CPH:DOX. Cuba to Copenhagen
Epicentro won the big doc prize at Sundance and is now in CPH:DOX Main Competition. Producer Martin Marquet spoke to BDE at Sundance.
CPH:DOX. Unresolved trauma
In Songs of Repression, in CPH:DOX Main Competition, the residents of a notorious German settlement in Chile continue to live with the trauma of the past.
CPH:DOX. Going for gold
In Jozi Gold (F:ACT Competition), eco campaigner Mariette Liefferink has her sights squarely set on South Africa's gold mining industry.
CPH:DOX 2020: Caught in the Net
Three actresses (who can pass as 12-year-olds) take part in an experiment to investigate the level of child abuse carried out online.
CPH:DOX. It’s all in the edit
Editing consultancy Rough Cut Service, founded by leading Finnish producer Iikka Vehkalahti and the late (and renowned) Dutch editor Menno Boerema, can boast of work on six films selected for CPH:DOX 2020, including Bitter Love by Jerzy Sladkowski in Main Competition.
The future is Archive
EFM and DocSalon organised an inaugural Archive Day during Berlinale 2020, with the aim of uniting filmmakers with archive libraries to augment, improve or indeed form the basis of their future audiovisual works.
Docs and monsters
Directed by Sasha Litvintseva and Beny Wagner, the UK/Dutch/German doc A Demonstration, which world-premiered in Berlinale Shorts, is described as a “monster film with no monsters.”
Reel-to-reel-to-Berlin
The Finnish short film Akiya lacks humanity, but that’s kind of the point. Director Jonna Kina explains why.
A Tale of Wonders
From the idyllic German lake of Walchansee to Mexico, the Greek islands and San Francisco for the Summer of Love, Janna Ji Wonders tells the complex and at times tragic story of her family.
Teenage resistance
Knoxville/Tennessee filmmaker Douglas McDaniel was at Berlinale DocSalon to raise finance on a number of projects, including Löttken: Rising Nationalism Then and Now about a woman who, as a 15-year-old girl acted a courier for the German Resistance during WW2.
