11.MakeDox Catalogue - 2020 by MakeDox

Contents

Greetings 4 Country in Focus: The Netherlands 6 Juries at MakeDox 14 Main Program 24 Newcomers 36 Short Dox 50 Student Dox 60 Kids and Youth Program 70 MakeDox+ 80 MakeDox Layers 90 MakeDox Family 98 Film Index 97 Impressum 99

Dear friends and art admirers, This year, the MakeDox Festival for Creative Documentary Film begins its second decade of life in the sphere of culture in the Republic of North Macedonia. As by now, in this eleventh festival edition we will put all our efforts into bringing as much rich and high- quality film program as possible, especially at this time when we believe that the offer of cultural contents are

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exquisitely significant for the mental health and spiritual development of people. Therefore, this year, MakeDox has decided to determinedly stand on the side of life while carrying on with celebrating creativity, above all in documentary film, and creating conditions and possibilities for this pursuit in the real as well as the virtual space of Kurshumli An. Unfortunately, this year, the physical space for film screenings and travelling is limited, however, we have still decided not to give up and accept the challenge that this pandemic has placed in front of us. So while working in silence and with dedication in our cultural realm, one that though necessary in these moments of crisis, is yet most severely affected, we tried to provide new spheres for film journeys and break through new spaces where, through the MakeDox film program, we can hang out, discuss, debate and enjoy together. This way, we can all participate in the process of spiritual recovery and exchange of support during these times. We believe that this way we can return culture, which is now placed behind the curtains of social life, to the right place in our lives, feeling that it is something that is essentially necessary especially during these hard moments of fear, sadness and insecurity. We are highly aware that the Macedonian audience, just like any person anywhere, feels the need for social touch which is one of the main reasons for organizing festivals and participating in a common ritual of film watching on a big screen, that is, celebrating creativity together. Nevertheless, the digital form of the festival allows us to open new possibilities for different and rather far-reaching implications of the festival and documentary films on all of our citizens. Namely, while going through a situation of health crisis and preparing a festival in quarantine, we have been feeling the moments of silence around ourselves and our city, some of us even experiencing police curfew for the very first time. Spontaneously, these experiences have enlightened a spark from deep within us, the poem “In Silence” by our dear poet Aco Shopov, which has inspired us to delve on and listen to the hardest and most simple of things, facing the invisible with hope that it will open new gates to worlds and spheres that are yet undiscovered. For these reasons, the 11th edition of MakeDox is dedicated to sound and silence, the look beyond things visible and will be held under the motto “Merge with Silence!” 4

In Silence If you carry within you things unsaid, things that thrust through and bite bury them in deep silence, silence shall bring them to light. Aco Ĺ opov, Merge with Silence 1955

Country in Focus: The Netherlands

When the Sky Is Not a Limit

The end of the second decade of the new millennium marks the beginning of the second decade of life for MakeDox, bringing along the hope that it will continue to be exciting and full of versatile authentic film stories that talk about people, events, times - present, future, past… Times in a time of tempest or if I may, tempest in times that face and witness abundance of occurrence through the creative force of the authors… the state of human spirit and the challenges that They, the Human, encounter… Here I note - in the epicenter of historical events, love, social turmoil and conflicts, ambition, raw capitalism and excessive consumerism, joy, incurable diseases and death, wars, exodus and genocide, justice, (un)natural disasters, silence... Therefore, this year MakeDox decided to dedicate the Country in Focus Program to The Netherlands, a country with a rich history of documentary film that appreciates this cinematic form in a special way. This approach is clearly visible in the program sections of the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, today’sbiggest and most popular festival for documentary films in the world. Every year, we get the chance to indulge into the creativeness and the inventive visual narration of the respective authors that almost never fail to move something that lies deep within us, inspire us to contemplate or let out a scream or a laugh but always keep us awake… For this reason, for this year’s 11th edition of MakeDox, unfortunately in conditions of health and financial crisis, we have selected a dozen Dutch documentaries that have woke us up and encouraged us to share them as soon as possible with others, with our dear audience which we believe that like us, in this time of tempest gets more hungry with each day for culture, true values and does not shy away from facing society, nature and ultimately itself. Why “The Sky is Not a Limit”? Very simple- Dutch documentary filmmakers don’t cover only topics from the “Nether (low- lying) land (region)”. On the contrary, this country discovers its film “gems” throughout the entire world as nomads on a quest for hidden treasure. With an exquisite documentary sensibility, in which the visual landscape contributes the audio (music, soundscapes, speech, silence) and vice versa in an incredibly functional way, these authors have created and keep on creating one of the most significant documentary film opuses for human civilization. The films that take part in our program confirm this notion. The film "They Call Me Babu" by the director Sandra Berends, through the story of Alima, an Indonesian woman who works as a nanny in a Dutch family, deals with the past, i.e. the time of colonialism in Indonesia. With the help of carefully selected archival material, the film takes us through the history of the now independent Republic of Indonesia, which after 350 years of Dutch colonialism and Japanese occupation during World War II, managed to fight for its independence. In Dutch, 'babu' literally means 'lack of a mother', as Alima herself explains the word in her own way. The director John Appel in his latest documentary "Once the Dust Settles" takes us to three geographical locations on our

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planet Earth: Amatrice, Chernobyl and Aleppo, places that have experienced severe (un) natural disasters. Today, unfortunately, it can be freely said that they are symbols and may be considered as natural warnings about how we should treat nature, natural resources, the historical and cultural heritage if we still intend to live and survive on this planet. The theme in “Punks” is increasingly present in rich and highly developed societies. Why? The director Masya Oms goes to a small French village and through a direct and honest film narrative she introduces us to a group of young boys, delinquents, who are temporarily staying on a remote rural farm in France. Working there together and facing themselves, their parents and the environment, with the help of a counselor, they hope to be able to regain their lives in their own hands. From a small village farm, we continue our Dutch documentary tour on a luxury voyage, a boat cruise with Baron Ronald Bush Reisinger of Innerin. In “The King of the Cruise”, the director Sophie Dross subtly explores the human need for constant affirmation of their greatness and recognition, even though this was given to the baron at birth. Yet Baron Ronald Bush Reisinger of Innerin, telling his extravagant life stories about his decadent vacations on the most expensive cruisers, wholeheartedly opens his soul to the average viewer so they can see the other side of the coin and the difficulties which a baron faces while living immersed in conformism and wealth.

And so, while I sat enveloped in silence, writing the text for this Country in Focus: Netherlands Program that features an abundance of colorful tulips and ‘greenery’, dark alleys with red lanterns and clogs that can be heard from afar, light engraved in a wide array of paintings from the world’s most renowned master painters, a breakdown of silence happened. A Facebook notification that says that Dutch were also great inventors who used juniper berries to prepare and therefore, invent homemade gin. So, let’s raise our glasses high and give a toast to this marvelous “Nether Land” with gigantic documentary film heritage and a great admirer of documentary film. And a toast to good health! May it return all around the world, so we can be safe and sound while watching the films of the Country in focus Program in silence, whose authors have prepared for us like a majestic gin cocktail produced and prepared by the Netherlands. Here’s to health! Here’s to us! May documentaries live long and prosper… Petrula Veljanovska

"Little Man, Time and the Troubadour" by Ineke Smith introduces us to a different atmosphere ... An atmosphere of war survivors, lost home, grief and pain of the little man in his homeland and neverending hope for better times. The film follows the fate of Abkhazianborn troubadour Sipa Labakua, who was forced to flee to Moscow with his family in the 1990s when the Soviet Union collapses and the war in Abkhazia begins. He tells his autobiographical story along the way, in his puppet show in post-war Abkhazia, and poetically raises the most bitter questions of our civilization: What is a home? "Together" by director Carmen Cobos is a personal drama in which the director, in an authentic way, recounts her painful confrontation with the time when her longtime partner and producer was diagnosed with a terminal disease. In the film, she amazes us with her courageous openness and vigorous camera surveillance of the whole process of sadness, anger and refusal to accept the situation, up to the moment when she comes to a state of reconciliation and acceptance of the disease as part of life. The film "The Last of the Mohicans" by the director Max Ploeg, which was part of the IDFA Student Program Competition, follows the life story of Tonywho,despite being stuck in debts, does not give up his desire to help the poor like her, driving her mobile grocery store all day long throughout the Dutch town of Tilburg. Following her commitment and patience to survive honestly and with much effort, in this time of dominant cruel capitalism, you cannot remain indifferent and resist a dose of optimism that justice will be served for the little man. Country in focus

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King of the Cruise King of the Cruise

Director: Sophie Dros

Photography: Boas van Milligen Bielke Editing: Erik ten Brinke Sound: Job Wouter Michel Music: Thomas Goralski Production: Olivia Sophie van Leeuwen, Gijs Kerbosch, Roel Oude Nijhuis, Gijs Determeijer, HALAL Docs

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The wealthy Baron Ronald Busch Reisinger is a striking and popular guest on a luxury cruise ship. He tells the most fantastic stories about his life to his fellow passengers, who hang on his every word, but sometimes have no idea what to make of this portly figureâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;or so it seems. Ronnie is apparently not only a Scottish baron, but also the king of a piece of land in Africa. Behind the facade of cruise luxury and decadence, however, there is a great deal of emptiness and loneliness.

Selected Filmography: Genderblend (2017) My Silicone Love (2015) Rubber Romance (2014)

Festivals and Awards: BiograFilm Festival, Italy (2019), Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival, Greece (2019)

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Little Man, Time and the Troubadour Den kleine man, tijd en de troubadour

Director: Ineke Smits

Script: Ineke Smits Photography: Piotr Rosolowski Editing: Katarina TĂźrler Sound: Senjan Jansen Music: Walter Hus Production: Ineke Kanters, Jan van der Zanden

The troubadour Sipa Labakhua travels to the land of his birth, Abkhazia, with his puppet theatre. The autobiographical, at times almost surrealist play he performs is based on the fate of his father, his hero. He was an idealistic politician who was forced by the war with Georgia to flee with his family to Moscow, where he couldn't find his niche. Now, his son has returned home. He shares his concerns with his audiences and meets local inhabitants. Driven by the questions "What makes a country? What is home?", he collects memories and reflections of a colourful community that includes nationalist Abkhazians, immigrants and artists.

Selected Filmography: Stand by Your President (2014) Transit Dubai (2008) Black Gold Under Notecka Forest (2005) Putin's Mama (2003)

Festivals and Awards: Minsk IFF Listapad, Belarus, Rotterdam IFF, Netherlands (2020), DOK Leipzig, Germany (2019),

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Once The Dust Settles Once The dust settles

Director: John Appel

Script: John Appel Photography: Erik Van Empel Editing: Mario Steenbergen Sound: Mark Wessner, Mike van der Sluijs Production: Carmen Cobos Kees Rijninks, Cobos Films BV

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Amatrice (central Italy), Chernobyl and Aleppo: three places where the residents felt safe until disaster or war brought death and destruction. Stories of people who survived the disaster or war and are now trying to rebuild their lives. A woman in Aleppo who was a tour guide before the war, a man who used to work at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant...The time before disaster struck is gradually fading into oblivion.

Selected Filmography: Đ˘he Voice of Holland/ Sprekend Nederland (2018) Wrong Time Wrong Place (2012) The Player (2009) There Goes My Heart (2005) The Last Victory (2004) Andre Hazes, She Believes in Me/ Andre Hazes, Zij Gelooft In Mij (1999)

Festivals and Awards: IDFA, Netherlands (2019)

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Punks Rotjochies

Director: Maasja Ooms

Photography: Maasja Ooms Editing: Sander Vos Sound: Maasja Ooms Production: Willemijn Cerutti/ Cerutti Film

The parents are at their wits’ end, so a temporary supervision order is the last hope for a group of teenagers. On a remote farm in France, they’re going to have to get their lives back on track, with the help of a counselor. If they want any chance of a happy life, they need to engage in some frank and painful conversations. The teenagers try to tame their demons with music and therapy, but problems from the past keep resurfacing.

Selected Filmography: Ubiquity (2018) Troubled Children (2013) The New Saint (2010) Dinner With Murakami (2007) The Hermitage Dwellers (2006) The Lady With the White Hat (1997)

Festivals and Awards: Best Editing and Best Cinematography, IDFA, Netherlands (2019), Docudays UA International Documentary Human Rights Film Festival, Ukraine (2019)

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They Call Me Babu Ze Noemen Me Baboe

Director: Sandra Beerends

Script: Sandra Beerends Editing: Ruben van der Hammen Sound: Mark Glynne, Tom Bijnen Music: Alex Simu Production: Pieter van Huystee, Pieter van Huystee Film

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Alima worked for a Dutch family as their babu (nanny) in the former Dutch East Indies. Upon her return from a short stay in the Netherlands, she lived through Japanese occupation and the battle for Indonesia’s independence. Throughout these years, Alima remained dedicated to the child, but at the same time remained loyal to her lover Riboet, an independence fighter. A universal story about women empowerment seen through Alima’s development as an independent woman and the unique images from various archives in the Netherlands and Japan.

Festivals and Awards: Best Documentary Award – DOK.fest München, Germany (2020), IDFA, Netherlands (2019), Thessaloniki International Film Festival, Greece (2019)

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Together Samen

Director: Carmen Cobos

Script: Carmen Cobos, Kees Rijninks Photography: John Appel Editing: Mario Steenbergen, John Appel Sound: Mark Wessner, Mike van der Sluijs Production: Cobos Films B.V. Co-production: Rob J Maas

When producer Kees Rijninks, the husband of filmmaker Carmen Cobos, is diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, their world is falling apart. Yet after months of sadness, anger and denial, it appears that they have sufficient resilience to find a new balance in their lives. They follow a group of terminally ill patients, their partners and their neurologist to find an answer to the question how people deal with the notion that they are incurably ill.

Selected Filmography: Cat Stories (2019) The Hut Syndicate/ Het Hut Syndicaat (2018) The Perfect Circle (2014) Forever (2006) Fragile Happiness (2001) Black Tears (1997)

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Onion Award Jury — for the Best Film in the Main Program

Orwa Nyrabia is the Artistic Director of the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam. He was born in Syria where he worked as an actor and as a journalist, before starting up the first independent documentary-specialized production company in the country, in 2002, together with his partner Diana el Jeiroudi. Later on in 2008, Nyrabia and El Jeiroudi co-founded the independent documentary film festival DOX BOX, which quickly became the Arab region’s leading documentary festival. Nyrabia moved to Egypt in 2012, then to Germany in 2013, where he continued producing award-winning international co-productions such as Dolls, A Woman from Damascus (IDFA 2007), Return to Homs (IDFA 2013 and Sundance 2014) and Silvered Water (Cannes 2014). Nyrabia tutored many upcoming filmmakers from around the world and served as juror for some of the world’s most influential film funds and festivals. His films as producer earned him a long list of awards including a Sundance Grand Jury award and a Grierson Award which go to innovative and exciting documentary films.

Larry Sider is a film editor and sound designer who has worked extensively in documentary, animation and fiction. He is currently Head of the MA Sound Recording, Post-Production and Design at Goldsmiths (University of London) and lectures in the UK and abroad. He founded and co-edited The New Soundtrack journal and was Head of Post-Production at the National Film and Television School (Beaconsfield, UK) from 2002 to 2006. Since 1998, Larry has promoted the profile of sound in screen production as Director of the School of Sound International Symposium, a four-day event exploring the use of sound across all the arts and media.

Nenad Puhovski is a film director and producer as well as the director of “ZagrebDox”, the biggest documentary film festival in the Balkan region, which he founded in 2005. He completed his studies of philosophy and dramatic arts in Zagreb before he had started to work as a director in theatre, film and TV. Puhovski is the director of over 250 productions while he is also the founder of “Factum”, the most widely- acclaimed Croatian independent documentary production and the producer of 70 documentary films that have been both awarded and harshly rebuked multiple times. He works as a full professor in documentary directing at the Academy for Drama Arts in Zagreb and he runs the only MA program for documentary film is Southeastern Europe. His contribution to the development of contemporary Croatian documentary film has resulted in receiving a number of awards such as the annual EDN award by the European Documentary Network and the Medal by the City of Zagreb. He is a member of the European Film Academy. Country in focus

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Young Onion Award Jury — for the Best Film by First or Second-Time Director

Amir George is a filmmaker and curator as well as a programmer at True/False Film Fest, based in Columbia, Missouri. As an artist, George creates spiritual stories, juxtaposing sound and image into an experience of non-linear perception.

Samir Ljuma is an acclaimed cinematographer and producer from Macedonia. He has worked as DOP on several documentary films and collaborated with various macedonian and foreign film directors.

George’s films have been screened at institutions and film festivals such as the Institute of Contemporary Arts - London, Anthology Film Archives, Glasgow School of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Trinidad and Tobago International Film Festival, among others.

The last 5 years he has been working closely with the Oscar-nominated directors Ljubomir Stefanov and Tamara Kotevska, particularly on projects related to nature conservation and environmental issues in North Macedonia, such as “Lake of Apples” and "Honeyland". He is also the DOP as well as the producer of the short film “Mishko” directed by Hanis Bagashov. Samir is the winner of many awards, the American Society of Cinematographers Award for Best Documentary Cinematography being only one of them.

Beatrice Wangondu is a creative producer, screenwriter and documentary director from Kenya. The visual world has always fascinated her. Her passion has grown over the years through education, media exposure and hands on experience to join the best in her generation. She was shortlisted in the top 20 Kenyan screenwriters at Kenya’s first ever Script writing competition. Among her independent works is also her short film ‘The Whistle Blower’ which won Best Short Film, Best Cinematography and Best Editing awards at The Kalasha Awards Kenya 2019. She is currently in development for a feature film and a television series.

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Sliced Onion Award Jury — for the Best Short Film

Jarmila Outratová has been Head of Industry Office at Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival since 2013. The Ji.hlava’s Industry Programme includes Emerging Producers – focusing on the upcoming generation of talented European documentary film producers, Ji.hlava Academy – an educational and inspiring workshop, Festival Identity – a platform for sharing experiences among festival organizers and programmers from around the world, as well as other industry events.

Tamta Gabrichidze was born in Tbilisi, Georgia. She holds a bachelor's degree in film directing from Film and Theatre University of Georgia. Later she continued her studies as PR at Georgian Institute of Public Affairs. She has directed several short and documentary films. After serving in different positions in films and TV shows for more than ten years, she is now working as a freelance director/producer and collaborates with different companies. She is the director of a Sundance Award winning film “The Trader” (Sovdagari in Georgian) which is the first Georgian film distributed by Netflix worldwide.

Toni Bell is part of the International Documentary Association where she is responsible for handling the day-to-day operations of the fiscal sponsorship program. She curates the IDA’s DocuClub work-inprogress screening series of which many of the films have premiered at film festivals such as Sundance, Tribeca, and CPH:Dox. Her foray into documentary film began when she started writing and editing the newsletter for the Black Association of Documentary Filmmakers – West. This led to her first gig as production assistant and then an archival researcher for the film, Bridging the Divide: Tom Bradley and the Politics of Race, which aired nationally on PBS. Since then she has done archival research for several documentaries and television shows. She holds an M.A. in Visual Anthropology from USC, M.F.A in Creative Writing from Naropa University, and a certificate in professional screenwriting from UCLA. Country in focus

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Onion Seed Award Jury — for the Best Student Film

Srđan Keča's films ‘A Letter To Dad’, ‘Mirage’ and ‘Escape’ screened at leading documentary film festivals, including IDFA, DOK Leipzig, Jihlava IDFF and Full Frame, while his video installations have been exhibited at venues like the Venice Biennale of Architecture and the Whitechapel Gallery. The found-footage film ‘Flotel Europa’, produced and edited by Keča, premiered at the 2015 Berlin Film Festival, winning the Tagesspiegel Jury Prize. His upcoming feature documentary ‘Museum of the Revolution’ (in postproduction) centers around a community living inside the remnants of one of the most ambitious, and never completed, architectural projects of socialist Yugoslavia. The project was pitched at IDFA Forum, and took the top award at East Doc Forum in 2019. Keča is a graduate of the Ateliers Varan and the UK National Film and Television School (NFTS). Since 2015 he has worked as Assistant Professor in the Department of Art & Art History at Stanford University, teaching in the MFA Documentary Film Program.

Manuel Inacker is a German-Croatian director based in Berlin. Graduating in politics, sociology and philosophy at the University of Erfurt and at Bosphorus University in Istanbul, he has lived in various countries including Mexico, Australia and Turkey. He has been studying feature and documentary film directing at Film University Babelsberg. At the moment, he is pursuing a M.A. in narrative filmmaking at Berlin University of the Arts. Manuel's films have been screened at numerous festivals such as Berlin International Film Festival, IDFA Amsterdam and San Diego Film Festival and have won several awards. His most recent documentary ‘La Bestia – Train of the Unknowns’ has gained more than ten awards, including the Best Student Short Film Award at last year’s MakeDox. At the moment, Manuel is developing his debut feature length documentary based on a fragile Croatian river valley facing climate collapse.

Margot Mecca is a programmer, researcher and freelance producer. She works at Festival dei Popoli – International Documentary Film Festival (Florence, Italy) since 2011; she is part of the selection committee and she is in charge of Doc at Work – Future Campus, a training and professional event dedicated to emerging documentary filmmakers. She is a freelance producer and Eurodoc alumna, working mainly in the creative development and the production of documentary and fiction films. Her first film as a producer, Mother Lode by Matteo Tortone, is currently in postproduction. She’s a post-doctoral researcher in Visual Anthropology at Pompeu Fabra University.

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Moral Approach Award Jury — for the Film with Best Moral Approach

Zaneta Trajkoska graduated in journalism from the Interdisciplinary Studies in Journalism at the University “St. Cyril and Methodius ”-Skopje, in 1996. She completed her master’s degree at Lumsa University in Rome, Italy, in 2004 and her PhD at the political studies department at the Faculty of Law in Skopje. She has been working as a journalist since 1993 and since 1998 he has been working as a public relations officer for the US Agency for International Development (USAID). In the period from 1999 to 2001 she was the Executive Director of the Macedonian Press Center where he is one of the founders, and from 2001 she has been working on the establishment of the Macedonian Institute of Media Foundation, where she was the Executive Director until 2008. Trajkoska was the director of the School of Journalism and Public Relations from 2008 to 2016 and now holds the same position at the Institute of Communication Studies in Skopje since 2017.

Yuko Kaseki is a director of the dance company Cokaseki, choreographer, Butoh dancer, improviser, and teacher, since 1995 based in Berlin. She has created international projects with musicians such as Kazuhisa Uchihashi, Antonis Anissegos, Emilio Gordoa, Audrey Chen, Axel Dörner, visual artist such as Nikhil Chopra, Arata Mori, Morvarid K, Chiharu Shiota, and dancer such as Shinichi Iova Koga, Minako Seki, Christine Bonansea, Sherwood Chen and more. These creations are an accumulation of poetic and vivid images that incorporate the spirit of Butoh, performance and live art. She has been teaching as well as performing in more than 30 countries, with the aim to reflect the outsider’s existence.

Luca Ciut was born and grew up in Trieste, Italy. After receiving his BA in composition he specialized in music for movies, theater and dance, and in 2011 he moved to Los Angeles to attend the Film Scoring Program at UCLA Extension. During that time he got selected for the SCL Mentorship Program and he composed and produced his debut album Seventeen Million Lonely Angels. The project was well received and got awarded as Best of Show at the Global Music Awards.As a film composer he worked with Emmy winner concept designer and director Daniel Auber, with Emmy winner director Rudy Poe and with Golden Globe winner Davide Del Degan. He also worked with directors Ivan Gergolet, Stéphane Dumonceau, Chiara Sambuchi and Sonejuhi Sinha. He scored for theater plays as well, and in 2005 he composed his first ballet Q – La vertigine della fantasia, choreographed by Corrado Canulli. Lately he composed the music for Dancing with Maria, a feature documentary directed by Ivan Gergolet. The film premiered and was awarded at the Venice Film Festival. Country in focus

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Czech Republic, Slovakia/ 2020/ 100’

Caught in the Net V síti

Directors: Vít Klusák, Barbora Chalupová

Script: Vít Klusák, Barbora Chalupová Photography: Adam Krulis Editing: Janka Vlčková Sound: Adam Bláha Music: Pjoni Production: Filip Remunda, Vít Klusák Co-production: Peter Kerekes

The film opens the hitherto taboo topic of online child abuse. Statistics show that the problem is becoming bigger with each passing day. Unfortunately, awareness remains very low. The main narrative line of the film follows a radical psychosocial experiment, through which we show what the children aged 10-14 years face in the virtual space. The experiment comes out of reality and several months of research.

Selected Filmography: Vít Klusák The White World According to Daliborek/ Svet podle Daliborka (2017) Czech Journal/ Český žurnál (2015) Good Driver Smetana/ Dobrý řidič Smetana(2013) All for the Good of the World and Nosovice!/ Vše pro dobro světa a Nošovic (2010) Barbora Chalupová Czech Journal: Real(e)state/ Český žurnál (2019) Theory of Equality/ Teorie rovnosti(2017) Arms Ready/ Do zbraně! (2016) Thank You, Melon/ Ďakujem ti, melónik (2014)

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Festivals and Awards: One World Prague, Czech Republic (2020), CPH:DOX, Denmark (2020)

Romania, Luxembourg/ 2019/ 109’

Collective Colectiv

Director: Alexander Nanau

Script: Alexander Nanau, Antoaneta Opris Photography: Alexander Nanau Editing: Alexander Nanau, George Cragg, Dana Bunescu Sound: Michel Schillings, Mihai Grecea, Angelo Dos Santos Music: Kyan Bayani Production: Alexander Nanau, Bianca Oana Co-production: Hanka Kastelicova, Bernard Michaux

In 2015, a fire at Bucharest’s Colectiv club left 27 dead and 180 injured. Soon, more burn victims begin dying in hospitals from wounds that were not life-threatening. Then a doctor blows the whistle to a team of investigative journalists. One revelation leads to another as the journalists start to uncover vast health care fraud. When a new health minister is appointed, he offers unprecedented access to his efforts to reform the corrupt system but also to the obstacles he faces. Following journalists, whistle-blowers, burn victims, and government officials, Collective is an uncompromising look at the impact of investigative journalism at its best.

Selected Filmography: Toto and His Sisters / Toto si surorile lui (2014) The World According to Ion B. / Lumea văzută de Ion B. (2009) Peter Zadek inszeniert Peer Gynt (2006)

Festivals and Awards: Don Quixote Award - Tromsø International Film Festival, Norway (2020), GoldenEye Best International Documentary Film Zürich Film Festival, Switzerland (2019); Special Jury Award - La Roche-sur-Yon International Film Festival, France (2019); Venice International Film Festival, Italy (2019); Toronto International Film Festival, Canada (2019); IDFA, Netherlands (2019); Verzio International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival, Hungary (2019)

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Austria, France/ 2020/ 108’

Epicentro Epicentro

Director: Hubert Sauper

Script: Hubert Sauper Photography: Hubert Sauper Editing: Hubert Sauper Production: Paolo Calamita, Gabriele Kranzelbinder, Daniel Marquet, Martin Marquet, Barbara Pichler

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Cuba is well known as a so-called time capsule. The very place where the New World was discovered has become both a romantic and a warning window into American and world history. Both the beauty and the decadence of the 50s have been preserved through economic embargoes and isolation. The island allows us a glimpse – bleak or optimistic – into the planet’s future: in the case of global energy scarcity, cultural or financial crisis, large parts of the world could face a similar kind of existence.Through encounters with (extra) ordinary people, the director takes us on a new journey, entering the thoughts and dreams of Cuban society in an era of transition and change, placing his characters at the center of a far bigger, planetary narrative.

Selected Filmography: We Come As Friends (2014) Darwin’s Nightmare (2004) Kisangani Diary (1998

Festivals and Awards: World Cinema Grand Jury Prize Documentary - Sundance IFF, USA (2020)

Romania/ 2020/ 85’

Holy Father Tatal nostru

Director: Andrei Dascalescu

Script: Roberto Blatt, Andrei Dascalescu Photography: Andrei Dascalescu Editing: Ștefan Pârlog, Andrei Dăscălescu Production: Anda Ionescu

The filmmaker and his girlfriend face the news of becoming parents. While the future mother is struggling with no worthy models in her own broken home, the soon-to-be-father must come to terms with his own, long-lost father, now a monk on Mount Athos. The visits to Athos become a way to discover the unsolved mystery of his father’s departure - a key, he feels, to learning how to become the father he never had. As the nine months go by, the quest for answers and reconciliation, full of anxiety and anger, seem to be making way for something much more meaningful: the arrival of a beautiful baby girl.

Selected Filmography: Planet Petrila/ Planeta Petrila (2016) Constantin and Elena/ Constantin si Elena (2008)

Festivals and Awards: IDFA, Netherlands (2019)

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United Kingdom, United States/ 2019/ 99’

Max Richter’s Sleep Max Richter’s Sleep

Director: Natalie Johns

Script: Natalie Johns Photography:Elisha Christian Editing: Dom Whitworth Music: Max Richter Production: Julie Jakobek/ JA Films, Yulia Mahr, Stefan Demetriou for Globe Productions, Oualid Mouaness

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Max Richter’s landmark 8.5 hour work “Sleep” explores new ways for music and consciousness to interact, a “personal lullaby for a frenetic world…a manifesto for a slower pace of existence.”Centring around the open-air concert in Los Angeles, as well as footage from the sold-out performances in Berlin, New York and Paris, we are plunged deep into the artist’s life and process, transcending the work to explore his legacy. Personal reflections from Max Richter, and visual archive from his longterm creative partner Yulia Mahr help build this intimate and groundbreaking visual story which studies the universal experience of sleep that unites us all. This story is a rare expression of a global community, unified - both a meditative respite from and a protest against the rush and chaos of the modern world.

Selected Filmography: I Am Thalente (2015) Essie Jain, All Became Golden (2012) Electric Burma (2012)

Festivals and Awards: Sundance IFF, USA (2020), CPH:DOX, Denmark (2020), IDFA, Netherlands (2019)

Sweden, Serbia, France, Germany, Belgium, Qatar/ 2020/ 94’

Merry Christmas, Yiwu Merry Christmas, Yiwu

Director: Mladen Kovačević

Script: Mladen Kovačević Photography: Marko Milovanović Editing: Jelena Maksimović Sound:Patrik Strömdahl Music: Olof Dreijer Production: Iva Plemic Divjak, Mario Adamson, Ruth Reid, Jasmina Sijercic, Heino Deckert, Thierry Detaille Co-production: Horopter Film Production, Sisyfos Film Production, Bocalupo Films, ma.ja.de Filmproduktions, Visible Film

Even though China does not celebrate Christmas, there are over 600 Christmas decoration factories in Yiwu, China open all year round. There are no high-tech machines, just people from all across the country working really hard putting glitter on baubles, pom poms on Christmas hats and assembling Father Christmases. With rising wages, the workers in Christmas factories can now afford the newest iPhones, but they still live in crowded dormitories, work long factory hours and breathe in chemical fumes and glitter particles. The film portrays a place where communism and globalism intersect and transform one another. .

Selected Filmography: 4 Years in 10 Minutes/ 4 godine u 10 minuta (2018) Wall of Death, and All That/ Zid smrti, i tako to (2016) Unplugged/ Anplagd (2013) Dumbfounded Hog/ Prenerazila se zimina (2010)

Festivals and Awards: Rotterdam International Film Festival, Netherlands (2020), Göteborg International Film Festival, Sweden (2020), Tempo International Documentary Festival, Sweden (2020), HotDocs, Canada (2020)

Main Program

Netherlands/ 2019/ 85â&#x20AC;&#x2122;

Once the Dust Settles Once The Dust Settles

Director: John Appel

Script: John Appel Photography: Erik Van Empel Editing: Mario Steenbergen Sound: Mark Wessner, Mike van der Sluijs Production: Carmen Cobos Kees Rijninks, Cobos Films BV

Main Program

Festivals and Awards: IDFA, Netherlands (2019)

Sweden, Norway/ 2020/ 95’

Only the Devil Lives without Hope Only the Devil Lives Without Hope

Director: Magnus Gertten

Script: Magnus Gertten Photography: Caroline Troedsson Editing: Jesper Osmund Sound: Audun Kvitland Røstad, Jørgen Meyer Music: Ola Kvernberg Production: Ove Rishøj Jensen Co-production: Torstein Parelius, Christian Aune Falch

Dilya became a human rights activist the day her brother was thrown in prison, falsely accused on suspicion of his involvement in a 1999 bomb explosion in the Uzbek capital of Tashkent. Her pursuit for justice will have her challenge the dictatorship in Uzbekistan and even escape her home country only to realize that the regime extends far beyond the country’s borders and that it is closer than she could ever imagine.

Selected Filmography: Becoming Zlatan (2015) Every Face Has a Name (2015)

Festivals and Awards: CPH:DOX, Denmark (2020), Hot Docs, Canada (2020)

Main Program

China, United States/ 2019/ 81â&#x20AC;&#x2122;

Our Time Machine Our Time Machine

Director: Yang Sun, S. Leo Chiang

Script: S. Leo Chiang, Bob Lee Photography: Shuang Liang, Yang Sun Editing: Bob Lee Music: Paul Brill Production: S. Leo Chiang / Walking Iris Media, Betsy Tsai Co-production: Violet Du Feng, Qingzeng Cai, Sharky Wang

Main Competition

When influential Chinese artist Maleonn learns that his father, famed Peking Opera director Ma Ke, has been diagnosed with Alzheimerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, he knows time is short. Their life together and the memories between them will soon be gone. In a last effort to bridge the gap, the two embark upon one of their greatest journeys: they collaborate on a haunting, magical, autobiographical stage performance.

Selected Filmography: S. Leo Chiang Out Run (2016) Mr. Cao Goes to Washington (2012) A Village Called Versaille (2009) To You Sweetheart, Aloha (2004)

Festivals and Awards: Grand Prix for Best Documentary - Minsk International Film Festival Listapad, Belarus (2019), Best International Director - HotDocs, Canada (2019), Best Documentary Feature Film - Melbourne Film Festival, Australia (2019), Best Cinematography Award - Tribeca Film Festival, USA (2019)

France, Germany, Switzerland/ 2019/ 95’

Sing Me a Song Sing Me a Song

Director: Thomas Balmès

Photography: Thomas Balmès Editing: Alex Cardon, Ronan Sinquin Sound: Marianne Russi, Itesh Chaurasia, Rajender Prasad, Sukanta Majumdar Music: Nicolas Rabaeus Production: Thomas Balmès Co-production: Zero One Film GmbH, Close Up Films

Young Peyangki lives and studies in a picturesque monastery deep in the mountains of Bhutan. A few years have passed since the king allowed TV and internet into the country, and now the structured daily rituals of candle lighting and recitation of prayers compete with the powerful lure of smart phones. Privately, Peyangki is passionate about love songs and falls in love on WeChat with a young singer from the city of Thimphu. Disinterested in study and often reprimanded by his masters, he sells medicinal mushrooms to make enough money to leave the monastery in search of “the one he dreams of night and day”. Will he succumb to romance and the temptations of the city or return to his pious life in the monastery?

Selected Filmography: Happiness (2014) Babies / Bébé(s) (2010) A Decent Factory (2004) Christ Comes to the Papuans (2001) Waiting for Jesus (2000) The Gospel According to the Papuans (2000)

Festivals and Awards: Toronto International Film Festival, Canada (2019) DOC NYC, USA (2019), CPH:DOX, Denmark (2020)

Main Competition

Newcomers

Georgia, Germany/ 2019/ 92’

A Tunnel A Tunnel

Directors: Nino Orjonikidze, Vano Arsenishvili

Photography: Vano Arsenishvili Editing: Vano Arsenishvili, Nino Orjonikidze Sound: Ana Davitashvili Music: K. S. Elias Production: Nino Orjonikidze (Artefact Production) Co-production: Ventana Film

Newcomers

People are hard at work extending the railroad in a remote Georgian mountain village. When they’re done, the new Silk Road Express will run through here. But before this high-speed connection between China and Europe can go anywhere, a tunnel has to be dug—a tunnel that goes right through a mountain where villagers have their fields and pastures. There are promises of prosperity and progress, but in the dreamy atmosphere of the fairy-tale village, the coming of the express train feels more like a nightmare as no one knows if the houses will have to be knocked down or not. Language and communication problems between the Georgian and Chinese workers lead to fierce arguments, and ultimately a tense strike. The gorgeous, disengaged shots perfectly reflect the surrealist atmosphere of a changing world order.

Selected Filmography: Vano Arsenishvili English Teacher (2012) Altzaney (2009) Nino Orjonikidze English Teacher (2012) Altzaney (2009) The Bridge (2005) Asylanten (2004)

Festivals and Awards: DOK.fest Munich, Germany (2020), IDFA Competition for First Appearance, IDFA, Netherlands (2019)

Romania, Germany, Finland/ 2019/ 86’

Acasă, My Home Acasă, My Home

Director: Radu Ciorniciuc

Script: Lina Vdovii Photography: Radu Ciorniciuc, Mircea Topoleanu Editing: Andrei Gorgan Sound: Volker Armbruster, Alex Campan, Lukas Moudry, Andreas Muhlschlegel, Luis Schoffend, Tom Weber Music: Gaute, Codrin Lazar, Yari Production: Radu Ciorniciuc, Anghel Damian, Alina David, Hanka Kastelicova, Elvira Lupsa, Erkko Lyytinen, Monica Lazurean-Gorgan Co-production: Ari Matikainen, Martin Roelly, Umit Uludag, Erik Winker

For two decades, the Enache family - nine kids and their parents - lived in a shack in the wilderness of Bucharest Delta: an abandoned water reservoir, one of the biggest urban natural reservations in the world, with lakes and hundreds of species of animals and rare plants. When the authorities decide to claim back this rare urban ecosystem, the Enache family is evicted and told to resettle in the city - a reality they know nothing about. Kids that used to spend their days in nature have to learn about city life, go to school instead of swimming in the lake, and swap their fishing rods for mobile phones. A heartbreaking and thoughtful study of gentrification, seen through the eyes of a family trying to adapt to the new life they never asked for.

Festivals and Awards: Special Jury Award for Cinematography – Sundance IFF, USA (2020), Golden Horn Award for Best Feature-Length Documentary, Krakow Film Festival, Poland (2020), Viktor Award - DOK.international, DOK.fest München, Germany (2020), Special Jury Award in International Competition Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival, Greece (2020)

Newcomers

Danmark/ 2019/ 59’

It Takes a family De skygger vi arver

Director: Susanne Kovács

Script: Susanne Kovács Photography: Casper Høyberg, Susanne Kovács Editing: Marion Tuor Music: Povl Kristian Production: Ulrik Gutkin

Newcomers

Susanne Kovács knows that her paternal grandparents survived the Holocaust and fled to Denmark to begin a new life. That’s all she knows. The Hungarian couple kept their own story under lock and key throughout their lives and focused on immersing themselves into Danish everyday life as quickly as possible. All perfect, seen from outside. But the unsaid did not fade - it grew and finally began to darken the present. When, as a young woman, she decides to ask questions, she meets only rejection. May she dig up times against her grandmother’s will that are haunted by so many ghosts? Isn’t it better to remain silent after all this time? Who is allowed to speak and with whom? Which version of the truth is right? A courageous investigation of her own family story that makes it clear that at some point it’s no longer about guilt, but about forgiveness.

Festivals and Awards: DOK.fest München, Germany (2020), ZagrebDox, Croatia (2020), DOK Leipzig, Germany (2019)

Switzerland, Italy/ 2020/ 75’

My Body Il Mio Corpo

Director: Michele Pennetta

Script: Michele Pennetta, Christian Tarabini, Arthur Brugger Photography: Paolo Ferrari Editing: Orsola Valenti, Damian Plandolit Sound: Edgar Iacolenna Music: Nathalie Rebholz Production: Joëlle Bertossa, Flavia Zanon, Giovanni Pompili

Oscar dreams of escaping the grip of his father whom he helps collect scrap metal in unauthorised dumps in Sicily. Stanley, a Nigerian refugee, is authorized to stay for six months and works, thanks to a priest, as a farmhand to survive. In this intense film, Michele Pennetta offers these two beings, seemingly separated by everything, the possibility of a meeting that will reveal their condition, equivalent to that of prisoners on an island, being thrown to the world and suffering the choices made by others.

Selected Filmography: Fishing Bodies/ Pescatori di corpi (2016)

Festivals and Awards: International Film Festival Nyon - Visions du Réel, Switzerland (2020), Cannes International Film Festival - ACID Programme, France (2020)

Newcomers

Austria, Germany/ 2019/ 91’

Space Dogs Space Dogs

Directors: Elsa Kremser, Levin Peter

Script: Elsa Kremser, Levin Peter Photography: Yunus Roy Imer Editing: Jan Soldat, Stephan Bechinger Sound: Simon Peter, Jonathan Schorr Music: Paradox Paradise Production: Elsa Kremser, Levin Peter Co-production: Annekatrin Hendel

Newcomers

Laika, a stray dog, was the first living being to be sent into space and thus to a certain death. According to a legend, she returned to Earth as a ghost and has roamed the streets of Moscow ever since. Following her trace, and filmed from a dog’s perspective, the camera accompanies the adventures of her descendants: two street dogs living in today’s Moscow. Their story is one of intimate fellowship but also relentless brutality, and is interwoven with unseen archive material from the Soviet cosmic era. A magical tale of voyagers scouting for unknown spaces.

Selected Filmography: Beyond the Snowstorm (2016) A Promise (2012)

Festivals and Awards: Best Cinematography Award - Diagonale, Austria (2020), Locarno Film Festival, Switzerland (2019), Vienna Film Award for Best Austrian Film and Erste Bank’s ExtraVALUE Film Award Viennale, Austria (2019), Sevilla IFF, Spain (2019), Special Jury Award - Fidocs, Chile (2019)

Serbia/ 2019/ 73’

Speak So I Can See You Govori da bih te video

Режиja: Marija Stojnić

Script: Marija Stojnić Photography: Dušan Grubin Editing: Kristina Pozenel, Ivan Vasić Sound: Ivan Zelić Production: Marija Stojnić, Milos Ivanovic Co-production: Set Sail Films and Restart

Conjuring reality and wonder, this film takes us to a seemingly different era, by exploring the world of Radio Belgrade. One of Europe’s oldest radio stations and a true institution of the city, the station still broadcasts original programming and helps keep history, culture and critical thought, as well as ever-relevant questions about ourselves and the world, from slipping out of memory and mind. Set at the intersection of an observational documentary and a unique sensory experience, the film documents the everyday scenes at the station - this unique cinematique landscape made of sounds, words, notes and echoes doubles as a love letter to radiophonic art and its disarming insight into what makes us remember, understand, think, discover, and feel.

Festivals and Awards: Underhill Fest, Montenegro (2020), MoMA’s Doc Fortnight, USA (2020), Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, Greece (2020), Dok.fest München, Germany (2020), IDFA, Netherlands (2019)

Newcomers

Netherlands/ 2019/ 78’

They Call Me Babu Ze Noemen Me Baboe

Director: Sandra Beerends

Script: Sandra Beerends Editing: Ruben van der Hammen Sound: Mark Glynne, Tom Bijnen Music: Alex Simu Production: Pieter van Huystee, Pieter van Huystee Film

Newcomers

Festivals and Awards: Best Documentary Award – DOK.fest München, Germany (2020), IDFA, Netherlands (2019), Thessaloniki International Film Festival, Greece (2019)

Ukraine, Lithuania/ 2020/ 74’

The Earth is Blue as an Orange Земля блакитна, ніби апельсин

Director: Iryna Tsilyk

Script: Iryna Tsilyk Photography: Tsvetkov Vyacheslav Editing: Ivan Bannikov, Danielius Kokanauskis, Iryna Tsilyk Sound: Jonas Maksvytis Production: Anna Kapustina Co-production: Giedre Žickyte

Single mother Anna and her four children live in the front-line war zone of Donbas, Ukraine. While the outside world is made up of bombings and chaos, the family is managing to keep their home a safe haven, full of life and full of light. Every member of the family has a passion for cinema, motivating them to shoot a film inspired by their own life during a time of war. How to picture war through fiction? For Anna and the children, transforming trauma into a work of art is the ultimate way to stay human.

Festivals and Awards: Main Prize in DOCU/WORLD Competition Docudays UA IHRFF, Ukraine (2020), Directing Award: World Cinema Documentary Sundance, USA (2020), MoMA Doc Fortnight (2020), Berlin International Film Festival, Germany (2020)

Newcomers

Hungary/ 2019/ 83’

The Euphoria of Being A létezés eufóriája

Director: Réka Szabó

Script: Réka Szabó Photography: Claudia Kovács Editing: Sylvie Gadmer, Péter Sass Sound: Simon Koch, Dániel Bőhm, Gergely Hollósi, Levente Udud, Bálint Zándoki Music: Balázs Barna Production: Sara László, Marcell Gero, Réka Szabó Co-production: 4CUT Digital Workshop Ltd., Pom’Zed

Newcomers

Éva Fahidi was 20 when she left Auschwitz Birkenau and returned, orphaned, to Hungary. Now 90, this radiant woman bears the imprint of her past with strength and courage. Filmed with great compassion by Réka Szabó, this documentary recounts the creation of a dance-theatre duet between Éva Fahidi and internationally renowned dancer Emese Cuhorka. In a powerful performance, the intertwining of their bodies evokes the remarkable journey of a woman and the tragedy she carries with her. A moving artistic encounter of intense beauty.

Festivals and Awards: Best Documentary Film - Trieste Film Festival, Italy (2020), Grand Prize of the Critics’ Week - Locarno International Film Festival, Switzerland (2019), Human Rights Award - Sarajevo Film Festival, Bosnia and Herzegovina (2019), Audience Award for Best Documentary Film Minsk International Film Festival “Listapad”, Belarus (2019)

North Macedonia/ 2020/ 75’

The Professor Професорот

Director: Jordan Dukov

Script: Jordan Dukov Photography: Dorian Milovanovik, Kristijan Karadjovski Editing: Dorian Milovanovik Sound: Slobodan Trajkovski Music: Ilija Djadjev Production: Kadar, Mashina produkcija

A research into the unusual life path of Ilija Dzadzev – musician, Hawaiian and classical guitar virtuoso, poet, philosopher and geography teacher who has played over 6,000 free concerts across the world. He played for presidents, beggars, miners, kindergarten children, students in cafeterias, field workers, replacing concert halls with maternity wards, graveyards, nursing homes, mine shafts, passenger and military ships, watchtowers, prisons, psychiatric hospitals, as well as squares in the major cities of the world, traveling more than 4 million kilometers with his guitar.

Selected Filmography: Blueberry Hill/ Планински кавијар (2016)

Newcomers

Short Dox

Poland, Belgium/ 2020/ 10’

Couple In A Room Smoking Cigarettes

A couple in a room smoking cigarettes.

Director: Katarzyna Gondek Script: Katarzyna Gondek Photography: Jaroslaw Piekarski Editing: Henrique Cartaxo Music: Katarzyna Szczerba, Ivan Zelic Production: Katarzyna Gondek

Couple In a Room Smoking Cigarettes

Selected Filmography: The Figure (2015) The Supreme (2014) Festivals and awards: Black Sea Film Festival, Romania (2020), Uppsala Short Film Festival, Sweden (2020), Hot Docs, Canada (2020), Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival, Czech Republic (2020), Sundance Film Festival, USA (2020)

Czech Republic, Germany/ 2019/ 19’’

Black and White Černobílá

The small Czech town of Třeboň found itself at the centre of unexpected international attention when the world-wide press picked up on an obscure urban legend from the Second World War, some 70 years after the event. The story in question involves nurses, Nazis, seduction and syphilis, but no-one can agree on what really happened.

Director: Eluned Zoë Aiano, Anna Benner Editor: Eluned Zoë Aiano Script: Eluned Zoë Aiano, Anna Benner Photography: Klára Belicová Sound: Vojtěch Knot, Michał Krajczok Music: Raphael Tschernuth Production: Linda Dědková Co-prodiction: Martin Hůlovec Selected Filmography: Eluned Zoë Aiano: All Her Dying Lovers (2020) I Have a Song to Sing You/ Imam pesmu da vam pevam (2019) Festivals and Awards: Warsaw International Film Festival, Poland (2019), Melbourne Short Film Festival, Australia (2019), Tiburon Film Festival, USA (2019), Norwegian Short Film Festival, Norway (2019)

Short Dox

Brazil/ 2019/ 27’

Breakwater Quebramar

A group of young lesbians from São Paulo goes on a trip to a remote beach. While they wait for the new year's eve, they build a safe and pleasant environment through music and friendship. They take care of themselves, they own their bodies, their memories and they feel free.

Director: Cris Lyra Editor: Beatriz Pomar, Henrique Cartaxo Script: Ananda Maranhão, Camila Gaglianone, Cris Lyra, Elis Menezes, Lana Lopes, Raíssa Lopes, Yakini Kalid Photography: Wilssa Esser, Cris Lyra Music: Nã Maranhão, Obinrin Trio Sound: Marina Bruno, Thamis Haddad Production: Camila Gaglianone Selected Filmography: Quebramar (2019) Um Homem Satisfeito (2015) Festivals and Awards: Best Documentary- International Short Film Fest Clermont Ferrand, France (2020), Regard Film Festival, Canada (2020), Best Short Documentary,Festival International de Cinema de Curitiba, Brazil (2019), IDFA, Netherlands (2019)

North Macedonia/ 2020/ ‘49

Her Family 2010 - 2019 Нејзиното семејство 2010 - 2019

Mergjuzel is a traditional but strong woman who wants and tries to emancipate herself. In a constant pursuit for a better way of life, together with the members of her family, she has been changing her/ their place of living for 10 years. But how successful is the pursuit and how do they face the challenges along the way?

Director: Elizabeta Koneska Script: Elizabeta Koneska Photography: Elizabeta Koneska Editing: Blaze Dulev Sound: Elizabeta Koneska Production: NU Museum of The Republic of North Macedonia Selected Filmography: Girls and Other Things/ Девојки и други нешта (2012) Macedonians in Istanbul/ Македонци во Истанбул (2011) Bektashi- Enter and See/ Бекташивлези и види (2006) The Iron Church Above the Water/ Железна црква над водата (1993)

Short Dox

Montenegro/ 2019/ 11’

Juzina Južina

People in the Boka Kotorska region of Montenegro have a special relationship with the wind called Jugo. The specific weather condition that comes with this wind is called "Južina", but it is not only on the outside. For the people of Boka, Jugo is more than a wind.

Director: Dušan Vuleković Editor: Dušan Vuleković Script: Dušan Vuleković Photography: Dušan Vuleković Sound: Dušan Vuleković Music: Božidar Martinović Production: Bizzino Rosso films Selected Filmography: Back to the Sea/ Vraćanje moru (2018) Beyond Exclusion/ Van izolacije (2017) Transformers Battlefield Podgorica/ (2015) Traveler through Distant Worlds and Times/ Putnik kroz vasionu i vekove (2008) Counterpoint/ Kontrapunkt (2002)

UK/ 2019/ 7’

Mirror Test Mirror Test

Short Dox

The ‘mirror test’ is a behavioral science experiment in which an animal is presented with a mirror to see if they recognise their own reflection, or mistake the image for another animal. Corvid birds have reportedly passed this test, yet it remains uncertain if the experiment proves that an animal is self-aware. Speculations on animal intelligence to ambivalent recollections of the reunification of Germany in 1990, recalling double lives within the GDR and the self-contradictions of the capitalist democracy that consumed the East.

Director: Duncan Marquiss Photography: Duncan Marquiss Editing: Duncan Marquiss Sound: Duncan Marquiss Production: Duncan Marquiss Co-production: Duncan Marquiss Selected Filmography: Evolutionary Jerks & Gradualist Creeps (2016)

Russia/ 2020/ 4’

Revision

A short study of an old photo found in an antique shop.

Director: Mikhail Zheleznikov Editor: Mikhail Zheleznikov Script: Mikhail Zheleznikov Photography: Mikhail Zheleznikov Sound: Alexander Dudarev Production: Mikhail Zheleznikov

Ревизия

Selected Filmography: Pebbles/ Камешки (2018) On Pause/ На паузе (2012) Together/ Вместе (2010) For Home Viewing (2009) Collection No1/ Коллекция No1 (2006)

Brazil/ 2019/ 10’

Smile Sorriso

The story of the famous street cleaner from Brazil, Renato Sorriso (Smile). From a poor background in Rio de Janeiro to the closing ceremony of London 2012, he enchanted the world with his samba and his joy.

Director: J.C. Oliveira Editor: J.C. Oliveira Script: J.C. Oliveira Photography: Ana Rovati and Rodrigo Séllos Sound: Gianluigi Ciminelli Music: João de Braga Barros Production: Talita Marçal and J.C. Oliveira Selected Filmography: Far from the West/ Longe do Oeste (2012) Midnight, Rio/ Meia-Noite, Rio (2010) Festivals and Awards: Interfilm Berlin - Berlin International Short Film Festival, Germany (2019), Best Short Documentary, Belize International Film Festival, Belize (2019)

Short Dox

Finland/ 2020/ 30’

The Fantastic The Fantastic

A reversed set-up where westerners are peeping in on the everyday life of the closed-off state. In this film story, it is the North Koreans who direct their curiosity at the outside world and imagine what life in Western countries is like.

Director: Maija Blåfield Соработници: Editor: Maija Blåfield Script: Maija Blåfield Photography: Maija Blåfield Sound: Olli Huhtanen Music: Tuomo Puranen Production: Maija Blåfield Selected Filmography: On Destruction and Preservation (2018) If I Were Buried at a Street Corner Golden Age (2015) Saving the World (2005) Festivals and Awards: DocPoint Helsinki, Finland (2020), Best Film Under 30 Minutes- Tampere Film Festival, Finland (2020), HotDocs, Canada (2020), Krakow Film Festival, Poland (2020)

Poland/ 2019/ 14’

The Tough Harda

The Tough carries a lot of meanings: defiant, vicious, resistant, relentless, strong, resilient, cold, hard. The film's protagonist had a good reason to choose this name for his discovery - a place he has to face where he tangibly learns about all those characteristics, and also literally the hard way. Step by step, he explores spaces never seen before, which increasingly resist the delicate human matter.

Director: Marcin Polar Editor: Aleksandra Gowin Script: Marcin Polar Photography: Marcin Polar Sound: Michal Fojcik Production: Munk Studio – Polish Filmmakers Association Co-production: LeLe Cross Media Production Selected Filmography: Ghetto Classics + Jimek (2018) Collection/ Kolekcja (2017) Festivals and Awards: Sundance FF, USA (2019), Best Sound Editing Award- Short Sounds Film Festival 2020, UK (2020), Best Short Film- Nordic Adventure Film Festival, Denmark (2019), Krakow Film Festival, Poland (2019), Durban International Film Festival, South Africa (2019), IDFA, Netherlands (2019)

Short Dox

Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina/ 2019/ 27’

Then Comes the Evening A sad se spušta veče

Russia/ 2020/ 3’

Tremendous Cream Tremendous Cream

Two grannies live a bittersweet life isolated on the hills of Eastern Bosnia. They speak, listen to and respect Nature. A story about intangible cultural heritage, through the presentation of chants and rituals for taming the adverse weather. The simplicity and purity of this lifestyle pairs with painstaking work. The everyday life in the countryside shows these grannies’ caring and intimate relation and their relationship with nature.

Director: Maja Novaković

A literary or a musical composition formed by selections from different authors disposed of in a new order.

Director: Alexei Dmitriev

Editor: Marija Kovačina Script: Maja Novaković Photography: Jasna Prolić Sound: Luka Barajević Production: Maja Novaković, Milan Milosavljević Festivals and Awards: Auteur Film Festival, Serbia (2020), Pančevo Film Festival, Serbia (2019), Cinema Verite Iran International Documentary Film Festival, Iran (2019), Visions du Reel International Film Festival, Switzerland (2019), HotDocs, Canada (2019)

Editor: Alexei Dmitriev Script: Alexei Dmitriev Photography: Alexei Dmitriev Music: Alexei Dmitriev Sound: Alexei Dmitriev Production: Alexei Dmitriev Selected Filmography: In Between Takes (2017) The Sadness Will Not Last Forever (2016) The Shadow of Your Smile (2014) Hermeneutics (2012) Abstract? (2009) Dubus (2005)

Short Dox

Finland/ 2019/ 20’

Waste No. 4 New York, New York Waste No. 4 New York, New York

Waste No. 4 New York, New York revisits the history of the City in twenty minutes through twelve cemeteries and one landfill. The short documentary is the fourth, independent episode from the Waste series

Director: Jan Ijäs Script: Jan Ijäs Photography: Jan Ijäs, Ville Piippo, Cristian Manzutto Editing: Okku Nuutilainen, Jan Ijäs Sound: Svanté Colerus Music: Matti Ahopelto, Mari Sainio Production: Jan Ijäs Selected Filmography: Waste No.3 Boom (2018) Waste No.1 Money (2017) Waste No. 2. Wreck (2016) Two Islands (2013) A Film for Three Men and Industrial Elevator (2005) Festivals and Awards: Tampere Film Festival, Finland (2020), International Film Festival Rotterdam, Netherlands (2020)

North Macedonia/ 2019/ 25’

We Are All Going to Die Сите ќе умреме

Short Dox

The prolonged economic uncertainty forces the funeral service in Shtip workers to explore various shortcuts to get more work for their parlors. Sometimes, this includes dubious connections with the local hospital. Zoki, a funeral parlor worker, starts to feel broken by the dishonest and disloyal competition, wondering if money is really everything in life, after all.

Director: Sashko Potter Micevski Editor: Sandra Gjorgieva Script: Sashko Potter Micevski Photography: Naum Doksevski Music: Hollie Buhagiar Sound: Breen Turner Production: Ilija Tiricovski Co-production: OHO Selected Filmography: (Extra)terrestrial Lee (2014)

Germany/ 2018/ 23’

We Were All To Be Queens Todas íbamos a ser reinas

A woman’s journey back and forth, past and present, through the naive hopes of youthful childhood promises. Queens, castles and blue princes. Soon separation unveils the hermetic trap of tradition, burning down the memories, and women can finally break free.

Director: Ana Catalá Script: Ana Catalá Photography: Ana Catalá Editing: Ginés Olivares Sound: Gábor Ripli Music: The Anna Thompsons Production: Ana Catalá, Gemma Vidal, Roser Corella Selected Filmography: Sunshine Superman (2014) Festivals and Awards: IceDocs Documentary Film Festival, Iceland (2019), Valladolid International Film Festival, Spain (2019), Montreal World Film Festival, Canada (2018)

Short Dox

Student Dox

Germany/ 2019/ 25’

A Piece of Forest Waldstück

50 km east of Berlin was once a secret labor camp of the Nazis, of which there are no traces left today. The confrontation with diary entries of former prisoners questions the consequences of a fading culture of remembrance.

Director: Hannes Schilling Script: Hannes Schilling Photography: Johannes Greisle, Jana Pape Editing: Paul Gröbel Sound: Pavel Mozhar, Fabian Koppri Production: Filmuniversity Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF Selected Filmography: Mister James (2014) My grandfather Wolfgang (2012) Festivals and Awards:

Czech Republic/ 2019/ 17’

About-hair O-chlup

Student Dox

The way we look is not always a personal choice, but it is often a matter of how we are supposed to look. Society likes to use boxes and labels. Ideally, a woman is slim and shaved; a man does not wax his legs. What role does our hair play in our lives, and why have we stopped loving it? This hybrid audiovisual essay with performative moments presents various perspectives on hair.

Director: Josefina Lubojacki Script: Josefina Lubojacki Photography: Tomáš Kotas Editing: Simona Donovalová Sound: Martin Kuhn Music: Kazety, Midi Lidi Production: Adam Ligas

Slovenia/ 2019/ 19’

Alzheimer Cafe Alzheimer Cafe

Ivan and Jožica, a married couple, had to move to a retirement home. Despite all the challenges of aging they continue living together in a new environment. Memories fade, love remains.

Director: Martin Draksler Script: Martin Draksler Photography: Timon Hozo Editing: Vida Ajdnik Sound: Tristan Peloz Music: Karavana Production: AGRFT Co-production: RTV Slovenia Selected Filmography: She Looks for a Shadow, He Waits (2018) Festivals and Awards: Best Film- DOKUDOC, Slovenia (2019), Best Short- Alternative Film Festival Toronto, Canada (2019), Best Student- Festival of Slovenian Film, Slovenia (2019), Pula Film Festival, Croatia (2020)

Poland/ 2019/ 25’

Breathe Oddech

In one of the districts of Łódź, where almost seventy-one thousand people live, a small thorn house was built between the concrete buildings. This small, wooden structure becomes a place to observe the wonders of everyday interactions. The taste of the sun, salt and concrete fills the conversations. There is space to breathe…

Director: Daria Kasperek Script: Daria Kasperek Photography: Michał Modlinger Editing: Daria Kasperek Sound: Daria Kasperek, Damian Wagner, Paweł Gapiński, Ola Konik Production: Polish National Film School in Łódź Festivals and Awards: Sarajevo Film Festival, Bosnia and Herzegovina (2020), Sevastopol International Doc & TV Festival, Ukraine/Russia (2020), International Film Festival New Horizons, Poland (2019)

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Croatia/ 2019/ 16’

Currents Strujanja

The plants are the only ones remaining in the vacant business building. In this large and once lavish space, the gardener still maintains the plants, which have become part of its architecture. She sifts through the ones in pots and prepares them for their relocation. The plants which used to reign over this imposing interior in the eighties now construct a new temporality in this building void of people.

Director: Katerina Duda Script: Katerina Duda Photography: Katerina Duda, Dražen Žerjav Editing: Iva Ivan Sound: Filip Filipi, Filip Ledinscak, Matija Santro Production: Vanja Jambrović, Tibor Keser, Oliver Sertić F Selected Filmography: Cutting (2015) Festivals and Awards: Best Croatian Film- Mediterranean Film Festival Split, Croatia (2019), Green DCP Award- International Experimental Film and Video Festival, Croatia (2019)

Poland/ 2019/ 30’

Fuck, It’s Biology Fuck, It’s Biology

Mariusz Tarkawian has had 120 art exhibitions all over the world and yet his parents have not been to any. His girlfriend tries to make her first documentary and hopefully bring the family closer together. An intimate portrait of a famous Polish contemporary artist seen through the lens of his Swedish and not so famous filmmaker girlfriend.

Director: Veronica Andersson Script: Veronica Andersson Photography: Piotr Szymański Editing: Katarzyna Zielińska, Mats Helgesson Sound: Veronica Andersson (sound recordist), Mats Helgesson (sound design - mix in studio) Music: Epidemic Sound Production: Warsaw Film School Co-production: Veronica Andersson Selected Filmography: Wiki (2018) Liberation (2016) Festivals and Awards: FEST - New Directors New Films Festival, Portugal (2020), Krakow Film Festival, Poland (2019), Bushwick Film Festival, USA (2019)

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Spain/ 2020/ 31’

Goiat Goiat

Netherlands/ 2019/ 48’

Last of the Mohicans Laatste der Mohikanen

Pere and Mar leave their hometown with the intention of starting a free life in the Pyrenees. They find a job in the Vall d'Aran as sheep shepherds instructed to reduce the bear attacks on cattle. Isolated in their cabin, the couple witnesses, through news that they reach over the phone, how the native population opposes the European Union policies of re-introduction of the brown bear in the Pyrinees.

Director: Jordi Prieto

After having gone through a rough history, maverick Tonny tries to help the needy by starting a driving supermarket, while she needs this help maybe as much as they do. With this relic from another time she promotes ideals such as compassion and solidarity while being rewarded with uncertainty and financial insecurity. Her values may be as outdated as her business model, still she persists.

Director: Max Ploeg

Script: Jordi Prieto Photography: Jordi Prieto Editing: Jordi Prieto Sound: Álex Martínez Production: ESCAC FILMS

Script: Max Ploeg Photography: Max Ploeg Editing: Max Ploeg Sound: Morten Brogaard Music: Sebastiano Terzuolo Production: Max Ploeg Festivals and Awards: IDFA, Netherlands (2019)

Student Dox

Italy/ 2019/ 20’

Men are Hungry Too Anche gli uomini hanno fame

Germany/ 2019/ 24’

Opera Glasses Бінокль

Student Dox

Between the 60s and the 70s hunger forced around 150.000 people to leave the South-East of Italy. In Gagliano there are those who chose to leave and those who stayed. In 1973 Nardo gave up his dream of becoming a filmmaker and opened the Bar 2000, which is still in the center of Gagliano. One of the regulars at the bar is Mimmi. He left very young and worked in the Gotthard Tunnel. The experience in the tunnel left him with the tragic memory of the death of a friend. This film is an intimate tale of the daily lives of long-time friends Nardo and Mimmi. It takes place on a summer day when present and past are interwoven through experience and memory.

Director: Francesco Lorusso, Gabriele Licchelli, Andrea Settembrini

While the first guests are waiting outside in the cold, the Opera House of Kyiv is slowly awaking. The Orchestra is rehearsing and the preparations in the cloakroom are ongoing. All of a sudden the people from the outside are flooding the corridors and halls of the Opera. People of all ages and classes join together on this evening to become a big homogeneous audience. The foyer turns into a stage while the spectators and workers become actors. The film is solely focusing on the locations outside the auditorium, while observing authentic gestures of preparation, boredom and humor.

Director: Mila Zhluktenko

Script: Francesco Lorusso, Gabriele Licchelli, Andrea Settembrini Photography: Francesco Lorusso Editing: Gabriele Licchelli Sound: Simone Altana Music: Antongiulio Galeandro Production: Fondazione AAMOD Co-production: Broga Doite Film Selected Filmography: Arca Hotel (2017) Festivals and Awards: IDFA, Netherlands (2019), Ischia Film Festival, Italy (2019), Lago Film Fest, Italy (2019), Social World Film Festival, Italy (2019)

Photography: Rebecca Hoeft Editing: Felicitas Sonvilla Sound: Andrii Rogachov Production: Daniel Asadi Faezi Co-production: University of Television and Film Munich Selected Filmography: Find Fix Finish (2017) I Love My #hairlegs (2017) Festivals and Awards: Go Short, Netherlands (2020), Vienna Shorts Film Festival, Austria (2020), Palm Springs International Shortfest, USA (2020), Golden Dove, DOK Leipzig, Germany (2019)

Cuba/ 2019/14'

The Crossing La Travesía

Germany, Brazil/ 2019/ 30’

The Longing Saudade

An outsider struggles through the wild nature of the Sierra Maestra. This is how director Otávio Almeida describes The Crossing himself. The harsh journey through the highest mountain range in Cuba leads over a vast lake. Nature becomes increasingly dominant in this stark, high-contrast black-and-white film, which unfolds without dialogue, but is supported by an expressive soundtrack filled with sounds of nature.

Director: Otávio Almeida

An old Brazilian legend says that ‘Saudade’ was created by the African gods so that the enslaved people won’t forget their beloved ones and where they come from. Triggered by the disease of her father, the afro-Brazilian director Denize Galiao explores her deepest feelings for her home and her roots which she does not want to lose after 20 years of living in Germany. The word ‘Saudade’ which cannot be translated into any other language is the red line through the story of a family that lives between two different cultures.

Director: Denize Galiao

Script: Otávio Almeida Photography:Otávio Almeida Editing: Otávio Almeida Sound: Marisol Cao Milán Production: Otávio Almeida, Violena Ampudia Festivals and Awards: IDFA, Netherlands (2019)

Script: Denize Galiao Photography: Dino Osmanovic (ASBH) Editing: Valeria Valenzuela Sound: Andreas Goldschmid Production: Michael Kalb Filmproduktion Co-production: University of Television and Film Munich Selected Filmography: In the Shadow of the Copacabana (2014) Through the Lens of Inked Kenny (2012) I Would Like Something Sweet/ Ich hätte gern was Süßes (2009) Festivals: President’s Award- Full Frame, USA (2020), It's All True Documentary Film Festival, Brazil (2020), Millenium International Documentary Film Festival, Belgium (2020), Student Award- DFA, USA (2019), IDFA, Netherlands (2019)

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Croatia/ 2019/ 35’

The Rex Will Sail In Doplovit će Rex

Marina’s month-long vacation is nearing its end, after which she leaves for another six months to work on a cruiser as a housekeeping supervisor. As the separation from her children is getting closer, Marina grows increasingly anxious.

Director: Josip Lukic Collaborators: Script: Josip Lukic Editor: Marko Bicanic Photography: Marinko Marinkic Sound: Lana Horvatic Production: Marin Leo Jankovic Selected Filmography: Momsy/ Majči (2018) Festivals and Awards: Jury Award- Doc Lisboa, Portugal (2019), ZagrebDox, Croatia (2019), Tabor Film Festival, Croatia (2019)

United Kingdom/ 2020/ 22’

Thinking About the Weather Thinking About the Weather

Student Dox

Desperate to resolve his anxieties about the looming climate apocalypse the filmmaker embarks on an odyssey that takes him around Britain. He travels to places that will soon be submerged by the sea in the hope that there he will learn how to live in a world that seems doomed. Will he be plunged further into the depths of despair, or will he find a reason to hope?

Director: Gardar Thor Thorkelsson Script: Gardar Thor Thorkelsson Photography: Gardar Thor Thorkelsson Editing: Armiliah Aripin Sound: Ruanth Chrisley Thyssen Music: Darryl O'Donovan Production: The National Film and Television School UK

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Germany/ 2017/ 4’

Ant

The ants are working together perfectly. But there is one ant that is doing everything differently.

Ameise

Director: Julia Ocker Script: Julia Ocker Photogrpahy:Julia Ocker Editing:Julia Ocker Sound: Christian Heck Music: Christian Heck Production:Thomas Mayer Herrmann Festivals and Awards: Animateka, Slovenia

Georgia/ 2017/ 16’

Apollo Javakheti აპოლო ჯავახეთი

Kids and Youth Program

Bandura is growing up with his single mother in the Georgian region of Javakheti. The climate is harsh, the roads are bad and the views are gray and rocky. In the rural village where he lives, time seems to have stood still. The teenager earns extra money herding sheep, helping the local cheesemaker and planting potatoes. Home at the kitchen table, his mother reads aloud from the Bible, but Bandura has other things on his mind: he wants to travel to the moon. Between his daily duties, he begins to build an actual rocket and to plan out his future.

Director: Bakar Cherkezishvili Script: Bakar Cherkezishvili Photography: Julien Diebel Editing: Bakar Cherkezishvili Sound: Anuka Inasaridze, Tinatin Babakishvili for Post Red Audio Music: 4Lines Production: Bakar Cherkezishvili, Julien Diebel Selected Filmography: Larks and Owls (2014) Festivals and Awards: ECFA Doc Award, European Children’s Film Association, Belgium (2018), Sarajevo Film Festival, Bosnia and Herzegovina (2018), IDFA, Netherlands (2017)

Denmark/ 2019/ 22’

Bird Boy Fugledrengen

When 12-year-old Reshat looks around him, he sees the oil fields of Azerbaijan. When he looks up dreamily, he sees pigeons flying to heaven. He misses his father, who died a year ago, and who also loved these birds. Reshat cautiously approaches the best pigeon keeper in the village. Will he teach him to train pigeons?

Director: Simon Lereng Wilmont Script: Simon Lereng Wilmont Photography: Simon Lereng Wilmont Editing: Michael Aaglund, Rasmus Stensgaard Madsen Sound: Rune Palving Music: Ali Helnwein Production: Maria Stevnbak Westergren for Toolbox Film Co-production: Relation04 Media, Pedersen & Co. Selected Filmography: Oleg and the Wars/ Oleg og krigen (2018) The Distant Barking of Dogs (2017) Chikara: The Sumo Wrestler’s Son/ Chikara: sumobryderens søn (2013) Traveling with Mr. T. (2012) Above the Ground, Beneath the Sky/ Over jorden, under himlen (2008) Ramona’s Journey/ Ramonas rejse (2004) Festivals and Awards: IDFA, The Netherlands (2019)

Czech Republic, Slovakia/ 2020/ 100’

Caught in the Net V síti (school version)

Director: Vít Klusák, Barbora Chalupová Script: Vít Klusák, Barbora Chalupová Photography: Adam Krulis Editing: Janka Vlčková Sound: Adam Bláha Music: Pjoni Production: Filip Remunda, Vít Klusák Co-production: Peter Kerekes Selected filmography: Vít Klusák The White World According to Daliborek/ Svet podle Daliborka (2017) Czech Journal/ Český žurnál (2015) Barbora Chalupová Czech journal: Real(e)state/ Český žurnál (2019) Theory of Equality/ Teorie rovnosti (2017) Festivals and Awards: One World Prague, Czech Republic (2020), CPH:DOX, Denmark (2020)

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Dance Lessons Dance Lessons

The hometown of the 17-year-old girl Stanzin, in the heart of Himalaya in Kashmir is facing big changes as global warming and technological progress change the lives of people rapidly. Until recently, children had to cross over dangerous mountains to get from their home village to school. The times are changing, and the dangerous mountain path will be turned into an autoroute. Stanzin travels to school for the last time, before she graduates and leaves her hometown forever.

Director: Minsu Park

Tika is only 10 but she is already giving dance classes in her hometown in Georgia. She proudly takes on the responsibility to organize a first public event with her dancing class, an excited group of disabled kids.

Director: Camilla Magid

Script: Gregor Koppenburg Photography: Minsu Park Editing: Ulrike Tortora Sound: Andreas Goldbrunner Production: Karbe Film GmbH Selected Filmography: Sewol: Paused in Time (2017) Amma und Appa (2014) Festivals and Awards: FFF Talent Award Documentary Film, DOK.fest Munich, Germany (2020)

Script: Camilla Magid Photography: Camilla Magid Editing: Rasmus Stensgaard Madsen, Estephan Wagner Sound: Rune Hansen Production: Toolbox Film Co-Production: Relation04 Media, Pedersen & Co Selected Filmography: White Black Boy (2012) Land of the Free (2017) Festivals and Awards: Mobile Dance Film Festival, USA (2019)

Kids and Youth Program

Netherlands/ 2019/ 15’

Foreplay Voorspel

Imagine you are thirteen, your teacher is showing you how to use a condom in front of your entire class and there are images of different sex positions on the blackboard… In this disarming documentary we see Dutch high school kids receiving their most memorable lesson yet: sexuality education. Their faces are flushed with embarrassment and curiosity, but what’s going on in their minds?

Director: Anne van Campenhout Script: Anne van Campenhout Photography: Jefrim Rothuizen Editing: Albert Markus jr., Patrick Schonewille Sound: Diego van Uden, Leleane Lindenaar Production: JeanMarc van Sambeek, Menna Laura Meijer Selected Filmography: 24H Europe: The Next Generation (2019) I'm afraid It’s a No/ Helaas ben je 't niet geworden (2017) The Rainmakers (2013) Festivals and Awards: IDFA, Netherlands (2019)

Norway/ 2019/ 19'

Karla and Nordahl Karla og Nordahl

Karla is 6 years old and has a big brother named Nordahl. Why does she consider him both as a big - and a little brother? An insight into Karla`s world and the way she deals with having a big brother with learning difficulties.

Director: Elisabeth Aspelin Script: Elisabeth Aspelin Photography: Elisabeth Aspelin Editing: Elisabeth Aspelin Sound: Elisabeth Aspelin Music: Hedda H / Universal Production: Nitteberg Film og TV - Halvor Nitteberg Co-production: OsloMet - Jon Jerstad Festivals and Awards: IDFA, Netherlands (2019), One World, Czech Republic (2019), Docudays, Ukraine (2019), Salem Film Fest, USA (2019)

Kids and Youth Program

Norway/ 2017/ 71’

Once Aurora En gang Aurora

Germany/ 2018/ 4’

Peacock Pfau

The Norwegian singer and songwriter Aurora Aksnes was discovered at the age of 16, when a video of her singing went viral. Her life changed completely: the somewhat eccentric and reclusive girl who grew up in the Norwegian countryside rapidly became the pop idol Aurora, with fans all over the world. After 200 concerts and halfway through the tour, she seems exhausted and desperate. A portrait of a lightning musical career and a story about creative freedom and the price of fame.

Director: Benjamin Langeland, Stian Servoss

The peacock is a big star onstage. His feathers, however, want a fair share of the fame.

Director: Julia Ocker

Photography: Stian Servoss, Benjamin Langeland Editing: Benjamin Langeland, Stian Servoss Sound: Yngve Leidulv Sætre Music: Olav Øyehaug Production: Thorvald Nilsen Festivals and Awards: Zagreb Dox, Croatia (2020), Sofia International Film Festival, Bulgaria (2020), Best Nordic Documentary- Nordic Panorama (2019) CPH DOX, Denmark (2019), Krakow Film Festival, Poland (2019), IDFA, Netherlands (2020)

Script: Julia Ocker Photogrpahy:Julia Ocker Editing:Julia Ocker Sound: Christian Heck Music: Christian Heck Production:Thomas Mayer Herrmann Festivals and Awards: Animateka, Slovenia

Kids and Youth Program

France, Switzerland/ 2017/ 7’

The Pocket Man Le petit bonhomme de poche

A little man lives in an old suitcase. One day he finds a new friend - an old blind man. The little man jumps into the blind man's pocket. With music, the pocket man helps the blind man walk and see things in the street. Both are very happy together.

Director: Ana Chubinidze Collaborators: Script: Ana Chubinidze Photography: Nadine Buss Editing: Herve Guichard Sound: Loic Burkhardt Music: Yan Volsy Production: Folimage Co-production: Nadasdy Film Festivals and Awards: Ambulante Film Festival, Mexico (2019), Animateka, Slovenia, Kids DOK - DOK Leipzig, Germany (2017), LuxFilmFest, Luxembourg (2017)

Slovenia/ 2019/ 5’

Prince Ki-Ki-Do; Superdo Princ Ki-Ki-Do; Superdo

One morning, a strange bird – Superdo lands in Ki-Ki-Do's forest. It is dressed up in the style of superheroes and flies with the help of jet-propelled boots. With a dangerous fraud and soapy charm, he conquers the hearts of the forest inhabitants. It seems that Prince Ki-Ki-Do has become entirely superfluous in his own forest.

Director: Grega Mastnak Collaborators: Script: Grega Mastnak; Peter Povh Editor: Grega Mastnak Sound: Vojko Sfiligoj Music: Vojko Sfiligoj Production: Ozor animations Co-production: RTV Slovenia Festivals and Awards: Lago Film Fest, Italy (2015), Animateka, Slovenia, Slovenian Film Festival, Slovenia (2014)

Kids and Youth Program

Russia/ 2012/ 6’

Snowflake

Once a little African boy got a letter. In the letter he found a snowflake made of paper.

Snežinka

Director: Natalia Chernysheva Script: Natalia Chernysheva Music: Alexandr Babin Selected Filmography: Two Friends/ Deux amis (2014) The Return/ Le retour (2013)) Festivals and Awards: Animateka Slovenia, Audience Award, International Children's Film Festival of New York, USA (2014), Reel 2 real, Int'l Film Festival for Youth, Canada (2014), Sofia International Animation Film Festival, Bulgaria (2013)

France, Belgium/ 2014/ 7’

The Elephant and the Bicycle Le velo de l'elephant

An elephant lives in a town among people and works as a street cleaner. One day, he sees a big billboard advertising a bicycle. It seems the perfect size for him! This is the minute the elephant's life changes: he has to get this bicycle whatever it costs him.

Director: Olesya Shchukina Collaborators: Script: Olesya Shchukina Photography: David Toutevoix Editing: Herve Guichard Sound: Philippe Fontaine Music: Yan Volsy Production: Folimage Co-production: La Boite Productions Selected Filmography: Image by Image/ Image Par Image 2019 The Sled/ Belchonok i sanki (2016) The Red Heels / Les talons rouges (2011) Festivals and Awards: Best First Professional Film- Suzdal, Russia (2015), Best Children’s Short Film- Anima, Belgium (2015)

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Sound Shapes Film, Film Shapes Sound — Workshop with Vladimir Rakić

The British “Sava”, the Macedonian “Ironman”, the Bulgarian “Voev: Greetings to the Gods”, the Slovenian “Metabolism” and the Swiss-Serbian “Dida” are the six documentary projects in different stages of production selected for this year’s sound workshop with Vladimir Rakić. Through a series of group and individual sessions held from the end of June until the end of August, the filmmakers, editors and/or sound designers of the selected film projects question and reflect on the role that sound and music play in the entire documentary filmmaking process - as well as on the role that the film plays in shaping the sound - so that they could use them more skillfully and enhance their film narration in a fresh way. The results will be presented during the last workshop session, at the MakeCoProDox Forum in August. The workshop is supported by the Embassy of the Kingdom of Netherlands.

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Biography: Vladimir Rakić (1974, Novi Sad, Yugoslavia) is a music composer, sound designer and foley artist, living and working in Amsterdam. He graduated in 2005 as Bachelor of Art and Technology in Sound Design and Applied Composition from the Hogeschool voor de Kunsten in Utrecht, Netherlands. For more than 15 years he has been actively working on different aspects of film sound: as a sound editor, foley artist, sound designer, re-recording mixer and music composer and collaborating on many documentary, fiction and animation film projects. He is also a lecturer at the Netherlands Film Academy in Amsterdam. Halina Reijn ‘Instinct’ (2019), Heinrich Dahms’s ‘My Soul Drifts Light’ (2018), Petra Seliškar's ‘My World Is Upside Down’ (2016) and 'Mother Europe' (2013) , Claudia Tosi’s ‘Perfect Circle’ (2015), Felix Van Groeningen's 'Broken Circle Breakdown' (2012) and Victor Kossakovsky's 'Viva Antipodas' (2011) are only some of his film work collaborations. As a composer and sound designer he is also active in the field of electro acoustic music, live cinema performance and in theater.

Less is More — Masterclass with John Appel

Less is more has been John Appel’s motto ever since he completed his film studies. Not surprisingly, it is also the title of his masterclass! This masterclass is about the art of storytelling. It is about dealing with all kinds of limitations, obstacles and mistakes in documentary filmmaking - and turning all these into advantage. About the power of restriction but also about the art of silence - creating silence in interviews and using silence in storytelling. All backed up by clips from his and from other people’s work.

Biography: “I make films based on a combination of thorough research and intuition. During my research I’m not just looking for facts, but above all for the vulnerability of people, which is what I call emotional research”, says John Appel who has directed more than 40 documentaries for cinema and TV and has been the cinematographer on numerous films. In 1987 he graduated from the Netherlands Film Academy with his documentary Radio Daniëlle, a portrait of a local pirate radio station which won the Best Student Film Award. In 1993 he made his first documentary for cinema Johnny Meijer - Body and Soul. In 1999, his film André Hazes - She Believes in Me not only opened IDFA but was also awarded with the IDFA Award for Best Feature Length Documentary and became the greatest documentary hit in Dutch cinema over the last 60 years. His filmography is comprised of award-winning titles - The Last Victory (2003), The Player (2009), Wrong Time, Wrong Place (2012), The Voice of Holland (2018) and Once the Dust Settles (2019) - which bring closer stories of ordinary people and lonely heroes, filled with daily life drama, melancholy, memories, death and consolation. He is mentoring filmmakers from the Middle East within the Close Up International Co-Production Training Program and is also a guest lecturer at the UBB University of Cluj, Romania.

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Moderators: Brigid Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Shea (Documentary Association of Europe & Head of DOK IndustryDOKLeipzig) and Helle Hansen (Film Commissioner Documentary- Norwegian Film Institute, Norway).

MakeCoProDox Forum #2 Solidarity as a creative tool in times of crisis

In anticipation of an economic crisis, the cultural sector and the film industry are often most affected by budget cuts. Only by acting in solidarity and increasing regional co-productions can the Balkan countries increase the number of funded projects during the reduced funds.This year, the avid need for creating and consuming cultural content has, for the second time, inspired us to organize the CoProDox forum that will unite filmmakers and support the future creative work in the culture sector through solidarity and collaboration. MakeCoProDox Forum is a forum whose main goal is to develop a strategy plan to increase documentary film co-production between the Balkan countries. The Forum welcomes representatives from 12 regional film agencies, 3 Scandinavian film agencies and 10 projects in final stages of production. The first documentary film co-production forum took place within the 10th edition of the Creative Documentary Film Festival MakeDox. In the framework of the 11th edition of the MakeDox festival, we will welcome the key personalities of the documentary film industry from all over the world and will introduce the possible ways of 84

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collaborations and try to make the funds in the region to collaborate on a longer time scale. Our objective with this project is to establish a new alliance sector in the Balkan region for the first time, as the only way to amortize the consequences of the crisis. Within the online sessions we will present the problems that regional countries are facing largely due to the crisis, and try to find possible ways of overcoming them, while emphasizing their not specific regulations dedicated to supporting the development and production of documentary films.

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Doc-Talks Under the Fig Tree

The day is slowly going away and if the mind becomes silent for a moment, and takes the body along, you may hear the words of the song which the muezzin sings in a language indecipherable for many of us. But what does it say, really? To slow down, to let go, to lighten up our heavy steps while walking down the cobblestone alleys in the Old Turkish Bazaar in Skopje, rushing toward the An in order to escape the scorching August heatwave. Suddenly, a relief! Behind the massive stone walls a cool breeze embraces us, our thoughts become clear, water is flowing in the center… All is well. We hear the sound of children’s laughter and a distant echo of dogs barking. It’s just a few minutes before 6 p.m, so that means that it’s too early for screenings for it’s still daylight. However, it’s time to talk, to listen and then talk and listen a bit more... We are sitting in a circle. For a moment we become silent, all of us are here and we may begin. А summer scent is gently spreading in the air- black Turkish tea, wild figs and watermelon. The tiny metal spoon is making a swirl, melting away the sugar cube. Ching, ching, the spoon goes, announcing the beginning

of our discussion. We are talking about characters who live lonesome lives in the middle of mountains, ice deserts and oceans, then for some others who found luck midst unfortunate, next we turn toward the new forms of communication and technology, then we are listening about the craziness of going shooting when everyone tells you that you shouldn’t, then someone shares their aches and pains about the time when realizing that their entire recorded material had simply vanished, then we hear about the joy to see that all the nonsense finally made sense when revealed on the film screen… Dear dreamers, this year we will, once again, talk under the shadow of our fig tree. We are, just as you, aware that nothing can replace the daily festival discussions held live in the backyard of Kurshumli An. Having in mind this year’s state of emergency, we intend to proceed with these talks accompanied by filmmakers and anyone interested, yet in a different atmosphere but same level of enthusiasm and thirst for exchanging stories. May we live long and have stories to tell! МakeDox +

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Debate on Sexual Abuse

Kristina Lelovac (Firstborn Girl) Speakers: Meri Cvetkovska (HERA) Kalia Dimitrova (Meduza)

(Caught in the Net- Vít Klusák, Barbora Chalupová)

The film "Caught in the Net" is a brutal, explicit encounter with the abuse and violence that lurk over female minors in cyberspace. With this debate, we will attempt to deconstruct online predators in our local context but also, once again, remind ourselves that introducing comprehensive sexual education in school curriculum is crucial for tackling any type of gender- based violence.

Kristina Lelovac is an actress and associate professor at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Skopje. As an actress she performed in independent theatre productions and performances, film and television projects and has collaborated on interdisciplinary research art projects. At the moment she is working on her Ph.D. thesis in the field of Theatre Studies. She is a member of several activist initiatives and one of the founders of the Festival of Feminist Culture and Action ПРВО ПА ЖЕНСКО (FIRSTBORN GIRL). 86

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A New Visual World with No Restrictions and Borders

Connecting and exchanging ideas and positive energy, as well as building collaborations, has always been a great challenge for people. Today, when the borders are closing while the virtual space opens new windows to connect with the world, and especially with children’s ever-lasting fresh perspective, people are looking for new forms of communication and inspiration to discover new spheres of cognition and creation.

We truly hope that we will satisfy their desire for new visual experiences but also keep their attention through our festival digital platform which is user- friendly not only for them but also for their parents and grandparents.

Therefore, this year - as any other before we won’t be leaving behind our youngest and dearest, those curious eyes eager to play and discover new worlds and we have prepared a Youth and Kids Program for the 11th MakeDox edition. With this program, children’s ideas, desires and dreams will travel smoothly from the Caucasus through the Balkans up to the Nordic countries. We have tried to create this new visual world with no restrictions and borders together with Icedocs Documentary Film Festival from Iceland, our old friends from CinéDOC Tbilisi Documentary Film Festival from Georgia and one of the most renowned International Animated Film Festival "Animateka" from Slovenia.

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Exhibition

Beam of light through the lens, poetry of reality Collaboration between MakeDox and the Biology Institute - Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics

We love wandering and dreaming, sure we do. Is there anything nicer to wish for ourselves while in this world? There are times when we can hardly grasp all that reality around us may offer colors, smells, sounds, flavors, textures, streams, laughter and cries, gaze, light, darkness, vastness, defiance, doom, serenity, warmth, cold. Whirlwind that thrust and never stops… We feel that our eyes are hungry, that the mind is restless and the body tireless. We wander and wonder what’s beyond all things visible, who speaks through these voices, what’s beneath the surface. And finally, what should we do with all this vigor? Some would say ‘I just take my camera and go shooting!’ Others grab their pen or brush (better said, lap top) and don’t leave their room for days, while some interpret the world through sounds and voices… And what about the curious scientists, those eager souls who observe and experiment with the fragments of reality? Those who with unreserved commitment translate this world in their laboratory premises, then leave us speechless, astonished, puzzled, horrified but almost always saved. What a joy to have science! When one is scientifically literate, one sees the world through a different prism, delving into the layers of the great story. The story of humanity is a story of ideas, beams of light that break through darkness. One such story is this year’s collaboration of MakeDox and the Institute of Biology of the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics in Skopje which have jointly created the visual

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identity of the 11th festival edition. By presenting microscopic images of the onion and its inside, our creative collaborators introduced us to their fantastic and for us barely familiar world and reminded us, once again, why the onion is the symbol of our documentary story. We started talking about the lens - a tiny piece of glass that revolutionized civilization in the 17th century with the then newly invented optical instruments and changed the world(view) and knowledge entirely. We are glad that we can share this admiration though it seems like we’re standing on opposite sides when it comes to professional interests and profiles. The light through our film lens captures the images of life in front of us, exposes a new layer above and beyond existing layers - another story to tell. The beams through the microscopic lens penetrate further, disperse the clouds above things visible, the thought of human mind’s splendor moves you, its age-old tendency to enlighten other, unknown dimensions. The talk on the lens stops but once we get back to our office in the Old Bazaar, we continue discussing and then look for the definition in a dictionary. So it goes - lens, a transparent body enclosed by smooth spherical surfaces or one spherical and the other flat. Lens, a transparent body through which light is refracted. Light, may it fade away so that we could dream more. What a joy to have science, what a joy to have film!

Night Stories

The docu-nights at MakeDox prove that where words fail, music speaks… When the day is done, after hours of working, indulging into film screenings, or maybe digesting personal stories, we stop for a moment to rest and feel that the An is also taking a breath. Then, the film canvas turns black, so our menu offers a hot spot that links directly to emotions - we dwell upon them, feed their inside, share them or let them go wild… It’s time for our version of Scheherazade and 1001 Nights, our bedtime stories. While the guitar, the oud, the kemane and the accordion echo around, one should just carefully listen, and they will hear all the stories that were once told in the dark nooks of this place - all the adventures, misfortunes, boastful lyrics of personal praises and hard fates. And all those who played here prompted by joy, delight, grief or for the sake of shelter or bread. See you at night, in the stories…

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MakeDox Traveling Cinema

Those who can dream and imagine are always on the road, traveling. Just so, this year, we never doubted, not even for a moment, whether traveling is or is not a good idea during a pandemic. Of course it is! Do we need anything more than a cosy spot, a white wall or stretched canvas, a projector and a film? Plus, that’s something we can do anywhere - in the living room, in front of our building, on rooftops or terraces, in the small nearby towns or villages, in grandma and grandpa’s backyard... Let MakeDox and its creative documentary stories take you anywhere you want. Stay there as long as you feel like it and don’t think about returning until that day comes. Maybe we’ll carry on down the road, maybe we’ll stop if something captures us, maybe we’ll even find that very thing that was missing in our story this year... Most importantly, we take our time and go kindly. Our traveling caravan and the donkey are always near us, ready to start a new journey. May our dreams never stop, may the road unravel on! 92

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FestDocs Network

It is a perfect moment in history to start new collaborations with already acclaimed European festivals from Germany, France, Spain. Festivals are meant to be celebrations of life and a meeting place for creativity, a market where opinions and ideas are exchanged and where collaborations come to life. Festivals are necessary for filmmakers to meet their audience, to celebrate films. Since documentaries usually take a long time before they reach their viewers, festivals acknowledge the filmmaker’s achievement and mark an important moment in the film completion process. This is why it is important to establish strong festival bonds and even more in times of social crisis. Now it is time to strengthen the ties, help each other with advice and thus support the art of filmmaking. At the moment, one such network is the Fest Docs Network which helps us to make the best of the online festival edition to take advantage of the new online reality. Moreover, it gives us the opportunity to engage

documentary filmmakers from faraway places to understand the differences of the European realities. Fest Docs Network started spontaneously between the German Doc.fest Munchen, the French FIPADOC from Biariz, the Spanish DocsBarcelona and MakeDox which decided to join their creative forces and different festival experiences so as to bring to the screen films from France, Spain, Germany and the Balkans, France, Spain and Germany before audiences that don’t have the opportunity to see realities from these countries. Which is why we will organize screenings locally but will also cross borders to reach the audiences from rural and other urban areas. This collaboration strengthens our festival markets and seeks possibilities for co-production of documentary films. We’ll therefore involve all three festivals in the CoProDox Forum pitching session and will discuss our future plans as a network, exchanging films from all the countries and attending each other’s festivals being one of the next logical steps. Makedox Layers

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MakeDox in Classroom introduced the documentary film into formal education. With the support of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), we have published two toolkits consisting of 19 creative documentary films for high school teachers in Macedonia. Today, this program is implemented by 140 trained Sociology and Civic Education teachers in 80 high schools throughout Macedonia, reaching at least 30,000 students every year since 2013! We are Visual! Education and Audio-Visualization of Human Rights (WAVE) is a twovolume story. In the first volume we were looking for ways to bring closer documentary stories to teachers and students aged 12-16. Supported by the Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA), we have published a set of 12 documentary films and a handbook for their use within the formal and informal education. Last year we closed the second volume: training of 139 educators and NGO representatives who implement this program in 56 cities and villages across the country. We reached the end of this story in December 2017 when we organized the international conference “Audiovisual Education – future or present” which gathered around one hundred of participants from Macedonia and abroad, including 80 teachers and students, eager to share their experiences and talk about the need of introducing audiovisual content in today’s education system. Youth Film Clubs is a story we began telling together with the Youth Educational Forum. The media clubs in Skopje, Bitola, Resen, Debar, Gevgelija, Kumanovo, Veles, Kichevo, Negotino, Struga, Tetovo and Kratovo were the first to host small temporary cinemas and vast discussion forums. Nowadays, young people’s horizons widen and strong opinions soften as a chopped onion in a heated pan in a few more youth associations and organizations in Macedonia.

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ACTive is a regional creative documentary film school open to the young people from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Macedonia and Serbia. This fantastic story that we’ve told twice so far, together with “Pravo Ljudski” from Bosnia and Herzegovina and “DokuFest” from Kosovo, inspired 11 short doc stories, signed by 30 ACTive participants. Last year, we planted the DocuSprouts seeds for the third time. DocuSprouts is a project aiming to provide education and film literacy to young people, namely high school students aged 15-19 years. It seeks to offer a program - in an informal way, outside of the schools - to young people through which they will not only get acquainted with the basic stages of documentary filmmaking but also get hands-on experience. Driven by the idea of active youth participation in the creation of new cultural values, DocuSprouts recognizes and brings together the weak points in terms of culture availability among young people allowing for new cultural initiatives to emerge. Over the four sessions that take place during MakeDox Traveling Cinema, the film festival and during the autumn and winter months, the future young filmmakers acquire knowledge and develop skills in the field of documentary filmmaking mentored by MakeDox creative team members and acknowledged docuprofessionals from abroad. So far, three short documentaries have been produced by young people for young people, conveying their messages to a wider audience and at the same time motivating the young audience to proactively contribute to the development of the cultural scene. So far, through MakeDox in Cinema, we have shared 75 exceptional documentary stories with nearly 15,000 primary school pupils in Skopje.

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Distribution MOVING DOCS In 2017, MakeDox became a partner in the Moving Docs – a partnership founded for the purpose of joint distribution of documentaries across Europe. As a new EDN initiative supported by Creative Europe, Moving Docs aims to create innovative outreach strategies and to provide opportunities for urban and rural European audiences to enjoy regular screenings of documentary films through a wide variety of media and platforms.

Apart from MakeDox, Moving Docs partners are: Against Gravity – Poland, ARTE – France, Autlook Film Sales – Austria, Berlin Documentary Film Club – Germany, CineDoc – Greece, Demiurg Distribucija – Slovenia, Doc Lounge – Sweden, DocPoppies, Docs Barcelona – Spain, Doc.Fest Munich – Germany, DOXBiO – Denmark, European Documentary Network – Denmark,

BDDN The most beautiful stories deserve to travel and the docu-audiences deserve to hear them. This is why we have founded the Balkan Documentary Distribution Network (BDDN), together with Restart (Croatia), Free Zone and Delta Video (Serbia), DokuFest (Kosovo), UnderhillFest (Montenegro), Demiurg and Petra Pan (Slovenia). www.restartlabel.net www.freezonebelgrade.org www.dokufest.com www.makedox.mk www.underhillfest.me www.deltavideo.rs www.demiurg.si www.petrapan.com

Five Stars Film Distribution – Serbia, Lemesos International Documentary Festival – Cyprus, Film and Campaign и New Notions Cinema from the United Kingdom, One World Human Rights Film Festival – Czech Republic, Rise and Shine Cinema – Germany, Take One Action Film Festivals – United Kingdom Taskovki Films – Bosnia and Herzegovina

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COFFEE AND ONION We often stretch our film canvas at the most unexpected places - in the middle of a meadow, in a library, at a playground and sometimes even in some old or new cinema, garden or backyard. Last year, we launched a collaboration with the multimedia venue “Film and Coffee Kotur”, whose menu also offers “Coffee and Onion”. So far, we have screened 10 documentary films but we are looking forward to seeing you at many more screenings and “Coffee and Onion” hang outs soon.

Index of Films A A piece of forest A tunnel About hair Acasa, my home Alzheimer cafe Ants Apollo Javakheti

H Her family (2010-2019) Holy Father

B Bird boy Black and white Breakwater Breathe

K Karla and Nordahl King of the cruise

C Caught in the net Caught in the net (school version) Chaddr - A River Between Us Collective Couple in a room smoking cigarettes Currents D Dance lessons E Epicentro F Foreplay Fuck, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s biology G Goiat

I It takes a family J Juzina

L Last of the Mohicans Little man, time and the troubadour M Max Richterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Sleep Men are hungry too Merry Christmas, Yiwu Mirror-test My body O Once Aurora Once the dust settles Only the devil lives without hope Opera Glasses Our time machine

R Revision S Sing me a song Smile Snowflake Space dogs Speak So I can see you T The crossing The Earth is blue as an orange The elephant and the bycicle The euphoria of being The fantastic The longing The professor The Rex will sail in The tough Then comes the evening They call me Babu Thinking about the weather Together Tremendous cream W Waste No.4 New York, New York We are all going to die We were all to be queens

P Peacock Pocket man Prince Ki-Ki-Do; Superdo Punks

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Alicia Ferro, Aleksandra Stojanovska,Anastasija Popovska, Andrijana Papić Mancheva, Brand Ferro, Branko Avramovski, Valentino Apostolovski, Vasil Manchev, Vladan Carichich-Tzar, Galina Strachkova, Gorjan Atanasov, Darko Nabakov, Dimitar Shopov, Dorijan Milovanovik, Dorian Krivičič Popovski, Dragan Mishevski, Ena Alushevska, Ivan Alushevski, Igor Delov, Ilindenka Petrusheva, Janko Lazarevski, Jelena Belic, Kira Gjorgjieska, Kiro Shopov, Kirijana A. Nikoloska, Kiril Shentevski, Kosta Nechovski, Lea Dimitrova, Lena Mancheva, Magda Origjanska, Martin Ivanov, Malik Krivičič Popovski, Mia Ferro, Nada Nikoloska, Natasha Shopova, Nil Ferro Selishkar, Pavle Ignovski, Petar Krstevki, Petra Selishkar, Petrula Veljanovska, Ramona Kochishka, Ruse Arsov, Samir Karahasan, Sara Ferro, Sasho N. Alushevski, Sashko Potter Micevsk, Sirma Shopova, Stela Popovska, Terra Ferro Selishkar, Toni Dimkov And all our wonderful volunteers... 98

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Publisher: MakeDox For the Publisher: Pavle Ignovski Editor: Andrijana Papikj Mancheva, Magda Origjanska Collaborator: Darko Nabakov, Ilindenka Petrusheva, Petra Selishkar, Petrula Veljanovska Translation: Andrijana Papikj Mancheva, Magda Origjanska Proofreading: Suzana V. Spasovska Art Direction and Graphics: Samir Karahasan Editorial design: Studio Igor Delov Print: ProMedia Circulation: 400 ISBN-978-608-66051-3-1 Makedox Layers

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