150 films and XR works, including 43 world premieres, 11 international, 7 European and 36 German premieres. International competitions and Camera Lucida section with world premieres by Ada Ushpiz, Shelly Silver and Boris Gerrets
Twelve films will compete in DOK Leipzig’s International Competition for Long Doc and Animated Film. Twenty-one films are selected for Short Competition while the newly established Camera Lucida section will present five unconventional films out of competition, including Lamentations of Judas by Dutch director Boris Gerrets, who passed away in Spring 2020.
“The international competitions of DOK Leipzig focus on the fruitful encounter between young people who are eager to experiment and those who have remained true to the curiosity and creativity they started out with,” says festival director Christoph Terhechte. “For the first time, therefore, the international jury in the competition for long films will award not only a Golden Dove, but also a Silver Dove, which is explicitly intended for the best film by an up-and-coming director.”.
“Our new Camera Lucida programme brings together captivating documentaries that challenge the conventions of cinema and confront reality in a particularly lucid way,” he adds.
The films in the International Competition Long Film will have live stream premieres in addition to lice theatrical screenings. Live film talks will also be held in cinemas and online. From the day after premiere, films will be available online for 14 days. The other films in the DOK Leipzig programme will also be accompanied by talks and introductions, which will be available online.
See previously announced Audience Competition titles and films in German Competition.
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION FOR LONG DOC AND ANIMATED FILM
The Annotated Field Guide of Ulysses S. Grant (Jim Finn). USA 2020. World premiere
Camagroga (Alfonso Amador); Spain 2019. German premiere
Children (orig: Yeladim, Ada Ushpiz); Israel 2020. World premiere
Considering the Ends (orig: Nous la mangerons, c’est la moindre des choses, Elsa Maury); Belgium/France 2020. German premiere
Downstream to Kinshasa (orig: En route pour le milliard, Dieudo Hamadi); DR Congo/France/Belgium 2020. European premiere
Girls/Museum (Shelly Silver); Germany 2020. World premiere
Joy (orig: Dzhoy, Daria Slyusarenko); Russia 2020. World premiere
The Poets Visit Juana Bignozzi (orig: Las poetas visitan a Juana Bignozzi, Laura Citarella/Mercedes Halfon); Argentina 2019. German premiere
Roman’s Childhood (orig: Romano vaikystė, Linas Mikuta); Lithuania 2020. World premiere
Their Algeria (orig: Leur Algérie, Lina Soualem); Algeria/France/Switzerland/Qatar 2020. German premiere
Truth or Consequences (Hannah Jayanti); USA 2020. German premiere
Vicenta (Darío Doria); Argentina 2020. World premiere
CAMERA LUCIDA – OUT OF COMPETITION
Avalon (orig: Dan sak sit, Thunska Pansittivorakul); Thailand 2020. World premiere
Looking for the truth in the past the director confronts the explicitly sexual film footage once produced by his twenty years younger lover. A painful look back that raises existential questions and is immediately affecting.
Everything That Is Forgotten in an Instant (orig: Todo lo que se olvida en un instante, Richard Shpuntoff); Argentina 2020. German premiere
Between three generations who grew up with three different languages, between New York and Buenos Aires, this intelligent and multi-layered film essay goes in search of identity. An essay on cultural identities, on cities and languages.
Lamentations of Judas (orig: Les lamentations de Judas, Boris Gerrets); Netherlands/France 2020. World premiere
A group of old men in an abandoned asbestos mining town on the edge of the Kalahari Desert resist evacuation. Once Angolan mercenaries of the Apartheid regime, they now become actors in the story of Judas Iscariot.
To the Moon (Tadhg O’Sullivan); Ireland 2020. German premiere
How come the moon is able to pour such equally fa- miliar and mysterious light on the earth it shines on? And why have the countless lunar addicts among inter- national filmmakers been so willingly seduced by this magic power? An ode to one of cinema’s central motifs.
Zaho Zay (Maéva Ranaïvojaona, Georg Tiller); Austria/France/Madagascar. German premiere
“Zaho Zay!”, it’s me. This is the daily salute of the prisoners in a crowded Madagascan prison whose guard looks for her lost father in each new prisoner. Her projections and fantasies let the mystical, murderous father figure roam the island in simultaneously dreamlike and nightmarish sequences.
