathan Caouette

In 2003, the filmmaker Jonathan Caouette ripped through the cinematic sound barrier with the intense auto- and motherbiographical stroke of genius ‘Tarnation’. Now, Caouette returns to CPH:DOX with his follow-up film, ‘Walk Away Renée’, and we are celebrating the first screening of a newly edited version with a double bill where we show both films together.

WALK AWAY RENÉE: With a mother who is mentally ill as a result of shock therapy in the 1950s, Caouette sets off on a road trip to find a new, protective home for her. On the journey, a light is cast on the far from ordinary relationship between mother and son, while the past and the present, fiction and reality are mixed together in surreal vignettes and musical collages. The title ‘Walk Away Renée’ is taken from a 1960s pop song, but the irony is obvious: neither the mother Renée nor the son can leave behind their inner demons.

The film perfectly complements Caouette’s acclaimed microbudget debut - and it is good to have the original filmmaker back with yet another chapter in a highly unconventional family history.

Original title Walk Away Renée + Tarnation Year 2011 Running time 90 min.

Production LOVE STREAMS AGNÈS B., POLYESTER, HUMMINGBIRD 72, PENELOPE MORGANE PRODUCTION Producer Pierre Paul Puljiz, Gérard Lacroix, Christophe Audeguis, Jonathan Caouette World Sales / Contacts Wild Bunch

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Saturday 12/11 20:00 HRS / Cinemateket: Saturday 12/11 22:00 HRS / Grand: Sunday 13/11 19:00 HRS

DIRECTOR FILMOGRAPHY All Tomorrow’s Parties (CPH:DOX 2009), Tarnation (2003, CPH:DOX 2008)

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Tarnation DIRECTOR: Jonathan Caouette

If the home video genre immediately gives you associations of homely cosiness and priceless Kodak moments, then Jonathan Caouette’s shocking family exposé ‘Tarnation’ will be a nasty surprise for you. Caouette himself edited together the private footage and snapshots from 19 years of - nicely put - dysfunctional family life to create an eerie, but also tragic and moving picture of his own upbringing, where the mentally ill mother and her psychological decay is the only constant factor. The escape into a self-centering video reality becomes the young Jonathan’s way out of the family’s infected fold, and subsequently also out of the closet, to a life on the other side. For good reason, ‘Tarnation’ was a sensation at its premiere, and also caused a sensation for having been made for only 220 dollars, and edited on a laptop. A simultaneously unpleasant and fascinating and deeply personal film.

Original title Tarnation Country US Year 2003 Running time 88 min.

Production Tarnation Films Producer Stephen Winter, Jonathan Caouette World Sales / Contacts Wellspring Media

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Saturday 12/11 20:00 HRS

DIRECTOR FILMOGRAPHY All Tomorrow’s Parties (CPH:DOX 2009), Tarnation (2003, CPH:DOX 2008)

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Photo by: Marianna Mørkøre & Rannvá Káradóttir

COMPETITIONS DOX:AWARD NEW:VISION AWARD NORDIC:DOX AWARD DANISH:DOX AWARD SOUND & VISION AWARD AMNESTY AWARD DOC ALLIANCE AWARD

DOX:AWARD

14 films have been chosen to compete for this year’s DOX:AWARD. The nominated films are our selection of this year’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 comitted to documentaries that constantly challenge the genre and our understanding of the idea of what could be called the documentary project. Exploring the hybrid field 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 auteur filmmaking over the last decade.

This year, we are excited to present a selection of magnificent films that in very different ways explore the potential of cinema. With a cinematic reference to the elusive ‘real’ as their common point of departure, the films nominated for this year’s DOX:AWARD walk the line between fact and fiction, the poetic and the personal, the political and the (thought)provoking. 14 films that in our view represent the state of cinema at its best and brightest.

DOX:AWARD is a cash prize of 5,000 Euros.

The award is kindly sponsored by Denmark’s Radio - DR.

Turning - Work In Progress DIRECTOR: Charles Atlas

We are delighted to present a preview of the long-awaited film with and by Charles Atlas and Antony and the Johnsons for the Closing Gala. In 2006 Antony and Charles Atlas took their collaborative and critically acclaimed performance TURNING to major cities in Europe - a sensual and moving exploration of femininity and the basic desire of belonging. The Guardian called the performance ‘fragile, life affirming, and truly wonderful’ and awarded it five stars. The film explores the heart of the live performance, which is staged around bodies that are exposed in all their diverse beauty.

Through its synthesis between Antony´s songs, Charles Atlas’s strong imagery, and the life stories of some of the beauties from New Yorks’s subcultural art scene who performed on stage, the film creates an intimate and unique expression of the themes around identity and humanity that are ever present in Antony´s artistic universe and unique voice. A film that dares to show beauty the way it wants to express itself. ‘Turning’ is presented in an almost complete version at CPH:DOX which will no doubt be a highlight of this year’s festival.

Original title Turning Country Denmark, USA Year 2011 Running time 82 min.

Production Bullitt Film & BeoFilm Producer Vibeke Vogel, Lucy Sexton World Sales / Contact: Bullitt Film, Turning Film, Beo Film

SCREENING DATES Grand: Friday 11/11 14:20 HRS / Bremen: Friday 11/11 20:00 HRS / Grand: Saturday 12/11 21:30 HRS

DIRECTOR FILMOGRAPHY Selected filmography: Ocean (2010), The Legend of Leigh Bowery (2006, CPH:DOX 2010), Rainer Variations (2002), It’s a Jackie Thing (1999), Superhoney (1994), Son of Sam and Delilah (1991), The Myth of Modern Dance (1990), Put Blood in the Music (1989), Because we Must (1989), Hail the New Puritan (1987), Ex-Romance (1987), From an Island Summer (1983), Merce by Merce by Paik (1978). Artist in Focus at CPH:DOX 2011

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Play DIRECTOR: Ruben Östlund

Ruben Östlund’s controversial new film is a dramatised reenactment based on thorough research of over 40 cases of extremely harsh bullying and trick thefts that were committed by immigrant children in Gothenburg a few years ago. Three middleclass boys are held up by a gang in a shopping mall, and they are accused of having stolen a mobile phone. What follows is a manipulative psychological role play, which is not so much based on physical violence but rather takes the shape of a game - but a game without rules. The stage is set in the comfortable and functional setting of welfare society. And just like Östlund’s previous film ‘Involuntary’ (2008), we are forced to witness the events with a compelling involvement and an ice-cold sense of discomfort as they unfold in real time in front of the camera. Jacques Tati meets Michael Haneke in the long, static and perfectly timed takes, but the approach and the method are Östlund’s very own. ‘Play’ stages reality in order to analyse it, and fearlessly disregards all considerations of political correctness. For this reason alone it will undoubtedly provoke a debate. Also as a contemporary and highly topical film problematically rooted in today’s Scandinavian reality.

Original title Play Country Sweden, France, Denmark, Finland Year 2011 Running time 118 min.

Production The Coproduction Office, Plattform Produktion, Société Parisienne de Production & Film i Väst Producer Erik Hemmendorff & Philippe Bober World Sales / Contact: The Coproduction Office, Germany

SCREENING DATES Empire: Sunday 6/11 17:30 HRS / Cinemateket: Thursday 10/11 21:30 HRS / Cinemateket: Sunday 13/11 12:00 HRS

DIRECTOR FILMOGRAPHY Incident by a Bank (2010, short), Involuntary (2008), The Guitar Mongoloid (2004)

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Bombay Beach DIRECTOR: Alma Har’el

Bombay Beach is situated on the coast of a man-made inland sea, hidden away and forgotten far inside the Colorado desert. The large beaches and long hours of sun were sold to the inhabitants of nuclear-age USA with staunch post-war optimism as a holiday paradise in the nation’s back garden. But 50 years later, the area is empty and stands as a rusty monument of the aquapark utopia of the American dream. Or almost empty, that is. Director Alma Har’el has been welcomed in by the last hospitable inhabitants of the forgotten hinterland, and she paints a loving portrait in warm, sunny, and slightly surreal images. The inhabitants of Bombay Beach soon become co-authors of the dreamy narrative, and moments of intense documentary reality turn into sudden performative outbreaks of dance. Alma Har’el’s pulsating work is supported by original music by Zach Condon (aka. Beirut), and is reminiscent of Harmony Korine’s ‘Gummo’. Har’el is a photographer, video artist and music video director, and all three elements clearly shine through in ‘Bombay Beach’, which is as much a visual delight as it is done with great human insight and empathy.

Original title Bombay Beach Country US Year 2011 Running time 80 min.

Production Boaz Yakin & Alma Har’el Producer Boaz Yakin & Alma Har’el World Sales / Contact: Ro*co Films International llc, USA

SCREENING DATES Empire: Friday 4/11 22:30 HRS / Grand: Monday 7/11 16:30 HRS / Grand: Thursday 10/11 19:30 HRS / Empire: Saturday 12/11 15:00 HRS

DIRECTOR FILMOGRAPHY Bombay Beach (2011)

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HPG Watch Stream Live - Sex Cam HD Porn Free Hard XXX DIRECTOR: Raphaël Siboni

WORLD PREMIERE Illusion is the first of all pleasures. Nobody knows this better than Hervé P. Gustave, or ‘HPG’, as the French porn king is known among friends. The rest of the title probably speaks for itself. In the hands of the young visual artist Raphaël Siboni, several thousand hours of behind-the-scene and on-set footage of countless HPG low-budget productions have been turned into an unprejudiced and intelligent look at the most popular of all documentary genres, where the films are made on an assembly line and are consumed accordingly. However, by observing the events unfold in long and patient takes, illusion is the first thing to disappear.

The participants gossip, chat, become bored and tired to the point of exhaustion with their bodies silently collapsing like in a Dalí painting. HPG himself comes across as a charming and forthright acquaintance, who not only directs, but also produces, films and participates in his saucy films - and always stark naked himself.

Sex is just business, but it is a physical, comical and very human business, as Siboni shows in a liberatingly funny way. No matter if you are for or against porn, the message is clear: enjoy the illusion as long as it lasts.

Original title Il n’y a pas de rapport sexuel Country France Year 2011 Running time 78 min.

Production Capricci Films Producer Thierry Lounas World Sales / Contact: Capricci Films, France

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Friday 4/11 21:30 HRS / Empire: Wednesday 9/11 20:00 HRS / Grand: Friday 11/11 23:30 HRS / Empire: Saturday 12/11 22:30 HRS

DIRECTOR FILMOGRAPHY HPG Watch Stream Live - Sex Cam HD Porn Free Hard XXX (2011). Artist in Focus with Fabien Giraud, CPH:DOX 2011

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Anna Pavlova Lives in Berlin DIRECTOR: Theo Solnik

INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE It is weekend seven days a week for Anna Pavlova, who lives in Berlin but comes from an aristocratic Russian family. The fasttalking and charismatic Anna apparently lives her 29-year-old night life one minute at a time, as she moves through the streets of Berlin from one party to another without ever looking back.

She is a ‘woman under the influence’, as she lurches around in a summer dress with a beer in one hand and a joint in the other, involving everyone around her on her journey. In his first feature film director Theo Solnik follows young Anna through the night, which in his contrasty and dazzlingly beautiful black-and-white images becomes a place where anything can happen: ‘We are just lost, lost, lost...’, Pavlova rambles in the cold light of dawn outside a scummy night club. A life in freedom or always on the run? The relationship between the restless drama queen and Solnik himself is not without complications either, and the chaotic conflicts stretch way beyond the camera. But Solnik elegantly avoids the easy solution of turning his portrait into a moralising tragedy. The film belongs to both of them in equal measures, and also therefore is it at one with its generation.

Original title Anna Pavlova lebt in Berlin Country Germany Year 2011 Running time 80 min.

Production Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin Producer Myriam Eichler World Sales / Contact: Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin, Germany

SCREENING DATES Gloria: Saturday 5/11 22:00 HRS / Grand: Wednesday 9/11 10:00 HRS / Empire: Thursday 10/11 20:00 HRS / Grand: Friday 11/11 17:00 HRS

DIRECTOR FILMOGRAPHY Short works: Rikkomus (2009), Banho de Mar (2008), Kabine 18 (2004)

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Two Years at Sea DIRECTOR: Ben Rivers

The images sparkle like a burning log and crackle like one of the old gramophone records which the hermit Jake listens to while chopping wood in Ben Rivers’s hypnotic and divinely beautiful film from the depths of Scotland’s pine forests. The black trees rise like a heathen cathedral around the lonely figure and his self-made country home. A caravan high up in a tree crown and a majestic fir tree, which sways under the influence of invisible forces, are small signs of the uncompromising and supernatural potential of the human will, as long as it is cultivated in the ecstasy of solitude.

Which it is in ‘Two Years at Sea’. William Blake and Thoreau are his spiritual cousins, and both the film and the man himself seem to exist beyond time and space. He is both the first and the last human, and ultimately just that: a human being. Ben Rivers is interested in people who live on the limits of society. He already portrayed Jake in his 2006 short ‘This Is My Land’ and has now dedicated his first feature film to him.

In collaboration with Ben Russell, Rivers has curated a film programme exclusively for CPH:DOX 2011 under the title of their coming collaborative film project: ‘A Spell to Ward off the Darkness’.

Original title Two Years at Sea Country UK Year 2011 Running time 88 min.

Production FLAMIN Productions Producer Maggie Ellis, Rose Cupit & João Trabulo World Sales / Contact: Lux, UK

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Sunday 6/11 16:45 HRS / Cinemateket: Thursday 10/11 21:45 HRS

DIRECTOR FILMOGRAPHY Short works: Slow Action (2010, CPH:DOX 2011), I Know Where I’m Going (2009), May Tomorrow Shine The Brightest Of All Your Many Days As It Will Be Your Last (2009), A World Rattled Of Habit (2008), Origin of the Species (2008), Sørdal (2008), Ah, Liberty! (2008), House (2007), Dove Coup (2007), Greenhouse (2007), Terror! (2006), The Coming Race (2006), Astika (2006), This Is My Land (2006), The Bomb with a Man in his Shoe (2005), The Hyrcynium Wood (2005), We The People (2004), Old Dark House (2003)

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Kuichisan DIRECTOR: Maiko Endo

WORLD PREMIERE The discovery of the year. Debut director Maiko Endo has made a film that suffuses us with confidence that the film medium contains possibilities that we have only just begun to explore. ‘Kuichisan’ is more like finding an old suitcase full of photos than watching a usual film, and the almost dialogue-free story grows out of the luminous 16mm footage of the place where it was filmed. Okinawa was once a kingdom, has since been acquired by the American army, and is now a part of Japan. It is a place with an ambiguous identity, which is mirrored in a young boy who roams around and observes his surroundings: street life, workers, kids on BMX’s, cats, an amusement park, fireworks. The camera is constantly at his heels and captures it all in an impressionist flow of images that shift between black-and-white and colour. The form is free and poetic, while the world takes its course - and is possibly coming to an end. A uniquely talented filmmaker has made her entry into the festival scene with a film that satisfies both old and entirely new ideals for its medium, and which must above be seen in the cinema.

Original title Kuichisan Country Japan, USA Year 2011 Running time 76 min.

Production Selfish Club Productions Producer Maiko Endo, Jessica Oreck & Ayako Okuda World Sales / Contact: Maiko Endo, USA

SCREENING DATES Vester Vov Vov: Tuesday 8/11 19:00 HRS / Dagmar: Thursday 10/11 21:30 HRS / Dagmar: Sunday 13/11 16:40 HRS

DIRECTOR FILMOGRAPHY Kuichisan (2011)

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The Somnambulists DIRECTOR: Richard Jobson

INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE In harsh, frontal and almost entirely blacked-out close-ups, young British ex-soldiers confess directly to the camera. Fifteen testimonies from the war in Iraq, and from the war they have taken home with them. A somnambulist is someone who walks in his sleep. And with his film, Jobson indicates that we - the spectators - are the somnambulists. It was us who slept during the run-up to the war and it was our apathy that bears the responsibility for its tragic aftermath. The abyss is staring back at us from the screen so to speak, but ‘The Somnambulists’ is not a piece of sadomasochistic trauma therapy. If anything, it is political in the way it deals with reality. Inspired by the photographer Joanna Kane’s search for a vacuum between life and death, the film juxtaposes the confrontations with the former soldiers with beautiful black-and-white sequences, depicting the life that could have been - and which might still one day return.

Original title The Somnambulists Country UK Year 2011 Running time 97 min.

Production No Bad Films, UK Producer Alan McKenna World Sales / Contact: No Bad Films, UK

SCREENING DATES Empire: Thursday 3/11 17:30 HRS / Cinemateket: Wednesday 9/11 21:45 HRS

DIRECTOR FILMOGRAPHY The Skids Live (2010), The Journey (2009), New Town Killers (2008), CHEM087 (2006, short), A Woman in Winter (2006), The Purifiers (2004), 16 Years of Alcohol (2003)

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Rivers And My Father DIRECTOR: Luo Li

EUROPEAN PREMIERE The surprise ending is usually the domain of fiction, but with his dazzlingly intelligent film, Chinese filmmaker Luo Li demonstrates that even documentaries can benefit from turning everything upside down at the very end. During a visit to his family in China, the director was given a USB stick with his father’s memoirs and decided to make them into a film. The result is a dreamingly beautiful work, which in a series of small, poetic vignettes tells the story of twentieth century China as seen through the eyes of a small family. So far, the film lives up to all the aspirations of ‘arthouse’ cinema. But when Luo Li towards the end of the film shows his aging father the beautiful black-and-white images he has gotten from the anecdotes, the film suddenly takes an unexpected turn when his father has a few suggestions and changes to be made...

‘Rivers And My Father’ may be a quiet reflection on the relationship of human memory to history - but it is also a loving and selfironic critique of the lacking popular appeal of art films, and it is the elegant resulting execution that makes the film unique.

An unmissable must-see for every artist - and for everyone who happens to be related to one!

Original title Rivers And My Father Country China Year 2010 Running time 75 min.

Production Luo Li Producer Luo Li & Lesley Loksi Chan World Sales / Contact: Luo Li, Canada

SCREENING DATES DOX:CLUB i Teater Grob: Tuesday 8/11 16:30 HRS / Grand: Thursday 10/11 19:30 HRS / Husets Biograf: Saturday 12/11 16:30 HRS

DIRECTOR FILMOGRAPHY I Went to the Zoo the Other Day (2009). Short works: Fly (2004), Ornithology (2005)

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It’s The Earth Not The Moon DIRECTOR: Gonçalo Tocha

Two strangers arrive at Europe’s southern-most point, a Portuguese island named Corvo which is inhabited by 440 people. The director Gonçalo Tocha and his cinematographer are quickly accepted by - and soon become friends with - the local inhabitants, who turn out to have plenty of cock-and-bull stories up their sleeves. Here, people have lived off the earth and their craftsmanship as long as anyone can remember. Corvo has been self-sufficient for centuries, and in spite of its low population, the island has no less than seven political parties - and the anarchists and communists are on a roll! The mayor is interviewed for the local TV station about the ‘economic situation’ on the island, and one is left clutching ones head over how many things that can actually happen on such a small piece of rock. The years pass by, and meanwhile the passing of days can be read from the special, soft light that is reflected by the sea. ‘It’s the Earth, Not the Moon’ is intimate and likeable like few other films, and even if it loses its semi-anthropological project from view already during the first scene in favor of myths and daydreams, it is all but starry-eyed. And yes, it is quite long, but it does not feel like it - quite the contrary.

Original title É na terra não é na lua Country Portugal Year 2011 Running time 183 min.

Production Gonçalo Tocha & Barca13 Producer Gonçalo Tocha World Sales / Contact: Goncalo Tocha, Portugal

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Friday 4/11 21:00 HRS / Cinemateket: Thursday 10/11 18:15 HRS

DIRECTOR FILMOGRAPHY Balaou (2007)

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Shock Head Soul DIRECTOR: Simon Pummell

When the middle-aged judge Daniel Paul Schreber started receiving messages from God in the late 19th century, the message was that he was turning into a woman and that he could save the cosmos only by submiiting himself to God’s plans. Thus begun nine years in padded cells and straitjackets in all sorts of institutions.

But it also led to the book ‘Memoirs of my Mental Illness’ (1903), which is today read as a piece of uncensored ‘art brut’ literature, dictated via a ball-shaped typewriter directly from the subconscious - an apparatus which in one of Shock Head Soul’s unforgettable scenes splits in half and turns into humming electric jellyfish.

Simon Pummel’s docu-dramatic reconstruction of Schreber’s psychosis is not just a deeply fascinating study of the modern history of madness. Real, contemporary psychiatrists dressed in distinguished 19th century costumes testify in Schreber’s court case from the vantage point of our own time. But at the same time his visions are staged in pure, hallucinatory and hyper-stylised tableaux, that simply have to be seen to be believed. Psychology took on a new direction after ‘Memoirs’. The same can be said about films that take a creative approach to reality after ‘Shock Head Soul’. The dutch actor Hugo Kooschijn is nothing less than brilliant as Schreber.

Original title Shock Head Soul Country UK, Netherlands Year 2011 Running time 86 min.

Production Hot Property Production; Illumination Films, Serious Film, Submarine Producer Janine Marmot, Femke Wolting & Bruno Felix World Sales / Contact: Hot Property Films, UK

SCREENING DATES Empire: Saturday 5/11 17:30 HRS / Cinemateket: Wednesday 9/11 21:30 HRS / Cinemateket: Sunday 13/11 16:30 HRS

DIRECTOR FILMOGRAPHY Bodysong (2003). Short works: Stop for a Minute (2001), Blinded by Light (2000), Ray Gun Fun (1998), Heartache (1996), Evolution (1996), Butcher’s Hook (1996), Digital Baby (1995), Rose Red (1994), Temptation of Sainthood (2003), Cupid (2002), Stain (1992), Secret Joy of Falling Angels (1992)

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The Obscurantist and his Lineage DIRECTOR: Karel Vachek

INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE Seeing ‘The Obscurantist and his Lineage’ is like travelling through the brain of a nuclear physicist interested in theology and under the influence of psychedelic drugs. The film is about alien civilisations living among us here on earth. Nothing less. But Vachek’s work is more than a documentary version of ‘X Files’. It is an examination of how we make the world provide meaning to us, of the waferthin border between belief and institutionalised religion, and of everything that is on the margins of our knowledge. Like a drunk man on a limp tightrope, the gigantic pipe-smoking Karel Vachek miraculously balances across the precipice of existence armed with quantum mechanics, religious books and philosophical ideas.

En route, he meets people like Barack Obama and the Pope on his visit to Prague, the mysteriologist Erich von Däniken and a biologist who has been attacked by the invisible Mongolian death snake! The Obscurantist shares both its length and subject matter with Peter Mettler’s masterpiece ‘Gambling, Gods and LSD’, but Vachek’s humour, crazy ideas and distinctive world view lends the work an energy that we have to go back to the Czech new wave and Makavajev’s work about the mysteries of the organisms to find equals to. A mysterious, magical and unequalled trip.

Original title Tmár a jeho rod Country Czech Repuclic Year 2011 Running time 199 min.

Producer Radim Procházka World Sales / Contact: PRODUKCE RADIM PROCHAZKA, Czech Republic

SCREENING DATES Husets Biograf: Saturday 5/11 20:30 HRS / Dagmar: Saturday 12/11 19:00 HRS

DIRECTOR FILMOGRAPHY Selected filmography: Závi, the Prince of Pornofolk Under the Influence of Griffith’s Intolerance and Tati’s Monsineur Hulot’s Holiday or the Establition and Doom of Czechoslovakia (1918 - 1992), Who will watch the watchman? Dalibor, or the key to uncle Tom’s cabin (2002), Bohemia Docta or The Labyrinth of the World and the Lust-house of the Heart (A Divine Comedy) (2000)

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HU Enigma DIRECTOR: Pedro Urano & Joana Traub Csekö

WORLD PREMIERE Cut from a microscopic camera deep down in the throat of a hospital patient to the small subterranean corridors under the enormous building - and the premise is set. If Lars von Trier’s ‘The Kingdom’ was a metaphor for society, then the university hospital in ‘HU Enigma’ is a body. A body exposed to threatening cellular transformations. But there is still life in the corridors.

At least in the one wing of the gargantuan building which is still in use. And for each corner one turns around in its interior one runs into new takes on how the patient should be cured. The 2,300 employees, the patients, architects, dynamite experts and the directing duo Pedro Urano & Joana Traub Csekö - all of them have a relationship to ‘HU’, which was erected under the megalomaniac military regime as a utopian prestige project. Only the camera’s own perspective alternates between an objective distance with pure and architectural images, and a strangely independent existence which assumes a whole new life as the film progresses. ‘No place is as complex as a hospital,’ as the director puts it. The ending is a sight in itself.

Original title HU Country Brazil Year 2011 Running time 75 min.

Production Alice Filmes Producer Samantha Capideville World Sales / Contacts Kfofo Productions

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Saturday 5/11 17:15 HRS / Cinemateket: Tuesday 8/11 21:30 HRS / Cinemateket: Sunday 13/11 14:30 HRS

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Ballroom Dancer DIRECTOR: Christian Bonke & Andreas Koefoed

WORLD PREMIERE The former world champion in Latin American dancing, Slavik Kryklyvyy, is a resolute man. Ten years ago he was among the world elite of dancing. Today, he is setting out to re-conquer his place on the polished floorboards despite the fact that he is marked by his age, suffering from a serious hip injury, and has an uncontrollable temperament that has scared off all of his former dance partners.

His latest dance partner (and girlfriend), Anna, is meant to help him achieve his goal. With her, his dogged determination and a thoroughly exercised body, Slavik sets off on a journey towards the stars. But as the dream of regaining a place in the limelight seems to drift further and further away, Slavik’s temperament starts to sizzle, and his relationship is put to the test. Slavik is ready to pay the price, for what is love good for if you cannot fulfil the dreams of your life? We are witnessing the drama from the first row, where Slavik’s is fighting his own inner demons on the dance floor. ‘Ballroom Dancer’ provides us with a unique look at the dance world thrown into the bargain, complete with glamour, glitter, Brylcreem hair and thick layers of makeup. The question is if Slavik can keep his composure and dance his way out of the crisis he finds himself in.

Original title Ballroom Dancer Country Denmark Year 2011 Running time 85 min.

Production Danish Documentary Producer Jakob Jønck & Sigrid Dyekjær World Sales / Contact: Danish Documentary Production, Denmark

SCREENING DATES Koncerthuset i DR Byen: Tuesday 1/11 20:00 HRS / Dagmar: Sunday 6/11 19:00 HRS / Cinemateket: Wednesday 9/11 19:30 HRS / Dagmar: Friday 11/11 12:00 HRS

DIRECTOR FILMOGRAPHY Andreas Koefoed: Albert’s Winter (CPH:DOX 2009 - Danish:dox Award Winner), A Day in the Smoke (2008), 12 toner ned (2008), Beg, Borrow or Steal (2006), Storebror Albert (2005). Christian Bonke: Roskilde (2008, co-dir.)

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NEW:VISION AWARD

Photo by: Marianna Mørkøre & Rannvá Káradóttir

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 – 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.

This year we are presenting a NEW:VISION EXPANDED programme of installations and a two-day ART:FILM Symposium at the Royal Art Academy, dedicated to the exchange of experiences and contacts between artists and professionals from the worlds of art and cinema (see the separate chapter in the catalogue).

NEW:VISION AWARD is a cash prize of 3,000 Euros.

Low Definition Control - Malfunctions #0 DIRECTOR: Michael Palm

INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE Science Fiction or ‘science fact’? Michael Palm’s dizzyingly ambitious and monumentally dystopian work discusses the politics of the visible in contrasty black-and-white Cinemascope images made specifically for the unique space of the cinema. Visual media as an instrument for social control is a basic pillar in the discourse of the ‘politics of security’ in the 21st century, which concurrently with the advance of technology weaves power and visibility closer together into an impenetrable matrix. Over the course of seven chapters and against a neo-futuristic background of urban noir, Palm lets a lineup of experts on everything from social sciences to neurophysiology put sober and competent words to where western society is headed. From brain scans and graphical patterns to behavioural psychology and ethics - and with a refreshing critique of both pop paranoia slogans and empty optimism. Either way, one becomes much wiser and possibly even learns to see in the dark. ‘Low Definition Control - Malfunctions #0’ is a visionary and sharply conceived film - and an aesthetic triumph.

Original title Low Definition Control - Malfunctions #0 Country Austria Year 2011 Running time 95 min.

Production hammelfilm Producer Johannes Hammel World Sales / Contact: Sixpackfilms, Austria

SCREENING DATES Grand: Thursday 3/11 21:30 HRS / Grand: Thursday 10/11 21:30 HRS / Vester Vov Vov: Saturday 12/11 19:00 HRS

DIRECTOR FILMOGRAPHY Laws of Physics (2008), Body Trails (2008),Mozart Sells (The Mozart Minute 02) (2006), Sea Concrete Human - Malfunctions #1 (2001)

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Pareidolia DIRECTOR: Saskia Olde Wolbers

world premiere ‘Pareidolia’ has as its narrative a fictional take on the situation leading up to the creation of the book ‘Zen in the Art of Archery’,

by Eugen Herrigel. A popular book set in Japan in the 1930s that created a cult following in Europe during the post-war years. The author’s interpretation of Zen centres around an event he observed while living in japan, the shooting of two arrows in a darkened hall by his eccentric archery master, Awa Kenzo. In Herrigel’s book the master then exclaimed; ‘It, the Divine, has shot!’ In the book ‘Shots in the Dark’, Yamada Shoji questions Herrigal’s account, believing that his conviction was formed by a linguistic misunderstanding between the German professor and the Japanese master, due to the absence of the translator. ‘Pareidolia’ is told from the fictional point of view of the translator and his alter-ego, a bird, and their musings over hunting versus Zen archery and the creation of the popular book. When asked to retranslate the book into Japanese, his character questions subjectivity, translation, and belief. The title points to the need for caution where stories are involved: Pareidolia refers to the tendency of human perception to discover meaningful pictures in random structures. The film’s visuals are shot inside a model set of a university lecture theatre, an archery hall and various traditional Japanese interiors, alternated by animatronic birds drinking from dripping plants. The sound track was composed by Daniel Pemberton using various instruments alongside a taishogoto.’ (Saskia Olde Wolbers)

Original title Pareidolia Year 2011 Running time 12 min.

World Sales / Contact: Maureen Paley Gallery, UK

SCREENING DATES Grand: Saturday 5/11 18:30 HRS / Grand: Friday 11/11 19:00 HRS

DIRECTOR FILMOGRAPHY Saskia Olde Wolbers: Selected video works: Deadline(2007), Trailer (2005), Interloper (2003), Placebo (2002), Kilowatt Dynasty(2000)

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Il se peut que la beauté ait renforcé notre résolution - Masao Adachi DIRECTOR: Philippe Grandrieux

Philippe Grandrieux is one of that rare breed of directors who consistently strive for the impossible. One of the few others is called Masao Adachi, and with him in front of the camera, Grandrieux redefines the possibilities of the portrait film. Adachi decided to become a filmmaker after reading André Breton’s surrealist manifesto. But if the struggle for freedom is the defining project of surrealism, the 71-year-old Japanese avant-garde director is preoccupied just as much by the struggle itself as he is by the strenuously won freedom. Adachi is one of the most radically political, uncompromising and headstrong filmmakers of his generation. But even if one has not already had the chance to see one of his rarely screened films, there are nonetheless all sorts of reasons for spending an evening in his company. Grandrieux, who was an Artist in Focus at CPH:DOX 2009, has produced a congenial portrait which is more about making radical choices, and about thinking in and not least acting through images. Grandrieux’s typically pitch-black and atmospheric pictorial universe transforms the cinema into a psychological ‘dark room’ that overcomes the limitations of the medium to expand the spectator’s range of experience. ‘Revolution is also an image. The question is, how one turns that image into reality.’ (Masao Adachi)

Original title Il se peut que la beauté ait renforcé notre résolution - Masao Adachi Country France Year 2011 Running time 73 min.

Production Epileptic Producer Annick Lemonnier World Sales / Contact: Epileptic, France

SCREENING DATES Grand: Saturday 5/11 18:30 HRS / Grand: Friday 11/11 19:00 HRS

DIRECTOR FILMOGRAPHY Un lac (2009), La vie nouvelle (2002), Sombre (1998), Retour à Sarajevo (1995), Gert Jan Theunisse (1993). Selected videography: Met (2009), L’arrière saison (2009), Grenoble (2006). Artist in Focus at CPH:DOX 2009

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Sisters!

DIRECTOR: Petra Bauer

WORLD PREMIERE ‘Sisters!’ is the result of a collaboration between Swedish artist Petra Bauer and ‘Southall Black Sisters’ - a radical, feminist organisation based in London, which has fought for the improvement of social and political rights for women from various minorities since 1979. The film was shot during the week leading up to the sisters’ 30-year anniversary, and has the form of an observational documentary: the women answer emergency calls in Indian and English, record reports of violence, fight against cost cuts. The violent events that they tackle take place offscreen as a sad statistic of how much there still is left to fight for. But Petra Bauer has also been to the basement and dug up both banners and paroles from the early days of the organisation. Artefacts that are now dusted off and discussed by the participants. How does today’s feminism relate to its own history? And which new challenges are faced by Southall Black Sisters and their fellow sisters all over the world? Her interest in the sober formal language of documentary places Petra Bauer among those of her colleagues, for whom political art is less about paroles than about creating a space for reflection and debate.

Original title Sisters!

Country Sweden, UK Year 2011 Running time 72 min.

Production The Showroom, Picture This Producer Petra Bauer World Sales / Contact: The Showroom, UK

SCREENING DATES Dagmar: Sunday 6/11 14:20 HRS / Dagmar: Sunday 13/11 21:30 HRS

DIRECTOR FILMOGRAPHY Conversations: Stina Lundberg Dabrowski meets Petra Bauer (2010), Read the Masks. Tradition Is Not Given. (co-dir., 2009), Rana (2007), Der Fall Joseph (2003)

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Lung Neaw Visits His Neighbours DIRECTOR: Rirkrit Tiravanija

It does not look like it at first sight, but great changes are slowly taking place out in the lush forests and damp rice fields, where the 60-year-old Lung Neaw is wandering around, helping out and visiting his neighbours. And one is with him in every moment of the New York-based artist Rirkrit Tiravanija’s first feature which in its very own, wonderfully simple way, was improvised with no other script than the small and large events of the moment. Lung Neaw eats, rests, talks to a monk about the disappearance of the forest: ‘Nature will punish us’. A stray dog and a small child steal the picture. The only comments come in the form of short chapter headings, which hint at the fact that something new will replace the distant civilisation which is nothing but an echo from the rumbling transistor radios. Rirkrit Tiravanija met Lung Neaw when he helped him build a house, and was taken by his friendly calmness and quiet understanding of life as it unfolds, when one lives on the surface of the earth and survives off its fruits. And his film is about living in the moment, as it - firmly rooted in the real - opens itself up to the spaces of the possible.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Thursday 3/11 16:15 HRS / Cinemateket: Saturday 12/11 16:15 HRS

DIRECTOR FILMOGRAPHY Lung Neaw Visits his Neighbours (2011)

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Original title Lung Neaw Country Thailand, Mexico Year 2011 Running time 149 min.

Production Estudio de Produccion Producer Cristian Manzutto & Rirkrit Tiravanija World Sales / Contact: estudio de produccion, Mexico

Accidentes Gloriosos DIRECTOR: Mauro Andrizzi & Marcus Lindeen

A white sports car glides elegantly through the summer night somewhere in Buenos Aires. Behind the steering wheel is a beautiful young couple, whose image is every closet romantic’s dream of pure-bred perfection. The moon is shining outside and everything is happy. Right up to the moment when a fatal crash initiates a chain-reaction of stories, that starts with a car accident and continues on a fabulating and poetic tangent where a zoo, an old pool room and not least a toilet at a sleazy night club set the stage for a series of ‘Glorious Accidents’ - situations, where status quo is suddenly interrupted by something new and hitherto unthinkable. Like in the story of a sick man, who is given the heart of a woman in a transplant and has since been painting the most fantastic pictures. Or the dying mountaineer’s letter to his wife. Or the secretive expert on blow jobs, who according to a myth turns up one hour every year on the other side of a hole in the wall at a sordid urinal in a gay club. Mauro Andrizzi and Marcus Lindeen take the ecstatic, taboos and the spectacular as their starting point and find all three things in a mixture of traffic accidents, fun fairs and sexual excesses. Nonetheless, the only thing that is ferocious about ‘Glorious Accidents’ is its adventurous richness of ideas, and not the pure black-and-white images that so well fit a film where everything is possible.

Original title Accidentes Gloriosos Country Denmark, Argentina, Sweden Year 2011 Running time 58 min.

Production DOX:LAB, Mauro Andrizzi, Marcus Lindeen Producer Tine Fischer & Ivan Granovsky World Sales / Contact: Mono Films, Sweden

SCREENING DATES Gloria: Tuesday 8/11 22:00 HRS / Gloria: Saturday 12/11 18:00 HRS

DIRECTOR FILMOGRAPHY Marcus Lindeen: Regretters (CPH:DOX 2010). Mauro Andrizzi: In the Future (CPH:DOX 2010), Iraqi Short Films (CPH:DOX 2008)

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Vanishing Woman DIRECTOR: Jesper Just & Uruphong Raksasad

WORLD PREMIERE The vanishing point is at the end of a congested main road in Jesper Just and Uruphong Arakasad’s enigmatic ‘Vanishing Woman’. The road is plastered with Thai election posters in glaring colours, and it leads away from the concrete jungle through the suburbs out to a house by the sea, where the waves come flowing in over the beach. In a rickshaw headed for the end of the road, a fat woman is sitting and taking in the surrounding sights which quickly move past her. She exchanges only a few words with the driver en route, and feeds a few small monkeys with corncobs during a break. In other words, things are not as they should be. At least if we are meant to decode the fictional signals that emanate from ‘Vanishing Woman’s carefully composed and evocative Cinemascope images, and which conjure up a world where an invisible drama is taking place offscreen - but where the mysteries are revealing themselves on the surface. An atmospheric and haunting meeting between two great artists.

Original title Vanishing Woman Country Denmark, Thailand Year 2011 Running time 35 min.

Production DOX:LAB, Extra Virgin Producer Tine Fischer, Pimpaka Towira,Chatchai Chaiyont

SCREENING DATES Gloria: Tuesday 8/11 22:00 HRS / Gloria: Saturday 12/11 18:00 HRS

DIRECTOR FILMOGRAPHY Uruphong Raksasad: Agrarian Utopia (CPH:DOX 2009), Stories From the North (2006), March of Time (2001). Jesper Just, selected filmography: Sirens of Chrome (2010), Romantic Delusions (2008), A Voyage in Dwelling (2008), A Room of One’s own (2008), A Question of Silence (2008), Some Draughty Window (2007), A Vicious Undertow (2007), It Will All End In Tears (2006), The Lonely Villa (2004), No Man Is an Island II (2004), Invitation to Love (2003), No Man Is an Island (2002), Montag (2000).

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5,000 Feet is the Best DIRECTOR: Omer Fast

world premiere Omer Fast has been represented in New Vision several times, but never with a work as ambitious as his most recent installation piece â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;5,000 Feet is the Bestâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;. An interview with an anonymous American drone pilot in Afghanistan is interwoven with a fictional interview/cross-examination at a mysterious hotel in Las Vegas that could easily be the setting of a spy movie made for TV. The interrogation is played out again and again in a disquieting loop with slight variations, like a suppressed trauma that threatens to return with a vengeance. In a parallel chapter, a family on holiday loses its way in a warzone, and find themselves as unwilling participants in a game of appearances. The impenetrable mix of fact and fiction is not just characteristic for Omer Fast, but for the entire western engagement in the Middle East during the past decade - and not least for the images that are looped back to the TV screens of our living rooms.

Original title 5,000 Feet is the Best Country US Year 2011 Running time 30 min.

Producer Mary Pat Bentel, Daniel Desure World Sales / Contact: GB Agency, France

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Monday 7/11 16:30 HRS / Cinemateket: Friday 11/11 18:00 HRS

DIRECTOR FILMOGRAPHY Selected filmography: Nostalgia I - III (CPH:DOX 2010), Looking Pretty for God (CPH:DOX 2008), De Grote Boodschap (2007), Godville (2005)

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Civil Society DIRECTOR: Michelle Dizon

INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE ‘Civil Society’ tries with a hypnotic effect to grasp two traumatic events of modern western society - the riots in Los Angeles in 1992 and in Paris in 2005 - by giving them a cinematic form. But if a traumatic experience is always linked to an experience of loss and absence, Michelle Dizon turns this limitation into her subjective starting point. The film is a project, which itself has (film) historic roots in the essayistic and experimental documentary tradition from Chris Marker, Alain Resnais and Godard, but which Dizon in her installation expands in a tremendous triptych. The film consists of three separate images, which are alternately juxtaposed and continuations of each other (and which are here shown as a singlechannel piece). Dizon’s whispering voice-over is complemented by a deep drone soundtrack, and together they transcend the work’s reference to specific cases, and raise it up to an anthropological and slightly melancholy - bird’s-eye perspective. Housing blocks, railroads, motorways: the urban space is the place where both the real and the invisible battles for social identity are fought. ‘Civil Society’ gives them a form, which is both political and personal, philosophical and cinematic, panoramic and minimalistic. A work that is contemporary in every way.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Monday 7/11 16:30 HRS / Cinemateket: Friday 11/11 18:00 HRS

DIRECTOR FILMOGRAPHY The Great Wall; Objets d’Irak; My Child, Anak

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Original title Civil Society Country US Year 2011 Running time 38 min.

Production United States & France Producer Michelle Dizon World Sales / Contact: Michelle Dizon, USA

Pieces And Love All To Hell DIRECTOR: Dominic Gagnon

WORLD PREMIERE Like his previous work ‘RIP in Pieces America’ (CPH:DOX 2009), Dominic Gagnon’s brand-new and ultra-intense collage film consists entirely of more or less anonymous webcam clips, which due to their controversial or explicit nature have been flagged and subsequently removed from platforms like YouTube. But this time, it is the women that make their voices heard. The tone is still hard as nails and in-your-face though, and the webcam still functions as both a pulpit and a confession booth for furious Americans.

Overpopulation, civil war and a near future where everyone is closest to themselves are some of the gloomy prospects in ‘Pieces and Love all to Hell’. That is, before the censorship shut up the vociferous women and thereby raised those questions that have proven to be so tragically topical in Scandinavia recently. Who decides what one can think and say? What is paranoia, if one knows one is right? And does censorship simply pave the way for even more extremism? Gagnon neither comments nor does he point any fingers. But there is sadly no doubt that his project is as topical as ever.

Original title Pieces And Love All To Hell Country Canada Year 2011 Running time 60 min.

Production Film 900 Producer Dominic Gagnon World Sales / Contact: zéro distribution, Canada

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Friday 4/11 18:30 HRS / Grand: Wednesday 9/11 21:30 HRS / Grand: Saturday 12/11 24:00 HRS

DIRECTOR FILMOGRAPHY Data (2010, CPH:DOX 2011), RIP in Pieces America (CPH:DOX 2009), l’Éspace de la Société (2009), Haute Vitesse (2007), Blockbuster History (2005), Total Recall / Réanimétrie (2004),The Matrix (2004), The Making of a Cobra (2004), Sois Fidèle et Sincère (2004), ISO (2002), Du Moteur à Explosion (2000), Anchorage (1998), Beluga Crash Blues (1997), Parapluie Bomb City (1996)

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A Guiding Light DIRECTOR: Anton Vidokle & Liam Gillick

international premiere The first episode of Anton Vidokle and Liam Gillick’s series about ’the state of the art’ – and its institutions, not least – is set in a dark television studio in New York, where eight participating curators and art critics discuss ’rehearsal’ as curatorial concept.

The session, however, is formally structured like an episode of the 1950’s soap ‘Guiding Light’ and plays out for multiple cameras and an image divided into a split screen. An awkward silence fills the gaps where the commercial breaks would have been, and the discussion is transmitted to us in a sequence where sound and image alternate between facilitating and blocking our understanding of the demanding, theoretical discourse. ’A Guiding Light’ is much less an exercise in absurdist mockery, though, than it is a clever and very welcome attempt at re-integrating theory to art. A ’talk show’ in the literal sense of the word..

Original title A Guiding Light Year 2011 Running time 23 min.

SCREENING DATES Husets Biograf: Sunday 6/11 20:00 HRS / Cinemateket: Friday 11/11 19:30 HRS

DIRECTOR FILMOGRAPHY Anton Vidokle: New York Conversations (2010). Liam Gillick: 1848, Erasmus in Kassel, Everything Goes Good, MuKHA Installation, NICC Antwerp

66 / NEW:VISION AWARD

Führung DIRECTOR: René Frölke

INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE It is October 2008, the financial crisis is at its worst, and Germany’s Federal President Horst Köhler is guided through the corridors of the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design HfG by its dean, the philosopher Peter Sloterdijk. With admirable ingenuity, patience and - one is tempted to add - an impressive ability to keep a straight face, the young artist René Frölke uses fittingly cool black-andwhite imagery to portray how the two systems, art and power, try to approach each other. Already the title ‘Führung’ (German for both ‘guided tour’ and ‘leadership’) captures the ambiguity of the social play, and the film can also be seen as a unique historical document and as a concentrated and perceptive power and system analysis, which is reminiscent of Frölke’s late compatriot, the sociologist Niklas Luhmann. Either way, the film is guaranteed to provoke many chuckles, no matter what perspective you see it from.

Original title Führung Country Germany Year 2011 Running time 37 min.

Production Joon Film Producer Ann Carolin Renninger World Sales / Contact: Joon Film, Germany

SCREENING DATES Husets Biograf: Sunday 6/11 20:00 HRS / Cinemateket: Friday 11/11 19:30 HRS

DIRECTOR FILMOGRAPHY Ropinsalmi (2008), Documentaries Jour de Grève (2007), Der Gast (2007), Past Remains Silent (2004)

NEW:VISION AWARD / 67

Prinzip Zufall DIRECTOR: Romeo Grünfelder

INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE When does something happen at random? And is an event still coincidental if we percieve it as being the opposite? The German psycho-physicist Dr. Johannes Hagel illustrates what he himself calls the ‘contingency principle’ in a remarkable experiment with a model train linked to a computer, which - if his hypothesis turns out to be right - will help us to understand that feeling of predetermination that one can have when something unexpected happens. Confused? No reason to panic. The bearded professor explains his ideas in a way where one actually understands him.

But at the same time, a parallel plot takes place to a disturbing effect. His football-loving son is wandering around in something that could be a parallel dimension. Everything is basically possible in Romeo Grünfelder’s enigmatic and bizarrely suspenseful film, which turns mathematical and physical states such as causality and the relationship between independent systems into a question of editing and pictorial style. The grainy and saturated Super 8 images are paradoxically shot in Cinemascope, which makes it appear even less grounded in a specific time and place. The elliptic plot is trimmed like a thriller where nothing happens by coincidence.

Or does it? Either way, ‘Prinzip Zufall’ is made of the stuff that causes sleepless nights.

Original title Prinzip Zufall Country Germany Year 2011 Running time 25 min.

Production Felderfilm Producer Martin Bautz World Sales / Contact: Felderfilm, Germany

SCREENING DATES Husets Biograf: Sunday 6/11 20:00 HRS / Cinemateket: Friday 11/11 19:30 HRS

DIRECTOR FILMOGRAPHY Naissance d’un objet (2008), [desi’re] - The Goldstein Reels (2006), Rallye (2004), Sharzadeh Scampolo (1997), Jimmy Jenseits (1993)

68 / NEW:VISION AWARD

The Pilgrim’s Progress From This World to That Which is to Come DIRECTOR: John Price

WORLD PREMIERE A sight of the rare and most precious kind. Scenes from the harbour in Rotterdam have been turned into a photo-chemical trip to another planet in the hands of John Price, a filmmaker in the basic sense of the word. Price treats his soundless recordings right down to the physical basis of the film material, and the result is - as always - out of this world. ’The Pilgrim’s Progress From This World to That Which is to Come’ alternates between stasis (the towering modernist structures of the surrounding harbor and the subway), and motion (traffic and the movement of bodies through inhuman spaces as captured by the camera in frenetical movement). For anyone who has walked the damp and cold strip between the Cinerama and the (new) Lantaren in the middle of the winter, John Price’s beautiful new film will be something of a déjà-vu, with all the connotations of a strange and ghostly presence intended. For anyone else, a cinematic experience beyond words.

Original title The Pilgrim’s Progress From This World to That Which is to Come Country Canada Year 2011 Running time 6 min.

World Sales / Contact: John Price, Canada

SCREENING DATES DOX:CLUB i Teater Grob: Wednesday 9/11 16:00 HRS / Husets Biograf: Saturday 12/11 18:00 HRS

DIRECTOR FILMOGRAPHY Selected filmograpy: domashnyee kino / home movie (CPH:DOX 2010), The Sounding Lines are Obsolete (CPH:DOX 2009), Sea Series # 1 - 10 (2008-2011), Camp #1 - 3 (2007), The Boy Who Died (2007), Intermittent Movement (2006), The Almanac (2005), Passages (2003)

NEW:VISION AWARD / 69

Magma DIRECTOR: Marianna Mørkøre & Rannvá Káradóttir

WORLD PREMIERE Film 1 out of 4: The harsh and breathtaking nature of the Faroe Islands provides the backdrop for the two young artists Marianna Mørkøre and Rannvá Káradóttir’s supernaturally beautiful blackand-white pictorial poem, which presents itself with mysterious tableaux like shadows from another world. The luminous sky, the ragged rocks and the grass-clad expanses form a magnificent stage, where figures dressed in black and with pale faces perform an enigmatic ritual, where a small girl in a dress dances through a luminous haze of light. There are elements of both mythology and science fiction in the visionary work by the Faroese artist duo, which is devised as a cycle with eight parts, and we are hereby presenting the “half-way premiere” of the first four. With their common background in dance, performance, fashion studies and not least photography and film, it is not surprising that this is a visually gifted work, which both subscribes to and at the same time renews experimental filmmaking’s great tradition of studying movement and physicality. The style is unmistakably nordic, and very modern, as the ghost-like landscapes float across the screen against an underplayed ambient / drone soundtrack.

Original title Magma Country Faroe Islands Year 2010 Running time 5 min.

Production Marianna Mørkøre & Rannvá Káradóttir Producer Marianna Mørkøre & Rannvá Káradóttir World Sales / Contact: Marianna Mørkøre & Rannvá Káradóttir, Faroe Islands

SCREENING DATES DOX:CLUB i Teater Grob: Wednesday 9/11 16:00 HRS / Husets Biograf: Saturday 12/11 18:00 HRS

DIRECTOR FILMOGRAPHY Magma, Amohr, Marran, Memo (2011)

70 / NEW:VISION AWARD

Amohr DIRECTOR: Marianna Mørkøre & Rannvá Káradóttir

WORLD PREMIERE Film 2 out of 4: The harsh and breathtaking nature of the Faroe Islands provides the backdrop for the two young artists Marianna Mørkøre and Rannvá Káradóttir’s supernaturally beautiful blackand-white pictorial poem, which presents itself with mysterious tableaux like shadows from another world. The luminous sky, the ragged rocks and the grass-clad expanses form a magnificent stage, where figures dressed in black and with pale faces perform an enigmatic ritual, where a small girl in a dress dances through a luminous haze of light. There are elements of both mythology and science fiction in the visionary work by the Faroese artist duo, which is devised as a cycle with eight parts, and we are hereby presenting the “half-way premiere” of the first four. With their common background in dance, performance, fashion studies and not least photography and film, it is not surprising that this is a visually gifted work, which both subscribes to and at the same time renews experimental filmmaking’s great tradition of studying movement and physicality. The style is unmistakably nordic, and very modern, as the ghost-like landscapes float across the screen against an underplayed ambient / drone soundtrack.

Original title Amohr Country Faroe Islands Year 2011 Running time 3 min.

Production Marianna Mørkøre & Rannvá Káradóttir Producer Marianna Mørkøre & Rannvá Káradóttir World Sales / Contact: Marianna Mørkøre & Rannvá Káradóttir, Faroe Islands

SCREENING DATES DOX:CLUB i Teater Grob: Wednesday 9/11 16:00 HRS / Husets Biograf: Saturday 12/11 18:00 HRS

DIRECTOR FILMOGRAPHY Magma, Amohr, Marran, Memo (2011)

NEW:VISION AWARD / 71

Marran DIRECTOR: Marianna Mørkøre & Rannvá Káradóttir

WORLD PREMIERE Film 3 out of 4: The harsh and breathtaking nature of the Faroe Islands provides the backdrop for the two young artists Marianna Mørkøre and Rannvá Káradóttir’s supernaturally beautiful blackand-white pictorial poem, which presents itself with mysterious tableaux like shadows from another world. The luminous sky, the ragged rocks and the grass-clad expanses form a magnificent stage, where figures dressed in black and with pale faces perform an enigmatic ritual, where a small girl in a dress dances through a luminous haze of light. There are elements of both mythology and science fiction in the visionary work by the Faroese artist duo, which is devised as a cycle with eight parts, and we are hereby presenting the “half-way premiere” of the first four. With their common background in dance, performance, fashion studies and not least photography and film, it is not surprising that this is a visually gifted work, which both subscribes to and at the same time renews experimental filmmaking’s great tradition of studying movement and physicality. The style is unmistakably nordic, and very modern, as the ghost-like landscapes float across the screen against an underplayed ambient / drone soundtrack.

SCREENING DATES DOX:CLUB i Teater Grob: Wednesday 9/11 16:00 HRS / Husets Biograf: Saturday 12/11 18:00 HRS

DIRECTOR FILMOGRAPHY Magma, Amohr, Marran, Memo (2011)

72 / NEW:VISION AWARD

Original title Marran Country Faroe Islands Year 2011 Running time 3 min.

World Sales / Contact: Marianna Mørkøre & Rannvá Káradóttir, Faroe Islands

Memo DIRECTOR: Marianna Mørkøre & Rannvá Káradóttir

WORLD PREMIERE Film 4 out of 4: The harsh and breathtaking nature of the Faroe Islands provides the backdrop for the two young artists Marianna Mørkøre and Rannvá Káradóttir’s supernaturally beautiful blackand-white pictorial poem, which presents itself with mysterious tableaux like shadows from another world. The luminous sky, the ragged rocks and the grass-clad expanses form a magnificent stage, where figures dressed in black and with pale faces perform an enigmatic ritual, where a small girl in a dress dances through a luminous haze of light. There are elements of both mythology and science fiction in the visionary work by the Faroese artist duo, which is devised as a cycle with eight parts, and we are hereby presenting the “half-way premiere” of the first four. With their common background in dance, performance, fashion studies and not least photography and film, it is not surprising that this is a visually gifted work, which both subscribes to and at the same time renews experimental filmmaking’s great tradition of studying movement and physicality. The style is unmistakably nordic, and very modern, as the ghost-like landscapes float across the screen against an underplayed ambient / drone soundtrack.

Original title Memo Country Faroe Islands Year 2011 Running time 5 min.

World Sales / Contact: Marianna Mørkøre & Rannvá Káradóttir, Faroe Islands

SCREENING DATES DOX:CLUB i Teater Grob: Wednesday 9/11 16:00 HRS / Husets Biograf: Saturday 12/11 18:00 HRS

DIRECTOR FILMOGRAPHY Magma, Amohr, Marran, Memo (2011)

NEW:VISION AWARD / 73

The Art of Catching DIRECTOR: Jessica Bardsley

WORLD PREMIERE Florida’s impoverished marshlands with their animal kingdom of tortoises, flamingoes, crocodiles and a fabled species of monkey are the setting for two parallel stories, which are subtly woven together across ages and narrative voices. Death is apparently the only permanent figure in Jessica Bardsley’s fabulating and partly autobiographical Southern Gothic story, whose wild narrative threads emanate from a real historic and geographical reality, but continues as an imaginary febrile dream, where a mysterious ‘Bird Woman’ joins a photographer on an anthropological expedition into the damp depths of the marshlands. The whole thing starts on a veranda with the grandmother, who finds a box with old photographs with unknown faces, and leads up to an alarming realisation: ‘It must be true that we invented anthropology to house our details. And details make not knowing feel more comfortable.’

Bardsley illustrates the two threads of the story with respectively old black-and-white footage of life in the marshlands where a small worker family lives off collecting mussels, and more recent 16mm colour footage. The aim is not to have the two ages contrast each other, but to remind us where myths come from.

Original title The Art of Catching Country US Year 2011 Running time 35 min.

Production Jessica Bardsley Producer Jessica Bardsley World Sales / Contact: Jessica Bardsley, USA

SCREENING DATES DOX:CLUB i Teater Grob: Wednesday 9/11 16:00 HRS / Husets Biograf: Saturday 12/11 18:00 HRS

DIRECTOR FILMOGRAPHY Land of Mourning Calm (2010), The Commoners (2009), Oceanography (2008), Emily Facts (2007)

74 / NEW:VISION AWARD

Red Dawn DIRECTOR: João Pedro Rodrigues & João Rui Guerra da Mata

B-movie queen and queer icon Jane Russell, a lone stiletto, and a mermaid in an aquarium are the surprising stars of the blood-dripping ‘Alvorada Vermelha’, which brings the surrealists’ delirious ambitions for the film medium into the industrialised world of the 21st century. Through sober observation and baroque brutality the film confronts us with the course of a day from early morning to late at night at ‘the red market’: a butchery in Macao, the former Portuguese colony, which was returned to China in 1999.

The workers clock in at the meat factory and perform their duties without any passion, surrounded by a flood of whole and half fish, decapitated chickens and a net full of toads facing an unknown but no doubt grim destiny. ‘Alvorada Vermelha’ is shocking and confrontational, but also makes do without dialogue in favor of long, static takes. And from there stems its acute sense of immediacy, as if someone had removed the invisible filter which transforms film images into words. João Pedro Rodrigues and João Rui Guerra da Mata’s film is a sublime experience which will linger on in one’s inner eye. Our expectations for their coming feature-length documentary are great.

Original title Alvorada Vermelha Country Portugal Year 2011 Running time 20 min.

Production Blackmaria Producer João Figueiras World Sales / Contact: Blackmaria, Portugal

SCREENING DATES DOX:CLUB i Teater Grob: Wednesday 9/11 16:00 HRS / Husets Biograf: Saturday 12/11 18:00 HRS

DIRECTOR FILMOGRAPHY João Pedro Rodrigues: To Die Like Man (2009), China China (2007, short, co-dir.), Two Drifters (2005), O Fantasma (2000), Viagem à Expo (1998). João Rui Guerra da Mata: China China (2007, short co-dir.)

NEW:VISION AWARD / 75

Straight Hustle DIRECTOR: Ben & Josh Safdie

WORLD PREMIERE The Brooklyn-based Safdie brothers are back at this year’s festival with a deceivingly simple, but none the less tricky short film recorded in one shot in that documentary of the possibly lowest status: the candid camera! ’Straight Hustle’ is just that: a prank pulled on the least suspecting some afternoon in Downtown Seattle. A young woman is asking strangers for direction on a busy street corner when a man interrupts, claims to be her father, and explains that circumstances have left them out of ticket money for the bus to Portland. Who’s fooling who? The Safdie brothers extract the real and spontaneous from staged events that occur literally in the streets – a strategy that they have refined to great and charming realist effect in their fiction films, but which they here explore as a means of social intervention.

Original title Straight Hustle Country US Year 2011 Running time 7 min.

World Sales / Contact: Red Bucket Films, USA

SCREENING DATES Dagmar: Monday 7/11 21:30 HRS / Husets Biograf: Saturday 12/11 20:00 HRS

DIRECTOR FILMOGRAPHY Selected filmography: Go Get Some Rosemary (aka. Daddy Longlegs, CPH:DOX 2010), John’s Gone (2010), The Pleasure of Being Robbed (Josh Safdie, 2008), The Acquaintances of a Lonely John (Ben Safdie, 2007)

76 / NEW:VISION AWARD

Avalanche DIRECTOR: Keren Cytter

WORLD PREMIERE A disco ball that is accidentially dropped on the floor and smashed to pieces is the reoccuring motif in Keren Cytter’s ‘Avalanche’, a multi-channel work which is here shown sequentially as a single channel piece. The title matches the experience well.

An unpredictable and all-embracing attack on the thoroughly rehearsed rationality that otherwise would have set everything up so nicely. Four parts of narrative are linked together in a melodramatic relay-style soap opera, where the balance of power between the sexes sloshes from one extreme to another. In other words, a caricature, and that is indeed Keren Cytter’s area of excellence. Her one-dimensional characters are cast straight from the imaginary realm of daytime tv, and so are their desires and conflicts. The attitude is playful, anarchic, and fun, while at the same time pointing to the real as the source of the trouble.

Original title Avalanche Country Germany, UK Year 2011 Running time 32 min.

World Sales / Contact: Pilar Corrias Gallery, UK

SCREENING DATES Dagmar: Monday 7/11 21:30 HRS / Husets Biograf: Saturday 12/11 20:00 HRS

DIRECTOR FILMOGRAPHY Selected videography: Video Art Manual (2011), Konstruktion (2010), The Hottest Day of the Year (2010), Peacocks (2009), Four Seasons (2009), Les Ruissellements du diable (2007), Der Spiegel (2006, CPH:DOX 2010)

NEW:VISION AWARD / 77

The Primal Scene DIRECTOR: Joachim Hamou

WORLD PREMIERE The massive immigration to Los Angeles is not just due to LatinAmerican fortune-seekers, but also a large lineup of hopeful artists from all over the world. It is the struggle for recognition of these young middle-class types that the Swedish artist Joachim Hamou soberly observes in what starts out as a minimalist deadpan version of ‘Short Cuts’. After a short time, the film introduces the psychologist Dr. Arthur Janov in a parallel narrative, who invented the controversial primal therapy in the 1960s. The obvious connection between the two layers is not immediately visible in ‘The Primal Scene’s’ indefinable approach between reality and staging. But after a while, the audience realises that they comment on each other, and in the film’s both moving, witty and frightening crescendo, everything runs together in a great scream of pain, which leaves both the film’s protagonists and the audience gasping for air.

The film is shown together with ‘Avalanche’.

SCREENING DATES Dagmar: Monday 7/11 21:30 HRS / Husets Biograf: Saturday 12/11 20:00 HRS

DIRECTOR FILMOGRAPHY The Primal Scene (2011)

78 / NEW:VISION AWARD

Original title The Primal Scene Country Denmark Year 2011 Running time 50 min.

Production Joachim Hamou World Sales / Contacts Joachim Hamou

Self Made DIRECTOR: Gillian Wearing

out of competition ‘Would you like to be in a film? You can play yourself or a fictional character. Call Gillian.’ Out of the hundreds of respondents to an ad that Gillian Wearing placed in newspapers and at a job centre, seven participants were casted for an experiment. An old warehouse is the setting for a social and psychological laboratory, where the seven participants are - one by one - confronted with themselves and the others’ perception of them. The fact that there is a huge difference between these two things is just one of the points of Wearing’s project, where the participants collaborate with a ‘method acting’ coach to stage their own fantasies, desires, hopes, fears and dreams in short vignettes - from Shakespeare’s ‘King Lear’ via revenge for a story of harsh bullying to a wind-swept melodrama in 1950s-style black-and-white. The private and the performative are not two opposite poles for Wearing, whose first feature-length film is an extension of her other works in the fields of video and photography that she has made since he breakthrough in the mid-1990s as a part of a new generation of young British artists. But is it at all possible to reach into a ‘self’ behind the public facade? And do we really want to know what we might find?

Original title Self Made Country UK Year 2010 Running time 87 min.

Production Fly Film Company Producer Lisa Marie Russo, Kate Ogborn & Marc Munden World Sales / Contact: The Festival Agency, France

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Monday 7/11 21:30 HRS / Cinemateket: Saturday 12/11 12:00 HRS

DIRECTOR FILMOGRAPHY Selected videography: Bully (2010), Family History (2006), Drunk (1999), Sacha and Mum (1996), Homage to the Woman With the Bandaged Face Who I Saw Yesterday Down Walworth Road (1995), Confess All on Video (1994)

NEW:VISION AWARD / 79

Carta para Serra DIRECTOR: Lisandro Alonso

out of competition ’Cinema must give its audience a chance to ask questions’, according to Argentinian film mysticist Lisandro Alonso, who continues to be one of the most consistent and original artists within the modern Latin American - and indeed international - film scene. And it is exactly the doubt as to what can be considered real that we are faced with when entering the cinema to see one of his films. This rings true also for his brand new short film ‘Carta para Serra’ which has come into being in a cinematic correspondance between Alonso and his friend, the basque director/dandy/desperado Albert Serra. In a laconic postcard for his fellow filmmaker, Alonso explores the indefinite borderland between documentary and fiction where narratives get lost and disappear like the refrain of a half forgotten ballad. As in his features, the sense of simply ‘being out there’ makes for an almost unreal viewing experience. But it is only when you think you’ve grasped what is going on that everything turns around once again.

Original title Carta para Serra Country Argentina, Spain Year 2011 Running time 23 min.

World Sales / Contact: CCCB Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona, Spain

Alonso’s feature ‘Los Muertos’ (2004) is also screening at CPH:DOX 2011, where Nan Goldin has selected it for her carte blanche film programme.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Sunday 6/11 18:30 HRS / Cinemateket: Saturday 12/11 19:00 HRS

DIRECTOR FILMOGRAPHY Liverpool (2008), Fantasma (2006), Los Muertos (2004, CPH:DOX 2011), La Liberdad (2001)

80 / NEW:VISION AWARD

Lord Worked Wonders in Me DIRECTOR: Albert Serra

out of competition The Basque director Albert Serra travels with his entourage of old friends and hangabouts to the dry fields of La Mancha where Don Quixote lived out his adventures, and where Serra shot ‘Honour of the Knights’ in 2006. In his own words, he is a director who only makes films to capture the gestures, faces and voices of people he likes. With ‘The Lord Worked Wonders in Me’, however, he has also made a film about just this: making films. But it is as far from a dusty, theoretical excursion into the desert of deconstruction and all things ‘meta’ as you could possibly imagine. Landscapes and bodies are the very stuff that Serra’s cinema is made off, and the simple (and often very funny) events take place in front of a static pocket camera. Intoxication and fatigue, a dinner party, dusty roads that pass by under a motorcycle, a postcard for the friend Lisandro Alonso.

Original title El senyor ha fet en mi meravelles Country Spain Year 2011 Running time 146 min.

Producer Artur Tort World Sales / Contact: Andergraun Films, Spain

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Sunday 6/11 18:30 HRS / Cinemateket: Saturday 12/11 19:00 HRS

DIRECTOR FILMOGRAPHY Birdsong (CPH:DOX 2008), Honour of the Knights (2006), Crespià (2003)

NEW:VISION AWARD / 81

NORDIC:DOX AWARD

The best and brightest in non-fiction filmmaking from all over Scandinavia is nominated for CPH:DOXâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new NORDIC:DOX Award.

The selection reflects the diversity and level of ambition on the nordic documentary film scene right now. Not least artistically, in films with a clear vision and a personal touch.

And it is exactly by insisting on the creative take on contemporary reality that the nordic documentaries mark their mark on the international film scene. Many of the nominated films are made by young directors with new ideas and the courage to take chances, and it is this courage that we wish to reward by instigating the NORDIC:DOX Award, which is handed out by an international jury.

If there is a common lesson to be learned from the films it is that things are not always the way they seem at first glance. A valuable lesson that is served with great ingenuity.

NORDIC:DOX Award is a cash prize of 5,000 Euros.

The award is sponsored by Nordic Council of Ministers.

The Will DIRECTOR: Christian Sønderby Jepsen

WORLD PREMIERE Sometimes reality surpasses even the most incredible cockand-bull stories. And Christian Sønderby Jepsen’s tragicomic and warm film about three brothers who inherit a fortune from their grandfather is certainly stranger than fiction. The inheritance is a godsend. Henrik is separated and lives above a tanning salon.

His older brother is struggling to replace heroin with homegrown weed. The younger brother scores straight A’s in school. And then there is the father, who always knows what’s best. Now there are just two obstacles that have to be overcome before the three of them can embark on a permanent vacation: the will, and an aunt who wants all the money for herself. The skeletons are rattling in the closet, and the question is if the brothers can stick together and tackle the necessary confrontations. Each time one turns a page in this wildly unpredictable family saga, totally unexpected and strange details pop up. The story about the three brothers and the millions has more bizarre twists than even the most cunning fiction film, and is simply asking to be remade in Hollywood. Which it no doubt could be, if it was not for the fact that nobody would believe in the story. It is probably the funniest film of the year, but it is also a story which proves that blood is thicker than water, and that true happiness can not be bought with money.

Original title Testamentet Country Denmark Year 2011 Running time 85 min.

Production Copenhagen Bombay Producer Julie E. Pedersen World Sales / Contact: Copenhagen Bombay, Denmark

SCREENING DATES Grand: Friday 4/11 19:00 HRS / Dagmar: Tuesday 8/11 21:30 HRS / Cinemateket: Sunday 13/11 21:30 HRS

DIRECTOR FILMOGRAPHY My Cousin the Pirate (CPH:DOX 2010), Side by Side (CPH:DOX 2008)

84 / NORDIC:DOX AWARD

1/2 Revolution DIRECTOR: Omar Shargawi & Karim El Hakim

January 2011: The Danish-Palestinian film director Omar Shargawi (‘Go With Peace Jamil’ and ‘My Father From Haifa’) has just arrived in Cairo to start shooting a new film about street children. A short time after his arrival, the revolution breaks out and thousands of Egyptians take to the streets to protest against the regime.

Overwhelmed by the situation and driven by a desire to document the intense events, Omar and his friend Karim instead turn their cameras towards Tahrir Square and the demonstrators on the streets of Cairo. With a staggering and action-packed pace, ‘1/2 Revolution’ portrays the Egyptian revolution up close. The strong images tell the story about a people that is strongly determined to break with several years of oppression and injustice, no matter what the consequences may be. But as the film’s title suggests, it’s doubtful whether the revolution has in fact fully succeeded.

Original title 1/2 Revolution Country Denmark Year 2011 Running time 72 min.

Production Globus Aps Producer Carsten Holst World Sales / Contact: Globus Aps, Denmark

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Saturday 5/11 15:00 HRS / Grand: Monday 7/11 18:00 HRS / Dagmar: Friday 11/11 14:20 HRS

DIRECTOR FILMOGRAPHY My Father from Haifa (CPH:DOX 2009), Go with Peace Jamil (2008)

NORDIC:DOX AWARD / 85

Layers of Fog DIRECTOR: Dechen Roder & Caroline Sascha Cogez

WORLD PREMIERE A highly unusual coming of age-film, which takes us on an adventurous journey filled with magical monkeys, mermaids, tipsy grandmothers and bhutanese pop music. 19-year-old Dechen lives with her mother and younger brother in Bhutan’s capital Timphu, where she dreams of becoming a singer and of being chosen to the TV talent show ‘Druk Super Star’. Sometimes dreams come true, and as things progress Dechen starts to research the story about her beloved late grandmother who was a great singing talent, just like Dechen herself. In her search for identity Dechen uncovers her family’s dark past where blessings and curses stand side by side.

‘Layers of Fog’ challenges the limits of documentary filmmaking through its poetic visuality, which leads us into the inner life of an alienated girl, and is the first experimental documentary from the previously so locked-off country in the middle of the Himalayas. Bhutan was the last country in the world that allowed its inhabitants to watch TV (in 1999), and it is only within the past 10 years that the country has established its own film industry - a transition between the old and the new world, which is reflected in the young girl’s transition from child to adult.

Original title Layers of Fog Country Denmark, Bhutan Year 2011 Running time 55 min.

Production DOX:LAB, Copenhagen FIlm Company Producer Tine Fischer, Pasha Parts, Ulrik Gutkin, Casper Høyberg World Sales / Contact: Copenhagen Film Company

SCREENING DATES Grand: Sunday 6/11 14:00 HRS / Grand: Sunday 6/11 14:00 HRS / Cinemateket: Saturday 12/11 18:30 HRS / Cinemateket: Saturday 12/11 18:30 HRS

DIRECTOR FILMOGRAPHY The Present (2008, short), Emmalou (2006, short), Les amours perdus (2005, short), Between Rooms (2004, short), Bus (2004)

86 / NORDIC:DOX AWARD

The Detective DIRECTOR: Christoffer Dreyer

WORLD PREMIERE In his new docu-noir Christoffer Dreyer moves to the small Danish town of Gedser to open a detective agency. Christoffer is convinced that since there is no longer any local police force, there must be lots of exciting stuff for him to solve. In the beginning, the detective agency has trouble getting clients, and the inhabitants are very sceptical - perhaps a little too sceptical - towards this stranger who has settled into their quiet town. In this town, however, nothing is what it seems, and soon Christoffer starts to discover connections that are not visible to everyone. Christofferâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s enthusiasm for conspiracies puts him on the trail of major cases, but the question is whether he can maintain his cool as the cases get more and more complicated? This film noir documentary is a mixture of genres and paints a different kind of portrait of a provincial town in Denmark in the year 2011.

Original title Detektiven Country Denmark Year 2011 Running time 75 min.

Production Plus Pictures Producer Mette Mailand World Sales / Contact: Plus Pictures Aps, Denmark

SCREENING DATES Dagmar: Sunday 6/11 16:40 HRS / Cinemateket: Wednesday 9/11 19:15 HRS / Grand: Friday 11/11 12:00 HRS

DIRECTOR FILMOGRAPHY The North Korean Friendship Society (2006)

NORDIC:DOX AWARD / 87

The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 DIRECTOR: Göran Olsson

‘The revolution will not be televised’ - but Swedish TV tried anyway. ‘The Black Power Mixtape 1967-75’ consists entirely of archive material recorded by curious Swedish TV journalists travelling around the United States in those revolutionary years when black Americans for the first time united in their struggle for freedom, equality and civil rights - edited together in a cool, political and highly informative ‘mix tape’ with new commentaries on the soundtrack by modern artists such as Erykah Badu and Talib Kweli. The fact that the revolution is just as much about mentality as it is about the colour of ones skin is obvious in the meetings between the travelling reporters and main figures of the Black Power movement such as Stokely Carmichael, Bobby Seale, Eldridge Cleaver and Angela Davis. The politically progressive Swedes came in from the outside, and therefore earned both their trust and their interview time. This can be seen and heard clearly in the alive and kicking and invaluable fragments of the revolution, which was in fact shown on TV. And which can now be seen on the big screen as well.

Original title The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 Country Sweden Year 2011 Running time 96 min.

Production Story AB Producer Annika Rogell World Sales / Contact: Wide Management, France

SCREENING DATES Dagmar: Saturday 5/11 14:20 HRS / Dagmar: Monday 7/11 16:40 HRS / Grand: Saturday 12/11 14:20 HRS

DIRECTOR FILMOGRAPHY Am I Black Enough for You (2009), Fuck You, Fuck You Very Much (1998), Kl:k (1992, short)

88 / NORDIC:DOX AWARD

El Medico - The Cubaton Story DIRECTOR: Daniel Fridell

EUROPEAN PREMIERE Raynier Casamayor Griñán is a normal and cheerful Cuban. His mood is as high as his compassion for others is huge, and the same goes for his desire to work for the fatherland. But it is hard to combine his job as a medic with his inner dream of being a professional musician. Both because neither the government nor his mother allows him to perform such a double role. So Raynier has to make do with spontaneous street concerts that spread joy in entire neighbourhoods, until one day he is discovered by the smarmy Swedish musician / music video director / manager Michael Miglis, who comes across as a caricature of western capitalism itself. He sees the commercial potential in the ‘music doctor El Medico’ and lists Dr. Bombay and Dr. Alban as the role models. And with his razor-sharp eye for the exploitation of Cuban music, which includes making music videos with enough shaking buttocks, El Medico manages to make his breakthrough. But at what cost? A funny and moving film, which through its depiction of the soap opera that unfolds around Raynier manages to give us a greater image of Cuba as a land of paradoxes: at once a prison and a refuge for its life-affirming citizens.

Original title El Medico - The Cubaton Story Country Sweden Year 2011 Running time 85 min.

Production Röde Orm Film Producer Thomas Allercrantz, Adel Kjellström World Sales / Contact: Röde Orm Film, Sweden

SCREENING DATES DOX:CLUB i Teater Grob: Thursday 3/11 18:00 HRS / Cinemateket: Monday 7/11 19:00 HRS / DOX:CLUB i Teater Grob: Friday 11/11 16:00 HRS

DIRECTOR FILMOGRAPHY Selected filmography: Säg att du älskar mig (2006), Blood Brothers (2005), Dubbel 8 (2000)

NORDIC:DOX AWARD / 89

Gnarr DIRECTOR: Gaukur Úlfarsson

EUROPEAN PREMIERE It started out as a practical joke. After Iceland’s bankruptcy and the unpopular volcano Eyjafjallajökull’s notorious ash cloud, the Icelandic comedian Jon Gnarr formed the political party The Best Party. The crisis was meant to be overcome with gallows humour.

Politicians were meant to be teased and parodied. But the party hit the nail on the head among a population that was suffering from a hangover since 2008. Gnarr promised to get Disneyland to Iceland and stood for election with the promise of making the parliament uncorrupt and free of drugs by 2020. He guaranteed to the inhabitants that he would not negotiate with politicians who had not seen all five seasons of ‘The Wire’, and at a nursing home he proclaimed that the party’s programme included a promise not to bore old people to death. And without any earlier political experience, Gnarr managed to joke his way to the position of mayor of Reykyavik! A documentary comedy for people who think that politics is far too serious to take seriously, about a politician who is so politically incorrect that it is hard not to surrender.

Original title Gnarr Country Iceland Year 2010 Running time 86 min.

Production Allskonar Producer Sigvaldi J. Kárason, Björn Ófeigsson World Sales / Contact: Icelandic Film Centre, Iceland

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Sunday 6/11 21:45 HRS / Cinemateket: Tuesday 8/11 19:00 HRS / Grand: Saturday 12/11 19:00 HRS

DIRECTOR FILMOGRAPHY Silvia Night (TV)

90 / NORDIC:DOX AWARD

Au Pair DIRECTOR: Nicole Horanyi, Heidi Kim Andersen

WORLD PREMIERE tTeir salaries are considered as pocket money. The Danish au pair scheme is meant to be a form of cultural exchange, and the girls can therefore not expect the same rights as other employees.

But in spite of their low salaries, bad working conditions and homesickness, the Danish krone is still a hard currency when it comes to paying the mother’s medical bills, when the daughter needs an education or when the family needs more to survive. ‘Au pair’ gives us an intimate look at the lives of three au pair girls in Denmark. Mattet, Theresa and Roselie work in Denmark, far away from their families, partners and children. They all dream of a better life, both for themselves but above all for their families.

Each month, they send their income home to the Philippines, where their families depend on them. But while the girls are praying to God for a better future, their visa is about to expire. Nicole Horanyi & Heidi Kim Andersen’s film examines the au pair system in its global entirety, where the good intentions are strongly tied to a daily struggle to survive.

Original title Au Pair Country Denmark Year 2011 Running time 56 min.

Production Made in Copenhagen Producer Helle Faber World Sales / Contact: DOX:BIO, Denmark

SCREENING DATES Den Sorte Diamant: Thursday 3/11 17:30 HRS / Dagmar: Wednesday 9/11 16:00 HRS / Grand: Sunday 13/11 12:00 HRS

DIRECTOR FILMOGRAPHY Nicole N. Horanyi: The DeVilles (2009), The Soccer Girls (2009). Heidi Kim Andersen: Au pair (2011, co-director)

NORDIC:DOX AWARD / 91

Indian Summer DIRECTOR: Ellen Ugelstad

international premiere Torstein notices some other things in his surroundings than his sister Ellen. That’s why she has made this film, and used her video camera to reach into her brother in an attempt to understand him - and maybe for one short moment to see the world as he sees it. Torstein believes in ‘Indian values’. He likes Bob Marley and Jimi Hendrix, he likes smoking cigarettes, writing poems and drawing, and to feel at one with the wide Norwegian nature. And he has been mentally ill since he dreamt as a child that their father was dead. But ‘Indian Summer’ starts where the diagnoses end, and the result is an extraordinary vital and human film. Torstein is not a ‘case’ in his sister’s eyes, and even if we are invited to the family’s most intimate space, the result is far from claustrophobic and pitying, and it gives us no false prospects. In return, Ellen Ugelstad knows how to integrate the many expressions into a whole, where there is only the space of a jump cut between a close-up of her brother’s stoic face and the enormous Norwegian summer landscapes bathed in white sunlight. And where several years can pass between each page in the video diary, which has now become a very good film.

SCREENING DATES Grand: Sunday 6/11 15:30 HRS / Dagmar: Saturday 12/11 17:00 HRS

DIRECTOR FILMOGRAPHY Ellen Ugelstad: Indian Summer (2011)

92 / NORDIC:DOX AWARD

Original title Indian Summer Country Norway Year 2011 Running time 70 min.

Production Mediamente AS Producer Torstein Nybø i Mediamente AS World Sales / Contact: Norsk Filminstitutt, Norway

She’s Blonde Like Me DIRECTOR: Fia-Stina Sandlund

Things quickly start going wrong for the two young Swedish artists who travel to Venice together to perform Strindberg’s ‘Miss Julie’ as a performance at the Venice Biennale three days later. The actress Alexandra Dahlström (‘Show Me Love’, 1999) and the director Fia-Stina Sandlund (who in 2001 ignited a scandal when she in a feminist action crashed a Miss Sweden pageant on Swedish live TV) prepare an interview, where Alexandra in the role of Miss Julie has to answer questions about Fia-Stina’s upcoming feature ‘She’s Wild Again Tonight’, which in turn is an adaptation of Strindberg’s venomous classic. In spite of the two friends’ somewhat different temperaments, it turns out that both have quite a bit in common with Strindberg’s (anti)heroine. Her road to perdition especially.

That is, unless the risk of failure is an integrated part of the work?

There are countless possibilities in ‘She’s Blonde Like Me’, which confidently plays with gender, power and authenticity - with old Strindberg’s spirit floating above the shenanigans, and with a teasing smile on his lips in a role play that knows no frontiers.

Original title She’s Blonde Like Me Country Sweden Year 2011 Running time 89 min.

Production Negoks (Skogen) Produktion HB Producer Fia-Stina Sandlund & Marius Dybwad Brandrud World Sales / Contact: Negoks (Skogen) Produktion HB, Sweden

SCREENING DATES Dagmar: Friday 4/11 16:40 HRS / Dagmar: Thursday 10/11 12:00 HRS / Dagmar: Sunday 13/11 14:20 HRS

DIRECTOR FILMOGRAPHY Fia-Stina Sandlund: She’s Blonde Like Me (2011)

NORDIC:DOX AWARD / 93

Marian Ilmestys (The Annunciation) DIRECTOR: Eija-Liisa Ahtila

The Finnish artist Eija-Liisa Ahtila’s split screen installation ‘The Annunciation’ tackles the central motifs of Christian iconography, which is reconstructed in front of a green screen in a photo studio during an ice-cold winter. The narrative is due part to the Gospel of Lucas and biblical myths, part to their art historical interpretations.

The Annunciation is staged in the present in Ahtila’s film, which documents the process of re-creating the event. But can one stage the divine? And what do religious icons mean to us today? One does not need to be a believer to give an answer, as Ahtila’s attention is turned towards the participating women of which many are cast from a Finnish crisis centre. Although based on an existing script, the events, roles and dialogue were adapted to the individual presence of the actors.

Original title The Annunciation Country Finland Year 2011 Running time 36 min.

World Sales / Contact: Crystal Eye, Finland

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Sunday 6/11 14:00 HRS / Empire: Thursday 10/11 17:30 HRS

DIRECTOR FILMOGRAPHY Where Is Where? (2009) Rakkaus on aarre (2003), Lohdutusseremonia (2000, short), Tänään (1997, short), Jos 6 olis 9 (1997, short)

94 / NORDIC:DOX AWARD

After Life - 4 Stories of Torture DIRECTOR: Mervi Junkkonen

WORLD PREMIERE With simple and powerful means, ‘After Life’ places its spectator in a position that lets us guess the condition of the four partly anonymous participants - a condition, which we otherwise wouldn’t be anywhere close to being able to empathise with. We don’t get to know or see very much, but one can more than sense the basic fear and insecurity that they have to live with. Without giving us more than the most basic information, we are asked the question: is there life on the other side? Kebi, Serge, Musa and Hector all suffer from psychological traumas after having been exposed to torture in their respective home countries. In contrast to what they themselves think, they have all survived and now live in Finland, where life continues. At least on the outside. But even if it is a tough battle that is told with their own hesitant but all too sufficient words, ‘After Life’ elegantly avoids both succumbing to resignation and instilling false hopes. A typically ‘Finnish’ way of dealing with things, maybe. Or maybe just a psychologically perceptive and artistically consistent film. But in the meantime, xenophobia is increasing in the world outside as in the other Scandinavian countries, and puts even more pressure on the four fragile souls.

Original title Jälki elämässä kidutuksesta

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Country Finland Year 2011 Running time 58 min.

Production Klaffi Productions Producer Mika Ronkainen World Sales / Contact: Finnish Film Foundation, Finland

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Sunday 6/11 14:00 HRS / Empire: Thursday 10/11 17:30 HRS

DIRECTOR FILMOGRAPHY Uthman (2009), Aarne (2006), Hiljainen tila (2005), Saanan tahto (2003), Barbeiros (2001)

NORDIC:DOX AWARD / 95

Tataré (work in progress) DIRECTOR: Renate Costa & Salla Sorri

An old, hunched man is the protagonist of a fable without a plot, gimmicks or superficial drama. Nonetheless, ‘Tatare’ is filled with stories and experiences of the kind that requires a long life to collect - and which can be recognised by a very rare and deeply human sense of humour. Alberto Bonnet is his name, and a thin cat keeps him company in the derelict hut far inside the Paraguayan jungle, where he lives off keeping bees and cultivating the earth.

Old letters and half remembered poems make the time go by like songs from an old radio. Several ages are constantly present in the same image, but the film is still an intensely direct experience, which renews itself several times as it progresses. The directing duo Renate Costa and Salla Sorri do not try to sum up - and thereby round off - an entire life in the course of one film, and it is precisely therefore that ‘Tatare’ is so cheerful and surprisingly vital. And as soon as one thinks one has worked the film out, something new is added that changes the whole - which in itself can be taken as a small lesson in the art of living. Simple means, magnificent effect.

Original title Tataré Country Finland, Paraguay Year 2011 Running time 32 min.

Production DOX:LAB Producer Tine Fischer, Salla Sorri, Renate Costa World Sales / Contact: Salla Sorri, Finland

SCREENING DATES Vester Vov Vov: Sunday 6/11 19:00 HRS / Grand: Wednesday 9/11 18:30 HRS

DIRECTOR FILMOGRAPHY Renate Costa: Cuchillo de Palo (CPH:DOX 2010), Che Yvotymi - Mi pequena flor (2007, short), Historias del Camino (2005, TV). Salla Sorri: Apple Garden (2007, short)

96 / NORDIC:DOX AWARD

Imagining Emanuel DIRECTOR: Thomas Østbye

We meet Emanuel in a darkened TV studio, which turns out to set the stage for a piece of meta-documentary reality theatre. We know his name, and that he has fled from the civil war in Liberia to Norway in 1990 in the machine room of a cargo ship. Or do we?

For what do we actually know? One thing is sure: we know less than we think. Emanuel made headlines when he became a plaything of a political scandal about the forced extradition of refugees, which linked Norwegian police to corruption in Ghana. Today, the police tells one story, his friends another. In the meantime, Emanuel is wandering around a Norwegian village as if he had come from outer space. The debut director Thomas Østbye has trained as a pictorial artist, and he has created a mischievous, philosophical and political film. With his methods rooted in Socrates and Descartes, Østbye questions everything we think we know, until everything crumbles away before our own eyes. And where all that remains is a face that calls for our deep sympathy. See it, for it is a lesson in critical reflection.

Original title Imagining Emanuel Country Norway Year 2011 Running time 54 min.

Production Medieoperatørene AS World Sales / Contact: Norsk Filminstitutt, Norway

SCREENING DATES Vester Vov Vov: Sunday 6/11 19:00 HRS / Grand: Wednesday 9/11 18:30 HRS

DIRECTOR FILMOGRAPHY Human (2009, short), Story (2008, short), 6 Conceptions of Freedom (2008, short), Veil (2007, short), In Your Dreams (2006, short), Shaping Up (2004, short)

NORDIC:DOX AWARD / 97

The Kampala Story (work in progress) DIRECTOR: Donald Mugisha, Kasper Bisgaard

‘Kampala Story’ is equal parts Kampala and ‘story’. It is an African adventure at a children’s level, set in Uganda’s densely populated capital and seen through the eyes of a young girl. The story is simple and unsentimental. Young Apio lives with her small family out on the wind-swept plains, where desert dust drifts around the UN vehicles that hand out supplies to the poor. Apio’s mother is pregnant, but when she becomes ill, Apio is sent to Kampala to find his father and ask him for money to pay for her hospital treatment. Alone and armed with nothing more than a piece of paper with his father’s name on it, Apio sets off on a long journey towards the city. It is a labyrinthine and dangerous place, where one has to be careful about who one trusts, but where one is also forced to accept the help of strangers to survive. Donald Mugisha and Kasper Bisgaard let Apio’s journey take place in an utterly real setting, but the semi-documentary approach is never turned into a point in itself. On the contrary, Kampala and the story are allowed to reinforce each other in a balanced and fine film for both young and old.

Original title The Kampala Story Country Uganda, Denmark Year 2011 Running time 62 min.

Production DOX:LAB, Deddac/Dix Film Production Producer Tine Fischer, Patricia Drati Rønde

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Thursday 10/11 10:00 HRS / Husets Biograf: Saturday 12/11 15:00 HRS

DIRECTOR FILMOGRAPHY Kasper Bisgaard: Koma (2006), The end of summer (2003), Choka! (2001). Donald Mugisha: Yogera (2010), Divizionz (2007)

98 / NORDIC:DOX AWARD

The Seduced Human DIRECTOR: Truls Lie

WORLD PREMIERE / out of competition Danish filmmaker Jørgen Leth has provoked audiences with his documentaries for over 40 years. He has lived his life as an observer, governed by his senses. He says he is always ready to let himself be seduced, or to seduce. Leth is driven by desire, always doubtful and existentially often in despair. The film therefore takes the viewpoints of Don Juan, Faust, and The Eternal Jew. Leth has been living the last two decades in the chaotic and exotic Haiti where he was confronted with the earthquake in 2010. Has the moral now, after the earthquake, changed in this filmmaker’s life?

In the end what can he say about the meaning of it all?.

Original title Det forførte menneske Country Norge Year 2011 Running time 51 min.

Production Factiohn Film Producer Dag Hoel World Sales / Contact: Factiohn Film

SCREENING DATES DOX:CLUB: Monday 7/11 16:30 HRS / Cinemateket: Friday 11/11 15:15 HRS

DIRECTOR FILMOGRAPHY The seduced human (2011)

NORDIC:DOX AWARD / 99

Returned DIRECTOR: Marianne Hougen-Moraga

WORLD PREMIERE / out of competition Heine is a soldier who has returned home, and the home he has returned to is a small house far out in the countryside, where he lives with three dogs and a friendly cat. His entire world is here, but it hasn’t always been. Even if he isn’t physically injured, he has taken a distant and invisible war home with him in his head.

What started as a dream about how he show another man ended up feeling so real that he only felt he could escape it by swallowing a glass of sleeping pills. Life continued, but solitude and taboos are weighing down the former soldier. Marianne Hougen-Moraga’s film plays with the superficial absence of the war in the calm and far from action-packed situations, which fill Heine’s everyday life.

But behind the tranquillity, trauma is making itself known. Since 1992, over 26,000 Danish soldiers have taken part in international missions, as we are told in the film. It is not known how many of them are so psychologically scarred that they cannot live a normal life. But for a man like Heine, it is about a war that never ends.

Original title Hjemvendt Country Denmark Year 2011 Running time 14 min.

Production Final Cut for Real ApS Producer Signe Byrge Sørensen & Anne Köhncke World Sales / Contact: Final Cut Productions ApS, Denmark

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Wednesday 9/11 19:30 HRS

DIRECTOR FILMOGRAPHY Returned (2011)

100 / NORDIC:DOX AWARD

Pockets of Resistance DIRECTOR: Ralf Christensen & Malene Nielsen

WORLD PREMIERE / out of competition It is not just in the Middle East that political activism is flourishing.

Pockets of Resistance is the attempt by the Danish journalist Ralf Christensen to identify the new creative and peaceful forms of revolt that prosper at the fringes of established society. From COP 15 demonstrators in Copenhagen to fierce confrontations in front of the Bolivian parliament and interactive political street theatre for Nepal’s oppressed - Christensen’s film is filled with inspiring, ‘glocal’ mini-reflections of Arab revolutions, which provide the framework for our FREE RADICALS programme elsewhere in this catalogue. And the fourth part of the film also brings us among the singing political activists in the streets of Cairo just six weeks before the actual outbreak of the revolutionary volcano. Pockets of resistance is in every way a well-timed film project, which provides uplifting, creative and surprising answers to the basic question: how do you change the world you’re living in?

Original title Pockets of Resistance Country Denmark Year 2011 Running time 65 min.

Production Ralf Christensen World Sales / Contact: Ralf Christensen

SCREENING DATES DOX:CLUB i Teater Grob: Tuesday 8/11 18:30 HRS / Dagmar: Saturday 12/11 12:30 HRS

DIRECTOR FILMOGRAPHY Ralf Christensen: Good Copy Bad Copy (2007, co-dir.). Malene Nielsen: Pockets of Resistance (2011, co-dir.)

NORDIC:DOX AWARD / 101

A Kind of Paradise DIRECTOR: Andreas Johnsen

WORLD PREMIERE / out of competition ‘A country’s cultural warriors are more important than its political warriors’, says the world-renowned Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. And it is precisely Africa’s cultural warriors that we are presenting at the world premiere of Andreas Johnsen’s eighth film, ‘A Kind of Paradise’. Apart from Adichie, we meet contemporary artists, poets and musicians, who all tell their personal stories from six highly different countries: Angola, South Africa, DR Congo, Ivory Coast, Tanzania and Nigeria. ‘A Kind of Paradise’ takes us through a continent which, in spite of economic, religious and political conflicts, possesses a creative energy and a will to survive that we rarely witness in Europe. We get to know Africa through the passions and strengths of its inhabitants as opposed to the well-known media images of natural disasters, poverty and corruption. ‘A Kind of Paradise’ is an entertaining, thought-provoking, serious and witty portrait of a contemporary, modern Africa - an Africa, which most of us do not know.

Original title A Kind of Paradise Country Denmark Year 2011 Running time 70 min.

World Sales / Contact: Rosforth & Rosforth, Denmark

After the premiere the rapper Nash and DJ Mouloukoukou from Abidjan, Ivory Coast, will perform a concert and play Coupé Décalé until late at night! Presented in collaboration with the magazine Udvikling.

SCREENING DATES DOX:CLUB i Teater Grob: Friday 4/11 16:00 HRS / DOX:CLUB i Teater Grob: Tuesday 8/11 20:00 HRS / Cinemateket: Sunday 13/11 19:00 HRS

DIRECTOR FILMOGRAPHY Murder (CPH:DOX 2009), Man Ooman (CPH:DOX 2008), Natasja (CPH:DOX 2008), Good Copy Bad Copy (2007, co-dir.), Curtain Rising (2006), Inside Outside (CPH:DOX 2005), Mr. Catra the Faithful (2004), Stocktown Episodes 1 - 9 (2003)

102 / NORDIC:DOX AWARD

HappyUnhappy DIRECTOR: Henrik Bjerring

WORLD PREMIERE / out of competition Denmark has countless times being named the world’s happiest country. At the same time, last year saw the sale of 156 million daily doses of antidepressants - nicknamed ‘happy pills’. This corresponds to over 400,000 Danes being on antidepressants. But as we now know what makes us happy, why can’t we figure out how to be it? This is exactly the question that the journalist Lone Frank is seeking answers to. Lone is a slim, ambitious and modern freelance journalist and former researcher with an incredibly sharp tongue, and for her the human being is pure chemistry. It is therefore also the chemistry in our brain that decides if we are happy or not - nothing else. But in spite of the apparently perfect outer frameworks, Lone is not happy. After three depressions, her psychiatrist recommends her to remain on antidepressants the rest of her life. But Lone instead decides to examine if the road to happiness can’t be found in other ways than through medication.

Original title LykkeligUlykkelig Country Denmark Year 2011 Running time 60 min.

Producer Henrik Bjerring World Sales / Contact: Henrik Bjerring, Denmark

SCREENING DATES DOX:CLUB i Teater Grob: Wednesday 9/11 18:00 HRS

DIRECTOR FILMOGRAPHY HappyUnhappy (2011)

NORDIC:DOX AWARD / 103

DANISH:DOX AWARD

DANISH:DOX AWARD is a special award handed out to a Danish film selected from across the other competition sections by a national jury.

The level is high and the films are driven in equal measures by solid directorial talent as by auteur visions. The setting varies from reality of contemporary Denmark in its more or less flattering guises, to an internationally oriented outlook.

From the global point of view in documentaries with a political edge, via the intimate portrait film, to the all-out experimental works – and to the World Premiere of the first Danish film in 3-D, directed by Michael Madsen (‘Into Eternity’).

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. The selected films represent a diversity in expressions characteristic of Danish films these years, and a curiousity that point toward the future. It is this curiosity that we wish to reward.

DANISH:DOX AWARD is a cash prize of 5,000 Euros.

The award is kindly sponsored by the Danish Producers’ Association.

1/2 Revolution DIRECTOR: Omar Shargawi & Karim El Hakim

January 2011: The Danish-Palestinian film director Omar Shargawi (‘Go With Peace Jamil’ and ‘My Father From Haifa’) has just arrived in Cairo to start shooting a new film about street children. A short time after his arrival, the revolution breaks out and thousands of Egyptians take to the streets to protest against the regime.

Overwhelmed by the situation and driven by a desire to document the intense events, Omar and his friend Karim instead turn their cameras towards Tahrir Square and the demonstrators on the streets of Cairo. With a staggering and action-packed pace, ‘1/2 Revolution’ portrays the Egyptian revolution up close. The strong images tell the story about a people that is strongly determined to break with several years of oppression and injustice, no matter what the consequences may be. But as the film’s title suggests, it’s doubtful whether the revolution has in fact fully succeeded.

Original title 1/2 Revolution Country Denmark Year 2011 Running time 72 min.

Production Globus Aps Producer Carsten Holst World Sales / Contact: Globus Aps, Denmark

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Saturday 5/11 15:00 HRS / Grand: Monday 7/11 18:00 HRS / Dagmar: Friday 11/11 14:20 HRS

DIRECTOR FILMOGRAPHY My Father from Haifa (CPH:DOX 2009), Go with Peace Jamil (2008)

106 / DANISH:DOX AWARD

A Kind of Paradise DIRECTOR: Andreas Johnsen

WORLD PREMIERE ‘A country’s cultural warriors are more important than its political warriors’, says the world-renowned Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. And it is precisely Africa’s cultural warriors that we are presenting at the world premiere of Andreas Johnsen’s eighth film, ‘A Kind of Paradise’. Apart from Adichie, we meet contemporary artists, poets and musicians, who all tell their personal stories from six highly different countries: Angola, South Africa, DR Congo, Ivory Coast, Tanzania and Nigeria. ‘A Kind of Paradise’ takes us through a continent which, in spite of economic, religious and political conflicts, possesses a creative energy and a will to survive that we rarely witness in Europe. We get to know Africa through the passions and strengths of its inhabitants as opposed to the well-known media images of natural disasters, poverty and corruption. ‘A Kind of Paradise’ is an entertaining, thought-provoking, serious and witty portrait of a contemporary, modern Africa - an Africa, which most of us do not know.

Original title A Kind of Paradise Country Denmark Year 2011 Running time 70 min.

World Sales / Contact: Rosforth & Rosforth, Denmark

After the premiere the rapper Nash and DJ Mouloukoukou from Abidjan, Ivory Coast, will perform a concert and play Coupé Décalé until late at night! Presented in collaboration with the magazine Udvikling.

SCREENING DATES DOX:CLUB i Teater Grob: Friday 4/11 16:00 HRS / DOX:CLUB i Teater Grob: Tuesday 8/11 20:00 HRS / Cinemateket: Sunday 13/11 19:00 HRS

DIRECTOR FILMOGRAPHY Murder (CPH:DOX 2009), Man Ooman (CPH:DOX 2008), Natasja (CPH:DOX 2008), Good Copy Bad Copy (2007, co-dir.), Curtain Rising (2006), Inside Outside (CPH:DOX 2005), Mr. Catra the Faithful (2004), Stocktown Episodes 1 - 9 (2003)

DANISH:DOX AWARD / 107

Au Pair DIRECTOR: Nicole Horanyi, Heidi Kim Andersen

WORLD PREMIERE tTeir salaries are considered as pocket money. The Danish au pair scheme is meant to be a form of cultural exchange, and the girls can therefore not expect the same rights as other employees.

But in spite of their low salaries, bad working conditions and homesickness, the Danish krone is still a hard currency when it comes to paying the mother’s medical bills, when the daughter needs an education or when the family needs more to survive. ‘Au pair’ gives us an intimate look at the lives of three au pair girls in Denmark. Mattet, Theresa and Roselie work in Denmark, far away from their families, partners and children. They all dream of a better life, both for themselves but above all for their families.

Each month, they send their income home to the Philippines, where their families depend on them. But while the girls are praying to God for a better future, their visa is about to expire. Nicole Horanyi & Heidi Kim Andersen’s film examines the au pair system in its global entirety, where the good intentions are strongly tied to a daily struggle to survive.

Original title Au Pair Country Denmark Year 2011 Running time 56 min.

Production Made in Copenhagen Producer Helle Faber World Sales / Contact: DOX:BIO, Denmark

SCREENING DATES Den Sorte Diamant: Thursday 3/11 17:30 HRS / Dagmar: Wednesday 9/11 16:00 HRS / Grand: Sunday 13/11 12:00 HRS

DIRECTOR FILMOGRAPHY Nicole N. Horanyi: The DeVilles (2009), The Soccer Girls (2009). Heidi Kim Andersen: Au pair (2011, co-director)

108 / DANISH:DOX AWARD

Ballroom Dancer DIRECTOR: Christian Bonke & Andreas Koefoed

WORLD PREMIERE The former world champion in Latin American dancing, Slavik Kryklyvyy, is a resolute man. Ten years ago he was among the world elite of dancing. Today, he is setting out to re-conquer his place on the polished floorboards despite the fact that he is marked by his age, suffering from a serious hip injury, and has an uncontrollable temperament that has scared off all of his former dance partners.

His latest dance partner (and girlfriend), Anna, is meant to help him achieve his goal. With her, his dogged determination and a thoroughly exercised body, Slavik sets off on a journey towards the stars. But as the dream of regaining a place in the limelight seems to drift further and further away, Slavik’s temperament starts to sizzle, and his relationship is put to the test. Slavik is ready to pay the price, for what is love good for if you cannot fulfil the dreams of your life? We are witnessing the drama from the first row, where Slavik’s is fighting his own inner demons on the dance floor. ‘Ballroom Dancer’ provides us with a unique look at the dance world thrown into the bargain, complete with glamour, glitter, Brylcreem hair and thick layers of makeup. The question is if Slavik can keep his composure and dance his way out of the crisis he finds himself in.

Original title Ballroom Dancer Country Denmark Year 2011 Running time 85 min.

Production Danish Documentary Producer Jakob Jønck & Sigrid Dyekjær World Sales / Contact: Danish Documentary Production, Denmark

SCREENING DATES Koncerthuset i DR Byen: Tuesday 1/11 20:00 HRS / Dagmar: Sunday 6/11 19:00 HRS / Cinemateket: Wednesday 9/11 19:30 HRS / Dagmar: Friday 11/11 12:00 HRS

DIRECTOR FILMOGRAPHY Andreas Koefoed: Albert’s Winter (CPH:DOX 2009 - Danish:dox Award Winner), A Day in the Smoke (2008), 12 toner ned (2008), Beg, Borrow or Steal (2006), Storebror Albert (2005). Christian Bonke: Roskilde (2008, co-dir.)

DANISH:DOX AWARD / 109

The Detective DIRECTOR: Christoffer Dreyer

WORLD PREMIERE In his new docu-noir Christoffer Dreyer moves to the small Danish town of Gedser to open a detective agency. Christoffer is convinced that since there is no longer any local police force, there must be lots of exciting stuff for him to solve. In the beginning, the detective agency has trouble getting clients, and the inhabitants are very sceptical - perhaps a little too sceptical - towards this stranger who has settled into their quiet town. In this town, however, nothing is what it seems, and soon Christoffer starts to discover connections that are not visible to everyone. Christofferâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s enthusiasm for conspiracies puts him on the trail of major cases, but the question is whether he can maintain his cool as the cases get more and more complicated? This film noir documentary is a mixture of genres and paints a different kind of portrait of a provincial town in Denmark in the year 2011.

Original title Detektiven Country Denmark Year 2011 Running time 75 min.

Production Plus Pictures Producer Mette Mailand World Sales / Contact: Plus Pictures Aps, Denmark

SCREENING DATES Dagmar: Sunday 6/11 16:40 HRS / Cinemateket: Wednesday 9/11 19:15 HRS / Grand: Friday 11/11 12:00 HRS

DIRECTOR FILMOGRAPHY The North Korean Friendship Society (2006)

110 / DANISH:DOX AWARD

Layers of Fog DIRECTOR: Dechen Roder & Caroline Sascha Cogez

WORLD PREMIERE A highly unusual coming of age-film, which takes us on an adventurous journey filled with magical monkeys, mermaids, tipsy grandmothers and bhutanese pop music. 19-year-old Dechen lives with her mother and younger brother in Bhutan’s capital Timphu, where she dreams of becoming a singer and of being chosen to the TV talent show ‘Druk Super Star’. Sometimes dreams come true, and as things progress Dechen starts to research the story about her beloved late grandmother who was a great singing talent, just like Dechen herself. In her search for identity Dechen uncovers her family’s dark past where blessings and curses stand side by side.

‘Layers of Fog’ challenges the limits of documentary filmmaking through its poetic visuality, which leads us into the inner life of an alienated girl, and is the first experimental documentary from the previously so locked-off country in the middle of the Himalayas. Bhutan was the last country in the world that allowed its inhabitants to watch TV (in 1999), and it is only within the past 10 years that the country has established its own film industry - a transition between the old and the new world, which is reflected in the young girl’s transition from child to adult.

Original title Layers of Fog Country Denmark, Bhutan Year 2011 Running time 55 min.

Production DOX:LAB, Copenhagen FIlm Company Producer Tine Fischer, Pasha Parts, Ulrik Gutkin, Casper Høyberg

SCREENING DATES Grand: Sunday 6/11 14:00 HRS / Grand: Sunday 6/11 14:00 HRS / Cinemateket: Saturday 12/11 18:30 HRS / Cinemateket: Saturday 12/11 18:30 HRS

DIRECTOR FILMOGRAPHY The Present (2008, short), Emmalou (2006, short), Les amours perdus (2005, short), Between Rooms (2004, short), Bus (2004)

DANISH:DOX AWARD / 111

The Will DIRECTOR: Christian Sønderby Jepsen

WORLD PREMIERE Sometimes reality surpasses even the most incredible cockand-bull stories. And Christian Sønderby Jepsen’s tragicomic and warm film about three brothers who inherit a fortune from their grandfather is certainly stranger than fiction. The inheritance is a godsend. Henrik is separated and lives above a tanning salon.

His older brother is struggling to replace heroin with homegrown weed. The younger brother scores straight A’s in school. And then there is the father, who always knows what’s best. Now there are just two obstacles that have to be overcome before the three of them can embark on a permanent vacation: the will, and an aunt who wants all the money for herself. The skeletons are rattling in the closet, and the question is if the brothers can stick together and tackle the necessary confrontations. Each time one turns a page in this wildly unpredictable family saga, totally unexpected and strange details pop up. The story about the three brothers and the millions has more bizarre twists than even the most cunning fiction film, and is simply asking to be remade in Hollywood. Which it no doubt could be, if it was not for the fact that nobody would believe in the story. It is probably the funniest film of the year, but it is also a story which proves that blood is thicker than water, and that true happiness can not be bought with money.

Original title Testamentet Country Denmark Year 2011 Running time 85 min.

Production Copenhagen Bombay Producer Julie E. Pedersen World Sales / Contact: Copenhagen Bombay, Denmark

SCREENING DATES Grand: Friday 4/11 19:00 HRS / Dagmar: Tuesday 8/11 21:30 HRS / Cinemateket: Sunday 13/11 21:30 HRS

DIRECTOR FILMOGRAPHY My Cousin the Pirate (CPH:DOX 2010), Side by Side (CPH:DOX 2008)

112 / DANISH:DOX AWARD

The Average Of The Average DIRECTOR: Michael Madsen

world premiere Denmark’s first 3D documentary is directed by the awardwinning director Michael Madsen (‘Into Eternity’) and deals with - mediocrity. And yet, not quite! For mediocrity is maybe harder to grasp with a formula than one might think. But Middlefart is an entirely mediocre place, as we find out, and this is where the film’s 13 chapters - like ‘Into Eternity’ - try to see the present from a historical perspective. What is important? What defines our times? The 3-dimensional space of the images frame the individual scenes like display cabinets at a virtual museum about ordinary Denmark in the year 2011, while both true and fictitious stories constantly threaten to disrupt the mediocrity. From stories about civil disobedience to the mayor’s visit to a fortune teller, Madsen’s brand new film gets the answers to its questions through anthropological and apparently objective 3-D glasses - and ends with a totally unique reunion with a series of 3D photographs of Middelfart from the 1880s. Michael Madsen brings the traditional ‘Denmark film’ into a new era, which itself will soon be history.

Original title Middelfart i Gennemsnit Country Denmark Year 2011 Running time 55 min.

Production Gallery Tusk, MASSPRODUCTION Producer Michael Madsen World Sales / Contact: Michael Madsen, Denmark

SCREENING DATES Empire: Saturday 12/11 17:30 HRS

DIRECTOR FILMOGRAPHY Into Eternity (CPH:DOX 2009 - Audience Award Winner), Celestial night: A film on visibility (2003)

DANISH:DOX AWARD / 113

The Primal Scene DIRECTOR: Joachim Hamou

WORLD PREMIERE The massive immigration to Los Angeles is not just due to LatinAmerican fortune-seekers, but also a large lineup of hopeful artists from all over the world. It is the struggle for recognition of these young middle-class types that the Swedish artist Joachim Hamou soberly observes in what starts out as a minimalist deadpan version of ‘Short Cuts’. After a short time, the film introduces the psychologist Dr. Arthur Janov in a parallel narrative, who invented the controversial primal therapy in the 1960s. The obvious connection between the two layers is not immediately visible in ‘The Primal Scene’s’ indefinable approach between reality and staging. But after a while, the audience realises that they comment on each other, and in the film’s both moving, witty and frightening crescendo, everything runs together in a great scream of pain, which leaves both the film’s protagonists and the audience gasping for air.

The film is shown together with ‘Avalanche’.

SCREENING DATES Dagmar: Monday 7/11 21:30 HRS / Husets Biograf: Saturday 12/11 20:00 HRS

DIRECTOR FILMOGRAPHY The Primal Scene (2011)

114 / DANISH:DOX AWARD

Original title The Primal Scene Country Denmark Year 2011 Running time 50 min.

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SOUND & Vision AWARD

Music has been an important part of CPH:DOX since the birth of the festival, both on screen and live on stage, and we were among the first film festivals in the world to see this genre’s need for a competition. The search for great stories and new ideas needs to be awarded in a genre that has plenty of pitfalls to avoid - perhaps more than any other documentary genre. And when succeeding, the power of the music film is second to none.

The idea behind the Sound & Vision Award is to show the creative diversity of the genre when it elevates itself above the promotional video. This year, campared to other more formally experimenting editions, the films do so mostly by means of interesting characters and stories – and can we find a greater narrative force than love?

First off, we are very happy to celebrate the premiere of Vincent Moon’s ’Esperando el Tsunami’ which follows up his Sound & Vision Award winning film ’La Faute des Fleurs’ (2009) with a love story of a truly special kind.

A very special love story is also what we get in Marie Losier’s heartbreaking ’The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye’ that extends into the real world when Genesis P-Orridge will give a live performace with Nan Goldin at the National Gallery.

The romance that drives ’Last Days Here’ has to be seen to be believed, and ’The Swell Season’ is just that kind of film that will make your heart skip a beat.

In other words, all is full of love in this year’s Sound & Vision section. The music film has many faces and the ones selected here are only a few. But they will be the ones to remember.

Sound & Vision Award is a cash prize of 3,000 Euros

Waiting for the Tsunami DIRECTOR: Vincent Moon

WORLD PREMIERE Vincent Moon, who won the Sound & Vision award in 2009 with his masterly ‘La Faute des Fleurs’, is back with what he himself calls his best film ever. We are not averse to agreeing with him.

‘Esperando el Tsunami’ is an intoxicating work of imagery and sound, disguised as a road movie. Alejandra and Luis, the two young musicians of the South American duo Lulacruza travel across Colombia to taste the country’s musical nectar and transform it in their almost shamanistic trance sessions, which are reminiscent of the early days of Animal Collective. Moon follows them closely with his sensually seeking camera and the sensitive musicality that makes him unique in today’s film world. The hipster vagabond, who single-handedly revived the music video as an art form, is about to do the same with the music documentary.

But ‘Esperando El Tsunami’ is larger than its own genre and with its extreme closeups of the smallest details of nature, the film opens itself up gradually as a magic-realistic love story of the most beautiful kind. There is no doubt: Vincent Moon has done it again.

Original title Esperando el Tsunami Country France, Colombia Year 2011 Running time 75 min.

Production Lulacruza Producer Lulacruza, Vincent Moon, Kickstarter crowd World Sales / Contact: Vincent Moon, France

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Friday 4/11 16:45 HRS / Grand: Tuesday 8/11 19:30 HRS / Gloria: Friday 11/11 22:00 HRS

DIRECTOR FILMOGRAPHY Selected filmography: A Temporary Area in Athens (2010), La Faute Des Fleurs (CPH:DOX 2009 - Sound & Vision Award Winner), Mogwai: Burning (2009), This Is Not a Show: Live at the Olympia in Dublin (2009), Little Blue Nothing (2009), Temporary Copenhagen (2009), A Skin, a Night (2008). Artist in Focus at CPH:DOX 2009

118 / SOUND & VISION AWARD

The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye DIRECTOR: Marie Losier

It is one of the most beautiful love stories seen on film, and one of the most unusual ones. The singer and artist Genesis P-Orridge has had one goal since the mid-1970s with his industrial bands Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV: to live in constant change. This is a philosophy that his girlfriend Lady Jaye can wholly identify herself with, and instead of having a child, they decide to become one person through cosmetic surgery, which aims to make them look as much like each other as possible. Creativity, and the urge to create new monsters, is constantly present with the two. They decorate themselves with plastic ornaments and bright summer clothes from the supermarket, and walk hand in hand through Central Park, while the sun rays are reflected in the lens of Marie Losier’s perceptive and affectionate 16mm camera. But when you decide to live romantically, you also invite tragedy. Losier has a great production catalogue of shorter experimental and documentary films behind her, which she makes on her own, but which feature many of the most creative personalities in New York’s performance art scene in front of the camera. An early version of ‘The Ballad...’ could be seen at CPH:DOX already in 2007, and can now finally be seen in its full length.

Original title The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye Country US Year 2011 Running time 72 min.

Producer Marie Losier, Steve Holmgren World Sales / Contact: Marie Losier, USA

SCREENING DATES Dagmar: Saturday 5/11 21:30 HRS / Grand: Monday 7/11 21:30 HRS / Dagmar: Thursday 10/11 19:00 HRS

DIRECTOR FILMOGRAPHY Selected filmography (short works): Byun, Objet Trouve (2011), Cet Air La (2010), Slap the Gondola!

(2009), Slap the Gondola! (CPH:DOX 2009), Jaye Lady Jaye (2008), Manuelle Labor (2007), The Ontological Cowboy (2005), Electrocute Your Stars (2004), Bird, Bath, and Beyond (2003), Bird, Bath, and Beyond (2003), Sanitarium Cinema (2002), The Passion of Joan of Arc (2002)

SOUND & VISION AWARD / 119

SYGNOK & The War For Radical Computer Music DIRECTOR: Saul Albert & Nathaniel Robin Mann

WORLD PREMIERE / out of competition Danish techno warrior Gæoudjiparl van den Dobbelsteen (The Artist Formerly Known as Goodiepal, until unknown perpetrators hacked his name) and his Sygnok sidekicks DJ Hvad (from Alberstlund Terrorkorps) and VJ Cancer have been given their very own jihad video and declare war on behalf of radical computer music - and against all the institutions that are in the way for this radical music being able to develop and spread. For example The Royal Academy of Music in Århus, whose valuable synthesiser Eventide H8000 FW was at one point ‘remixed’ by Sygnok in a controversial scandal, which cost the Århus-based whiz kid his job as a teacher - upon which he signed up as a student, to many people’s great frustration.

The political over-, under- and in between tones resonate everywhere in ‘Sygnok and the War for Radical Computer Music’, which could be seen at this year’s Sónar festival in Barcelona as a work in progress, and is now being screened for the first time in its final version.

Original title SYGNOK & The War For Radical Computer Music Country UK Year 2011 Running time 17 min.

Production SYGNOK & The War For Radical Computer Music Producer Saul Albert & Nathaniel Robin Mann World Sales / Contact: Saul Albert & Nathaniel Robin Mann, UK

SCREENING DATES DOX:CLUB i Teater Grob: Saturday 5/11 20:00 HRS / DOX:CLUB i Teater Grob: Thursday 10/11 16:00 HRS / Gloria: Saturday 12/11 22:00 HRS

DIRECTOR FILMOGRAPHY Sygnok & The War For Radical Computer Music (2011)

120 / SOUND & VISION AWARD

Marija’s Own DIRECTOR: Zeljka Suková

You are hereby invited to a party to celebrate the anniversary of grandma Marija’s passing. Marija was certain that nobody would remember her after her death. But here she was wrong. Her three lively daughters wearing dresses and hats, as well as neighbours and acquaintances, friends and siblings have come together in her small and Spartan apartment to remember her. Not with tears, but with a wildly chaotic and merrily anarchic dinner with added party games, accompanied by the Czech indie/electro band Midi Lidi (who are huge in the Czech Republic, but none of the dinner guests know them). Midi Lidi has made ‘blip-blop’ music for Marija’s melancholy poems, and the person who designs the most beautiful grave wins a suitcase full of money. The others get a flower. You have to be made of stone to not be captivated by the surreal and poetic anarchy in ‘Marija’s Own’, which is closely related to the Czech New Wave’s Vera Chytilova and Martin Kann’s music videos for the Swedish rock outfit bob hund. Grandma Marija herself is present through old photographs, Super 8 films and her own poems. Luckily, it’s like being there oneself, and one is in good company throughout the film.

Original title Marija’s Own Country Croatia Year 2011 Running time 62 min.

Production Udrugas Ukus Producer Zeljka Suková World Sales / Contact: Croatian Audiovisual Centre, Croatia

SCREENING DATES DOX:CLUB i Teater Grob: Saturday 5/11 20:00 HRS / DOX:CLUB i Teater Grob: Thursday 10/11 16:00 HRS / Gloria: Saturday 12/11 22:00 HRS

DIRECTOR FILMOGRAPHY Marija’s Own (2011)

SOUND & VISION AWARD / 121

Last Days Here DIRECTOR: Don Argott & Demian Fenton

INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE Things are looking bleak for Bobby Liebing. The frontman of one of the 1970s biggest cult secrets, the metal pioneers Pentagram, still lives in his parents’ basement at the age of 55. He is lonely.

He smokes insane amounts of heroin. And he scratches himself to the point of bleeding in a manic belief that his skin his infected with parasites. But his surroundings are not yet ready to give up on Bobby and Pentagram, and his manager and possibly only real friend in the world, Sean, invests all his time and money to get his biggest idol away from the sofa and back on the right track. And when Bobby encounters love for the first time in several decades in the shape of a young and beautiful girl, the stage is set for the great comeback. But things don’t run quite so smoothly. In their intimate portrait of a troubled genius, Don Argott and Demian Fenton’s film awaken pleasant memories of the masterful ‘The Devil and Daniel Johnston’, and is at least as moving, intense and funny - but one is never in any doubt that they wish the very best for their protagonist. The fact that one also becomes acquainted with the overseen sludge metal godfathers from Pentagram is just a bonus, for in the end ‘Last Days Here’ is a beautiful and gripping portrait of a man, who simply wants to be loved, and who in spite of his self-destructive behaviour is not quite ready to give up on life and his music.

Original title Last Days Here Country US Year 2011 Running time 90 min.

Production 9.14 Pictures Producer Sheena M. Joyce World Sales / Contact: 9.14 Pictures, USA

SCREENING DATES Grand: Friday 14/10 19:00 HRS / Dagmar: Sunday 6/11 21:30 HRS / Gloria: Thursday 10/11 22:00 HRS

DIRECTOR FILMOGRAPHY Don Argott: (Last Days Here co-directed by Demian Fenton), The Art of the Steal (2009), Two Days in April (2007), Rock School (2005)

122 / SOUND & VISION AWARD

Inni DIRECTOR: Vincent Morisset

They are simply like no one else: Icelandic Sigur Rós. The band is pompous, grandiose, intense and deep at the same time. Not least live, where their idiosyncratic universe really comes to life.

And so it does in the visual live film ‘Inni’, which is masterfully directed by Vincent Morisset, who previously made the interactive music videos for Arcade Fire. Inspiration from the black-and-white timelessness of silent films is in the next moment followed by powerful discharges of energy, and interrupted by small features with the band itself, which mostly remind us of creative children’s TV. Sigur Rós started as a trio back in 1994. Now, the band has grown into a quintet, which is this year releasing its eighth album.

They have picked out the best in their impressive back catalogue, and even if you have seen Sigur Rós live before, you come closer than ever before in Vincent Morisset’s goose bump evoking film, which literally sucks you into a universe of sound, images and emotion-filled lyrics, sung in the lead singer Jónsi’s own language, ‘hopelandic’.

Original title Inni Country Canada Year 2011 Running time 74 min.

Production Klikk Film Producer John Best World Sales / Contact: Cinema Purgatorio, USA

SCREENING DATES Grand: Thursday 10/11 21:30 HRS / Imperial: Monday 14/11 21:30 HRS

DIRECTOR FILMOGRAPHY Bla Bla (2011, short), Miroir Noir (2008, CPH:DOX 2009)

SOUND & VISION AWARD / 123

The Swell Season DIRECTOR: Nick August-Perna, Carlo Mirabella-Davis & Chris Dapkins

The pipe-smoking Irishman Glen Hansard and the tender Czech girl Markéta Irglová make up a unique twosome. The quiet and modest girl, who falls in love with the musical troublemaker 17 years her senior. The fact that the two turtledoves also ended up forming a band is something we have the gods to thank for! Glen Hansard is a musical prodigy, who dropped out of school as a 13-year-old to become a street musician. Markéta Irglová, who today is just 23 years old, turns his life inside out, and she makes their musical union perfect with her beautiful and fragile voice and the soft tones of the piano. Together, they are responsible for the film ‘Once’ from 2006, which gave them an Oscar for the best original song. The black-and-white universe that we meet in this documentary is not just full of love, however, as the union starts faltering because of Glen’s and Markéta’s wilting romance, in a scene at a café that will give any couple a cold sweat. The love / break-up film of the year!

Original title The Swell Season Country US Year 2011 Running time 90 min.

Production Elcreek Cinema Producer Carlo Mirabella-Davis World Sales / Contact: Elkcreek Cinema, USA

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Sunday 6/11 21:30 HRS / Grand: Tuesday 8/11 15:30 HRS / Dagmar: Sunday 13/11 19:00 HRS

DIRECTOR FILMOGRAPHY Carlo Mirabella-Davies: Knife Point (2009)

124 / SOUND & VISION AWARD

Grandma Lo-fi: The Basement Tapes of Sigrídur Nielsdóttir DIRECTOR: Kristín Björk Kristjánsdóttir, Orri Jónsson & Ingibjörg Birgisdóttir

WORLD PREMIERE Even if she only started making music as a 70-year-old, Sigrídur Níelsdóttir has made 59 (!) albums to date over the past seven years. Over 600 homemade songs, which have all been recorded on a tape recorder in her living room, in an infinite loop of creativity and ingenuity. ‘One can’t be so full of music, one has to play’, as she says herself. The Danish/Icelandic lo-fi grandmother’s life story is just as rich in peculiarities and unforeseen coincidences as her music, and is unveiled little by little in animations, old photographs and, not least, her own words. ‘Grandma Lo-fi’ is lovingly filmed on old-fashioned Super 8 and 16mm, which surrounds her with the fully deserved glory of timelessness. The deeply charming Sigrídur Níelsdóttir is an extremely inspiring and funny person to become acquainted with, and she has now become a cult-revered role model for a generation of Icelandic indie musicians, who could have been her grandchildren. You shouldn’t deny yourself the opportunity to meet her.

Original title Amma Lo-fi Country Iceland Year 2011 Running time 65 min.

Production Republik Productions Producer Sæmundur Nordfjord, Højgaard Johansen

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World Sales / Contact: Republik Productions, Iceland

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Saturday 5/11 19:30 HRS / Gloria: Wednesday 9/11 22:00 HRS / DOX:CLUB i Teater Grob: Sunday 13/11 18:00 HRS

DIRECTOR FILMOGRAPHY Grandma Lo-Fi (2011)

SOUND & VISION AWARD / 125

Andrew Bird: Fever Year DIRECTOR: Xan Aranda

EUROPEAN PREMIERE ‘I am what I do’. The multi-instrumentalist Andrew Bird is a free spirit whose musical world is his oyster, as he mixes swing, New Orleans jazz, gypsy, indie folk and rock in loops - and tops it all with his characteristic whistling. Even if he refuses to compromise with his music, Bird is nonetheless a prolific and highly inventive gentleman, who last year released his 10th album. And he has found the time to play together with other bands such as Calexico, Loney Dear and St. Vincent, who returns the favour by taking part in the film. The people have adopted this lost bird, and ‘Fever Year’ follows the musician during the last exhausting months of his latest tour. From the family’s derelict farm to the beautiful Pabst Theater in Milwaukee, and to the point where he rounds off both his tour and the evening with a concert in his home town of Chicago - both with fever and on crutches (!). If you have been lucky enough to experience one of his many concerts, you know that you never know what you’ll get. For his songs change character each time he plays them - and even apart from that you can expect something great, as we invite you to a challenging tour through the entirely cosy and deeply musical mind of this eccentric.

SCREENING DATES Gloria: Friday 4/11 22:00 HRS / Empire: Thursday 10/11 22:30 HRS

DIRECTOR FILMOGRAPHY Andrew Bird: Fever Year (2011)

126 / SOUND & VISION AWARD

Original title Andrew Bird: Fever Year Country US Year 2010 Running time 80 min.

Producer Xan Aranda World Sales / Contact: Xan Aranda, USA

Everything, Everywhere, All The Time DIRECTOR: Pierre-Alain Giraud

INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE ‘It’s like forcing two different species to fuck!’ And thus not too little is being said. The record label and musician’s collective Bedroom Community is based in Iceland, but its creative genes come from all corners of the world. The collective’s four multi-talented DIY musicians are a mixture of both Icelandic, American and Australian blood. And not just blood, but also musical sources of inspiration within both folk music, classical music, punk and noise, mixed together in a chaotic unity. We meet all four of them in ‘Everything, Everywhere, All the Time’. The modest and arch-Icelandic Valgeir Sigurdsson, both as a musician and behind the buttons. The droll and humorous Sam Amidon, who was brought in from the United States where his folk country roots reach far back. Nico Muhly, who brings out the classical side as a brilliant pianist and composer.

And the more tough Ben Frost, who delivers the punk rock style.

In spite of the different backgrounds, the many talents of the creative collective come together in an atmospheric unity in the joint live performance ‘Whalewatching’, which has toured around all of Europe - and which can also be seen here, in a film that is neither blind to the challenging and at times difficult sides of the collaboration between such different forces.

Original title Everything, Everywhere, All The Time Year 2011 Running time 61 min.

World Sales / Contact: Bedroom Community, Iceland

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Saturday 5/11 20:30 HRS / DOX:CLUB i Teater Grob: Wednesday 9/11 22:00 HRS

DIRECTOR FILMOGRAPHY Everything, Everywhere, All The Time (2011)

SOUND & VISION AWARD / 127

Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest DIRECTOR: Michael Rapaport

‘Can I kick it? Yes, you can!’. This year’s most powerful hip hopumentary rhymes its way through the story of the legendary hip hop godfathers in A Tribe Called Quest, who together with collectives such as De La Soul and Jungle Brothers were behind the golden age of hip hop. In ‘Beats, Rhymes & Life’, we are told the whole group’s 25-year history by the protagonists themselves, and by the famous people surrounding them. It is the story about the happy boys from Queens at the end of the 80s, about internal discord, and about the both more and less successful attempts to have the four different egos reunited in the music that it’s ultimately all about. With the American actor Michael Rapaport directing, we get as close as we possibly can to Q-Tip, Phife Dawg, Ali Shaheed Mohammed and the prodigal son Jarobi White. The captivating story is woven together with highly energetic concert footage in a highly charged firework of a film, which is a must for anyone with a penchant for hip hop.

Original title Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest Country US Year 2011 Running time 95 min.

Production Rival Pictures Producer A Tribe Called Quest World Sales / Contact: Autlook Filmsales GbR, Austria

SCREENING DATES DOX:CLUB i Teater Grob: Thursday 3/11 20:00 HRS / Empire: Tuesday 8/11 22:30 HRS / Empire: Sunday 13/11 22:30 HRS

DIRECTOR FILMOGRAPHY Boston Public (2004, TV)

128 / SOUND & VISION AWARD

Talihina Sky: The Story of Kings of Leon DIRECTOR: Stephen C. Mitchell

The blues keyboard is not lacking when we follow the four Followill boys back home and visit their crazy, Christian families in Talihina, Oklahoma. The brothers Nathan and Caleb and their cousins Jared and Matthew have all had a strict religious upbringing, and can be seen as extremely groundbreaking in their choice of career - to play the devil’s music, where it’s all about sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll. The loving family ties have remained, however, and there is almost no end to the band’s success, which has seen it finish its 5th studio album. The old blues and country roots shine through, and the film’s beautiful images are complemented by a lavish soundtrack, which contains both Chuck Berry, Velvet Underground and Pixies. At the same time, one gets a good look at American culture, while the band reveals new and funny sides of itself. But behind the facade, the intrigues are in full swing, and here there are no dear brothers. It is rock ‘n’ roll for better and for worse. The question is ‘how far you wanna go, fighting for survival?’

Original title Talihina Sky: The Story of Kings of Leon Country US Year 2011 Running time 87 min.

Production Phear Creative Producer Joshua Levine & Casey McGrath World Sales / Contact: Phear Creative, USA

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Friday 4/11 21:45 HRS / Empire: Saturday 5/11 22:30 HRS / Palads: Thursday 10/11 19:00 HRS

DIRECTOR FILMOGRAPHY Talihina Sky: The Story of Kings of Leon (2011)

SOUND & VISION AWARD / 129

God Bless Ozzy Osbourne DIRECTOR: Mike Fleiss & Mike Piscitelli

Who would have thought that The Beatles would start the rock ‘n’ roll dream for Ozzy Osbourne with ‘She Loves You’ - with the invention of heavy metal as a side product? A man, who has consumed and survived almost everything in his over 60 year old life: ‘I should have died a thousand times, but I never did’, as he says. A man, who as a youngster was swept away by a rock storm, which carried him to undreamt-of heights together with three other teenagers from Aston near Birmingham: Tony Iommi, Bill Ward and Terence Butler. Ozzy has been called the band’s clown, rock ‘n’ roll’s definite ‘crazy person’, and in the documentary - which is produced by his son Jack - he certainly lives up to his reputation. The film follows him from his childhood in Aston and up to today, and one gets a close look at the heavily tattooed ‘Prince of Darkness’. It is more of a wild dance on thorny roses than anything else, and the film show the audience the true picture as opposed to tacking on plenty of gloss. But in spite of his uncontrollable drug habit and his trivial role as a family father, Ozzy has always managed to be true to his duty to rock music. God blezz Ozzy!

Original title God Bless Ozzy Osbourne Country US Year 2011 Running time 91 min.

Production Next Entertainment Producer Jack Osbourne, Jordan Tappis, Marc Weingarten World Sales / Contact: Next Entertainment, USA

SCREENING DATES Grand: Friday 14/10 21:30 HRS / Empire: Monday 7/11 22:30 HRS / Palads: Thursday 10/11 21:30 HRS / Grand: Saturday 12/11 24:00 HRS

DIRECTOR FILMOGRAPHY Mike Fleiss: The Quest (2006), Mike Piscitelli (co- director)

130 / SOUND & VISION AWARD

There Are No Innocent Bystanders DIRECTOR: Roger Sargent

out of competition Life as a libertine has its price, and after having their solid breakthrough with their charming and clattering blues punk back in the Strokes/BRMC/White Stripes period a little less than ten years ago, the British band The Libertines only managed to release two albums before the notoriously chaotic band was dissolved. The complicated love-hate relationship between Pete Doherty and Carl Barât also led to a scandal-ridden lifestyle on the front of the world’s tabloids for both gentlemen. But last year, Doherty, Barât and the two other libertines John Hassall and Gary Powell finally came together to appear on stage again. ‘There are No Innocent Bystanders’ follows the band from the first reunion in the practice room to a massive concert at Reading Festival, and is full of anecdotes delivered in good, sordid English. Up the bracket, baby!

Original title There Are No Innocent Bystanders Country UK Year 2011 Running time 90 min.

Production Pulse Films Producer Thomas Benski, Jamie Clark & David Standen World Sales / Contact: Roger Sargent, UK

SCREENING DATES Grand: Wednesday 9/11 17:00 HRS / Grand: Friday 11/11 24:00 HRS / Cinemateket: Sunday 13/11 21:45 HRS

DIRECTOR FILMOGRAPHY The Libertines: There Are No Innocent Bystanders (2011)

SOUND & VISION AWARD / 131

2 steps from Håkan DIRECTOR: Torbjörn Martin, John Boisen & Björn Fävremark

INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE / out of competition With his hat worn aslant, his boyish charm and his fantastically catchy pop tunes, the Swedish popular hero Håkan Hellström has played his way into the hearts of both young and old. But we also get to discover an utterly likeable and highly musical person behind the hysterical ‘Håkon-mania’ in ‘2 steg från Håkan’, which follows two parallel tracks. 18-year-old Amanda is a devoted fan, who is happy to spend 27 hours queueing to get to the very front at the concerts with her idol, when she isn’t spending time looking after her grandfather. On the other side, we have Håkan himself, who knows the phenomenon of idolatry perfectly well, both from his own teenage years and as a successful charmer. Now, the roles have been reversed, and modest as he is, he tries simply to be the person he is: a mediocre idiot, as he himself puts it. But no matter if he wants to admit it or not: he has gone on to become quite a popular idiot. It isn’t exactly a secret that the Swedes are experts in good style, and with the film’s beautiful and poetic images we are witnesses from when the songs are being written at the home of his friend Björn until they are performed in energetic live shows.

But we are also there when children need to be fed, old days are being talked about or ice hockey matches are being played.

Original title 2 steg från Håkan Country Sweden Year 2011 Running time 90 min.

Production STARK Film & Event Producer Sofie Björklund, Björn Fävremark, Hjalmar Palmgren World Sales / Contact: Stark, Sweden

SCREENING DATES Dagmar: Thursday 3/11 21:30 HRS / Grand: Saturday 5/11 21:30 HRS / Dagmar: Monday 7/11 14:20 HRS / DOX:CLUB i Teater Grob: Friday 11/11 20:00 HRS

DIRECTOR FILMOGRAPHY Torbjörn Martin: Mando Diao: Live & Unplugged at Svenska Grammofonstudion (2009), Ingen kom ner (2009), John Boisen (codirector), Björn Fävremark (co-director)

132 / SOUND & VISION AWARD

City Slang Redux DIRECTOR: Torben Skjødt Jensen

WORLD PREMIERE / out of competition Simultaneously with local Danish new wave legends Kliche’s progressing dissolution, singer Lars H.U.G. went solo with an album that remains one of the best Danish releases ever. On ‘City Slang’, the music was painted with broad, dark brushstrokes, and the gloomy synth pop and poetic post-punk was complemented by Lars H.U.G.’s Bowie-inspired voice and texts from the acclaimed poet Søren Ulrik Thomsen’s collection of poems by the same name.

Now, the director Torben Skjødt Jensen has blown the dust off his footage from the final theatre concert of the ‘City Slang’ tour at Svalegangen Theatre in Århus in 1984, and has cross-edited it with recent interviews with Søren Ulrik Thomsen, the musicians who were on the stage at the time, and of course the protagonist himself. Together, the material forms a beautiful tapestry of dark 80s vibes and grainy black-and-white film, which pulls the audience back to one of the few really proud moments of the Danish music landscape of the 1980s.

Original title City Slang Redux Country Denmark Year 2011 Running time 80 min.

Production picturewise film & tv Producer henrik laier World Sales / Contact: picturewise film & tv, Denmark

SCREENING DATES Grand: Wednesday 9/11 21:30 HRS / DOX:CLUB i Teater Grob: Saturday 12/11 20:00 HRS

DIRECTOR FILMOGRAPHY Selected filmography: Spelar du ikväll? (2006), En dansker i Hitlers Tyskland (2005), Afgrunden (2003), Den talende muse - samtaler med Asta Nielsen (2003), Manden som ikke ville dø (1999), Simons film (1999 ), Rejsekammerater (1998), Den grimme dreng (1996) Hvileløse hjerte (1996), Carl Th. Dreyer: Min metier (1995 ), It’s a Blue World (1990)

SOUND & VISION AWARD / 133

Living in the Material World: George Harrison DIRECTOR: Martin Scorsese

out of competition Martin Scorsese is not just a brilliant storyteller. He has also in recent years become a passionate chronicler of the greatest personalities of the film and music worlds. And now the journey has brought us to the ‘mysterious’ and modest Beatle, who often simply let his guitar talk its own language and who during his last decade liked to describe himself as ‘just an old skiffle man’.

George Harrison, who died in November 2001, lived his artistic life head-on, from the creation of The Beatles and the many artistic disagreements that followed, and to his spiritual journeys that are here shown through unique and never before shown archive materials and interviews with ‘The Fab Four’. A highly respected musician, who among his many friends could count Eric Clapton, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, Yoko Ono, Phil Spector, Tom Petty and many others, who all contribute with a version of who the man behind the thoughtful exterior actually was - told to the tones of some of the world’s possibly best music. Inspiring and stance, and with an elegance that is worthy of both Scorsese and Harrison himself.

Original title Living in the Material World: George Harrison Country US Year 2011 Running time 209 min.

Production Grove Street Pictures Producer Olivia Harrison, Martin Scorsese, Nigel Sinclair World Sales / Contact: Exclusive Media, USA

SCREENING DATES Imperial: Monday 24/10 19:00 HRS / Empire: Sunday 6/11 20:00 HRS / Imperial: Thursday 10/11 21:15 HRS

DIRECTOR FILMOGRAPHY Selected filmography: Public Speaking (2010), A Letter to Elia (2010), Shine a Light (2008), No Direction Home: Bob Dylan (2005), A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies (1995)

134 / SOUND & VISION AWARD

Pearl Jam - Twenty DIRECTOR: Cameron Crowe

out of competition Oscar-winning director Cameron Crowe (‘Almost Famous’) returns to his rock history roots in his ultimate film about the grunge giants Pearl Jam. From the tender slacker years to the chaos that followed in the aftermath of their breakthrough with the album ‘Ten’ in 1991 and which met a sad culmination with the tragedy at the Roskilde Festival. But the five friends took an active step away from the limelight, and the lumberjack shirts, Nirvana comparisons and MTV domination that went with it. Based on over 1200 hours (!) of rare footage and with a rare look at the band’s special psychology and solidarity, 20 years of utterly well-written rock history has here been turned into a highly captivating story - and a visual tour de force that is held together by Crowe’s solid directing. David Lynch and Chris Cornell from Soundgarden spice up the film with their insights, and one can look forward to experiencing the latter in an utterly acrobatic duet with Eddie Vedder. The longevity, popularity and influence of Pearl Jam is a rare phenomenon, and when you see this film, you won’t be surprised that it is one of the world’s biggest bands.

Original title Pearl Jam - Twenty Country US Year 2011 Running time 109 min.

Production Tremolo Productions Producer Cameron Crowe, Kelly Curtis, Andy Fischer World Sales / Contact: WME Entertainment, USA

SCREENING DATES DOX:CLUB i Teater Grob: Friday 4/11 20:00 HRS / DOX:CLUB i Teater Grob: Friday 11/11 22:00 HRS

DIRECTOR FILMOGRAPHY Selected filmography: The Union (2011), Elizabethtown (2005), Vanilla Sky (2001), Almost Famous (2000), Jerry Maguire (1996)

SOUND & VISION AWARD / 135

True North - 5 days in June DIRECTOR: Benjamin Hesselholdt & Karl Bjerre Skibsted

WORLD PREMIERE / out of competition Loneliness, restlessness and a search for the great love are often-repeated themes in Danish singer Tina Dickow’s songs.

But she might be in the process of writing a new chapter in her life? At least this is a question she herself raises in the concert film ‘True North’. The film is shot over the course of five concerts in Koncerthuset in 2011, where Tina Dickow together with DR UnderholdningsOrkestret took the audience on a journey through 11 internal and stormy songs, which all move around her musical and personal development. Apart from old songs in new clothes, we are presented with two new songs, the title song ‘True North’ and the opening song ‘They Should See Me’. Between the detailed images and the roaring soundscapes from Koncerthuset, we are given a series of intimate portraits, where the handheld camera follows the country’s most popular singer in Denmark and Iceland.

Original title True North - 5 Dage i Juni Country Denmark Year 2011 Running time 63 min.

Production DR and The Danish National Chamber Orchestra Producer Karl Bjerre Skibsted World Sales / Contact: DR and The Danish National Chamber Orchestra

SCREENING DATES Dagmar: Wednesday 9/11 20:30 HRS / Grand: Friday 11/11 19:00 HRS / Cinemateket: Sunday 13/11 19:15 HRS

DIRECTOR FILMOGRAPHY Benjamin Hesselholdt: Performing Parades (CPH:DOX 2009), Adam Fischer og Musikken (2009). Karl Bjerre Skibsted: Tina Dickow - True North (2011, co-dir.)

136 / SOUND & VISION AWARD

The Music According To Tom Jobim DIRECTOR: Nelson Pereira Dos Santos

EUROPEAN PREMIERE There are possibly a few places in the world where one still hasn’t heard ‘The Girl From Ipanema’. But there definitely aren’t many of them. Antonio Carlos Jobim’s music has, in other words, reached far around the globe, and the influence of the greatest of all Bossa Nova masters is enormous. Instead of telling the man’s story from start to finish, the 83-year-old Brazilian master director Nelson Pereira dos Santos has decided to focus on what it is all about: the music. In a bustling musical collage, we get to see both known and brand-new footage of artists who have sung his songs - from Frank Sinatra to Astrud Gilberto. The non-narrating style and originally edited potpourri makes it feel as if we’ve jumped straight into a time machine and are standing on stage ourselves - surrounded by the beautiful tones and softly swaying rhythms. A wonderful and extremely musical tribute to a great man and his underplayed music.

Original title A Música Segundo Tom Jobim Country Brazil, USA Year 2011 Running time 88 min.

Production Regina Filmes Producer Ivelise Ferreira World Sales / Contact: Regina Filmes, Brazil

SCREENING DATES Grand: Friday 4/11 21:30 HRS / Cinemateket: Tuesday 8/11 21:45 HRS / Grand: Sunday 13/11 14:20 HRS

DIRECTOR FILMOGRAPHY Selected filmography: Barren LIves (1963), Hunger for Love (1968), How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman (1971), The Amulet of Ogum (1974), Tenda dos Milagres (1977), Jubiabá (1986), A Terceira Margem do Rio (1994), Guerra e Liberdade - Castro Alves em São Paulo (1998), Brasília 18% (2006)

SOUND & VISION AWARD / 137

AMNESTY AWARD

Amnesty Award is CPH:DOX’s competition programme for auteur films focusing on various aspects of the struggle for human rights. The ambition behind the series is to show that it is possible to tell the important stories that need to be told without losing the aesthetic focus that makes cinema a medium of artistic expression.

Quite to the contrary. In the right hands cinema has an incredible capacity to place us in someone else’s shoes and to provide us with an understanding of complex issues beyond the headlines of the news. This sense of simply ‘being there’ is an underestimated capacity of film, which is none the less heightened when they are experienced in the darkness of a cinema. And it is a potential that is explored with great humanist effect in several of the nominated films. This year’s opening film, ‘In My Mother’s Arms’ does just this, and places us inside a highly unusual orphanage in the middle of Baghdad where bombs go off on camera while the children play inside.

Mysterious explosions also conclude another seemingly simple film in this selection. Or, nota-film. Mojtaba Mirtahmasb & Jafar Panahi’s minimalist masterpiece ‘This is Not a Film’ is a stoic and intelligent protest against any regime that tries to suppress its citizens – and its artists among them. Mirtahmasb has been denied attending our and other festivals, but their (not-a-)film is still the most powerful statement on the freedom of thought and speech that you are likely to see.

The films nominated for this year’s Amnesty Award are diverse and full of promise - if not always for the world as a whole, at least for the documentary as an art form.

AMNESTY AWARD is a cash prize of 5,000 Euros.

The award is kindly sponsored by Merkur Andelskasse.

Opening Film: In My Mother’s Arms DIRECTOR: Atia & Mohamed Al-Daradji

EUROPEAN PREMIERE Husham Al Thabe, a young family father, has decided to shelter with boundless devotion a whole herd of 32 boys in a house in one of the poorest areas in Baghdad. Those orphans epitomize the direct effects of the US-led invasion of Iraq as well as of the innernational fight of different warlords and Terrorism. In My Mother’s Arms is a documentary about an unusual home in Sadr-City far apart from any state-institution where young victims of violence are given a new lease on life and on love. Three boys become main characters: Saif Slaam, a 7-year-old Kurdish boy with a magnificent voice; Mohamed Waael, promising member of the Iraqi diving team; and Salah Abass, a 10-year-old who’s deeply wounded, sometimes scared-to-death or horrifying empty gaze will not leave one after the film. Together they bear their common faith and individual traumatising experiences, and though live for the joyful moments of camaraderie and security. When the landlord is raising rent, the children are in danger to loose their newly-gained home. In a clear and though deeply touching way the film gives those boys who long for a mother’s unconditional love, a voice.

Original title In My Mother’s Arms Country Iraq, Netherlands, UK Year 2011 Running time 78 min.

Production Human Film, UK Producer Isabelle Stead, Atia Al Daradji, Mohamed Al Daradji World Sales / Contact: Human Film, UK

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Friday 4/11 19:15 HRS / Cinemateket: Sunday 6/11 19:00 HRS / Grand: Tuesday 8/11 17:30 HRS

DIRECTOR FILMOGRAPHY Mohamed Al-Daradji: Ahlaam (2006), Son of Babylon (2010), Iraq: War, Love, God, Madness (2010). Atia Al-Daradji: In My Mother’s Arms (2011, co-director)

140 / AMNESTY AWARD

This is not a Film DIRECTOR: Mojtaba Mirtahmasb & Jafar Panahi

The news about the Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi, who has been sentenced to six years in prison and a 20-year ban on making films (or expressing himself in any other way in public) by the regime in his native country, was greeted with shock and huge protests all over the world. Not least because he is one of contemporary film culture’s greatest humanists, whose poetic everyday realism is discrete and stoical. But now Panahi nonetheless gets to talk.

‘This is not a Film’ was smuggled to the Cannes film festival on a USB stick hidden in a cake, but was one of the most talked-about films at this year’s festival. But it isn’t a ‘film’ in the usual sense, but a film artistic statement and a master class with Panahi in the director’s apartment in Teheran, where he is under house arrest in the company of a large Iguana, and is being visited by the colleague Mojtaba Mirtahmasb. Panahi gives us a lively account of his ideals for film art, and about a new film that he is planning to make. Several times, he is interrupted by the reality outside.

It looks simple, but it is one of the most intelligent and clever political films for several years. And it is both heart-rending and, paradoxically, also very funny.

Original title In Film Nist Country Iran Year 2011 Running time 75 min.

Production Jafar Panahi Film Productions Producer Jafar Panahi World Sales / Contact: Wide Management, France

SCREENING DATES Grand: Saturday 5/11 20:00 HRS / Grand: Thursday 10/11 16:30 HRS

DIRECTOR FILMOGRAPHY Mojtaba Mirtahmasb: Back Vocal (CPH:DOX 2009), Lady of the Roses. Jafar Panahi: Offside (2006), Crimson Gold (2003), The Circle (2000), The Mirror (1997), Ardekoul (1997), The White Balloon (1995), The Last Exam (1992), The Friend (1992), Kish (1991), The Wounded Heads (1988)

AMNESTY AWARD / 141

The Tiniest Place DIRECTOR: TATIANA HUEZO SÁNCHEZ

‘The Tiniest Place’ is the frighteningly real horror story about the small village Cinquera, deep inside the jungle of El Salvador, which for 12 years tried to survive the horrors of civil war. The Mexican director Titiana Huezo Sánchez was born in El Salvador and in her first feature length work, she paints a portrait of a village which decades later is still plagued by the ghosts of the past.

The villagers’ unforgettable stories are the corner stone of a film that insists on the need to remember and process even the most unpleasant memories and which with a confident aesthetic sense manages to extend the chilling ghostly atmosphere from one image to the next. But the ghastliness never becomes unbearable - on the contrary: the Salvadorians’ will to survive is so strong and the film’s poetic imagery is so beautiful that one even ends up coming out of the cinema in a life-affirming mood. ‘The Tiniest Place’ has been universally applauded by critics all over the world, and one understands why. It is rare that a humanist film project has succeeded so well in being a work of art.

Original title El lugar mas pequeño Country Mexico Year 2011 Running time 104 min.

Production Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica (CCC) Producer Nicolás Celis World Sales / Contact: Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica (CCC), Mexico

SCREENING DATES Gloria: Thursday 3/11 22:00 HRS / Husets Biograf: Thursday 10/11 21:00 HRS / Vester Vov Vov: Sunday 13/11 19:00 HRS

DIRECTOR FILMOGRAPHY El ombligo del mundo (2001, short), Tiempo caustico (1997, short)

142 / AMNESTY AWARD

Better This World DIRECTOR: Katie Galloway & Kelly Duane de la Vega

When investigative journalism becomes interesting enough for the cinema, pure magic can result. This is the case in ‘Better This World’, which is a purebred docu-thriller. In a captivating way, it portrays the story of two childhood friends, Brad Crowder and David McKay from Texas, who after a tense demonstration in front of the Republican convention in 2008 are arrested on terrorism charges. The film has more dramatic twists than any Hollywood film, but the story is also a case of reality that surpasses fiction.

Idealism, loyalty, crime, betrayal and friendship come together in the great narrative about Cowder, McKay, their charming (but credible?) Henry Rollins-style grass roots mentor Brandon Darby, and the entire court case, which added a new Kafkaesque slant on the United States’ ‘war against terror’.

Original title Better This World Country US Year 2011 Running time 93 min.

Production Loteria Films Producer Katie Galloway, Kelly Duane de la Vega, Mike Nicholson World Sales / Contact: Cat & Docs, France

SCREENING DATES Grand: Friday 4/11 17:00 HRS / Dagmar: Sunday 6/11 12:00 HRS / Dagmar: Wednesday 9/11 21:30 HRS

DIRECTOR FILMOGRAPHY Kelly Duane de la Vega: See How They Run (2001), Monumental: David Brower’s Fight for Wild America (2004). Katie Galloway: Prison Town, USA (2007)

AMNESTY AWARD / 143

Grande Hotel DIRECTOR: Lotte Stoops

Once upon a time, it was the preferred residence of the upper class and rich travellers. But since it closed down in 1962, the gigantic 5-star Grande Hotel in Beira on Mozambique’s coast has quickly fallen into a state of decay, and today it is a colossal monument of the colonial hubris of the past. Within the ruins of the baroque luxury, new inhabitants have moved into building’s mere 120 rooms, and a new social self-rule has arisen. Almost 3500 people now live in the abandoned palace, and they fill the shady corridors with stories about love and unfortunate destinies, while the trees are slowly growing through the cement. Their common home, meanwhile, is being threatened from within by desperate inhabitants, who are breaking the house down at night to sell the parts and buy rice, sugar and drinks with the proceeds. And from the outside, there are plans to turn the hotel into a supermarket.

Homelessness is threatening the deeply impoverished community, which includes many children and people who have lived their for decades. But how long does one have to live in a place before one can call it one’s home? ‘Grande Hotel’ unites all the threads in a political and poetic (ghost) story, which is told evocatively by the Belgian director Lotte Stoops and with a sense for the enormous rooms, where the past and the present become one.

Original title Grande Hotel Country Belgium Year 2011 Running time 70 min.

Production Serendipity Films, Volya films Producer Ellen de Waele, Denis Vaslin World Sales / Contact: Serendipity films, UK

SCREENING DATES Dagmar: Friday 4/11 19:00 HRS / DOX:CLUB i Teater Grob: Wednesday 9/11 20:00 HRS / Cinemateket: Saturday 12/11 14:00 HRS

DIRECTOR FILMOGRAPHY Spiegelblad (2006), Swazi Secrets (2006), Cut the Crap (2005)

144 / AMNESTY AWARD

Crulic - The Path Beyond DIRECTOR: Anca Damian

The unforgettable animated tale of the life - or rather death - of the Romanian Claudiu Crulic is told from the grave by the protagonist himself. The fact that he is dead is revealed straight away, in a scene about his mother’s difficulty with identifying her own son, as he in his own words looks like someone who is not one day younger than 70, even if he is only 33 years old. Crulic’s decline towards death starts when he is accused for stealing a wallet in Poland, and even though his innocence is proven in court, he is nonetheless sentenced and imprisoned. In his hope of achieving justice, Crulic tries to appeal to the system, but without luck, and as a reaction he embarks on a hunger strike. But Crulic’s stubborn and persistent attempts to regain the freedom he so deeply longs for is time and again thwarted by bureaucratic errors. A true Kafkaesque story told with a strong visual style, which lends a subtle sense of poetry to an otherwise gruesome story.

Original title Crulic - The Path Beyond Country Romania Year 2011 Running time 71 min.

Production Aparte Film, Fundacja im. Ferdynanda Magallana Producer Anca Damian World Sales / Contact: Wide Management, France

SCREENING DATES Grand: Thursday 3/11 17:00 HRS / Vester Vov Vov: Monday 7/11 19:00 HRS / Gloria: Thursday 10/11 18:00 HRS

DIRECTOR FILMOGRAPHY Intalniri incrucisate (2008), Eu si cu mine (2006, short), Atâta liniste-i în jur (1999, short), Eminescu, truda întru cuvânt (1996)

AMNESTY AWARD / 145

Our School DIRECTOR: Mona Nicoara, Miruna Coca-Cozma

The Major of Targu Lapus welcomes the film team and some curious and excited children in front of the ruins of the old school in Dileu - the one Roma district in the small Romanian city.

His elaborate platitudes concerning the European integration process of Roma children into the Romanian school system and their need for an appropriate education gives a glimpse of the stark reality behind the rhetoric of integration of the Roma into the European Union. Over the course of four years the film-maker follows carefully the development of Alin, Benjamin and Dana, three Roma children who are intimately bound to the rhythm of the rural community, but simultaneously drawn powerfully toward exploring the world outside. Whether their ambition is driven by their innocent interest and fight for integration into the education system, or just for a belonging to the other children it remains steadfast in the face of seemingly insuperable obstacles. The film gives a bittersweet and sometimes humorous insight into what it means to be a Roma in the EU and details the daily confrontation with prejudices and institutionalized racism the Roma face in their fight for equality.

Original title Our School Year 2011 Running time 94 min.

Producer Mona Nicoara, Miruna Coca-Cozma World Sales / Contact: Motto Pictures, USA

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Monday 7/11 19:15 HRS / Dagmar: Sunday 13/11 12:00 HRS

DIRECTOR FILMOGRAPHY Miruna Coca-Cozma: Omar Porras, sorcier de la scène (2008), La reprise musicale opus 2006 (2007). Mona Nicoara: Our School (2011, co-director)

146 / AMNESTY AWARD

Rangkasbitung: A Piece of Tale DIRECTOR: Hafiz Rancajale, Andang Kelana, Badrul Munir, Fuad Fauji, Hafiz & Syaiful Anwar

WORLD PREMIERE Even if the tofu sellers in Rangkasbitung have a reputation for being criminal troublemakers, they are nonetheless two entirely likeable young men whom we meet in the film of the same name. Kiwong dreams of a life with better future prospects. Iron thinks that music is a gift from God, and spends his free time with a hardcore punk band at the local ‘underground’ scene. The framework could have been an American independent film, but Rangkasbitung is an impoverished village close to the Indonesian capital Jakarta, which just like all other cities is a reflection of the provincial youths’ dreams and hopes - also for the young generation of Indonesians who grew up after the downfall of the military regime in the end of the 1990s. Kiwong and Iron play, gossip and hang out at the market where one can buy tofu, copies of the Quran and bootleg CDs. And precisely because the film was made by the young, artistically independent film collective Forum Lenteng, we are here given the local perspective, where the real poverty is not being problematised in a well-meant western way. It is a film, that looks ahead through the eyes of youths, and which makes full use of the possibilities of the medium.

Original title Dongeng Rangkas Country Indonesia Year 2011 Running time 75 min.

Production Forum Lenteng Producer Otty Widasari, Hafiz Rancajale World Sales / Contact: Forum Lenteng, Indonesia

SCREENING DATES Vester Vov Vov: Saturday 5/11 19:00 HRS / Husets Biograf: Thursday 10/11 19:00 HRS

DIRECTOR FILMOGRAPHY Hafiz Rancajale: Meet Jen (2008), Be RTDM (2006), The Carriage (2006), Alam: Syuhada (2005), The Valley of the Dog Songs (2004)

AMNESTY AWARD / 147

Land of Black Gold DIRECTOR: Li Xiaofeng & Jia Kai

WORLD PREMIERE In a few years, the mining industry has turned the impoverished region of Yulin into China’s own little Klondike or Kuwait. People stream like the possessed from far away to the mines to start just one kind of coal-related business or another and to realise their dream of overnight wealth. Most of them have to face up to the fact that it wasn’t a short cut to a happy life. On the contrary, the mines collapse around the people without any consequences for those responsible. In three chapters, with a different narrative strategy in each, the documentary couple Li Xiaofeng and Jia Kai decipher the social mechanisms behind the Chinese coal rush and its human costs, and thereby gives us a better look at where the planet’s new superpower is heading than many reports in the evening news. ‘Land of Black Gold’ is solid like only the best Chinese documentaries, but also has its own original voice accompanied by wester-inspired blues music and sudden glimpses of humour that is black as charcoal.

Original title Land of Black Gold Country China Year 2011 Running time 142 min.

Production 41docufilm Production Producer Jia Kai World Sales / Contact: docufilm 41, China

SCREENING DATES Husets Biograf: Sunday 6/11 17:30 HRS / Dagmar: Saturday 12/11 14:00 HRS

DIRECTOR FILMOGRAPHY Li Xiaofeng: My Last Secret (2008),Walk in the Dark (2005). Jia Kai: Land of Black Gold (2011, co-director)

148 / AMNESTY AWARD

Bedtime Stories from the Axis of Evil DIRECTOR: Vibeke Bryld

WORLD PREMIERE / out of competition They also tell their children bedtime stories in Iran, Iraq and North Korea - or in the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Axis of Evilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;, as the former American president, with a fittingly adventurous rhetoric, preferred to name the three countries. Three countries, which are all (or have all been) governed by a hard and authoritarian regime, but also three highly different countries with different cultural narratives. And when the twilight has once again set in on Baghdad, Teheran and Pyongyang, it is time to tell a story. For how does one tell children the difference between good and evil, when reality outside the front door seems to have given up making a difference? The stories focus on power and morality, but are told in an allegorical tone, which can be understood by both young and old all over the world. In the meantime, the camera floats around in the dark between buildings, which upon closer inspection turn out to be small architectural masterpieces. An original and inventive film with something on its mind and plenty to tell.

Original title Godnathistorier fra Ondskabens Akse Country Denmark Year 2011 Running time 28 min.

Production Upfront Films Producer Anna-Maria Kantarius World Sales / Contact: Upfront Films Aps, Denmark

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Monday 7/11 21:45 HRS / Cinemateket: Wednesday 9/11 19:15 HRS / Dagmar: Thursday 10/11 14:20 HRS

DIRECTOR FILMOGRAPHY Throwing Paint Tins off the Roof (CPH:DOX 2007)

AMNESTY AWARD / 149

Crayons Of Askalan DIRECTOR: Laila Hotait Salas

INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE Laila Hotait Salasâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s creative hybrid documentary is based on the true story about the Palestinian artist Zuhdi Al Adawi, who in 1975 at the age of just 15 years was convicted to 15 yearsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; imprisonment, which he served in the Israeli high-security prison Askalan. It was only thanks to the help of his fellow inmates and their families that he managed to survive mentally. Colour crayons that were smuggled in became his only contact with the outside world not through letters, but through his distressed and allegorical drawings, which are brought to life in partially animated sequences.

A dreamy and romantic film with real roots in a historic case.

Original title Crayons Of Askalan Country Lebanon, Spain Year 2011 Running time 65 min.

Production Laaventura Producer Laila Hotait Salas World Sales / Contact: Laaventura productions, Spain

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Monday 7/11 21:45 HRS / Dagmar: Thursday 10/11 14:20 HRS

DIRECTOR FILMOGRAPHY Absent Spaces (2009), The south is back (2008)

150 / AMNESTY AWARD

The Redemption of General Butt Naked DIRECTOR: Eric Strauss & Daniele Anastasion

Joshua Milton Blahyi - aka. General Butt Naked - was a ruthless and feared warlord under Liberia’s 14 year civil war. With around 20,000 deaths to answer for, Blahyi has meanwhile distanced himself from his violent past and reinvented himself as a Christian evangelist. With Bible in hand, he travels across the country as a preacher and visits the people he once hurt in the hope of being forgiven for his atrocities. He is confronted with the people he once used to terrorise, preaches where he once used to murder, and tries to rebuild the lives of those soldiers that he has devastated.

Over the course of 5 years, Eric Strauss and Daniele Anastasion have followed Blahyi’s often difficult journey close-up and managed to capture both the seemingly sincere as well as the alarming aspects of the former militia leader’s efforts. The film forces us to ask ourselves what the concept of true and meaningful reconciliation is in a country where justice is a scarce good. No matter how you decide to see him - as a liar, a madman, a swindler or a true repentant - you will probably never meet a character as challenging as Joshua Milton Blahyi, General Butt Naked.

Original title The Redemption of General Butt Naked Country US Year 2010 Running time 84 min.

World Sales / Contact: Film Sales Company Theatrical, USA

SCREENING DATES DOX:CLUB i Teater Grob: Sunday 6/11 14:00 HRS / Cinemateket: Tuesday 8/11 19:15 HRS / Husets Biograf: Sunday 13/11 19:00 HRS

DIRECTOR FILMOGRAPHY The Redemption of General Butt Naked (2011)

AMNESTY AWARD / 151

Lost Land DIRECTOR: Pierre-Yves Vandeweerd

Straddling a 2,400-kilometer-long wall constructed by the Moroccan army, the Western Sahara is today divided into two sections - one occupied by Morocco, the other under the control of the Sahrawi National Liberation Movement’s Polisario Front.

Drawing from stories of flight, exile, interminable waiting and the arrested, persecuted lives on both sides of that wall, this film bears witness to the Sahrawi people, their land, their entrapment in other people s dreams. In an esthetic that sublimates the real, Lost Land resonates like a score that juxtaposes sonorous landscapes, black-and-white portraits and nomadic poetics.

Original title Territoire Perdu Country France, Belgium Year 2011 Running time 75 min.

Production Zeugma Films, Cobra Film, ARTE Producer Daniel De Valck & Anne Deligne World Sales / Contact: Cobra Films, Belgium

SCREENING DATES Dagmar: Friday 4/11 12:00 HRS / Grand: Friday 11/11 17:00 HRS

DIRECTOR FILMOGRAPHY TERRITOIRE PERDU (Lost Land) (2011), LES DORMANTS (The Dormants) (2009), LE CERCLE DES NOYES (Drowned in oblivion) (2007), CLOSED DISTRICT (2004), RACINES LOINTAINES (Faraway Roots) (2002), NEMADIS, DES ANNEES SANS NOUVELLES (Nemadis, The Years without news) (2000)(co-directed with Benoît Mariage) (2000)

152 / AMNESTY AWARD

Rouge Parole DIRECTOR: Elyes Baccar

INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE ‘Dégage! Dégage! Dégage!’ Or in English: ‘Sign off!’ Continously shouting is echoing through the streets those days in Tunisia - even at night, one can hear a loud and angry voice of a man who proudly proclaimes: ‘Ben Ali ran away!’ The Tunesian people woke up from their seeming decades-lasting sleep. ‘Rouge parole’ offers a repesentative cross-section of the Tunesian popularity and therefore draws a detailed pictures of various citizen demanding freedom and justice as well as an end to all oppression. The film is like a collage of right-in-the-moment footage of the events that re-tells the story of the newly-gained pride and success, and therefore also takes the Tunesian influence on the following countries into account. The moment when an astonished and happy crowd is standing in front of book piles - books that had been banned by Ben Ali - functions as a methaphor for Tunisia to date: People are proud of their revolution but also need to find ways to use their new freedom to their demands. ‘Rouge Parole’ is a celebration of freedom and a first attempt to write a nation’s history and faith.

Original title Rouge Parole Country Switzerland, Tunisia Year 2011 Running time 97 min.

Production Fine Pearl (QA) - Gaia Production (TU) - Akka Films (CH) Producer Marmoud Bouneb World Sales / Contact: Akka Films, Switzerland

SCREENING DATES Dagmar: Friday 4/11 14:20 HRS / Dagmar: Thursday 10/11 16:30 HRS

DIRECTOR FILMOGRAPHY Rouge Parole (2011), WAILING WALL (2010), She& He (2006)

AMNESTY AWARD / 153

DOC ALLIANCE AWARD

DOC ALLIANCE is a partnership between five key European documentary film festivals – CPH:DOX Copenhagen, DOK Leipzig, IDFF Jihlava, Planete Doc Review Warsaw and VISIONS DU RÉEL Nyon. The aim of the Doc Alliance initiative is to support the diversity of feature documentaries and to convince audiences of the fascinating, moving and instructive aspects of the cinema du réel where reality surpasses fiction and becomes spectacular.

Doc Alliance was born with the awareness that new initiatives are needed to promote remarkable films to a general market that is less permeable to their circulation and commercialisation and to approach various audiences in every conceivable manner, ranging from cinema, television, DVD , VOD and other networks. Its objective is to create an inventive and dynamic distribution platform for filmmakers and producers by offering attractive alternatives, debates, choices and perspectives.

DOC ALLIANCE SELECTION represents five high-quality films, one selected by each of the Doc Alliance festival partners. The films tour the five festivals, and at the end of the year a winner is nominated by an international jury. The Award Ceremony will be held in Copenhagen this year. Check out the films on the next pages.

WWW.DOCALLIANCEFILMS.COM is Doc Alliances’ online cinema offering permanent access to over 400 outstanding documentaries selected by the five partner festivals. Twenty new films are added monthly and can be aquired through streaming or download. As a one-off event you are able to watch films on DAF for FREE! On the 12th & 13th of November we are showing 5 exclusive films from this year’s festival program.

The selected films are: Accidentes Gloriosos // MAURO ANDRIZZI, MARCUS LINDEEN, Bombay Beach // Alma Har’el, Marija’s Own // Zeljka Suková, Grande Hotel // Lotte Stoops, Nowhere Near Tomorrow // Lisa Reisch This is a one-off 48 hour event only. Make sure to log on to WWW.DOCALLIANCEFILMS.COM and watch the films before it is too late.

Sira - Songs of The Crescent Moon DIRECTOR: Sandra Gysi & Ahmed Abdel Mohsen

For hundreds of years, the Old Arabic poem ‘Sira’ has been a colourful, collective cultural memory, which united the Arab people across generations and boundaries. The five million verse long (!) poetic opus has passed from mouth to ear over centuries, and now lives with Sayyed El-Dawi. He is the world’s last Sira singer, and he has the enormous work stored in his memory. With the poem as a life project, we follow his attempts to retain a lyrical past in the midst of modern Egypt’s transformation and fast progress. His son Ramadan is expected to carry on the tradition, but the mebers of the new generation see the world with other eyes than their forefathers. Ramadan’s take of the Sira-tradition is suffused with modern influences. Pop music and stage shows are at odds with the father’s belief in the poet’s place at a street-level among the people, and the stage is thereby set for a discussion about tradition, art and culture in this rhythmic Arabic tale of generational shifts.

The pace is fast as songs bear the film through the old Egyptian bazars and a flourishing entertainment industry, where the decision has to be made if the art itself is allowed to develop or should be left to disappear in a country, which is trying to assume a new identity at breakneck speed.

SCREENING DATES Husets Biograf: Friday 11/11 17:00 HRS / Husets Biograf: Sunday 13/11 21:00 HRS

156 / DOC ALLIANCE AWARD

Original title Sira - Songs of The Crescent Moon Country Switzerland Year 2011 Running time 77 min.

World Sales / Contact: Columbus Film AG, Switzerland

Olda DIRECTOR: Viera Cákanyová

What happens when the camera ends up in the hands of the film’s subject-matter. The Czech pensioner Miss Oldriska lives an isolated indoor life, suffering from Alzheimers. With her absolute access to the camera, she guides the audience into her world, where we from our peephole in the camera - in what has to be described as absolute vérité style - are involved in a person’s life, but are also forgotten on the kitchen table. With the apartment as the eternal focal point, we start guessing Olda’s transformed world, where rose-red communism had to make way for the grey shades of capitalism. The film gives us a total and rare look at a locked-in life, and it paints an unembellished portrait of an Alzheimers mind.

In spite of the story’s dark subject matter, however, ‘Olda’ never becomes oppressive, as ones time is spent in good company, and the many stormy laments about a world that is out of joint often take on the form of a comical one-woman show. The individual and the project come together to form a union, and Olga’s long monologues are the framework for a two-room chamber piece with an almost trance-like subjectivity. This apartment is definitely worth a visit.

Original title Olda Country Slovakia Year 2010 Running time 80 min.

Producer Viera Cákanyová World Sales / Contact: Viera Cakanyova, Slovakia

SCREENING DATES Vester Vov Vov: Thursday 3/11 19:00 HRS / Husets Biograf: Sunday 13/11 14:00 HRS

DOC ALLIANCE AWARD / 157

Brother Sister DIRECTOR: Maria Mohr

What role does God play in our everyday lives, and how does life in a monastery reconcile itself with a world in constant flux? Maria Mohr delivers a strongly personal account of her aunt Ingrid’s unstoppable devotion to God, which also draws parallels to her own late brother and his suicide. ‘Brother Sister’ follows Ingrid’s deep fascination of the Spanis monk and mystic Rafael Arnálz, and we journey around Europe at the heels of her burning desire to spread the word of the long deceased thinker, and to finally witness his sanctification. Can one draw parallels between the aunt’s burning mission and the director’s own loss of her brother? The saint and the brother are placed side-by-side in the story, which stretches across 60 years, where loss, faith and a personal calling come together in an abstract collage. With the life story of the Spanish mystic as its starting point, the dead brother and the aunt’s life project come together to form a whole, which with the motive of faith gives rise to a discussion and reveals the parallels between the isolated life in a monastery and the aimless life of modernity.

Is there still space for God, and what space is there in the world for all those for whom the answer is yes?

SCREENING DATES Vester Vov Vov: Friday 4/11 19:00 HRS / Cinemateket: Saturday 12/11 10:00 HRS

158 / DOC ALLIANCE AWARD

Original title Bruder Schwester Country Germany Year 2010 Running time 90 min.

World Sales / Contact: HANFGARN & UFER, Germany

The Good Life DIRECTOR: Eva Mulvad

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. ‘The Good Life’ is nominated for the Doc Alliance Award 2011.

Original title The Good Life Country Denmark Year 2010 Running time 83 min.

Production Danish Documentary Production Producer Sigrid Dyekjær World Sales / Contact: Danish Documentary Production, Denmark

SCREENING DATES Dagmar: Thursday 3/11 16:40 HRS / Empire: Monday 7/11 17:30 HRS / Vester Vov Vov: Friday 11/11 19:00 HRS

DOC ALLIANCE AWARD / 159

Gunnar Goes God DIRECTOR: Gunnar Hall Jensen

Gunnar Hall Jensen’s convenient middle class existence is about to come apart at the seams. Something is tingling him like a thorn in the side. What is it that Gunnar is lacking? The troubling suburban ennui sets off the hunt for answers to age-old questions, and Gunnar assembles his team to travel to Egypt, where the monks in the world’s oldest monastery can maybe help out by giving him an answer. However, the sausage-coloured, Scandinavian grill idyl soon clashes with the ascetic life of a monk, which meets the small team on their adventure, and the result is an inviting and attentive fable about modern disoriented man. Great amounts of ironic pop counterbalance a heavy topic, and ‘Gunnar Goes God’ lightly leaps between a seeking personal existentialism and modern performance comedy. Can a film tell us what happiness is? Or faith?

Gunnar uses the documentary process as his own personal therapy, and the audience takes on a role as a silent conversational partner for the questions and answers that he picks up en route. The ever topical search for a meaning is something we can all recognise, and the honest, inviting portrait and mirror image treats the topic with an entertaining humility that is neither moralising nor banal.

Original title Gunnar Goes God Country Norway Year 2010 Running time 85 min.

Production Agitator Producer Elin Sander World Sales / Contact: Norwegian Film Institute, Norway

SCREENING DATES Dagmar: Thursday 3/11 19:00 HRS / Cinemateket: Sunday 6/11 19:15 HRS / Vester Vov Vov: Thursday 10/11 19:00 HRS

160 / DOC ALLIANCE AWARD

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CURATED BY NAN GOLDIN BEN RIVERS & BEN RUSSELL

I’LL BE YOUR MIRROR CURATED BY NAN GOLDIN

Nan Goldin is one of the most significant photographers of our times. We have invited her to re-interpret the title of her magnum opus, ’I’ll Be Your Mirror’, in a curated film programme that we are very happy to present at CPH:DOX 2011.

Known to document her own and her nearest friends’ lives and most private spheres, Nan Goldin is an uncompromosing documentarist and portrait photographer – an artist for whom life and work are inextricably linked in a great symbiotic embrace.

Since the late 60’s she has documented her own and her friends’ lives in tens of thousands of pictures, and her photographs of drag queens and drug addicts depict urban life in New York and Europe throughout the 70’s and 80’s. Nan Goldin has elevated the raw and fragile intimacy of the snapshot to an artform in itself, and her work is always marked by a unique intimacy between the photographer and the subject.

To Goldin, the photograph seems to be a way of taking control of the personal biography, and documentation a way of saving moments and memories from the unavoidable erosion of time. ’A diary I let people read’, is how she herself describes ’The Ballad of Sexual Dependency’, which can be experienced live at the National Gallery accompanied by Genesis P-Orridge at an exclusive live event during CPH:DOX on November 10.

The Cool World DIRECTOR: Shirley Clarke

‘The Cool World’ takes the audience deep into the raw and harsh reality of 1960s black Harlem. And even if the director Shirley Clarke follows a rigorous screenplay, the scenes ooze authenticity and a documentary edge in their focus on one-on-one situations taken raw and directly out of real life. Smooth Jazz interpretations of Dizz Gillespie create a gloomy atmospheric soundscape around the almost photographic aesthetic, and perfectly complement the repetitive scenes, where the gang leader Duke constantly - but always with new methods - tries to get money for a gun. Clarke observes the violent behaviour of youths in gangs like the Pythons and the Wolves, while the black priest in a violent pre-Black Power sermon proclaims his own racial interpretation of society to the masses, and a white policeman observes suspiciously in the wings.

See it while you can - ‘The Cool World’ has never been released and is only available in a few copies.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Thursday 3/11 16:30 HRS

166 / CURATED BY NAN GOLDIN

Original title The Cool World Country US Year 1964 Running time 104 min.

Producer Frederick Wiseman World Sales / Contact: Zipporah Films, USA

Variety DIRECTOR: Bette Gordon

With its dirty roads and shabby porn cinemas, the wrecked downtown Manhattan of the early 1980s oozes into Bette Gordon’s ‘Variety’, like one of the cult saxophonist John Lurie’s jazz serenades would ooze into an open window of the Lower East Side in the middle of the night. The provo-author Betty Acker’s story about a young woman, who partly out of curiosity and partly because of a lack of funds accepts a nighttime job as a ticket seller at a scruffy cinema, is framed in atmospheric and saturated Cinemascope. But the ‘filmic’ framing is just as little empty style as Bette Gordon’s feminist approach is dry theory. As the young Christine starts becoming more and more fascinated by the older male guests of the establishment, she ventures onto a sexual and psychological minefield, with the spectator’s own sex as a compass.

If looks and desire are the basic components of the fiction film, it is an utterly ‘real’ - but openly desirous - look that Gordon takes at New York’s underworld through the eyes of her young protagonist.

‘I wanted to develop a story, which, like pornography, gives rise to a desire that is never satisfied.’ (Bette Gordon)

Original title Variety Country US Year 1983 Running time 100 min.

World Sales / Contact: Kino International Corporation, USA

SCREENING DATES Husets Biograf: Thursday 3/11 19:00 HRS

CURATED BY NAN GOLDIN / 167

Benjamin Smoke DIRECTOR: Jem Cohen & Peter Sillen

Benjamin Smoke is both the name of the film and its protagonist, who formed the band Smoke. But the film is far from being your usual music documentary. Shot over a period of no less than 10 years, the two directors Jem Cohen and Peter Sillen have made a both ambitious and intimate collage of interviews, live clips, time lapse cinematography and black-and-white Super 8 films in a story about a tormented genius. A genius, who was weakened by AIDS and an addiction to speed, and who died at the age of 39 from hepatitis. Until then, the loner and part time drag queen Benjamin lived in a hidden neighbourhood of Atlanta called ‘Cabbagetown’, where he created his spellbinding Tom Waits-style music. The story is told by the man himself and people such as Patti Smith, Michael Stipe and Cat Power, who like the film’s audience are left deeply moved by the existence of this unique person.

Original title Benjamin Smoke Country US Year 2000 Running time 72 min.

Producer Jem Cohen, Peter Sillen, Noah Cowan World Sales / Contact Jem Cohen Films, USA

SCREENING DATES Husets Biograf: Saturday 5/11 19:00 HRS / Husets Biograf: Friday 11/11 21:00 HRS

168 / CURATED BY NAN GOLDIN

Los Muertos DIRECTOR: Lisandro Alonso

One is simply present in the moment in the films of the Argentinian filmmaker Lisandro Alonso, whose status as one of the last decade’s most innovative exponents of the filmic hybrid experiments between documentary and fiction is becoming increasingly evident. His second film, ‘Los Muertos’, takes place on the bare surface of the earth deep inside the Argentinian wilderness, where an ageing ex-convict sets out to depart from his earthly existence. Maybe. For Alonso explains nothing and instead confronts us with ourselves and our own questions.

Nature surrounds the mute man on his journey, and creates a filmic space of sounds and impressions, which exists exclusively in the consciousness of the spectator.

Lisandro Alonso’s latest short film ‘Carta para Serra’ is also screening at CPH:DOX 2011 and can be seen in the NEW:VISION section.

Original title Los Muertos Country Argentina Year 2004 Running time 78 min.

Producer Florencia Enghel, Ilse Hughan, Vanessa Ragone , Marianne Slot World Sales / Contact Etcheberry e Hijos, Argentina

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Monday 7/11 21:15 HRS / Cinemateket: Thursday 10/11 18:30 HRS

CURATED BY NAN GOLDIN / 169

Wanda DIRECTOR: Barbara Loden

Barbara Loden only made this one film, a vérité-inspired road movie, where she was both the director and played the protagonist.

Maybe therefore, ‘Wanda’ has lived her own life outside the canonised history of the 1970s’ ‘New Hollywood’ and of the political consciousness, which in the best films of the period was a result of the new, artistic freedom. The improvisational feel and crass realism brings Loden closer to an outsider director such as Monte Hellman than to the infamous ‘movie brats’, but this is also where all comparisons must end. A restless woman, played by Loden, leaves behind her husband and child in an impoverished coal mine district in Pennsylvania. She drifts around aimlessly in a United States that is undergoing change, before she joins a small-time crook and charlatan. ‘This is what I used to be like myself. I had no identity of my own, I just tried to be like I imagined people wanted me to be,’ Loden later said about her autobiographical film.

SCREENING DATES Husets Biograf: Sunday 6/11 21:30 HRS

170 / CURATED BY NAN GOLDIN

Original title Wanda Country US Year 1970 Running time 102 min.

World Sales / Contact: MK2, France

San Clemente DIRECTOR: Raymond Depardon

In 1980, the celebrated French Magnum photographer and direct cinema-inspired documentary filmmaker Raymond Depardon returned to the Italian psychiatric hospital San Clemente. A few years earlier, he had made a photo series among the institution’s employees, but a recently passed law was now forcing the place to shut down. Depardon moved in for ten days, and the result is a documentary milestone, a gripping magnum opus, which - like a French counterpart to Frederick Wiseman’s ‘Titicut Folies’ (1967) or Forugh Farrokhzad’s ‘The House is Black’ (1967) - invites us into a world, which would otherwise be sealed off from the public’s eyes for ever. Depardon portrays life on the ward with enormous compassion for the individual destinies, by consistently focusing on individual faces and the many routines of everyday life, and even if it isn’t always easy for him to maintain the observer’s distance that he is known for, the result is a no less astonishing portrayal of the inmates’ neutral preparation for the freedom that maybe awaits them on the other side.

Original title San Clemente Country France Year 1982 Running time 113 min.

World Sales / Contact: CULTURESFRANCE, France

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Monday 7/11 16:45 HRS

CURATED BY NAN GOLDIN / 171

Blue DIRECTOR: Derek Jarman

The idea of the film screen as a mirror turned towards the spectator is taken to the extreme in Derek Jarman’s uncompromising, filmartistic testament ‘Blue’, which was made as Jarman was dying of AIDS, and when the illness had partially cost him his eyesight.

The screen is simply a deep and tranquil blue colour during the entire length of the film. And Jarman’s voice on the tightly woven soundtrack is all the more poignant, as he shares his diary entries about the transitoriness of the body, about death, about ‘seeing’ and about art as the only way to reach out towards eternity - but he never loses his sharp and ironic wit. One is invited inside in a way that almost no other film has managed to do since. And if you have managed to see ‘Blue’ in the cinema, you will never forget it again.

Original title Blue Country UK Year 1993 Running time 79 min.

Producer James Mackay, Takashi Asai World Sales / Contact: Basilisk Communications Ltd, UK

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Sunday 6/11 14:15 HRS

172 / CURATED BY NAN GOLDIN

Nothing But a Man DIRECTOR: Michael Roemer

‘Nothing but a Man’ is a a black and white testimony on black life in the South of the US in the 1960’s. Duff Anderson (Ivan Dixon) meets Josie Dawson (Abbey Lincoln), the preacher’s daughter, as he is staying in Birmingham, Alabama to do itinerant work on the town’s railroad. Against her father’s will, they marry and settle down for an ordinary life. Though Duff is facing a daily fight for recognition against the white upper stratum who as his employers want to maintain the racial segregation and against the innerrace class system that has put Josie’s Father as a preacher in advantage to a simple worker. However, also the relationship to his illegitimate son and to his own father, a drunken anger-filled man challenge Duff profoundly and at the same time teach him to pay back. The passing of time since the film’s release has set the fictional narrative aside in favor of its value as a document on the racial segregation and societal structure in the US of the time. Roemer came from the documentary tradition and reflected his travel experiences through the South in the script. Created for the first integrated audience rather than an exclusively black-one, the film only targently touches the movement for equality and injustice of a second-class society. Instead, it goes far beyond the political realm in a very personal and powerful claim for human dignity and respect.

Original title Nothing But a Man Country US Year 1964 Running time 95 min.

Production DuArt, Nothing But a Man Company Producer Michael Roemer, Robert Rubin, Robert Young

SCREENING DATES Husets Biograf: Friday 11/11 19:00 HRS / Husets Biograf: Sunday 13/11 17:00 HRS

CURATED BY NAN GOLDIN / 173

She Had Her Gun All Ready DIRECTOR: Vivienne Dick

Original title: She Had Her Gun All Ready / Country: US / Year: 1978 / Running time: 28 min.

The no-wave queen, poet and provocateur Lydia Lunch has - in a sparkling collaboration with Pat Place - once again been given the driver’s seat in the underground director Vivienne Dick’s atmospherically wandering sequel to ‘Guerillère Talk’. In ‘She Had Her Gun All Ready’, the violent collision course between two strong female roles are the driving force for an examination of their relationship, colourfully placed in an eminent snapshot of New York in the year 1978.

SCREENING DATES Husets Biograf: Wednesday 9/11 21:00 HRS

Beauty Becomes the Beast DIRECTOR: Vivienne Dick

Original title: Beauty Becomes the Beast / Country: US / Year: 1979 / Running time: 40 min.

To the aggressive sounds of Teenage Jesus and The Jerks, Vivienne Dick paints a violent portrait, disguised as a gothic psychodrama, about a woman’s intense flirt with the abyss. The lead role is played by the lead singer of Teenage Jesus, Lydia Lunch, who here wanders around through Lower East Side with a dishevelled doll as her only companion.

SCREENING DATES Husets Biograf: Wednesday 9/11 21:00 HRS

174 / CURATED BY NAN GOLDIN

Libertys Booty DIRECTOR: Vivienne Dick

Original title: Libertys Booty / Country: US / Year: 1980 / Running time: 47 min.

’Vivienne Dick’s last film in her New York period draws a parallel between prostitution and the desire for success so prevalent in American culture. As in her previous films, Dick uses the camera as participant, so that the film is neither commentary nor indictment but rather all the more unsettling for its frank exploration of white middle-class prostitution. The film is unsentimental in its depiction of prostitution, showing the relationships between the Madam and the call-girls, who speak frankly about their lives. Cultural references to the 1960’s are made through the use of rock anthems, whilst the ultimate all-American girl - the Statue of Liberty - is seen performing a striptease.’ (Lux)

SCREENING DATES Husets Biograf: Wednesday 9/11 21:00 HRS

Crest Hotel DIRECTOR: Richard Mark Dobson

Original title: Crest Hotel / Country: UK / Year: 2009 / Running time: 15 min.

Richard Mark Dobson’s masterly photographic work ‘Crest Hotel’ contains all the small disturbing signs of the laborious course of history, which the photograph seems to be made for as a means to emphasise and examine. The three-star hotel is located in the middle of Johannesburg as a monument of American 1970s aesthetics in a displaced historical and cultural context - and of Dobson’s own childhood in foreign surroundings.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Wednesday 9/11 17:15 HRS

CURATED BY NAN GOLDIN / 175

Fortune Tellers DIRECTOR: Jean Christian Bourcart

Original title: Fortune Tellers / Country: France / Year: 2008 / Running time: 9 min.

‘I visit fortune tellers with an hidden camera. They tell me about my life, my love issues, recommand me not to trust my so-called friends. Facing the disclosure of that told intimacy, the viewer is turned into an unwilling witness of a crumbled story, which interrogates notions of personality, destiny and truth.’ (J.C. Bourcart)

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Wednesday 9/11 17:15 HRS

Encore une fois DIRECTOR: Jean Christian Bourcart

Original title: Encore une fois / Country: France / Year: 2008 / Running time: 5 min.

‘I wandered in S&M and swingers clubs in New York and Paris, pursuing a dream of dissolution, harmony and collective ecstasy.

My hidden camera was my own perversion, my little subliminating machine.’ (J.C. Bourcart)

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Wednesday 9/11 17:15 HRS

176 / CURATED BY NAN GOLDIN

Camden DIRECTOR: Jean Christian Bourcart

Original title: Camden / Country: France / Year: 2009 / Running time: 12 min.

‘Absurd, all I did was search the web for the most dangerous city in the USA. I wanted to find that strange energy given off by places where rules and social constraints have been abolished or weakened. Or maybe I wanted to check that it’s still possible to reach out to others, as distant and alien as they might seem. At the top of the list I found Camden, New Jersey, less than two hours from New York. There, I discovered the face of everyday poverty hidden behind stigma and stereotype. People are tough but their laughs touch me.

I’m interested in what we have in common with people from Camden.

But then again, we always record a difference.’ (J.C. Bourcart)

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Wednesday 9/11 17:15 HRS

Bardo/Autoportraits DIRECTOR: Jean Christian Bourcart

Original title: Bardo/Autoportraits / Country: France / Year: 2004 / Running time: 5 min.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Wednesday 9/11 17:15 HRS

CURATED BY NAN GOLDIN / 177

Death in the Port Jackson Hotel DIRECTOR: Ed van der Elsken

Original title: Death in the Port Jackson Hotel / Country: Netherlands / Year: 1971 / Running time: 36 min.

Film and photography meet in the Dutch master photographer Ed van der Elsken’s ‘Death in the Port Jackson Hotel’, which is a portrait of the Australian artist Vali Myers, whom van der Elksen met in Paris after the war - a meeting that turned into the photo romance ‘A Love Affair in Saint-Germain-des-Près’. 18 years later, he visits her on her farm, where his pictures from the time in Paris brings forth memories of overdoses, suicides and her past addiction to opium - a time that is replaced by a new life with a 19-year-old lover.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Wednesday 9/11 17:15 HRS

Questions to my father DIRECTOR: Konrad Mühe

Original title: Fragen an meinen Vater / Country: Germany / Year: 2011 / Running time: 12 min. / Producer: Konrad Mühe

Questions to my father is the director’s parting from his famous father, the actor Ulrich Mühe. The announced questions remain unspoken as a conceptual vacuum. The son gives the father’s various film characters a common voice and sometimes they merge into a conversation with each other. In a mosaic of five pieces and a prologue defends the father himself and accuses; appeases and encourages again, and though remains personified in his film-roles, as the only approach to his private person who is not presented to the audience. The son’s art work explores the father’s life work for lasting reminiscences but far beyond that: as a last farewell and embrace.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Wednesday 9/11 18:30 HRS

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A Film About With Anders Petersén DIRECTOR: J.H. Engström Original title: En film om Anders Petersén / Country: Sweden / Year: 2006 / Running time: 52 min.

One dazzlingly gifted photographer’s portrait of another - but in moving images. The Swede Anders Petersén is one of Europe’s best known and renowned photographers, and in his beautiful blackand-white portrait film one senses that his younger colleague J.H. Engström has both learned from Petersén and is ready to give something back in return.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Wednesday 9/11 18:30 HRS

Stay Calm, I’m sure it’s Nothing DIRECTOR: Käthe Elke Kruse

Original title: Bleib ganz ruhig, da wird schon nichts sein / Country: Germany / Year: 2011 / Running time: 40 min.

WORLD PREMIERE

The world premiere of a brand new, performative video by the German artist Käthe Kruse - curated by Nan Goldin.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Wednesday 9/11 18:30 HRS

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LIVE: Nan Goldin & Genesis P-Orridge

THE BALLAD OF SEXUAL DEPENDENCY AT THE NATIONAL gallery of denamrk Genesis P-Orridge (Throbbing Gristle, Psychic TV) and the photographer Nan Goldin’s artistic paths are crossing for the first time at CPH:DOX 2011, where Genesis will play a partly improvised set to Nan Goldin’s spellbinding photographic work ‘The Ballad of Sexual Dependency’, which has been called one of the most important works in the history of modern photography.

The work consists of a special selection of snapshot photos made of her close company of friends, artists, bohemians, divas and dandies, which were taken throughout her career and handpicked by Goldin herself. Genesis P-Orridge’s transcendental approach to words and instrumentation is delicate, beautiful and monstrous - and we won’t hesitate to lay our heads on the block when we promise that it will be a sublime and absolutely unique experience. Danish ‘Nachtlichte’ will begin the evening with coldwave from Copenhagen’s darkness, and will mix consistent analogue electronic beats, synthesiser noise and distorted guitars to create hymns to the creatures of the night.

SCREENING DATES Statens Museum for Kunst: Thursday 10/11 21:00 HRS

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CURATED BY BEN RIVERS & BEN RUSSELL

We have invited two of the international film scene’s most visionary filmmakers to curate a film (and live) programme which in an almost literal sense is beyond this world. Rivers and Russell share a a firm belief that film can create entire worlds out of nothing – if only in the mind of the spectator in the darkness of the cinema.

The programme is based on their coming, collaborative film, ’A Spell To Ward Off the Darkness’ – a mythological project that they were making deep in the Norwegian woods when the horrifying massacre at Utøya shook the world this summer. Part in response to the tragic events, part as an insight into the creative process, the film programme is a one of a kind that we would travel the earth to see ourselves.

Like the film, this programme is structured in three chapters under each its own heading.

Three parts of an existential myth of creation and illumination, that extends from the cinema to a special live event at the National Gallery. Each chapter is represented by three film programmes in the order listed below.

A Spell To Ward Off the Darkness CURATED BY BEN RIVERS & BEN RUSSELL It was as though our sun had set while it was yet day. We passed through that millenial door into a landscape littered with mortar shells and scarred by collapsing economies, marked by the faintest shudder of human forms. Our sight occluded, we lost hope, we lost direction, we all but lost ourselves. We lost time as well, and in this fashion we crossed the long earth underneath its starless sky. Midway to forever, we saw the sparks of three different fires flickering in the shadow â&#x20AC;&#x201C; a way forward, in triplicate.

The first flame extinguished itself as soon as we approached; our skin ran cold as the night consumed us entirely. Without warning the flame returned, brighter than before. We were alone in the blackest darkness, we were alone in the most blinding of light. (I) A group gathered around us, and together we raised the second flame. The warmth we felt was flesh, sweat, and proximity. So emboldened, we moved forward â&#x20AC;&#x201C; united. (II) With our bare hands we grabbed the third flame, felt our flesh sear and our nostrils fill with smoke. Our ears began to ring. We felt ourselves as we felt time, embodied. (III)

I. SOLITUDE, or THE SUBLIMITY OF THE NATURAL WORLD 1. The Lonely Voice of Man (dir. Aleksandr Sokurov, 1977/1987) 2. My Tears Are Dry (dir. Laida Lertxundi); The Seasons (dir. Makino Takashi); Weather Diary 3 (dir. George Kuchar) 3. Melter 2 (dir. Takashi Murata, 2003); La Soufrière (dir. Werner Herzog, 1977); Simon of the Desert (dir. Luis Buñuel, 1965)

II. COLLECTIVITY, or UTOPIA IS A SOCIAL BODY 1. Milestones by Robert Kramer and John Douglas (195:00, 35mm, 1975) > TRT 195:00 2. Minong, I Slept (dir. Vera Brunner-Sung, 2010); Valentin de las Sierras (dir. Bruce Bailie, 1967); Chumlum (dir. Ron Rice, 1964); A Family Finds Entertainment (dir. Ryan Trecartin, 2004) 3. The External World (dir. David O’Reilly, 2010); Lord of the Flies (dir. Vladimir Tulkin, 1991); Prince Hotel (dir. Karl Kels, 1987/2003); Christmas on Earth (dir. Barbara Rubin, 1963)

III. PHENOMENOLOGY, or THE EMBODIED EXPERIENCE OF THE PRESENT 1. The Thing (dir. John Carpenter, 1982); Ivalo River Delta (dir. Patrick Beveridge, 2005) 2. Lesorub (dir. Yevgeny Yufit, 1985); Whispering Pines 8 (dir. Shana Moulton, 2006); Hard Core Home Movie (dir. Greta Snider, 1989); Utopia = No Person (by Taraka Larson, video + performance); Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore (dir. Mark Leckey, 1999); Cineblatz (dir. Jeff Keen) 3. How to Escape Stress Boxes (dir. Paper Rad, 2006); Saint Flournoy Lobos-Logos and the Eastern Europe Fetus Taxing Japan Brides in West Coast Places Sucking Alabama Air (dir.

Will Hindle, 1970); UV (dir. Ara Peterson); Transcendental Black Metal (by Hunter, lecture/live performance); Lucifer Rising (dir. Kenneth Anger, 1973)

The Lonely Voice of Man DIRECTOR: Aleksandr Sokurov

Original title: The Lonely Voice of Man / Country: Russia / Year: 1978 / Running time: 87 min. / World Sales / Contact: Lenfilm, Russia

I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.’ - Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods.

‘I am watching this film by myself on a train between London and Lille. There is sunlight splattered on the small screen, the shake of the railroad carriage is inescapable, and while this is admittedly not the most effective immersion into cinema, I am haunted, transported: there is a man who finds it really hard to pin down his relationships to other human beings, a man for whom the questions of what constitutes existence in the world trouble him greatly. The separation between flesh and spirit, an elliptical dream; why would you not want to see what happens when you jump into that misty lake?’ - BR

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Monday 7/11 18:30 HRS / Cinemateket: Friday 11/11 21:15 HRS

My Tears Are Dry DIRECTOR: Laida Lertxundi

Original title: My Tears Are Dry / Running time: 4 min.

‘Effective magic is transcendent nature.’ - George Eliot (Mary Anne Evans), ‘Middlemarch’ BR: ‘The sun is California-hot, the sky the sort of blue that you’ve only ever seen as recollection through half-lidded eyes. Palm trees and a naked hand, a song that has long been echoing in your chest.

There is a body-memory that goes by the name of cinema, and this is what it feels like.’

SCREENING DATES Husets Biograf: Tuesday 8/11 21:00 HRS

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The Seasons DIRECTOR: Makino Takashi

Original title: The Seasons / Running time: 30 min.

BR: ‘Any claim to the contrary, that video does not constitute a world unto itself, is tossed to the elements herein. This ecosystem is a theater, that star is a projector beaming light through the trees. This is not a metaphor. Jim O’Rourke’s music is the wind in our leaves, the bird call and cracking of ice; Takashi’s work is a full planet’s rotation around the sun in thirty minutes’ time.’

SCREENING DATES Husets Biograf: Tuesday 8/11 21:00 HRS

Weather Diary 3 DIRECTOR: George Kuchar

Original title: Weather Diary 3 / Country: US / Year: 1988 / Running time: 25 min. / World Sales / Contact: Video Data Bank, USA

George Kuchar (1942 - 2011): ‘Shot in 8mm video and edited entirely in the camera, this picture deals with meteorological and sexual desire on the Plains. It’s the only movie in the series where I interact with storm chasers. I’m a storm squatter as I never learned how to drive a car. The young meteorology student who pays me a visit was someone I met in Wisconsin at a screening of my films/videos a few years before. This was his first visit to Oklahoma to chase tornadoes, but the storm season proved to be a dry one. His presence lubricated me on a more personal level, and our friendship helped to sweeten the sourness that happens when nature doesn’t ‘put out’.’

SCREENING DATES Husets Biograf: Tuesday 8/11 21:00 HRS

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Melter 2 DIRECTOR: Takashi Murata

Original title: Melter 2 / Country: Japan / Year: 2003 / World Sales / Contact: Electronic Arts Intermix, USA

‘At first it seemed eerie and strange to go all alone into the forest, away from all roads and paths. But as I came to know the forest and many of the plants and animals that lived in it, the feeling of strangeness disappeared and I grew more and more comfortable in the woodland. I also became more and more certain that I did not want to spend my whole life in civilization, and that I wanted to go and live in some wild place.’ - Theodore Kaczynski, Letter to M. K., Dated October 4, 2003.

BR: ‘The best way to reveal the wonders of the world is to resist representation entirely. Draw your horizon out as a single line, paint your sunrise/set as a color field that spreads across it. Let your mountains and lakes fall into one another, and soon enough you’ll be having psychic visions of the sort that not even the monks of Cappadocia in their fairy-chimneys could project their eyeballs upon.’

SCREENING DATES Husets Biograf: Thursday 10/11 17:00 HRS

La Soufrière DIRECTOR: Werner Herzog

Original title: La Soufrière - Warten auf eine unausweichliche Katastrophe / Country: Germany / Year: 1977 / Running time: 30 min. / World Sales / Contact: Werner Herzog Film GMBH, Germany

BR: ‘What sort of madman stakes out an island volcano prophesied to destroy everything in a hail of magma and brimstone? What kind of egomaniac finds himself, surrounded by the sulfurous smoke of the caldera, one-upped by an old bedlamite with more tenacity than the Grim Reaper himself could imagine? Three decades and almost forty films later, we all know the answer to this - here then, is a thirtysomething Herzog with his earliest collaborators: Death, the Sublime, and His Own Insistent Reflection.’

SCREENING DATES Husets Biograf: Thursday 10/11 17:00 HRS

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Simon of the Desert DIRECTOR: Luis Buñuel

Original title: Simón del desierto / Country: Mexico / Year: 1965 / Running time: 45 min. / Producer: Gustavo Alatriste

BR: ‘What sort of delirious lunatic stands atop a pillar to get closer to God? What kind of holy fool, surrounded by a gawking crowd, allows himself to accept the gift of an even larger pillar (after he has been atop the smaller one for 6 years, 6 months and 6 days) when he says he shuns all worldly goods? Plagued by the Devil in all his/her many guises, Simon stands firm in his own distracted solitude. ‘Thank God I’m an Atheist’. The Master’s funniest film.’

SCREENING DATES Husets Biograf: Thursday 10/11 17:00 HRS

Milestones DIRECTOR: Robert Kramer & John Douglas

Original title: Milestones / Country: US / Year: 1975 / Running time: 195 min. / Producer: Barbara Stone, David C. Stone / World Sales / Contact: Capricci Films, France

‘I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live.’ - George Bernard Shaw.

to come back together, to occupy the present.’

BR: ‘Somewhere in the middle of this wondrous time capsule of a movie - a willfully meandering, socio-political, and altogether remarkable film - an adult daughter tells her mother how afraid she is of continuing on in America alone. Her mother responds, “You’re right to be frightened. I don’t think there’s anything more frightening than a private, selfish life.” I have just left the USA, I am watching MILESTONES on an airplane above the Pacific Ocean and tears are running down my cheeks. I cry again, later: a sister gives birth, a community of hands circled around her. If this is a catalog of the past, it is also a roadmap of the future - proof that the capitalism can be resisted, that even drifting apart can be a way

SCREENING DATES Husets Biograf: Thursday 3/11 21:00 HRS / Vester Vov Vov: Wednesday 9/11 18:00 HRS / Cinemateket: Sunday 13/11 17:00 HRS

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Minong, I slept DIRECTOR: Vera Brunner-Sung

Original title: Minong, I slept / Year: 2010 / Running time: 5 min.

‘What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.’ - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., from ‘Thoughts of a Free Thinker’ (commencement address) BR: ‘If a body of water is an imaginary space, then any island it surrounds becomes its record. Its shoreline is a map of footprints, its pockmarked woods a museum of minor industry. Both the visitor and the dreamer know: there will still be fingerprints on the windows, even once the doors have blown in.’

SCREENING DATES Husets Biograf: Monday 7/11 17:00 HRS / Husets Biograf: Saturday 12/11 21:40 HRS

Valentin de las Sierras DIRECTOR: Bruce Baillie

Original title: Valentin de las Sierras / Country: US / Year: 1967 / Running time: 10 min. / World Sales / Contact: Lux, UK

Bruce Baillie: ‘In ‘Valentin’ I just shot simply but used a telephoto lens with an extension tube on the back, which gives you a very limited focal plane, a few inches. No one I know ever uses it with a long lens, especially with a moving subject, but I really liked the way it looked. I had to get into the flesh of that town, with the merciless sun beating into the bricks of the street and all the death-every night there’d be something or somebody killed, lying in the street in the morning. I had met up with this (archetypal) young girl, riding her pony. And I was afraid to meet her father.

I’d sent word out trying to see her, and he sent word back to come meet him, and I thought, “Oh, God!”. But he turned out to be a very nice fellow: Manuel Sasa Zamora, of Jalisco. They were very poor and lived behind a big gate and had a horse and a dog named Penquina. That horse didn’t like me and would not let me film.

I had to give it up for a while. Later, I named my horse after the film - Valentina.’

SCREENING DATES Husets Biograf: Monday 7/11 17:00 HRS / Husets Biograf: Saturday 12/11 21:40 HRS

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Chumlum DIRECTOR: Ron Rice

Original title: Chumlum / Country: US / Year: 1964 / Running time: 25 min. / World Sales / Contact: Lux, UK

BR: ‘Pirates and belly dancers and blues and greens and mummy chase scenes and the twangling sounds by Angus MacLise with red eye make-up, lovers in cots and Jack Smith in shawls and sparkle sheets and exposure of flesh over superimposition of fabric over beaded Mario Montes and the streets of bohemian New York and Gerard Malanga in dress-up dangle robes with arms becoming legs becoming cross-dressed becoming man as man as woman as both becoming star-crossed, always becoming.’

SCREENING DATES Husets Biograf: Monday 7/11 17:00 HRS / Husets Biograf: Saturday 12/11 21:40 HRS

A Family Finds Entertainment DIRECTOR: Ryan Trecartin

Original title: A Family Finds Entertainment / Country: US / Year: 2004 / Running time: 42 min. / World Sales / Contact: Electronic Arts Intermix, USA

BR: ‘... or, The Nuclear Family, Exploded’. Truthfully, the most fitting description for this hyper hypertext datamosh moshpit is the following series of emoticons - pretend that this page is a computer screen and that these static icons are jumping and twisting and blinking and winking, fluttering in social-contract solidarity with your newly-exhausted optic nerves.’

SCREENING DATES Husets Biograf: Monday 7/11 17:00 HRS / Husets Biograf: Saturday 12/11 21:40 HRS

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The External World DIRECTOR: David O’Reilly

Original title: The External World / Country: US / Year: 2010 / Running time: 17 min.

‘Our business here is to be Utopian, to make vivid and credible, if we can, first this facet and then that, of an imaginary whole and happy world.’ - H.G. Wells, A Modern Utopia BR: ‘The social fabric that separates analog-us from digital-them is tearing at the seams, and once it’s ripped entirely (if it hasn’t already), this is how our everyday will live-stream. Magic Mario Mushroom vending machines, shitty poo jokes, glorious Rent-ACop explosions - all the dark comedy and violent turmoil of pixelcity living datamoshing us towards one single beautiful moment.

Sitting together in a darkened theater - come to think of it, it’s not so different than what we’re doing right now…’

SCREENING DATES Husets Biograf: Monday 7/11 19:00 HRS

Lord of the Flies DIRECTOR: Vladimir Tulkin

Original title: Lord of the Flies / Year: 1991 / Running time: 45 min.

BR: ‘Beelzebub, or Savaofa, or the inventor of the ‘fly throne’, a trough filled with rotting carcases that will attract millions of flies, which in turn lay their eggs, which then get drowned and boiled and turned into food for his chickens. Beelzebub reigns supreme over his happy commune of animals. Wide-angled weirdness pursues with some camera trickery, while our hero waxes lyrical about biosocial utopian subjects and teaches Michael Gorbachev how to run his all-Union farmstead.’

SCREENING DATES Husets Biograf: Monday 7/11 19:00 HRS

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Prince Hotel DIRECTOR: Karl Kels

Original title: Prince Hotel / Country: Germany / Year: 1987 / Running time: 8 min.

BR: ‘If you could only be so lucky, one of those drunk old men across that New York City street is your future self; all man-titty-grabbing and cheap-beer-swilling, arguing and sleeping it off, mugging and forgetting to mug for the funny German guy with the wind-up 16mm camera, the one who has been hanging around for days. I’ll keep my fingers crossed that this is how and where we all end up.’

SCREENING DATES Husets Biograf: Monday 7/11 19:00 HRS

Christmas on Earth DIRECTOR: Barbara Rubin

Original title: Christmas on Earth / Country: US / Year: 1963 / Running time: 29 min.

BR: ‘An admission: I’m in love with love, especially the sort of love that involves 18-year old filmmakers, transistor radios, colored gels, two 16mm projectors, and the kind of 1960s progressive pansexuality that reveals fucking (in all of its incarnations) to be the most wonderful gift that your body can give to itself, to other bodies, and the Earth itself.’

SCREENING DATES Husets Biograf: Monday 7/11 19:00 HRS

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The Thing DIRECTOR: John Carpenter

Original title: The Thing / Country: US / Year: 1982 / Running time: 109 min. / World Sales / Contact: UIP, Denmark

‘It’s been a prevalent notion. Fallen sparks. Fragments of vessels broken at the Creation. And someday, somehow, before the end, a gathering back to home. A messenger from the Kingdom, arriving at the last moment. But I tell you there is no such message, no such home - only the millions of last moments.. nothing more.

Our history is an aggregate of last moments.’ - Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow BR: ‘A decapitated head grows monster-spider legs and starts crawling on its crown - ‘You’ve got to be fucking kidding!’ (cue: flamethrower). This is the stuff of teenage dreams, or mine anyway.

Eyes melt. Skin explodes. Bodies turning in upon themselves to become whole again, all set to rebuild the working commune of suspicious workers in the sublime Arctic wonderland. A visceral mass of chaos and noise. Smoke under the ruins, calm amongst the dying embers...’

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Friday 11/11 21:30 HRS

Ivalo River Delta DIRECTOR: Patrick Beveridge

Original title: Ivalo River Delta / Year: 2005 / Running time: 16 min. / World Sales / Contact: Lux, UK

BR: ‘He is intrepid and alone, icicles in his beard. His frostbite fingers wind a bolex, bringing us as close as two dimensions can get to containing the Aurora Borealis.’

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Friday 11/11 21:30 HRS

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Lesorub DIRECTOR: Yevgeny Yufit

Original title: Lesorub / Country: Russia / Year: 1985 / Running time: 11 min.

‘The body is our general medium for having a world.’ - Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception BR: ‘Necrorealism, an absurdist social protest - Zombie madness and forensic chases in back woods outside 1980’s Leningrad. Death = Life!’

SCREENING DATES Husets Biograf: Tuesday 8/11 19:00 HRS

Whispering Pines 8 DIRECTOR: Shana Moulton

Original title: Whispering Pines 8 / Year: 2006 / Running time: 8 min. / World Sales / Contact: Electronic Arts Intermix, USA

BR: ‘For a body stricken with ailments, for a body that has been made all too conscious of its own materiality, the promise of neoNew Age crystal-lite-healing and resonant vibrator-vibration is real. Ritual action begets cellular growth begets actual phenomena, and the results are truly ecstatic - all dance and vomit and light.’

SCREENING DATES Husets Biograf: Tuesday 8/11 19:00 HRS

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Chumlum DIRECTOR: Ron Rice

Original title: Chumlum / Country: US / Year: 1964 / Running time: 25 min. / World Sales / Contact: Lux, UK

BR: ‘Pirates and belly dancers and blues and greens and mummy chase scenes and the twangling sounds by Angus MacLise with red eye make-up, lovers in cots and Jack Smith in shawls and sparkle sheets and exposure of flesh over superimposition of fabric over beaded Mario Montes and the streets of bohemian New York and Gerard Malanga in dress-up dangle robes with arms becoming legs becoming cross-dressed becoming man as man as woman as both becoming star-crossed, always becoming.’

SCREENING DATES Husets Biograf: Monday 7/11 17:00 HRS / Husets Biograf: Saturday 12/11 21:40 HRS

Utopia = No Person DIRECTOR: Prince Rama

Original title: Utopia = No Person / Running time: 29 min.

Issue Project Room, NYC: ‘Using the famous aerobics instructor Paul Eugene’s motto, ‘Let yourself go’, as an existential battle cry, NY artists/musicians Prince Rama’s performance focuses on the body as a vehicle for utopian experimentation and encourages its audience to undergo a confrontation with personal demons via the shedding of individual identity through the physical exhaustion of the body. Exercise = Exorcise. Welcome to the Now Age!’

SCREENING DATES Husets Biograf: Tuesday 8/11 19:00 HRS

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Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore DIRECTOR: Mark Leckey

Original title: Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore / Country: UK / Year: 1999 / Running time: 15 min.

BR: ‘A timelapse VHS-glossed sky hovers over everything, stitching together three generations of UK party-dancers into a single ecstatic body. They rise and fall with the same legs, sweat runs down their face, exhaustion bobs their slow-mo head - it’s not just the drugs in their veins that keep them moving. And disco-dancing and handwaving and smoking and breaking and roller-skating and raving.

And moving. One beat pulses through us all.’

SCREENING DATES Husets Biograf: Tuesday 8/11 19:00 HRS

Cineblatz DIRECTOR: Jeff Keen

Original title: Cineblatz / Running time: 3 min. / World Sales / Contact: Lux, UK

Ken Russell on ‘Cineblatz’: ‘Jeff, now 85, has spent more years than anyone i know unashamedly unemployed, using his time wisely to make his life into his Artwar - post-apocalyptic home-movies peopled with his wife and daughter, their friends, covorting wildly in mad superimposition with insane barrages of noise, comics, burning plastic, paint and dirt. “It went right over my head and seemed a little threatening, but I’m all for it.’

SCREENING DATES Husets Biograf: Tuesday 8/11 19:00 HRS

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How to Escape Stress Boxes DIRECTOR: Paper Rad

Original title: How to Escape Stress Boxes / Year: 2006 / Running time: 4 min.

‘Call no man happy till he is dead.’ - Aeschylus BR: ‘In which e-meditation is revealed as false mediation and Troll-ing becomes a binarized self-help guide towards salvationthrough-total-destruction. Faced with layer upon layer of apparent meaning in a perpetual MC Escher surface-as-depth 8-bit illusion.

Awesome Beats + Radical Violence = Transcendence, aka The Only Way Forward (Is To Go Back Again).’

SCREENING DATES Husets Biograf: Monday 7/11 21:30 HRS

Saint Flournoy Lobos-Logos and the Eastern Europe Fetus Taxing Japan Brides in West Coast Places Sucking Alabama Air DIRECTOR: Will Hindle

Original title: Saint Flournoy Lobos-Logos and the Eastern Europe Fetus Taxing Japan Brides in West Coast Places Sucking Alabama Air / Year: 1970 / Running time: 12 min. / World Sales / Contact: Canyon Cinema, USA

BR: ‘To transpose the outer world upon your inner vision is to follow the path of the desert seer - that blind, sun-addled, glorious madman. To see yourself in everything is to mistake everything for yourself, to see death as life is to confuse birth and murder. Stated differently: if ever there were an emotional biopic of the murderer known as Charles Manson, this would be the one - putting the death back into Death Valley, where every anthill is a Lewis Carroll rabbit-hole; a thrilling vision of a Self without borders.’

SCREENING DATES Husets Biograf: Monday 7/11 21:30 HRS

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UV DIRECTOR: Ara Peterson

Original title: UV / Running time: 10 min.

BR: ‘This is proof positive that a terrifying gore-spattered death is really the best way to go out - if only we could experience it over and over and over again! What better way to leave this mortal coil than with an electric screwdriver to the head? A shotgun through the jaw? A wolf jaw through the jaw? A team of zombies wresting your aortic valve from its still-beating home beneath the wound of a newly revealed rib cage? A giant worm burrowing into your brain through your eyeball? You might as well melt all the skin off your face - I mean, it’s not like you’re going to be using any of this stuff again anyway. Make sure to spell your name out in blood on the wall before you leave, though - we’d all like something to remember you by.’

SCREENING DATES Husets Biograf: Monday 7/11 21:30 HRS

Transcendental Black Metal

Original title: Transcendental Black Metal / Running time: 30 min.

BR: ‘In which the singer, guitarist and songwriter for the Brooklyn, USA black metal band Liturgy delivers a multimedia lecture on such concepts as the Haptic Void, the Burst Beat, Aesthetics, and the transformation of Nihilism into Affirmation. First presented at the now-legendary Hideous Gnosis black metal theory symposium and subsequently published in the academic journal Lacanian Ink, ‘Transcendental Black Metal’ is equal parts manifesto, intellectual discourse, provocation, and call to arms. It is ‘the reanimation of the form of black metal with a new soul, a soul full of chaos, frenzy and ecstasy.’

SCREENING DATES Husets Biograf: Monday 7/11 21:30 HRS

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Lucifer Rising DIRECTOR: Kenneth Anger

Original title: Lucifer Rising / Country: US / Running time: 28 min. / World Sales / Contact: Canyon Cinema, USA

Ezekiel, 28:12: ‘You were the seal of perfection, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty. You were in Eden, the garden of God... You were the anointed cherub who covers; I established you; you were on the holy mountain of God; you walked back and forth in the midst of fiery stones. You were perfect in your ways from the day you were created till iniquity was found in you... You became filled with violence within, and you sinned; therefore I cast you as a profane thing out of the mountain of God; and I destroyed you...” BR: ‘Scored by one of the Devil’s minions recorded in a prison cell, Lucifer rises under the watchful eyes of the Sphinx. As the world bubbles and burns. Not a film but an incantation.’

SCREENING DATES Husets Biograf: Monday 7/11 21:30 HRS

A Spell to Ward Off The Darkness - Live Prince Rama, Lichens & Hunter Hunt Hendrix (liturgy): Pure Transcendental Black Metal

This year’s darkest and most trippy evening. An audiovisual mindfuck from another world, and a black mass of monumental dimensions!

‘A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness - Live’ is curated by the two film geniuses Ben Rivers and Ben Russell, and is an extension of the tripartite film programme they have put together for this year’s CPH:DOX - and is equally divided into three topics: SOLITUDE: the philosophy graduate Hunter Hunt-Hendrix, the frontman of the New York based black metal band Liturgy, introduces the evening with a solo show based on his transcendental Black Metal philosophy.

COMMUNITY: the two Animal Collective-signed sisters of Prince Rama will improvise their way to an unpredictable total show with their mix of psychedelic pop, hare krishna, art school pop and noise. PHENOMENOLOGY: Lichens (Robert AA Lowe) will use a highly spartan setup to conjure up a meditative and trance-inducing drone-folk performance.

Come and experience the most progressive artists from the neopsych’ed music and film scene, when ‘A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness - Live’ takes place for the first, last and only time.

SCREENING DATES Statens Museum for Kunst: Wednesday 9/11 21:00 HRS

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ARTISTS IN FOCuS CHARLES ATLAS Raphaël Siboni & Fabien Giraud

ARTIST IN FOCUS CHARLES ATLAS

Charles Atlas is present at CPH:DOX with his and Antony’s new film ’Turning’, which we are happy to present as a work in progress at this year’s Closing Gala.

We celebrate Charles Atlas with a special Artist in Focus programme and a selection of his earlier works that are more than ripe for rediscovery. Atlas is a pioneer and innovator, not least in hybrid genres such as ’cine-dance’, and combines a wealth of different means of expression in his highly original films and videos: performance, modern dance, visual art, installations, and music.

Atlas often work in generous creative collaborations with other artists. From Yvonne Rainer and Marina Abramovic to Merce Cunningham, Michael Clark and Leigh Bowery (Atlas’ documentary ’The Legend of Leigh Bowery’ was selected by Animal Collective for their curated film programme at CPH:DOX 2010) – and now also with Antony and the Johnsons.

Since the early days in the New York City of the 70’s Atlas has defined his own colorful, flamboyant and unmistakenly urban style with the body and movement as the central motive. And always with an exemplary love for everyone in front of the camera. We are happy to bid him welcome as Artist in Focus and to present the works selected here. ’My principle concerns and what I believe emerges in the creation of my works include (but are not limited to): truth to the situation/subject, precision, playfulness, reflection of contemporary life, color, multiplicity of meanings, and having fun.’ ( – Charles Atlas).

With Merce DIRECTOR: Charles Atlas

Charles Atlas will introduce ‘With Merce’ in person, a selection of scenes and extracts from his long-running collaboration (and close friendship) with the legendary New York dancer Merce Cunningham. Atlas and Cunningham created a large number of independent works together, starting in 1975 and well into the 1980s, and laid the foundation for the ‘cine-dance’ genre: works, where the film and the bodily performance enter into an original, artistic symbiosis. Merce Cunningham taught the world that dance - as opposed to the classical tradition - is not determined by music or narratives, but by ‘pure’ movement. It is an insight that Atlas communicates with lively images filmed on some of the earliest available video cameras, with everything that came with them in terms of possibilities and outrageous effects. The romance between film, dance and the body’s movements is just as old as the film medium itself, but it has never felt younger or more virile than with Cunningham and Atlas.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Thursday 10/11 16:45 HRS

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Original title With Merce Running time 90 min.

Hail the New Puritan DIRECTOR: Charles Atlas

The punk and extravagant vérité fantasy ‘Hail the New Puritan’ is a magnum opus in Charles Atlas’s extensive output. Shot in London in 1987, and with the era’s most celebrated dancer Michael Clark and his gang in front of the camera, it follows a single day in the life of the androgynous star. One day, which meanwhile proceeds as a semi-documentary musical to the tunes of the post punk group The Fall. Everything is blissfully artificial, apart from the young enfant terrible’s gracious dance moves, and Clark & co’s charming, self-assured decadence is served with plenty of tongue in cheek.

Charles Atlas is never just content with what is going on - quite the opposite. If anything, he celebrates it creatively with images and sound, and always in close collaboration with his collaborators, who here among other things include the costume designer Leigh Bowery. In between the stylised performances, ‘Hail the New Puritan’ also includes brittle poetry with space for doubt in its portrait of the talented youth and a generation of artists, whose influence still manifests itself to this day.

Original title Hail the New Puritan Country US Year 1986 Running time 85 min.

Producer Jolyon Wimhurst World Sales / Contact: Electronic Arts Intermix, USA

SCREENING DATES Husets Biograf: Friday 11/11 22:30 HRS

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Put Blood in the Music DIRECTOR: Charles Atlas

Sonic Youth are among the protagonists of Charles Atlas’s unruly documentary about New York’s avant-garde music scene in the year 1989. It is an audiovisual bombardment of a film, where the sound of a jackhammer is mixed with the electric screeches of a homemade guitar, and where the mental distance between Japanese space pop, hardcore punk and John Cage can be measured with the spine of an LP. ‘We are firm believers that the insane are sexy’, as a young Lee Ronaldo at some point puts it.

But with time ‘Put Blood in the Music’ has also become a priceless snapshot that documents a time, a scene and a totally unique atmosphere in Downtown Manhattan, when it was still affordable to live there. A culture-historic moment and a restless energy, which Atlas celebrates with every trick in the book and with video effects taken to the max. The talking heads are cut out and are flying around like in an animated film from the 1930s. But nonetheless, one becomes wiser. No matter if you know the likes of John Zorn, Arto Lindsay, The Ambitious Lovers, David Fricke, John Cale, Hugo Largo and Mimi Goese, or not, there is both candy for fans and interesting stuff for newcomers.

SCREENING DATES Gloria: Sunday 6/11 22:00 HRS / DOX:CLUB i Teater Grob: Thursday 10/11 18:00 HRS

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Original title Put Blood in the Music Country US Year 1989 Running time 75 min.

Producer James Morris World Sales / Contact: Electronic Arts Intermix, USA

Son of Sam and Delilah DIRECTOR: Charles Atlas

The short film ‘Son of Sam and Delilah’ is an anarchistic and camp satire of America’s mental state against the background of the AIDS epidemic at the end of the 1980s. A mad serial killer is terrorising New York, and an angry homophobic radio host becomes his first victim. But there doesn’t seem to be a systematic queer vendetta - quite the opposite. Everyone is a potential victim, and the next stop on the list are two feminist dancers. A middle-aged and more or less asexual transvestite couple, John Kelly and ‘Hapi Phace’, meanwhile fly across the madman’s radar unflinchingly.

Even if Atlas is working within the fictional end of the spectrum, he adopts the ironic tradition of trash and caricatured soap of underground filmmaking: meta-fictions with film-historical roots in Warhol’s ‘superstars’ and Jack Smith, John Waters and the Kuchar brothers. ‘Son of Sam and Delilah’ is therefore a colourful and black-humoured farce on the surface, but it also contains a threatening and more serious critique.

Original title Son of Sam and Delilah Country US Year 1991 Running time 27 min.

Production The Kitchen Producer Iva Sipal, Diane Ward World Sales / Contact: Electronic Arts Intermix, USA

SCREENING DATES Husets Biograf: Wednesday 9/11 19:00 HRS

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Superhoney DIRECTOR: Charles Atlas

Death is a night club in Charles Atlas’s Danish-produced ‘SUPERHONEY’ - an erotic and blood-dripping noir musical with music by the art/punk band Sort Sol, which even performs at said venue. The film is like a ritualistic transformation. A female performer travels through a long night, where the stylised ultraviolence and sadomasochist sex arranges the bodies in spectacular tableaux. A macabre, hedonistic and post-apocalyptic universe bathed in red light, which provocatively flirts with the totalitarian - but at the same time a sensual and saucy fantasy served with a solid portion of (self) irony, and with an irresistible urge to shock.

Charles Atlas wrote the absolutely minimal story together with the performance artist Thomas Hejlesen, and assembled the most outstanding performers to realise his idea. Like in Atlas’s other film and video works, the body is also here at the centre as the site everything stems from: joy, pain, fear, ecstasy. But it is also in this film that Atlas most radically criticises the differentiation between exactly these categories.

SCREENING DATES Husets Biograf: Wednesday 9/11 19:00 HRS

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Original title Superhoney Country US, Denmark Year 1994 Running time 51 min.

Production Århus Filmworkshop World Sales / Contact: Electronic Arts Intermix, USA

Ocean DIRECTOR: Charles Atlas

Two of the greatest talents of modern performance art came together, when Merce Cunningham and John Cage together created the concept for the dance performance ‘Ocean’ in 1994, which was performed three years ago on a moon-base-like stage at the bottom of a 50-metre deep gravel pit. Luckily for all of us who were not there, Charles Atlas documented the spellbinding and exactly 90-minute long live performance with crystal clear images and elegant split-screens, where one gets to see all the details in the precisely choreographed movements of the agile bodies. The stage is a sea, round as a circle and bathed in blue light, and the dancers enter one by one to the music of the composer Andrew Culver’s work ‘Ocean 1 - 133’, performed by The St. Cloud Symphonic Orchestra. An evocative and dissonant piece with elements of musique concrète, which enters into an effective symbiosis with the collective body of the dancers. ‘Ocean’ brings it all together in a both simple and captivating work, which also became the last collaboration between Atlas and Merce Cunningham, who died in 2009. Quite fittingly, the film became a tribute to life.

Original title Ocean Country US Year 2010 Running time 100 min.

World Sales / Contact: Charles Atlas

SCREENING DATES Grand: Friday 11/11 21:30 HRS

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ARTISTS IN FOCUS Raphaël Siboni & Fabien Giraud

The French artist duo Raphaël Siboni & Fabien Giraud are working in the field between documentary and conceptual art, but with a sense of humour that is often absent in both.

Their work has been presented in galleries and at biennales around the world, but never before in a film festival context.

Raphaël Siboni is celebrating the premiere of his first feature ’HPG Watch Stream Live - Sex Cam HD Porn Free Hard XXX’ in the DOX:AWARD Competition, and we are glad to present a selection of his and Giraud’s video works at Kunsthal Charlottenborg during this year’s festival.

Their work often center on contemporary and subcultural rituals in closed communities.

Softball players, Nike-fetichists and brutal Death Metal – sites where the participants share a set of social rules that are not immediately edible from the outside.

But in their recent work they have moved in a more radically conceptual direction, where technology and human perception is united in one – just like the idea and the final piece, art and the artificial.

Friendly Fire DIRECTOR: Raphaël Siboni & Fabien Giraud

A staged war is taking place in the Parisian exhibition hall Palais de Tokyo. Militia soldiers dressed in full combat gear are fighting with themselves and with each other, the living dead are rising again, and POWs in orange uniforms are seated on the floor, huddled together in small groups. ‘Friendly Fire’ is a military term for accidents where soldiers are shot by their own. And based on the special logic and value systems of war, Giraud and Siboni wrote the rules for a war game that is fought by the participating softball warriors in a long loop during an entire day. The parameters of the game keep changing constantly, however, while the bizarrely hypnotic operations are followed in Kubrick-esque tracking shots forwards and backwards through the elongated space. The collective disorientation can be read in the patterns, which the various formations create. A socio-psychological experiment that charts the mental topography of war in its current manifestation: from Afghanistan to Xbox.

Original title Friendly Fire Country France Year 2007 Running time 13 min.

World Sales / Contact: Galerie Loevenbruck

SCREENING DATES Charlottenborg: Thursday 3/11 16:00 HRS / Charlottenborg: Thursday 10/11 16:00 HRS / Charlottenborg: Saturday 12/11 16:00 HRS

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Human Mincer (As we were looking for the shape underneath we fell upon monochromatic vexations) DIRECTOR: Raphaël Siboni & Fabien Giraud

For a performance in Madrid, Siboni and Giraud invited a group to play Brutal Death Metal - the next step in the development of death metal - at a concert on a stage built by the two artists themselves.

The audio signal from the instruments was sent through a filter, which simply amplified the ‘pure’ sound of the instruments as it sounds without electricity. The band could hear itself through headphones on stage, while the audience had to ‘make do’ with the amputated version of the concert. What remains, meanwhile, when the physical volume is filtered out is heavy metal culture as a performative and masculine ritual. A ritual, which ‘Human Mincer’ documents and thereby places yet another layer on top of the less and less authentic performance, which takes place in real time over the course of 15 minutes in front of a static camera.

Original title Human Mincer (As we were looking for the shape underneath we fell upon monochromatic vexations) Country France Year 2010 Running time 25 min.

World Sales / Contact: Galerie Loevenbruck

SCREENING DATES Charlottenborg: Thursday 3/11 16:00 HRS / Charlottenborg: Thursday 10/11 16:00 HRS / Charlottenborg: Saturday 12/11 16:00 HRS

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The Spoiler [Seminar 01] DIRECTOR: Raphaël Siboni & Fabien Giraud

An artist talk for nobody. When Siboni and Giraud were invited to talk about their work during a trip to Australia, they decided to hold it out in the desert. 50 empty chairs stand in front of an empty stage, and just the wind blows through the microphone and out of the speakers. There are neither spectators nor speakers, but in the course of the mere half hour that the session lasts, the static setup succumbs to natural decay. The frustrated expectation of a narrative progression turns into something comical, as the minimal situation turns out to be the duo’s actual point: a formalistic antievent, and a witty satire of observational minimalism, which in the course of last year developed into a real trend.

Original title The Spoiler [Seminar 01] Country France Year 2009 Running time 30 min.

World Sales / Contact: Galerie Loevenbruck

SCREENING DATES Charlottenborg: Thursday 3/11 16:00 HRS / Charlottenborg: Thursday 10/11 16:00 HRS / Charlottenborg: Saturday 12/11 16:00 HRS

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Kant Tuning Club DIRECTOR: Raphaël Siboni & Fabien Giraud

Philosophical concepts collide like two brand-new cars during a crash test in super-slow motion. Hardcore euro-dance, tuned cars, a gang of skinhead scumbags, Kant vs. Deleuze! Drama!

The confrontation is unavoidable! Until a young superhero and his ‘deleuzian’ sidekick jump into action and save the day in ‘Kant Tuning Club’, which borrows its iconic scenes from comics and the fringes of fiction films. A certain criticsm is nonetheless present in Siboni and Giraud’s playful meta-narrative, and just like the caricature it obtains its power through the reference to the real.

The film is shown in loops, for those who did not manage to take it all in the first time around.

Original title Kant Tuning Club Country France Year 2007 Running time 21 min.

World Sales / Contact: Galerie Loevenbruck

SCREENING DATES Charlottenborg: Friday 4/11 16:00 HRS / Charlottenborg: Tuesday 8/11 16:00 HRS / Charlottenborg: Friday 11/11 16:00 HRS

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The AGLAÉ Measurement DIRECTOR: Raphaël Siboni & Fabien Giraud

WORLD PREMIERE In the basement under the Louvre stands an advanced particle accelerator, which looks like something from outer space and which can analyse the chemical structure of the museum’s fragile works before they are restored. Siboni and Giraud place their camera opposite this massive machine in a technological tête-à-tête: an attempt to elevate the majestic instrument to a work and a wonder in itself. ‘The Aglaé Measurement’ approaches the museum institution not as an unchanging and sacred place, but as a place where the relationship between knowledge and visibility changes over time. Therefore, this is paradoxically not a critique of the museum as an institution, but a structuralist and minimal project where the image carries its meaning as a possibility.

SCREENING DATES Charlottenborg: Saturday 5/11 16:00 HRS / Charlottenborg: Wednesday 9/11 16:00 HRS

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Original title La mesure Aglaé Country France Year 2011 Running time 35 min.

World Sales / Contact: Galerie Loevenbruck

Untitled (La vallée von Uexkull 1920 X 1080) DIRECTOR: Raphaël Siboni & Fabien Giraud

An artificial sun is shining back at us from the screen in the first two works of a series without a title. It is a soundless and abstract light show, but there is a meaning to the madness - or rather, the total lack of madness. The video works in this ongoing series are the result of an experiment that has almost scientific stringency: Siboni and Giraud have filmed directly at the sun with the lens removed, first with a 2K High Definition camera, and subsequently in 4K HD. Each time a new camera with an even higher resolution is introduced to the market, they will repeat the experiment until technology catches up with human anatomy and the image resolution surpasses what the human eye can differentiate. The light photons of the sun are recorded, saved digitally, recreated, and projected from a video projector onto a white wall. In 2012, a camera will be launched that can record in 5K.

Original title Untitled (La vallée von Uexkull 1920 X 1080) Country France Year 2009 Running time 46 min.

World Sales / Contact: Galerie Loevenbruck

SCREENING DATES Charlottenborg: Sunday 6/11 16:00 HRS / Charlottenborg: Sunday 13/11 16:00 HRS

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Untitled (La vallée von Uexkull 4096 X 2304) DIRECTOR: Raphaël Siboni & Fabien Giraud

‘Untitled (La vallée von Uexkull 4096 X 2304)’ is the second installment in the series begun with ‘Untitled (La vallée von Uexkull 1920 X 1080)’ and was shot with a 4K camera. In 2012, a camera will be launched that can record in 5K, and the series will continue until the image resolution surpasses what the human eye can perceive.

Original title Untitled (La vallée von Uexkull 4096 X 2304) Country France Year 2009 Running time 39 min.

World Sales / Contact: Galerie Loevenbruck

SCREENING DATES Charlottenborg: Sunday 6/11 16:00 HRS / Charlottenborg: Sunday 13/11 16:00 HRS

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In a world where only a minority of the people live in fully democratic countries, wanting to be free is still considered radical. In 2011, the people in various countries in the Arab world started a number of rebellions with very different causes and outcomes, but all of which were broadly supported by populations that had been considered relatively passive and resigned by western media.

With this year’s political sidebar we want to step behind the news media’s day-to-day treatment of the uprisings and reflect upon the spontaneous and radical initiative behind them, and the causes that led up to them. We are proud to be able to present a programme of mostly brand new documentaries, several of which have never been shown before, and all of which give us a new insight into the movements that are currently shaking up the Arab world.

In collaboration with IMS (International Media Support) we have organised a series of interesting debates which aim at expanding our understanding of the documented events – and of the documentary forms themselves, which among other things consist of smuggled footage shot on hidden cameras in Syria, thousands of mobile phones on Tahrir Square, as well as hitherto unseen material from the failed revolution in Bahrain.

Free Radicals is supported by Danida and IMS – International Media Support.

1/2 Revolution DIRECTOR: Omar Shargawi & Karim El Hakim

January 2011: The Danish-Palestinian film director Omar Shargawi (‘Go With Peace Jamil’ and ‘My Father From Haifa’) has just arrived in Cairo to start shooting a new film about street children. A short time after his arrival, the revolution breaks out and thousands of Egyptians take to the streets to protest against the regime.

Overwhelmed by the situation and driven by a desire to document the intense events, Omar and his friend Karim instead turn their cameras towards Tahrir Square and the demonstrators on the streets of Cairo. With a staggering and action-packed pace, ‘1/2 Revolution’ portrays the Egyptian revolution up close. The strong images tell the story about a people that is strongly determined to break with several years of oppression and injustice, no matter what the consequences may be. But as the film’s title suggests, it’s doubtful whether the revolution has in fact fully succeeded.

Original title 1/2 Revolution Country Denmark Year 2011 Running time 72 min.

Production Globus Aps Producer Carsten Holst World Sales / Contact: Globus Aps, Denmark

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Saturday 5/11 15:00 HRS / Grand: Monday 7/11 18:00 HRS / Dagmar: Friday 11/11 14:20 HRS

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Neither Allah, nor Master DIRECTOR: Nadia El Fani

August 2010: Tunisia is in the middle of Ramadan during Ben Ali’s regime. In spite of the country’s strong censorship, Nadia El Fani documents a society, which seems open to ideas of freedom of expression and liberal in its relationship to Islam, but where double standards are still the order of the day and the fear of being singled out as being an infidel is lurking behind every covered-up Restaurant window. Here, people are flaunting the rules of Ramadan by eating lunch, but the last thing they want to do is be filmed or give interviews. And while the men can both smoke and drink, a group of woman friends are annoyed at the fact that they are seen as fallen women if they as much as think about trespassing the prescribed rules. Three months later, the Tunisian revolution starts, and Nadia is back in the field. While the Arab world is on the cusp of radical change, Tunisia seen through Nadia’s lens becomes a litmus test for religious freedom, and the willingness to introduce equality between believers and nonbelievers turns out to be less important to Tunisians than Nadia, who herself is an atheist, had hoped for. In the end, the question is if Tunisia is at all ready for a revolution.

Original title Laïcité, incha’Allah Country Tunisia, France Year 2011 Running time 75 min.

Production K’ien Productions, Z’Yeux Noirs Movies World Sales / Contact: Doc and FIlm, France

SCREENING DATES Grand: Saturday 5/11 14:20 HRS / Dagmar: Tuesday 8/11 14:20 HRS / Grand: Saturday 12/11 12:00 HRS

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TAHRIR 2011: the Good, the Bad and the Politician DIRECTOR: Tamer Ezzat, Ayten Amin & Amr Salama

WORLD PREMIERE They might have been up against soldiers with loaded guns. But the protesting masses that made Tahrir square their own on 25 January this year were armed with mobile cameras, and this arsenal was going to have a major importance for the course of the revolution. The several thousand cameras were also instrumental in making this incredibly varied documentation of the events, that was edited by the three directors Tamer Ezzat, Ayten Amin and Amr Salama with equal parts political wit and satirical bite.

‘Tahrir 2011 - The Good, The Bad and The Politician’ picks up the tradition of collectively made protest films such as ‘Far from Vietnam’ (1967, Chris Marker, Jean-Luc Godard et al) and ‘State of the Nation’ (2002, Ulrich Seidl, Michael Glawogger et al), and in three independent sequences, the directors feel the pulse of the revolutionary spirit in the year 2011, as it - from their singular perspectives - looks like from the point of view of the people (‘the good’), the bureaucrats (‘the bad’) and the politicians.

Original title TAHRIR 2011: the Good, the Bad and the Politician Country Egypt Year 2011 Running time 90 min.

Production Film Clinic, Amana Creative Producer Frederic Sichler, Jessica Khoury, Mohamed Hefzy World Sales / Contact: Pacha Pictures, Denmark

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Thursday 3/11 19:00 HRS / Empire: Tuesday 8/11 17:30 HRS / Empire: Sunday 13/11 17:30 HRS

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Forbidden DIRECTOR: Amal Ramsis

How does it feel to live in a country where everything is forbidden?

The director’s starting point reveals the anger and frustration of Egyptians that is seething under the surface, only a few weeks before the revolution erupted in the whole society. We follow the director’s step into the intimate settings of their private homes where they can speak freely and listen to the suddenly opened voices of their tenants. Their opinion draws an impenetrable framework of restrictions an Egyptian until recently was caught in. Since Amal Ramsis questions her close friends and accociates, one becomes a silent participant in the discussions - just as oneself would also be sitting in the their living room - and therefore one listens closely to the very sensitive and intimate talks about the everyday obstacles under a dictatorship. Together they explore the very meaning of the word ‘forbidden’ which punctuates many forms of Egyptian daily life even as it remains incomplete and contested.

The act of filming itself wasn’t allowed either without permission and ‘Forbidden’ is thus both a brave, rare act of visual political protest and disobedience and a unique look into the roots of the revolt. Finally, on the last days of editing, the revolution breaks out and the people leave their home’s shelter to shout their demands out on the street in hope for a change and freedom.

Original title Mamnou Country Egypt Year 2010 Running time 67 min.

Production Morgana Producciones Producer Amal Ramsis World Sales / Contact: Amal Ramsis, Denmark

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Sunday 6/11 12:00 HRS / Grand: Wednesday 9/11 20:00 HRS / DOX:CLUB i Teater Grob: Sunday 13/11 16:00 HRS

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How to Start a Revolution DIRECTOR: Ruaridh Arrow

Outside academic circles, Gene Sharp is not a name that many people know. Nonetheless, the distinguished, ageing gentleman from Boston and his political-philosophical works - not least the handbook ‘From Dictatorship to Democracy’ - have helped millions of people all over the world in their fight for freedom. The director Ruaridh Arrow has followed Gene Sharp, spent the night on Tahrir square in Cairo and turned to non-violent freedom fights all over the world in an attempt to chart how a revolution comes about.

‘How to Start a Revolution’ demonstrates how Sharp’s ideas and theories now work in practice on a global level. And how does one start a revolution with non-violent means? One among other things uses common colours and symbols, signs in English, and places women and children at the front of demonstrations. And tyrants all over the world are trembling in their boots.

Original title How to Start a Revolution Country UK Year 2011 Running time 82 min.

Producer Richard Shaw World Sales / Contact: TVF International, UK

SCREENING DATES Dagmar: Thursday 3/11 14:20 HRS / Dagmar: Monday 7/11 12:00 HRS / DOX:CLUB i Teater Grob: Sunday 13/11 14:00 HRS

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Rouge Parole DIRECTOR: Elyes Baccar

INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE ‘Dégage! Dégage! Dégage!’ Or in English: ‘Sign off!’ Continously shouting is echoing through the streets those days in Tunisia - even at night, one can hear a loud and angry voice of a man who proudly proclaimes: ‘Ben Ali ran away!’ The Tunesian people woke up from their seeming decades-lasting sleep. ‘Rouge parole’ offers a repesentative cross-section of the Tunesian popularity and therefore draws a detailed pictures of various citizen demanding freedom and justice as well as an end to all oppression. The film is like a collage of right-in-the-moment footage of the events that re-tells the story of the newly-gained pride and success, and therefore also takes the Tunesian influence on the following countries into account. The moment when an astonished and happy crowd is standing in front of book piles - books that had been banned by Ben Ali - functions as a methaphor for Tunisia to date: People are proud of their revolution but also need to find ways to use their new freedom to their demands. ‘Rouge Parole’ is a celebration of freedom and a first attempt to write a nation’s history and faith.

Original title Rouge Parole Country Switzerland, Tunisia Year 2011 Running time 97 min.

Production Fine Pearl (QA) - Gaia Production (TU) - Akka Films (CH) Producer Marmoud Bouneb World Sales / Contact: Akka Films, Switzerland

SCREENING DATES Dagmar: Friday 4/11 14:20 HRS / Dagmar: Thursday 10/11 16:30 HRS

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Three Stories of Life, Love and Death DIRECTOR: Lilibeth Cuenca, Nidal Hassan

WORLD PREMIERE ‘One can’t make films or art in the middle of a revolution, but the stories are there... and they have to come out,’ Lilibeth Cuenca writes about the circumstances that she and Nidal Hassan were confronted with when they shot their film in Syria in the spring of 2011. Already on the second day, the two of them were told by the Syrian authorities to pack their cameras and go. The surveillance from police forces and spies increased, the film’s producer went underground, people disappeared and were put in prison. Paranoia, insecurity and division. In the last night before Lilibeth’s departure for Denmark, the situation was so bad that they erased all their e-mail correspondence, renamed their screenplays and placed them on a USB stick that was put in a dirty sock and sent home with Lilibeth. Back in Denmark, the contact with Nidal stopped; he had gone underground. From an unknown source, Lilibeth found out that he ended up in prison and that he couldn’t continue working on the project.

The film, which is still a work-in-progress version of the final film, is a product of the circumstances that changed both the plot and the two directors’ relationship to the film and to each other.

Meet them both and hear them tell their story in their own words.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Sunday 6/11 16:30 HRS

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Original title Three Stories of Life, Love and Death Country Denmark, Syria Year 2011 Running time 70 min.

Production DOX:LAB Producer Tine Fischer & DFI

Nowhere Near Tomorrow DIRECTOR: Lisa Reisch

INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE The transformations in the Arab countries don’t necessarily have a beginning, middle and an end - and not even necessarily in that order. ‘Nowhere Near Tomorrow’ reminds us about this, and it is maybe high time. The whole thing definitely begins and ends with a will to achieve freedom. But if you are an Iraqi refugee in Syria, the problems are hardly over, before they begin again.

This is Abu Ahmed, a middle-aged Sunni Muslim family father with six daughters. But he is married to the Shia Muslim Wafa and - like over two million compatriots of his - he is a refugee.

The small family has sought shelter in a labyrinthine apartment in central Damascus, where Abu is battling with Syrian bureaucracy to get support. In the meantime, he serves tea in small glasses at a sidewalk café, and sighs about his hopeless situation, which even for a western spectator is unexpected - and which takes a whole new twist when the Syrians start to protest against their own regime. Nonetheless the pace of the film is calm, the tone is reflective and descriptive, and the will to achieve something better remains intact. And there is space for a discrete, humanistic poetry in the attentive images of the worn-down town and its surroundings, which illustrate both Abu’s own stories and the distant, factual knowledge that one had to work out for oneself with the help of newspaper headlines and news reports.

Original title Morgen kein Land Country Germany Year 2011 Running time 70 min.

Production Neue Bioskop Producer Johanna Teichmann World Sales / Contact: Neue Bioskop Film Produktions und Vertriebs GmbH, Germany

SCREENING DATES Husets Biograf: Saturday 5/11 17:00 HRS / Grand: Thursday 10/11 18:00 HRS

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Everyday Life in a Syrian Village DIRECTOR: Omar Amiralay

The loss of Syrian master filmmaker Omar Amiralay (1944 – 2011) earlier this year was a great loss not only to a global community of cinephiles, but to everyone who believes that cinema has a universal, humanist reach. The immediacy with which we understand the struggle of the peasants against the regime’s agricultural reforms in the eponymous ’Syrian Village’ where we are witnessing everyday life pass by, testifies as much to Amiralay’s human empathy as to his talent as a director of subtle allegories.

A small group of children uncovering the skeleton to of a giraffe in the desert sand is the kind of image that can still make the ground shake beneath the feet of any authority. His critique and poetical sense of the vast landscapes surrounding the village places Amiralay among the finest of filmmakers, and it seems fitting to include the film where he later claimed to have found his political voice, in a programme that aims to give a historical depth to the ’sudden’ public uprisings in the Arab world of 2011. The film remains banned in Syria to this day – but time will tell for how long.

SCREENING DATES Gloria: Monday 7/11 19:00 HRS

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Original title al-Hayat al-Yaomiyyah fi Qaryah Suriyyah Country Syria Year 1974 Running time 80 min.

World Sales / Contact: Orwa Nyrabia

Bahrain: Shouting in the Dark DIRECTOR: May Ying Welsh

INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE A country that seems to be forgotten by the world, with its people being at the mercy of their dictator. ‘Bahrain: Shouting in the Dark’ unfolds the dramatic and hopeless situation which Bahrainian society is facing. The people’s attempt to be one of the Arab Spring’s successors fails as a result of the ruthless and intransigent actions of their oppressors. Shot undercover in Bahrain over the course of three months, the film follows the saga of a people fighting for democratic rights who broke the barriers of fear. The film is foremost set in the inside of a hospital where doctors and nurses equally try the impossible, to treat the interminable torrent of incoming wounded protesters and state militia with their last ounces of strength. They conduct their work with devotion and respect for humanity, and yet: one will remain shocked and speechless after watching the film, knowing that all of them are sentenced by now. The protests have been strangled at birth - ‘Shouting in the Dark’ remains the last testimony of a forgotten country.

Original title Bahrain: Shouting in the Dark Country Qatar, Bahrain, USA Year 2010 Running time 51 min.

Production Al Jazeera English Producer May Ying Welsh World Sales / Contact: Al Jazeera, Denmark

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Tuesday 8/11 16:00 HRS

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The Sun’s Incubator DIRECTOR: Ammar Al-Beik

A sudden shower in the middle of the Egyptian revolution gives a young parent couple a moment to stop for a minute, take a breather and wash the red protest paint from their skin. They look after their child and get ready again for another wave of protests. A child born with the promise of imminent change and a better life for future generations, who will grow up with the memory of what - and not least whom - it is necessary to fight for.

Original title The Sun’s Incubator Country Syria Year 2011 Running time 12 min.

World Sales / Contact: Ammar Al-Beik, Syria

SCREENING DATES DOX:CLUB i Teater Grob: Friday 4/11 18:00 HRS / DOX:CLUB i Teater Grob: Monday 7/11 20:30 HRS / DOX:CLUB i Teater Grob: Friday 11/11 18:00 HRS

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Revolution DIRECTOR: Jean-François Hassoun

INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE ‘Ben Ali n’est plus!’ The remaining man on the street doesn’t seem to believe his new-found luck, so he has to shout it out to himself and the world again and again. Finally free from oppression. The images of the insurgents speak for themselves and relive the feelings and emotions that erupted with the revolution in Tunisia.

Original title Révolutions Country France Year 2011 Running time 20 min.

Production LIBERO FILMS/ ULYSSON Producer Jean-François Hassoun/ Riadh Thabet World Sales / Contact: Libero Films, France

SCREENING DATES DOX:CLUB i Teater Grob: Friday 4/11 18:00 HRS / DOX:CLUB i Teater Grob: Monday 7/11 20:30 HRS / DOX:CLUB i Teater Grob: Friday 11/11 18:00 HRS

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The Video Diaries DIRECTOR: Khaled Hafez

WORLD PREMIERE The young Egyptian director reflects in a three-channel video featuring an identical time line on events of the revolution.

Dedicated to his lost friends and political associates, the motionpictures capture snapshots of the common fight for freedom to be read as a diary - every new page contains its very own personal and unique instant that add together to a common history of oneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s country.

Original title The Video Diaries Country Egypt Year 2011 Running time 6 min.

World Sales / Contact: Khaled Hafez, Egypt

SCREENING DATES DOX:CLUB i Teater Grob: Friday 4/11 18:00 HRS / DOX:CLUB i Teater Grob: Monday 7/11 20:30 HRS / DOX:CLUB i Teater Grob: Friday 11/11 18:00 HRS

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Into Thin Air DIRECTOR: Mohammadreza Farzad

How will a political massacre be interpreted and remembered by less-than-a-minute of footage? It is the 8th of September 1978 in Tehran, the day that will be later called Black Friday of the Islamic Revolution in Iran. What first appears to be a diffuse motion-picture of threatened people fleeing in one direction reveals to be the only remaining footage of a political massacre where Shah-soldiers were shooting randomly into the crowd. ‘Into Thin Air’ attempts to read into this revolutionary flash point and through the blur of an instant focuses on the victims and gives them a more visceral identity by repetitively forwarding and rewinding this footage, but it goes beyond the personal realm and helps us to read motionpictures in order to interpret a country’s history.

Original title Into Thin Air Country Iran Year 2010 Running time 26 min.

World Sales / Contact: Mohammadreza Farzad, Iran

SCREENING DATES DOX:CLUB i Teater Grob: Friday 4/11 18:00 HRS / DOX:CLUB i Teater Grob: Monday 7/11 20:30 HRS / DOX:CLUB i Teater Grob: Friday 11/11 18:00 HRS

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New Sudan DIRECTOR: Maciej Kuziemski & Michal Passendorfer

WORLD PREMIERE â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Sudan is the biggest country in Africa, and possibly one that has suffered the most. Over fifty years ago Sudan was supposed to gain independence from Great Britain and Egypt and become an independent entity. In fact it turned out to be too much for such a diverse land, inhabited by 600 ethnic groups. Half a decade ago marked the beginning of a nightmare that has been haunting the country ever since.

The peace agreement signed in 2005, was for many a light in the tunnel, a ray of hope for some better future. The terms stated for an independence referendum to be held in the South in January 2011. This would allow the people to decide whether they want their own state or whether they prefer to continue in the union with the North.

We have travelled to South Sudan on the occasion of the referendum to meet with Mr. David Marpiny Manyok, Major of Juba Police. Over couple of days he shares his reflections, memoirs from the war and visions of the future. All of the pictures were taken in January 2011 in Juba.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; (Maciej Kuziemski & Michal Passendorfer)

Original title Nowy Sudan Country Poland Year 2011 Running time 15 min.

Production Passendorfer Production Producer Micha World Sales / Contact: Maciej Kuziemski, Poland

SCREENING DATES DOX:CLUB i Teater Grob: Friday 4/11 18:00 HRS / DOX:CLUB i Teater Grob: Monday 7/11 20:30 HRS / DOX:CLUB i Teater Grob: Friday 11/11 18:00 HRS

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Viva Paradis DIRECTOR: Isabelle Tollenaere

INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE The party is over at an almost abandoned and recently run-down Tunisian holiday hotel, where some of the remaining guests American and European pensioners - are still enjoying life. It is an artificial paradise, where an ironic host talks directly to the camera to thank us for choosing Tunisia, and guarantees us that our trust is helping the Tunisians to build a new country. At the same time, a group of dancers in military outfits are performing to an empty night club, and in a wrecked suite one can read ‘Thank You Facebook’ spray painted onto the wall. There is practically no dialogue or explanation, and the individual scenes in ‘Viva Paradis’ is shot in static tableaux. In other words, there is space for us to read our own ideas about the ‘new’ and independent Tunisia into the images, and to notice the emptiness after the revolution. But with it comes the opportunity to build something new and real in the ruins of that which was.

Original title Viva Paradis Country Belgium Year 2011 Running time 17 min.

Producer Isabelle Tollenaere World Sales / Contact: Courtisane Festival, Belgium

SCREENING DATES DOX:CLUB i Teater Grob: Friday 4/11 18:00 HRS / DOX:CLUB i Teater Grob: Monday 7/11 20:30 HRS / DOX:CLUB i Teater Grob: Friday 11/11 18:00 HRS

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NEW:VISION EXPANDED

The field between documentary practice and visual art has always been a defining part of the profile at CPH:DOX. Not least in the NEW:VISION Competition, that is dedicated to exploring this field. This year we have decided to take things one step further.

In collaboration with the National Gallery (Statens Museum for Kunst) we have curated and commisioned three new works for the exhibition ’Reconstructed Landscapes’, which runs from November 2 to December 30. The National Gallery is also lending its marble staircase to two exclusive, audiovisual live events: an evening with Nan Goldin and Genesis P-Orridge, and a ’black mass’ curated by filmmakers Ben Rivers & Ben Russell.

At Kunsthal Charlottenborg we are presenting the video and installation works of this years’ Artists in Focus, Charles Atlas and the French duo of Raphaël Siboni & Fabien Giraud. Three curated audiovisual live performances also take place here: John Maus and Jennifer Juniper Stratford, French synthpop hero College, and the Danish art-rock band Thulebasen with young artist Stine Marie Jacobsen.

Last, but certainly not least, we are hosting the two-day ART:FILM symposium at the Royal Academy of Art, dedicated to the exchange of knowledge and contacts between professionals from the worlds of visual art and cinema.

RE:CONSTRUCTED LANDSCAPES

‘Re:constructed Landscapes’ is an exhibition that can be seen at Statens Museum for Kunst (the National Gallery of Denmark) from 2 November to 30 December. SMK and CPH:DOX have together commissioned the three works, which are created in an artistic joint effort between visual artists and filmmakers, and which from the cross-medial zone between film and visual arts illustrates contemporary art’s renewed interest in the landscape.

In the film installation ‘Littorina’, Henrik Plenge Jakobsen together with, among others, the cinematographer Manuel Alberto Claro - extrapolates a mythological potential in the coastal landscapes along the Baltic Sea. In 6 short 16mm films, nature scenes create the framework around special situations and ritual acts with historical, geological and mysterious undertones.

Yael Bartana from Israel and the Danish anthropologist and film director Camilla Nielsson present the two black-and-white films ‘The Demonstrator’ and ‘The Record Player of Sheikh Jarrah’, who from a socio-political perspective examine two RE:CONSTRUCTED LANDSCAPES territorial conflict zones. In both works, a young woman confronts a human border of uniformed soldiers, who guard the two territories.

In ‘Into the Glacier’, the Danish artist FOS and the cinematographer Frederik Jacobi travelled to Svalbard to film in the islands’ arctic landscape and to reconstruct the untouched landscapes as a metaphor for civilisation’s generation of meaning and structures.

Both the journey and the film become a search for original forms of the term ‘knowledge’, icebound in nature.

Can be seen at Statens Museum for Kunst from 2 November to 30 December.

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Portraits / Instant Fame!

The New York-based artist Charles Atlas is Artist in Focus at this year’s CPH:DOX, and a selection of his films can be seen in the city’s cinemas during the festival. But like the French Artists in Focus duo Siboni & Giraud, Charles Atlas can work with other media than film and can simultaneously be seen at Kunsthal Charlottenborg, where he has arranged a video installation, which will be running during the festival.

The installation presents the two serial projects ‘Portraits’ and ‘Instant Fame!’. ‘Instant Fame!’ is based on an interactive show, which Atlas made with the London-based gallery Vilma Gold, where the visitors were filmed and projected live in front of an audience - a project with conceptual roots in Andy Warhol’s ‘Screen Tests’, which are also a part of the series ‘Portraits’: ‘Teach’ (Leigh), ‘99’ (Johanna), ‘Inner Child’ (Anne), ‘Ten’ (Johanna), and ‘Be Nice’ (Anne).

Can be seen at Charlottenborg during the entire festival.

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River Rites DIRECTOR: Ben Russell

How can it be so difficult not to reveal anything about a film where so relatively little ’happens’? That is none the less the case with ’River Rites’, which with very simple means turn our sense of (cinematic) time and perception on its head. It is a pleasure to watch, though. Like in his New Vision-winning short series ’Trypps 1 – 6’ and the first feature ’Let Each One Go Where He May’ (which could be seen at last year’s festival), Russell departs from the tropes of etnographic documentary to arrive at unknown shores. And like ’Let Each One...’ this most recent film was also shot in Suriname in what appears to be a single take. But not a straightforward one. It may well change the way you see the world, at least for around the ten minutes it takes for a can of 16mm film to run through a camera.

Original title River Rites Country US Year 2011 Running time 12 min.

’River Rites’ is screening with ’Slow Action’ by Ben Rivers. Rivers and Russell has curated the film programme ’A Spell To Ward Off the Darkness’ together for this year’s festival.

SCREENING DATES Charlottenborg: Thursday 3/11 18:00 HRS / Charlottenborg: Friday 4/11 18:00 HRS / Charlottenborg: Wednesday 9/11 18:00 HRS / Charlottenborg: Thursday 10/11 18:00 HRS / Charlottenborg: Friday 11/11 18:00 HRS

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Slow Action DIRECTOR: Ben Rivers

Like ’River Rites’, Ben Rivers’s post-apocalyptic science fictiondocumentary ’Slow Action’ undermines our sense of time – but on a scale of historical change, where the present may already be past. The film is divided in four parts, filmed in four different locations around the world in a few hundred years from now.

Everything is possible, when only we suspend our expectations of change and the passing of geological time. However, there is also an almost Jules Verne-ian sense of wonder and curiosity at play in ’Slow Action’, which continues Rivers’s fascination with nature on an epic scale, and with our temporary human presence on the planet. A visionary film in an almost literal sense.

Original title Slow Action Country UK Year 2011 Running time 45 min.

’Slow Action’ is screening with ’River Rites’ by Ben Russell. Russell and Rivers has curated the film programme ’A Spell To Ward Off the Darkness’ together for this year’s festival.

SCREENING DATES Charlottenborg: Thursday 3/11 18:00 HRS / Charlottenborg: Friday 4/11 18:00 HRS / Charlottenborg: Wednesday 9/11 18:00 HRS / Charlottenborg: Thursday 10/11 18:00 HRS / Charlottenborg: Friday 11/11 18:00 HRS

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Circular Signals DIRECTOR: Lui Mokrzycki

WORLD PREMIERE Four soundless and hauntingly beautiful minutes of black & white ‘cinéma pur’ by the young Danish artist Lui Mokrzycki. ‘Circular Signals’ was created as a part of a group of works that also includes photography, and which take their starting-point in a mythical tale of a lost ship, which in the early 20th century set sail for unknown waters between Alaska and West Greenland, with the goal of attempting to find a route through the Northwest Passage. The story of the lost ship serves as a catalyst for the narrative of an opaque world, where everything is not charted and where undiscovered places still exist. The observer is placed on an expedition into this unknown territory, in which the works function as places of remembrance and landmarks for the trip. A common feature of Mokrzycki’s projects is his interest in experimental film and photography, but also in places and stories. He operates in the field between the recognisable and the abstract, and his works are frequently built up around a series of hints and indications, which, like a classic detective story, both reveal evidence of an action and at the same time raise new questions. Mokrzycki creates a well-composed and highly disciplined visual expression that appears both direct and easily readable, but is at the same time mysterious and complex.

Original title Circular Signals Country Danmark Year 2011 Running time 4 min.

Production Lui Mokrzycki Producer Lui Mokrzycki

Screened as a part of the special section NIGHT:VISION at Kunsthal Charlottenborg along Steffen Levring’s ‘Naturefilm in 5 Movements’ and Dominic Gagnon’s ‘Data’.

SCREENING DATES Charlottenborg: Thursday 3/11 19:20 HRS / Charlottenborg: Friday 4/11 19:20 HRS / Charlottenborg: Wednesday 9/11 19:20 HRS / Charlottenborg: Thursday 10/11 19:20 HRS / Charlottenborg: Friday 11/11 19:20 HRS

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Naturefilm in 5 Movements DIRECTOR: Steffen Levring

WORLD PREMIERE The nature that is portrayed in Steffen Levring’s ‘Naturefilm in 5 Movements’ is about as far from the romantic depictions of nature usually found in the visual arts, as the mind’s eye could imagine.

There are no claims to authenticity or representation in the abstract anti-images of Levring’s exquisite and powerful film, which finds its congenial symbol motive in a black hole - a vortex in the middle of the screen, that leaves us only with pure light, digital noise, and an indefinite soundscape. If romantic notions prevail, however, it is in the firm belief in the potential of audiovisual perception to reveal the unknown to us without translating visions into words.

An experimental approach to filmmaking that here re-appears in a highly contemporary form. Please note, that ‘Naturefilm in 5 Movements’ contain strobe light effects.

Screened as a part of the special section NIGHT:VISION at Kunsthal Charlottenborg along with Lui Mockryzki’s ‘Circular Signals’ and Dominic Gagnon’s ‘Data’.

Original title Naturefilm in 5 Movements Country UK Year 2011 Running time 7 min.

Production Steffen Levring Producer Steffen Levring

SCREENING DATES Charlottenborg: Thursday 3/11 19:20 HRS / Charlottenborg: Friday 4/11 19:20 HRS / Charlottenborg: Wednesday 9/11 19:20 HRS / Charlottenborg: Thursday 10/11 19:20 HRS / Charlottenborg: Friday 11/11 19:20 HRS

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Data DIRECTOR: Dominic Gagnon

Iconoclastic video artist Dominic Gagnon elevates full-on confrontation to a mode of communication. His collage works are frontal, aggressively facing the viewer, and are often based on found footage lifted from the margins of the internet and composed in a cheerfully ironic syntax. The aptly titled ‘Data’ is no exception and looks at labour in the Post-Fordist age. An excessive overload of information in the shape of quotes, anarchist and anti-capitalist slogans, art theory, and performative youtube-clips of workers going about their business after hours. The story of a truck driver who transports invaluable art works and stages them as small roadside attractions between museums is symptomatic of Gagnon’s carnivalesque sense of the shady relation between what is imagined as sacred and profane today, and between labour and art when the meaning of both is challenged. From dada through situationism to punk nihilism: Gagnon adapts the strategies of radical criticism to the age of Youtube, and adds a healthy dose of fun.

Original title Data Country Canada Year 2010 Running time 60 min.

World Sales / Contact: zéro distribution, Canada

Screened as a part of the special section NIGHT:VISION at Kunsthal Charlottenborg along with Lui Mockryzki’s ‘Circular Signals’ and Steffen Levring’s ‘Naturefilm in 5 Movements’.

SCREENING DATES Charlottenborg: Thursday 3/11 19:20 HRS / Charlottenborg: Friday 4/11 19:20 HRS / Charlottenborg: Wednesday 9/11 19:20 HRS / Charlottenborg: Thursday 10/11 19:20 HRS / Charlottenborg: Friday 11/11 19:20 HRS

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ART:FILM SYMPOSIUM

CPH:DOX, the British art film organization LUX and the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts is hosting a two-day symposium during CPH:DOX 2011.The symposium is a new international platform which is being launched alongside this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s festival and the overall idea is to focus on the production of feature lenght film in the borderland between film and visual arts. What is currently happening in the ever growing borderland between film and visual arts? Which films are being produced, who ownes them, where do they appear, how are they developed and financed? How does the production context and not least how does the institutional context influence the creative process? What is the future of art cinema? Does it lie in the hands of the film industry or in the hands of the art world â&#x20AC;&#x201C; or in between?The idea is to connect artists, professional filmmakers and institutions from the film and art world to exchange knowledge, ideas and contacts, and to highlight new ways of cooperation. We have invited a carefully selected group of international producers, broadcasters, funders and museums for a discussion on the current state of the international scene of art cinema and the processes by which it can be developed and supported in the future.

SCREENING DATES Kunstakademiets Festsal: Thursday 10/11 09:30 HRS

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MODERN TIMES FOREVER - SUPERFLEX IN THE METRO

Modern Times Forever is a film, a sculpture and a time machine.

It is an invitation to experience the urban space and its power symbols, impacted at a disturbing pace.

The film is a portrait of the company Stora Enso’s iconic building, one of the Finnish capital Helsinki’s most important landmarks, designed by the famous Finnish architect Alvar Aalto. The film portrays what happens if we stop time and let the era of humanity end, after which we fast forward and let the building be affected by time alone.

The shifting seasons, years, decades and centuries start eating away at the building just like they do with the pyramids, the Acropolis and the post-industrial areas of Detroit. Through the decay image, the film touches upon topics such as climate change, urban planning, global economic challenges, fear and speculation.

What will the building represent in thousands of years’ time, and what is left both materially and in terms of ideology?

The entire procedure is filmed by a person with a handheld camera.

The film can be seen at Kongens Nytorv Metro station and is made by the Danish artists’ collective SUPERFLEX. The film lasts 10 days, 240 hours and begins and ends simultaneously with CPH:DOX.

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TOP:DOX

TOP:DOX is the section for festival hits and front page stories from the world of documentaries. Great films, great stories, great personalities – and great directors, not least.

From Frederick Wiseman and Jonas Mekas to Michael Glawogger and Romuald Karmakar.

This year 3-D has broken through in non-fiction filmmaking. We are pleased to present Wim Wenders and Werner Herzog’s masterful explorations of the third dimension. They are joined in 2-D by festival regulars such James Marsh, Alex Gibney, José Luis Guerin, and many others.

But TOP:DOX is also the series which takes a closer look at our own, modern culture. The up’s and down’s of our times are explored in depth in ‘The Flaw’, ‘Revenge of the Electric Car’, and ‘Under Control’. Films that point to the financial and environmental crisis as the defining issues of the present.

‘Girl Model’ and ‘Inside Lara Roxx’ cast a critical glance at the illusions of the industry of bodies and appearances – in the worlds of fashion and pornography, respectively. In ‘Fake It So Real’ Robert Greene takes us behind the scenes in the wonderfully bizarre and no less illusory world of wrestling.

In sum, a chance to catch up with a selection of the films that made it grand in 2011, and which, when taken together, prove that one can easily be popular without being bland.

Cave of Forgotten Dreams DIRECTOR: Werner Herzog

Original title: Cave of Forgotten Dreams / Country: US, UK, France / Year: 2010 / Running time: 90 min. / Production: Creative Differences / Producer: Erik Nelson, Adrienne Ciuffo / World Sales / Contact: Visit Films, USA

Join Werner Herzog on his quest into the otherwise hermetically sealed Chauvet cave in Southern France, armed with a 3D camera and his incisively satirical perspective. Inside the cave archeologists found a series of cave paintings in 1994, which after more than 30,000 years of being sealed from the world remained exactly as our ancestors left them. Only a small number of selected researchers have therefore been allowed to stick their head inside, but this doesn’t stop Herzog on his journey into the cave, which raises the

question about what unites the modern human being with our predecessors. The fact that Herzog’s answer contains both albino alligators, the American national anthem played on a bone flute and is filmed in 3D should not surprise fans of the determined director - who with ‘Cave of Forgotten Dreams’ at the same time answers the American film critic Roger Ebert’s famous declaration that he refused to take 3D technology seriously before Herzog adopted it.

SCREENING DATES Empire: Saturday 5/11 20:00 HRS / Imperial: Wednesday 9/11 21:30 HRS / Empire: Saturday 12/11 20:00 HRS

Pina DIRECTOR: Wim Wenders

Original title: Pina / Country: Germany, France / Year: 2011 / Running time: 100 min. / World Sales / Contact: Hanway Films, UK

In 1985, the German director Wim Wenders for the first time watched a performance by his compatriot, the legendary choreographer and dancer Pina Bausch. The two quickly became friends, and the idea of a joint film project gradually took shape, but only when Wenders in 2007 became interested in 3D technology, he found the form he needed to communicate Pina’s complexly choreographed dance performances to a modern cinema audience. This visually overwhelming film shows that Wenders has understood the 3D

technology like few others. We are literally there on the stage and backstage, as Pina’s dancers empathetically talk about their collaboration with her. The protagonist herself never managed to see the finished product. She died in 2009 - and Wenders’s film is therefore both a memory of, a documentation about and a tribute to one of the 20th century’s absolute greatest choreographers. With ‘Pina’, she has been given the most beautiful swan song that the dance film genre has ever seen.

SCREENING DATES Empire: Friday 4/11 20:00 HRS / Imperial: Thursday 10/11 19:00 HRS / Empire: Sunday 13/11 15:00 HRS

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Project Nim DIRECTOR: James Marsh

Original title: Project Nim / Country: UK / Year: 2011 / Running time: 93 min. / Production: Red Box Films, Passion Pictures, BBC Films / Producer: Simon Chinn / World Sales / Contact: Icon Entertainment Int., UK

If you liked John Marsh’s Oscar-winning ‘Man on Wire’, you will be guaranteed to love the English master documentarist’s latest film ‘Project Nim’ - an exciting and informative insight into a radical sociological project from the 1970s, which focuses on an ape but which tells thousands of truths about the human being. How much can a chimpanzee learn? And does it resemble a human being so much, that it can navigate through complex social contexts?

Professor Herb Terrace from Columbia University embarked on the experiment in 1973 together with a dedicated team of researchers.

En route, they made some astonishing empirical observations, but also encountered some massive problems. ‘You can’t give an animal that is able to kill you a human upbringing’, one of the scientists says at one point in the film. For even if Nim apparently exhibits empathy and even likes to relax smoking a joint from time to time, there is still a set of razor-sharp teeth sitting in his jaws. James Marsh will be present himself to introduce the screening on 30 October in Cinemateket!

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Saturday 29/10 16:00 HRS / Empire: Friday 4/11 17:30 HRS / Grand: Sunday 6/11 19:00 HRS

The Bengali Detective DIRECTOR: Philip Cox

Original title: The Bengali Detective / Country: US, UK, India / Year: 2011 / Running time: 96 min. / Production: Frequent Flyer Films, Break Thru Films / Producer: Giovanna Stopponi, Annie Sundberg, Himesh Kar / World Sales / Contact: Native Voice Films, UK

There is already a Hollywood remake of ‘The Bengali Detective’ in the making. But Phil Cox’s moving, exciting and highly entertaining hit documentary surpasses any fictional film. The slightly overweight private detective Rajesh has more in common with Inspector Clouseau than with Dirty Harry, but he works highly purposefully with the tasks that he has been given. Rajesh started 15 years ago as a detective in the Indian megacity Calcutta with two mobile phones and a motorbike, and he today owns a small investigative agency where Indians from all social strata, who have lost their faith in the

country’s ineffective and corrupt police force, turn to in desperate need for help. From counterfeit goods to unfaithfulness in a middle class marriage and a horrible murder of three young men. But behind the hard facade is a proud and loving father and husband and a dream of becoming a Bollywood dancer! So Rajesh and his co-workers sign up to India’s answer to ‘Strictly Come Dancing’. Phil Cox takes us to Calcutta’s chaotic streets and alleys with magnificent images of bustling life, where sad and dramatic stories meet moments of brightness and captivating slapstick dance routines.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Thursday 10/11 19:15 HRS / Cinemateket: Friday 11/11 16:45 HRS / Cinemateket: Saturday 12/11 19:15 HRS / Cinemateket: Sunday 13/11 16:45 HRS / Cinemateket: Tuesday 15/11 16:45 HRS / Cinemateket: Wednesday 16/11 16:45 HRS

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Whores’ Glory DIRECTOR: Michael Glawogger

Original title: Whores’ Glory / Country: Austria / Year: 2011 / Running time: 119 min. / World Sales / Contact: The Match Factory, Germany

Prostitution simply exists in this world. From there, we are left to ourselves in the Austrian master documentarist Michael Glawogger’s epic and confrontational ‘Whore’s Glory’, which observingly and with a ruthless proximity takes place across three continents and three religious cultures. In Bangkok, prostitutes clock in like factory workers, before they take their seats for clients in an illuminated aquarium-like shop window. ‘The House of Desire’ in Bangladesh is a dark and infernal labyrinth, where mothers haggle over the price of their 12-year-old daughters. And in the gated community ‘La Zona’ in Mexico, people pray to ‘The Holy

Death’ - a female goddess and the only hope in a place that mostly looks like hell on earth. It took Glawogger four years to gain the women’s (and the customers’) trust to be able to reach right into the pitch-black heart of prostitution culture, where the dubious double standards of religion dominate. But at the same time, it is also a monumental work of a scale, where humanity itself is the protagonist. ‘Whore’s Glory’ is the long-awaited third film of Glawogger’s globalisation trilogy, which also includes ‘Megacities’ (1998) and the DOX:AWARD winner ‘Workingman’s Death’ (2005).

SCREENING DATES Grand: Tuesday 8/11 21:30 HRS / Empire: Friday 11/11 22:30 HRS

Fake It So Real DIRECTOR: Robert Greene

Original title: Fake It So Real / Country: US / Running time: 94 min. / World Sales / Contact: 4th Row Films, USA

Behind the coloured costumes and fantastic alter egos they are just plain human beings. But amateur wrestlers from the American underground scene cast off all inhibitions once they are in the ring, and we are held in a solid armlock from the very first minute in ‘Fake It So Real’, which is probably the closest you can get to a real version of ‘The Wrestler’. The motley crew of fighters talk about their dreams and problems, and about their desire to make it to the million dollar industry of professional wrestling. But a liberating self-awareness is present in the faces of both the old veterans as well as the young hopeful talents the moment they step into the

ring. Robert Greene’s film is above all an entertaining look at an anarchistic and deeply insane stage show, which surpasses what most people could imagine. In what looks like a deadly serious study of bad taste, the ambitious troupe at least manages to put together a show, and one is forced to both admire and be surprised by their crazy ideas and total dedication to the audience. The circus-like chaos of tight-fitting spandex, sweaty armlocks and rehearsed TV drama never gets in the way of the surprisingly honest portraits, and one can’t avoid cheering when the body slamming gets going and slaps are dealt out left, right and centre.

SCREENING DATES Empire: Thursday 3/11 22:30 HRS / Grand: Monday 7/11 19:30 HRS / Dagmar: Friday 11/11 19:00 HRS

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Under Control DIRECTOR: Volker Sattel

Original title: Unter Kontrolle / Country: Germany / Year: 2011 / Running time: 98 min. / Production: credofilm GmbH / Producer: Susann Schimk, Joerg Trentmann / World Sales / Contact: Credo Film gmbh, Germany

An impressive documentary opera about the sleeping giants of our times: nuclear power stations. The accident in Japan earlier this year has put the debate about nuclear power on the public agenda again, and with renewed force. But in the German filmmaker Volker Sattel’s look at the issue, we aren’t told what we should think.

Instead, we are confronted without any further comments with the nuclear power stations and the people who patiently operate the giant control rooms where blinking control panels, incomprehensible machines and enormous reactors are humming with life. Sattel’s camera pans silently and attentively around the rooms and continues far into the depths of the storage shafts. Monumental towers,

geometrical figures and deserted ruins. The film is fascinatingly beautiful with its panorama images from the power stations, which are full of fascination and threats, tragedy and risk, all in equal measure. With a cool professionalism and enthusiastic expert knowledge, the employees show us around the deadly serious world of big toys, where security is the all-important leitmotif. There is a controlled calmness so close to the red alarm. The film is both frightening, comical and beautiful, and its fascinating choice of reality at times leans on both Jacques Tati and ‘Star Wars’. But there is no reason to panic: everything is under control.

SCREENING DATES Dagmar: Saturday 5/11 16:40 HRS / Dagmar: Monday 7/11 19:00 HRS

Dragonslayer DIRECTOR: Tristan Patterson

Original title: Dragonslayer / Country: US / Year: 2011 / Running time: 74 min. / Production: Drag City, Killer Films / Producer: John Baker, Christine Vachon / World Sales / Contact: Submarine Entertainment, USA

‘Dragonslayer’ is a moving polaroid photo from an endless Californian summer with the just 23-year-old (former) skateboard star Josh ‘Skreech’ Sandoval and his gang in front of the camera. In spite of his young age and its ‘live fast, die young’ attitude, ‘Skreech’ has already managed to rise from the bottom of an empty swimming pool to the top of the international skate scene, before crashing headlong to hit rock-bottom again - now as a homeless man with a small child. But none of all this worries him, however. For freedom is not just another word for having nothing left to lose. Freedom is what it’s all about, and with this philosophy as an unspoken mantra,

the days flow together in a druggy and impressionist stream of images. From a mushroom trip in the forest and a trip to the skating rally in Malmö to when his new girlfriend first appears on the scene and steals the picture. ‘Dragonslayer’ won the award for best documentary at the American SXSW festival earlier this year, and is built on the loose plots of music and skating videos as well as independent films. But it is also a snapshot of an outsider (and maybe an entire generation?), which in the aftermath of the American financial collapse has let go completely and is literally living for the moment.

SCREENING DATES Empire: Wednesday 9/11 22:30 HRS / Grand: Friday 11/11 24:00 HRS / Cinemateket: Saturday 12/11 21:45 HRS

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Shut Up Little Man! An Audio Misadventure DIRECTOR: Matthew Bate Original title: Shut Up Little Man! An Audio Misadventure / Country: Australia / Year: 2011 / Running time: 93 min. / Production: Closer Productions / Producer: Sophie Hyde / World Sales / Contact: Closer Productions, Australia

How did one create a viral cult hit before the Internet was invented?

Answer: one copied and distributed ones own cassette tapes and sent them all over the country by postal order! And this is exactly what the two young slackers Eddie and Mitch did, when they in 1987, after high school, moved into a dilapidated flat in San Francisco, and soon became acquainted involuntarily with their two drunk and extremely noisy neighbours: the homophobic and forever badtempered Raymond, and his flamboyant flatmate Peter. And with their everlasting and almost surreal arguments, which contained the now immortal phrase as a fixed refrain: ‘Shut up, little man!’

Eddie and Mitch started to record their neighbours through an open kitchen window, and this is where the bizarre and incredibly funny story about a phenomenon starts, which has since been ‘remixed’ on the radio, in the theatre, in comics, in lyrics, on t-shirts and in three film projects that came to nothing. But it also raises ethical questions about voyeurism, copyrights and about what we know about other people’s lives - and which ends with the two now adult friends embarking on a quirky detective story to find Peter and Raymond. The result is a simultaneously entertaining and reflective film, which surpasses any type of fiction.

SCREENING DATES Dagmar: Friday 4/11 21:30 HRS / Cinemateket: Friday 11/11 21:45 HRS / Grand: Saturday 12/11 23:30 HRS

The Magic Trip DIRECTOR: Alex Gibney & Alison Ellwood

Original title: The Magic Trip / Country: US / Year: 2011 / Running time: 90 min. / Production: A&E IndieFilms / Producer: Will Clarke, Alex Gibney, Alexandra Johnes / World Sales / Contact: Fortissimo Film Sales, Netherlands

Too young to be beat, to old to be hippies! With the newly invented LSD-25 as a mental compass, the countercultural author Ken Kesey dragged a group of likeminded people on a psychedelic crusade in 1964. A school bus is transformed into a flagship of the revolution, and in the aftermath of Kerouac they burn their way through a sleepy USA on a kaleidoscopic road trip. With the stated intention of setting fire to the American mind from coast to coast, this bus trip is justifiably fêted as the dress rehearsal for the psychedelic revolution and the beginning of ‘the love generation’. The trip has today gained the status of a modern myth, but in spite of the fact that the group eagerly documented the tour on 16mm film, which still today looks razor sharp with beautiful saturated images, the

rare and explosive material has until now been reserved for a closed circle. But now the doors of consciousness are being opened wide to let us look at the chaotic and seductive acid project! The American documentary heavyweights Alex Gibney and Alison Ellwood have created a colourful trip through a sensual celluloid haze, taken from over 100 hours of original footage. En route, the bus collides with people such as Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, The Grateful Dead and the high priest of psycho-chemistry Timothy Leary, and we are shown a dizzying map of a nation that is a few inches away from stepping over the cosmic threshold. Take a sip from ‘The Electric Kool-Aid’ and sit at the front of the bus!

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Thursday 3/11 21:30 HRS / Grand: Wednesday 9/11 16:40 HRS / Dagmar: Friday 11/11 21:30 HRS

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Revenge of The Electric Car DIRECTOR: Chris Paine

Original title: Revenge of The Electric Car / Country: US / Year: 2011 / Running time: 90 min. / World Sales / Contact: Revenge of the electric Car, USA

Thousands of new electric cars were destroyed in the course of the 1990s - apparently by the companies that produced the cars to begin with. Today, a decade later, the electric car is back. Faster and cleaner than ever before, and without using as much as a drop of foreign oil. In ‘Revenge of the Electric Car’, the director Chris Paine invites us behind the closed doors of the great giants such as Nissan, General Motors and the newly established Silicon Valley company

Tesla Motors. They quickly demonstrate that the electric car is not just revived - it is also claimed to be the rescue of the American car industry. Like a Formula 1 race for electric car manufacturers, the giants are engaged in a desperate fight to produce the first and best electric car, and to win the favour of the market. The race to produce the car of the future has started.

SCREENING DATES Dagmar: Saturday 5/11 12:00 HRS / DOX:CLUB i Teater Grob: Monday 7/11 18:00 HRS / DOX:CLUB i Teater Grob: Saturday 12/11 16:00 HRS

Correspondance Jonas Mekas J.L. Guerin DIRECTOR: Jonas Mekas & José Luis Guerin Original title: Correspondance Jonas Mekas - J.L. Guerin / Country: Spain, US / Year: 2011 / Running time: 96 min. / World Sales / Contact: CCCB Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona, Spain

A poetic and personal exchange of video letters between two extraordinary filmmakers. The now 88-year-old legend Jonas Mekas is maybe the most generous of all filmmakers, with a genuine curiosity for everyone around him. Since the 1950s, he has both defined and documented New York’s alternative film culture, and his individual films are filled with song and dance, freedom and poetry in the company of friends, sons and strangers - guided by Mekas’s characteristic Lithuanian voice and accent. The Spanish filmmaker José Luis Guerin has spent the past few years travelling

to all the film festivals that have invited him, and with the gaze of a melancholy flaneur and a constantly rolling camera, he talks about his experiences to Mekas - from a visit to Thoreau’s house in Walden to his encounter with the young film critic Nika Bohinc, who has been tragically killed in the meantime. The distinction between life and film is simply not present between the two, and it is a pleasure to be invited to the exchange of anecdotes, considerations and spontaneous moments of brittle poetry and human warmth. If you aren’t already on first name terms with them, you soon will be.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Friday 4/11 16:30 HRS / Cinemateket: Sunday 13/11 21:15 HRS

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Crazy Horse DIRECTOR: Frederick Wiseman

Original title: Crazy Horse / Country: France, US / Year: 2011 / Running time: 134 min. / World Sales / Contact: Celluloid Dreams, France

The Parisian strip club ‘Le Crazy Horse de Paris’ boasts of having the world’s most beautiful women in the most sophisticated shows, and since 1951 it has entertained its picky audience with its spectacular shows. A legendary, underground fantasy world in the heart of Paris, which the 80-year-old and highly prolific master documentarist Frederick Wiseman has explored in his characteristic ‘fly on the wall’ format, which he himself has co-invented: what you see is what you get - but this, on the other hand, is not that little! From the lavish stage shows to the small and large dramas backstage, the camera fly is there where it happens. Wiseman shares his great interest in dance and the body’s movements (which was last seen

in ‘La Danse’ and ‘Boxing Gym’ at CPH:DOX in 2009 and 2010) with the club’s perfectionist choreographer Philippe Decouflé, who is fighting to guide the club into a new century without compromising his art form. And he assures us that it is all about cultivating female beauty as an art form. You be the judge when Wiseman follows him during the work with the entirely extravagant show ‘Désir’, where the female dancers almost create one big, abstract body. It is a sight that one should treat oneself to. For even if he has made it to the other side of 80 years and with 40 films under his belt, Wiseman manages to make every moment seem both new and highly familiar.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Friday 4/11 19:00 HRS / Empire: Friday 11/11 17:30 HRS

Inside Lara Roxx DIRECTOR: Mia Donovan

Original title: Inside Lara Roxx / Country: Canada / Year: 2011 / Running time: 77 min. / Production: EyeSteelFilm / Producer: Mia Donovan, Bob Moore, Mila Aung-Thwin, Daniel Cross / World Sales / Contact: Eyesteel Film, Canada

In the spring of 2004, 21-year-old Lara Roxx packed her dreams in a suitcase and left her hometown of Montreal and headed to the city where everything is possible: Los Angeles. Here, she starts a career as a porn star. It’s only supposed to be for a couple of years, it’s only meant to be a temporary thing. She sees it as a stepping stone that can send her into the world with plenty of cash and with plenty of experience under her belt. It is indeed a temporary step, for already after making her second porn film, Lara is diagnosed with HIV. The director Mia Donovan meets her the first time in 2005 at a psychiatric ward in Montreal, and over the course of the next

five years, she follows the delicate girl on and off during the social and mental free fall she is going through. Lara learns to live with her illness and decides to return to confront the industry that has ruined her life. She meets her old agent, the doctor who diagnosed her and passes on good advice to aspiring porn actresses. Mia Donovan’s self-reflective approach and handheld camera reveal a close relationship between the filmmaker and her protagonist, and it touches on the difficulties that go with it. A raw, courageous and compassionate portrait of a woman, who is alive in spite of everything.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Thursday 3/11 21:45 HRS / Grand: Sunday 6/11 21:30 HRS / Dagmar: Friday 11/11 16:40 HRS

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Girl Model DIRECTOR: David Redmon & Ashley Sabin

Original title: Girl Model / Country: US / Year: 2011 / Running time: 77 min. / World Sales / Contact: Carnivalesque Films, USA

13-year-old Nady is from Novosibirsk in Russia. Just like thousands of other girls from Eastern Europe’s most impoverished corners, she dreams of a better life - a life where money isn’t an issue. Her mother and grandmother want her to be financially independent, so when Nadya wins a beauty competition and is offered a contract with a Japanese modelling agency, the future could not look any brighter.

Without a penny to her name, but with a long, girly body filled with expectations, Nadya sets off for Japan. At the same time, we follow the former model Ashley, who, in spite of her deep-seated hatred for

the modelling industry and what it did to her self-esteem, works as a model scout for a Japanese company. In Japan, models can’t be too young, and Nadya’s pre-pubescent looks fit the market perfectly. The only thing she has to do is to claim that she is 15 when she goes to castings. But Nadya’s trip to Japan doesn’t go as planned, and when she returns to Russia, she is heavily in debt and mentally scarred for life. David Redmon and Ashley Sabin have made a heart-rending drama and an important film, which exposes the dark sides of the modelling industry and a world, which is obsessed by eternal youth.

SCREENING DATES Dagmar: Saturday 5/11 19:00 HRS / Dagmar: Tuesday 8/11 19:00 HRS / Cinemateket: Friday 11/11 19:15 HRS

Gerhard Richter Painting DIRECTOR: Corinna Belz

Original title: Gerhard Richter Painting / Country: Germany / Year: 2011 / Running time: 97 min. / World Sales / Contact: The Match Factory, Germany

The title says it all. Corinna Belz’s documentary is a hitherto unseen and strangely dangerous journey into the studios of Gerhard Richter - one of the world’s most important contemporary painters. Known for his eccentricity and picture-destroying style, Richter is perfect at elucidating the deep rifts that exist in the world of modern art.

Even though the film shows the 79-year-old artist being celebrated at the National Portrait Gallery in London as well as in conversations

with critics and collaborators, it is also a depiction of an artist in his own environment. The workshops with the taciturn assistants, huge canvasses and buckets of paint. It is here that the true fight is taking place between the artist and the work, and it is here that the effort is instrumental in expressing exactly the emotion that the individual work is meant to evoke.

SCREENING DATES Grand: Sunday 6/11 12:00 HRS / Grand: Saturday 12/11 10:00 HRS

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Sarah Palin - You Betcha DIRECTOR: Nick Broomfield & Joan Churchill

Original title: Sarah Palin - You Betcha / Country: UK / Year: 2011 / Running time: 90 min. / World Sales / Contact: ContentFilm International, UK

‘No matter if Sarah Palin ends up throwing herself into the presidential race or not, it is amazing how close she has come to the White House.’ These are the words of the director Nick Broomfield about his much courted subject in his latest documentary. And even if we now know that Palin, after ‘prayerful consideration’, decided not to pursue the presidential dream this time round, the film is still a highly topical and frightening portrayal of a ruthless character and an American extreme right wing. Inspired by Michael Moore

and Morgan Spurlock, we are there when Nick Broomfield (‘Kurt and Courtney’) with his usual interactive and self-reflective style and equipped with his faithful boom microphone sets out to Palin’s home town of Wasilla in an attempt to interview her. Here, he meets her family, friends and a local population, all of them split between those who idolise her and those that merely see her as a popular high school student doing prom queen politics.

SCREENING DATES DOX:CLUB i Teater Grob: Thursday 3/11 16:00 HRS / Empire: Wednesday 9/11 17:30 HRS / Grand: Friday 11/11 21:30 HRS

The Flaw DIRECTOR: David Sington

Original title: The Flaw / Country: UK / Year: 2011 / Running time: 82 min. / Production: Studio Lambert, Dartmouth Films / Producer: Stephen Lambert, Luke Johnson, Christopher Hird / World Sales / Contact: Studio Lambert, UK

A small, hidden defect. ‘A flaw’. Even if it sounds like a gross understatement, this was exactly the word that Alan Greenspan, the former head of the American Federal Reserve, used in 2008, when he humbly told the American Congress about the overlooked causes of the massive global financial downturn. An error in Greenspan’s model of how the world works. The award-winning documentary filmmaker David Slington has embarked on telling the story about

the great collapse. Through interviews with leading economists, historians, Wall Street insiders and victims of the crisis - among others a bankrupt bond trader who now lives off giving guided tours of Wall Street! - we are given an original and captivating story about the basic ingredients that poisoned the entire world economy. This year’s ‘Inside Job’ - just one year wiser.

SCREENING DATES Grand: Saturday 5/11 12:00 HRS / Dagmar: Tuesday 8/11 16:40 HRS / DOX:CLUB i Teater Grob: Saturday 12/11 18:00 HRS

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The Flock of the Lord DIRECTOR: Romuald Karmakar

Original title: Die Herde des Herrn / Country: Germany / Running time: 83 min. / Production: Pantera Film GmbH / Producer: Romuald Karmakar / World Sales / Contact: Pantera Film GmbH, Germany

For a huge number of people all over the world, the head of the Catholic church is almost like having George, John, Paul and Ringo united in one person. He is the ultimate religious rock star with his own euphoric ‘Pope mania’, and the brillant, ever uncompromising German filmmaker Romuald Karmakar - a regular at CPH:DOX - has travelled to the small Bavarian town of Marktl am Inn to examine it with his calm and objective camera. Here, Joseph Ratzinger, later known as Pope Benedict XVI, was born in 1927. Even if the Pope only lived here the first 20 years of his life, the town has turned into a big tourist magnet. Pope beer, Pope cakes and all sorts of

souvenirs are traded here on a large scale. The film’s second half takes place 11 days earlier in the Vatican, where Karmakar is in the middle of a huge group of passionately devoted Christians, who have turned up to show their respect for Pope Benedict XVI’s predecessor, John Paul II. The massive crowd creates chaos, but also some very intense and emotional moments when all the people present unite to chant catholic tributes and prayers towards the church. An almost provokingly simple and accessible documentary from one of the most daring and interesting filmmakers of our times.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Saturday 5/11 13:00 HRS / Cinemateket: Tuesday 8/11 16:30 HRS / Cinemateket: Sunday 13/11 14:15 HRS

doc alliance presents: Sira Songs of The Crescent Moon DIRECTOR: Sandra Gysi & Ahmed Abdel Mohsen Original title: Sira - Songs of The Crescent Moon / Country: Switzerland / Year: 2011 / Running time: 77 min. / Production: Reck Filmproductions Zurich / World Sales / Contact: Columbus Film AG, Switzerland

For hundreds of years, the Old Arabic poem ‘Sira’ has been a colourful, collective cultural memory, which united the Arab people across generations and boundaries. The five million verse long (!) poetic opus has passed from mouth to ear over centuries, and now lives with Sayyed El-Dawi. He is the world’s last Sira singer, and he has the enormous work stored in his memory. With the poem as a life project, we follow his attempts to retain a lyrical past in the midst of modern Egypt’s transformation and fast progress. His son Ramadan is expected to carry on the tradition, but the mebers of the new generation see the world with other eyes than their

forefathers. Ramadan’s take of the Sira-tradition is suffused with modern influences. Pop music and stage shows are at odds with the father’s belief in the poet’s place at a street-level among the people, and the stage is thereby set for a discussion about tradition, art and culture in this rhythmic Arabic tale of generational shifts.

The pace is fast as songs bear the film through the old Egyptian bazars and a flourishing entertainment industry, where the decision has to be made if the art itself is allowed to develop or should be left to disappear in a country, which is trying to assume a new identity at breakneck speed.

SCREENING DATES Husets Biograf: Friday 11/11 17:00 HRS / Husets Biograf: Sunday 13/11 21:00 HRS

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doc alliance presents: Olda DIRECTOR: Viera Cákanyová

Original title: Olda / Country: Slovakia / Year: 2010 / Running time: 80 min. / Producer: Viera Cákanyová / World Sales / Contact: Viera Cakanyova, Slovakia

What happens when the camera ends up in the hands of the film’s subject-matter. The Czech pensioner Miss Oldriska lives an isolated indoor life, suffering from Alzheimers. With her absolute access to the camera, she guides the audience into her world, where we from our peephole in the camera - in what has to be described as absolute vérité style - are involved in a person’s life, but are also forgotten on the kitchen table. With the apartment as the eternal focal point, we start guessing Olda’s transformed world, where rosered communism had to make way for the grey shades of capitalism.

The film gives us a total and rare look at a locked-in life, and it paints an unembellished portrait of an Alzheimers mind. In spite of the story’s dark subject matter, however, ‘Olda’ never becomes oppressive, as ones time is spent in good company, and the many stormy laments about a world that is out of joint often take on the form of a comical one-woman show. The individual and the project come together to form a union, and Olga’s long monologues are the framework for a two-room chamber piece with an almost trance-like subjectivity. This apartment is definitely worth a visit.

SCREENING DATES Vester Vov Vov: Thursday 3/11 19:00 HRS / Husets Biograf: Sunday 13/11 14:00 HRS

doc alliance presents: Brother Sister DIRECTOR: Maria Mohr Original title: Bruder Schwester / Country: Germany / Year: 2010 / Running time: 90 min. / Production: Hanfgarn & Ufer, Germany / Producer: Günter Hanfgarn / World Sales / Contact: HANFGARN & UFER, Germany

What role does God play in our everyday lives, and how does life in a monastery reconcile itself with a world in constant flux? Maria Mohr delivers a strongly personal account of her aunt Ingrid’s unstoppable devotion to God, which also draws parallels to her own late brother and his suicide. ‘Brother Sister’ follows Ingrid’s deep fascination of the Spanis monk and mystic Rafael Arnálz, and we journey around Europe at the heels of her burning desire to spread the word of the long deceased thinker, and to finally witness his sanctification. Can one draw parallels between the aunt’s burning mission and the

director’s own loss of her brother? The saint and the brother are placed side-by-side in the story, which stretches across 60 years, where loss, faith and a personal calling come together in an abstract collage. With the life story of the Spanish mystic as its starting point, the dead brother and the aunt’s life project come together to form a whole, which with the motive of faith gives rise to a discussion and reveals the parallels between the isolated life in a monastery and the aimless life of modernity. Is there still space for God, and what space is there in the world for all those for whom the answer is yes?

SCREENING DATES Vester Vov Vov: Friday 4/11 19:00 HRS / Cinemateket: Saturday 12/11 10:00 HRS

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doc alliance presents: The Good Life DIRECTOR: Eva Mulvad Original title: The Good Life / Country: Denmark / Year: 2010 / Running time: 83 min. / Production: Danish Documentary Production / Producer: Sigrid Dyekjær / World Sales / Contact: Danish Documentary Production, Denmark

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. ‘The Good Life’ is nominated for the Doc Alliance Award 2011.

SCREENING DATES Dagmar: Thursday 3/11 16:40 HRS / Empire: Monday 7/11 17:30 HRS / Vester Vov Vov: Friday 11/11 19:00 HRS

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FOOD ON FILM

The five film selected for this year’s edition of our Food on Film series have one thing in common: aesthetics, and an aesthetic approach to the production and consumption of food within the global food chain – whether it be in the actual preparation of food (as in ’The World’s Finest Chef’, ’The Ways of Wine’, and ’Jiro Dreams of Sushi’), or in the cinematic way in which this process is observed (as in ’Above the Heart’ and ’Bovines’).

Not that we have lost sight of the politics of food. However, the critical political value of this year’s selection may stem more from the context in which we have chosen to present them than from the less categorical and more refined qualities of the films themselves.

Documentaries can cause us to reflect on the deep-rooted habits of society. Our food habits no less, and with this series it has been our ambition to discuss whether modern food culture can at least claim to be civilized, when our consumption is so massively based on industrialized products? And when the very production of food has such a direct impact on the future of our planet?

Let us know what you think. The screenings are followed by debates and a bite to eat.

Jiro Dreams of Sushi DIRECTOR: David Gelb

Original title: Jiro Dreams of Sushi / Country: US / Year: 2011 / Running time: 83 min. / Production: City Room Media, Weaver/Pellegrini, Preferred Content / Producer: Kevin Iwashina, Tom Pellegrini / World Sales / Contact: Fortissimo Film Sales, Netherlands

There is space for 10 seated guests at a time in Jiro Ono’s bashful, but world-famous restaurant in Tokyo. It is a place that has three Michelin stars, but no menu card. For one can only eat one thing: Sushi. Even if the quiet 85-year-old cook’s perfectionism is nothing less than awe-inspiring, he doesn’t make much noise about himself, and simply runs the place together with his two sons and a handful of apprentices, who spend up to 10 years learning to cook rice before they even get close to being allowed to touch the fresh fish, which Jiro or his sons fetch at the fish market every day. Jiro is in fact dreaming of Sushi and about developing new variations of a simple

theme. But behind the facade of the stoic sushi samurai is a warm and considerate gentleman, who contemplates his own and his sons’ future. One of them has recently opened his own Sushi restaurant, which is the exact copy of his father’s place - apart from the fact that everything is mirrored, as he is left-handed! ‘Jiro Dreams of Sush’ is a tasteful film in every sense of the word, and it is as much about perfectionism as it succeeds in showing the art of cooking as it applies to Sushi. But it also takes a concerned look at the global over-fishing that is a result of Sushi’s growing popularity.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Saturday 12/11 16:30 HRS / Grand: Sunday 13/11 16:30 HRS

The World’s Finest Chef DIRECTOR: Rasmus Dinesen

Original title: Verdens Bedste Kok / Country: Denmark / Year: 2011 / Running time: 45 min. / Production: Final Cut Productions ApS / Producer: Monica Hellström / World Sales / Contact: Final Cut Productions ApS, Denmark WORLD PREMIERE

For eight years, the cook Rasmus Kofoed has been obsessed by a dream. A dream of winning the Bocuse D’or, the individual world championship for cooks of fine gourmet cooking. This captivating film gets close to the 36-year-old master chef in the last 6 months up to and during the championship, and tells the story of an obsession and a job that is more reminiscent of top-level athletics

than anything else. ‘The World’s Finest Chef’ takes a rare look at a world where playful balancing acts meet militant discipline, and where a ruler and a pair of tweezers are the most important tools in the kitchen. An appetising film closing in on one of the main characters in the recent rise of Danish gourmet culture into the world elite.

SCREENING DATES Dagmar: Wednesday 26/10 19:00 HRS / Empire: Wednesday 9/11 10:00 HRS / Dagmar: Wednesday 9/11 18:00 HRS / Cinemateket: Sunday 13/11 11:00 HRS

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The Ways Of Wine DIRECTOR: Nicolás Carreras

Original title: El Camino Del Vino / Country: Argentina / Year: 2010 / Running time: 95 min. / Production: Subterranea Films SRL, Cactus Cine, Latte SRL, Ramino Navarro / Producer: Christoph Behl, Tomas Cohen, Juan Francisco Di Nucci / World Sales / Contact: Shoreline Ent., Denmark

What’s the worst thing that can happen to a sommelier? As if it were a joke - or just a hybrid film - the renowned wine expert Charlie Arturaola is facing his life’s worst nightmare: he is losing his ability to taste the difference between wines. The symptoms appear the first time when Arturaola takes part in the prestigious Masters of Food and Wine in Mendoza, Argentina, and at first thinks that he is suffering from stress as a result of the hectic life he’s living. But

his search for a cure takes him on a journey, where he is forced to rediscover the intimate and physical experience of harvesting grapes by hand. For Arturaola, the journey becomes a return to his childhood in a small village, to the wine on his family’s dinner table, stripped of ideas about finesse and sophistication. And not least a chance to rediscover himself.

SCREENING DATES DOX:CLUB i Teater Grob: Saturday 5/11 18:00 HRS / DOX:CLUB i Teater Grob: Saturday 5/11 18:00 HRS / Grand: Thursday 10/11 12:00 HRS / Gloria: Sunday 13/11 22:00 HRS

Above the heart DIRECTOR: Gaëlle Komàr

Original title: La main au-dessus du niveau du coeur / Country: Belgium / Year: 2011 / Running time: 90 min. / Production: Playtime films / Producer: Matthieu Frances, Julien Bechara, Gilles Ivan Frankignoul / World Sales / Contact: Wallonie Image Productions, Belgium WORLD PREMIERE

No matter if you eat meat or not, you should treat yourself to the experience of the industrial machinery that conjures up pork chops and tenderloin beef for the supermarket counters and, ultimately, our kitchen tables - especially when it is done as elegantly and intelligently as in Gaëlle Komar’s minimalist ‘Above the Heart’. This mostly dialogue-free film is divided in three. At dawn, the animals are directed by their hundreds into the slaughterhouse. White-clad men are ready to receive them, and the slaughter is the first phase in a long transformation from living animals to pure and simple meat, from systematisation to packaged products - an efficient industrial food chain, which is made into a system down to the last detail. But

through the distance of the camera it casts off its reference to the reality we all know is out there somewhere. Cut to an agricultural fair, where we are surrounded by high tech graphic design that resembles a scene from ‘Star Trek’. What does the consumption chain look like? To what degree does the production method define our culture and our aims as human beings? And who does it benefit?

Gaëlle Komar’s film gives us something that the modern human being lacks: a first-hand experience of the production of the food we eat. And with her sober and subtle recording of the production process, it lets us reflect on how we treat the animals that we end up killing.

SCREENING DATES Grand: Thursday 3/11 19:00 HRS / Flæsketorvet 60: Thursday 10/11 20:00 HRS / Cinemateket: Saturday 12/11 14:00 HRS

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Cattle DIRECTOR: Emmanuel Gras

Original title: Bovines / Country: France / Year: 2011 / Running time: 62 min. / Production: bathysphere productions / Producer: Nicolas Anthomé / World Sales / Contact: bathysphere productions, France

One can almost smell the damp grass and feel the warm rays of the morning sun in the simple, wordless and deeply charming ‘Bovines’, where the discipline of documentary meditation - which we learned to love in last year’s award winner ‘Le Quattro Volte’ - reaches new poetic heights for us city dwellers, whose only encounter with a cow is at the supermarket counters. ‘Bovines’ follows an isolated herd of cattle somewhere out in the French countryside, and observes the small and great events, which provide the framework for the life of a cow. A thunderstorm, a plastic bag in the grass, the birth of a calf - and then the inevitable death at the slaughterhouse, which is

merely alluded to in a sober but heartrending scene, where half the herd is directed into a waiting lorry against its will, while the rest is left behind to moo disconsolately on the field. Director Emmanuel Gras has made a piece of sensual poetry and endless beauty. Without a commentary, without forcing through any messages, it invites the audience to take part in a wordless dialogue about what film we are actually watching. Placed in a different context, the film would be different. In this programme, it is a film that - among other things - makes us think about the journey of the animals from the pasture to the dinner table and our whole way of feeding the world.

SCREENING DATES Dagmar: Thursday 3/11 12:00 HRS / Flæsketorvet 60: Thursday 10/11 18:00 HRS / Husets Biograf: Sunday 13/11 15:30 HRS

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The short format is a laboratory of creativity and invention. We have dedicated a night at our very own DOX:CLUB to present two new works from the international DOX:LAB production programme, along with two other works from the nordic hemisphere. Join us in celebrating the possibilities of filmmaking and in exploring new and unseen corners of reality.

Road to Paradise DIRECTOR: Johan Knattrup Jensen

Original title: Vejen til paradis / Country: Denmark / Year: 2011 / Running time: 29 min. / Production: Framework Films / Producer: Mikkel Kastberg / World Sales / Contact: Framework Films, Denmark WORLD PREMIERE

A journey in the footsteps of the late Eik Skaløe, along the path of intoxication, ‘only for crazy people’, and cost it what it may - even his mind. The film’s director Johan and his faithful companion Mikkel set out on a quixotic journey to India to find the grave of the former member of the Danish band Steppeulvene. An educational journey and a ‘rites of passage’, which goes right over the heads of the local Indians, who are not quite on a mental wavelength with his gonzo project. ‘Road to Paradise’ is a self-transgressing and taboo-breaking experiment in the picaresque format, told and calmly commented by an ironic Jesper Klein. But the road to paradise is paved with more than unrestrained savagery, and the realisation of this comes at a price.

SCREENING DATES DOX:CLUB i Teater Grob: Sunday 6/11 19:00 HRS

How to Pick Berries DIRECTOR: Elina Talvensaari

Original title: Miten Marjoja poimitaan / Country: Finland / Year: 2010 / Running time: 18 min. / Production: Aalto University

‘How to Pick the Berries’ tracks down the global economy’s reach right down to the deserted Finnish wilderness, where some figures are wandering around and collecting berries, while a golden sun is hanging low above the high grass. A setting that is equal parts nature romanticism and science fiction. The threat from the near future is making itself known among the agitated locals. Even if the visiting berry pickers are politeness personified, they are a new and suspicious element in a culture, where one has cultivated a tight-knit community for centuries and lived off the nature that surrounds one. In this way, Elina Talvensaari’s graduation film from Aalto University raises a number of current Scandinavian issues about cultural immigration. But Talvensaari approaches them in her very own, clever way. New perspective, new insight.

SCREENING DATES DOX:CLUB i Teater Grob: Sunday 6/11 19:00 HRS

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Girl in the Water DIRECTOR: Jeppe Ronde, Woo Ming Jin

Original title: Girl in the Water / Country: Malaysia, Denmark / Year: 2011 / Running time: 19 min. / Production: DOX:LAB, Greenlight pictures / Producer: Tine Fischer, Edmund Yeo / World Sales / Contact: Greenlight Pictures, Denmark WORLD PREMIERE

It is the events that take place between the images that makes it so difficult to determine what is real in ‘Girl in Water’. And we do not mean ‘real’ in the documentary sense. Even though Woo Ming Jin and Jeppe Rønde’s impressionistic and almost dialogue-free adventure is set in an impoverished fishing village, it strings together its attentive and sensual observations in a dream-like sequence of images, where myth and reality collide. A young Thai woman, her baby and her boyfriend who feeds the entire family as a fisherman, are possibly already separated from each other when they at the beginning of the film sail off in a small boat. A scene that possibly only exists as an unfortunate fragment of something that could have been - or maybe already has. In other words, the unexplained and the inexplicable are two sides of the same coin in ‘Girl on Water’, whose universal approach and uniquely discrete and sensitive touch is reminiscent of a director such as Terence Malick.

SCREENING DATES DOX:CLUB i Teater Grob: Sunday 6/11 19:00 HRS

TVC, The Joy of Life DIRECTOR: Halim Sabbagh

Original title: TVC, The Joy of Life / Country: Lebanon / Year: 2011 / Running time: 19 min. / Production: DOX:LAB / Producer: Tine Fischer, Halim Sabbagh / World Sales / Contact: Halim Sabbagh, Lebanon WORLD PREMIERE

The cultural value struggle is fought through advertising campaigns in downtown Beirut, where a group of Lebanese marketing hipsters are twisting and turning every idea to please the more conservative demands of their Saudi Arabian clients. For TV adverts are the one arena where the conflict between ‘western’ liberalism and tradition is most visible. And when millions of dollars are at stake, there is no space for faux pas. ‘TVC - The Joy of Life’ takes us backstage to the shooting of a pure-bred idyllic family TV advert - and to the advertising agency where the young creative class is struggling to find the balance between old and new. The marketing of a new type of drinking yoghurt becomes the focal point for an unusual look at a world which begins where the harmonious illusions of adverts end and which is filled with the effects of change. But also a world where traditional family values are incessantly reproduced on TV screens and billboards.

SCREENING DATES DOX:CLUB i Teater Grob: Sunday 6/11 19:00 HRS

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DOX:LAB

DOX:LAB is CPH:DOXâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s own international film production programme. DOX:LAB was launched in 2009, and has been an overwhelming success â&#x20AC;&#x201C; artistically as well as with the audiences at other film festivals in Rotterdam, Hong Kong, Venice, to name but a few.

The concept behind DOX:LAB is to pair selected filmmakers in teams of two. Each team is given carte blanche and a grant to create the widely different and artistically powerful films the likes of which can now be experienced at CPH:DOX 2011.

The ambition of DOX:LAB is to stimulate cultural exchange in cinematic terms, and to create special and challenging works of artistic vision. And we are excited to present the eight films of the second generation, that all fulfil this ambition in widely different but equally challenging ways: many (if not all) of the films this year are hybrid works that go beyond the real to explore the realms of the imagination.

DOX:LAB continues in 2011 with no less than twelve new teams of filmmakers who will meet each other for the first time during the festival.

Girl in the Water DIRECTOR: Jeppe Ronde, Woo Ming Jin

WORLD PREMIERE It is the events that take place between the images that makes it so difficult to determine what is real in ‘Girl in Water’. And we do not mean ‘real’ in the documentary sense. Even though Woo Ming Jin and Jeppe Rønde’s impressionistic and almost dialoguefree adventure is set in an impoverished fishing village, it strings together its attentive and sensual observations in a dream-like sequence of images, where myth and reality collide. A young Thai woman, her baby and her boyfriend who feeds the entire family as a fisherman, are possibly already separated from each other when they at the beginning of the film sail off in a small boat. A scene that possibly only exists as an unfortunate fragment of something that could have been - or maybe already has. In other words, the unexplained and the inexplicable are two sides of the same coin in ‘Girl on Water’, whose universal approach and uniquely discrete and sensitive touch is reminiscent of a director such as Terence Malick.

Original title Girl in the Water Country Malaysia, Denmark Year 2011 Running time 19 min.

Production DOX:LAB, Greenlight pictures Producer Tine Fischer, Edmund Yeo World Sales / Contact: Greenlight Pictures, Denmark

SCREENING DATES DOX:CLUB i Teater Grob: Sunday 6/11 19:00 HRS

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Tataré (work in progress) DIRECTOR: Renate Costa & Salla Sorri

WORLD PREMIERE An old, hunched man is the protagonist of a fable without a plot, gimmicks or superficial drama. Nonetheless, ‘Tatare’ is filled with stories and experiences of the kind that requires a long life to collect - and which can be recognised by a very rare and deeply human sense of humour. Alberto Bonnet is his name, and a thin cat keeps him company in the derelict hut far inside the Paraguayan jungle, where he lives off keeping bees and cultivating the earth.

Old letters and half remembered poems make the time go by like songs from an old radio. Several ages are constantly present in the same image, but the film is still an intensely direct experience, which renews itself several times as it progresses. The directing duo Renate Costa and Salla Sorri do not try to sum up - and thereby round off - an entire life in the course of one film, and it is precisely therefore that ‘Tatare’ is so cheerful and surprisingly vital. And as soon as one thinks one has worked the film out, something new is added that changes the whole - which in itself can be taken as a small lesson in the art of living. Simple means, magnificent effect.

Original title Tataré Country Finland, Paraguay Year 2011 Running time 32 min.

Production DOX:LAB Producer Tine Fischer, Salla Sorri, Renate Costa World Sales / Contact: Salla Sorri, Finland

SCREENING DATES Vester Vov Vov: Sunday 6/11 19:00 HRS / Grand: Wednesday 9/11 18:30 HRS

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The Kampala Story (work in progress) DIRECTOR: Donald Mugisha, Kasper Bisgaard

WORLD PREMIERE ‘Kampala Story’ is equal parts Kampala and ‘story’. It is an African adventure at a children’s level, set in Uganda’s densely populated capital and seen through the eyes of a young girl. The story is simple and unsentimental. Young Apio lives with her small family out on the wind-swept plains, where desert dust drifts around the UN vehicles that hand out supplies to the poor. Apio’s mother is pregnant, but when she becomes ill, Apio is sent to Kampala to find his father and ask him for money to pay for her hospital treatment. Alone and armed with nothing more than a piece of paper with his father’s name on it, Apio sets off on a long journey towards the city. It is a labyrinthine and dangerous place, where one has to be careful about who one trusts, but where one is also forced to accept the help of strangers to survive. Donald Mugisha and Kasper Bisgaard let Apio’s journey take place in an utterly real setting, but the semi-documentary approach is never turned into a point in itself. On the contrary, Kampala and the story are allowed to reinforce each other in a balanced and fine film for both young and old.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Thursday 10/11 10:00 HRS / Husets Biograf: Saturday 12/11 15:00 HRS

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Original title The Kampala Story Country Uganda, Denmark Year 2011 Running time 62 min.

Production DOX:LAB, Deddac/Dix Film Production Producer Tine Fischer, Patricia Drati Rønde

Three Stories of Life, Love and Death DIRECTOR: Lilibeth Cuenca, Nidal Hassan

WORLD PREMIERE ‘One can’t make films or art in the middle of a revolution, but the stories are there... and they have to come out,’ Lilibeth Cuenca writes about the circumstances that she and Nidal Hassan were confronted with when they shot their film in Syria in the spring of 2011. Already on the second day, the two of them were told by the Syrian authorities to pack their cameras and go. The surveillance from police forces and spies increased, the film’s producer went underground, people disappeared and were put in prison. Paranoia, insecurity and division. In the last night before Lilibeth’s departure for Denmark, the situation was so bad that they erased all their e-mail correspondence, renamed their screenplays and placed them on a USB stick that was put in a dirty sock and sent home with Lilibeth. Back in Denmark, the contact with Nidal stopped; he had gone underground. From an unknown source, Lilibeth found out that he ended up in prison and that he couldn’t continue working on the project.

The film, which is still a work-in-progress version of the final film, is a product of the circumstances that changed both the plot and the two directors’ relationship to the film and to each other.

Meet them both and hear them tell their story in their own words.

Original title Three Stories of Life, Love and Death Country Denmark, Syria Year 2011 Running time 70 min.

Production DOX:LAB Producer Tine Fischer & DFI

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Sunday 6/11 16:30 HRS

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Layers of Fog DIRECTOR: Dechen Roder & Caroline Sascha Cogez

WORLD PREMIERE A highly unusual coming of age-film, which takes us on an adventurous journey filled with magical monkeys, mermaids, tipsy grandmothers and bhutanese pop music. 19-year-old Dechen lives with her mother and younger brother in Bhutan’s capital Timphu, where she dreams of becoming a singer and of being chosen to the TV talent show ‘Druk Super Star’. Sometimes dreams come true, and as things progress Dechen starts to research the story about her beloved late grandmother who was a great singing talent, just like Dechen herself. In her search for identity Dechen uncovers her family’s dark past where blessings and curses stand side by side.

‘Layers of Fog’ challenges the limits of documentary filmmaking through its poetic visuality, which leads us into the inner life of an alienated girl, and is the first experimental documentary from the previously so locked-off country in the middle of the Himalayas. Bhutan was the last country in the world that allowed its inhabitants to watch TV (in 1999), and it is only within the past 10 years that the country has established its own film industry - a transition between the old and the new world, which is reflected in the young girl’s transition from child to adult.

Original title Layers of Fog Country Denmark, Bhutan Year 2011 Running time 55 min.

Production DOX:LAB, Copenhagen FIlm Company Producer Tine Fischer, Pasha Parts, Ulrik Gutkin, Casper Høyberg

SCREENING DATES Grand: Sunday 6/11 14:00 HRS / Grand: Sunday 6/11 14:00 HRS / Cinemateket: Saturday 12/11 18:30 HRS / Cinemateket: Saturday 12/11 18:30 HRS

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TVC, The Joy of Life DIRECTOR: Halim Sabbagh

WORLD PREMIERE The cultural value struggle is fought through advertising campaigns in downtown Beirut, where a group of Lebanese marketing hipsters are twisting and turning every idea to please the more conservative demands of their Saudi Arabian clients. For TV adverts are the one arena where the conflict between ‘western’ liberalism and tradition is most visible. And when millions of dollars are at stake, there is no space for faux pas. ‘TVC - The Joy of Life’ takes us backstage to the shooting of a pure-bred idyllic family TV advert - and to the advertising agency where the young creative class is struggling to find the balance between old and new. The marketing of a new type of drinking yoghurt becomes the focal point for an unusual look at a world which begins where the harmonious illusions of adverts end and which is filled with the effects of change. But also a world where traditional family values are incessantly reproduced on TV screens and billboards.

Original title TVC, The Joy of Life Country Lebanon Year 2011 Running time 19 min.

Production DOX:LAB Producer Tine Fischer, Halim Sabbagh World Sales / Contact: Halim Sabbagh, Lebanon

SCREENING DATES DOX:CLUB i Teater Grob: Sunday 6/11 19:00 HRS

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Accidentes Gloriosos DIRECTOR: Mauro Andrizzi & Marcus Lindeen

A white sports car glides elegantly through the summer night somewhere in Buenos Aires. Behind the steering wheel is a beautiful young couple, whose image is every closet romantic’s dream of pure-bred perfection. The moon is shining outside and everything is happy. Right up to the moment when a fatal crash initiates a chain-reaction of stories, that starts with a car accident and continues on a fabulating and poetic tangent where a zoo, an old pool room and not least a toilet at a sleazy night club set the stage for a series of ‘Glorious Accidents’ - situations, where status quo is suddenly interrupted by something new and hitherto unthinkable. Like in the story of a sick man, who is given the heart of a woman in a transplant and has since been painting the most fantastic pictures. Or the dying mountaineer’s letter to his wife. Or the secretive expert on blow jobs, who according to a myth turns up one hour every year on the other side of a hole in the wall at a sordid urinal in a gay club. Mauro Andrizzi and Marcus Lindeen take the ecstatic, taboos and the spectacular as their starting point and find all three things in a mixture of traffic accidents, fun fairs and sexual excesses. Nonetheless, the only thing that is ferocious about ‘Glorious Accidents’ is its adventurous richness of ideas, and not the pure black-and-white images that so well fit a film where everything is possible.

SCREENING DATES Gloria: Tuesday 8/11 22:00 HRS / Gloria: Saturday 12/11 18:00 HRS

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Original title Accidentes Gloriosos Country Denmark, Argentina, Sweden Year 2011 Running time 58 min.

Production DOX:LAB, Mauro Andrizzi, Marcus Lindeen Producer Tine Fischer & Ivan Granovsky World Sales / Contact: Mono Films, Sweden

Vanishing Woman DIRECTOR: Jesper Just & Uruphong Raksasad

WORLD PREMIERE The vanishing point is at the end of a congested main road in Jesper Just and Uruphong Arakasad’s enigmatic ‘Vanishing Woman’. The road is plastered with Thai election posters in glaring colours, and it leads away from the concrete jungle through the suburbs out to a house by the sea, where the waves come flowing in over the beach. In a rickshaw headed for the end of the road, a fat woman is sitting and taking in the surrounding sights which quickly move past her. She exchanges only a few words with the driver en route, and feeds a few small monkeys with corncobs during a break. In other words, things are not as they should be. At least if we are meant to decode the fictional signals that emanate from ‘Vanishing Woman’s carefully composed and evocative Cinemascope images, and which conjure up a world where an invisible drama is taking place offscreen - but where the mysteries are revealing themselves on the surface. An atmospheric and haunting meeting between two great artists.

Original title Vanishing Woman Country Denmark, Thailand Year 2011 Running time 35 min.

Production DOX:LAB, Extra Virgin Producer Tine Fischer, Pimpaka Towira,Chatchai Chaiyont

SCREENING DATES Gloria: Tuesday 8/11 22:00 HRS / Gloria: Saturday 12/11 18:00 HRS

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AUDIO:VISUALS

AUDIO:VISUALS is CPH:DOX’s concert series, which is at the forefront of events in Denmark that aim to combine visual arts and live music in a new and challenging way.

AUDIO:VISUALS will take place during the entire 10 days of CPH:DOX (3 to 13 November).

The concept is simple – but unique: we have asked some of the most exciting musicians and film, visual and performance artists from both Denmark and abroad to cross their artistic swords and create some unique live events in Copenhagen. Together, they will give rise to experiences that will both delight you and attack your sensory apparatus.

The sky-high ambitions behind the concept are reflected in the fact that a large number of concerts are premieres – a term that is normally used for classical music. To support the visual experience, we also strive to host the concerts outside common concert venues, so that the ears and eyes of our audience members are stimulated even more. This year, the concerts take place at four different venues: The National Gallery of Denmark, Theatre Grob, Charlottenborg and Øbro Svømmehal.

CPH:DOX’s mission with AUDIO:VISUALS is to show that things really get going when music meets the visual arts. So don’t be shy! Come and experience the unexpected between 3 and 13 November!

LIVE: Nan Goldin & Genesis P-Orridge

Genesis P-Orridge (Throbbing Gristle, Psychic TV) and the photographer Nan Goldin’s artistic paths are crossing for the first time at CPH:DOX 2011, where Genesis will play a partly improvised set to Nan Goldin’s spellbinding photographic work ‘The Ballad of Sexual Dependency’, which has been called one of the most important works in the history of modern photography.

The work consists of a special selection of snapshot photos made of her close company of friends, artists, bohemians, divas and dandies, which were taken throughout her career and handpicked by Goldin herself. Genesis P-Orridge’s transcendental approach to words and instrumentation is delicate, beautiful and monstrous - and we won’t hesitate to lay our heads on the block when we promise that it will be a sublime and absolutely unique experience. Danish ‘Nachtlichte’ will begin the evening with coldwave from Copenhagen’s darkness, and will mix consistent analogue electronic beats, synthesiser noise and distorted guitars to create hymns to the creatures of the night.

SCREENING DATES Statens Museum for Kunst: Thursday 10/11 21:00 HRS

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A Spell to Ward Off The Darkness - Live

This year’s darkest and most trippy evening. An audiovisual mindfuck from another world, and a black mass of monumental dimensions! ‘A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness - Live’ is curated by the two film geniuses Ben Rivers and Ben Russell, and is an extension of the tripartite film programme they have put together for this year’s CPH:DOX - and is equally divided into three topics: SOLITUDE: the philosophy graduate Hunter HuntHendrix, the frontman of the New York based black metal band Liturgy, introduces the evening with a solo show based on his transcendental Black Metal philosophy. COMMUNITY: the two Animal Collective-signed sisters of Prince Rama will improvise their way to an unpredictable total show with their mix of psychedelic pop, hare krishna, art school pop and noise.

PHENOMENOLOGY: Lichens (Robert AA Lowe) will use a highly spartan setup to conjure up a meditative and trance-inducing drone-folk performance.

Come and experience the most progressive artists from the neopsych’ed music and film scene, when ‘A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness - Live’ takes place for the first, last and only time.

SCREENING DATES Statens Museum for Kunst: Wednesday 9/11 21:00 HRS

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John Maus vs. Jennifer Juniper Stratford + support: Gary War

The American pop avant-garde musician John Maus is to music, what the VHS tape is to the film medium: charming and muddy lo-fi nostalgia! Maus has a past as Ariel Pink’s musical sidekick in the band Haunted Graffiti, where he for several years demonstrated his great talent on the keyboard. The audience will be served a solid portion of experimental alternative synth-pop, with added bits of lo-fi ballads and 80s atmosphere, which is reminiscent of Joy Division, Suicide and the most spacey periods of David Bowie. Here, at his first concert on Danish soil, Maus will perform with the video artist (with emphasis on video) Jennifer Juniper Stratford, who among many other things is behind the science fiction cult series ‘The

Multinauts’ with Ariel Pink & co. as well as John Maus’s latest music videos. At the concert in Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Stratford will create live visuals with vintage video synthesisers, which together with Maus’s manic performance will convert the white space into an intergalactic, retrofuturistic total show. To support him, John Maus has invited the American Gary War from New York City. And just like Maus and Ariel Pink, War is a gentleman with a penchant for new wave and psychedelic lo-fi pop - a Gary Numan for a new generation.

The concert is held in collaboration with Smash!Bang!Pow!

SCREENING DATES Charlottenborg: Friday 11/11 20:00 HRS

College

You know him from Nicholas Winding Refn’s latest film ‘Drive’.

With the film’s song ‘A Real Hero’ and his debut ‘Secret Diary’ in the luggage, COLLEGE now guests the country for the first time.

Behind the name hides David Grelllier, a French electronic music composer born in 1979 in Nantes. He has been recognized for his Italo-disco-sounding music that awakens a kind of nostalgia from TV shows and American films in the 80s, and live at Charlottenborg his visuals will only enhance this feeling.

The concert is held in collaboration with Smash!Bang!Pow!

SCREENING DATES Charlottenborg: Thursday 3/11 20:00 HRS

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Thulebasen vs. Stine Marie Jacobsen

The concert installation ‘Trying to Become Each Other’ is created in collaboration with the visual artist Stine Marie Jacobsen. The premise is simple: nothing is what it seems to be. The illusion about reality and reality’s illusion is broken in a cinematic ‘tableau vivant’ - an alive and capricious universe, where islands of events and ambiences flow together without a definite beginning or end. Thulebasen’s association-based meta-rock is composed by a composite acoustic image that flirts with kraut rock, grunge,

space rock and free jazz, and which gives the band its distinctive sounds, which interprets something well-known in an entirely new way. Stine Marie Jacobsen will film, video-manipulate and project Thulebasen’s performance live at the venue, and will add rough collage-edited scenes from films - all of which is adjusted to what is happening in the room in a way that raises the question: what came first, the film or reality?

SCREENING DATES Charlottenborg: Friday 4/11 20:00 HRS

Mike Sheridan vs. Eva Koch

The neo-classicist Øbro swimming hall will be the setting for live electronica with visual accompaniment when we bring Mike Sheridan together with Eva Koch for a world-class night. It’s all too rare that two generations cross their artistic swords. And combined with the unique location we are especially proud to be able to invite you to a unique artistic encounter between the internationally renowned video artist Eva Koch and the merely 19-year-old wunderkind Mike Sheridan - an encounter that no doubt will bring the two out of their accustomed territories. In spite of his young age, Sheridan is already well known and the subject of much gossip. He enriched Danish and international audiences with his album ‘I Syv Sind’ already in 2008, and his new album will be released at the beginning of next year. Since the 1980s, Eva Koch has built an extensive opus on the intersection between installation and video art. The waves will run high in the swimming pool, and we guarantee you a powerful and extremely beautiful experience.

SCREENING DATES Øbro svømmehal: Saturday 12/11 21:00 HRS

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Under Byen vs. Sidse Carstens

Strange creatures, dream visions and Danish lyric poetry performed by some of the country’s most beautiful female vocalists. This are some of the things that have resulted from the collaboration between Under Byen and the film director / visual artist Sidse Carstens. A magnificent project that takes place over the course of three magical evenings, where music, film and video art interact with the stage space, and where figures from their common universe will

appear. The visual focus is Sidse Carsten’s film ‘Show Dream’, which Under Byen has created the soundtrack for, and which now - for the first time - will be integrated in a live performance. Sidse Carstens is a trained animator, and the visual flair in her simultaneously violent and controlled film and video works is literally as if it was made for Under Byen’s vulnerable and unmistakably Nordic sounds.

SCREENING DATES DOX:CLUB i Teater Grob: Sunday 13/11 20:00 HRS / DOX:CLUB i Teater Grob: Monday 14/11 20:00 HRS / DOX:CLUB i Teater Grob: Tuesday 15/11 20:00 HRS

Albertslund Terror Korps

Rather (in)famous Danish techno warrior Gæoudjiparl van den Dobbelsteen (aka. The Artist Formerly Known as Goodiepal) and his Sygnok sidekicks DJ Hvad and VJ Cancer from Albertslund Terror Korps have made their own jihad video and are declaring war on behalf of radical computer music. Aliens, violence against pushers, snogging immigrant kids, swastikas... This short film will make your eyes melt like marshmallows in a microwave, and afterwards ATK will make your ears flutter with a wonderful mashup of electro, dubstep, ghetto tech and “Dansktop” at an unusual sit-down concert

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in the deepest bowels of DOX:CLUB. Hell yeah, man! Before all this gets going, though, we invite you to a wild and chaotic dinner party with party games and all in the Czech/Croat film ‘Marija’s Own’ (see Sound & Vision), which has a soundtrack by the Czech electro heroes Midi Lidi, whom none of the other dinner guests have heard of either. After the concert, the boys will be available for a Q&A (!), and in the end Gæoudjiparl himself will give us a grand finale virtual Skype performance in the foyer.

Mellemblond vs. 4 Guys From the Future

There will be double portions of both Danish poetry, acid rock and sci-fi adventure live from the stage of DOX:CLUB tonight! First, 4 Guys From The Future will land directly from tomorrow to perform a few songs live to accompany the film ‘Future’. But that is not all! The result will be recorded and the band will create live accompanying music ambiences for the final film, in an improvised, pasteboard sci-fi adventure. Afterwards, we will screen ‘Mellemblond på Bellahøj’, a documentary depiction of Mellemblond during a trip

to an empty amphitheatre in green Bellahøj one day in June inspired by Pink Floyd’s ‘Live at Pompeii’! Five songs take shape, from first acoustic sketches until they float out of the loudspeakers under a blue and open sky. A meditative depiction of a band, which balances between Danish poetry and pop rock, with the songwriter Kristoffer Munck Mortensen at the centre. As a finale, 4 Guys From the Future and Mellmblond will come closer together and play an extraordinary joint concert.

SCREENING DATES DOX:CLUB i Teater Grob: Friday 4/11 22:00 HRS

Larsen & Furious Jane vs. DARCH

One concert, one chance to see Larsen & Furious Jane live, as CPH:DOX and Smash!Bang!Pow! welcome the critically acclaimed band from Århus to Teater Grob in connection with the concert series AUDIO:VISUALS. The band, which ventures far off the beaten track in Danish music, has over the past ten years moved from Americanainspired songwriting to a more unique and simultaneously monochrome and wild expression. When the band announced - at the release of one of the year’s best Danish albums, ‘Dolly’ - that it was going to drop out of the Danish music industry and give

the record away for free, they earned a lot of sympathy. Larsen & Furious Jane is a band with a staunch belief in an independent and critically minded rock audience in Denmark. Don’t let them go home disappointed when they perform the only time this year at Grob - and for the first time together with the artist DARCH (aka Søren Peter Sieg Mørch), who will be the band’s supporting act with his grainy anti-aesthetic.

The concert is arranged in collaboration with Smash!Bang!Pow!

SCREENING DATES DOX:CLUB i Teater Grob: Saturday 12/11 22:00 HRS

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Rough Days For Diamond Trade vs. Simon Højbo

Sound, light, space and a lone laser beam are the basic minimal elements in the debut concert of the Danish band Rough Days For Diamond Trade. RDFDT is the guitarist Frederik Sølberg’s solo project, which offers aesthetic shoegaze pop. Frederik has earlier worked with Ghost Society, but at the beginning of 2012 he will release his first solo debut EP under the name RDFDT, and to perform the live backing he has invited a number of prominent members of Choir Of Young Believers, I Got You On Tape and Moi Caprice: Lasse Herbst, Jacob Millung and Jacob Funch. The good company only gets better, as Simon Højbo from the artists’ group Telefon til Chefen steps in as a visual wizard with a simple concept,

which examines the effect of a ‘minimum’ with a small number of props, which in spite of their minimal appearance will captivate the audience in an experience, where sound, light and space melt together and break the stage’s usual focus and elevates the sensual aspect. One mere laser beam and an alternative stage design will be the visual elements for the entire concept, but forget everything about 90s dance raves, as it will be taken out of the stereotypical universe and changed into an entirely new age and genre. Together, they will form a unique and unusual universe, and will include a secret, special guest.

SCREENING DATES DOX:CLUB i Teater Grob: Thursday 3/11 22:00 HRS

Tobias Lee vs. Marie Edinger Plum

Marie Edinger Plum and Tobias Lee’s performance ‘Slutty Slut’ brings the music video aesthetics of the early 1980s up to date with a wild, violent and openly vulgar combo. Marie’s offbeat, feminine costumes and dreamy universe along with Mejse Vedel’s choreography will collapse into Tobias’s violent, bleeding and sample-based sound in a universe that is equal parts horror film and sleazy soft porn, and something entirely new emerges as a result. Tobias Lee, aka remixer and DJ Why Be/DJ Yung Bukkake,

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belongs to a group of Internet personalities who embark on crosscontinental exchange and collaborate with other likeminded artists within all sorts of genres from street to mainstream. Marie Edinger Plum trained as a visual artist at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. She is active where the paths of sculpture, installation, performance, costumes and filmmaking cross, and generally works with the non-concrete and metaphysical elements of space.

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Again this year, CPH:DOX presents a broadly conceived seminar programme, which gives audiences as well as professionals from the international industry the chance to become acquainted with a large number of filmmakers, artists, debaters, and others with ideas and fresh insight to spare.

Meet filmmakers Charles Atlas (Artist in Focus), Michelangelo Frammartino (winner of last year’s DOX:AWARD for ’Le Quattro Volte’), Ruben Östlund, and Marie Losier. Our special guest curator Nan Goldin is giving a highly anticipated artist talk, and at the Royal Academy of Art we are hosting a two-day seminar dedicated to film projects from the field between visual art and cinema.

In relation to the political sidebar, Free Radicals, we have invited a long line of writers, journalists, bloggers, and artists to give their perspective on the public uprisings in the Arab world.

And for the film professionals, a long strand of seminars dedicated to the latest from the business: documentary filmmaking in 3-D, new distribution platforms and funds, and the do’s and don’s of co-productions, to name a few.

There is plenty to learn, and plenty to take home.

Artist talk: The Ballad of Marie Losier & Genesis P-Orridge Running time: 60 min.

Marie Losier has a large catalogue of short experimental and documentary films under her belt, all of which she has made on her own, but with the most creative exponents of New York’s performance arts scene in front of the camera: Tony Conrad, Richard Foreman, the Kuchar brothers and not least Genesis P-Orridge (Throbbing Gristle, Psychic TV), who lends his name to Losier’s first feature-length film, the beautiful and deeply unusual love story ‘The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye’. Meet Losier for an artist talk about creative collaborations across the invisible wall of the camera, and about taking the leap from the short to the long format as an independent director. On November 10, Genesis P-Orridge will be performning live with Nan Goldin at the National Gallery, and before the concert there will be a chance to catch ‘The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye’ at the Dagmar cinema at 19hrs.

SCREENING DATES Kunstakademiets Festsal: Friday 11/11 14:00 HRS

Masterclass: Charles Atlas

Running time: 75 min.

If one were to point at one consistent feature in Charles Atlas’s over 40 year long activity as a filmmaker, it would be his generous, creative collaboration with others - both other artists and friends, acquaintances and passers-by. Charles Atlas’s brand-new film ‘Turning’ with Antony Hegarty is just the latest in a series of film and video works that span over 40 years of artistic activity, and which is defined by an exemplary love for everyone in front of the camera. Meet Atlas at an inspiring master class about creative collaborations, the possibilities of performative elements, documentary portrait formats, and whatever else the conversation leads us on to.

‘My principle concerns and what I believe emerges in the creation of my works include (but are not limited to): truth to the situation/ subject, precision, playfulness, reflection of contemporary life, color, multiplicity of meanings, and having fun.’ ( - Charles Atlas).

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Thursday 10/11 15:00 HRS

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Artist talk: Nan Goldin

Running time: 100 min.

Nan Goldin is visiting CPH:DOX with her film programme ‘I’ll Be Your Mirror’, which she has curated exclusively for this year’s festival.

Since her debut as a photographer in the New York City of the late 1970s, Nan Goldin has elevated the snapshot into an art form and immortalised her close circle of friends, artists, lovers, bohemians and metropolitan dandies in tens of thousands of photographs.

Her work is vulnerable and unpolished, and always marked by a unique intimacy between the photographer and her subject. On the occasion of her visit, we have invited her to hold a master class about her method, her special approach to photography, about the film medium as an extension of photographic practice, and much more.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Wednesday 9/11 14:00 HRS

Masterclass: Ruben Östlund

Running time: 90 min.

Ruben Östlund is a contradictory gentleman. His films are both extremely stylised and hyper-realistic, and his method is analytic and based on extremely thorough research.

This is also true for his latest film ‘Play’ (see DOX:AWARD), which premiered in Cannes earlier this year, and which is reminiscent of both Jacques Tati and Michael Haneke - an odd couple, which the Swedish director brings together in his stagings of Scandinavian welfare reality. His long, static one-takes strengthen the feeling of unease that we get when the topic, like here, is about crude bullying and trick thievery. Östlund’s position in the grey zone between fact and fiction and his staging of reality are some of the things you can find out more about when he comes to hold a master class.

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Masterclass: Michelangelo Frammartino Running time: 90 min.

When the Italian director Michelangelo Frammartino last year won the main DOX:AWARD at CPH:DOX for his poetic and minimalist hybrid film ‘Le Quattro Volte’, it created plenty of attention: was the film not, ultimately, a piece of fiction? Exactly Frammartino’s play with conventions and his understanding of reality were allimportant. And the fact that a docu-fiction won the main award tells us something about the fact that the term ‘documentary’ can still be taken up for discussion, and that the relationship between fiction and reality can create some of the most interesting works of film art. ‘This is not a cinema that comes from writing but a cinema that comes from spaces and the presence of bodies’, as Frammartino drily stated. Find out more about what he means, when he comes to hold a masterclass.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Wednesday 9/11 11:00 HRS

Meet Hamed Abdel-Samad

Running time: 30 min.

The political scientist and author of ‘Der Untergang der Islamischen Welt’ (The Downfall of the Islamic World) Hamed Abdel-Samad has worked for UNESCO and taught Islamic studies and Jewish history and culture in Germany. Today, he is a member of the Islamic Conference in Germany, and he is one of the best-known critical intellectuals on questions regarding the Islamic world and the Middle East. His works include topics such as secularism and a critique of religious and Islamic practice - often seen from an autobiographical perspective. After the screening of ‘Tahrir 2011 - The Good, The Bad and the Politician’, Hamed Abdel-Samad can be seen in a conversation with one of the film’s directors, Tamer Ezzat. Anna Libak will be moderating, and the discussion will focus on the background for the revolution in the Middle East as well as the future perspectives and obstacles that have resulted from the social transformations.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Thursday 3/11 19:00 HRS

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Documenting A Revolution

Running time: 110 min.

Thousands, maybe even millions, of video clips, images and sound bites have been disseminated through traditional and new media outlets since the uprisings in the Middle East started in December 2010. This massive documentation is a symbol of a new way of interacting, which has fundamentally altered relations between the media and the citizens.

Meet film director Elyes Baccar (Tunisia), journalist Thameur Mekki (Tunisia), film event maker LaraBaladi (Egypt),photographer and blogger Meggi Osama (Egypt) in a debate about documenting an unfolding revolution.

Moderator: Karolina Lidin.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Wednesday 9/11 16:15 HRS

From Syria with Love: film/ talk w. Nidal Hassan & Lilibeth Cuenca Running time: 20 min.

‘One can’t make films or art in the middle of a revolution, but the stories are there... and they have to come out,’ Lilibeth Cuenca writes about the circumstances that she and Nidal Hassan were confronted with when they shot their film in Syria in the spring of 2011. Already on the second day, the two of them were told by the Syrian authorities to pack their cameras and go. The surveillance from police forces and spies increased, the film’s producer went underground, people disappeared and were put in prison. Paranoia, insecurity and division. In the last night before Lilibeth’s departure for Denmark, the situation was so bad that they erased all their e-mail correspondence, renamed their screenplays and placed them on a USB stick that was put in a dirty sock and sent home with Lilibeth. Back in Denmark, the contact with Nidal stopped; he had gone underground. From an unknown source, Lilibeth found out that he ended up in prison and that he couldn’t continue working on the project.

The film, which is still a work-in-progress version of the final film, is a product of the circumstances that changed both the plot and the two directors’ relationship to the film and to each other. Meet them both and hear them tell their story in their own words.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Sunday 6/11 16:30 HRS

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Shouting In The Dark: debate

Running time: 30 min.

If a tree falls in a forest and there is no one around to hear it, does it make a sound? The question targets the role of the media. What impact does the presence of the media have on a revolution? What if the cameras are not on? Commissioning Editor Jon Blair from Al-Jazeera and former managing director of the Egyptian newspaper Al-Masry Al-Youm, Hisham Kassem, will reveal how two major Arab media companies are handling the coverage of the Arab revolutions.

The debate is kicked off by a screening of the Al-Jazeera documentary ‘Shouting in the Dark’ filmed in Bahrain by an undercover film crew. It depicts the revolution in the small Gulf state from its first days in February 2011. Moving in the footsteps of the demonstrators, we witness the authorities’ brutal handling of the uprising. Film director May Ying Welsh from Al-Jazeera willtake part in the debate.

Moderator: Michael Jarlner, Politiken.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Tuesday 8/11 16:00 HRS

We Are All Revolutionaries

Running time: 40 min.

Social media have played a decisive role in allowing thousands of people to gather in a short time during the revolutions in the Middle East. While some people protested on Tahrir Square in Cairo, others joined the revolts online. The internet became a new forum, where people could voice their solidarity - a tool for mobilisation. Rooted in a desire to create a change in society, people took part in the revolution both on the streets and through the many interactive platforms on the Internet.

‘We are all revolutionaries’ is a debate between the web editor Nora Younis from the Egyptian newspaper Al-Masry Al-Youm, the Egyptian-American journalist, author and blogger Mona el-Tahawy and the Danish film director Omar Sharqawi, who was in the middle of shooting a film project in Cairo, when the Egyptian revolution started.

The debate is moderated by Michael Irving Jensen.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Saturday 5/11 15:00 HRS

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PINA: marketing, distribution and 3D Running time: 60 min.

The 3D producer of ‘Pina’, Erwin M. Schmidt, will at this moderated case story talk about the distribution and marketing of art house 3D content and, more specifically, the marketing of ‘Pina’. ‘Pina’ is Wim Wenders’s feature-length dance film in 3D with the ensemble of the Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch, featuring the unique and inspiring art of the great German choreographer. ‘Pina’ screens at this year’s CPH:DOX. Erwin M. Schmidt was in charge of the 3D aspect (team, equipment, workflows, postproduction, deliveries, etc.) linking the creative, technical and financial aspects of the film.

Erwin Schmidt also produced Wim Wenders’s 3D video installation ‘If Buildings Could Talk’ from 2010.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Friday 11/11 12:00 HRS

New alternative platforms: The Economist Film Project, Distrify & IndieGogo Running time: 70 min.

Several experimental distribution platforms are developed in the industry, and currently so much is going on that it can be difficult to keep track of it all. Therefore, we present three exclusive offers on the recent activity within alternative and web distribution. We have invited Gideon Lichfield, Editing Director at The Economist Film Project, an online collaboration with the PBS news hour - sharing international documentary directors work’s with a global audience.

Next up: London-based Distrify and co-founder, Peter Gerard, whose platform is the big thing for online films. And last but certainly not least: Erica Labovitz from American Distribber and its innovative cutting edge distribution strategies.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Friday 11/11 13:30 HRS

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Meet the Funds

Running time: 60 min.

Who knows what will happen at the film market? Come to an inspiring meeting with some of the great players within film funding, gain a quick and clear idea of who is a ‘must-know’ and which new institutions are about to embark on film financing. This year, CPH:DOX has invited the Hubert Bals Fund, TFI New Media Fund, Indiegogo and Chicken & Egg pictures to Copenhagen - all of them have money in their pockets for production and development. This inspiring and sharp panel will give you a brief and effective look at what the landscape for funding looks like right now, and what financing methods are at play.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Friday 11/11 10:30 HRS

Philippe Bober: International co-produktion Running time: 60 min.

In 1987, Philippe Bober created Coproduction Office, a sales and production label of bold, innovative and ultimately often award winning auteur films driven by strong personal visions. Since then, Philippe Bober has produced films by - among many others - Lars von Trier, Nanni Moretti, Ulrich Seidl, Roy Andersson, Wolfgang Becker and last year’s DOX:AWARD winner Michelangelo Frammartino. Philippe Bober guests this seminar in the form of a co-production case study, where he will share his learning experiences with co-production with the audience.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Thursday 10/11 16:00 HRS

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DO’S AND DON’TS by Barbara Truyen Running time: 50 min.

In this very practical seminar, Barbara Truyen will take you through the do’s and don’ts of co-production from the point of view of a commissioning editor. Barbara is from the National broadcasting channel of the Netherlands, VPRO, and she will talk about the fine art of pitching, explain how to create initial interest if you don’t know the financier yet and asnwer questions like: how to find my natural partners and how to turn a yes into a yes. But also, how to fullfil each partner’s requirements, what to do if you don’t agree and how much input in the editing room to expect. In few words, she will give you her top hot suggestions on how to get the best cooperation with International partners.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Wednesday 9/11 16:00 HRS

DR & CPH:DOX Talent award 2011

Running time: 150 min.

In collaboration with DR, CPH:DOX will award a brand new prize to young, flourishing directing talents in connection with this year’s documentary film festival. The prize is worth 25,000 kr.

Youths with a massive talent and the ability to direct provocative, fascinating and heart-rending documentaries have the possibility to gain the recognition of the entire industry. And if the talent reaches far enough, the documentary will be shown on one of DR’s channels.

CPH:DOX, in collaboration with DR, is focusing on talent development and the promotion of young Danish directors at this year’s festival. On 11 November 2011, 10 selected young directors will compete for the talent award before a picky panel from the Danish documentary industry. The panel will judge the talents on the basis of the presentation of the film, its originality and also, of course, the potential of the film project itself.

The panel of judges consists of Christina Rosendahl, Mette Hoffmann Meyer (DR), Rune Sparre Geertsen (DR MAMA).

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Friday 11/11 15:00 HRS

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ART:FILM SYMPOSIUM

Running time: 600 min.

CCPH:DOX, the British art film organization LUX and the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts is hosting a two-day symposium during CPH:DOX 2011.The symposium is a new international platform which is being launched alongside this year’s festival and the overall idea is to focus on the production of feature lenght film in the borderland between film and visual arts. What is currently happening in the ever growing borderland between film and visual arts? Which films are being produced, who ownes them, where do they appear, how are they developed and financed? How does the production context and not least how does the institutional context influence the creative process? What is the future of art cinema? Does it lie in the hands of the film industry or in the hands of the art world – or in between?The idea is to connect artists, professional filmmakers and institutions from the film and art world to exchange knowledge,

ideas and contacts, and to highlight new ways of cooperation. We have invited a carefully selected group of international producers, broadcasters, funders and museums for a discussion on the current state of the international scene of art cinema and the processes by which it can be developed and supported in the future.

SCREENING DATES Kunstakademiets Festsal: Thursday 10/11 09:30 HRS

How to penetrate the US Market

Running time: 90 min.

The US market represents the largest single market for films in the world yet most European documentary producers have little knowledge of how to make the market work for their film. Ian Davies, Director of Initialize Films and Interdoc, has helped filmmakers get deals with US distributors and sales agents - and during this panel he will discuss a live case study with award-winning producer Sigrid Dyekjær from Danish Documentary. Sigrid’s new film “Free the Mind” directed by Phie Ambo still has US rights available and the choices Sigrid makes in the coming months will have a large influence on her ability to get the film seen in the US and also on the revenues it will bring in.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Friday 4/11 14:00 HRS

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CPH:FORUM is a 3-day international financing and co-production event crossing boundaries between non-fiction, fiction and visual art. The Forum is an international hotspot where European and international professionals meet the Nordic scene; - a unique event dedicated to help facilitate the development and financing of creative and visually strong film projects.

CPH:FORUM, which takes place during CPH:DOX, presents project presentations, tailored one-on-one meetings, a line-up of seminars and master classes, networking and good old fun.Reflecting CPH:DOXâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s overall profile, the Forum has 3 main focus areas: FICTIONONFICTION - Challenging works in the ever-growing hybrid landscape between fiction and non-fiction CINEMA -High end theatrical feature length documentaries with international distribution potential.

ART â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Feature film projects conceptualized to be screened both within the institution of cinema and that of visual arts.

This year, an exclusive number of 24 projects have been selected for presentation. These will take place on Wednesday 9h and Thursday 10th November. The Forum is for invited guests only.

The FORUM has 2 new additions to its set-up this year, which we are very excited about: Firstly, we are pleased to be adding an exclusive, by invitation only, Co-production day to our set-up, targeted specifically at European producers and organised in collaboration with the Swiss, French, Belgian and Danish MEDIA DESKS. And secondly we are arranging a two-day symposium â&#x20AC;&#x201C; ART:FILM - in collaboration with LUX on November 10th + 11th at the Royal Art Academy in Copenhagen. The idea is to connect people from the world of visual art and cinema, to exchange knowledge and contacts, and to support filmmakers and artists working on feature projects in between the two fields. Read more about this on the next few pages.

CPH:FORUM is kindly funded by MEDIA, Nordisk Film & TV Fond, The Branding Denmark Fund, Det Obelske Familie Fond & The Danish Film Institute â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and for the third year running, the Forum features a collaboration with European Audiovisual Entrepreneurs - EAVE.

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CPH:DOX, the British art film organization LUX and the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts is hosting a two-day symposium during CPH:DOX 2011.

The symposium is a new international platform which is being launched alongside this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s festival and the overall idea is to focus on the production of feature lenght film in the borderland between film and visual arts. What is currently happening in the ever growing borderland between film and visual arts? Which films are being produced, who ownes them, where do they appear, how are they developed and financed? How does the production context and not least how does the institutional context influence the creative process? What is the future of art cinema? Does it lie in the hands of the film industry or in the hands of the art world â&#x20AC;&#x201C; or in between?

The idea is to connect artists, professional filmmakers and institutions from the film and art world to exchange knowledge, ideas and contacts, and to highlight new ways of cooperation.

We have invited a carefully selected group of international producers, broadcasters, funders and museums for a discussion on the current state of the international scene of art cinema and the processes by which it can be developed and supported in the future.

Please e-mail michelle@cphdox.dk no later than November 1st to register for this event.

Panels Day one Thursday 10th November 2011

10.30 -12.30 Producing Artists’ Moving Image What can artists’ moving image production learn from more traditional film production?

Through the presentation of relevant case studies, a panel of film producers with specific experience from working with projects in between film and visual art will discuss and compare the two fields. We have invited a carefully selected group of producers which includes Simon Field, who has produced, amongst many other, the Palme D’Or winning Cannes film ‘Uncle Bonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives’ by Apichatpong Weerasethakul. We have also invited the Norwegian curator and producer Leif Magne Tangen, who is currently working with Norwegian artist Knut Åsdam and British artist Emily Wardill on their first feature projects. We have also invited Anna Lena Vaney who produced the film ‘Zidane, a 21st Century Portrait’ by Douglas Gordon and Philippe Pareno, and last but not least artist and producer Charles de Meaux, founder of the remarkable Anna Sanders Films, a production company characterised for being involved in borderline projects between cinema and art – working with artists such as Philippe Parreno, Pierre Huyghe, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Lawrence Weiner and others. :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: LUNCH 12-30-13-30 :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 13.30 -15.00 Artists’ Film Funding, Sales and Distribution How are artists’ films funded and distributed, what are the limits of existing structures?

Could projects commissioned in the art world learn from existing film financing and film distribution models and vice versa? With the classic art cinema market drastically diminishing, what could a new distribution model for art cinema look like? Is the museum the new venue and partner? We have invited a group of commissioners & museums who in various ways have been involved in the development, production & exhibition of art films: Channel 4 Arts, LUX and Film London who will talk about what kind of work they support and how the funding structures works. On the exhibition and distribution side we have invited the American producer and distribution consultant Martin Marquet and two leading Scandinavian art representatives, curator Camilla Larsson from Bonniers Kunsthall in Stockholm and director Mark Sladen from Kunsthal Charlottenborg in Copenhagen.

Moderator: Simon Field

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Panels Day Two Friday 11th November 2011

10.30 – 11.30 MEET THE INSTITUTIONS We have invited a line-up of curators, programmers and museum institutions involved in commissioning and exhibiting art film projects for an informal talk about new possibilities.

What is the (new) role of the museum in terms of developing, producing and exhibiting art films? Meet Charlène Dinhut / Centre Pompidou,Kathy Noble /T ate Modern, Camilla Larsson / Bonniers Kunsthall, Marianne Torp / Statens Museum for Kunst and Rose Cupit & Maggie Ellis from Film London and hear them talk about their different initiatives and thoughts about new approaches in the field. :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 12.00 – 13.30 MASTERCLASS: BEN RIVERS & BEN RUSSEL Meet two of the most visionary artists in art cinema / contemporary art in a master class exploring the projects they are currently working on and the ways in which they have navigated the world of the art world and that of cinema. Both of them have gone from producing short experimental films to feature length cinematic films and both of them are producing films that will be screened / exhibited both within the institution of cinema and that of visual art.

They are currently working on their first common feature film project ‘A Spell to Ward of the Darkness’ and they have curated a special program for this year’s CPH:DOX with the same title. :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: There will be pre-arranged one-on-one meetings between producers/ funders and artists both days.

For more information and to register please contact Michelle Schulze: michelle@cphdox.dk Deadline: 1st November 2011

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CO-PRODUCTION day

As part of this years CPH:FORUM, we are very pleased to be adding a full Co-production meeting and networking day to our set-up - arranged in collaboration with the MEDIA desks from Belgium, Switzerland, Austria, France and Denmark. This is an exclusive event by invitation only.

The aim and intension is to match financiers and producers from the respective regions to meet in order to strengthen relations across borders, encourage co-productions, strong working relations and new partnerships.

The co-production day is dedicated to help facilitate informal networking and friendly meetings in a place where it is easy for participants to get to know each other on a one-to-one basis. By inviting film professionals from the respective regions we hope to strengthen the development of strong working relations in documentary production but also in the growing hybrid landscape between fiction and nonfiction. The invited producer and production companies all work with these new formats.

We wish to create an environment that will help the participants acquaint themselves with financial opportunities and possible co-productions.

The setting of the day will be dialogue based round table discussions between producers from the respective regions. The tables will be country specific and hosted by the attending financiers from each territory.

The day will take place on Wednesday 10th November at Gl. Strand from 2pm-6pm and will end with an informal networking drinks reception for all international guests, hosted by MEDIA DESK DENMARK and MEDIA DESK FRANCE at Hotel 27 from 6pm to 8pm

Producers line-up FRANCE - Les Films du présent, Patrice Nezan - Rouge international, Nadia Turinsev/Julie Gayet - Sciapode, Emilie Blezat

AUSTRIA - Golden Girls, Arash T. Riahi - WildART Film, Ebba Sinzinger - KGP, Marie Tappero

SWITZERLAND - Saskia Vischer - AKKA Films, Joëlle Rubli - RITA Productions, Max Karli

DENMARK - Zentropa, Peter Engel - Zentropa, Katja Adomeit - Final Cut, Signe Byrge - Danish Documentary, Sigrid Dyekjær - Kamoli Films, Helle Ulsteen

BELGIUM - Off World, Frederik Nicolai - Entre chien et loup, Benoit Rolnad - Pénélope Morgane Production, Pierre Paul Puljiz - zapomatik + Cassette - Emmy Oost

DOX:LAB

In the spirit of supporting new talents CPH:DOX in 2009 launched the very first edition of DOX:LAB, handpicking a small number of international filmmakers to participate in an experimental documentary laboratory.

For the third year in a row, we are excited to return with a whole new set of filmmakers.

Twenty-two participants representing eighteen different countries have been carefully matched in teams of two and will meet each other for the first time during CPH:DOX â&#x20AC;&#x2122;11 in an exclusive workshop. Once again we are proud to present a fabulous team of participants, counting several award winning filmmakers and acknowledged artists.

The main idea behind DOX:LAB is to create a space where unauthorized cinematic forms can be explored and developed. By handpicking a group of filmmakers with very different backgrounds in terms of culture, film history, narrative traditions and different methods of and access to production we hope to stimulate a dialogue based new aesthetic. Thanks to the support of Media Mundus, the selection this year includes also filmmakers from former Eastern Europe. We are very excited to see what comes out from this truly international melting pot of ideas.

The program is conducted in cooperation with The Filmworkshop / DFI, Hong Kong â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Asia Film Financing Forum, Buenos Aires Lab, Screen Institute Beirut and Dubai Film Market, supported by Media Mundus, Aarhus Festival, Den Obelske Familiefond, The Danish Film Institute, The Swedish Film Institute, The Finnish Film Foundation, Maisha Film Lab, International Media Support and CKU.

Participants â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;11 Andreas Koefoed , Denmark & & Jacob Schulsinger, Denmark & Mira Jargil, Denmark & Michael Madsen, Denmark & Ionut Piturescu, Romania & Peter Kerekes, Slovakia & Fia-Stina Sandlund, Sweden & Marta Minorovicz, Poland & Elina Talvensaari, Finland & Zeljka Sukova, Croatia & Thomas Ă&#x2DC;stbye, Norway

Ivan Fund, Argentina Nicolas Pereda, Mexico Fred Kigozi, Uganda Rania Attieh, Lebanon Jakrawal Nilthamrong, Thailand Kazuhiro Soda, Japan Alejo Moguillansky, Argentina Laila Hotait, Lebanon Flora Lau, Hong Kong Gustavo Beck, Brazil Edwin, Indonesia

DOX:MARKET

CPH:MARKET is a video-on-Demand documentary film market running in conjunction with CPH:DOX. In 2011 the market will be open from 3th –13th of November from 10am 8pm, with priority access given to attending buyers, festival programmeres and curators.

The market is located at The Danish Film Institute, in close proximity to the festival center, and presents 20 viewing stations of iPads / iMacs operated with an on-demand digital screening system, offering professionals easy access to an extensive line-up of more than 200 recent documentary titles.

CPH:MARKET is a curated market that reflects CPH:DOX’s overall interest in visually and artistically strong documentary films. All films selected for an official festival screening at CPH:DOX are automatically included in the digital market. In addition to these titles, The market also includes four series curated especially for the market. This years’ curators are The Rencontres Internationales, Filmkontakt Nord. Kickstarter and LUX. CPH:MARKET is established in close cooperation with CPH:BOX, and supported by Aiaiaiheadphones and furniture from Design by Us. Logoer: CPH:BOX/ Ai Ai Ai/Eplehuset/ Design by us

Filmkontakt Nord

As the Managing Director of Filmkontakt Nord, I’m delighted to

With these films you will be taken on an intellectual and emo-

give you a taste of some of the latest and greatest documenta-

tional ride of exceptional dimensions. Hopefully this taste will give

ries from the five Nordic countries. Filmkontakt Nord (FkN) was

you an appetite for more outstanding Nordic documentaries to be

established in 1991 by visionary Nordic filmmakers who wanted

found in abundance at NPM Online year round. To start exploring,

to further the conditions for independent short and documen-

all you need to do is to sign up.

tary film. Since then, FkN has been dedicated to promote Nordic shorts and docs internationally and to advance Nordic-interna-

Learn more at www.filmkontakt.com.

tional professional networks. 20 years has passed, and FkN has truly become the First Stop for Nordic Shorts & Docs having

Enjoy! Katrine Kiilgaard / Managing Director, Filmkontakt Nord

established itself as a unique central source of information and expertise.

FkN’s main event is Nordisk Panorama, comprising a film festival, a documentary co-financing forum and a market. Spanning all professional focus areas from development and financing to distribution and exhibition, Nordisk Panorama Event is the main annual business platform for shorts and docs in the Nordic region.

Nordisk Panorama Market Online (NPM Online) is aimed at international TV-buyers, distributors, sales agents and festival programmers. Approved professionals can stream films in full length at their own convenience around the clock. Currently more than 1100 films are available just a click away.

I have chosen to show you a small selection of the amazing documentaries that were presented at this year’s Nordisk Panorama Festival Market, also available at NPM Online.

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FILMKONTAKT NORD HAS CURATED THE FOLLOWING FILMS How Are You / Director: Jannik Splidsboel (dk) Meeting My Father Kasper Tophat / Director: Lea Glob (dk) The President / Director: Christoffer Guldbrandsen (dk) Aranda / Director: Anu Kuivalainen (fi) Look at Me / Director: Iiris Härmä (fi) Adequate Beings / Director: Olaf de Fleur (is) Imagining Emmanuel / Director: Thomas A. Østbye (no) Claes / Director: Martina Carlstedt (se) Twin Brothers, 53 Scenes from a Childhood / Director: Axel Danielson (se) Women With Cows / Director: Peter Gerdehag (se)

Rencontres Internationales

Since 1997, the Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid

The Rencontres Internationales reflects specificities and conver-

has existed as an interdisciplinary project designed to promote

gences of artistic practices between new cinema and contempo-

new cinema, video and multimedia.

rary art, explores emerging media art practices and their critical

Each year, in Paris, Berlin and Madrid, the festival presents an

purposes, and makes possible a necessary time where points of

international programme which brings together well-known di-

view meet and are exchanged.

rectors on the international scene, along with young artists and film makers whose work has not been widely distributed.

www.art-action.org

The Rencontres Internationales hope to bring contemporary works of art to a wide audience, to facilitate movement between the different creative spheres and to communicate this to the audience, to create dynamic exchanges between artists, directors, and those participating in artistic and cultural life.

The festival offers a screening programme crossing contemporary moving images, with about 150 works from 40 countries – video, documentary, fiction, experimental –, as well as a multimedia exhibition and a panel discussion cycle with curators and directors of cultural institutions from Europe and beyond.

It takes place in Paris at the Centre Pompidou, in Berlin at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, in Madrid at the Reina Sofia National Museum and the Spanish Cinematheque.

The Festival offers more than just a simple presentation of works.

It introduces an intercultural forum gathering various guests from all over the world - artists and filmmakers, institutions and emerging organizations - to testify of their reflections and their

RENCONTRES INTERNATIONAL HAS CURATED THE FOLLOWING FILMS Tripoli / Director: Knut Asdam (no/lb) Birth of a Nation / Director: Daya Cahen (nl) Made in Suiza / Director: Natalia Comandari (br/ch) Pustara/Wasteland / Director: Ivan Factor (hr) Hôtel Dieu / Director: André Fortino (fr) The Last Rites / Director: Yasmine Kabir (bd) Vineland / Director: Laura Kraning (us) The Trial of Oscar Wilde / Director: Christian Merlhiot (fr/lb) Paisaje-Distancia / Director: Lois Patino (es) Círculo Uno / Director: César Pesquera (es) La mort de la Gazelle / Director: Jeremie Reichenbach (fr) Fiasko / Director: Janet Riedel, Katja Pratschke, Gusztáv Hamos (de)

experiences, but also of artistic and cultural contexts that are often undergoing deep changes.

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LUX

LUX is a national public arts agency for the support and promo-

LUX HAS CURATED THE FOLLOWING FILMS

tion of artists working with the moving image. Founded in 2002 as a charity and not-for-profit limited company, it builds on a lineage

The Pickers / Director: Adam Chodzko (gb)

of its predecessor organisations (The London Filmmakers Co-op-

Neue Museen / Director: Graham Ellard , Stephen Johnstone (uk/it)

erative, London Video Arts and The Lux Centre), which stretches

Melior Street / Director: Charlotte Ginsborg (gb)

back to the 1960s. LUX is the only organisation of its kind in the

An History of Civilisation / Director: Andrew Kotting (gb)

UK: it represents the country’s only significant collection of art-

Things That Had Stories Rubbed Out / Director: Anna Lucas (gb)

ists’ film and video and is the largest distributor of such work in

Holy Precursor / Director: Uriel Orlow (gb)

Europe. LUX works with hundreds of institutions worldwide in-

Why Colonel Bunny Was Killed / Director: Miranda Pennell (gb)

cluding museums, galleries, festivals and educational establish-

About Now MMX / Director: William Raban (gb)

ments, as well as directly with the public and artists.

The Plaza / Director: Emily Richardson (gb) A Short Film About War / Director: Thomson & Craighead (gb)

The organisation’s main activities include: collection – managing care of and access to its film and video collection; distribution – acting as an agent for artists who work with the moving image; public exhibition (screenings, gallery exhibitions, touring shows), both independently and in partnership with other organisations; education (workshops and talks); publishing (books, DVDs, websites); commissioning both new art works and writing; research support for artists, curators, researchers and students; professional development support for artists/aspirant artists and arts professionals; and the development of public research resources to improve understanding of artists’ moving image practice. www.lux.org.uk.

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KICKSTARTER

Kickstarter is the world’s largest funding platform for funding

KICKSTARTER HAS CURATED THE FOLLOWING FILMS

creative projects. Every week on Kickstarter, tens of thousands of people pledge millions of dollars and help bring creative projects

Adventures in Plymptoons / Director: Alexia Anastacio

from the worlds of music, film, art, technology, design, food, pub-

Kevin / Director: Jay Duplass (us)

lishing and other creative fields to life. The Kickstarter commu-

Lessons for the Living / Director: Lily Henderson (us)

nity features projects by Oscar winners, Grammy winners, TED

Granito / Director: Pamela Yates (us)

Fellows, New York Times best-sellers, Pulitzer Prize finalists, and

How to Start a Revolution / Director: Ruaridh Arrow (gb)

thousands of others.

Battle for Brooklyn / Director: Michael Galinsky (us) Beijing Taxi / Director: Miao Wang (us/cn)

We’re revolutionizing how creative projects are funded – and in

Cure for Pain / Director: Rob Bralver & David Ferino (us)

the process allowing people the freedom to create however and

The Elders / Director: Nathaniel Hansen (us)

whatever they want. Big and small projects, serious and whimsical, traditional and avant-garde. We welcome projects from the creative arts—Art, Dance, Film, Music, Photography, Publishing, and Theater—as well as projects from the diverse and creative fields of Food, Design, Fashion, Technology, Games, Comics and Journalism.

Kickstarter is not about investment or lending—project creators keep 100% ownership and control over their work. Instead, creators offer the audience products and experiences that are unique to their project: things like a copy of the finished product, special limited editions, and behind-the-scenes access. Rewards draw the audience closer to the project, function as a pre-sale mechanism, and ensure that the audience benefits just as much as the creator.

This is about more than money, it’s about enabling pure creativity, outside of the constraints of traditional systems. www.kickstarter.com

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CONTACTS 4th Row Films 27 West 20th Street, Suite 1006 10019 Ny, New York, USA +1 212 974 0082’ robert@4throwfilms.com 9.14 Pictures USA +1 215 238 0707 info@914pictures.com Akka Films 4 Rue des Marbriers 1204 Genève, Switzerland +41 22 345 11 70 info@akkafilms.ch Al Jazzeera Qatar may.welsh@aljazeera.net Amal Ramsis Egypt amalramsis@gmail.com Ammar Al-Beik Syria ammarbeik@gmail.com Andergraun Films Barcelona, Spain +34 93 184 34 27 triola@andergraun.com Autlook Filmsales GbR Zieglergasse 75/1 AT-1070 Wien, Austria +43 720 55 35 70 welcome@autlookfilms.com Basilisk Communications Ltd. 21 Victoria Chambers, Paul Street EC2A 4ED London, UK bathysphere productions France contact@bathysphere.fr

Caroline Sascha Cogez Denmark cogez@pashaparts.dk Cat & Docs 18 rue Quincampoix 75004 Paris, France +33 1 44 59 63 53 maelle@catndocs.com, cat@catndocs.com CCCB Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona C/ Montalegre 5 Barcelona, Spain +34 93 306 41 00 global@cccb.org Celluloid Dreams 2, rue Turgot 75009 Paris, France +33 1 4970 0370 violaine@celluloid-dreams.com Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica (CCC) Calzada De Tlalpan 1670 DF 04220 Mexico city, Mexico +52 55 41 55 00 90 Century Films 1 Clink Street SE1 9DG London, UK +44 20 7378 6106 info@centuryfilmsltd.com Cinema Purgatorio USA ray@cinemapurgatorio.com Closer Productions 54A High Street Kensington 5068 Adelaide, Australia +61 413 797 674 matt@closerproductions.com.au

Credo Film gmbh Germany +49 39 25 76 240 office@credofilm.de Croatian Audiovisual Centre Croatia +385 1 6041 087 ivana.ivisic@havc.hr Crystal Eye Lämmittäjänkatu 4 A FIN-00880 HELSINKI, Finland +358 9 694 2308 sara@crystaleye.fi CULTURESFRANCE 1 bis, avenue de Villars 75007 Paris, France +33 1 53 69 83 00 info@culturesfrance.com Danish Documentary Production c/o Duckling 1250 Copenhagen K, Denmark +45 2616 2535 sigrid@danishdocumentary.com David O’ Reilly USA www.davidoreilly.com Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin Potsdamer Str. 2, D-10785 Berlin, Germany +49 30 257590 info@dffb.de Doc and FIlm France d.elstner@docandfilm.com docufilm 41 China 41docufilm@gmail.com

Bedroom Community (Iceland) hildur@bedroomcommunity.net

Cobra Films Rue de la Sablonnière, 29 1000 Bruxelles, Belgium +32 2 512 70 07 cobrafilms@skynet.be

Dogwoof Unit 211 Hatton Square Business Centre 16,16a Baldwins Gardens EC1N 7RJ London, UK global@dogwoof.com

Blackmaria Rua Luciano Cordeira no. 103, 2.

1150-214 Lisboa, Portugal +351 21 886 38 22 blackmaria@blackmaria.pt

Columbus Film AG Seestr. 41A 8002 Zurich, Switzerland +41 44 462 73 66 info@columbusfilm.ch

DOX:BIO Tagensvej 85 F 2200 Copenhagen N, Denmark josephine@doxbio.dk

Bullitt Film Rådmandsgade 43 3rd. floor 2200 Copenhagen N, Denmark +45 2612 5001 vibeke@bullittfilm.dk

ContentFilm International 19 Heddon Street W1B 4BG London, UK +44 207 851 6500 rebecca.berry@contentfilm.com

Canyon Cinema 145 Ninth Street, Suite 260 CA 94103 San Francisco, USA +1 415 626 2255 films@canyoncinema.com

Coproduction Office Mommsenstrasse 27 D-10629 Berlin, Germany +49 30 324 30 53 festivals@coproductionoffice.eu

Capricci Films 149 rue du Faubourg St Denis 75010 Paris, France +33 240892059 contact@capricci.fr

Copenhagen Bombay Refshalevej 147, 1.

1432 Copenhagen K, Denmark julie.pedersen@bombaybully.com

Carnivalesque Films 2316 Charleston Drive 76063 Mansfield, TX, USA +1 203 417 3136 ashley.sabin@gmail.com 356 / CONTACTS

Courtisane Festival p.a. KASK, J. Kluyskensstraat 2 9000 Ghent, Belgium +32 92670122 maria.palacioscruz@courtisane.be

e-flux New York, USA info@e-flux.com Electronic Arts Intermix 535 West 22nd Street, 5th Floor NY 10011 New York, USA +1 (212) 337 0694 info@eai.org Elkcreek Cinema USA nick.augustperna@gmail.com Epileptic 3, rue des Goncourt 75011 Paris, France +33 6 87 14 38 29 annicklemonnier@free.fr estudio de produccion Mexico +52 55 52 07 16 54 info@estudiodeproduccion.net

Etcheberry e Hijos Chacabuco 194 5to B C1069AAD Buenos Aires, Argentina +54 11 43431151 etcheberry@eehcomex.com.ar

GB Agency 18 rue des 4 Fils F-75003 Paris F-75003 Paris, France +33 1 5379 0713 gb@gbagency.fr

Evgeny Yufit Russia ioufit@yahoo.com

Globus Aps Denmark carsten.holst@gulstad.dk

Exclusive Media Beverly Hills, USA info@exclusivemedia.com

Goncalo Tocha Portugal gtocha.filmz@gmail.com

Eye Film Instituut/ Filmbank PO Box 74782 1070 BT Amsterdam, Netherlands +31 20 7582350, +31 20 5891400 claartjeopdam@eyefilm.nl

Greenlight Pictures Denmark greenlightpicture@gmail.com

Eyesteel Film 4475 Boulevard St. Laurent, #202 Québec H2W Montréal, Canada +1 514 937 4893 daniel@eyesteelfilm.com Extra Virgin Thailand Uruphong Raksasad uruphong_r@hotmail.com Felderfilm Beim Schlump 53 20144 Hamburg, Germany +49 40 76998494 info@felderfilm.de Film Sales Company Theatrical 151 Lafayette St. (5th floor) 10013 New York, USA +1 212 6250535 andrew.herwitz@filmsalescorp.com Final Cut Productions ApS Forbindelsesvej 7 2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark +45 3543 6043 byrge@final-cut.dk Finnish Film Foundation Kanavakatu 12 Helsinki, Finland +358 9 6220300 marja.pallassalo@ses.fi Fortissimo Film Sales Van Diemenstraat 100 1013 CN Amsterdam, Netherlands +31 206 27 3215 info@fortissimo.nl Forum Lenteng Jalan Raya Lenteng Agung No.34 RT 007 RW 02 Lenteng 12610, Indonesia +62 21 7884 0373 hafiz_ruru@yahoo.com Framework Films Mynstersvej 6, 1.

1827 Frederiksberg C, Denmark +45 2680 9192 mk@frameworkfilms.dk Galerie Loevenbruck 6, rue Jacques Callot 75006 Paris, France +33 1 53 10 85 68 contact@loevenbruck.com

Halim Sabbagh Lebanon halimsabbagh@gmail.com HANFGARN & UFER Reichenberger Str. 124 10999 Berlin, Germany +49 30 84855014 info@HU-film.de Hanway Films 24 Hanway Street WP1P 9DD London, UK +44 20 7290 0750 info@hanwayfilms.com Henrik Bjerring Denmark bjerring666@gmail.com Hot Property Films 47 Saint Charles Square W10 6EN London, UK +44 20 8969 7997 janine@hotpropertyfilms.com Human Film ADP House, 35 Hanover Square LS3 1BQ Leeds, UK +44 113 243 8880 info@humanfilm.co.uk Icelandic Film Centre Túngata 14, 101 Reykjavik, Iceland +354 562 3580 info@icelandicfilmcentre.is Icon Entertainment Int. 37 Soho Square, W1V 5DG London, UK +44 20 7494 8100 maite@icon-entertainment.co.uk Jean-Christian Bourcart France jcb25@mac.com Jem Cohen Films USA info@jemcohenfilms.com Jesper Just Denmark twelvedancingprincesses@hotmail.com Jessica Bardsley USA +1 (239) 821 9681 jessicabardsley@gmail.com John Price 185 Vine Avenue M6P IV9 Toronto, Canada john@filmdiary.org

Joon Film Germany ac@joonfilm.de Kasper Bisgaard Denmark kbisgaard@rocketmail.com Kfofo Productions Germany eraccah@kfofo.com Khaled Hafez Egypt khaled_studio@yahoo.com Kino International Corporation 333 West 39th Street, Suite 503 NY 10018 New York, USA +1 212 629 6880 or +1 800 562 3330 gpalmucci@kino.com Konrad Mühe Germany +49 176 25727381 konradmuehe@gmx.com Käthe Kruse Germany +49 176 80083642 kaethekruse@snafu.de Laida Lertxundi USA lertxundi@gmail.com Land Media Productions Ltd CHAPEL Donhead St Mary, Shaftesbury, Dorset , SP7 9DL UK +44 7850312247 studio@garytarn.com Lenfilm 10 Kamennoostrovsky Ave 197101 St Petersburg, Russia sales@lenfilm.ru Libero Films 31 Rue de Vincennes 93100 Montreuil, France +33 4 91 99 33 70 contact@liberofilms.fr Luo Li 77 Bond Street South L8S 1S8 Hamilton, Ontario, Canada +1 905 516 1021 or +1 905 719 35 leeandluo@gmail.com Lux 3rd Floor E8 2EZ London NW1 9N, UK +44 207 503 3980 mike.sperlinger@lux.org.uk Laaventura productions Spain info@laaventura.net Maciej Kuziemski Poland kuziemski@gmail.com Maiko Endo New York, USA osaruxo@gmail.com Marianna Mørkøre & Rannvá Káradóttir Faroe Islands info.rammatik@gmail.com CONTACTS / 357

Marie Losier USA info@balladofgenesisandladyjaye.com Maureen Paley Gallery 21 Herald Street E2 6JT London, UK +44 20 7729 4112 info@maureenpaley.com Michael Madsen Galleri Tusk, Strandlodsvej 9 A, 1.

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picturewise film & tv Filmbyen 23, 4. sal 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark +45 8619 9848 info@picterewise.dk Pilar Corrias Gallery 54 Eastcastle Street W1W 8EF London, UK +44 20 7 323 7000 info@pilarcorrias.com Plus Pictures Aps Vestervoldgade 83 1552 Copenhagen K, Denmark +45 33 13 30 03 mailandd@pluspictures.dk PRODUKCE RADIM PROCHAZKA Rehorova 1039/54 130 00 Prague, Czech Republic info@radimprochazka.com Ralf Christensen Gasværksvej 21, 1 tv 1639 København V, Denmark ralf.christensen@gmail.com Red Bucket Films 368 broadway suite 512 10013 New York, USA +1 917 815 5177 yourfriends@redbucketfilms.com Regina Filmes Brazil nelsonps@hotmail.com Republik Productions Seljavegi 2 , 101 Reykjavik,, Iceland +354 445 5555 republik@republik.is Revenge of the electric Car USA michelle@revengeoftheelectriccar.com Richard Mark Dobson Australia thecresthotel@gmail.com Ro*co Films International llc 80 Liberty Ship Way, Suite 5 94965 Sausalito, USA +1 4153326471 info@rocofilms.com Roger Sargent UK rogersargent.com@gmail.com Rosforth & Rosforth Amagertorv 27 1160 Copenhagen K, Denmark +45 22700044 rosforth@gmail.com Röde Orm Film Box 201 05 16 102 Bromma, Sweden +46 8 560 211 20 thomas@rodeormfilm.se Salla Sorri Finland salla.sorri@aalto.fi Saul Albert & Nathaniel Robin Mann UK animateddog@yahoo.co.uk

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INDEX 1/2 Revolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85, 106, 132 2 steps from Håkan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132 5,000 Feet is the Best . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Above the heart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273 Accidentes Gloriosos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

61, 288 After Life - 4 Stories of Torture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 The AGLAÉ Measurement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218 Albertslund Terror Korps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296 Amohr . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 Andrew Bird: Fever Year . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126 Anna Pavlova Lives in Berlin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 The Art of Catching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 ART:FILM SYMPOSIUM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

251, 312 Artist talk: Nan Goldin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305 Artist talk: The Ballad of Marie Losier & Genesis P-Orridge 304 Au Pair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

91, 108 Avalanche . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 The Average Of The Average . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

31, 113 Bahrain: Shouting in the Dark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235 The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 Ballroom Dancer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28, 53, 109 Bardo/Autoportraits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177 Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest 128 Beauty Becomes the Beast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174 Bedtime Stories from the Axis of Evil . . . . . . . . . . . . .

99, 149 The Bengali Detective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259 Benjamin Smoke . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168 Better This World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143 The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 Blue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172 Bombay Beach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Brother Sister . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

158, 268 Camden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177 Carta para Serra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 Cattle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274 Cave of Forgotten Dreams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258 Christmas on Earth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193 Chumlum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

191, 196 Cineblatz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197 Circular Signals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248 City Slang Redux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133 Civil Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 College . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294 The Cool World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166 Correspondance Jonas Mekas - J.L. Guerin . . . . . . . . 263 Crayons Of Askalan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150 Crazy Horse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264 Crest Hotel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175 Crulic - The Path Beyond . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145 Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250 Death in the Port Jackson Hotel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178 The Detective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

87, 110 DO’S AND DON’TS by Barbara Truyen . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311 Documenting A Revolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307 DR og CPH:DOX Talentpris 2011 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311 Dragonslayer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261 Encore une fois . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176 Everything, Everywhere, All The Time . . . . . . . . . . . . 127 Everyday Life in a Syrien Village . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234 The External World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192 Fake It So Real . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260 A Family Finds Entertainment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191 A Film About With Anders Petersén . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179 Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197 The Flaw . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266 The Flock of the Lord . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267 Forbidden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229 Fortune Tellers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176 Friendly Fire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214 From Syria with Love: film/talk w. Nidal Hassan & . . 307 Führung . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Gerhard Richter Painting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265 Girl in the Water . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279,282

Girl Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265 Gnarr . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 God Bless Ozzy Osbourne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130 The Good Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

159, 269 Grande Hotel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144 Grandma Lo-fi: The Basement Tapes of Sigrídur... . . 125 A Guiding Light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 Gunnar Goes God . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160 Hail the New Puritan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207 HappyUnhappy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 How to Enter the US Market . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312 How to Escape Stress Boxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198 How to Pick Berries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278 How to Start a Revolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230 HPG Watch Stream Live - Sex Cam HD Porn Free Hard XXX 43 HU Enigma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Human Mincer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215 Il se peut que la beauté ait renforcé notre résolution 58 Imagining Emanuel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 Indian Summer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 Inni . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 Inside Lara Roxx . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264 Into Thin Air . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239 It’s The Earth Not The Moon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Ivalo River Delta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194 Jiro Dreams of Sushi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272 John Maus vs. Jennifer Juniper Stratford . . . . . . . . . 294 The Kampala Story (work in progress) . . . . . . . . . . . .

98, 284 Kant Tuning Club . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217 A Kind of Paradise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

102, 107 Kuichisan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Land of Black Gold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148 Larsen & Furious Jane vs. DARCH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297 Last Days Here . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122 Layers of Fog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86, 111, 286 Lesorub . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195 Libertys Booty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175 Living in the Material World: George Harrison . . . . . . 134 The Lonely Voice of Man . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186 Lord of the Flies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192 Lord Worked Wonders in Me . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 Los Muertos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169 Lost Land . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

152, 234 Low Definition Control - Malfunctions #0 . . . . . . . . . . 56 Lucifer Rising . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200 Lung Neaw Visits His Neighbours . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 The Magic Trip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262 Magma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 Marian Ilmestys (The Annunciation) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 Marija’s Own . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 Marran . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 Masterclass: Charles Atlas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304 Masterclass: Michelangelo Frammartino . . . . . . . . . . 306 Masterclass: Ruben Östlund . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305 El Medico - The Cubaton Story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 Meet Hamed Abdel-Samad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306 Meet the Funds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310 Mellemblond vs. 4 Guys From the Future . . . . . . . . . . 297 Melter 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188 Memo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 Mike Sheridan vs. Eva Koch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295 Milestones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189 Minong, I slept . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190 Modern Times Forever - Superflex In The Metro . . . . 252 The Music According To Tom Jobim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137 My Tears Are Dry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186 Nan Goldin vs. Genesis P-Orridge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

180, 292 Naturefilm in 5 Movements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249 Neither Allah, nor Master . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227 New alternative platforms: The Economist Film . . . . 309 New Sudan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240 INDEX / 361

Nothing But a Man . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173 Nowhere Near Tomorrow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233 The Obscurantist and his Lineage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Ocean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211 Olda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

157, 268 Opening Film: In My Mother’s Arms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140 Our School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146 Pareidolia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Patience (After Sebald) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Pearl Jam - Twenty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135 Philippe Bober: International co-produktion . . . . . . . 310 Pieces And Love All To Hell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 The Pilgrim’s Progress From This World... . . . . . . . . 69 Pina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258 PINA: marketing, distribution and 3D . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309 Play . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Pockets of Resistance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 Portraits / Instant Fame! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244 The Price of Kings: Yasser Arafat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 The Primal Scene . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

78, 114 Prince Hotel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193 Prinzip Zufall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Project Nim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259 The Prophet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Put Blood in the Music . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208 Questions to my father . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178 Rangkasbitung: A Piece of Tale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147 RE:CONSTRUCTED LANDSCAPES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244 Red Dawn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 The Redemption of General Butt Naked . . . . . . . . . . . 151 Returned . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 Revenge of The Electric Car . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263 Revolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237 River Rites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246 Rivers And My Father . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Road to Paradise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278 Rouge Parole . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

153, 231 Rough Days For Diamond Trade vs. Simon H√∏jbo . . 298 Saint Flournoy Lobos-Logos and the Eastern... . . . . . 198 San Clemente . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171 Sarah Palin - You Betcha . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266 The Seasons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187 Self Made . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 She Had Her Gun All Ready . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174 She’s Blonde Like Me . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 Shock Head Soul . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Shouting In The Dark: debate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308 Shut Up Little Man! An Audio Misadventure . . . . . . . . 262 Simon of the Desert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189 Sira - Songs of The Crescent Moon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

156, 267 Sisters! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Slow Action . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247 The Somnambulists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Son of Sam and Delilah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209

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La Soufrière . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188 A Spell to Ward Off The Darkness - Live . . . . . . . . . . .

200, 293 The Spoiler [Seminar 01] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216 Stay Calm, I’m sure it’s Nothing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179 Straight Hustle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 The Sun’s Incubator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236 Superhoney . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210 The Swell Season . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124 SYGNOK & The War For Radical Computer Music . . . 120 TAHRIR 2011: the Good, the Bad and the Politician . . 228 Talihina Sky: The Story of Kings of Leon . . . . . . . . . . . 129 Tarnation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Tataré (work in progress) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

96, 283 There Are No Innocent Bystanders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 The Thing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194 This is not a Film . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141 Three Stories of Life, Love and Death . . . . . . . . . . . . .

232, 285 Thulebasen vs. Stine Marie Jacobsen . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295 The Tiniest Place . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142 Tobias Lee vs. Marie Edinger Plum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298 Transcendental Black Metal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199 True North - 5 days in June . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136 Turning - Work In Progress . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 TVC, The Joy of Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

279, 287 Two Years at Sea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Under Byen vs. Sidse Carstens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296 Under Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261 Undercover Cop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Untitled (La vallée von Uexkull 1920 X 1080) . . . . . . . . 219 Untitled (La vallée von Uexkull 4096 X 2304) . . . . . . . . 220 Utopia = No Person . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196 UV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199 Valentin de las Sierras . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190 Vanishing Woman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

62, 289 Variety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167 The Video Diaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238 Viva Paradis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241 Waiting for the Tsunami . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 Walk Away Renée . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Wanda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170 The Ways Of Wine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273 We Are All Revolutionaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308 Weather Diary 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187 Whispering Pines 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195 Whores’ Glory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260 The Will . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

84, 112 With Merce . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206 The World’s Finest Chef . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272

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