Interviews

Lotta Petronella’s Själö – Island of Souls, world-premiering in NORDIC:DOX seeks to re-interpret the history of a former leper asylum off the Finnish coast, now a centre for scientific research.

In her debut feature documentary Ecstasy Moara Passoni tells the story of her teenage anorexia, her joyous immersion into delirium and the supreme sense of power and control it gave her.

David Teboul’s Mon Amour is a paean to both love and grief, one which he journeys to Siberia to try and make sense of the death of his lover Frédéric Luzy.

Cemetery, available for viewing on the CPH:DOX public platform, comprises both a lyrical and trippy sojourn to the mythical last resting place of the magnificent jungle beast.

Epicentro won the big doc prize at Sundance and is now in CPH:DOX Main Competition. Producer Martin Marquet spoke to BDE at Sundance.

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.

In Jozi Gold (F:ACT Competition), eco campaigner Mariette Liefferink has her sights squarely set on South Africa's gold mining industry.

Three actresses (who can pass as 12-year-olds) take part in an experiment to investigate the level of child abuse carried out online.

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.

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.