The Last Nomads wins Eurimages Co-pro Development Award at CPH:FORUM 2022
The ninth Eurimages Co-Production Development Award for best pitch, valued at €20,000, was handed March 30 to Biljana Tutorov and Petar Glomazić for their co-production The Last Nomads, a co-production between Serbia, Montenegro, Croatia, Belgium and France.
CPH:DOX interview: The Happy Worker – Or How Bullshit Took over the Workplace by...
Finnish/UK filmmaker John Webster talks to Business Doc Europe about his film that exposes how corporate jargon, fashionable management practice and ‘self-serving bureaucracy masquerading as efficiency’ threaten to drain all sense of satisfaction from the work process. “If people have burn-out, it is not because of weakness and personal flaws but because they’ve just been subjected to a toxic working environment,” he says.
CPH:DOX interview: Karaoke Paradise by Einari Paakkanen
In his heartwarming film competing for Nordic:Dox Award, director Einari Paakkanen introduces us to a cast of Finns for whom karaoke is more than mere entertainment, rather a support mechanism that alleviates, at least temporarily, personal tragedies, problems and concerns. What’s more, the director explains to BDE, it is a particularly ubiquitous form of expression. “It's huge. You can go to any small town in Finland and there's two things you'll find - the alcohol shop and the karaoke place.”
BDE interview: Niklas Engstrøm, CPH:DOX Artistic Director
CPH:DOX returns to cinemas April 23 after two online editions, opening with Into The Ice, a timely reminder of the dangers of the West’s continuing dependence on fossil fuels. “Now it seems that we finally understand that energy politics is security politics and that therefore we have to act fast…and this film shows we need to act even faster than we thought to save the climate,” says the festival’s Niklas Engstrøm.
CPH:DOX review: Moosa Lane by Anita Mathal Hopland
If you can overcome the at-times unnecessarily dramatic voice-over, Moosa Lane is a beautiful documentary about bridging the gap between two cultures - the one the director was born into and the one she was formed out of.
CPH:DOX review: Just Animals by Saila Kivelä, Vesa Kuosmanen
The ethical and environmental issues around industrial farmed animal production may form the worrying and often disturbing backdrop to Saila Kivelä and Vesa Kuosmanen’s often provocative documentary, but at heart it is a film about relationships and how they can become severely strained when emotions run high, and how political savvy must strike a fine balance with activism.
CPH:DOX review: This Stolen Country of Mine by Marc Wiese
The spectacular mountains of Ecuador provide a vibrant backdrop for this epic and often brutal story of the battle between locals (and eco-guerrillas) and a government that is beholden to China, having sold off mining contracts for millions of dollars, resulting in both loss of land and loss of political sovereignty to a foreign government.
CPH:DOX interview: The Eclipse by Nataša Urban
It may be framed by images of the total eclipses of 1961 and 1999 which were observable in her former country of Serbia, but Nataša Urban’s DOX:Award documentary is not a study of astronomical phenomena. Far from it. Rather, the film comprises a heartfelt mea culpa for Serbian atrocities inflicted during the Balkan wars. “My homeland […] put me through hell, and much worse, had done unconceivable atrocities, genocide even, in neighbouring countries,” says Urban.
CPH:DOX review: Girl Gang by Susanne Regina Meures
Modern day fairy tales don’t include princes and white horses anymore, unless as a prop perhaps in a carefully composed video. Who needs Prince Charming when you can be a successful influencer and live a life filled with online love? Girl Gang, selected for DOX:Award Competition, tells the captivating story of a girl’s dream come true, but whether it’s a happy ending is a matter of opinion.
CPH:DOX Forum pitch: Copa 71 by Rachel Ramsay, James Erskine
The World Cup. 1971. Crowds numbering in excess of 100,000 in Mexico City’s iconic Azteca stadium. But you’ve never heard of it. Why? Because it was a women’s tournament, and one conveniently airbrushed out of history. Until now. “I think it's no exaggeration to say that we have actually uncovered one of the greatest secrets in sport,” Copa 71 co-director Rachel Ramsay told the professional audience at Forum 2022.
