FOLKEBIO 2/ Hjerter Dame

Mette-Ann Schepelern og Louise Detlevsen: HJERTER DAME / TORSDAG, 14. JUNI 16:30 / FolkeBio Lindeplads 2B Allinge / film og debat

Ved premieren skrev jeg i min anmeldelse blandt andet, at her fortælles Lizette Risgaards biografi, det er en skildring, som når sine journalistiske højdepunkter, når hun i en personlig fortællestemme, vel konstrueret af et oprindeligt grundinterview, måske i samtaleform, fortæller tilbageskuende særdeles oprigtigt rent fagligt politisk og dertil menneskeligt ægte om sin oprindelige ambition om og plan for at komme til at sidde for bordenden under LO-ledelsens møder, og dertil åbent gør rede for, hvordan hun gennemførte sit forehavende og nu har nået sine foreløbige mål, formandsposten og trepartsaftalen med regeringen og arbejdsgiverforeningen. Jeg anbefaler filmen meget, og den skal bestemt ses nu, for det er lige nu, den er aktuel.

Danmark, 2018, 86 min.

http://www.filmkommentaren.dk/blog/blogpost/4221/ (Filmkommentarens anmeldelse)

FOLKEBIO

Det Danske Filminstitut inviterer under Folkemødet i Allinge 2018 til film og debat i og omkring FolkeBio, den tidligere lade på Lindeplads 2B, Allinge. (K16 i programmet) / For yderligere oplysninger kontakt Susanna Neimann, kommunikationschef for Det Danske Filminstitut på mail: susannan@dfi.dk og telefon: +4541191540 eller Anders Riis-Hansen, filmkonsulent på mail: andersrh@dfi.dk og telefon: +4540459660

https://www.dfi.dk/nyheder/temaer/folkebio-2018 (FolkeBios samlede program) 

Thomas Riedelsheimer: Leaning into the Wind

Two great artists – a sculptor who shapes nature and creates surreal scenes of reality, Andy Goldsworthy, and filmmaker Thomas Riedelsheimer, meet again sixteen years later. Again, as in the big film “Rivers and tides – Andy Goldsworthy Working with Time” they poetisize nature and create a fascinating work on the true sense of art.

From the urban landscapes of Edinburgh and London to the south of France and New England, we are exposed to street and nature sights that the sculptor Goldsworthy converts into incomparable works of land art, and the camera captures them as outstanding, highly aestheticised film images. The “Leaning into the Wind” conveys thoughts and ideas about art, artistic creation and process, and even more, tells a story of the relationship between man and nature. And this is where the true primeval saga of the great love of a passionate fighter for nature begins – environmental activist Goldsworthy touches every stone, every grass, petal, branch, every drop of water as a precious being and within it recognizes the internal pulsation that permeates the planet. And these touches, followed by the explosion of colors and unexpected shapes, create a nature in which man and space become one.

Riedelsheimer’s sophisticated filmmaking proceeds from breathtaking physical matter and goes beyond trying to reveal the ideas that move the artists. And before our very eyes these ideas are transformed into remarkable forms pervaded by the rhythms of nature.

UK, Germany, 2018, 93 mins.

http://www.leaningintothewind.com/

www.magnificent7.org  

FOLKEBIO 1/ #MeToo-mosaik

Meta Film: #METOO-MOSAIK / TORSDAG, 14. JUNI 14:00 / FolkeBio Lindeplads 2B Allinge / videoer og debat

De 100 små film kan streames og de kan vælges i den rækkefølge, jeg får lyst til, og jeg tøver lidt, føler mig nyfigen… nej, for det er jeg jo netop ikke. Helst ville jeg springe dette kollektive værk over, det kommer jo ikke mig ved. Eller? Jeg kigger lige efter og rammes af, at de dokumentariske beretninger og vidneudsagn spilles. En skuespiller tager sig af historien, og det gør noget godt ved den, det private bliver ved det kunstneriske advokatur alment, skuespillerens empati bevæger mig.

Fra FolkeBios program: ”#MeToo bevægelsen startede i denne omgang i filmbranchen, og nu hvor bolden landede på vores boldbane, så sparker 100 engagerede skuespillere og Produktionsselskabet Meta Film hermed bolden videre til resten af samfundet.

Meta Film har produceret denne filmiske #MeToo mosaik, for at belyse og skabe forståelse for at sexisme og seksuelle magtudøvelser finder sted i alle brancher og i samfundet generelt.

100 skuespillere genfortæller hver én #MeToo beretning fra kvinder og mænd, som har oplevet sexismen i dens forskellige afskygninger. #MeToo mosaikken byder på historier fra parkeringsvagten, slagtereleven, professoren, den studerende, rengøringshjælperen, det unge sportstalent, psykologen, spejderen, stykgodschaufføren, asylansøgeren, lægen og historier fra mange andre fag samt hverdagshistorier fra privatsfæren.” (dkmetoo.dk)

www.dkmetoo.dk (om filmprojektet + streaming af de 100 korte genfortællinger)

Danmark 2018, 100 genfotællinger, hver vel et par minutter. Medvirkende: 100 skuespillere. Produktion: Meta Film. Distribution: www.dkmetoo.dk (streaming)

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Det Danske Filminstitut inviterer under Folkemødet i Allinge 2018 til film og debat i og omkring FolkeBio, den tidligere lade på Lindeplads 2B, Allinge. (K16 i programmet) / For yderligere oplysninger kontakt Susanna Neimann, kommunikationschef for Det Danske Filminstitut på mail: susannan@dfi.dk og telefon: +4541191540 eller Anders Riis-Hansen, filmkonsulent på mail: andersrh@dfi.dk og telefon: +4540459660 

https://www.dfi.dk/nyheder/temaer/folkebio-2018 (FolkeBios samlede program)

Magnificent7: Thomas Riedelsheimer

I still remember that day in 2005 when the very first screening of a European feature length documentary took place here in Belgrade – and the Magnificent7 festival started. We had no real idea of how many spectators, who would come to the Sava Centre. It was around 1000! Who had a wonderful experience watching Thomas Riedelsheimer’s “Touch the Sound”. Now he is back with “Leaning into the Wind”, again a film about an artist, actually the second one about Andy Goldsworthy, the first one was “Rivers and Tides”. “Leaning into the Wind” is the title.

Here are some words from the director’s website:

“In 2011, during a shoot in Scotland, I met Andy Goldsworthy again. It had been ten years since we released Rivers and Tides and we had not seen each other in the interim. From the very first moment I felt like no time has passed at all – it felt as though we had just waved farewell a few days before. It felt intimate immediately and I became aware of my never-ending interest in this man and his work. People who know “Rivers and Tides” think they know Andy Goldsworthy. And so we both felt that adding a new perspective to him and his work would be fascinating.

“It has been a great time, an unforgettable experience. LEANING INTO THE WIND offers a different angle, a different perspective, another perception on many levels. It is not only an expansion of the former film but stands by itself. Another moment in time, of Andy´s life – and of my life.”

http://www.leaningintothewind.com/

Petra & P. Lataster: Miss Kiet’s Children

This text is written by Svetlana and Zoran Popovic, the directors of Magnificent7 festival in Belgrade:

This touching film story, without any interview or narrator, introduces us to the turbulent world of small, irresistible, charismatic heroes who have just arrived to a small place in The Netherlands and entered the classroom of an ordinary elementary school. For them, this is all new and confusing, they don’t fit in, they are too sensitive and scared. But like all children, they are also restless, naughty and unsubdued, and from the very first moment their brilliant teacher, Miss Kit, begins a great battle using all her skills of an excellent pedagogue. A battle in which, apart from discipline, learning and knowledge, mutual respect and dignity are top objectives.

Discreetly shot at the child’s eyes level over a period of one year, this film is a story of joy and experiences that change children and shape their world. Experienced pair of documentarists Petra Lataster-Czisch and Peter Lataster with their perfectly selected participants, through masterly captured moments and true empathy with little heroes in front of their warm and penetrating camera lens, unfold moving sequences of school days and discreetly build a course of one school year. They create a brilliant visual study of learning and maturing, emphasizing at the same time the importance of those who are preparing the society of the future.

Holland, 2016, 115 minutes

http://dekinderenvanjufkiet.nl/en/

Magnificent7 Speech by Elwira Niewiera

Elwira Niewiera, co-director with Piotr Rosolowski of ”The Prince and the Dybbuk”, the opening film at the 14th edition of the Magnificent7 festival in Belgrade, had to cancel her presence because of illness. From Berlin the Polish co-director sent this text as a sound bite. It was played before the screening:

“I am very, very sad that I can’t be there with you today. This is an exceptional festival, created by some very special people.

I would like to say a big thank you to Svetlana and Zoran Popovic, and also to Tue Steen Müller.

When we started to work on this movie, one of the Polish filmmakers told us, that even if you are making a film about someone who passed away, remember that it’s still very important for that person what kind of film you are going to make.

It was a big challenge to make a film about someone, who constantly erased/or had to erased his own traces, changing names, religion, titles or countries.

This mechanism became a way of life for him, and also a means of survival, as it allowed him to outsmart the spirit of intolerance.

Over the next few weeks, we will all be excited about the football World Cup taking place in Russia. But when we will be supporting our teams in front of the TVs, please let us at the same time remember the Ukrainian film director Oleg Sentsov, who is imprisoned in a labour camp, is on a hunger strike and is slowly dying in the very same country – in solidarity with other unlawfully convicted people.

Thank you and I wish you a nice screening and a nice opening of the festival“.

http://www.magnificent7festival.org/en/index.php

Anita Reher Back in Denmark

I worked with Anita for the 9 years, I was at EDN. It was pioneer times building up the organisation. It was fun and exciting, when we at the start stood at the fax machine waiting for filmmakers to sign up – and when we were touring the South of Europe to find venues for the workshops, we had got EU support to arrange with local filmmakers… Anita stayed at EDN for some years more but then she moved to America and got an important position at Flaherty, which she now leaves to come back to Denmark to give her skills and competence to Nordisk Panorama. They are getting the Best! Here is the press release from Nordisk Panorama:

We are happy to share the news that the new director of Nordisk Panorama will be Anita Reher. Anita comes from a position as director of The Flaherty in New York which she has been running for the past 6 years.

Anita Reher says: “I am thrilled to be joining the Nordic family of storytellers and reconnecting with old and new friends. I look forward to continuing what has been Nordisk Panorama’s strength — promoting documentary and short film talent for 30 years and renewing that strength for a new generation of filmmakers. My goal, in the ever-changing media landscape, is to keep Nordisk Panorama continuously relevant for the industry and our audiences.”

Anita Reher’s work as Executive Director of The Flaherty is a success story of presenting cutting edge films to foster dialogue between filmmakers and audiences. The Flaherty is the longest running film event in North America.

Prior to coming to The Flaherty, Anita was one of the co-founders of the European Documentary Network (EDN), a non-profit membership-based association with members from 60 countries. Anita started her career with the EU MEDIA Program at the Creative Documentary Project. She is active in international film communities and have served on juries for the Guangzhou Documentary Festival, Guadalajara Film Festival, DocsBarcelona, DocsDF, Cinema Tropical, and as a mentor at UpComing Lab and DocuLab.

Chairman of the Nordisk Panorama board, Dag Hoel, says: “It is with great excitement that the board of Nordisk Panorama announces the hiring of Anita Reher. She is a very experienced film industry executive and will be a great resource for the Nordic film production environment.”

Anita will start her position with Nordisk Panorama 1 October, taking over from Søren Poulsen who is leaving after 3 years in the organisation.

Niewiera/Rosolowski: The Prince and The Dybbuk

This text is written by Svetlana and Zoran Popovic, the directors of Magnificent7 festival in Belgrade:

Poland, Germany 2017.
82 minutes
directed by: Elwira Niewiera and Piotr Rosołowski

The best documentary on cinema of The Venice Film Festival 2017. The story of a stunning mystery that is becoming more complex and unexpected as it unfolds before us.

Who was the director and Hollywood producer Michal Waszynski who worked with the biggest movie stars of his time, such as Sophia Loren, Claudia Cardinale, Orson Wells? Directors Elwira Niewiera and Piotr Rosolowski are taking us to an exciting film journey through the life of a man who was known to many, but whose secrets were so deeply hidden that no one really knew him. Prince Waszynski, through the turbulent and dramatic years of his personal and world history, wrote his life story as if he directed the most fantastic film.

A superb modern documentary with an extremely complex structure in which fascinating archival footage is interwoven with shots and scenes of search, witnesses and spaces. Directorial couple Niewiera Rosolowski creates an exciting thriller, but at the same time an equally unusual history of the 20th century in Europe, from the dark times of the rise of Nazism to glamorous Hollywood spectacles. In these turbulent times, behind the curtain of dramatic events, they magically depict the hidden figure of Prince Waszynski, penetrating deeply into imaginary and irrational layers of time.

http://prince-dybbuk.com/

Siden blev ikke fundet

Magnificent7 Arrival

There we are, my wife and I, back in Belgrade to take part in the 14th European Feature Documentary Film Festival, Magnificent7 – seven films, one per night, starting tomorrow on the 8th with the Polish masterpiece, “The Prince and the Dybbuk” by Piotr Rosolowski and Elvira Niewiera, who will be present at the screening that is said to be sold out – there is space for 1300 spectators!

From heatwave in Copenhagen to the same in Belgrade with a warm welcome in the airport by Nevena Donlic, program coordinator and Nebosja, driver for the festival through many many years. In to our home for the next week, the Belgrade Excelsior Hotel on Kneza Miloša close to the Parliament and the new venue of the festival Kombank Dvorana. Mr and Mrs. Festival, Zoran and Svetlana Popovic were waiting for us, we got the room and we carried luggage and survival kits up the stairs. Survival kits… for years one of the many jobs at the festival that is carried out by brilliant camerawoman Jelena Stankovic… she buys snacks, chocolate, water, juice, wet wipes, tissues, much needed and one of many specialities of the hospitality, we have enjoyed during all the years. It is an understatement that guests are taken well care of at this festival!

Off to lunch outside in the restaurant Jovac, me starting with my classic rakija, the Losa, it’s from Montenegro, the Serbian waiter said – and followed by salad and schnitzel. From there to a fabulous coffee place ZRNO, means the grain, in the part of the city called Vracar, cafés and restaurants on each corner. Nevena Donlic takes her coffee there – understandable!

14th edition… thinking back on the many films and directors, whose films (91 films) and company we have enjoyed through the years, let me just mention some of them – I go to the facebook page of the festival and look at photos: Audrius Stonys, Miroslav Janek, Nicolas Philibert, Sergei Loznitsa, Sylvain Biegeleisen, Helena Trestikova, Pernille Grønkjær, Wojciech Staron, Jerzy Sladkowski, German Kral, Frank Piasecki Poulsen, Gianfranco Rosi, Marie-Clémence and César Paës, Mika Ronkainen… and late Michael Glawogger (PHOTO). In the coming week Magnificent7 welcomes European documentary cinema makers to Belgrade.

http://www.magnificent7festival.org/en/index.php

Alisa Kovalenko: Home Games

Alina, 20 year old, Ukrainian, likes football. She plays herself and she is good. In the beginning of the film she is making a collage to hang on the wall, from pictures of famous football players. She cuts off the head of Messi, says sorry to him, and puts her own head on the body of the best football player in the world. At the end of the film Alina is on the football pitch, she is knocked down, gets a free kick, which she kicks herself into the goal just like Messi has done so many times!

A perfect dramaturgical circle (!) for a film, where football is important but that is first of all a warm, heartbreaking social documentary, where Alina is in focus from start till end.

The family includes the granny, the mother, the father, Alina and her two siblings, Renat and Regina, 6 and 7 years old. Plus Alina’s helping girlfriend Nadya. The mother dies, the father is a useless drunkard, the granny is old and not so mobile – so the responsibility for bringing up the two kids lies with Alina, who has games on the football pitch but first and foremost has Home Games to fight. She takes the kids along for a summer training camp, she has to prepare them for the school, she is short of money – the father gets the public support for the kids, he never helps the children – so she and Nadya goes to the street to sell shoes, cell phones, whatever to get some money. She goes with granny and Nadya to have the legal right for the children transferred from the father to her. They are positively received – without this being really followed up in the film except for a text at the end, where it is being said that the father is out of the flat – and you see the two young girls starting a new life refurnishing the apartment. “We want to live like normal people now”.

The film lives from its ability to create a feeling of presence in the situations with Alina and the kids. Here there are fine, often poetic moments in the claustrophobia of the small flat. On the football pitch, it is not poetry that reigns, when the coach states to the girls that they have “to die on the pitch”, a sentence which will probably be used many times the next month in a neighbouring country.

Ukraine/ France/ Poland, 2018, 86 mins.

https://sheffdocfest.com/films/6545