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Contents

GREETINGS 4 JURIES & AWARDS 7 MAKEDOX FILMS

MAKEDOX+ 87 MAKEDOX LAYERS 95 FILM INDEX 100 MAKEDOX FAMILY 10 4 IMPRESSUM 105 MAKEDOX PARTNERS 106 MAKEDOX FRIENDS 106

Greetings!

THERE’S A LOT WE SEE WITH OUR EYES AND IN OTHER PEOPLE’S EYES. A SERIES OF IMAGES GO BEFORE OUR EYES AND THROUGH OUR EYES EVERY DAY, REFRACTING INSIDE OF US. SOME OF THEM COME OUT IN THE FORM OF PHOTOGRAPHIES, FILMS, DRAWINGS WHILE OTHERS SINK INTO OBLIVION… BUT THE ONES THAT IMPRESS US, THOSE ARE THE ONES THAT COUNT: THE ONES WE TALK ABOUT AND THINK OF, THE ONES THAT MAKE US WANT TO CREATE AND MAKE VISUAL STORIES… THESE STORIES IS WHAT THE MAKEDOX CREATIVE DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL IS ALL ABOUT! THIS YEAR, MAKEDOX TAKES PL ACE ON AUGUST 19-25, NESTED IN KURSHUMLI AN WHERE A PICTURE IS WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS, AS THE SAYING GOES. JOIN US AT THE CINEMA UNDER THE STARS

AND MAY OUR #TALKINGIMAGES BE THE ONES THAT COUNT THIS YEAR!

Juries & Awards

*ALL MAKEDOX FILM AWARDS ARE CUSTOM-MADE BY THE SLOVENIAN ACADEMIC SCUPLTOR PRIMOŽ SELIŠKAR.

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

ANTON CALLEJA As a Project Manager at Eurimages since 2006, Anton Calleja takes care of fiction films and feature-length documentaries. Specialist in fiscal and financial incentives for the film industry, he is also in charge of Legal Affairs thanks to his substantial experiences as a lawyer. In 2001, he pursued studies in Film Production in Rome (EMAM) and in 2012, he completed the EAVE Producers training course.

TUE STEEN MÜLLER Born in 1947, Tue Steen Müller worked with short and documentary films for over 20 years at the Danish Film Board. He co-founded Balticum Film and TV Festival, Filmkontakt Nord and the European Documentary Network. He was also the director of EDN for ten years, from its foundation in 1996. Since 2006 he is a freelance consultant and teacher in Danish and European documentary matters all over the world. His articles were published in national and international newspapers and magazines, and today he writes his observations on www.filmkommentaren.dk which has helped some little-known filmmakers find a wide audience.

VLADIMIR BLAZHEVSKI He begins his four-decade long career as a film and TV director well before graduating from the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade in 1978. His film “Hi-Fi” brings him the Golden Arena Award for Best Director at the 1978 Pula International Film Festival while the Crystal Globe at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival is among the dozen awards that confirm the quality of his “Punk is Not Dead”. His film “The Revolution Boulevard” was not only awarded but also selected as the official Yugoslav candidate for the European “Felix” Award nomination. As a screenwriter, he worked on “Happy New Year”, Gypsy Magic” and “The Great Water”. In the early 1990s, he was the film programmer and director at the Student Cultural Center in Belgrade and ever since 1994, he’s been teaching film history and theory and film directing in Skopje and Belgrade. 9

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

KRISTINA PERVILÄ - ANDERSSON She has been working as an independent Finnish producer since 1988 and has produced and co-produced around 40 creative multinational feature documentaries for television and cinema, a wide range of international music productions and live recordings for stage and has coordinated guest performances of foreign opera houses in Finland and Sweden. In April 1999, she founded Millennium Film. Ever since then, she’s also been working as an analyst, expert, tutor, mentor and moderator in Eurodoc, European Documentary Network (EDN) and in Chiledoc training programmes.

SELIN MURAT Co-founder of Parabola Films in Montreal, Selin Murat has worked in independent documentary film in Canada and abroad for more than ten years, producing award-winning films for international festivals, theatres and broadcast. Living between Montreal and Istanbul, Selin develops international co-productions, programs development initiatives for documentary filmmakers in Turkey and supports ambitious projects from the region. She is on the programming committee of Montreal’s documentary film festival (RIDM).

TALAL DERKI Born in Damascus, Talal Derki studied film directing in Athens. He’s worked as an assistant director for feature film productions, as a director for different Arab TV programs and as a freelance cameraman for CNN and Thomson & Reuters. His short films and documentaries received awards at a variety of festivals, the documentary “Return to Homs” having won the Sundance Film Festival’s World Cinema Grand Jury Prize and the Young Onion Award at MakeDox in 2014. Due to the war in his home country Syria, Talal Derki lives in Berlin with his family and as of 2015 runs his new production company Jouzour. 10

Onion Seed Award Jury — for the Best Student Film

ANA JAKIMSKA Ana Jakimska is a young film director and writer based in Skopje, Macedonia. She holds a BA degree in Comparative Literature and a BA degree in Film Directing and is currently working on her master thesis. So far, she has directed three short films and one short documentary; “Call me Barbara” was screened at MakeDox in 2013. At the moment, she is also developing her debut feature film titled “Midnight train”.

NENAD POPOVIC After receiving an M.A. from the Film and TV Editing Department at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade, Nenad Popovic started working as a director, editor and sound designer for short fiction and documentary films. He’s also an assistant professor and studies Art PhD Program in the same department and is a final year student of Archeology at the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade. Staff member of the “Magnificent 7” European Feature Documentary Film Festival, he has also been the artistic director of last year's edition of the Belgrade Documentary and Short Film Festival.

FILIP VELKOVSKI After graduating from the Faculty of Fine Arts in 2010, FILIP VELKOVSKI worked for four years in the Macedonian Opera and Ballet as a stage painter, deepening his knowledge in mise-en-scene as a scene setter and property master for several film projects. A passionate painter, his works have been part of ten group and one individual exhibitions so far. In 2013, along with twenty other colleagues of his, he creates the “Kula” collective. Nowadays he works as a freelance illustrator and designer. 13

Sliced Onion Award Jury — for the Best Short Film

ANJA MEDVED Anja Medved is a graduate of theatre directing and an author of documentary films and art projects. Her work focuses mainly on probing the relations between collective and subjective memory. Since 2012 she runs the film production Zavod Kinokašča and collaborates as a mentor at the Academy of Arts at the University of Nova Gorica and the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Ljubljana.

KATARZYNA GONDEK Author of films and literary forms, Katarzyna Gondek is a graduate of film studies and documentary course in Wajda School with an amazing resume of films awarded on festivals on all continents. She also walks a lot, really a lot.

ROBERTO BLATT He has worked for the Spanish Radio and Television Corporation before becoming Director of Content and Development for Chello Multicanal, a leading company for the design, production and distribution of eighteen thematic channels for Iberia and Spanish and Portuguese-speaking Africa, as well as Head of in-house and international co-productions, particularly documentaries for the leading Odisea & Canal de Historia channels. A longtime member of the European Documentary Network, he still acts as consultant and lecturer for various academic master courses specialized in docs and digital thematic channels. Born in Uruguay, he lives in Madrid since 1987. 14

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

ANETA DUCHEVSKA She is Dean of the Faculty of Philology “Blazhe Koneski” at the University Ss. Cyril and Methodius in Skopje, full professor, eminent research scientist in Macedonian and Slavic languages, a great humanist and an art and culture enthusiast. As professor and Dean, she promotes an open and inclusive approach to involve students at all levels of policy making and in creating positive practices at the Faculty.

BRINA VOGELNIK Brina is a Slovenian singer, musician, puppeteer and designer. She holds a degree in Architecture and a master’s degree in Play Doh Stop Animation, both from the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana. After being part of numerous dance and puppet shows as well as children’s TV series, today she runs musical workshops for the youngest, composes music, teaches singing and performs with her band. Their three albums have made a strong mark on the world music map.

VITO FLAKER Former Dean of the Faculty for Social Work, University of Ljubljana, today Vito Flaker is a professor and chair of the Community Mental Health at the same faculty. Immensely interested in the process of de-institutionalization, he has co-founded many mental health movements and has played an important role in the development of community mental health in Slovenia from 1985 onwards. His numerous books were inspired by his research findings in the fields of voluntary work, social inclusion, mapping of the heroin use and harm reduction in Slovenia, community care and long-term care planning. Member of various national and international editorial boards, scientific committees, government councils, presently he is also director of The School for Social Work Theory and Practice at Inter-University Centre in Dubrovnik and editor of Dialogue in Praxis: Social Work International Journal. 17

International Competition

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Authors

Piotr Stasik

Monika Willi

Michael Glawogger

Roman Bondarchuk

Rahul Jain

Catherine Gund

Alice Schmid

Audrius Stonys

Miroslav Janek

Daresha Kyi

PIOTR STASIK Script: Piotr Stasik Director: Piotr Stasik Photography by: Piotr Stasik Editing: Piotr Stasik, Dorota Wardęszkiewicz, Tomasz Wolski Sound: Michał Fojcik Music: Karol Rakowski Production: Lava Films Sp. z.o.o. Co-production: Telewizja Polska S.A. Selected filmography: Diary of a Journey (2013); Andrzej Wajda: Let’s shoot (2008); 7 x Moscow (2005)

21 x New York ― 21 x Nowy jork

Selected festivals and awards: DocsBarcelona, Spain (2017); Special Mention, ZagrebDox, Croatia (2017); DocPoint Tallinn Documentary Film Festival, Estonia (2017); DocsMx, Mexico (2016); International Film Festival “Listapad”, Belarus (2016); DOK Leipzig, Germany (2016); Award for the Best Short and Documentary Films Producer in Poland, Krakow Film Festival, Poland (2016)

2016 — 50’ — POLAND This film is an intimate portrait of a city and its people. We meet the characters in the NYC subway and we follow them to the surface finding out about their lives, cravings, passions, hopes and dreams - sometimes lost and sometimes still waiting to be fulfilled. What comes out of it is an emotional tale of solitude in the 21st-century western world where various cultures and views meet.

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Ne w Yo r k a Piotr Stasik film scipt, cinematography, directed by PIOTR STASIK producers AGNIESZKA WASIAK, MARIUSZ WŁODARSKI PIOTR STASIK, DOROTA WARDĘSZKIEWICZ, TOMASZ WOLSKI music KAROL RAKOWSKI sound PIOTR STASIK sound design MICHAŁ FOJCIK color correction ŁUKASZ URBAŃSKI line producer AGNIESZKA WASIAK LAVA FILMS production co-produced by TELEWIZJA POLSKA S.A., PIOTR STASIK co-ﬁnanced by POLISH FILM INSTITUTE

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CATHERINE GUND, DARESHA KYI Script: Catherine Gund, Daresha Kyi Director: Catherine Gund, Daresha Kyi Photography by: Catherine Gund, Natalia Cuevas, Paula Gutierrez Editing: Carla Gutierrez Sound: Elena Coderch Music: Gil Talmi Production: Catherine Gund, Daresha Kyi Co-production: Pepita Serrano, Agnes Gund Selected filmography: Catherine Gund: Born to Fly (2014); What’s on your plate? (2009)

Chavela

Selected festivals and awards: Berlin International Film Festival, Germany (2017); Hot Docs International Film Festival, Canada (2017); Ambulante Documentary Film Festival, Mexico (2017)

― Chavela 2017 — 92’ — USA Centered around an exclusive interview footage shot more than 20 years ago, the film tells the evocative, thoughtprovoking story with the unique voice of a women who dared to dress, speak, sing and dream her life into being. Her name was Chavela Vargas. Having just returned to the stage after 12 hard years lost to alcoholism and a painful breakup with the love of her life, the interview occurs just before she heads to Spain where she will rise like a phoenix from the ashes. Strong, funny and vitally alive, she was in her prime at 71. And so, we set off to explore the fascinating life

of a woman that The Guardian described as “Donald Trump’s worst nightmare – a Mexican lesbian diva who can wring you very soul”.

ROMAN BONDARCHUK Script: Dar’ya Averchenko Director: Roman Bondarchuk Photography by: Roman Bondarchuk, Andriy Lysets’ky Editing: Roman Bondarchuk Sound: Borys Peter, Oleh Holov’oshkin, Serhiy Prokopenko, Dar’ya Averchenko Music: Anton Baybakov Production: Avantis, Saxonia Entertainment GmbH, SOUTH Selected filmography: Ukrainian Sheriffs (2015)

Dixieland

Selected festivals and awards: Kolkata Shorts International Film Festival, India (2016); Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, USA (2016)

― land 2016 — 60’ — LATVIA, UKRAINE, GERMANY Waves of the Black Sea are crashing against the pier, the sun is shining and the sky is blue. Children’s orchestra “Dixieland” is playing a march. The teacher is listening. It seems that the happiness will last forever, but growing up is inevitable. Suddenly, it turns out that the teacher is mortal and your friends have their own plans for life. Medals and orchestral instruments are glittering in the sun, but every child has their personal destiny - with or without music. 24

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WHEN THE SAINTS GO MARCHING INTO ADULT LIFE. AVANTIS in association wit SOUTH and SAXONIA ENTERTAINMENT GmbH present a ROMAN BONDARCHUK film “DIXIE LAND” script DAR’YA AVERCHENKO directors of photography ROMAN BONDARCHUK and ANDRIY LYSETSKY producer ILONA BICEVSKA co-producers SIMONE BAUMANN, DAR’YA AVERCHENKO associate producers ULDIS CEKULIS and SERGE GORDEY, CHRISTINE CAMDESSUS commissioning editor KATYA WILDERMUTH http://www.facebook.com/DixieLand2016 color correction, online editing KRISS ROZINS composer ANTON BAYBAKOV sound director BORYS PETER

RAHUL JAIN Script: Rahul Jain Director: Rahul Jain Photography by: Rodrigo Trejo Villanueva Editing: Rahul Jain, Yaël Bitton Sound: Susmit "Bob" Nath, Rahul Jain Production: Rahul Jain, Thanassis Karathanos, Iikka Vehkalahti Selected festivals and awards: Hot Docs International Documentary Festival, Canada (2017); Beldocs, Serbia (2017); CinéDOC, Georgia (2017); DocAviv, Israel (2017); Human Values Award, Fipresci Award and International Jury Award, Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival, Greece (2017); World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Excellence in Cinematography, Sundance Film Festival, USA (2017); International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, Netherlands (2016)

Machines ― Machines 2016 — 71’ — INDIA, GERMANY, FINL AND language, memorable images and carefully selected interviews of the workers themselves, Jain tells a story of inequality, oppression and the huge divide between rich, poor and the perspectives of both. *Half of today’s slaves in the world live and work in India: the $US40 billion Indian textile and garment industry employs an estimated 45 million workers, out of which more than 12 million are children.

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Moving through the corridors and bowels of an enormous and disorienting structure, the camera takes the viewer on a descent down to a dehumanized place of physical labor and intense hardship - a gigantic textile factory in Gujarat, India, one of the many opened since the 1960s, exemplifying the unprecedented, unregulated industrialization of western India*. In his mind-provoking yet intimate portrayal, director Rahul Jain observes the life of the workers, the suffering and the environment they can hardly escape from. With strong visual

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MIROSLAV JANEK Script: Miroslav Janek Director: Miroslav Janek Photography by: Miroslav Janek Editing: Tonička Janková Sound: Daniel Němec, Matěj Němec Production: Jan Macola (Mimesis Film) Co-production: Czech Television

Normal autistic film ― Normální autistický film

Selected filmography: Film Spa (2015); The Gospel According to Brabenec (2014); Olga (2014); The Confession of Kateryna K. (2008); Citizen Havel (2008); Kha-Chee-Pae (2005); Vjerka (2005); Battle for Life (2000); Unseen (1996) Selected festivals and awards: DocPoint Helsinki Documentary Film Festival, Finland (2017); Best Czech Documentary Film, Jihlava International Film Festival (2016); Dok Leipzig, Germany (2016); Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, Czech Republic (2016); International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, Netherlands (2016)

2016 — 90’ — CZECH REPUBLIC

Direct and thoughtful, Lukáš has a distinctive sense of humor. Piano virtuoso Denis is able to play demanding classical pieces. He adores The Little Prince so much that he keeps rereading it. Majda likes to rap and isn’t shy about it. Marjamka is able to tell long stories in English, while her tireless brother Ahmed is uncommonly friendly. Five remarkable children that society has consistently and unflatteringly

NORMAL AUTISTIC FILM

labeled “autistic”. A unique authorial vision challenges us once and for all to stop perceiving autism as a medical diagnosis and to try to understand it as a fascinating way of thinking.

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MATĚJ NĚMEC l script, camera, director MIROSLAV JANEK l editor TONIČKA JANKOVÁ

script consultant

HANA JEMELÍKOVÁ l sound MATĚJ NĚMEC DANIEL NĚMEC l producer JAN MACOLA PRODUCER

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ALICE SCHMID Script: Alice Schmid Director: Alice Schmid Photography by: Aurelio Buchwalder Editing: Anja Bombelli Sound: Patrick Becker Music: Thomas Jeker, Rea Dubach Production: Alice Schmid (Cine A.S. GmbH) Co-production: SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen

The girl down loch Änzi

Selected filmography: The Children from the Napf (2011); Should I Star or Should I Go? (2004); I Killed People (1999); First Love (1998) Selected festivals and awards: International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, Netherlands (2016)

― The girl down loch Änzi 2016 — 87’ — SWITZERLAND comes to work on the farm. Will he be her new friend and take her to the famous cave where no one else dares to go?

A Film by Alice Schmid

Twelve-year-old Laura lives in the Swiss hills on the family farm, surrounded by animals and nature. She is fascinated by the local legend about a maiden who is supposed to be held captive in the caves close to where she lives. But she wouldn’t dare go check out the story on her own, and this summer there are no other kids around. She whiles away the lonely days, birdwatching, helping out on the farm and faithfully entrusting everything to her diary. This is the only place she can express her loneliness, concerns about her weight, dreams and nightmares. Then a boy from the city

MONIKA WILLI, MICHAEL GLAWOGGER Script: Michael Glawogger, Attila Boa Director: Monika Willi, Michael Glawogger Photography by: Attila Boa Editing: Monika Willi Sound: Manuel Siebert Music: Wolfgang Mitterer Production: Tommy Pridnig, Peter Wirthensohn (Lotus Film) Co-production: Razor Film

Untitled ― Untitled

Selected filmography: Michael Glawogger: 60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero (2011); Whore’s Glory (2011); Workingman’s Death (2006); State of the Nation: Austria in Six Chapters (2002); France, here we come! (1999); Megacities (1998); War in Vienna (1989) Selected festivals and awards: Award for Best Cinematography, Diagonale - Festival of Austrian Film, Austria (2017); Best Documentary Film, Beldocs, Serbia (2017); Berlin International Film Festival, Germany (2017)

2017 — 105’ — AUSTRIA, GERMANY More than two years after the sudden death of Michael Glawogger in April 2014, film editor Monika Willi realized a film out of the film footage produced during 4 months and 19 days of shooting in the Balkans, Italy, Northwest and West Africa. A journey into the world to observe, listen and experience, the eye attentive, courageous and raw.

A FILM BY

MICHAEL GLAWOGGER AND MONIKA WILLI

NARRATED BY

FIONA SHAW

A LOTUS FILM / RAZOR FILM PRODUCTION ATTILA BOA LOCATION SOUND MANUEL SIEBERT PRODUCTION MANAGER EVA CIFRAIN EDITOR MONIKA WILLI COMPOSER WOLFGANG MITTERER NARRATOR FIONA SHAW MATZ MULLER ERIK MISCHIJEW RE-RECORDING MIXER TOBIAS FLEIG COPRODUCERS ROMAN PAUL GERHARD MEIXNER PRODUCED BY TOMMY PRIDNIG PETER WIRTHENSOHN CONCEPT BY MICHAEL GLAWOGGER ATTILA BOA MONIKA WILLI A FILM BY MICHAEL GLAWOGGER AND MONIKA WILLI

DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY SOUND DESIGN

AUDRIUS STONYS Script: Audrius Stonys Director: Audrius Stonys Photography by: Audrius Kemežys Editing: Mirjam Jegorov Sound: Riho Västrik Music: Robert Jürjendal Production: Radvilė Šumilė (Studio UKU) Co-production: Riho Västrik Selected filmography: Gates of the Lamb (2014); Cenotaph (2013); Ramin (2011); The Bell (2007); Harbour (1998)

Woman and the glacier ― Woman and the glacier 2016 — 56’ — LITHUANIA, ESTONIA Thirty years ago, Lithuanian scientist Aušra Revutaite went to the Tian Shian mountain range in Kazakhstan - and never left. Today, she is still the sole guardian of the remote Soviet-era glaciological station of Tuyuksu, at 3,500 meters above sea level, where she has devoted her life to conducting climate research. Surrounded by silence and the astonishing, otherworldly beauty of the immense landscape, and with a dog and a cat as her only witnesses, she keeps watch over the planet, religiously performing the enigmatic ritual of her everyday tasks. She has

Selected festivals and awards: Grand Prix & Audience Prize in the Baltic Programme, Vilnius International Film Festival “Kino pavasaris” (2017); DocPoint Tallinn Documentary Film Festival, Estonia (2017); ZagrebDox, Croatia (2017); Linz Crossing Europe, Austria (2017); Visions du Réel, Switzerland (2017); Hot Docs International Documentary Festival, Canada (2017); International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, Netherlands (2016)

seemingly forgotten about civilization and it has forgotten her. A cinematic ode to the grandeur of nature, the mystery of science and the secrecy of self-imposed solitude, Woman and the Glacier delivers a hypnotic and spiritual experience like no other, giving time and space a meaning very different from our world, far, far below the mountains.

Newcomers

Authors

Egil Håskjold Larsen

Elvira Lind

Marko Kumer Murč

Guillermo García López

Bojana Burnać

Jordan Dukov

Yuri Ancarani

Ilija Cvetkovski

EGIL HÅSKJOLD LARSEN Script: Egil Håskjold Larsen Director: Egil Håskjold Larsen Photography by: Egil Håskjold Larsen Editing: Egil Håskjold Larsen, Viktor Kossakovsky Sound: Alexandr Dudarev Music: Bugge Wesseltoft Production: Tone Grøttjord-Glenne

69 minutes of 86 days ― 69 minutes of 86 days 2017 — 71’ — NORWAY

Almost without dialogue and in constant motion, we follow the journey of one Syrian family from a refugee camp in Greece to their new home in Sweden. Making us part of the human stream of bodies towards an initially unknown goal, the film’s quiet beauty unravels the physical and emotional challenges that refugee families face every day. Meanwhile, the story of a 3-year-old girl and her family pieces together in small glimpses, giving the great humanitarian tragedy of our times a human face and a child’s perspective of an incomprehensible adult world.

Selected festivals and awards: Special Mention in the Nordic DOX: Award Section, CPH:DOX, Denmark (2017); Emerging International Filmmaker Award, Hot Docs International Documentary Festival, Canada (2017); Youth Jury Award, Sheffield Doc/Fest, England (2017); Award for the Best Documentary Cinematography and An Honorable Mention, Nordic/Docs, Norway (2017); Eurodok - European Documentary Film Festival, Norway (2017); The Norwegian Documentary Film Festival, Norway(2017)

ILIJA CVETKOVSKI Script: Atanas Georgiev, Ilija Cvetkovski Director: Ilija Cvetkovski Photography by: Dragan Pakovski, Samir Ljuma, Ilija Cvetkovski, Sotir Ivanovski, Dimo Popov, Jane Jankov Editing: Atanas Georgiev Sound: Aleksandar Gjorgevic, Zoran Prodanov, Ivica Jankulovski, Viktor Atanasov Music: Foltin Production: Atanas Georgiev

Avec l’amour ― Avec l’amour 2017 — 66’ — MACEDONIA Dionis is not just another biology teacher about to retire. He has a passion, a dream. Instead of his wife, over hundred rusty vintage cars keep him company in bed at night! It is in the outskirts of the uneventful town he lives in, among these piles of rust that he finds the joy of existence. While dreaming of opening an automobile museum, his younger wife makes ends meet by making wedding and birthday cakes for the town’s folk. It sounds like a true love story already, doesn’t it?

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DIONIS AND GOCA PASHLAKOVI DIRECTED BY ILIJA CVETKOVSKI DEVISED AND PRODUCED BY ATANAS GEORGIEV CINEMATOGRAPHERS DRAGAN PAKOVSKI, SAMIR LJUMA, ILIJA CVETKOVSKI, SOTIR IVANOVSKI, DIMO POPOV, JANE JANKOV EDITOR ATANAS GEORGIEV SOUND ALEKSANDAR GJORGJEVIC, ZORAN PRODANOV, IVICA JANKULOVSKI, VIKTOR ATANASOV MUSIC BY FOLTIN, SUPPORTED BY MACEDONIAN FILM AGENCY, IDFA BERTHA FUND TRICE FILMS MACEDONIA ©2017 www.aveclamour.xyz

JORDAN DUKOV Script: Jordan Dukov Director: Jordan Dukov Photography by: Jane Markovski Editing: Snezhana Mladenovska Angjelkov Production: TV Telma Selected filmography: So Many Loves (2015); Car Wash Cabaret (2012)

Blueberry Hill ― Blueberry Hill 2016 — 63’ — MACEDONIA Every summer, at an altitude of 2,000 metres, the blueberries fruit in the southern part of Macedonia - or as they call it down there “the mountain caviar”. Telling the story about Mile from Gevgelija, who believes that Kozhuf Mountain is the best office one could ask for, the film captures the tiring work of the blueberry pickers whose livelihood depends on the annual harvest of these “black pearls”.

BLUEBERRY HILL Приказна за берачите на "планинскиот кавијар"...

Сценарио и режија: ЈОРДАН ДУКОВ

Камера: ЈАНЕ МАРКОВСКИ I Монтажа: СНЕЖАНА МЛАДЕНОВСКА - АНЃЕЛКОВ

Продукција: ТВ ТЕЛМА

ELVIRA LIND Script: Elvira Lind, Adam Nielsen Director: Elvira Lind Photography by: Elvira Lind Editing: Adam Nielsen Sound: Martin Sandström Music: Uno Helmorsson Production: Julie Leerskov, Sara Stockmann Selected filmography: Songs for Alexis (2014) Selected festivals and awards: Awards for Best Documentary Feature, for Best Cinematography in a Documentary Feature and for Best Editing in a Documentary Feature, Tribeca Film Festival, USA (2017)

Bobbie Jene ― Bobbie Jene 2017 — 96’ — USA, DENMARK, ISRAEL to establish. And that cannot be less than a mesmerizing and eye-opening experience, both for her and the audience.

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push until you have no strength to hide

A DOCUMENTARY FILM BY ELVIRA LIND PHOTO // ALEX APT GRAPHIC DESIGN // TORSTEN HØGH RASMUSSEN

For a decade, Bobbi Jene Smith held a coveted position in the world-renowned Batsheva Dance Company. She grew as a performer thanks to the renowned choreographer Ohad Naharin, fell in love with her fellow dancer and established a supportive community while continually pushing herself as a dancer. But in a bold move, she makes the decision to uproot her life and career, leave Israel and head back to her home in the United States. For her, the desire to explore new forms of artistic expression means breaking away from the life she worked hard

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DIRECTOR ELVIRA NANA LIND PRODUCERS JULIE LEERSKOV AND SARA STOCKMANN EDITOR ADAM NIELSEN DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY ELVIRA NANA LIND SOUND DESIGNER MARTIN SANDSTRÖM COMMISSIONER FILM COMMISSIONER RUSSO MERENDA PRODUCED BY SONNTAG PICTURES IN COPRODUCTION WITH FRENCH QUARTER FILM AB WITH SUPPORT FROM DANISH FILMINSTITUTE BYHELLEFILMHANSEN / THE SWEDISH FILM INSTITUTE BYANTONIO BY FILM COMMISSIONER BY FILM COMMISSIONER BY COMMISSIONING EDITOR BY COMMISSIONING EDITOR BY COMMISSIONING LEDIN WALLENTIN HEDEGAARD LARSEN / SVT EMILY PERSSON TORE TOMTER AND DBS ISRAEL / FILM I DALARNA DANIEL / DR TV FLEMMING / NRK EDITOR NORDIC FILM & TV FUND KAROLINA FACEBOOK.COM/BOBBIJENE 06/04/17 20.51

GUILLERMO GARCÍA LÓPEZ Script: Guillermo García López Director: Guillermo García López Photography by: Pablo Bürmann Editing: Guillermo García López Sound: José Luis Alcaine Bartolomé Music: Zeltia Montes Production: Pedro González Kühn, Pablo Godoy-Estel

Delicate balance ― Frágil equilibrio 2016 — 81’ — SPAIN

Three seemingly different stories set in Morocco, Spain and Japan become one as we listen to the elderly but lucid former president of Uruguay whose modest lifestyle set him apart from others in his position. José Alberto Mujica’s ideas about modern society, where economic interests prevail over human values, form the backbone of this essayistic exploration of both the everyday reality of globalization and the future of humanity. Sailing through the contradictory waters of our globalized world, this documentary is a proposal for change.

Selected festivals and awards: Jury Award for Best Documentary Feature and Audience Award for Documentary Feature, Cine Las Americas, USA (2017); Edinburgh International Film Festival, UK (2017); Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, Greece (2017); Human Rights Human Wrongs, Norway (2017); Best Spanish Documentary, Semana del Cine de Valladolid, Spain (2016); International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, Netherlands (2016)

BOJANA BURNAĆ Script: Bojana Burnać Director: Bojana Burnać Photography by: Bojana Burnać Editing: Jelena Maksimović Sound: Jakov Munižaba Production: Oliver Sertić Selected festivals and awards: Hot Docs International Documentary Festival, Canada (2017)

My life without air ― Мoj život bez zraka 2017 — 72’ — CROATIA A thrilling view of the wondrous world of the world champion in freediving, whose most important moments in life take place underwater, in silence, during one highly controlled breath. Unrelentingly shifting the boundaries of physicality, he risks crossing them and being irreversibly punished but persists beyond the possible, believing that upon return to the surface he will once again be the best.

YURI ANCARANI Script: Yuri Ancarani Director: Yuri Ancarani Photography by: Yuri Ancarani Editing: Yuri Ancarani Sound: Mirco Mencacci Music: Lorenzo Senni, Francesco Fantini Production: Fabrizio Polpettini, Tommaso Bertani Co-production: Ring Film, Atopic Selected festivals and awards: Special Jury Prize Ciné+, Locarno Film Festival, Switzerland (2016); Honorable Mention of the Jury, DocAviv, Israel (2016); Manaki Brothers International Cinematrographers' Film Festival, Macedonia (2016); Viennale, Austria (2016); Free Zone Film Festival, Serbia (2016); International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, Netherlands (2016); Dubai International Film Festival, UAE (2016); Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, Greece (2016); CPH:DOX, Denmark (2016); Hot Docs International Documentary Festival, Canada (2016); Indielisboa, Portugal (2016); Dok.Fest Munchen, Germany (2016); Encounters South African International Documentary Film Festival, South Africa (2016)

The challenge ― The challenge 2016 — 70’ — FRANCE, ITALY

Falconry has a history that stretches back over 40 centuries. In the West, it was a prevailing passion of the medieval aristocracy, but its prestige continues undiminished in the contemporary Arab culture. Three years of observing this form of hunting in the field have made it possible to capture the spirit of a tradition that today allows its practitioners to keep a close rapport with the desert, despite their predominantly urban lifestyle. In the glaring light of an empty landscape, 40

following flight lines and lures, the film recounts a strange kind of “desert weekend” during a tournament in Qatar.

MARKO KUMER MURČ Script: Nina Cijan Director: Marko Kumer Murč Photography by: Urban Zorko Editing: Sara Gjergek Music: Goran Krmac Production: EnaBanda/Smehomat, Slovenian Film Center

The city of light ― Mesto Svetlobe 2017 — 68’ — SLOVENIA In the beginning, there was a city. Then the city was illuminated by light, feeding on the grayish ore, hidden deep in the bowels of the earth. Years of coal extraction resulted in a large lake, which slowly devoured the surrounding homesteads and finally started encroaching on the city itself. However, this did not stop those who planned for the future. This very strange world of the sweet-sour scent of sulfur, coughed up by the power plant chimneys, became the setting for the stories of chosen heroes. They proudly enter the world of drowning dreams

and illusions wrapped in white smoke, and ingenuously allow us to reveal their stories, which could, after all, remain unheard because of the dark shadows of the last fossil fuel power plant in Europe. When their lives, yearnings, fears and sobbing become visible, perhaps this city will finally become the City of Light.

Visual poetics When Mikhail Kalatozov’s “When the Cranes are Flying” won the Palme d’Or at the 1958 Cannes Film Festival, the film audience was impressed by its visual and sound effects – an extraordinary aesthetics created with the use of black and white photography and with the dynamics of the film camera accompanied by an exceptional music phon. But few knew that the author chose this aesthetics well before when he filmed his feature documentary “Salt for Svanetia” for “Gruziya-film”, ranked by subsequent surveys in the Top 5 best 1930 films worldwide (being the only documentary film on the list!). During my high school years, Georgia and the Georgians were often on my mind as I was reading Pushkin’s journal about his unauthorized travels through the Caucasus, well beyond Tbilisi (then Tiflis). I discovered the fascinating Caucasian landscapes, people and heritage later on, through the films of Tengiz Abuladze (“Repentance”), the brothers Giorgi and Eldar Shengelaia (“Pirosmani” and “The White Caravan” respectively), the Armenian author Sergei Parajanov (“Ashik Kerib” and “The Legend of Suram Fortress”), Georgiy Daneliya and many others. Their films unveiled a world of abundance, filled with pain, suffering and a bit of happiness. The colors and the music, reminiscing of little visual symphonies, bound in perfect unity with the editing, the camera and the sound, gave the viewer a unique meditative experience. Of all former Soviet republics, the oldest and most advanced cinematography is that of Georgia. The country hosted the first film screening in 1896, the first feature fiction film “BerikaobaKeenoba” being filmed in 1909 by Aleksandre Tsutsunava. It is not a coincidence that the eminent Russian poet and critic Victor Shklovsky said that Tbilisi rather than Moscow was the birthplace of the Soviet cinematography. At least two things defined the Georgian film at the time – firstly, the knowledge, skills and talent of the author to blend magically the art form and the real life and secondly, the libertarian spirit of Georgian filmmakers due to which most of their films were censored, re-edited or simply “forgotten” for several years in the bunkers of “Gruziya-film” (which was established in 1926). After a long dark period of stagnation that followed the constitutional changes, the Georgian film makes a comeback on the world film scene. In all its glory, thanks to the knowledge, talent and love of some new young directors who build on the cinematographic heritage from the previous generations in the best possible way. 42

So here we are, at this year’s MakeDox, offering you a selection of the latest Georgian documentaries. These are not films covered with the veil of touristic propaganda, so to say. On the contrary, these films strip the reality of transitional trauma, of getting by in times of tectonic breakage in history, of past habits and of desires for a future deeply longed for. It’s undeniable that the visual aesthetics runs through the veins of Georgian filmmakers. In these films barely anything happens and yet everything does! It’s all in the details! As in the torn ballet slippers that Luka wears in “Listen to the Silence” or in the never-ending vast emptiness of a remote frontier region a red jeep travels across in “Double Aliens” or in the long camera pan in the opening frame of “The Dazzling Light of Sunset” or in the monitor in an unimaginably poor rural family in “Gogita’s New Life” or in the abandoned rail trails in the apocalyptic mining town in “The City of Light” or in the dynamic jumps of skaters in a deserted building in Tbilisi in “When the Earth Seems to be Light” or in the commodity exchange in “Sovdagari”, where the potato is the only currency. And the music! Ah, the music! The traditional polyphonic singing specifically arranged for each film. Somebody mentioned that these Georgian films have a lot in common with ours, the Macedonian ones. It may be the hidden Mediterranean spirit. Or the cultural and civilization heritage. I am thinking of “Before the Rain”, “Anguish”, “The Longest Journey”, “Yield”, “Dae”, “Times without War”, “The Mountain of Wrath”... What our young filmmakers should learn from these Georgian films (if they decide to watch them at all) is to employ the knowledge, master the art, use the talent… and build on the love for the film form (the latter seems to be the most difficult at least here, not among the Georgians). Ilindenka Petrusheva

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Authors

Rati Oneli

UÄŁis Olte

SalomĂŠ Jashi

Salome Machaidze

Tamuna Karumidze

David Meskhi

Levan Koguashvili

Mariam Chachia

Tamta Gabrichidze

RATI ONELI Script: Dea Kulumbegashvili, Rati Oneli Director: Rati Oneli Photography by: Arseni Khachaturan Editing: Ramiro Suarez Sound: Andrey Dergachev Production: Rati Oneli, Dea Kulumbegashvili Co-production: Jim Stark Selected festivals and awards: Berlin International Film Festival, Germany (2017)

City of the Sun ― Mzis qalaqi 2016 — 105’ — GEORGIA, USA, QATAR, NETHERLANDS

Founded by Georgian poets and aristocrats in the 19th century, the mining town of Chiatura was turned into a center of industry by the Soviet regime. An embodiment of a bright utopian future, it had not only theaters, universities and parks but also the first and largest public aerial cable-car transportation system in the world. There was a time when it was responsible for supplying 50% of the world's manganese; at its peak, the mine employed up to 10,000 workers. Today, with drastically reduced manganese production, dangerous working

conditions and little prospect for any improvement, it is well on its way to become a ghost town… and yet, there still live and dream many extraordinary characters trying to build their life anew.

UĢIS OLTE Script: Uģis Olte Director: Uģis Olte Photography by: Valdis Celmiņš, Uldis Cekulis Editing: Uģis Olte Sound: Gatis Zaķis Music: Jānis Šipkēvics, Reinis Sējāns (INSTRUMENTI) Production: VFS Films Co-production: SAKDOC Selected filmography: Liberation Day (2016); Stuck in Stikine (2007)

Double Aliens

Selected festivals and awards: Docudays US International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival, Ukraine (2017); National Premiere, Riga International Film Festival, Latvia (2016); International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, Netherlands (2015)

― Dubultie svešinieki 2015 — 56’ — LATVIA, GEORGIA A wild terrain is like an open book where one can record one’s own story. A filmmaker from the North and a photographer from the South go to an alien land. A land where people are worn out by their history, where time tends to freeze and every encounter is in the curve of a mirror that makes you look into familiar eyes.

DOUBLE ALIENS BY UĢIS OLTE

CREATIVE DOCUMENTARY / 56’

a trip around the dead end

LEVAN KOGUASHVILI Script: Levan Koguashvili Director: Levan Koguashvili Photography by: Gigi Samsonadze Editing: Elene Asatiani, Levan Koguashvili Sound: Dario Domitrovic Production: Levan Koguashvili, Olena Yershova, Dario Domitrović (Kino Iberica Ltd) Co-production: Tato Film Selected festivals and awards: Docudays US International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival, Ukraine (2017); International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, Netherlands (2016)

Gogita’s new life ― Gogitas akhali tckovreba 2016 — 71’ — GEORGIA, CROATIA After 14 years in prison, the time has come for Gogita to return to his normal life. His wishes seem modest enough: a home of his own and then marriage to a nice woman. But who would be interested in a poor farmer and ex-con who still lives with his mother? Then he meets Maka on the internet. She’s not that young anymore, and she’s not the prettiest girl in the world, but she can bake delicious cakes. They’re soon making grand plans without even having met. What unfolds is a tragicomic tale 48

of a simple man and woman looking for love in a world that is placing high demands on them.

MARIAM CHACHIA Script: Mariam Chachia Director: Mariam Chachia Photography by: Hugues Landry, Nik Voigt, Tibo Motte Editing: Celine Kelepikis Sound: Sebastian Zsemlye Music: Micheal Palmer Production: Nik Voigt, Mariam Chachia, Nino Jincharadze Selected festivals and awards: Golden Dove Grand Prize, Next Masters Competition, DOK Leipzig, Germany (2016)

Listen to the silence ― Listen to the silence 2016 — 80’ — GEORGIA This enchanting film about a school for deaf children somewhere in Georgia begins like a fairytale. And that’s how it should be. Sometimes we just need encouraging stories, stories that affirm the joy of life. Like the one of 9-year-old smiling Luka who takes up classes in traditional Georgian dancing and does not intend to give up until he catches the rhythm and steps onto the stage.

TAMTA GABRICHIDZE Script: Tamta Gabrichidze Director: Tamta Gabrichidze Photography by: Vano Andiashvili Editing: Nona Gogodze Sound: Ilia Magradze Music: Gigi (Pianoman) Chipashvili Production: Ilia Tavberidze Selected festivals and awards: Best Short Documentary Award, HotDocs, Canada (2017)

Sovdagari ― Sovdagari 2016 — 22’ — GEORGIA Gela sells secondhand clothes and household items from the back of his minibus while travelling across rural Georgia in search of spuds. Money is meaningless in this market - potatoes are lucre. Young and old peer into his truck, their eyes lighting up at the sight of modern conveniences like soaps, sponges, shiny women bags, boots and brushes. It is a riddle that pits rural value against urban valuation, dirt versus gold.

SALOMÉ JASHI Script: Salomé Jashi Director: Salomé Jashi Photography by: Salomé Jashi Editing: Derek Howard Sound: David Sikharulidze, Ivane Gvaradze, Giorgi Khancheli Production: Urte Amelie Fink, Salomé Jashi, Gregor Streiber Co-production: MDR/Arte and YLE Selected filmography: Bakhmaro (2011)

The dazzling light of sunset

Selected festivals and awards: Main Prize, Regard Neuf Competition, Visions du Réel, Switzerland (2016); Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival, Czech Republic (2016)

― Daisis miziduloba

2016 — 74’ — GEORGIA, GERMANY

Dariko, the only local television journalist in a small town in Georgia, strives from one report to the next to provide a pseudo-ethnographic portrait of a community defined by rituals and traditions. Like Virgil with Dante, she leads the director through the Georgian “circles of hell” in a microscopic tragicomedy that reveals a country in perpetual transition. 51

SALOME MACHAIDZE, TAMUNA KARUMIDZE, DAVID MESKHI

When the Earth seems to be light ― When the Earth seems to be light 2015 — 75’ — GEORGIA, GERMANY

A dry desert, palm trees and skater boys with Iron Maiden t-shirts on sunny streets, proudly wearing their tattoos as “a diary you can’t escape from” - one could think this was California. But it’s not. Moving from ruins outside the city, as if made for skating, to underground parties and city subways, this visually overwhelming film follows a group of long-haired, skinny guys roaming the streets on their boards - the only skaters in Tbilisi. Stuck in the darkly beautiful

yet confining capital, surrounded by the religious and Soviet relics of their parents’ past, this new generation is more than happy to disregard it and create its own meaningful reality. A wonderful poem about youth shifting between melancholy and joie de vivre.

Script: Salome Machaidze, Tamuna Karumidze, David Meskhi Director: Salome Machaidze, Tamuna Karumidze, David Meskhi Photography by: Levan Maisuradze, David Meskhi, Tamuna Karumidze Editing: Tamuna Karumidze, Salome Machaidze Sound: Irakli Ivanishvili Music: Natalie Beridze aka TBA, Nika Machaidze aka Nikakoi Maxime, Machaidze aka Luna 9, Vakouz Diaperpin, Thomas Brinkmann, Ryuichi Sakamoto Production: Jörg Langkau (Goslab) Co-production: Zaza Rusadze (Zazarfilm) Selected filmography: Salome Machaidze: „Dima“ (2008); Tamuna Karumidze: „Zahesi 708“ (2002) Selected festivals and awards: DocPoint Helsinki Documentary Film Festival, Finland (2016); Tbilisi International Film Festival, Georgia (2016); International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, Netherlands (2015)

Short Dox

Authors

Laura Ferrés

Corina Schwingruber Ilić

Damjan Kozole

Dennis Stauffer

Geoffrey Feinberg

Thomas Horat

Norbert Kottmann

Sean Stiller

Laura Belinky

Esteban Arrangoiz Julien

Nikola Ilić

Giedrē Žickytē

Özgür Demirci

Julia Staniszewska

Maite Alberdi

Juri Badenhorst

Xavier Marrades

Borders

Cucli

― Meje

― Cucli

2016 — 10’ — SLOVENIA

2016 — 17’ — SPAIN

A short story confined to a single, stationary shot. Within the frame, an ordinary rural landscape in late autumn: a line of trees on the horizon and a road winding its way through plowed fields. Then human silhouettes start appearing in the distance. After a while, more and more of them appear until they fill in the entire frame. A stream of tired faces of people passes in front of our eyes, people who have spent many days on the road before reaching the border between Croatia and Slovenia in October 2015.

Since the death of his wife, Ramón has been engulfed in loneliness. When he is not in the home of his elderly parents, where he lives, he works driving a cargo truck. Unassuming and transformational, an injured white dove brings light back to his life, giving him a more positive way of perceiving death. This is a love story of unexpected nuances, where memory may just have the power to connect the supernatural to our mundane lives, making us transcend and broadening our understanding of it.

DAMJAN KOZOLE

XAVIER MARRADES

Script: Damjan Kozole Director: Damjan Kozole Photography by: Matjaž Mrak Editing: Jurij Moškon Sound: Julij Zornik Production: Danijel Hočevar (Vertigo)

Script: Xavier Marrades Director: Xavier Marrades Photography by: Oriol Colomar, Xavier Marrades Editing: Xavier Marrades Sound: Sergi Nogué Toro, Alejandro Castillo Production: Xavier Marrades, Nanouk Films

Selected filmography: Ulay: Project Cancer (2013); Long Vacation (2012); Two or Three Things We Know About Her (2010); Bogdan Grom (2009)

Selected filmography: The Pilgrim’s Dive (2016); The Stranger’s Land (2010)

Selected festivals and awards: Human Rights Award – Special Mention, Sarajevo Film Festival, BiH (2016); Vesna Award for the Best Documentary Film, Festival of Slovenian Films (2016); Best Film of the Festival, DokuDoc Festival, Slovenia (2016); Vilnus Film Festival „Kino Pavasaris“, Lithuania (2017); Zagreb Dox, Croatia (2017); Watch Docs Film Festival, Poland (2016); Free Zone Film Festival, Serbia (2016); Mediterranean Short Film Festival, Italy (2016)

Selected festivals and awards: Best Short Film Award, FICCI - Cartagena de Indias, USA (2017); Documentamadrid, Spain (2017); Huesca Film Festival, Spain (2017); International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, Netherlands (2016)

Digital Immigrants ― Digital Immigrants

From the silver screen to the soccer field ― From the silver screen to the soccer field

2016 — 21’ — SWITZERLAND

2016 — 9’ — TURKEY

The home computer arrived with inhuman speed in our living rooms and overran an entire generation. It also split the society into “digital natives” and “digital immigrants”. The future belongs only to those who master the new technology. In 2016, a group of senior citizens attempts to adjust to the pace of computerization to get to grips with the digital age. Their problem is ours: how long can we keep up with the rapid development?

“Yıldız Movie Theater” opened in the early 1950s in what was once the city center of Izmir. Since the early 2000s, many immigrants inhabited these neighborhoods; the so-called Basmane part of the city quickly became known as a maledominated and marginalized area. An enclosed soccer field and a billiards saloon is all that is left from the cinema.

NORBERT KOT TMANN, DENNIS STAUFFER

ÖZGÜR DEMIRCI

Script: Norbert Kottmann, Dennis Stauffer Director: Norbert Kottmann, Dennis Stauffer Photography by: Dennis Stauffer Editing: Norbert Kottmann Sound: Gregg Skerman Music: Bänz Isler Production: Filippo Bonacci

Script: Özgür Demirci Director: Özgür Demirci Photography by: Özgür Demirci Editing: Özgür Demirci Sound: Tolga Balcı Music: Zeynep Ayşe Hatipoğlu Production: Nursaç Sargon

Selected filmography: Norbert Kottmann: Last Traces (2013);

Selected filmography: A Story of Failure (2015)

Dennis Stauffer: Stillstand (2014)

Selected festivals and awards: Swiss Film Award for Best Graduate Film, Federal Office of Culture, Switzerland (2017); DOK.fest International Documentary Film Festival, Munich, Germany (2017); Solothurn Film Festival, Switzerland (2017) Vilnius International Short Film Festival, Lithuania (2017); Audience Prize, Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur, Germany (2016); DOK Leipzig, Germany (2016); Locarno Film Festival, Switzerland (2016);

Selected festivals and awards: Documentarist, Istanbul, Turkey (2017); Tirana International Film Festival, Albania (2016); Istanbul Film Festival, Turkey (2016)

I am not from here

In the woods

― Yo no soy de aquí

― Ins Holz

2015 — 26’ — CHILE, DENMARK, LITHUANIA

2017 — 13’ — SWITZERLAND

An 88-year-old Basque Country native, Josebe, lives in a nursing home in Chile. She’s obsessed with finding out where the rest of the elder people she lives with come from. Everyone tell her that they are Chilean, not Spanish as she is. Josebe insists on thinking about her youth in the Basque Country. After 70 years in Chile, she still has lively memories of her homeland but struggles to remember that she is now living elsewhere.

Snow, sweat, testosterone and the sound of chainsaws in the middle of breathtaking landscapes. Every four years, over a period of three months in winter, wood is being cut in a steep mountain high above Lake Aegeri and prepared for log rafting. Even though technology could make the work a lot easier, the people there choose to preserve their tradition. So the cutting of the wood becomes almost a cultural event.

GIEDRĒ ŽICKYTĒ, MAITE ALBERDI

CORINA SCHWINGRUBER ILIĆ, THOMA S HORAT

Script: Giedrē Žickytē Director: Giedrē Žickytē, Maite Alberdi Photography by: Pablo Valdés Editing: Juan Eduardo Murillo Sound: Boris Herrera Production: Pato R. Gajardo, Maite Alberdi Co-production: FFA-Chile, The Danish Film Institute, Lithuanian Film Centre

Script: Thomas Horat Director: Corina Schwingruber Ilić, Thomas Horat Photography by: Luzius Wespe Editing: Corina Schwingruber Ilić Sound: Simon Graf, Oswald Schwander, Jürg von Allmen Production: Mythenfilm

Selected filmography: Maite Alberdi: Tea Time (2014); The Lifeguard (2011); Giedre Žickytė: Master and Tatyana (2014); How We Played The Revolution (2011)

Selected festivals and awards: Award for Best Short Film in the International Competition, Vision du Réel, Switzerland (2017); Short Doc Award, Sheffield Doc/Fest, USA (2016); Nomination for Best European Short Film, European Film Academy (2016)

Selected filmography: Corina Schwingruber Ilić: Baggern (Tons of Passion) (2011); Thomas Horat: · From the river at the Ägerisee (2016); · Alpsummer (2013); · Rock'n'Roll Kingdom (2013); · Weather Gazers (2010)

Selected festivals and awards: International Short Film Festival Sao Paolo, Brazil (2017) Le Court Nous Tient Short Film Festival, France (2017); Short Film & Animation Festival “Mecal”, Spain (2017); Nijmegen International Short Film Festival “Go Short”, The Netherlands (2017); Regard sur le court métrage, Canada (2017); Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, France (2017)

Kewku

Land of the wind

― Kéwku

― Tierra del viento

2016 — 10’ — CANADA, USA

2017 — 18’ — UNITED KINGDOM

Using the backdrop of traditional Shuswap territory in British Columbia’s interior as both physical and symbolic landscape, Kéwku weaves the tumultuous life experiences of Shuswap elder Ralph Phillips to his relationship with the healing medicine sage.

You drive and drive and wind is the constant. Wind defines the landscape, the lifestyle, the habits… Just about everything here, in the vast and breathtakingly beautiful emptiness of Patagonia. We join fine-art photographer Eliseo Miciu as he sets out on a road trip determined to capture Patagonia’s moving soul.

SEAN STILLER

LAURA BELINKY

Script: Sean Stiller Director: Sean Stiller Photography by: Sean Stiller Editing: Sean Stiller Sound: Arian Khosravi

Script: Laura Belinky, Theo Ribeiro Director: Laura Belinky Photography by: Theo Ribeiro Editing: Laura Belinky, Theo Ribeiro Sound: Laura Belinky Music: Xunorus Production: Wild River Films

Selected filmography: Through the Gaze (2016); We Make Stories Out of Totem Poles (2016)

Selected festivals and awards: Awards for Best Documentary Film and for Best Cinematography, Living Skies Student Film Festival, Canada (2017); Wairoa Maori Film Festival, New Zealand (2017)

Selected filmography: Where I Want to Go (2013); Dance, Translated (2008); De passagem (2006)

Selected festivals and awards: Palm Springs International Film Festival, USA (2017)

Pantsula: how we move

Rakijada

― Pantsula: how we move

― Rakijada

2017 — 5’ — SOUTH AFRICA

2016 — 19’ — SWITZERLAND

A film crew follows four pantsula dancers from the Delft South rural area outside of Cape Town to learn more about this South African historic dance and its origins.

Every year, a small, pugnacious Serbian village holds the Rakijada - competition that is all about who can drink the most, balance on wooden poles and brew the best plum brandy. A portrait of a sleepy village that shines a new light on the Serbian soul, while never losing sight of the typical humour of the Balkans.

JURI BADENHORST

NIKOLA ILIĆ

Director: Juri Badenhorst Photography by: Hennie Le Roux Editing: Juri Badenhorst Sound: Barend van der Walt Music: Barend van der Walt Production: Rowen Smith

Script: Nikola Ilić Director: Nikola Ilić Photography by: Nikola Ilić, Brand Ferro Editing: Rolf Hellat Sound: Ivan Antić Music: Heidi Happy Production: Laurin Merz (Merz & Partner) Selected filmography: Just Another Day In Egypt (2015); Down on the Corner (2013); Little Yugoslavia (2013); Sopish Snow (2010)

Selected festivals and awards: Moscow International Documentary Film Festival DOKer, Russia (2017); Filmfest Dresden, Germany (2017); American Documentary Film Festival, Palm Springs, USA (2017); International Human Rights

Documentary Film Festival, Docudays, Ukraine (2017); International Short and Animation Festival “Mecal”, Spain, (2017); Vilnius International Film Festival, Lithuania (2017); Regard sur le court métrage, Canada (2017); Tampere International Short Film Festival, Finland (2017); Honorable Mention, International Short Film Festival Winterthur, Germany (2016); Short-run Award, International Short Film Festival Winterthur, Germany (2015)

The Disinherited

The Diver

― Los Desheredados

― El Buzo

2017 — 18’ — SPAIN

2016 — 16’ — MEXICO

The film portrays the director's father facing the end of his family business. Pere Ferrés is 53 years old and owns a bus company. Lack of money forces him to drive clients who destroy his vehicle to bachelor parties, but he is not prepared to lose his dignity.

In love with the water ever since childhood, Julio has learned scuba diving as a youngster. Today, he is the chief diver in the Mexico City sewerage system. This is a fantastic story about the city’s invisible hero who takes pride in his profession.

L A U R A F E R R É S

ESTEBAN ARRANGOIZ JULIEN

Script: Laura Ferrés Director: Laura Férres Photography by: Agnès Piqué Corbera Editing: Diana Toucedo Sound: Alejandro Castillo Music: Joe Crepúsculo & Manos de Topo Production: Inicia Films

Script: Esteban Arrangoiz Julien, Mariana Rodríguez Director: Esteban Arrangoiz Julien Photography by: Martin Molína Editing: Esteban Arrangoiz Julien Sound: Estíbaliz Márquez, Daniel Rojo Music: Juan Felipe Waller Production: Centro Universitario de Estudios Cinematográficos (CUEC), Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía (IMCINE)

Selected festivals and awards: Leica Cine Discovery Prize for Best Short Film in Competition, Semaine de la Critique, Cannes Festival, France (2017); Curtas Vila do Conde International Film Festival, Portugal (2017)

Selected filmography: Lerma River (2010);

Selected festivals and awards: Award for Best Short Film, UNAM International Film Festival, Mexico (2016); Grand Jury Prize, Literally Short Film Festival, USA (2016); Award for Best Short documentary, Guanajuato International Film Festival, Mexico (2016); Best documentary short film, Morelia International Short Festival, Mexico (2015)

The Hanging

Three conversations on life

― The Hanging

― Trzy rozmowy o życiu

2016 — 15’ — USA, RUSSIA, GERMANY

2016 — 25’ — POLAND

Part political act and part adrenaline rush, 19-year-old Kirill likes to hang from the rooftops of apartment blocks, high above Moscow. His brazen stunts on top of the building have earned him the nickname ‘Russian Spiderman’. In a country that crushes protest and dissent, hanging allows him to be in control of his actions and to feel free. However, he is not fearless.

A series of conversations between a mother and a daughter, between a grandmother and a mother. They differ in their moral assessment of in-vitro fertilization, despite the fact that two children – her children, her grandchildren – were born thanks to this method. Their convictions cannot be reconciled so they end up locked in an ideological clinch. But the difficult conversation about the possibilities of reuniting love, faith and ideology goes on.

GEOFFREY FEINBERG

JULIA STANISZEWSK A

Script: Geoffrey Feinberg Director: Geoffrey Feinberg Photography by: Geoffrey Feinberg Editing: Dominika Michalowska, Amanda Laws, Geoffrey Feinberg Sound: Geoffrey Feinberg Music: Lorenz Fischer, Julian Brau Production: Jelena Goldbach, Geoffrey Feinberg

Script: Julia Staniszewska Director: Julia Staniszewska Photography by: Kacper Lisowski, Adam Palenta, Tomasz Wolski Editing: Adriana F. Castellanos Sound: Kacper Lisowski, Tomasz Wolski Production: Ewa Jastrzębska (Munk Studio - Polish Filmmakers Association)

Selected festivals and awards: Palm Springs International Shortfest, USA (2017); Hot Docs International Documentary Festival, Canada (2016); International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, Netherlands (2016)

Selected festivals and awards: MiradasDoc, Belgium (2017); ZagrebDox, Croatia (2017); Special Mention, Febio Fest, Slovakia (2017); DOK Leipzig, Germany (2016); International Film Festival Watch Docs, Warsaw, Poland (2016); Krakow Film Festival, Poland (2016); Warsaw Film Festival, Poland (2016)

Student Dox

Authors

Zofia Kowalewska

Sandra Jovanovska

Helene Thuemmel

Lidija Špegar

Nikica Zdunić

Petr Salaba

Cecilia Bozza Wolf

Andrej Kolenčik

Filip Rojik

Isabel Pagliai

María Grazia Goya

Emi Buchwald

Louise Ernandez

Filip Jacobson

Sera Martikainen

Alexander Zubovlenko

Matevž Jerman

Paloma Sermon-Daï

Nuno Braumann

Filip Alex Svoboda

Peter Cerovšek

Pedro Koch

Karol Starnawski

Neža Grum

Vahagn Khachatryan

Around Us

Close Ties

― Kolem nás

― Więzi

2017 — 7’ — CZECH REPUBLIC

2016 — 18’ — POLAND

An idiosyncratic testimony of today's world from the perspective of one young boy. Accompanied only with music and a static camera, the film illustrates the absurdity of human acts.

Barbara and Zdzislaw are soon to celebrate their forty-fifth anniversary. It would have been quite the occasion if not for the fact that Zdzisław spent eight of those years living with another woman. Now they are together again although Barbara claims that if it were not for his infirm legs, he would still be chasing skirts around Krakow. In spite of everyday bickering, somewhat inexplicably, their relationship perseveres.

FILIP ALEX SVOBODA

ZOFIA KOWALEWSKA

Script: Filip Alex Svoboda Director: Filip Alex Svoboda Photography by: Filip Alex Svoboda Editing: Filip Alex Svoboda Music: David Kopecký

Script: Zofia Kowalewska Director: Zofia Kowalewska Photography by: Weronika Bilska Editing: Jerzy Zawadzki Sound: Krzysztof Ridan Music: Krzysztof Ridan, Barbara Torhan Production: Munk Studio – Polish Filmmakers Association Co-production: Katarzyna Zariczny Produkcja Filmowa

Selected festivals and awards: Zlín Film Festival - International Film Festival for Children and Youth, Czech Republic (2017)

Selected festivals and awards: Best Short Documentary, Flickerfest's International Short Film Festival, Australia (2017); Special Mention ZagrebDox, Croatia (2017); Silver Djed Pillar for the Best Director, Sharm Film Festival, Egypt (2017); Best Film in Short Competition, Vilnius International Film Festival, “Kino pavasaris", Lithuania, (2017); Best International Short, DocEdge Festival, New Zealand (2017);

Silver Dragon for Best Documentary Film, Krakow Film Festival, Poland (2016); Third Prize in Polish Film Cometition, T-Mobile New Horizons Film Festival, Poland (2016); Golden Dove, DOK Leipzig, Germany (2016); IDFA Special Jury Award for Student Documentary, International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, Netherlands (2016)

Education

Extras. Close-up

― Nauka

― Extras. Close-up

2016 — 20’ — POLAND

2016 — 20’ — BELARUS

In one elementary school children are given as homework to learn Julian Tuwim’s poem “Science” by heart. The poetic phrase is sometimes incomprehensible, some words require explanation but parents come to their aid. Unfortunately, not all metaphors can be explained in an unambiguous way and poetry clashes with the prose of life, in particular when a football match of Legia Warsaw is broadcast on television. Some will get Bs, some will fail but everyone will learn something from this lesson.

This is a story about ambitions people who dream to become stars. In everyday life, they are working the usual boring work, but in their spare time - they follow their dreams - they go to work extras...

EMI BUCHWALD

ALEXANDER ZUBOVLENKO

Script: Emi Buchwald Director: Emi Buchwald Photography by: Tomasz Gajewski Editing: Anna Gontarczyk Sound: Kamil Radzlszewski Production: Anna Gontarczyk

Script: Alexander Zubovlenko Director: Alexander Zubovlenko Photography by: Maria Golub Editing: Alexander Zubovlenko Music: Aleksei Bobreshow Production: VGIK

Selected festivals and awards: Palm Springs International ShortFest, USA (2017); Pärnu Film Festival, Estonia (2017) AFI DOCS, USA (2017); Vilnius International Film Festival “Kino pavasaris", Lithuania (2017); Grand Prix Golden Dinosaur, International Film Festival “Etiuda&Anima”, Poland (2016); Audience Award for Best Short Film, Central and Eastern European Film Festival, Luxembourg (2016); First Prize in Polish Film Competition, T-Mobile New

Horizons International Film Festival, Poland (2016); CineMAiubit, Romania, (2016); Krakow Film Festival, Poland (2016); Warsaw Film Festival, Poland (2016)

Selected festivals and awards: Best documentary film, VGIK International Student Film Festival, Russia (2017); Diploma for the attention and the quivering attitude of the director to reality, Festival of Saint Anna, Italy (2017); "For the love for actors" diploma, Official Competition, International Festival Listapad, Belarus (2016); First degree diploma, Krasnoyarsk International Film Festival, Russia (2016); Best Documentary Award, International Student Festival VGIK, Russia (2016)

Hello Sea!

Interlinks

― Hallo Tenger!

― Przedziały

2015 — 24’ — HUNGARY

2016 — 15’ — POLAND

'Hello Sea!' is a search for something intangible, a personal journey. Driven by the director’s own relation to the sea, the film explores what the sea means to people in a landlocked country. It is an intimate story told through memory, identity, a brief glimpse of history and lots of imagination.

Several compartments, several passengers, several journeys, several stories. One train making its way across Poland. What station is it going to? Where are the passengers heading? Once they get where they are going, what do they want to achieve? What’s important for them? What are their sorrows? What do they miss? What do they dream about? The train is going past different stations, cities and landscapes. People are getting on and off. Just like in life. You never know who is going to join you in your compartment. Attention, the conductor’s whistle signals – get on, the train is about to depart.

MARÍA GRAZIA GOYA

K AROL STARNAWSKI

Script: María Grazia Goya Director: María Grazia Goya Photography by: Peter Juhász, Zoltán Dévényi Editing: María Grazia Goya, Robin Petré Sound: István Baranyni, András Pongor Production: DocNomads

Script: Karol Starnawski Director: Karol Starnawski Photography by: Filip Drożdż Editing: Paweł Kowalik Sound: Lucyna Wielopolska Music: Michał Drabczyk Production: Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Filmowa, Telewizyjna i Teatralna, Artntainment Co-production: Centrum Kultury w Gdyni

Selected festivals and awards: EDOC International Documentary Film Festival, Ecuador (2016); BIDF - Budapest International Film Festival, Hungary (2016); DocLisboa, Portugal (2016); La Semaine du Cinéma Equatorien, France (2016)

Poland (2017); East Silver Market, Jihlava Selected festivals and awards: International Documentary Film Festival, Special Jury Prize for Best Picture with Czech Republic (2016) exceptional values of nature, Film Festival of Cinema Debuts "Young and Film", Poland (2017); International Film Festival “Transatlantyk” Poland (2017); International Documentary Film Festival "Okiem Młodych",

Isabella Morra

Makenzy

― Isabella Morra

― Makenzy

2015 — 22’ — FRANCE

2016 — 20’ — BELGIUM

What could be the connection between the wild fables of a modern little girl and the poetry of Isabella, who was hanged by her brothers in the 16th century for treason?

As the Easter holidays pass by in gloominess, the idle wandering of Makenzy momentarily sees itself transformed by an afternoon with his sister.

IS ABEL PAGLIAI

PALOMA SERMON-DAÏ

Script: Isabel Pagliai Director: Isabel Pagliai Photography by: Isabel Pagliai, Julien Guillery Editing: Mathias Bouffier Sound: Jérôme Petit Production: Le Fresnoy

Script: Paloma Sermon-Daï Director: Paloma Sermon-Daï Photography by: Maxime Dambly Editing: Xavier Vincké Sound: Mathieu de Maleingreau Production: Ateliers de Productions Audiovisuelles (A.P.A.C.H.)

Selected festivals and awards: Best International Short Film, Cinema Sous les Etoiles, Funambules Médias, Canada (2017); Special Mention, DOKer, Russia (2017); Best Short Documentary, Short To The Point, Romania, (2016); Award for the Best Short Film, Rencontres Internationales du Documentaire de Montréal, Canada (2016); Special Jury Mention, Bogoshorts, Colombia (2016); Special Jury Prize, International Film Festival “Message to Man”, Russia (2016);

Selected festivals and awards: Visions du Réel, Switzerland (2017)

Prix Renard, Festival Côté-Court de Pantin, France (2016); Special Jury Mention, Festival International du court métrage de ClermontFerrand, France (2016)

Out of Competition

Observing squirrels

One of them

― Oravahavaintoja

― Una di loro

2016 —16’ — FINLAND

2 0 1 7 — 7 ’ 3 0 ’’ — S L O V E N I A

A study on knowledge and the methods of gathering information. Nature is one important source of information. This experimental film builds on selected material, scenes where nature is observed, perceived and studied. We try to contain and tame nature in a laboratory, organise it to sections we can understand and categorize. Yet, something uncontrollable remains.

Once someone told me that story. It is about this house, a big villa, with a beautiful garden. But not a garden, it is a park! It’s enormous and beautiful, with small forests, a lot of bamboo trees and exotic birds. This land was owned by an Austrian family. And I have a friend, who is from that family.

SERA MARTIKAINEN

SANDRA JOVANOVSKA, HELENE THUEMMEL

Script: Sera Martikainen Director: Sera Martikainen Photography by: Hans Barck Editing: Antti Jääskeläinen Sound: Niko Liinamaa, Meri Tikkala Production: Matti Kajander (Aalto University)

Script: Sandra Jovanovska, Helene Thuemmel Director: Sandra Jovanovska, Helene Thuemmel Photography by: Sandra Jovanovska Editing: Sandra Jovanovska, Helene Thuemmel Sound: Helene Thuemmel Production: Arts Academy of the University of Nova Gorica

Selected festivals and awards: Doc Point – Helsinki Documentary Film Festival, Finland (2017); Tabor International Short Film Festival, Croatia (2017)

Patriotic lesson

Play!

― Lekcja patriotyzmu

― Play!

2016 — 20’ — POLAND, GERMANY

2014 — 11’ — SERBIA

Камерата го следи годишниот детски натпревар во патриотски песни во едно основно училиште во Полска. Доловувајќи ги детските изведби на песни што пеат за херојства, храброст, крв, пот и солзи, реакциите на публиката, заедно со напнатоста што расте кај родителите и наставниците во исчекување на одлуките на жирито, филмот ги отвора прашањата околу тоа што е патриотско за денешната младина.

What do Bingo and SpongeBob have in common? Dusan, an eight-year-old boy trapped in limbo between two polar opposite worlds, spends his time amongst gambling adults in a casino while his imagination is captivated by children’s television series. When does one grow up? Let's play and find out!

FILIP JACOBSON

ANDREJ KOLENČIK

Script: Filip Jacobson Director: Filip Jacobson Photography by: Filip Jacobson, Łukasz Ostalski Editing: Tomasz Polsakiewicz Sound: Filip Jacobson Production: Academy of Media Arts Cologne

Director: Andrej Kolenčik Photography by: Carlos Correa R. Editing: Alberto Iordanov Sound: Tatiana Bulycheva Production: Dejan Petrović

Krakow Film Festival, Poland (2016); Selected festivals and awards: Bello Horizonte, Brazil (2016) One World Romania, Romania (2017); Regensburg International Short Film Week, Germany (2017); Neisse Film Festival, Germany (2017); DocuTIFF, Albania (2017); Golden Dovefor Best German Short Documentary, DOK Leipzig, Germany (2016); Szczecin European Film Award for The Most Intriguing Film in Polish Competition, Poland (2016); Visions du Reel, Switzerland (2016);

Selected festivals and awards: Valley Film Festival, Los Angeles, USA (2016) Festival International du Film d’Aubagne (FIFA) (2016); International Student Film Festival “NEW WAVE”, Bulgaria (2015); Bratislava International Film Festival, Slovakia (2015); International Bosphorus Film Festival, Turkey (2015); Olympia International Film Festival for Children and Young People, Greece (2015); Balkans Beyond Borders

Short Film Festival, Greece (2015); Prvi Kadar, Bosnia and Herzegovina (2015); Art Un Anchored, Austria (2015); Festival Transterritorial de Cine Underground, Argentina (2015); FeKK, International Short Film Festival, Slovenia (2015); Guanajuato International Film Festival, Mexico (2015); DokuMa, Croatia (2015) DOXA Documentary Film Festival, Canada (2015)

Sarragan

This is no man’s land of mine

― Sarragan

― Moje zeme nikoho

2015 — 10’ — FRANCE

2016 — 37’ — CZECH REPUBLIC

Jean Deschamps, a man of theatre, had a dream. He wanted to create scene inside a mountain, in the last place where limestone is extracted along underground galleries. Death stopped him but the dream went on. Four men dug the mountain without fail. In this excavation, a monumental architecture was born: a thousand corridors palace, with gigantic columns and high rooms. And so, Deschamps’ dream came true.

In the spring of 2015 a new country has been declared on the Danube river. The Free Republic of Liberland, founded by a Czech politician and entrepreneur Vít Jedlička, is aspiring to become an anarcho-capitalist utopia, a new Dubai in the middle of Balkans. The film follows the self-proclaimed president and his associates as they try to conquer the newly claimed swamp and turn it into a futuristic metropolis or at least a passable haven for offshore companies.

LOUISE ERNANDEZ

PETR S AL ABA, FILIP ROJIK

Script: Louise Ernandez Director: Louise Ernandez Photography by: Louise Ernandez Editing: Louise Ernandez Sound: Louise Ernandez Music: Latency Recordings and Irwin Barbé Production: École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs (ENSAD)

Script: Veronika Dvorska Director: Petr Salaba, Filip Rojik Photography by: Petr Salaba, Filip Rojik Editing: Filip Rojik Sound: Adam Blaha Production: Film and TV School of Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU)

Selected festivals and awards: Paris-Berlin International Encounters, France (2017)

The Moon, the Sun and the Musketeers

Unsettled Dust ― Rota do pó

― The Moon, the Sun and the Musketeers 2017 — 20’ — PORTUGAL, ARMENIА

2016 — 20’ — PORTUGAL

The movie is set in a fairytale village, one lost to old time. People have lived here for centuries, on the border between Portugal and Spain. Except for people continuously following their everyday routine, not much is happening during the day. But unlike other towns, the energy of the village is divided into two parts. As the light starts to settle and darkness takes over, all of a sudden the mystery and the magic that did not exist during the day, knock on the door of this town.

In this film, directors Nuno Braumann and Pedro Koch engage in the exploration and revelation of an alternative ceramic route. It is a dromologic experience of abandoned factories in the urban fabric.

VAHAGN KHACHATRYAN

NUNO BRAUMANN, PEDRO KOCH

Script: Vahagn Khachatryan Director: Vahagn Khachatryan Photography by: Vahagn Khachatryan, Rajan Kathet Editing: Tigran Baghinyan, Vahagn Khachatryan Sound: Vasco Pimentel, Katherina Harnack Production: DocNomads/Golden Apricot

Script: Nuno Braumann, Pedro Koch Director: Nuno Braumann, Pedro Koch Photography by: Pedro Koch Editing: Nuno Braumann, Pedro Koch Sound: Micael Nobre

Selected festivals and awards: Vision Du Réel, Switzerland (2017г.)

Selected festivals and awards: Lisbon International Film Festival, Portugal (2017); FEST New Directors | New Films Festival, Portugal (2017); Acafilms Low Film Festival, Brasil (2017); Doc’Lisboa, Portugal (2016)

Vergot

We have all been here since forever

― Vergot

― Vsi smo tu že od nekdaj

201 6 — 6 0’ — I TA LY

2015 — 12’ — SLOVENIA

Two brothers, an exuberant father and an invisible mother а family of farmers from an Alpine valley where life is rude as well as manners. The younger son is discovering his homosexuality, but the world around him, especially his father, just cannot accept that. So the elder son is stuck in the middle, on the one hand encouraging his brother to overcome all his fears, on the other trying to continue the tradition of the fathers. In such an exasperated context is hard to recognize the love hidden behind. Will they be able to keep on living together?

H.P. Lovecraft once said: “The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is the fear of the unknown.” Even if the unknown is Europe in 2016.

CECILIA BOZZA WOLF

MATEVŽ JERMAN, PETER CEROVŠEK, NEŽ A GRUM

Script: Cecilia Bozza Wolf Director: Cecilia Bozza Wolf Photography by: Cecilia Bozza Wolf, Alex Grassi Editing: Pierpaolo Filomeno Sound: Loris Frismon Music: Evil Fate Production: ZeLIG - School for Documentary and Autonome Provinz Bozen

Script: Matevž Jerman, Peter Cerovšek, Neža Grum Director: Matevž Jerman, Peter Cerovšek, Neža Grum Photography by: Matevž Jerman Editing: Matevž Jerman, Peter Cerovšek Production: Tom Gomizelj

Selected festivals and awards: Award for the Best Director, Euganea Film Festival, Italy (2017); Award for the Best Film, Trento Film Festival, Italy (2017); CinéDoc-Tibilisi, Georgia (2017); Professional Award - Best Italian Documentary Film Competition, Award for Best Editing, Doc/it, Italy (2017);

Thessaloniki International Film Festival, Greece (2017); Award for the Best Documentary Film, Docunder30 International Documentary Film Festival, Italy (2016); ZeLIG Film Fest, Italy (2016); Festival dei Popoli, Italy (2016)

Selected festivals and awards: Croatian Film Days, Croatia (2016); Best Experimental Film, Balkan Film Food Festival, Albania (2016); K3 Film Festival, Austria (2016); Szczecin European Film Festival, Poland (2016); Auteur Film Festival, Serbia (2016); Alternative Film Video, Serbia (2016); Festival slovenskega filma, Slovenia (2016); Dokudoc, Slovenia (2016); Eye on Film - International Film Festival for Children and Youth, Slovenia (2017)

Where to?

Women, women, women

― Kamo idemo?

― Women, women, women

2017 — 52’ — CROATIA

2017 — 23’ — CROATIA

Have you ever been driving in a taxi and wondered who is driving you? Ljijana is a young woman who drives a taxi in Zagreb. Apart from the initial surprise when they meet a female taxi driver, most passengers find her likable and they open up to her. Driving with Ljiljana through the city and listening to conversations she’s having with a wide range of travelers, we don’t only discover the condition in which the Croatian society is today, but also her personal story that will make us ask ourselves where we are going.

Three generations of women in separate hair salons have conversations with their hairdressers completely relaxed as if they are not aware of the lens that is observing their every word, gesture and movement. Through their conversations, we get a glimpse into the world of pampering, topics women talk about during their „beauty sessions“ and the somewhat curious question „How intimate can dialogues be between the hairdressers and their clients?“.

LIDIJA ŠPEGAR

NIKICA ZDUNIĆ

Script: Lidija Špegar Director: Lidija Špegar Photography by: Rino Barbir Editing: Iva Ivan Sound: Srđan Popović Music: Porto Morto Production: Tibor Keser

Director: Nikica Zdunić Photography by: Nikica Zdunić Editing: Denis Golenja Production: Akademija dramske umjetnosti, Zagreb (ADU)

Selected festivals and awards: Zagreb Dox, Croatia (2017)

Selected festivals and awards: Croatian Film Days, Croatia (2017); Pula Film Festival, Croatia (2017); Liburnia Film Festival, Croatia (2017)

MakeDox documentaries for kids, youngsters, families A wonderful opportunity for kids, youngsters and families to learn more about artistic documentaries as a cinematic genre and to explore new interesting topics. With this film section we would like to bring kids closer to the world we live in, by offering the antipode to the modern superhero and to widely accessible cartoon animated narrations. We would like to show that heroes are among children and youngsters, that such children are real life heroes. These family gatherings should make children feel as part of today’s world, which is not always just fun and entertainment. We want them to meet children from different parts of the world and talk about issues that are similar everywhere. Each film screening will be accompanied with a discussion moderated by Magda Origjanska, who will also simultaneously translate the films for those who cannot read the subtitles so fast. In addition, this year’s MakeDox Family program will also include 1 day of animated films for the youngest, and 4 days of documentary films. They will be all screened in Goce Delchev Memorial Room, St. Saviour's Church in Skopje.

For the youngest : 20 August (Sunday) Koyaa - Introducing animation for kids aged 3-5 (page 86)

For families with kids (8-14 years) 21 August (Monday): Digital Immigrants (page 61) Education (page 73) Makenzy (page 75) Play! (page 77) 22 August (Tuesday) The Girl Down Loch Änzi (page 29) 23 August (Wednesday) Dixieland (page 26) 24 August (Thursday) Normal Autistic Film (page 28)

Kids, Youth & Family Program

199 little heroes ― 199 Kleine Helden 2013-2015 — GERMANY

LINA LUZYTE, SIGRID KLAUSMANN, INSA ONKEN

Luniko from South Africa Luniko is 12 years old, born HIV positive. He lost his father to AIDS at a young age, but when his father left he wished that Luniko should go to a school where subjects are taught in English and not in Xhosa. So Luniko is travelling to school through the huge, poor and dangerous township Khayelitsha in South Africa. Every day he’s in danger, every day he’s afraid of being attacked. But his dreams and wishes are just the same as those of rich children.

Script: Lina Luzyte, Sigrid Klausmann, Insa Onken Directors: Lina Luzyte, Sigrid Klausmann, Insa Onken Production: Snowgans Productions, Selected filmography: Lina Luzyte: Igrushki/Toys (2012) Sigrid Klausmann: Not Without Us (2016); DaHeim (2012); Thomas Hitzlsperger and the Township Kids (2010); Lisette’s Children (2009); You’re Gonna Fly! (2006) Insa Onken: Nordstadt children - Jason / Leon / Medad (2015); On the way (2015); Safet dances (2015); Dancing forever (2013); Tears at sea (2011); Helmut Müller-Brühl - The Dream of Rome (2011); Without a Side (2004)

Sanjana from India Sanjana, 12 years old, lives with her mother, stepfather, four sisters and two brothers in the red lights area in Forbesganj village, Bihar (India). Locals call it “dirty area” because most of the women and girls work as prostitutes there. Sanjana’s mother Fatima was forced to marry at the age of 9 and as soon as she has delivered the first baby, she was forced into prostitution. Sanjana is the only child out of six, who goes to school. She wants to become a Bollywood hero and earn a lot of money to be able to change the situation for the girls in her area for the better.

Finya from Germany

Alphonsine from Ivory Coast

Finya is 12 years of age. She wants to fight the bad in the world with her super power so that there will never be a war any more. She also uses her super power when she’s shooting to school, on her skateboard through the city of Köln. She loves it, even though it can be dangerous, especially in the industrial area with the big trucks. Finya is a courageous girl and she trusts her own abilities. But there was a time when going to school was the worst thing to her, to the point where she refused to go. And suddenly Finya had to take a detour to find out where to go.

12-year-old Alphonsine N’da, born in Amélékia - a village in the East-South of Ivory Coast, not far from the border with Ghana likes to work a lot. She says “I feel relaxed when I work and when I don’t work I feel very strange“. And she does work a lot. She gets up at 4 a.m. in the morning, sweeps the courtyard in front of her clay house and cooks for her whole family. She also spends quite some time in cocoa plantations. Alphonsine says, children work a lot in her village and so does she. But why aren’t there any books in the box she’s carrying on her head on her way to school?

Vincent from Austria Vincent is an 11-year-old boy. He lives on the mountain Feuerkogel in Austria, together with his parents and his beloved cat. In winter his way to school is downhill on ski, accompanied by his father who’s watching the avalanche situation. The piste is one of the 10 most dangerous downhill slopes in Austria. Vincent loves the world of the mountains and he doesn’t matter being the only child on the hill, but he’s got big worries anyway: when he’s grown up he wants to take over the parent’s restaurant, but due to the climate change the weather is changing, storms in summer and less and less snow in winter…

Коyaa ― Koyaa 2017 — X3’ — SLOVENIA

PIOTR STASIK

Naughty Toy Car It’s raining outside and Koyaa decides to tidy up his room. In the background, Mr. Raven is sizing up a wooden plank for his new birdhouse. When Koyaa is done cleaning, he proudly looks around, stepping on a toy car he overlooked. He takes a crazy ride, zig-zagging around the place like a figure skater out of control! The naughty little car is taunting Koyaa, making a ruckus and refusing to behave, but Koyaa manages to trick it into playing nice.

Script: Marko Bratuš, Kolja Saksida Director: Kolja Saksida Photography by: Miloš Srdić Editing: Monika Drahotuski, Tomaž Gorkič Sound: Julij Zornik Music: Miha Šajina Lead animator: Julia Peguet Production: Kolja Saksida (ZVVIKS Institute) Co-production: Radio Television Slovenia, Studio dim Selected festivals and awards: Sarajevo Film Festival, Bosnia and Herzegovina (2017)

Wild Sunbed On a hot summer day, Koyaa wants to relax in his sunbed. As usual, Mr. Raven is busy building a birdhouse, this time from straw. Koyaa lies down, shielding his face from the sun. Suddenly, the sunbed snaps closed, trapping Koyaa inside, then spitting him out like a cannonball, towards the cliff where he barely manages to hang on to a vine! Koyaa weaves a lasso from the plant, but instead of catching the sunbed, he takes a wild rodeo ride on its back. It seems like he could use another witty idea... 84

Flying Workbook

Dancing Socks

In autumn, the rocky ledge is pleasant and nice. Koyaa decides to step outside and write in his workbook. Mr. Raven is nearby, folding old magazines and newspapers. Koyaa opens a page, but the book slams itself shut! Surprised, he tries opening it again, but the book just floats off into the air. Koyaa hops up on the table. It’s no use, he still can’t grab it... While giving chase, he has an idea though! With a clever plan, he manages to calm down the workbook so the Raven can finish building his recycled-paper birdhouse.

In the morning, Koyaa wakes up to the sound of the cuckoo clock. The Raven is already up, handling a huge ball of wool. Koyaa opens a drawer to take out a pair of socks. Rubbing his eyes, he can’t believe what he’s seeing: the socks are alive! They wiggle, slide from his hands and start flopping about. They jump into the laundry basket, Koyaa bravely follows. He manages to catch one but the other’s still loose... Koyaa thinks for a while, then has an idea how to lure it out!

Silly Stickers

Freezing Scarf

Koyaa plans to paste some stickers to the window of his house, while Mr. Raven is applying glue to the wireframe of his new creation. Koyaa tries sticking the things to the glass, but they keep unsticking one after another. He tries holding them down, but they slip away, floating in the air, chuckling. Koyaa is desperate for a way to get the silly stickers to stick! Finally, he’s got a brilliant idea. Soon enough, the stickers are on the window, and the Raven’s latest birdhouse is complete.

Koyaa wants some fresh air. It’s winter outside, and he’d like to wear his scarf. As he reaches to grab it, the item springs to life, slithering around the room like a snake. Baffled, Koyaa tries catching it, but it’s too slippery! Mr. Raven, in the meanwhile, is busy building a birdhouse out of ice cubes. The scarf wraps itself around Koyaa, blinding him. He flops around then crashes to the floor. Ouch! Sitting and thinking, Koyaa finally comes up with a sharp solution to the sly garment’s challenge. 85

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WORKSHOPS

One picture, thousand words

21-25 August Daut Pashin Hamam

— Visual narration workshop

Ineffable images and scenes stay with us much longer than expected. They speak to everyone without language or subtitles, and make us think. Since there is always someone to catch them on camera, they will never be lost - someone sees them, someone documents them, someone conveys them… and so they live. Camera follows the movements that cinematographers use to show what words cannot. This year, MakeDox workshop “1 Picture, 1000 Words” focuses on visual narration and camera work. Shedding light on the roles and the collaboration between director and cameraperson, who are often the very same person, the workshop tries to answer when does the camerawork serve information and when interpretation? The 5-day workshop has been designed and will be led by Kristina Pervilä Andersson and Tue Steen Müller, who have been swimming in the waters of documentary most of their lives. The workshop is envisaged as a free-of-charge series of master classes for anyone interested to hear at first-hand more inside stories about visual narration. Experience, values, ways films seduce, mistakes, choices and ways of film watching will be discussed in the company of film directors and directors of photography. They will all take us into their own worlds of filmmaking and film production by bringing closer their latest film visual narration selected for this year’s MakeDox festival program. One story for each festival day. The gates of Daut Pashin Hamam are open to all storytellers, especially to cinematographers, directors and film students.

WORKSHOP SCHEDULE: Day 1 (21 .08.): Master Class with Kristina Pervilä Andersson. Invited filmmakers: Atanas Georgiev and Ilija Cvetkovski.

Day 2 (22 .08.): Master Class with Kristiina Pervilä Andersson. Invited filmmakers: Brand Ferro and Ilona Bicevska.

Day 3 (23.08.): Master Class with Tue Steen Müller. Invited filmmakers:

Audrius Stonys and Salome Jashi. Showcase of examples from their films and talk.

Day 4 (24.08.): Master Class with Tue Steen Müller. Invited filmmakers: Piotr Stasik and Miroslav Janek. Showcase of examples from their films and talk.

Day 5 (25 .08.): Master Class with Kristiina Pervilä Andersson and Tue Steen Müller. Discussion on themes picked from the previous days.

Tue Steen MĂźller

Kristina PervilĂ¤ - Andersson

The most famous expert on documentaries has never even touched a film camera. But it seems enough that he knows how documentaries change the world. For more than 20 years, he has worked as a commissioning editor, distributor and a film festival manager at the Danish Film Board. Head of the European Documentary Network for 10 years, he has also selected films and worked for numerous film festivals. As a renowned expert on modern Eastern European documentaries, today he teaches and consults film directors at workshops and various European film schools. He writes his observations on www.filmkommentaren.dk, a blog that has helped some little-known filmmakers find a wide audience.

Born in 1960 in Finland, Kristina has been working as an independent Finnish producer since 1988 and has produced and co-produced around 40 creative multinational feature documentaries for television and cinema, a wide range of international music productions and live recordings for stage and has coordinated guest performances of foreign opera houses in Finland and Sweden. In April 1999, she founded Millennium Film. Ever since then, sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been also working as an analyst, expert, tutor, mentor and moderator in Eurodoc, the European Documentary Network (EDN) and in Chiledoc training programmes.

WORKSHOP

Camera Obscura This year, 16 photography enthusiasts will travel back to the early beginnings of visual communication. Guided by Sasho N. Alushevski and MakeDox photo/video section, they will learn more about camera obscura, make their own photo cameras and even take some photos! Throughout these three-day long stories about this optical device and plays with light, they will all set off to explore the visual narration, free from the burden of technology.

WORKSHOP

Docusprouts Everyone has a story but not everyone wants to bring it to life and maybe touch someone else’s, seemingly different. Everyone has a story but not everyone dares to give voice to it, and perhaps tell what might be someone else’s truth as well. This is why storytellers matter so much. Without them, there would not be stories that grow big and strong, stories that give you goose bumps or inspiration, stories that make you think and fly far because they got wings… But, they sprouted at first, didn’t they? Can you think of a better place than MakeDox for your story to put out shoots and thrive? This is the main reason behind this year’s creative documentary workshop “Docusprouts”. We envisaged it as a fantastic opportunity for the Magnificent Twelve, aged 15-18, to dive into the world of the documentary film. During this year’s Traveling cinema, festival edition and two autumn sessions, the MakeDox team and eminent docu-professionals will help the Magnificent Twelve perceive the freedom of the documentary thought, explore their own creativity, learn some film techniques and finally, make a short documentary film! And all of that thanks to the support from the National Endowment for Democracy from Washington. 90

Music at MakeDox As an onion skin, the sky enwraps us with stars. We cannot do without it, and we know what follows will make us cry. Under the skin, layers of music for all senses. The Inn vibrates, we get goose bumps but we are not cold. Under the layers – a heart. Rejuvenated, awakened, freed from the burden of tomorrow. Close your eyes, let your legs move – it’s time for music at MakeDox!

Glimpse into this year’s music selection:

Foltin

Brina

Baklava

Formed in Bitola 20 years ago, Foltin pushes the musical boundaries further in and outside the country. Its music is surreal, its sound unpredictable. We understand it even when not a single word is sang in Macedonian – and it does perform in Spanish, French, Portuguese, Romanian and the so-called “spontaneous Esperanto” – because “it sings about things that are never too late to talk about”. We know it for its passion and originality and we remember it for its unique performances. It’s no exaggeration to say that nothing compares to it, nor here nor elsewhere.

Formed in 2003, Brina has since then earned international acclaim. At first rewriting and rearranging traditional Slovene folk songs into a more modern sound, the band has gradually evolved into a confident ensemble, which also creates its own specific expression. Playing a variety of modes, from melancholic Slavic ballads to raucous cabaret and tango songs, their songs are all very much characterized by Brina Vogelnik's soft and intimate voice. Their latest recording “Undressed Skin” (Slečena koža) came out last year, twelve years after their first two albums “A Dog’s Legend” (Pasja legenda) and “Young Year” (Mlado leto).

Covers of traditional folk songs and one-of-a-kind original songs, mixing different languages and music styles, make Baklava popular for its minimalist musical concept for 12 years already. One might think that all cultural differences come together when listening to the sounds of the bendir, the violoncello, the tambura and the amazing voice of Elena Hristova. As if this is not enough, visual materials and a short authorial film will enrich the concert at Kurshumli An. Before Baklava continues exploring the world, courageously discovering corners where no sweet dessert pastry has ever been before…

Doc Talks under the Fig Tree Some day, hundreds of years from now, who knows if people would believe that every summer countless storytellers would gather under the old magnificent fig tree in the backyard of the unique Kurshumli An in Skopje just to talk until nightfall. Just to give words to the images in their heads, words that created unbelievable images in front of the listener’s eyes… every summer, for years. Join us in the shade of the fig tree, let’s enjoy while we still can.

Schedule: 20.08. (Sunday): Ilija Cvetkovski, Özgür Demirci, Atanas Georgiev, Marijana Kotevska 21.08. (Monday): Salomé Jashi, Bojana Burnac, Marko Kumer Murč 22.08. (Tuesday): Vladimir Blazhevski, Miroslav Janek + students 23.08. (Wednesday): Audrius Stonys, Talal Derki, Anja Medved 24.08. (Thursday): Anton Calleja, Kristina Pervilä - Andersson, Tue Steen Müller, Roberto Blatt 25.08. (Friday): Katarzyna Gondek, Piotr Stasik, Ilona Bicevska, Julia Staniszewska

BOOK PROMOTION

The Social Archetype in the Documentary Film

20 August (Satuday) Kurshumli An, under the fig tree 19:30

The Social Archetype in the Documentary Film is the title of the latest book by Marijana Kotevska Georgieva, whose promotion enriches this year’s MakeDox visual narration. In it, she perceives the spheres of intersection of the social syndrome as a reflection of the environment - present in almost every documentary narrative - on the one hand, and of the creative impulse which drives the documentary makers as authors on the other. Since the author is a comparatist herself, the work creates an exploratory communication between the literature and the documentary film. Through the language of both literary theory and philosophy, the book uses an interdisciplinary approach to cover the various relationships between film and literature as creative aesthetics, seen in the frameworks of theory and philosophy as scientific aesthetics. The following research fields are brought into focus: the role of the social environment and its significant impulse inciting documentary makers to create, the importance of the real information or fact conveyed through the documentary language, the perception and reaction of the audience and the author’s role and creative expression. Marijana Kotevska Georgieva holds both a degree and a master's degree in General and Comparative Literature from the Faculty of Philology “Blazhe Koneski” in Skopje. Screenwriter for several TV shows and documentary films, she also works as a copywriter for radio and TV. During the past several years, she has been looking into the documentary narrative and the impact the fact/real information has on the audience, as exceptionally rich and poorly researched fields. 93

PHOTO EXHIBITION

Talking Images through the lens of Georgia Often, “young” writers struggle to transform their literary narratives into exact pictures, so that the reader could visualize it. On the other hand, visual artists try hard to make their works talk and touch the audience.

visualization of word and thought. A powerful mark which, as we remember, was written on a celluloid film band. Born with a camera and a celluloid band in her hands, Daro exhibits ever since she was 12.

Regardless of the narration type, storytelling is a gift. You cannot learn it at school nor in the streets, it’s God-given, a “burden” that the chosen ones carry with them from the beginning.

This year’s selection of Georgian films is one of newcomers – through her photographs we will meet Daro from her earliest years to present day. Get ready for a wonderful journey in the land of talks.

Daro Sulakauri is one of the chosen ones. She comes from Georgia, the country that has left a significant mark in the

Creative Europe at MakeDox

Enjoy in the company of “young” authors. Brand Ferro, MakeDox Creative Producer

The Macedonian Film Agency and the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Macedonia organize a promotional event within the implementation framework of the Creative Europe program (Culture and MEDIA). The event will take place on 23 August 2017 at 11.00 o’clock at the Media Center of the St. Saviour's Church in Skopje. The idea is to present the Creative Europe program (Culture and MEDIA) as well as the positive experiences to present day. It is an excellent opportunity for all interested operators coming from the cultural and audiovisual sectors to gain relevant information and guidance regarding the projects they are currently preparing for submission.

More information will be available at www.ced.mk

MakeDox Layers

Makedox Traveling Cinema — Eigth season of free-of-charge open air cinema screenings in remote Macedonian villages.

From Poreche to eternity! Away from the vile summer heat and the urban convenience of the city, our documentary stories reach the rural corners throughout Macedonia. That is how one of MakeDox most romantic stories goes on – that of our Traveling Cinema. This year, our Traveling Cinema sets off to the region of Makedonski Brod and Poreche. There, in the small places with names that we often discover for the first time, we encounter eyes that gaze with curiosity, lips that talk even when silent, smiles that turn into memories… But we also meet with ourselves, as we see our reflection in other kinds of mirrors, out in the open where the air is differently fresh and the stars shine bright and clear. There is a lot to be told but words seem to fail us, as if they want to play hide and seek, so we barely find some to catch the singularity of the traveling experience, the uniqueness of the life with no stress, haste and online talks. Last year, we invited the sky over for a talk, this year it spoke to us first. As announced, our white screen spread under the shiniest of stars in the region of Poreche. The village of Krapa was the caravan’s first stop. The sky full of stars turned into a sky full of heavy and generous rain clouds in Dojran, during the D-Festival where our Docusprouts joined us as well. Sheltered in the beautiful and unfinished local church, we screened more film stories than planned for those who simply couldn’t leave the cinema. In the end, even Ali Farka played in what became our living room those days! We returned to the magical countryside of Poreche, just in time to have lunch with the locals from Devich! Before the screening, we simply couldn’t get enough of the delicious beans pot. We will remember Creshnevo for its million-ruble 96

12 — 25 07.2017 Makedonski Brod and Poreche

view, Trebino for the rain and Lokvica for the acoustic concert under the Milky Way. In Brest we saved a turtle and a swallow from sure death, and brought over several animated movies for the youngest. The mosquitoes adored us in the village of Kosovo, and the locals of Manastirec were our company during the last screening night. The Traveling Cinema is a plain variety of energies, free jazz and subtle notes. Our Traveling Donkey stopped to rest for the 60th time nearby the cold waters of Treska. We’ve collected so many ineffable experiences, we’ve exchanged so many energies, we’ve heard so many stories, we fed our souls. See you at the 8th MakeDox edition!

Screening Schedule: 12.07. Krapa 14-16 .07.

D-Festival

18.07.

Devich

19.07.

Creshnevo

20.07.

Trebino

22.07.

Lokvica

23.07. Brest 24.07.

Kosovo

25.07. Manastirec

Makedox Education Supporters:

Projects:

Through MakeDox in Cinema we have shared so far 75 exceptional documentary stories with nearly 15,000 primary school pupils in Skopje.

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. Up to the present day, this program has been implemented by 122 trained Sociology and Civic Education teachers in 62 high schools in 29 Macedonian cities, and this year we plan on involving 18 schools more and on reaching the number of 140 docu-teachers!

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. This year we are closing the second volume: training of 140 educators from all over the country and monitoring of the story flow in classrooms, through seminars, during camps. An international conference will mark the end of the story, highlighting our experiences and the need of introducing audiovisual content in today’s education system.

Youth Film Clubs is a story we tell together with the Youth Educational Forum. The media clubs in Skopje, Bitola, Resen, Debar, Gevgelija, Kumanovo, Veles, Kichevo, Negotino, Struga, Tetovo and Kratovo host small temporary cinemas and vast discussion forums where youthful horizons widen and strong opinions soften as a chopped onion in a heated pan.

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.

Distribution

BDDM

Moving Docs

The most beautiful stories deserve to travel and the docuaudience 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). The ingredients for this Balkan stew with onion can be found on http:// balkandocumentary.net/.

www.restartlabel.net www.freezonebelgrade.org www.dokufest.com www.makedox.mk www.underhillfest.me www.deltavideo.rs www.demiurg.si

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, Autlook Film Sales – Austria, Berlin Documentary Film Club – Germany, CineDoc – Greece, Demiurg Distribucija – Slovenia, Doc/it – Italy, Docs Barcelona – Spain, Doc.Fest Munich – Germany, European Documentary Network – Denmark, Istanbul Modern Cinema – Turkey, Jupiter Films – France, Lemesos International Documentary Festival – Cyprus, Doc Lounge – Sweden, Rise and Shine World Sales – Germany, Slobodna Zona/Free Zone Belgrade – Serbia, Take One Action Film Festivals – UK and Taskovki Films – BiH.

Index of Films 199 little heroes: Alphonsine from Ivory Coast, 83 199 little heroes: Finya from Germany, 83 199 little heroes: Luniko from South Africa, 82 199 little heroes: Sanjana from India, 82 199 little heroes: Vincent from Austria, 83 21 x New York, 22 69 Minutes of 86 days, 34

A Around us, 70 Avec l’amour, 35

R Rakijada, 62

G Gogita’s new life, 48

H Hello sea!, 72

I I’m not from here, 60 In the woods, 60 Interlinks, 72 Isabella Morra, 73

Blueberry hill, 36 Bobbi Jene, 37 Borders, 58

Kewku, 61

C Chavela, 23 City of the sun, 46 Close ties, 70 Cucli, 58

D Dancing socks, 85 Delicate balance, 38 Digital immigrants, 59 Dixieland, 24 Double aliens, 47

E Education, 71 Extras. Close-up, 71

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F Flying workbook, 85 Freezing scarf, 85 From the silver screen to the soccer field, 59

S Sarragan, 76 Silly stickers, 85 Sovdagari, 50

T The challenge, 40 The city of light, 41 The dazzling light of sunset, 51 The disinherited, 63 The diver, 63 The girl down loch Änzi. 27 The hanging, 64 The Moon, the Sun and the Musketeers, 77 This is no man’s land of mine, 76 Three conversations on life, 64

Land of the wind, 61 Listen to the silence, 49

Unsettled dust, 77 Untitled, 28

Machines, 25 Makenzy, 73 My life without air, 39

Vergot, 78

N Naughty toy car, 84 Normal autistic film, 26

O Observing squirrels, 74 One of them, 74

P Pantsula: how we move, 62 Patriotic lesson, 75 Play!, 75

W We have all been here since forever, 78 When the Earth seems to be light, 52 Where to?, 79 Wild sunbed, 84 Woman and the glacier, 29 Women women women, 79