RE>CONNEXT screening: Why We Fight by Alain Platel and Mirjam Devriendt
In Alain Platel and Mirjam Devriendt’s complex and visually stunning feature doc, which screens at RE>CONNEXT before its world-premiere at Film Fest Gent, the question of why we fight is posed not only to dancers in choreographer Platel’s company, but to a range of experts across core academic disciplines. Co-director Devriendt reflects on the hows and the whys of her project.
RE>CONNEXT review: Holgut by Liesbeth De Ceulaer
A documentary which manages the seemingly impossible feat of merging myth and actuality, thereby becoming mythological itself without diminishing the impact of its factual reporting on the disappearing reindeer and reappearing mammoths of the Siberian tundra.
RE>CONNEXT review: All-In by Volkan Üce
Volkan Üce’s story of two young Turkish men trying to settle into jobs at the all-inclusive Nashira Resort makes for an engaging and insightful documentary that perfectly encapsulates the eternal culture clash between the haves and have-nots.
RE>CONNEXT project: Louise-Marie by Daphne van den Blink
Creative producer Sien Versteyhe is happy to admit that she has no idea where her RE>CONNEXT project Louise-Marie is going to shoot, other than on a boat on the high seas. As it is a Belgian Navy boat (the film is eponymously titled), its location will be a closely guarded secret. Versteyhe tells Business Doc Europe more about this voyage of discovery.
RE>CONNEXT project WIP: Soundtrack to a coup d’état by Johan Grimonprez
First pitched at CPH:FORUM, Johan Grimonprez’s feature doc project fuses the promise of African decolonization in the 1960s, the rise of the US civil rights movement and the State Department’s mobilization of ‘jazz ambassadors’ for propaganda purposes. New partners on board from France, Netherlands and Sweden with much broadcast and sales interest, the producers say.
RE>CONNEXT review: Where the World Ends by Anna Savchenko
Where the World Ends looks at the absurdity of bureaucratic procedures by highlighting a few individuals on both sides of the Belarus/Lithuania border.
RE>CONNEXT series WIP: Capturing the Pirate King by Lennart Stuyck
Being showcased as a work in progress at RE>CONNEXT is the documentary series Capturing The Pirate King telling the story of the Somalians who hijacked a Belgian ship and were later arrested by the Belgian Federal Police in an elaborate sting involving a fake movie production company. It is being made through Diplodokus and directed by Lennart Stuyck who draws swords with BDE.
RE>CONNEXT screening: Echo by Ruben Desiere
Ruben Desiere’s new documentary Echo (screening this week at the online RE>CONNEXT showcase) had its origins in Parade, a fictional dramatic feature he had been planning to make. This was an adaptation of novel which he had decided to set in a military camp. He explains more to Business Doc Europe.
RE>CONNEXT screening: Four Seasons In A Day by Annabel Verbeke
Flemish filmmaker Annabel Verbeke talks to Business Doc Europe about her Four Seasons In A Day, screening at RE>CONNEXT and part of the Borderline collection, one of six creative documentaries about unknown but fascinating borders in Europe.
RE>CONNEXT project: Last Letters from My Grandma by Olga Lucovnicova
Olga Lucovnicova’s doc feature debut will involve a journey to another planet. At least that’s what she thought Russia was when growing up as a small girl in neighbouring Moldova, and where her father lived, who she imagined would one day visit her as a cosmonaut. But Olga’s return has the most serious of undertows, to try and understand why her beautiful grandmother decided to take her own life more than 30 years ago.
