2010: DOX:LAB
About the concept
The main idea behind DOX:LAB is to create a space where unauthorized cinematic forms can be explored and developed. By handpicking a group of filmmakers with very different backgrounds in terms of culture, film history, narrative traditions and different methods of and access to production we hope to stimulate a dialogue based new aesthetic.
Yves Montand (RW) & Iris Olsson (FI) – ‘Memory’ (Trailer)
Sixteen years after one of the most extensive genocides since World War 2, Rwanda remains a scarred country. Deep scars that are almost impossible to comprehend. Yves Montand and Finnish Iris Olsson are trying, travelling the country, where people are slowly starting to regain each other’s trust. But the memory of the massacre in 1994 still casts long shadows in this brave movie about Rwanda after the genocide.
Khavn de la Cruz (PH) & Michael Noer (DK) – ‘Son of God’ (Trailer)
A dwarf worshipped as the son of God! Notorious bad boys, hyper productive Khavn de La Cruz and Danish Michael Noer (“Vesterbro”, “De vilde hjerter”, “R”) zoom in on a dwarf and his fanatical religious followers in The Philippines, and end up questioning their own capability of separating fact from fiction, fever dream from reality.
Corine Shaqi (LB) & Nikolaj B. S. Larsen (DK) – ‘Je t’aime infiniment’ (Trailer)
Two sisters live together. Scenes of vast landscapes, dead animals and fragile individuals emerge as the sisters unfold an uncanny story of love and loss.
Wai Mar Nyunt (MM) & Aada Niilola (FI) – ‘Dragon Beach’ (Trailer)
Shamans can talk to the gods and the restless souls. “Dragon Beach” is a movie about those who live in-between two worlds. They have not chosen their inexplicable powers but do what they have to do, because they are the chosen ones. Wai Mar Nyunt and Aada Niilola grab the receiver and dials the number of the afterlife. Here they ask the following question: Is the world around us just as it seems, or is it all just an illusion?
Thu Thu Shein (MM) & Katrine Philps (DK) – ’5 Beats Before Death’ (Trailer)
We are in a “waiting room” – in an old people’s home in Burma. The old ladies prepare to die. They speak openly and frankly of the life that is about to end and the journey before them. It is important for the old ladies to say goodbye to their loved ones and meet death solitary. Life has to be “shut down” so one is no longer attached to anything in this world. It has to be done but it is not always an easy matter.
Mahasen Nasser El-Din (PS) & Camilla Magid (DK) – ‘From Palestine with love’ (Trailer)
22 year old Maya works in a circus, lives in the the Palestinian territories and is planning a life in Stockholm with her boyfriend Caspar. She dreams of going to the university in Sweden. But the road from dream to reality is filled with obstacles for the young couple – in shape of the expectations of her family and the swedish bureaucracy. It is a real love story One you have not heard that often.
John Torres (PH) & Frosti Runolfsson (IS) – ‘Hudas Hudas’ (Trailer)
Karaoke-like images of lush landscapes and seasides clash against scenes of a foreign man walking with Death while the villagers of San Jose celebrate Black Friday – a day where one is reminded of Judas’ betrayal of Jesus by screaming out ones sorrows for the past year. And the painful aftermath from the Spanish colonials who ruled over Filipinos for three centuries.
Gan Chao (CH) & Anna María Helgadóttir (DK/IS) – ‘One is the loneliest number…’ (Trailer)
How does a stranger become a friend? The two filmmakers meet and decide to set all cultural differences aside to focus on the one thing they have in common: an intense feeling of loneliness. A meticulously constructed set piece and Shanghai’s labyrinthine streets form an inner landscape, ready to be explored by the two directors.
Caroline Kamya (UG) & Boris Bertram (DK) – ‘Chips and Liver Girls’ (Trailer)
A typical ‘Chips And Liver Girl’ navigates around 100 km / h between her friends, her boyfriends and older men who help her with money for the studies and a modern life in luxury. University is not the only school for the thousands of young female students in the city of Kampala, where they are fighting a daily battle all-against-all to keep the lead. The film is an intimate journey and a guided crash course in their know-how.
Sherad Anthony Sanchez (PH) & Robin Färdig (SE) – ‘Balangay’ (Trailer)
The setting is an old abandoned airport in the Philippines offering temporary shelter for the Lumads – an internally displaced indigenous people, living like modern nomads and fighting to find their place in modern, urban society. The two filmmakers move in among shamans, big families and NGOs trying to help out. The result is a collective mosaic of memories, taking off from the ground zero of globalization.
Zero Lin (CH) & Ada Bligaard Søby (DK) – ‘My World’ (Trailer)
Master Chen has never seen seen his wife, his daughter or the sky scrapers surrounding his home in the center of Shanghai. He is blind and make a living by giving traditional chinese massage to businessmen. Chen lost his sight in a fight as a youngster and have not seen the huge China changes has been going through. But he can feel them on the bodies of his clients. Literally.
