CPH:DOX 2017 /Films
It’s very easy if you want to see what will be shown at the festival. Go to the website, link below, and you will see the many sections arranged by the programmers. The classical ones are there like Dox:Award, New:Vision Award, the F:Act Award, Nordic:Dox Award, a new section for upcoming talents called Next:Wave, docs for kids, docs about artists, docs on the actual populism, Danish docs, festival hits and so on so forth.
Let me pick some of the films that I have heard about in beforehand or that we at filmkommentaren.dk have already written about or reviewed. Or intend to…
The Danish ones in the main competition: The opening film ”Last Men in Aleppo” by Feras Fayyad, with Steen Johannessen as co-director, it won at the Sundance festival. We will review this strong film that not only brought tears to my eyes but also made me sad and angry about what happens and has happened in Syria. Talented Jeppe Rønde’s ”The John Dalli Mystery” starring the
journalists Mads Brügger and Mikael Bertelsen. The film is described like this: ”Brügger and Bertelsen uncover the plans for the murder of a former EU commissioner in a thrilling and funny detective film, where one twist follows another…” And Phie Ambo’s ”… when you look away”: ” Where are the limits of consciousness and are we connected in ways we never knew? … these big questions in a filmic experiment with surprising answers.”
Also I want to see Margreth Olin’s film from a kindergarten, ”Childhood”, Ulrich Seidl’s ”Safari”, Askold Kurov’s film on ”The State vs Oleg Sentsov”, Michal Marczak’s ”All these Sleepless Nights”. And many more if time allows.
AND YOU should see the following films that we have already praised on filmkommentaren, click and you will be taken to our texts:
Rahul Jain: ”Machines”, Torstein Grude and Niels Pagh Andersen’s ”Mogadishu Soldier”, Sergei Loznitsa’s ”Austerlitz”, Nikolaus Geyrhalter’s ”Homo Sapiens” that will be played with a musical accompagnement, Jërome le Maire’s ”Burning Out” (PHOTO), that will have a screening at Rigshospitalet, our biggest hospital in Denmark (!), Kirsten Johnson’s ”Cameraperson”, ”I am not your Negro” by Raoul Peck…
In a couple of days you will be invited to read my review of the film by Mona Willi and Michael Glawogger, ”Untitled”, also that is of course at CPH:DOX. Glawogger died in 2014, his editor made ”his” film from the material he had shot.
