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Contents
Ten years of MakeDox 5 Country in focus: Germany 7 Awards and juries at MakeDox 18 Main program 28 Newcomers 40 Short dox 50 Student dox 62 Kids and Youth program 68 люakeDox+ 80 MakeDox Layers 94 Index 101 Impresum 102
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Ten years of MakeDox
MakeDox is not just a film festival. MakeDox is an experience. It is a place where different worlds meet embraced by the walls of long-standing Kurshumli An- a timeless space in the heart of the Old Turkish Bazaar, created for the exchange of goods and ideas. Entering through the small door, you won’t find yourselves only in the An. You’ve just entered the heart of the family of MakeDox. On the ancient stones lie hundreds of layers full of stories. Curved stairs, tons of memories, an indescribable feeling of belonging, children’s laughter, dogs barking, a muezzin singing, music while waiting for the sun to go down, lush bushes grooving from the roof , the first stars in the night and the first sun rays through the dawn after endless discussions, lots of love and laughter, babies, watermelons, Turkish tea, new relationships and encounters, friendships... We meet and exchange anything one has to offer and share. The power of words strikes under the fig tree and the night stories seem never-ending. All this becomes one in front of the film canvas full of creative documentaries, under a starry sky. MakeDox is a force of different joined energies and filmmakers’ visions of the world we live in. People coming from all over the world, able to make good films. MakeDox
lives and feeds on its love for people and the faith in them. Our festival opens new worlds to the audience and regenerates the vigor of all the people who contributed to its ten-year-old existence. Creative documentary films that take us to places that are rarely visited by most of us. They unite our desire to escape this world and live in someone else’s, in another place... Our symbol, the onion, is just like documentary films. Our story has been growing in layers during these last ten years. One layer unveiled another, while we were simultaneously discovering the layers within us, as well as those in the world around us. And each time we’d think, “that’s the last one”, a new one appeared, and then another was waiting upon our discovery. We are happy that this 10th layer is only the precursor of all things that await to be (re)discovered. Let’s do that together! Onion is the sun, the energy that keeps us going. There are things in life that you shouldn't miss out. Your friend, MakeDox
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COUNTRY IN FOCUS: GERMANY
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Noise over silence or how the blocks of the Berlin Wall turned into sculptures of a free space
I am standing in front of a great culture. I face timelessness. My favorite Brahms, Bach, Beethoven… If Wagner would’ve lived in the 20th century, he’d be the best composer of film music. I also recall Goethe and Thomas Mann… And Kant, Hegel, Adorno, Nietzche… Then Dürer and Ernst… and the centenarian Bauhaus, whose founder Gropius had probably never imagined it as an augmenter of contemporary world architecture. Not to mention the world cinematic heritage that speaks volumes...Murnau, Fritz Lang, then Marlene Dietrich… numberless figures in Europe as well as in Hollywood. The publishing of the Oberhausen Manifesto (Papa’s Cinema is Dead) in 1962 marked the birth of the New German Cinema with the romantic anarchist Fassbinder, the poetic Wenders, the cynical revolutionaries Schlendorf and Herzog… And The Wings of Desire! The Berlin Wall! And Willy Brandt with his Kniefall, kneeling in front of the holocaust memorial in Auschwitz. My heart ardently declares that Berlin has become a world capital of culture, standing tall beside Paris, New York, and London. I am standing in front of a great culture. I face timelessness. *** The 10th, jubilee edition of the MakeDox festival seems full of serendipity. The Bauhaus Centenary toned with the 30th anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall- a challenge strong enough to choose Germany as the leader of our “Country in Focus” festival program. This year, the audience will see eight German creative documentaries produced in the last twenty years. Most of them zoom in the Berlin Wall, the life experiences inside the divided city and East Germany (Concrete end Point, Drawing a Line, Off Ways, The Wall, Rabbit a la Berlin). A timeline long enough to tell stories of a bygone era. Ruthless, malicious times! But there’s also a film that takes us further back to a horrendous, unforgettable epoch (H.Zwilling and F. Zuckerman), then a film that presents the modern myths of our societies (Ladies’ Choice) and lastly, a film that emerges ai a poem of today's Berlin as we know it (The City Named Desire). The authors of these documentaries are joined to the same feature- a subtlety in the visual storytelling. They register facts, using a number of archival footage while noting memories and statements of interviewees, however, never letting the visual representation to thrust upon the viewers’ interpretations. Everything’s clear and precise… You may ask, “What about the authorship?” Here comes a rather different subtilty. In order to unearth the author’s viewpoint, one should track down the hidden signs. I was pleasantly surprised when I noticed that
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these German documentarists use noise and silence as signs that ought to be interpreted. I believe that these elements, together with the staticity and the dynamics of the film camera, stand for the authors’ comments. A note: a furious opening sequence of The City Named Desireseems as if the Angel of the Wings of Desire lands on this city that’s reduced to ashes, then the viewers find themselves on the wide boulevards and in front of the Art Academy before finally meeting artists from all over the world who live and work in Berlin. Among them is the renowned world composer from Estonia, Arvo Part, whose music quivers throughout the film, uniting one world with another. “If you listen carefully, you may catch up to 30 languages in a day”, says one of the interviewees of the director Peter Zach. A flock of birds announces the wasteland in the film The Wall. It is the “cemetery” of the blocks of the Berlin Wall, now turned into sculptures covered in graffiti and exhibited in free space. Nonetheless impressive is the screening of archival footage over the lightened surface of one of the blocks- just imagine all those armies marching under the Brandenburg Gate! The signs go on and on: just like in silent films, the film Concrete end Point presents inscribed telops that speak about minor incidents that took place around the Wall, combined with static views of these places from today’s perspective, escorted by natural noise which, by the end of the film, assimilates with fierce electronic music. Apart from the subtle use of these “sculptures”, the films Drawing a line and Off Ways reflect the sign of silence. It is present in the statements of the interviewees, shaped by natural noise in a discreet way and followed by strong muteness that feels like an endless howl. The film H. Zwilling and F. Zuckerman, absent of any evocations of pathos, tells the harsh story of a small Jewish community in Czernowitz, a town in West Ukraine. The geographical position of this town turns it into an absurd of human civilization. “Well, the location of Czernowitz was the reason they couldn’t determine my national identity ( and I am a Jew), so they marked me as a 'white Russian', opposite the field of 'red Russian' in the form,“ says one of the characters in this film. The author of the film Ladies’ Choice, Viola Stephan, tries to highlight the conditions of professional pursuits of women today, while attempting to ironize modern myths, with the use of a few intriguing signs: archival footage with an audio background of Strauss waltzers in a newly arranged, humorous tune. Then comes a special treat in the first and the last sequence- streams of speech accompanied by rapid movements yet everything’s quiet and covered with subtle piano music.
actual footage! A story about the meadow full of rabbits near Postdamer Platz, where the little, fast settlers soon prove their ability to adapt to the needs of the other natural “species” during various historical occurrences. And let me tell you that those other “species” are ruthless! The last shot- a rabbit is caught in a cage, sadly staring at its meadow (for the last time) through the crack. Then a close-up- the frightened eye of the rabbit! After I had watched all these films, again, and certainly not for the first time, I wonder: What is the greatest evil on Earth? I have the answer. And you? I am standing in front of a great culture. I face timelessness. I.P.
I am closing the circle of German documentaries with the multiply awarded Oscar nominee Rabbit a la Berlin by Bartek Konopka. An extraordinary antipode between the narrator’s text and the visual landscape painted with archival and 9
Germany/ 2009/ 91’
The City Named Desire Sehnsucht Berlin
Director: Peter Zach Script: Peter Zach Cinematography: Thomas Plenert, Peter Zach Editing: Anna Vanessa Cussen, Peter Zach Sound: Stefan Klein, Golo Jahn Production: Jana Cisar Filmproduktion and PZF Selected Filmography: Life Is Bigger (2018) Brezmejno/ Beyond Boundaries (2016) Sehnsucht Berlin/ The City Named Desire (2009) Die Netzarbeiter/ Network Worker (2002) Gestern Mitte Morgen/ Yesterday Mitte Tomorrow (1995)
A portrait of a city as seen by temporary Berliners. The documentary recounts stories from the forty-plus years of post-war history, from the days of the Cold War to the arrival of a new Berliner after the fall of the Wall and depicts those who came and stayed and those who passed on through – artists who report on their life, work, and their personal experiences. The film’s pageant interweaves the life stories of internationally renowned artists which are raucous and restrained stories of constraints and freedom, of flight and yearning, miniatures of world history set in a place that has learned to flaunt its difference to the rest of the world.
Festivals and awards: Achtung Berlin Festival, Germany (2009)/ Visions du Réel, Switzerland (2008)
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COUNTRY IN FOCUS: GERMANY
Germany/ 2015/ 20’
Concrete End Point Grenzpunkt Beton
Director: Gerd Kroske Cinematography: Anne Misselwitz, Börres Weiffenbach, Gerd Kroske Editing: Karin Gerde Schöning Sound: Helge Haack Music: Janek Klaus Production: Realistfilm
Concrete End Point designates a stretch of terrain, a zone, that still runs through Berlin, visible at a few brief points. A remainder of a structure that for 28 years was named “the Wall” and then quickly and eruptively vanished. The film searches for and observes what is still traceable from this structure. Forbidding places, sediments of the past.
Selected Filmography: SPK Complex (2018) Drawing a Line (2014) Der Boxprinz/ The Boxing Prince (2002) Kehrein, Kehraus/ Sweep It Up, Swig It Down (1997) Leipzig im Herbst/ Leipzig in the Fall (1989)
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Germany/ 2014/ 96’
Drawing a Line Striche Ziehen
Director: Gerd Kroske Script: Antje Stamer Cinematography: Anne Misselwitz Editing: Karin Gerda SchĂśning Sound: Marc Meusinger, Sylvia Grabe Music: Die Madmans, Kg Rest Klaus Janek Production: Realist Film Co-production: MDR, RBB
In 1986, five former GDR citizens with roots in the GDR punk and underground scene planned an art project: they wanted to paint a white line all around the wall from the West Berlin side. The event ended in an arrest by GDR border guards, with grave consequences. Only years later the group finds out that one of them was a STASI collaborator. The motives remain unclear while the perfidious consequences reach into the present.
Selected Filmography: SPK Complex (2018) Der Boxprinz/ The Boxing Prince (2002) Kehrein, Kehraus/ Sweep It Up, Swig It Down (1997) Leipzig im Herbst / Leipzig in the Fall (1989) Festivals and awards: new berlin film award, Achtung Berlin Festival, Germany (2015)/ dokumentarfilmwoche Hamburg Film Festival, Germany (2015)/ DOK Leipzig International Festival for Documentary and Animated Film, Germany (2014)/ Audience Award, Duisburg Film Week, Germany (2014)
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Germany/ 1999/ 80’
Ladies' Choice - Scenes from the Civilized West Damenwahl - Szenen аus dem Abendland
Director: Viola Stephan Script: Viola Stephan Cinematography: Thomas Plenert Editing: Gudrun Steinbrück Sound: Wolfgang Widmer Music: Jürgen Knieper Production: Viola Stephan film production Selected Filmography: I Have Loved You (2000) Wednesday (1997) Borowitchi (1996) It Was the End (1992) Festivals and awards: Berlinale, Germany (1999)/ Auckland Film Festival, New Zealand (1999)
A professor of German who lives in Paris, a photographer who lives in New York, another one lives in a villa in Berlin, another deals professionally in the Hermitage in St. Petersburg. They are like all of us, moving between desire and reality, dreams and duties. These six women are the director’s closest friends who lived during the Miracle on the Rhine in Germany and decided to carry on through life without a partner. They only have themselves to thank for the way they live today, though they are neither concerned with feminist issues nor are they against men. How do they live today in the wake of so much liberation and self-improvement? The result: “Oh my God! – I think I’m becoming the man I wanted to marry.”
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Germany/ 1999/ 126’
Mr. Zwilling and Mrs. Zuckermann Herr Zwilling And Frau Zuckermann
Director: Volker Koepp Script: Volker Koepp, Barbara Frankenstein Editing: Angelika Arnold Sound: Uwe Haussig Cinematography: Michael Gööck Production: Barbara Frankenstein
Two Holocaust survivors are interviewed in the city of Czernowitz, a former center of Jewish culture. Mrs. Zuckermann, the old teacher, has survived everything that tried to make the town a regular place. Mr. Zwilling is her pessimistic counterpart. This story looks into new worlds - as old as they may seem to be.
Selected Filmography: Seestück/ Seescape (2018) In Sarmatien (2013) Wittstock, Wittstock (1997) Die Wismut (1993) Festivals and awards: Best Documentary German Film Award, Germany (1999)/ European Film Award, (1999)/ IDFA, The Netherlands (1999)/ Grand Prix, Visions du Réel, Switzerland (1999)/ Berlinale, Germany (1999)
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Germany/ 2009/ 91’
Off Ways Elektrokohle (Von Wegen)
Director: Uli M. Schuppel Script: Uli M. Schuppel Cinematography: Cornelius Plache and Uli M. Schuppel Editing: Ernst Carias Sound: Martin Frühmorgen Music: Einstürzende Neubauten Production: Birgit Mehler and Uli M. Schuppel Co-production: RBB and Medienboard BerlinBrandenburg Selected Filmography: Planet Alex (2001) Vaterland (1992)
At noon on December 21st, 1989 the members of Einstuerzende Neubauten, a band then hailed as a West-German cult export, hit the road in West Berlin for their very first concert in East Berlin, then capital of the GDR. A long, strange journey from Berlin Kreuzberg to Berlin Lichtenberg, into the Wilhelm Pieck-Hall of the industrial plant VEB Elektrokohle. The Berlin Wall is still standing as well as the tedious border control. Filmmaker Uli M Schueppel, a friend of the band, accompanied Einsturzende Neubauten throughout this extraordinary “in-between” day. This film merges the West and the East. What happened back then, on that particular day?
Festivals and awards: Berlinale, Germany (2009)/ CPH:DOX, Denmark (2009)/ Thessaloniki International Film Festival, Greece (2009)/ Ljubljana International Film Festival, Slovenia (2009)/ European Film Festival Palic, Serbia (2009) Festival du Cinema Allemand, France (2009)/ MusiXine-Int Music Film Contest, Finland (2009)/ Sensurround-MusicDocFestival, Sweden (2009)
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Germany, Poland /2009/ 39’
Rabbit à la Berlin Mauerhase
Director: Bartek Konopka Script: Bartek Konopka, Piotr Rosołowski Cinematography: Piotr Rosołowski Editing: Mateusz Romaszkan Sound: Franciszek Kozlowski Music: Cieslak Maciej Production: Heino Decker, Anna Wydra Co-production: Ma.ja.de. Filmproduktion, MDR, RBB and TVP, in association with ARTE, Lichtpunt, YLE and VPRO Selected Filmography: Krew Boga/ The Mute (2018) Droga do mistrzostwa (2016) Sztuka znikania/ The Art of Disappearing (2013) Ballada o kozie/ Goat Walker (2004)
The untold story about wild rabbits which lived on both sides of the Berlin Wall. For 28 years, the Death Zone was their safest home. Full of grass, no predators, guards protecting them from human disturbance. They were closed but happy. When their population grew up to thousands, guards started to remove them. But rabbits survived and stayed there. When the Wall fell down, the rabbits had to abandon the comfortable system. They moved to West Berlin and have been living there in few colonies since then. They are still learning how to live in the free world, just like us – the citizens of Eastern Europe.
Festivals and awards: The Academy Awards, USA (2010)/ The International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography: Camerimage, Poland (2009)/ Hamptons International Film Festival, USA (2009)/ Hot Docs, Canada (2009)/ Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival, The Czech Republic (2009)/ Krakow Film Festival, Poland (2009)
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German Democratic Republic/ 1990/ 99’
The Wall Die Mauer
Director: Jürgen Böttche Script: Jürgen Böttcher Cinematography: Thomas Plenert Editing: Gudrun Plenert, Gudrun Steinbrück Sound: Ronald Gohlke, Henner Golz Production: Stephen Röder
A vivid story about the Berlin Wall at the center of town around Potsdamer Platz and the Brandenburg Gate. The graphic images and collage-like sound mix appeal to our associative powers. Faces and scenes at the moment of this event are strictly complemented by projections of historical sequences on the remains of this inhuman structure.
Selected Filmography: Konzert im Freien/ Concert Outdoor (2001) Der schönste Traum/ The Most Beautiful Dream (1984) Ein Weimarfilm/ Weimar Film (1977) Born in ‘45 (1966) Festivals and awards: Golden Dove Honorary, DOK Leipzig, Germany (2000)/ European Film Award, Germany (1992)/ Darmstadt Art Prize, Germany (1992)/ Prize of International Film Criticism (FIPRESCI), Germany (1991)/ Berlinale, Germany (1990)
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Onion Award Jury — for the Best Film in the Main Program
Anne Georget is a French documentary film director. For twenty years, her films have aired mostly on Arte and public broadcasters in Europe. She was elected as a president of the French The Civil Society of Multimedia Artists- LaScam. Currently, she is the president of FIPADOC, the major international documentary festival in Biarritz, France.
Ineke Smits graduated at the Rotterdam Artschool, The Netherlands. In 1993, she began her master’s degree at the National Film and Television School in England. In 2001, together with the writer Arthur Japin, she realized her first feature film while her second has closed the 2010 International Film Festival in Rotterdam. From 2002-2003, Smits took part in the Nipkow Programm in Berlin. Since 2003 Smits made several documentaries that were selected and awarded at major international film festivals. Since 2011, she has been cooperating with the radio maker Jeroen Stout on new sound and media projects. Also, Smits coaches international projects of young makers, holds workshops and advises funds and organizations. Since 1989, she has been living and working in The Netherlands as well as in Georgia. Currently, she is working on a new film in Abkhazia. Victor Ede was born in 1978. He lives and works in Marseille, France. He has had a transversal carrier in documentary and audiovisual. For almost twenty years, he experienced different jobs in the field of picture, post-production, and a detour through art book publishing. After years of directing art-videos and documentaries, Eden started editing documentaries, mainly those of Jean-Robert Viallet. Ten years after, he focused on resuming project initiatives, meetings with filmmakers and singular projects. He began to find ways to achieve his production desire in 2013 with Cinephage Productions. He joined the Eurodoc network and participated in several workshops and seminars. Ede is a part of the SPI (Independent Producers Union in France), a member of PROCIREP (Producer Fund) and an associate of TENK (French Documentary Platform). Since 2014, he has produced seven documentaries.
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Young Onion Award Jury — for the Best Film by First or Second-Time Director
Vincent Dieutre is a cinĂŠaste who after completing a degree in Art History, entered the IDHEC (Institute for Advanced Cinematographic Studies) then sojourned in Rome and New York. He directed his first film in 1994 while continuing to write and teach at university and in art schools. His films, which have garnered numerous awards, are both documentary and autobiographical. Filled with music, painting and Dieutre's personal life, they constantly explore the borders between the cinema and contemporary art, from theatrical screening and installation to radio creation. His entire body of work is available on DVD and has been the subject of retrospectives. Viola Stephan was born in Heidelberg, Germany. She has completed her studies at the University in Berlin and then continued in London, England where she completed her MA and Ph.D. studies in Slavonic Studies and History. She has worked as a theatre director in New York and taught film classes at NY University. She is the author, director, producer and co-producer of twenty documentary films for television and also a theatrical release lecturer for film and visual communications. Currently, she is working on various film and art projects and exhibitions in Berlin and Switzerland. Gjorce Stavreski is a film director based in Skopje, Macedonia. He graduated from the department of film direction at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Skopje. An awarded film and video professional who has made films, documentaries and commercials, working as a director, producer, and screenwriter. His films were shown on many festivals throughout the world where he has won international awards. His feature debut Secret Ingredient received international acclaim. In just over a year it was selected at 56 film festivals winning 17 international awards. It was a Macedonian foreign-language Oscar submission and the first Macedonian film shown on HBO GO. It received a theatrical distribution in Italy, Greece, Spain and South Korea. Gjorce is a recipient of a prestigious national award for math and sciences and a diehard Sudoku fan.
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Sliced Onion Award — for the Best Short Film
Anca Paunescu was born in Brasov, Romania in 1980. She graduated in German Philology at the University in Sibiu and then in documentary film at the Prague Film School. Paunescu has worked on several documentary and promotional films as a director and cinematographer and these were screened at numerous European film festivals. She worked as a programmer and programming advisor for several film festivals in Moldova, Romania, and Germany. Currently, she is the main selector for documentary film at the Neisse Film Festival, Germany and preselector of feature documentaries for the DokuFest International Film Festival, Kosovo. At the moment, she is preparing her new documentary film as a director. Ondřej Kamenický is the director of the One World International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival. Ondřej studied cinema studies at the Faculty of Arts (Charles University, Prague), and then continued his studies at the Faculty of Art and Design (University of J. E. Purkyně, Ústí nad Labem). Since 2009, he enrolled in the One World International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival that takes place in Prague, Brussels and thirty-five other cities in the Czech Republic. This festival selects and shows documentaries that treat topics such as human rights, social, political, environmental and media issues. The festival also distributes documentary films, assists in new festivals (e.g. in Nicaragua, Hong Kong, Armenia) and focuses on people with disabilities as an active member of the Human Rights Film Network. Martin Ivanov was born in Skopje, Macedonia in 1989. He graduated at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Skopje, at the department of film and TV editing. His debut feature editing was in the film {Secret Ingredient” by Gjorche Stavreski. In 2017, together with the actor Ivica Dimitrievikj, he founded the production company “MI Film” through which he produced and edited one feature film. At the moment, Martin works as a co-screenwriter of a feature film and he has also worked as an editor of several feature fiction films.
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Onion Seed Award Jury — for the Best Student Film
Jasmin Basic is a film historian and programmer, Master of Arts in Cinema and English. Along her career path, she has curated retrospectives on Michael Mann, Charles Burnett, David Cronenberg, Michael Snow, Harun Farocki, Atom Egoyan and on the Yugoslavian Black Wave. Basic has also collaborated with the Geneva University of Arts & Design (HEAD), the Cinemathèque of Tangier, Morocco, the Centre for the Image La Virreina in Barcelona, the Croatian Audiovisual Center, the Cinémathèque and the Centre Pompidou in France and she has also developed programs and events focused on international TV series. Basic was an appointed expert in the Swiss Federal Office of Culture for TV drama and series and a board member of the Geneva Film Commission. She is the co-founder of Pro Short, the Swiss Association for Short Films. In 2017, she joined the production companies La Bête in Paris and Alva Film in Geneva as associate producer. Additionally, Basic has collaborated with numerous international film festivals. Martina Valentina Baumgartner discovered her love for film and stories at an early age, then went to study architecture and pursue her passions. She has been the art director of two feature films. Recently, she has been increasingly involved in film production as a freelancer for companies such as Pola Pandora and Amusement Park Film. In 2015, she launched the Baumi Award. In 2018, together with the Nipkow Programm, she began working on projects that keep her simultaneously engaged with film, coordination, people, and stories. Ileana Stanculescu was born in 1976 in Bucharest, Romania, where she grew up. After she graduated from the University of Paris X in France, Stanculescu continued her studies at the script and film-dramaturgy department at the Konrad Wolf Film Academy in Potsdam, Babelsberg. During her studies, she directed short films and wrote several screenplays. From 2002 to 2004 Stanculescu worked as a script consultant in the script department of the Film Academy and in the production company Silbersee Film in Berlina. In 2004, she completed her studies with the documentary Podul peste Tisa, which won the First Appearance Award at the International Documentary Festival in Amsterdam, as well as several other prizes. The film was selected by several major festivals. In 2007, Ileana participated in the Nipkow Program in Berlin with one of her latest projects, Noosfera.
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Moral Approach Award Jury — for the Film with Best Moral Approach
Vivan Storlund is a doctor of Law, researcher, and journalist. Her research focuses on the new conditions of the digital age which she considers a time full of great threats great but also great possibilities. According to her, artists are central as they have long-standing experience in working practices that have now become typical and are regarded as regular. Therefore, redefinition of work is the imperative that ought to provide recognition to artists and creatives that would mirror their societal contributions. One way to do that is through accession to basic income. John Parish is an accomplished composer, solo artist, producer, and collaborator, known for his work with PJ Harvey, Aldous Harding, Eels, Giant Sand and others. Parish has been writing for film, theatre and contemporary dance since the late ‘90s when his first score for the film Rosie won the Jury Special Appreciation Award at the 1999 Bonn International Film Music Biennale. Parish has composed a number of music pieces that were nominated and awarded at numerous international festivals. Also, Parish was a member of the international jury at the Gent Film Festival in 2013. As a producer, he has been responsible for a string of ground-breaking albums, most recently Aldous Harding’s “Designer” and PJ Harvey’s number one album “The Hope Six Demolition Project”. As an artist, Parish has co-authored two albums with PJ Harvey and released four albums under his own name on the acclaimed independent music label “Thrill Jockey.” Risto Solunchev was born in Skopje, in 1976. Currently, he works as an associate professor at the Institute of Philosophy, at the Faculty of Philosophy in Skopje and teaches Contemporary Philosophy, Classical German Philosophy, and Philosophy of the New Century. In 1989, accompanied by several other musicians, he took part in the creation of the hip-hop band “Chista Okolina”- one of the first and most influential bands in the history of Macedonian hip-hop music and movement. In 2006, he became the chorister of the Byzantine choir “Harmosini” that he formed together with other admirers of church music and singing. He wrote and published essays and paper studies focused on philosophy, aesthetics, and science of culture.
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The United Kingdom, Germany/ 2018/ 89’
Aquarela Aquarela
Director: Victor Kossakovsky Script: Victor Kossakovsky, Aimara Reques. Cinematography: Victor Kossakovsky, Ben Bernhard Editing: Victor Kossakovsky, Molly Malene Stensgaard, Ainara Vera Sound: Alexander Dudarev Music: Eicca Toppinen Production: Heino Deckert, Sigrid Dyekjær, Aimara Reques Co-production: Joslyn Barnes, Susan Rockfeller, Emile Hertling Peronard
A deeply cinematic journey through the transformative beauty and raw power of water. A proof that humans are no match for the sheer force and capricious will of Earth’s most precious element. From the precarious frozen waters of Russia’s Lake Baikal to Miami in the throes of Hurricane Irma to Venezuela’s mighty Angel Falls, water is Aquarela’s main character, with director Victor Kossakovsky capturing her many personalities in startling visual detail.
Selected Filmography: Greine de Champion (2016) Sport kids: Varicella (2015) Manifestación/ Demonstration (2014) ¡Vivan las Antípodas! (2011) Россия из моего окна/ Russia from My Window (2003) Festivals and awards: CPH: DOX, Denmark (2019)/ DocsBarcelona, Spain (2019)/ Trento Film Festival, Italy (2019)/ La Biennale di Venezia, Italy (2018)/BFI London Film Festival, UK (2018)/ IDFA, The Netherlands (2018)
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Spain/ 2019/ 55’
City of the Dead Ciudad de los muertos
Director: Miguel Eek Script: Miguel Eek Cinematography: Joan Vidal Editing: Aina Calleja Sound: Ruben PĂŠrez Production: Mosaic Producciones Co-production: IB3
Death is still a taboo that causes fascination and fear in equal parts. Nevertheless, there are people who face it every day in their work and have found another way to understand and cope with it. The cemetery and the funeral home in Palma are the settings for this story. City of the Dead is a discourse on death, narrated by those who have learned to live with it.
Selected Filmography: Vida y muerte de un arquitecto/ Life and Death of an Architect (2017) Vida Divina/ Life full of joy (2016) Bennazar, el arquitecto de Palma/ Bennazar, the Architect from Palma (2014) Festivals and awards: FIPADOC, France (2019)/ DOXA Documentary Film Festival, Canada (2019)
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Italy, France/ 2018/ 84’
I Had a Dream Avevo un sogno
Director: Claudia Tosi Script: Claudia Tosi Cinematography: Claudia Tosi, Andrea Gioacchini Editing: Marco Duretti Sound: Diego Schiavo, Jean-Marc Dussardier Music: Pasini Enrico, Rossi Daniele Production: Claudia Tosi, Nathalie Combe Selected Filmography: Verso Casa/ Homewards (2016) The Perfect Circle (2014) Mostar United (2008) Building the Winter Games (2006)
Manuela and Daniela dream to change their country, Italy, but have to meet the harsh reality. From the feminist fights against Berlusconi to the last elections of 2018, the film explores the last ten years of Italy through the political action and the everyday life of the two compelling women. Supported only by their deep friendship and political passion, Manuela, Deputy of the Parliament, and Daniela, active on a local level, face the Italian women-non-friendly political environment and testimony a change that they would have never expected: the death of politics and the rise of populism.
Festivals and awards: Golden Dove, DOK Leipzig, Germany (2019)/ DOXA Documentary Film Festival, Canada (2019)/ Hot Docs, Canada (2019)/ Linz Film Festival, Austria (2019)
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Chile, Germany/ 2018/ 78’
Los Reyes Los Reyes
Director: Iván Osnovikoff, Bettina Perut Script: Bettina Perut, Iván Osnovikoff Cinematography: Pablo Valdez Editing: Bettina Perut, Iván Osnovikoff Music: Iván Osnovikoff, Bettina Perut Production: Maite Alberdi / Perut + Osnovikoff Ltda. Co-production: Dirk Manthey Film Selected Filmography: Surire (2015) Welcome to New York (2006) El astuto mono Pinochet contra la moneda de los cerdos/ Clever Monkey Pinochet versus La Moneda’s Pig (2004)
Chola and Football are stray dogs who are best friends. They have found a home in a skate park in urban Chile. The film is seen through the eyes of the two scruffy mongrels, and both heartbreaking drama and great emotions are at play. The park is frequented by young men, who are forever chatting about their never-ending problems with their parents, at school and with drugs. Finely registered details and magical everyday poetry, and a tribute to the art of observing the beauty that takes place right in front of us.
Festivals and awards: DOXA Documentary Film Festival, Canada (2019)/ Miami Film Festival, USA (2019)/ Special Jury Award, IDFA, The Netherlands (2018)
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Germany, The United Kingdom, USA/ 2018/ 90’
Meeting Gorbachev Meeting Gorbachev
Director: Werner Herzog, Andre Singer Script: Werner Herzog Cinematography: Richard Blanshard, Yuri Barak Editing: Michael Ellis Sound: Vladimir Rizun Music: Nicholas Singer Production: Svetlana Palmer, Lucki Stipetic (History Films) Co-production: Spring Films, Werner Herzog Film GMBH Selected Filmography: Into the Inferno (2016) Salt and Fire (2016) Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010) Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009)
Now 87 and battling illness, the visionary Mikhail Gorbachev, the former General Secretary of the U.S.S.R, has mellowed and slowed down. Still, gently but resolutely, he is pushing towards his goals. Herzog, as an on-screen interviewer, does not disguise his affection, celebrating Gorbachev’s three remarkable accomplishments: negotiations with the U.S. to reduce nuclear weapons; cessation of Soviet control of Eastern Europe and the reunification of Germany; and the dissolution of the Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc. All of this in six years! One German diplomat sums up Gorbachev’s approach: “The process went so quickly that … opponents were overcome by the reality of the situation.” A reminder of the drastic and unforeseeable way the world changes.
Festivals and awards: Belfast Film Festival, Northern Ireland (2019)/ Tribeca Film Festival, USA (2019)/ Telluride Film Festival, USA (2018)/ Toronto International Film Festival, Canada (2018)/ Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival, The Czech Republic (2018)
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The Czech Republic, France/ 2019/ 78’
Forman vs. Forman Forman vs. Forman
Director: Helena Trestikova, Jakub Hejna Script: Helena Trestikova Cinematography: David Cysar Editing: Jakub Hejna Sound: Richard Muller Music: Gilles Sivilotto Production: Christine Camdessus, Katerina Cerna Selected Filmography: Divadlo Svoboda/ Theatre Svoboda (2016) Zkaza Krasou/ Doomed Beauty (2016) Katka (2010) „Марчела“/ Marcela (2007)
A strong documentary that paints fondly the career of director Milos Forman, from the Czech New Wave to Hollywood. From his youth in Czechoslovakia under the Nazi burden and communist rule to his first successes abroad with the Czech New Wave, to his exile in New York after the Prague Spring to his international fame. The intimate portrait of an outcast with exclusive access to the family archive. Oscars and political upheavals for a life in the service of the cinema.
Festivals and awards: Cannes Film Festival, France (2019), The Midnight Sun Film Festival, Finland (2019)/ Karlovy Vary, The Czech Republic (2019)
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The Netherlands/ 2018/ 81’
Sheep Hero Schapenheld
Director: Ton van Zantvoort Script: Ton van Zantvoort Cinematography: Ton van Zantvoort Editing: Ton van Zantvoort Sound: Jeroen Goeijers, Iris van de Rijt, Olivier Nijs, Annerose Langeveld Music: Bemelmans Roy Production: Ton van Zantvoort, Marc Thelosen, Koert Davidse Co-production: Omroep Brabant, KRO-NCRV Selected Filmography: De Benno Tapes (2015) Kees en Mien (2011) A Blooming Business (2009) Grito de piedra/ Scream of the Stone (2006)
A traditional shepherd losing his hair overnight because of extreme stress: what a paradox. Ten years ago, director Ton van Zantvoort became friends with one of the last traditional shepherds in the Netherlands. He had a perfect life: a loving wife, a flock of sheep, and was living in nature as we all once did and often still long for. Throughout the years the filmmaker noticed how the relaxed, cheerful and passionate shepherd was becoming bitter and increasingly short-tempered. Wasn’t herding sheep supposed to be the most relaxed and romantic profession in the world?
Festivals and awards: Audience Award, IDFA, The Netherlands (2018)/ Best International Documentary, Docville, Belgium (2018)
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The Czech Republic, France, Argentina, Austria/ 2019/ 84’
Solo Solo
Director: Artemio Benki Script: Artemio Benki Cinematography: Diego Mendizabal Editing: Valeria Raccioppi, Jeanne Oberson Sound: Pablo Girosa, Miguel Tennina, Sebastian Lipsik, Benjamin Rosier, Olivier Dô Hùu Music: Perino Martin Production: Artcam Films, Small to Small Production Co-production: Golden Girls and Lomo Cine Selected Filmography: Personal Shopper (2016) The Dancer (2016) Marguerite (2015)
Martín P. is a young Argentinian piano virtuoso and composer, who in the last four years has been a patient in the largest and the most notable but also controversial psychiatric hospital in Latin America. The child prodigy and the most promising talent of his generation is now trying to find a way how to overcome his mental disease and come back to life and on the concert stages. A unique, yet universal story about the obsession with perfection and creation, narrating the evolution of a human being who draws his strength from his own fragility.
Festivals and awards: Cannes Film Festival, France (2019)/ DocuFest, Kosovo (2019)
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Russia/ 2018/ 85’
The Book of the Sea Kniga Morya
Director: Aleksei Vakhrushev Script: Aleksei Vakhrushev Cinematography: Vyacheslav Makaryev, Ruslan Fedotov Editing: Julia Trofimenko Sound: Maria Ushenina, Sergei Ovcharenko Music: Tavrizyan Alexander Production: Aleksei Vakhrushev Selected Filmography: The Tundra Book: A Tale of Vukvukai, the Little Rock (2011) Festivals and awards: DOK Leipzig, Germany (2018)
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In the frigid waters off of Russia’s Bering Strait, Inuit, and Chukchi hunters still seek out the giant sea mammals that sustained their people since time immemorial. Life meets myth as a new generation of hunters sets out to sea to hunt whales, walruses, and seals that have tied them to these remote shores since the beginning of time. The contemporary story of the elders Alexander and Alexei blends seamlessly with that of “the woman who gave birth to a whale” and other ancient myths, told here in vivid animation, in this ongoing struggle for survival and preservation of a traditional lifestyle in one of the most remote places on earth.
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Ukraine, The Czech Republic/ 2018/ 78’
The Winter Garden’s Tale Історія зимового саду
Director: Simon Mozghoviy Script: Simon Mozghoviy Cinematography: Denis Melnyk Editing: Mykola Bazarkin Sound: Natalia Avramenko, Andriy Nidzelskyi, Michal Pajdiak Music: Roman Grygoriv, Illia Razumeiko Production: Alex Chepiga, Taras Bosak, Artem Koliubaiev Festivals and awards: Jihlava International Film Festival, The Czech Republic (2018)/ DOK Leipzig, Germany (2018)/ Visions du Réel, Switzerland (2018)/ DOCUDAYS Film Festival, Ukraine (2017)
Mrs. Valentina Voronina has been the steward of the floriculture pavilion in the Exhibition of Achievements of the National Economy of the Ukrainian SSR for 45 years. This lady has devoted her life to tending plants and mending structures, making the most of seemingly insufficient resources to keep the greenhouse alive and standing. But times are changing, and she has been asked to leave the facility and retire. A portrait at once physical and psychological that rises the question of whether it is more painful to see an entity fail in your absence or to see it thrive without you.
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Ireland, The United Kingdom/ 2019/ 92’
A Dog Called Money A Dog Called Money
Director: Seamus Murphy Script: Seamus Murphy Cinematography: Seamus Murphy Editing: Sebastian Gollek Sound: Seamus Murphy Music: Harvey Polly Jean Production: Isabel Davis, Katie Holly, James Wilson, Seamus Murphy Selected Filmography: A Darkness Visible: Afghanistan (2011) Frontline World (2002) Festivals and awards: Berlinale, Germany (2019)/ CPH:DOX, Denmark (2019)
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A uniquely intimate journey through the inspiration, writing, and recording of a PJ Harvey record. Writer and musician Harvey and award-winning photographer Seamus Murphy hatched a collaboration with Harvey. Seeking a first-hand experience of the countries she wanted to write about, Harvey accompanied Murphy on some of his worldwide reporting trips, joining him in Afghanistan, Kosovo, and Washington DC. Harvey collected words, Murphy collected images. Back home, the words become poems, songs, then an album, which is recorded as an unprecedented art experiment in Somerset House, London.
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The Czech Republic/ 2018/ 78’
Central Bus Station Central Bus Station
Director: Tomáš Elšík Script: Tomáš Elšík, Kristina Nedvědová Cinematography: Ondřej Belica, Tomáš Elšík Editing: Tomáš Elšík Kotrlova, Mariana Kozáková Sound: Dominik Dolejší Music: Dolejší Dominik, Hudec Simeon Production: Jitka Kotrlová, Ondřej Šejnoha, Petr Novák, Michal Mocňák Selected Filmography: Dementova zpráva/ Message from Dement (2012)
Central Bus Station is one of the biggest and at the same time, one of the most pathetic stations in the world. Initially, the architects visioned this station as a building that would enchant its visitors, but today it is a haven for refugees from all over the world. Yonatan has been guiding people through the dark side of the station for 17 years already. Тhe places that were supposed to stay hidden are now full of small communities that defend their new home while overseeing their original traditions and values.
Festivals and awards: Jihlava International Film Festival, The Czech Republic (2019)
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Finland, Belgium, Germany/ 2019/ 73’
Gods of Molenbeek Aatos ja Amine
Director: Reetta Huhtanen Script: Reetta Huhtanen Editing: Jamin Benazzouz Cinematography: Hannu-Pekka Vitikainen Music: Senjan Jansen, Tuomas Nikkinen, Cassis B. Staudt Production: Hannu-Pekka Vitikainen, Zone2 Pictures Oy Selected Filmography: Talousennustajat/ Economic Forecasts (2015) The Coffee Break (2009) Festivals and awards: Special Prize, Church Media Foundation prize, Tampere Film Festival, Finland (2019)/ Hot Docs Film Festival, Canada (2019)/ Golden Lynx Award, FEST International Film Festival, Portugal (2019)/ Visions du Réel, Switzerland (2019)/ Audience Award, Critic's Choice Award, DocPoint – Helsinki Documentary Film Festival, Finland (2019)
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Growing up in the Molenbeek district of Brussels amidst suicide bombings and police patrols, six-year-old friends Aatos and Amine ponder the big existential questions that have occupied thinkers and theologians since the beginning of time. Is there a higher power? Is nature a god? Aatos wants a god of his own, just as Amine has Allah, but the question becomes complicated when his friend Flo expresses her belief that "people who believe in God have become crazy…crazy because they believed God existed and he doesn't." These children teach adults a great deal about how and when humans become separated from their humanity.
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North Macedonia/ 2019/ 85’
Honeyland Медена земја
Director: Ljubomir Stefanov, Tamara Kotevska Script: Ljubomir Stefanov, Tamara Kotevska Cinematography: Fejmi Daut, Samir Ljuma Editing: Atanas Georgiev Sound: Rana Eid Music: Foltin Production: Atanas Georgiev (Trice Films)
If one breaks the rule, everyone pays the price. The last female beehunter in Europe must save the bees and restore natural balance when nomadic beekeepers break Honeyland's basic rule - take half of the honey but leave half to the bees.
Selected Filmography: Lake of Apples (2017) Free Hugs (2015) Studants (2016) Festivals and awards: Grand Jury Prize, Cinematography Award, World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award, Sundance Film Festival, USA (2019)/ Grand Prix Award, Millenium Docs Against Gravity Film Festival, Poland (2019)/ Best Documentary, DocsBarcelona, Spain (2019)/ DocAviv Film Festival, Israel (2019)/ Hong Kong International Film Festival, China (2019)
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Germany/ 2019/ 83’
Searching Eva Searching Eva
Director: Pia Hellenthal Script: Pia Hellenthal, Giorgia Malatrasi Cinematography: Janis Mazuch Editing: Yana Höhnerbach Sound: Marcus Zilz Music: Zilz Marcus Production: Erik Winker and Martin Roelly Co-production: ZDF Das kleine Fernsehspiel Selected Filmography: Palim Palim (2012) Ganoven/ Crooks (2012) Trauerkantate in sechs Arien/ Cantata of Grief (2011)
A portrait of modern existence. Eva, 25 - drifter, Berliner, pet-owner, poet, sex worker, Virgo, recovering addict, housewife, feminist, model declared privacy an outdated concept at the age of 14. This is the tale of a young woman growing up in the age of the internet, turning the search for oneself into a public spectacle, challenging you on what a woman „should be“. Through her fragmented personalities, you see the emergence of a generation, in which the concept of a fixed identity has grown old.
Festivals and awards: Berlinale, Germany (2019)/ DOX:AWARD, CPH:DOX, Denmark (2019)
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Italy, USA/ 2019/ 95’
The Disappearance of My Mother Storia di B. La scomparsa di mia madre
Director: Beniamino Barrese Script: Beniamino Barrese Cinematography: Beniamino Barrese Editing: Valentina Cicogna Sound: Massimo Mariani Music: Cupples Aaron Production: Filippo Macelloni, Beniamino Barrese, Benedetta Barzini Selected Filmography: Sodom (2017) Departure (2015)
An iconic fashion model strives to escape the world of images and disappear for good. In the 1960s, she became a muse to Warhol, Dali, Penn, and Avedon. As a radical feminist in the 1970s, she fought for the rights and emancipation of women. But at the age of 75, she becomes fed up with all the roles that life has imposed upon her and decides to leave everything and everybody behind, to disappear to a place as far as possible from the world she knows. However, her son is determined to make a film about her so she unexpectedly confronts the camera's gaze again.
Festivals and awards: Sundance, USA (2019)/ CPH:DOX, Denmark (2019)/ Cartagena IFF, Colombia (2019)/ Hot Docs, Canada (2019)
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Switzerland/ 2018/ 85’
The Journey A Story of Love Immer und Ewig
Director: Fanny Bräuning Script: Fanny Bräuning Cinematography: Pierre Mennel Editing: Catrin Vogt Sound: Patrick Becker Music: Olivia Pedrolli Production: Thomas Thümena Selected Filmography: No More Smoke Signals (2008) Paloma (2001) Meine Mutter/ My Mother (1999)
A man and a woman are traveling around the world in a camper van: Niggi, a passionate photographer, and Annette, the love of his life, paralyzed from the neck down in the last 20 years. With courage, wit, and charm they wrest from life. But what happens to love when the circumstances of life change drastically? Full of curiosity and wonder, The filmmaker (and daughter) has many questions so she starts looking goes in search of answers. The result is an enheartening film, a gripping homage to life and a must for all those who still want to believe in love.
Festivals and awards: Solothurn Film Festival, Switzerland (2019)/ Jury Award, DOK Leipzig, Germany (2018)
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The United Kingdom/ 2018/ 78’
Westwood: Punk, Icon, Activist Westwood: Punk, Icon, Activist
Director: Lorna Tucker Cinematography: James Moriarty Editing: Paul Carlin Music: Dan Jones Production: Finished Films, Passion Pictures, Selected Filmography: Amá (2018) Jurassic (2014) Red Shoes (2013) Festivals and awards: Sundance, USA (2018)/ CPH:DOX, Denmark (2018)/ True/ False Film Festival, USA (2018)/ IDFA, The Netherlands (2018)/ São Paulo International Film Festival, Brazil (2018)
The most distinctive looks of our time have been created and defined by her. This woman has been retailoring British fashion since the first sparks of the punk movement and her temporary companionship with Sex Pistols’ manager Malcolm McLaren. Beautifully crafted reconstruction, archive and insightful interviews with the fascinating Vivienne Westwood. An intimate and poignant homage of the icon’s life path, from postwar Derbyshire to the runways in Paris and Milan as she fights to maintain her brand’s legacy challenged by global expansion and inexhaustible consumerism.
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Canada/ 2019/ 10’
Acadiana Acadiana
May 2017. As the new President of the United States takes his ease in the White House, the city of Breaux Bridge, Louisiana, is the theatre of the mythic Crawfish Festival. It’s just another day, in America.
Director: Guillaume Fournier, Samuel Matteau, Yannick Nolin Script: Guillaume Fournier Cinematography: Yannick Nolin Editing: Samuel Matteau Sound: Luc Léger, Mathieu Robineau Music: Cantin Mathieu, Matteau Samuel, Robineau Mathieu Production: Kinomada Selected Filmography: 2 Dollars (2017) Sans Plombs (2015) Au rythme du temps (2015) The Silent Combat (2012) Festivals and awards: REGARD International Short Film Festival, Canada (2019)/ Slamdance Film Festival, Canada (2019)/ Hot Docs, Canada (2019)
Switzerland/ 2018/ 10’
All Inclusive All Inclusive
A workout on the sun deck, a conga line in the dining hall, a photoshoot with the captain, or a beauty contest for all ages: fun around-the-clock is guaranteed on a cruise, while you float along with your hotel room. The sea-faring holiday fortresses have come into vogue and business is booming. In the towering ship's wake, we are left behind with a hoard of digital memories and a cloud of exhaust fumes on the horizon.
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Director: Corina Schwingruber Ilić Script: Corina Schwingruber Ilić Cinematography: Nikola Ilić Editing: Corina Schwingruber Ilić Sound: Robert Büchel Music: Heidi Happy Production: Stella Händler Selected Filmography: Ins Holz/ In the Woods (2017) Just Another Day in Egypt (2015) Festivals and awards: Best Documentary in International Competition, Tampere International Film Festival, Finland (2019)/ Sundance Film Festival, USA (2019)/ Best International Short Film, Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, Estonia (2018)/ IDFA, The Netherlands (2018)
USA/ 2019/ 23’
All on a Mardi Gras Day All on a Mardi Gras Day
An intimate portrait of one man’s obsessive journey through the secret 200-year culture of his ancestors. On the outskirts of New Orleans, in a run-down home lives Demond Melancon. His tribe- the Young Seminole Hunters - represents the Lower Ninth Ward, the most famous casualty of Hurricane Katrina. At a time of accelerated gentrification, Demond’s been pushed to the suburbs. Still, he is creating a masterpiece for the upcoming carnival: an extravagant, one-timewear suit so detailed it looks like an oil painting.
Director: Michal Pietrzyk
A bunch of seniors enjoy Skopje’s cultural events on a daily basisexhibitions, concerts, poetry readings where food, as well as a glass of wine, are offered for free. They communicate via their mobile phones and arrange the schedule of the day together. When societal judgment is about to stop their way of having fun – they realize that this habit means much more to them.
Director: Ana Aleksovska
Script: Michal Pietrzyk Cinematography: Gabriel Bienczycki Editing: Michal Pietrzyk Sound: Jason Devore Music: Kai Engel Production: Michal Pietrzyk, Gabriel Bienczycki, Celeste Caliri, David Favret Selected Filmography: Dark Woods Justice (2016) Alaska State Troopers (2014) Blood and Oil (2013) Russia’s Toughest Prisons (2011)
North Macedonia/ 2019/ 32’
Consuming Contemporary Господата од Современа
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Script: Angelika Apsis Editing: Bogoljub Milovanoski, Vladimir Dimoski, Mihail Dimitrov Sound: Sashko Micevski Cinematography: Vladimir Dimoski, Gjorgji Klincharov, Samir Ljuma, Branko Avramovski Production: Marija Dimitrova Selected Filmography: Mean Camera (2015) Three Red Lines (2013) Alarm (2012)
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Poland/ 2018/ 18’
Dancing for you Tancze dla Ciebie
Wiktor, a twelve-year-old pupil at a renowned ballet school is preparing for a great event in his school. It’s the show of level placement which decides whether he’ll be promoted to the next grade. All the teachers and the pupils’ parents will attend as well as Wiktor’s grandmother his greatest companion during rehearsing, but he hopes that his father, who lives abroad, will come to the show.
Director: Katarzyna Lesisz Script: Katarzyna Lesisz Cinematography: Mateusz Dymek, Sebastian Weber Editing: Michal Poddebniak Sound: Katarzyna Lesisz Music: Katarzyna Figat, Klaudia Sadowska Production: Polish Filmmakers Association, Munk Studio, Media Move Selected Filmography: Sashka (2018) A New Tomorrow (2017) Taka Nasza gra/ This is Our Game (2015) Festivals and awards: Festival International de Films de Femmes de Créteil, France (2019)/ Best Children’s Documentary in the Kids & Docs Competition, IDFA, The Netherlands (2018)/ Warsaw Film Festival, Poland (2018)
Russia, Germany/ 2018/ 20’
Dorotchka Dorotchka
At the kitchen table in a wooden house in the Siberian countryside, the 80-year-old Dorotchka, an archetypal babushka, contemplates life. Love, regret and loneliness—has she maybe brought this fate upon herself? Living in a place where marriage is traditionally seen as the greatest achievable happiness for a woman, she has always remained alone. The relentless landscape in which there’s constant hard work to be done, as well as black-andwhite footage of Russian country weddings remind of a romanticized bygone era.
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Director: Olga Delane Cinematography: Nikolaj von Graevenitz, Olga Delane Editing: Phillip Gromov Sound: Olga Delane Production: Olga Delane, Frank Müller Selected Filmography: Siberian Love (2016) Endstation. Ein Heimatbesuch (2012) Festivals and awards: IDFA, The Netherlands (2019)/ International Female Film Festival (2019)
Poland/ 2018/ 20’
Horseriders Krzyzoki
The residents of a village near Opole, southern Poland are celebrating Easter Sunday, so people, as well as horses, have gathered near the church. The traditional Easter celebration includes prayers, a horse ride around the households and fervent tipsy singers. Black and white photography tells the story of a holiday celebrated in a dignified atmosphere where the sacred enters the profane through a bizarre chase. The observer of all this is the figurine of Resurrected Christ.
Director: Anna Gawlita
A phenomenon present within Albanian families, in rural Kosovo, where fathers build identical houses for their sons who inherit the property. The sons live and work abroad, while their families are longing return and hoping for a future long-term reunion. In practise, however, they only come back for family celebrations and funerals. Although they feel connected to the homeland and culture of their childhood and youth, they also feel alienated. This is a story of joint households, migration and reflection of traditional attitudes.
Director: Samir Karahoda
Script: Anna Gawlita Cinematography: Tomasz Wolski Editing: Tomasz Wolski Sound: Anna Gawlita, Marcin Lenarczyk Music: Gorczyński Michal Production: Kijora, Anna Gawlita Selected Filmography: Festiwal/ Festival (2017) Casa Blanca (2015) Zlota Rybka/ Goldfish (2008) Festivals and awards: Jury Award, Busan International Short Film Festival, Korea (2019)/ Beldoc International Film Festival, Serbia (2019)/ Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, France (2019)/ 18th DokuFest International Documentary and Short Film Festival, Kosovo (2019)/ Tenerife Shorts, Canary Islands (2018)
Kosovo/ 2019/ 14’
In Between Në Mes
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Script: Samir Karahoda Cinematography: Samir Karahoda Editing: Enis Saraçi Sound: Gëzim Rama Music: Shaqir Ninaj Production: Eroll Bilibani, Sk Pictures Selected Filmography: Nje Tregim Prishtine/ A Prishtina Story (2018) The Given Word (2016) Kolona (2012) Three Minutes of Solitude (2009) Festivals and awards: Berlinale, Germany (2019)/ FIPADOC, France (2019)/ IDFA, The Netherlands (2018)
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Switzerland, Germany/ 2018/ 8’
In Loving Memory of the Future In Loving Memory of the Future
Archival footage of a weekend on the beach evoke the sound of distant memories: the rock band, the pre-60s flowerpower movement, the feeling of carelessness and freedom… That was the in the 1950s. Today, memories and thoughts recall the youth that still floats through the air for some. A visual essay on memory and the deceptive truth of images.
Director: Laurence Favre
A girl is growing up in the '60s and '70s in the largest affordable cooperative in Brooklyn. Her world is artfully captured by her mother whose creative talents shine through her Super-8 that documents life and growing up. Today, the girl is still living at the same place and examines these candid films which unravel the challenges her mother faced as a black woman with an urge for creative self-representation.
Director: Ivana Hucíková, Sarah Keeling, Grace Remington
Script: Laurence Favre Cinematography: Laurence Favre Editing: Laurence Favre Sound: Philippe Ciompi, Gabor Ripli Production: Virgule Films Co-production: Volte Slagen Selected Filmography: Résistance/ Resistance (2017) Nwa-Manakamana (2013) Festivals and awards: Locarno Film Festival, Switzerland (2018)
USA/ 2018/ 16’
Into My Life Into My Life
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Cinematography: Ivana Hucíková, Sarah Keeling Editing: Ivana Hucíková Sound: Sarah Keeling Music: Kenniff Keith Production: Grace Remington Selected Filmography: Abstract: The Art of Design (2017) Matky a dcéry/ Mothers and Daughters (2015) Festivals and awards: Tribeca Film Festival, USA (2018)/ Hot Docs, Canada (2018)/ Best Documentary Short Award, Reel Sisters of the Diaspora Film Festival, USA (2018)
Colombia/ 2016/ 21’
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Killing Klaus Kinski Killing Klaus Kinski
The hostility of the Amazon and its natural forces join together while the shooting of a film. The overpowering jungle and harsh weather lead the film crew to plot the assassination of the main actor. A myth of the history of film when in the toughest part of filming “Fitzcarraldo”, Werner Herzog fantasized about killing actor Klaus Kinski.
Director: Spiros Stathoulopoulos
Misericórdia is a portrait of a community through the dreams of its inhabitants. I spent three months on the island of Itaparica in the state of Bahia, Brazil, gathering the dreams of people while filming scenes of their everyday lives. Soon that mixture of dreams and documentary triggered what could be called a third reality that belongs to the realm of magic: the dream of dreams, evocative of the enchantment and ancestry of Bahia, the African heart of Brazil.
Director: Xavier Marrades
Script: Spiros Stathoulopoulos Cinematography: David Curto Sound: David Corredor Music: David Ruggero Leoncavallo Production: Candelaria Films Selected Filmography: Amazonas (2016) Metéora (2012) PVC-1 (2007) Festivals and awards: Best Colombian Short Film, Cinema Colombiano Festival, Colombia (2017)/ Clermont Ferrand Film Festival, France (2017)/ Kortfilmfestivalen, Norway (2017)
Spain, Brazil/ 2019/ 22’
Misericórdia Misericórdia
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Script: Xavier Marrades Cinematography: Xavier Marrades Editing: Xavier Marrades Sound: Jordi Ribas Production: Xavier Marrades, Jerome Thelia Festivals and awards: New Directors New Films Festival, USA (2019)/ Sheffield Documentary Festival, UK (2019)
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Belgium, Colombia/ 2018/ 15’
Our Song To War Nuestro Canto A La Guerra
A poetic, visually stunning story that reveals the secrets of our collective subconscious. In 2002, in the Colombian village of Bojayá, something horrible happened. The ghosts from the near past still haunt the villagers while they are searching for a new balance and purpose. Across a mystic river, the living guide the angry spirits to reconciliation while observing the “Novenario” death ritual.
Director: Juanita Onzaga
Vasily Vlasov, 21, is the youngest parliamentarian in the Russian Duma. Abundantly confident and self-assured, he seems as the new refreshing voice yet his ideals are rooted in the past. Women should obey their husbands, and at most have a humble occupation such as a nurse or a schoolteacher, he explains to his girlfriend Katya. A walk through the political theatre staged in Moscow while Vasily plays his role as the assistant and protégé of the ultra-nationalist politician Vladimir Zhirinovsky.
Director: Katja Fedulova
Script: Juanita Onzaga Cinematography: Juanita Onzaga Editing: Juanita Onzaga Sound: Jeremy Bocquet Music: Las Musas de Pogue Production: Rana Films & De Chinezen Selected Filmography: The Jungle Knows You Better Than You Do/ La Jungla Te Conoce Mejor Que Tu Mismo (2017) Festivals and awards: Cannes Film Festival, France (2018)/ Quinzaine des Réalisateurs, France (2018)/ DOK Leipzig, Germany (2018)/ Jury Prize, Bogota Short Film Festival, Colombia (2018)/ Golden Star, El Gouna Film Festival, Egypt (2018)/ Jury Prize for Best Flemish Documentary, International Short Film Festival of Leuven, Belgium (2018)
Germany/ 2018/ 35’
The Patriot Der Patriot
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Script: Katja Fedulova, Calle Overweg Cinematography: Sergei Amirdzhanov Editing: Calle Overweg Sound: Elena Petrosyan Music: Orsa Lena Production: Fedulova Films, Udo Bremer Selected Filmography: Glaube Hoffnung Liebe/ Fath, Hope, Love (2017) Mein Name Ist Kadija/ My Name is Khadija (2015) Festivals and awards: Hong King Film Art International Film Festival, China (2019)/ Doker Film Festival, Russia (2019)/ Southern Cone International Film Festival, Chile (2019)/ IDFA, The Netherlands (2018)
Sweden/ 2018/ 15’
The Traffic Separating Device Spårviddshinder
A traffic separating device is installed in the middle of Stockholm. It is supposed to keep normal cars away and only let buses pass. However, every day, a great number of drivers miss the warning sign and this results in a big mess that looks like tragicomedy on stage.
Director: Johan Palmgren Script: Johan Palmgren, Julian Antell, Mattias Grosin Cinematography: Johan Palmgren Editing: Julian Antell Sound: Lisa Gustafsson Music: Röhlcke Niko Production: Johan Palmgren, Vindelfilm Selected Filmography: The Sex Temple (2015) Displaced Persons (2013) Tales of Slussen (2012) Den stora friheten/ The Great Freedom (2011) Festivals and awards: Hot Docs, Canada (2018)/ Special Mention, Mumbai Shorts International Film Festival, India (2018)/ Best Documentary, International Film Festival of Sriganganagar, India (2018)/ Honorable Mention: Documentary Short, Los Angeles Film Awards, USA (2018)
Slovenia/ 2017/ 10’
Trahere Trahere
Among idyllic hills and the bluest of skies live men and their tractors. Trahere is a film about just that, the age-old bond between man and tractor.
Director: Atila Urbančič, Juš Jeraj Script: Atila Urbančič, Juš Jeraj Cinematography: Matic Zavodnik Editing: Matic Zavodnik Sound: Borja Močnik, Matic Jeraj Music: Stano Phillipe Production: Juš Jeraj, Atila Urbančič, Matic Zavodnik Festivals and awards: Tampere Film Festival, Finland (2018)/ Odense International Film Festival, Denmark (2018)/ Best Short Film, Ljubljana Short Film Festival, Slovenia (2017)/ Interfilm Festival, Germany (2017)/ CineEuropa Top Five Shorts (2017)
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The Netherlands, China / 2018/ 23’
Trapped in the City of a Thousand Mountains Trapped in the City of a Thousand Mountains Announcements echo across the vast squares in Chongqing, China warning that “morally suspect individuals” are banned from speaking in public. Surveillance is unavoidable and there are CCTV cameras everywhere. Simultaneously, the internet is taken by storm by a new phenomenon- authentic Chinese rap by which young people struggle for freedom of speech. The rappers feel trapped in the immense city, trying to figure out what they can and cannot do in the new wave of censorship.
Director: David Verbeek
Is understanding between an extremely religious 80-year-old and her gay grandson possible? Are they able to overcome their beliefs in the name of love? An intimate story of the director who was raised by his grandmother Teresa and considers her as his second mother. She has invested all her love and hope in him but everything changes when he tells her that he is gay.
Director: Rafal Lysak
Script: David Verbeek Cinematography: David Verbeek Editing: David Verbeek Sound: Quincy Vlijtig Music: Jegor van Opdorp Production: Jos de Putter for DeepFocus Web Docs, Prisca van der Mullen Selected Filmography: An Impossibly Small Object (2018) Full Contact (2015) How to Describe a Cloud (2013) Imortelle (2013) Festivals and awards: IDFA, The Netherlands (2018)/ International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2018)
Poland/ 2018/ 40’
Unconditional Love Milosc bezwarunkowa
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Script: Rafal Lysak Cinematography: Rafal Lysak Editing: Piotr Wojcik Sound: Rafal Lysak Music: Rafal Lysak Production: Produkcja Filmów Jacek Blawut Selected Filmography: Blondynka (2018) Tenderness (2016) Festivals and awards: Film Fest Sundsvall, Sweden (2019)/ Kyiv International Film Festival, Ukraine (2019)/ Golden Hobby-Horse, Krakow Film Festival, Poland (2018)/ IDFA, The Netherlands (2018)
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Onion seed will grow into an onion, if it lives in fertile soil and gets a lot of care. During the last three years, MakeDox has made efforts to provide these essentials to the students. The initial idea of the Student Film Program sparked in the form of an opened platform that will provide space where students would present their first steps in filmmaking while meeting their peers with whom they would study, exhange experiences and keep on creating in the documentary world. From 2016, our festival selected and screened fifity documentary films, but also provided an ooportunity for about fourty students to take part in the festival editions and enrich them with their presence.This year, the festival jubilee marks the fourth birthday of the Student Film Program of MakeDox, so for the first time, thanks to Current TIME TV, the best student film will be awarded prize money. We hope that this award will motivate and encourage the students to continue making documentaries in order to discover new layers in the world around them, but also in the worlds that they carry within themselves.
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Croatia/ 2018/ 35’
As Far as Our Feet Take Us Kol'ko god nas noge nose
An autobiographical video diary about the director and her mother Vesna, who has lived in Germany for seven years. Vesna's seemingly stable and monotonous life hides another side of her. The film documents the moments that reveal a secret kept by the mother and daughter. A voyeuristic portrayal of the disbanding of a family that never had a chance to come together.
Director: Renata Lucic Script: Renata Lucic Cinematography: Renata Lucic Editing: Renata Lucic, Oleg Skorin Sound: Magda Mas Music: Magda Mas Production: Helena Vizner Co-production: Filip Filković Production Akademija dramske umjetnosti (ADU), More Magnets Selected Filmography: Peti kat lijevo/ Fifth Floor Left (2018) Molim te mama, nemoj danas/ Please Mom, Not Today (2016) Festivals and awards: Best documentary and special mention, International Student Film Festival Belgrad, Croatia (2019)/ Zagreb Dox, Croatia (2018)/ Mediterranean Film Festival, Croatia (2018)/ Tabor Film Festival, Croatia (2018)/ Liburnia Film Festival, Croatia (2018)
Poland/ 2018/ 18’
Connected Polaczeni
A short story about love and passion, observed through a day in the life of a 50-year-old couple. A man and his wife go skiing and plan to go to the top of the mountain in a chair lift. The higher they go, the more we learn about their life. At the same time, weather conditions are changing, thickening mist falls on the mountain slopes. When the spouses finally reach the summit, they must find each other and connect in the surrounding fog.
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Director: Aleksandra Maciejczyk Script: Aleksandra Maciejczyk Cinematography: Maciej Edelman Editing: Sabina Filipowicz, Kamil Grzybowski Sound: Pawel Idzikowski Production: Lodz Film School Selected Filmography: Zabawa, Zabawa/ Playing Hard (2018) Kamienne chleby/ Stone Bread (2017) Festivals and awards: 28th Aspen ShortsFest, USA (2019)/ Hot Docs, Canada (2019)/ Trento Film Festival, Italy (2019)/ IDFA, The Netherlands (2018)
Russia/ 2018/ 72’
Hey, Bro! Хей, бро!
Mark is 18, Kirill just over 20. They have known one another for only a month, but it seems as if they're already the best of friends. Their passions are girls, dancing, cloudrap and skateboarding but often they find themselves in dangerous situations. When they decided to go on holiday to Crimea, things really get hardcore. As they push their boundaries, an argument arises and they need to have a serious discussion. The fun holiday trip turns into a test of their friendship.
Director: Aleksandr Elkan Script: Aleksandr Elkan Editing: Aleksandr Elkan Cinematography: : Aleksandr Elkan Production: Marina Razbezhkina, Mikhail Ugarov School of Documentary Film and Theatre Festivals and awards: Sheffield International Documentary Festival, UK (2018)/ Moscow International Film Festival, Russia (2018)/ IDFA, The Netherlands (2018)
Germany/ 2019/ 24’
La Bestia - Train of the Unknowns La Bestia - Train of the Unknowns
“Casa del Migrante” in Huehuetoca, a suburb at the gates of Mexico City, is a safe haven for refugees. At least for two days. Then they must go on with their journey towards north in freight train carriages, which everyone here just calls “La Bestia,” the beast.
Director: Manuel Inacker Script: Manuel Inacker Cinematography: Falco Seliger Editing: Laura Espinel Sound: Sébastian Sanchez Music: Sanchez Sébastian Production: Karla Stöhr, Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf, Nicole Jatta for Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf Selected Filmography: Retropia (2017) Pallasseum - Unsichtbare Stadt/ Pallasseum - The Invisible City (2016) Festivals and awards: Erasmus+ Prize for Main Short Film, FIPADOC, France (2019)/ IDFA, The Netherlands (2018)
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Italy, The United Kingdom/ 2017/ 24’
Salvation Salvation
Sutera (lat. soter = savior, to save) is a sleepy, ancient village of 800 inhabitants in the heart of Sicily, located under a mountain. In the past four decades it has lost 90% of its population. In the last years, Sicily experienced the brunt of the refugee wave coming across the Mediterranean, trying to get to the European shores. Following a marine tragedy in 2013, the inhabitants of Sutera opened the doors of the empty houses for the migrants. The main piazza was buzzing again with life but soon the migrants faced unemployment and a lack of job opportunities. A story of migration as economic choice vs. migration as a desperate act of last resort.
Director: Nikola Ivanovski
How does the recent discovery that a fertility doctor has secretly used his own seed impact the lives of two mothers and their donor offspring? How does this news influence the children’s sense of identity? Does this knowledge change the relationship between mother and child? The doctor Jan Karabaat has passed away but he is the father to a number of children created via IVF. A story on the visible repercussions and emotional heritage of an illconceived donor system.
Director: Miriam Guttmann
Script: Nikola Ivanovski Cinematography: Ronnie Mcquillan Editing: Vera Simmonds Sound: Sean McGarrity, Odinn Ingibergsson, Nicholas Olorenshaw Music: Anna Katarina Bauer Production: NFTS
The Netherlands/ 2018/ 22’
Seeds of Deceit Het Zaad van Karbaat
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Script: Jessie Tiemeijer Cinematography: Sjors Mosman Editing: Lianne Kotte Sound: Koos van der Vaart Music: Gabe Moritz Production: Mathilde Niekamp, Thomas Mataheru, Nederlandse Film Akademie Selected Filmography: Joy (2017) Festivals and awards: Best Student Short Documentary, Palm Springs International Short Film Festival, USA (2019)/ Nederlands Film Festival, The Netherlands (2019)/ IDFA, The Netherlands (2018)
France/ 2018/ 22’
Swatted Swatted
Online players describe their struggles with "swatting", a lifethreatening cyber-harassment phenomenon that looms over them whenever they play. The events take shape through youtube videos and wireframe images from a video game.
Director: Ismaël Joffroy Chandoutis Script: Ismaël Joffroy Chandoutis Cinematography: Ismaël Joffroy Chandoutis Editing: Ismaël Joffroy Chandoutis Sound: Alban Cayrol Music: Disasterpeace Production: Natalia Trebik, Le Fresnoy Selected Filmography: Dark Waves (2018) Sous de couleur de l’oubli (2015) Festivals and awards: Special Jury Award, Clermont Ferrand Film Festival, France (2019)/ IDFA, The Netherlands (2018)
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Children’s film, as a specific sub-genre, is supplementary important not only for media literacy, which ought to begin at a young age but also for creating a system of values that sets the foundation of our way of living. MakeDox recognizes these qualities so, therefore, it decided to launch and develop the Docusprouts Film School where youngsters zoom in the skills of making creative documentary films. Following last year’s successful realization, this year, the young documentarists will have premieres of their short films at the Kids and Youth Program at MakeDox. MakeDox developed the Kids and Youth Program as an idea that sought to encourage creating new generations of high-quality filmmakers and audiences. Every year, the MakeDox Traveling Cinema visits villages and settlements, bringing animated films to the youngest audience members who are always enchanted by the magical stories screened on the canvas. Therefore, we pay the utmost attention to this special layer of our audience, by offering and screening a carefully selected film program. At its 10th, jubilee edition MakeDox decided to join forces with its festival partner DOK Leipzig Film Festival and create the Kids and Youth Program together. DOK Leipzig is one of the oldest film festivals in the world, created in 1955, today taking place as an annual event in Leipzig, Germany. Moreover, it is the first independent documentary film festival in East Germany that introduced a competition program for animated films in 1995 and thus became one of the most prominent international festivals for documentary and animated films.
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This year, we have an exceptional opportunity to honorably announce that the Kids and Youth Program of MakeDox was created and curated together with the DOK Leipzig, by selecting 12 animated films and animated documentaries from Germany. Aiming to offer a world of highly developed visual aesthetic for the children, we hope that we’ll meet halfway with their sincere curiosity and encourage them to keep on learning through visual means and pictures. Finally, we are looking forward to seeing them expressing their personal visions in the fields of aesthetics but also ethics, as individuals who are ready to discuss different life questions and contribute to the well-being of our societies.
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Germany/ 2017/ 2’
Arrival Angekommen
Because he feels like a stranger in Germany, Jalal decides to do something about it. He gathers all his courage and joins the volunteer fire brigade – successfully!
Director: Susann Hoffmann
100 years ago, a radical artistic utopia was born: Bauhaus, one of our century's most influential architectural schools, still sets the pattern for the way we live today. Young architects, school teachers, designers, sociologists reflect on their Bauhaus experience. The synthesis of free imagination and strict structure, enrichment, and simplification, light and clarity transformed Bauhaus to a significant contribution to our lives on a cosmopolitan scale.
Director: Niels Bolbrinker, Thomas Tielsch
Animation: Susann Hoffmann Production: Susann Hoffmann Festivals and awards: DOK Leipzig, Germany (2019)
Germany/ 2018/ 90’
Bauhaus Spirit Vom Bauen der Zukunft - 100 Jahre Bauhaus
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Script: Niels Bolbrinker, Thomas Tielsch Cinematography: Niels Bolbrinker Editing: Niels Bolbrinker, Thomas Tielsch Sound: Jörg Theil Music: Jarii van Gohl Production: Thomas Tielsch, filmtank Film+Medienproduktion Selected Filmography: Bauhaus - Modell und Mythos/ Bauhaus Model and Myth (2009) Die Frau mit den 5 Elefanten/ The Woman with the Five Elephants (2009) Festivals and awards: CPH:DOX, Denmark (2019)/ Thessaloniki Film Festival, Greece (2019)
North Macedonia/ 2019/ 30’
Log Out Лог Аут (Log Out)
Log Out is the metaphorical name of a man who wants to log out from his surroundings in order to achieve what he envisioned for himself. A visual retrospective of his life and the way he stepped out of the “ordinary” social circles. The people around him were puzzled by his determined pursuits but this man regarded his efforts as a personal calling. But can one’s firmness of purpose turn into a problem for the others?
Director: Ramona Monja Kochishka
The bell rings for the first lesson, but the forest is more interesting. It is there that the little boy meets a family of wolves. But isn’t this dangerous?
Director: Felix Gönnert
Script: Ramona Monja Kochishka Cinematography: Petar Trgachevski Editing: Petar Trgachevski Sound: David Stojanovski Production: MakeDox Film School
Germany/ 2016/ 4’
Loup Loup
Script: Felix Gönnert Cinematography: Felix Gönnert Editing: Felix Gönnert Sound: Michał Krajczok Music: Marian Mentrup Animation: Felix Gönnert, Bert Gottschalk, Martin Freitag Production: Felix Gönnert Selected Filmography: Apollo (2010) Lucia (2004) Bsss/ Bzzz (2000) Festivals and awards: DOK Leipzig, Germany (2019)
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Germany/ 2017/ 4’
Miss Noodle Mademoiselle Noudelle
A little lady enters the big stage and enchants the audience. Her show has them raving: a sheet of lasagna turns into a bedroom.
Director: Agnieszka Jurek Script: Agnieszka Jurek Cinematography: Agnieszka Jurek Editing: Agnieszka Jurek Animation: Agnieszka Jurek Sound: Carsten Aschmann, Fanny Aschmann Production: Agnieszka Jurek Festivals and awards: DOK Leipzig, Germany (2019)
Germany/ 2018/ 5’
Night Moves Bei Nacht erwacht
The children’s room is dark and everyone’s asleep. But wait: really everyone? In the colorful mess, the building blocks wake up and suddenly birds, elephants, and giraffes are grazing in the savannah and meeting at the water hole. The alarm clock puts an abrupt end to the hustle and bustle. The building blocks lie around scattered and lifeless once more – until the next sunset.
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Director: Falk Schuster Script: Falk Schuster Cinematography: Falk Schuster Editing: Falk Schuster Sound: Florian Marquardt Music: Florian Marquardt Animation: Falk Schuster, Julian Quitsch Production: Falk Schuster Festivals and awards: DOK Leipzig, Germany (2019)
Germany/ 2018/ 5’
Nö! Nö!
A little house with a view of the sea – that’s what the hero of this film wants. But the stormy weather makes it almost impossible to build the new home. After many attempts to build a stable dwelling, it almost looks as if fate was giving him a big “No way!” A film about failure and the fact that you can also turn the tables.
Director: Christian Kaufmann
What would the orchestra be without the little flute? The other instruments are glad when it finds its way back to the stage after a little trip.
Director: Ceylan Beyoğlu
Script: Christian Kaufmann Editing: Quirin Grimm Sound: Johann Meis Music: Bukahara, Soufian Zoghlami Production: Esther Busch, Nicola Pantzke Animation: Christian Kaufmann Festivals and awards: DOK Leipzig, Germany (2019)
Germany/ 2016/ 6’
Piccolo Concerto Piccolo Concerto
Script: Ceylan Beyoğlu Music: Nils Kacirek Animation: Ceylan Beyoğlu Production: Ceylan Beyoğlu Selected Filmography: The Round (2018) Festivals and awards: DOK Leipzig, Germany (2019)
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Germany/ 2015/ 4’
Sausage Wurst
A sausage falls madly in love with a piece of bread but is kept imprisoned in the fridge. The road to his girlfriend is long and full of obstacles.
Director: Josefine Häßler Script: Josefine Häßler Sound: Valentin Finke, Frederick Fleïng Music: Leonard Petersen Production: Josefine Häßler Animation: Josefine Häßler Selected Filmography: Mascarpone (2018) Rock my Heart (2017) Festivals and awards: DOK Leipzig (2019)
Germany/ 2016/ 11’
Shadow Fox Schattenfuchs
A little fox unexpectedly meets his shadow. Together they romp through the forest and play hide and seek.
Director: Damaris Zielke Script: Damaris Zielke Music: Damaris Zielke Sound: Benjamin Voßler, Michael Holz Animation: Damaris Zielke Production: Damaris Zielke Festivals and awards: DOK Leipzig, Germany (2019)
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Germany/ 2017/ 5’
Stumblebee Am Boden der Tatsachen
Can it fly or not? We’re talking about the bumblebee. There’s a persistent rumor that it’s physically impossible to move such a body through the air without help. When the bumblebee learns of these doubts, it starts to think – it hadn’t expected so little confidence. The saving realization comes just before the crash, so it begins a daring flight upwards.
Director: Monika Tenhündfeld
By analyzing the lyrics of the song “The situation in Skopje ‘98”, one gets a clear picture of the problems that are deeply rooted in the Macedonian society. The character of Matej Milutin (Matej Foltz), a young rapper, introduces the stakes of being a youngster in North Macedonia today while the hip-hop artist Gotze SAF tells about this legendary song. But a group of high school students is adamant: ‘We’re just lamenting but no one is trying to change anything”. Then the question arises, “What do we really need?”
Director: Anastasija Pavlovska
Script: Marcus Sauermann Photography: Monika Tenhündfeld Editing: Monika Tenhündfeld Sound: Luis Schöffend Music: Marius Kirsten Production: Christian Zehetmeier Animation: Monika Tenhündfeld Festivals and awards: DOK Leipzig, Germany (2019)
North Macedonia/ 2019/ 20’
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Script: Anastasija Pavlovska, Lea Dimitrova Photography: Matea Kozovski Editing: Lea Dimitrova Sound: Iskra Matikj Music: Matej Milutin Production: MakeDox Film School
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Germany/ 2015/ 11’
The Story of the Fox Who Lost His Mind Die Geschichte vom Fuchs, der den Verstand verlor
The clever fox knows how to hunt down rabbits and chickens. But when he gets old he gets mixed up and forgets how to hunt – which opens new possibilities.
Director: Christian Asmussen, Matthias Bruhn Script: Christian Asmussen Photography: Felix Herzog Editing: Matthias Bruhn Sound: Tilo Busch Animation: Olaf Kamin, Felix Herzog, Rey Sommerkamp, Eva Ewerhart Production: Richard Lutterbeck Music: Alex Flucht Festivals and awards: DOK Leipzig, Germany (2019)
North Macedonia/ 2019/ 21’
Through the Lens of Desire Низ објективот нa копнежот
As youngsters, we are all full of questions...Well, at least most of us are. We are trying to find our life-path and discover ourselves. So, this girl is also trying to fight and crystalize all that’s been bothering her. Still, the two stories of the two actors who have engraved their destiny on “the stage that’s worth a life” are constantly haunting her.
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Director: Roze Simonovska Script: Roze Simonovska Photography: Petar Krstevski, Iskra Matikj Editing: Emilija Dineva, Lea Dimitrova Sound: David Damjanovski, Aleksandra Zografska, David Stojanovski Music: Roze Simonovska Production: MakeDox Film School Selected Filmography: Different (2018)
North Macedonia/ 2019/ 20’
Thumb Up! Палец горе!
The story follows three young people Kristi, Marija and Bojan, all different in their own way but all connected through one thingthe love for hitchhiking. We see their stories full of excitement, fun, danger but also an urge for freedom and escapism from the banal aspects of daily life.
Director: Marija Mateska
Andersen’s fairy-tale re-told as a flat figure animation with great actors. Still, this film adaptation, too, has a happy ending and the prince finds his princess.
Director: Kyne Uhlig, Nikolaus Hillebrand, Katja Engelhard
Script: Marija Mateska Photography: Iska Matikj Editing: Leona Jarikj Sound: Joana Arsovska Production: MakeDox Film School
Germany/ 2017/ 6’
The Princess and the Pea Die Prinzessin auf der Erbse
Script: Kyne Uhlig, Nikolaus Hillebrand Photography: Kyne Uhlig, Nikolaus Hillebrand Editing: Matthias Körnich Sound: Tobias Becker Music: Tobias Becker Animation: Kyne Uhlig, Nikolaus Hillebrand Festivals and awards: DOK Leipzig, Germany (2019)
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Germany/ 2018/ 65’
Why Am I Here? Warum ich hier bin?
Five people between the ages of 10 and 84 talk about why they had to leave their homes and what it was like to arrive in Germany. What is different? What do they miss? Between scenes of daily life at the new school and on the football ground the lives that Ahmad, Frau Schiller, Leila, Lena, and Cacau left behind and the stories of the flights they lived through come alive in animated sequences.
Director: Mieko Azuma, Susanne Mi-Son Quester Script: Susanne Mi-Son Quester, Mieko Azuma Photography: Mieko Azuma Editing: Melanie Jilg Animation: Gitte Hellwig, Lisa Neubauer, Daniella Koffler, Franziska Poike, Simon Steinhorst & Hannah Stragholz, Kazuma Taketani Music: Flurin Mück, Cornelia Böhm Sound: Susanne Mi-Son Quester Production: Wolfgang Latteyer Selected filmography: August (2011) Dienstag und ein Bisschen Mittwoch/ Tuesday and a Bit of Wednesday (2007) Festivals and awards: DOK.fest Munich, Germany (2019)/ SWR DOKU Festival, Germany (2019)/ Public Award, DOK Leipzig, Germany (2018)
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22 - 24 August, 2019 | 10:00 a.m - 01:00 p.m
Ideas Across Borders — Coproduction Workshop with Jana Cisar
Nothing is created unless is dreamt first! We translate ideas and dreams into moving pictures that share our inner worlds with the thirsty story viewers. At the beginning of every film, there is a burst of ideas. All that we‘ve imagined then seeks to be developed before finally being realized into a creative film. MakeDox’s Coproduction Workshop with the producer Jana Cisar focuses on the discovery of ideas that would be presented to potential partners who might support you and your film. The workshop sessions will cover the topics of finding and selecting supportive partners, audience as well as financing. The participants will discuss the necessary elements of coproduction and the needed space for
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networking, including the differences between presenting the film locally or internationally. As national financing and budgets are in decline almost everywhere in the world, the coproductions are opportunities for financing and realizing films. During the three workshop days, the prolific producer Jana Cisar will share her professional experience of coproducing, presenting its wide array of benefits through talks on logistics, affordability and preparation.
Biography: Jana Cisar was born in Marinánské Lázné, Czechoslovakia and has been living in WestGermany since 1969. She started to work in theatre production David Byrne’s assistant during the preparation of the play The Forest (1988) by Robert Wilson and then continued working as a production manager at the Greman Theatre Days (1989) in Moscow and as a tour manager with the Maly Theater Leningrad (1989). She initiated programmes with Les Blank, Richard Leacock, The Brother´s Quay, Jan Švankmajer, David Byrne and Thomas Brasch for Alexander Kluge´s TV DCTP. Together with Manuela Strihavka she created the Filmfestival Salzburger SommerSzene. From 1990 she lived in Prague, worked for the Int. Karlovy Vary Filmfestival and founded with others the Czech Film Promotion. Since 1995 she lives in Berlin and works as an independent film producer. She completed the EAVE workshop in 2000 and was a jury member at various international film festivals.
24 August, 2019 | 02:00 - 04:30 p.m
“Don’t follow my rules. Find your own rules.” — Master Class with Victor Kossakovsky
“Don’t film if you can live without filming,” says the first of Kossakovsky’s 10 rules for debuting documentarists. With this motto, MakeDox has the honor to announce the inspirational masterclass by the renowned documentary cineast Victor Kossakovsky that will be held at this year’s jubilee edition. Taking on the role of a lecturer, Kossakovsky will discuss his principles of making art and will introduce his film work not only from the position of a director but also screenwriter, cameraman and editor. This contemporary storyteller with an extraordinary poetic approach in documentary filmmaking, will also share his experiences and opinions regarding the interchangeability of the aesthetical and the ethical elements in documentaries which provoke him to say that “Maybe, nice people should not
make documentaries.” Nevertheless, don’t expect to hear any recipe for successful filmmaking at the upcoming masterclass as Kossakovsky will discuss ideas while sticking to the last of his rules: “Don’t follow my rules. Find your own rules. “ Kossakovsky’s visual poetry is highly praised among critics and viewers, as he transforms inner and outer worlds into immersive cinematic experiences. At the 10th edition of MakeDox, the audience will have the opportunity to dive into the latest of his work, the documentary film “Aquarela” whose protagonist is Earth’s omnipotent companion- the water, portrayed with all its horror and glory.
Biography: Victor Kossakovsky is a renowned director, writer, cinematographer and editor in the realm of contemporary documentary filmmaking. His began his career in 1978, working as an assistant cinematographer and editor at the St.Petersburg (Leningrad) Studio of Documentaries. As a student he enrolled in the Documentary Direction in Berlin and from 1986 to 1989 he studied script writing and directing in Moscow. As a documentary filmmaker, Kossakovsky has won over 100 prizes at international festivals, completing a filmography that covers a variety of topics that explore reality and translate it through the visual poetry told in his authentic cinematic language. In 1989 he directed his first film, Losev, and in 1992 he created his most popular documentary, The Belovs, which won the VPRO JorisIvens Prize, the Public Award at IDFA and dozens of other prizes at international festivals throughout the world. In 2011, Vivan Las Antipodas! opened the Venice Film Festival in 2011.
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MakeCoProDox Forum — TV-report, national documentary film or documentary coproduction... What would you choose to watch or finance?
Coproduction is the motto of the 10th edition of the Festival for Creative Documentary Film MakeDox, a leading trendsetter of creativity in its region and further. So, right before the dawn of our new festival edition, we believe that it’s our duty to initiate a meeting that would effectively draw the attention to the necessary changes that could prompt documentary coproductions in the region. Why? Namely, most of the countries in the Western Balkans rely on a rather oldfashioned regulative implemented in film funds, which was tailored to the professional experiences realized in the realm of fiction film. These practices, however, have proven to be counterproductive regarding the possibilities of creating high-quality documentary coproductions in the region.
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Our idea is to provide space for research and studying of documentary forms, leading to the creation of documentary films - a space for high-quality production and postproduction that would finally offer promotion and sale of documentary films. Therefore, all of you ( creative producers, authors and documentary film producers) who dedicate most of your time to creating documentary forms in the Western Balkans, are invited to join us!
25 - 27 August, 2019 Location: Youth Cultural Center Moderator of the Forum: Brigid O’Shea Day 1 ― 25.08. Sunday open for all film professionals Day 2 ― 26.08. Monday open for all film professionals Day 3 ― 27.08. Tuesday closed discussions for producers, film funds and TV representatives
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You are welcomed to share and exchange your experiences, so we could create a fertile ground for collaboration that would provide a brighter future for the creative documentary forms in the region. The team of MakeDox is looking forward to your attendance!
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Doc Talks under the Fig Tree
The Troyan War lasted ten years, then Odysseus traveled home for another ten. And there’s a fig tree in Kurshumli An that for an entire decade is listening and dwelling upon thousands of life stories. In the last nine years, this tree has become no less than our martyr, our confessional, a place for sharing. This is where our bonding rituals begin and where all the connoisseurs gather to share knowledge. An agora, temple and mead hall, all at once. A feast for body and soul. As time goes by, we become slightly convinced that it was the fig tree that found us, as it covered us with cool shade, so we silently gathered together under its crown. Who would’ve thought that a tree could be so curious!? The number 10, the perfect number of the Pythagoreans, symbolizes an end but also a beginning of a cycle. After all, it seems that we’ll have to find a new “fig tree” next year. We’ll be careful while choosing.
22 - 28 August, 2019 Location: Kurshumli An Time: 06 - 08 p.m 22.08 (Thursday) Seamus Murphy, Xavier Marrades, Ineke Smits, Nikola Ivanovski 23.08 (Friday) Manuel Zimmer, Sashko Poter Micevski, Simon Mozgovoy, Alex Chepiga, Erol Bilibani, Fanny Bräuning 24.08 (Saturday) Corina Scweingruber Ilic, Nikola Ilic, Victor Kossakovsky, Alexander Elkan 25.08 (Sunday) Beniamino Barresse, Benedetta Barzini, Pia Herenthal, Bartek Konopka 26.08 (Monday) Ton Van Zantvoort, Peter Zach, Miguel Eek, Manuel Inacker 27.08 (Tuesday) Volker Koepp, Gert Kroske, Thomas Plenert, Reetta Huhtanen 28.08 (Wednesday) Meet the jury members! 85
North Macedonia, Germany/ 2019/ 65’
Tetovo Twilight Tetovo Twilight/ Tetovo Twilight
Director: Biljana Garvanlieva, Manuel Zimmer Script: Biljana Garvanlieva, Manuel Zimmer Cinematography: Manuel Zimmer Editing: Sashko Potter Micevski Sound: Darko Boshkovski Music: Josifovski Oliver Production: Dream Factory Selected Filmography: The Golden Five (2016) After the Rain (2013) The Seamstresses (2010) Die Akkordeonspielerin/ A Girl and her Accordion (2009) Mehr Hof machen - 20 Jahre Mehringhof / Make More Courtyard (2000)
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Tetovo is a desolate city on the edge of a small country in Southeastern Europe. In order to escape the economic, political and cultural hopelessness, most young people dream of a future abroad. A description of the state of a generation between hope and reality and poses the question of real life in a disastrous environment. The three different protagonists are all on their way to leave, be it into the inner, or into the vastness.
The Loving Ones. Memorial to a Life Spent Together — Photo Exhibition 22 August 2019 Location: Chifte Hammam Time: 07:00 p.m
When the documentary film makers Biljana Garvanlieva and Manuel Zimmer found out that Biljana was diagnosed with lethal cancer, she decides not to be overwhelmed by her fear of her approaching death. Instead, she faced those fears and reflected together with her husband Manuel what this would mean for their lives and the lives of their children. These reflections are engraved as augmented reality content upon a series of 12 portraits of Biljana and Manuel. They are a testament to their love in the time of death. As part of their reflections they asked Berlin-based media artist Tim Deussen to take a series of portraits of them. These portraits were based on a series of photos that was taken by the artist Jovan Balov, when Biljana and Manuel moved to Berlin as a young couple. As their ordeal continued, Biljana and Manuel documented moments of their life in the form of sound, video, texts or photos. Biljana passed away, but her artistic spirit to face even the most fragile and sensitive time we as humans eventually all must live through, lead to this exhibition. The last series of portraits of Biljana and Manuel forms the base to show a second layer of augmented reality. This is a glimpse into their subjective and personal view. This view spawns an arch starting from the moment when they fell in love, through the ordeal of the illness, to the time of passing away. Two layers of time: intimate hours of being together and spending a lifetime with each other. Their personal experience, which is reflected in the images and the AR content, is embraced by the universal themes of love, life and death that they experienced together. What happened outside of the frame of the photos, leads you inside their life. Those are the moments that count. Not death, but life and the time spent together. Each moment lived through is special. Each moment spent together is eternal.
Biljana Garvanlieva. (*20.07.1973 – †10.09.2016) Biljana was a freelance director of documentary films who lived and worked in Skopje and Berlin. Born in Skopje in 1973, she studied dramaturgy in Macedonia before receiving a grant in 1999 from the German Academic Exchange Service to study theater and film at the Free University of Berlin (Freien Universität Berlin). In 2006, she directed her first documentary for the TV network 3sat, entitled “Macedonian Dream - A Girl and her Accordion”, which has won several awards, including the Golden Lola German Short Film Award. In 2009, she followed up her first success with “Tobacco Girl”, which has received numerous awards for its directing, including nominations for the Golden Lola Award and the Juliane Bartel German Media Award. In 2010, Garvanlieva won the prize Heart of Sarajevo for Best Documentary at the 16th Sarajevo Film Festival for her documentary film “The Seamstresses.” Manuel Zimmer. Manuel Zimmer studied film at the Filmakademie in Potsdam-Babelsberg. After his studies he worked as a freelance cameraman, sound engineer and documentary filmmaker on several film projects that were produced by major TV stations, directors or production companies. His filmography contains “The Seamstresses” and “Polly on the Rocks” with Biljana Garvanlieva, “24 hours Jerusalem” by Zero Film and “An Apartment in Berlin3” by Alice Agneskirchner. Currently, Manuel is editing the last documentary film that he was making with Biljana. Tim Deussen. Tim Deussen was born in 1968, in Germany. He studied photography, psychology and film at the New York University. Since he completed his MA Degree in 1996, he participated with his photo and video works in numerous exhibitions in Germany, Israel as well as in Skopje. Deussen has also exhibited his works in his studio in Berlin where he works and realizes media productions, ranging from photography over animations to virtual and augmented reality experiences. Currently he works on a cross platform experience that includes animation, books, AR & 3D printing, telling the story of a small elephant that fights against greedy oil pumps to save the planet.
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North Macedonia/ 2019/ 70’
Manaki — A Story in Pictures Manaki — A Story in Pictures
Director: Robert Jankuloski Script: Robert Jankuloski, Ilindenka Petrusheva Cinematography: Robert Jankuloski Editing: Blazhe Dulev Sound: Darko Spasovski Music: Kerkez Goran Production: MCF Film Production Selected Filmography: Aida (2017) Between Two Worlds (2013) Macedonians in Istanbul (2010) Peace for All (2007) Festivals and awards: Best Documentary, SEE Film Festival, France (2019)
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The film incorporates the photographic work of Janaki and Milton Manaki, the first Balkan cinematographers. The Manaki brothers have been mythologized over the years, and additional attributions to their legacy have been made in order to further eulogize their undisputed importance. However, this tendency to add new and unconfirmed information is unnecessary and harmful, since their legacy is already of great cultural value not only to Macedonia but also in the wider Balkan context. For this reason, each and every fact and opinion presented in this film has been carefully researched and reconfirmed with present artifacts.
North Macedonia/ 2019/ 60’
The way of clave The way of clave/ The way of clave
Director: Lidija Mojsovska Cinematography: Samir Ljuma, Gorjan Atanasov Editing: Gorjan Atanasov Sound: Sashko Potter Micevski Music: Toni Kitanovski Production: MakeDox
Dancers and musicians from different parts of the world are clustered through one universal rhythm - clave. This story is narrated by Tehamana, a singer and trumpeter who wanders and seeks the way that that would bring her back to her essence - the music.
Selected Filmography: Vera (2019) Black and White (2018) The Future is Ours (2018) Life After (2018) The Award (2017)
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Collaborations with Festivals
In a world full of differences and borders, films, including documentaries, are a uniting factor that tears down borders and merges meridians. One of the missions of MakeDox is exactly this- merging worlds through the documentary film expression. During its ten-year-long history, MakeDox has presented a wide array of cultural diversity that stretches down the endless film meridians. We are proud to say that in our 10th, jubilee edition we’ve established international collaboration with the most renowned festivals of documentary films from France, Germany. Iceland and Georgia. In addition, this year we’ve exchanged a number of experiences regarding organization, programs, and ideas with the festival FIPADOC from France. This thirty-one-year-old festival has recently decided to focus its entire
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film program on documentary cinema, together with the most prominent international festival for documentary and animated films in Germany- DOK Leipzig. This year, MakeDox has joined its forces with these two festivals and created the Kids and Youth Program. Further on, the team of MakeDox visited Georgia and Iceland, taking part in the juries of the IceDocs International Documentary Film Festival and CinĂŠDOC-Tbilisi, the leading festival of documentary film in the Caucasian region. At these festivals, together with the film professionals, the audience, the students and the festival organizers, we have exchanged ideas and experiences, collecting inspiration for greater and even more significant future collaborations in the realm of cinema, focusing on the methods of presentation of documentary films to audiences.
Finally, we are looking forward to using these collaborations for promoting festivals in the framework of our festival program, believing that this would improve the quality of the program itself and, moreover, it would provide a unique opportunity to the Macedonian audience to keep on enjoying in the cohesive power of art in documentary films. Namely, each year, after the end of the festival edition, we feel richer thanks to the new creative stories and experiences that tear down the walls erected around and inside us, so we ardently cross the physical as well as mental borders we encounter. We hope that this year will promote new sparks of inspiration and energy through exchange and collaboration between festivals, in order to keep our creative expression unravel further and to open new doors to different cultural worlds and possibilities for our audience.
MakeDox Time Machine
21 August, 2019 Location: Kurshumli An Time: 08:00 p.m
— Photo exhibition
Our app puts characters in a time-machine and although it works at a slower pace and does not require access to your personal data, it often reveals depths of personal intimacy. At the 10th Traveling Cinema of MakeDox, carrying on the tradition of the first cinema-screeners, we created photographs by using ancient technology. We put the faces of our contemporaries in an older frame, mainly presenting our warmhearted hosts and the curious guests in one shot. The resulting magic might not be at anyone’s hand and it certainly doesn’t depend on technology but solely on the human qualities that are embedded in each of these photos. The tiny particles and the bad exposition on the glass plates display additional information for the most extraordinary conditions in the making of these photographs, while also exhibiting the indescribable patience and radiant energy of all those who were photographed. Therefore, these photos are invaluable. A great deal of their beauty has seized due to the digital scanning, however, you will have the opportunity to see them in their original form at the 10th edition of MakeDox. The author of the photos is Sasho Alushevski, earnestly supported by the assistance of the volunteers Laura Andrianaivoravelo and Paul Bevilaqua. Check out the photo album, see for yourselves and share your impressions on our time machine.
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Night Stories
The night stories 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. This year, Mr. John Parish will have the honor to awake the hidden stories and melodies in the An. Let’s be clearour expectations are seriously high! See you at night, in the stories…
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Traveling Cinema
Last year we dared to compare ourselves with the eels who persistently break through any obstacles down the River Drim (a homophone of “dream”) to Lake Ohrid. Now we must honor our dare and keep on dreaming, carry on tenaciously as eels do. We certainly loved it! The reasons for their toils finally made sense. What a relish! Once again, this year we'll circulate by our grandest waters. With eyes blurred, we were gazing down the vast distance over the lake when suddenly, in the wee small hours or during our siesta, a voice called out from the vastness, so we wondered: who are those people, how do they look, how do they live?
We had the chance to meet, see and share with some of them. Others were embedded in the frames of our photo time-machine. We’ll keep the memories and a shade of blue...
Schedule: 01.07. Struga, Kingston, warm up with Rootboy Selector 02.07. Labunishta 03.07. Buchimas 05.07. Vishni 06.07. Draslajca + party with DJ Flooder 07.07. Pustec + acoustic jam session with Deko's friends 10.07. Lukovo + party with Rootboy Selector & DJ Hauz Majstor 11.07. Lin + party with Rootboy Selector
The Traveling Cinema of MakeDox is provided by the Western Balkans Fund and supported by the North Macedonia Film Agency and the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in North Macedonia
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Makedox Education
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MakeDox in Classroom introduced the documentary film into the 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 two-volume 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 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. 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.
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Last year, we planted the second DocuSprouts seeds last year and will enjoy the yield at this year’s MakeDox. The four expressive and very creative short documentaries are the matured fruits of our engaged documentary production program open to docu-lovers at the age 13-19. Over the four sessions that take place during MakeDox Traveling Cinema, the festival itself in the autumn/winter period, the young filmmakersto-be acquire knowledge and develop skills in the field of documentaristics under the guidance of members of MakeDox creative team and acknowledged docu-professionals from abroad. We continued telling the story about the DocuSprouts this year as well, but this time we decided to make more friendships through the first regional camp for documentary film that was visited by young, future documentary filmmakers from Albania and Serbia. Our docu-story across the borders was realized with collaboration with the Marubi Film & Multimedia Academy from Tirana and the Free Zone Film Festival from Belgrade and provided by the Western Balkan Foundation and with the support of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED). Through MakeDox in Cinema we have shared so far 75 exceptional documentary stories with nearly 15,000 primary school pupils in Skopje.
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University – campus – life – culture
University campuses are mainly recognized as places for studying and almost exclusively associated with that understanding. However, that’s only introductory. The daily circulation and visit of thousands of students, teachers, administrative workers, as well as visitors, turn the campuses into places that offer space, time, potential and energy for a multi-layered and versatile campus life, especially considering cultural events and activities. In other words, if we consider the fully complex nature and solemnity of the academic studying, we’ll perceive the cultural dimension as a logical contribution to the maintenance of the humanistic tone that sets the general foundation of universities. By now, this has been practiced in a rather modest terms, mainly through implementation of student projects (summits and discussions over a specific topic, competitions, music and stage performances), however, without any firm collaborations with other cultural or art associations, such as festivals, theaters or galleries. Regarding these aspects, the Faculty of Philology “Blaze Koneski” at the University of “Cyril and Methodius”
in Skopje, has been supporting and following the Festival of Creative Documentary Films MakeDox, and this year became the screening host of the documentary film Citizen Europe, in collaboration with MakeDox and the Goethe Institut (Skopje). Despite the scarce attendance on the respective event (a fact that reflects the lack of habitual engagement in the regular offer of cultural events and activities), the screening drew the attention of the curious students and guests. Apart from the obviously rapid and intense schedule assigned to students and other entities involved in the campus, I believe that a rather systematically structured, organized and regular offer of cultural events and activities at the campus (with an optional predetermined calendar) would contribute to creating a different atmosphere at this place- especially regarding cultivation, articulation and absorbance of humanistic and cultural values of life and society. We are looking forward to future collaborations and projects. Sincere regards to the team of MakeDox and best wishes for the upcoming festival! Aneta Duchevska (UCAM) 99
Distribution
MOVING DOCS
In 2017, MakeDox has become 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, • Five Stars Film Distribution – Serbia, • Lemesos International Documentary Festival – Cyprus, • Film and Campaign и New Notions Cinema from The United Kingdom,
BDDM
The most beautiful stories deserve to travel and the docu-audience deserves 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
• One World Human Rights Film Festival – the Czech Republic, • Rise and Shine Cinema – Germany, • Take One Action Film Festivals – The United Kingdom and • Taskovki Films – Bosnia and Herzegovina
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. This year, we launched a collaboration with the multimedia venue “Film and Coffee Kotur”, whose menu offers “Coffee and Onion”. documentary films but we are looking forward to seeing you at many more screenings and “Coffee and Onion” hang outs this fall. 100
Index
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Acadiana A Dog Called Money All Inclusive All on a Mardi Gras Day Aquarela Arrival As Far as Our Feet Take Us
La Bestia- Train of the Unknowns
Tetovo Twilight The Book of the Sea The City Named Desire The Disappearance of My Mother The Journey: The Story of Love The Situation in Skopje ‘18 The Story of the Fox Who Lost His Mind The Patriot The Princess and the Pea The Traffic Separating Device The Wall The Way of Clave The Winter Garden’s Tale Thumb up Through the Lens of Desire Trahere Trapped in the City of a Thousan Mountains
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Bauhaus Spirit C Central Bus Station City of the Dead Concrete End Point Connected Consuming Contemporary
Ladies' Choice- Ladies' Choice Scenes
from the Civilized West Longing Los Reyes Loup M
Manaki- A Story in Pictures Meeting Gorbachev Misericordia Miss Noodle Mr. Zwilling and Mrs. Zuckermann N
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Night moves Nö!
Dancing for You Dorotchka Drawing a Line
Off Ways Our Song To War
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Forman vs. Forman G
Gods of Molenbeek H
Hey, Bro! Honeyland Horseriders I
I Had a Dream In Between In Loving Memory of the Future Into My Life K
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Piccolo Concerto R
Rabbit à la Berlin S
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Unconditional Love W
Westwood: Punk, Icon, Activist Why am I here?
Salvation Sausage Searching Eva Seeds of deceit Shadow Fox Sheep Hero Solo Stumblebee Swatted
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