Last Men in Aleppo..in Kiev

I have just come back from giving an introduction to a screening of “Last Men in Aleppo”, written and directed by Feras Fayyad, produced by Kareem Abeed and Søren Steen Jespersen Larm Film Denmark, co-directed by Steen Johannessen. A screening in Ukraine Cinema in Kiev within the program of the Docudays ua festival. Full house = close to 500 people in the cinema. Most of them young people. The reason for me giving this introduction was that the Danish ambassador could not be present – I did not mind saying some few words about the film that is winning awards all over = meaning, much more important, that it is shown globally. And I passed some words about my personal experience being in Damascus for the DoxBox documentary festival until it had to stop in 2011, alas. The director of the festival, Orwa Nyrabia, is now appointed director of IDFA festival Amsterdam! There IS an audience for documentaries, also in Kiev at the Docudays festival, I have attended three screenings with full houses and one with 300 spectators, Arunas Matelis, “Wonderful Losers”, this afternoon. It’s all very professionally organised. More will follow, and on behalf of the Embassy of Denmark and Danish documentary it’s nice to see not only “Last Men in Aleppo” but also “Distant Barking of Dogs” by Simon Lereng Wilmont, “Lida” by Anna Eborn and “Bobbi Jene” by Elvira Lind.

http://docudays.ua/eng

CPH:DOX 2018/ 12 Days

RAYMOND DEPARDON: 12 DAYS

Wow – Raymond Depardon’s latest film 12 Days made a deep impression. It is simple, powerful, sober and precise.

In France, a citizen who is involuntarily committed to psychiatric treatment has, within 12 days, the right to have his case overlooked by a judge, and it is this meeting between the patient, the mental health system and the system of justice Depardon examines in his documentary.

The film opens up with the camera moving slowly through the empty corridors of the closed ward of a psychiatric hospital ending up in front of the locked door, immediately installing the claustrophobic sense of being deprived of one’s freedom. It sounds like a cliché as I write it, but in the film it’s an important and very powerful scene.

When we are in the small court room with the patient, his or her lawyer and the judge, every case opens up to poignant, universal and fundamental questions of ethical, societal and political order.

No one is being judged or demonized and there are no easy answers, but the imbalance of power within the system is clearly visible.

How do you oppose when authority has decided what is “in your interest”? Are the lines blurred between incarceration and forceful psychiatric commitments? Is the system reacting adequately when there are children involved? Why medicalization and not psychotherapy? What if symptoms of work harassment are mistaken for a psychiatric diagnosis of the individual? Should you have the right to decide whether you want to live or not? These questions are put forward by the psychiatric patients themselves who, in their own words and in a language so different from that of the medical and jurisdictional officials, arguments clearly and rationally.

This is the patients’ opportunity to have their voice heard. The majority (but not all) of the films cases opposes to the medical decision of their forced hospitalization, and they have the right to appeal the verdict of the judge, who is practically always in agreement with the psychiatric expertise. But the judge agrees when one patients states that she won’t appeal because it would be of no use: “That’s exactly it, it would be of no use at all”. “Thank you for your abuse of power” as another patient bluntly puts it.

Besides the corridor scenes (a returning theme) and the court room sessions, 12 Days is composed of a number of carefully framed images of the surroundings of the hospital, grey everyday life, that works as tableaux of society as we have organized it.

A truly cinematic examination of a crucial ethical subject by a master eye, 6 pens without hesitation.

DocuDays Kiev Ukraine: Equality/ 2

Look at the photo, an elderly couple studying the program waiting for the opening of the 15th edition of DocuDays UA. My wife, Ellen, and I have been here several times, the hospitality is always warm and generous and the program, 62 films this year and masterclasses, pitchings, photo exhibitions, you can not have any objections to. For the first time there is a special competition for Ukrainian feature films, 6 of them, I will try to watch as many as possible. The opening included great live music to accompany trailers for the many sections, good speeches around the theme of equality, again, alas, all of us standing up with yellow papers saying “Free Oleg Sentsov”, and the very obvious choice of an opening film “A Woman Captured” by Hungarian Bernadett Tuza-Ritter. With a fine Q&A afterwards. The opening took place at the new Zhovten Cinema that has – hope I am right – 4 cinema halls and meeting places. The festival people are committed, they have something to say about their country and the world and human rights. And Bravo again to Sweden that is the main sponsor of the festival. And it is not pocket money! The sun is shining outside Hotel Rus where I am right now waiting for the day program to start. I’ll be back with reports and reviews.

http://docudays.org.ua/

Awards at CPH:DOX

The winner of Dox:Award 2018 is ‘The Raft’ ( PHOTO) by the Swedish director Marcus Lindeen, which tells the story of one of the strangest social experiments of all times – told by those who took part in it.

The jury states:

“The winner of the DOX:AWARD 2018 is a film about an endless curiosity for the world and the characters who try to survive in it. Its great accomplishment lies in the equal measure of conceptual and emotional elements in the construction, in which feelings and emotions get literally elevated. Two very different forms are intertwined and merge surprisingly well: we see love, companionship and stamina triumph over darker sides of human behavior. We applaud the director for his stamina to continue working on this extensive and complex project until it reached a form where it looks deceptively effortless to the innocent eye. This jury is not innocent but we were nevertheless captivated and very moved by this film.

The jury perceives the film as a unique record of time and

culture, of aging and ultimately, a monument to the courage of people formerly known as the weaker sex, who embark on a journey into the unknown.

We cannot imagine a better metaphor for what it is we’re all trying to do everyday in the documentary field. We’re proud to announce a film that oozes CPH:DOX from all its pores, in its perfect marriage of form and content, of humanity and aesthetics: we’re delighted to announce as the winner of the DOX:AWARD 2018: The Raft, by Marcus Lindeen.

The winner of the F:ACT Award is ‘Laila at the Bridge’ by Elizabeth Mirzaei and Gulistan Mirzaei. A powerful film about a woman who is willpower in its purest form.

The jury states:

“In a time where the media leaves societal issues behind after long ages of war documenting the repercussion of conflict this film stands out for its vivid realism, unflinching focus on the fraught reality of a very human story. A story that ultimately we are all collectively responsible for.

In Kabul, full of scars and disappointment, we meet a true hero who tries to catch the faded hope in the eyes of thousands of opium addicts living under a bridge.  They rather take drugs than eat bread and the price is almost the same, but the consequences unbearable. But Layla Haidary has a mission and she fights every day to save lives without any support from a corrupt government. Breaking rules and social norms of a woman’s place in Afghanistan, Laila remains resilient and brave.

Meanwhile, the two directors remain persistent and engaged, carrying the flow of the film with honesty and agility, turning their investigation into an ethical mission despite the danger and risks they undertake to fulfill it. Juxtaposing their hero with a horrid environment and a countless number of people and issues aiming at portraying her as a true archetype, entangled in the world’s tragedy but never shying away from her near constant hope to change her world and the world. The award goes to: ‘Laila at the Bridge’ by Elizabeth Mirzaei and Gulistan Mirzaei.”

The winner of the New:Vision Award is the film ‘Wild Relatives’ by Jumana Manna.

The jury states:

“In a diverse selection of New:Vision-ary works in which Nature is understood both as Presence and the Present that defines us, the New:Vision jury has selected an ambitious work of non-fiction that draws a multi-dimensional Venn Diagram in which disparate geographies, contemporary geo-politics and Agro-Feminism intersects in the  form of a cinematic seed pod. For its optimism, empathy, and agility in engaging with the present, the New:Vision Award goes to Wild Relatives.”

The winner of the Nordic:Dox Award is the film ‘Lykkelænder’ by the Danish director Lasse Lau.

The jury states: 


“The Award goes to a film that challenges in both perception of those portrayed and through its form of representation. The winning film reflects upon historical imbalance with charm and playful questioning of those relationships in the present. This new voice presents a polyphonic cinematic topography that travels beyond borders. The Nordic:Dox Award goes to Lykkelænder.”

The winner of the Next:Wave Award is the film ‘Beautiful Things’ by the Italian directors Giorgio Ferrero & Federico Biasin.

The jury states:

“The award goes to an original film that marries boldness, style, meaning, precision and surprise: Beautiful Things by Giorgio Ferrero & Federico Biasin.”

The winner of the Politiken Audience Award is ‘False Confessions’ by the director Katrine Philp, a legal thriller about a pro-bono idealist’s work for justice in a cynical justice system.

https://cphdox.dk/

 

 

CPH:DOX 2018/ Dreaming Murakami

NITESH ANJAAN: DREAMING MURAKAMI

As a writer and film maker who is quite interested in (and even feel an affinity for) the Japanese author Haruki Murakami, I felt almost obliged to be disappointed and a bit bitter after watching this film. I just knew that about myself because I’m petty and jealous.

But lo and behold: I found that this is a good film and that you should see it.

The film discreetly and knowingly follows Danish translator, Mette Holm, and her work on one of Murakami’s first novels (first published in Denmark last year). At the same time an alternative world is introduced in different ways. Most prominently by a giant frog (inspired by the Murakami-story “Super-Frog Saves Tokyo” from the collection “After the Quake”) and for instance more subtly by adding another moon in a couple of scenes (inspired by the three-volume novel “1Q84”).

It actually works surprisingly elegant due to very convincing VFX. As we follow Holm, her thoughts and her talks with colleagues in a somewhat “normal” documentary style and therefore are forced to activate our cognitive skills, we are also introduced to that special other-world, which is so prominent – but feels truly “natural” – in his novels. So not only are we getting closer to the work of the translator (I actually prefer Holm’s translations and has stopped reading him in English), we are also getting a sense of the special characteristics of the authorship.

At some point, we are let to believe that the film’s climax will be at the Royal Danish Library where Holm will be on stage with Murakami himself after he has been given the “Hans Christian Andersen Literature Award”, but – SPOILER ALERT – I happened to know that THAT wouldn’t happen. They gave the performance, yes, but he just won’t appear on film.

Of course, that must be a bit disappointing for the average viewer – and it does amputate the film a bit – but at the end of the day, director Anjaan (still a pupil at Danish Film School) still offers us a great deal.

The film was selected for IDFA (Panorama section) and is currently featured at CPH:DOX.

PS. How did I know that Murakami wouldn’t appear in the film? Because we’ve tried ourselves for another project, and actually there is a small and somewhat crazy follow-up story in Danish here on that story: http://mikkelstolt.dk/extras/. Look for “PÅ JAZZKLUB MED MR. M.”.

Dreaming Murakami, dir. Nitesh Anjaan, 58 min., 2017

CPH:DOX 2018/ Giants…

ALEXANDER RYNÉUS, MALLA GRAPENGIESSER, PER BIFROST: GIANTS AND THE MORNING AFTER

I saw a clip of this Swedish documentary in Malmø at the DocIncubator presentation of new projects in connection with the Nordisk Panorama. Promising it was and I was not disappointed, when I saw the final result, a warm and beautifully shot documentary from the small community Ydre; quite right decision of the organisers to put the film in the main competition of CPH:DOX.

There he is, Sven-Inge, the mayor who welcomes new citizens to Ydre by going to the parents and the baby with a small welcome gift for the latter – encouraging the parents to continue to make babies in a town suffering from depopulation. Around 3000 they are but there is a slight increase, which makes the old white-bearded man happy. You see him often in the film studying the population statistics, when he is not taking part in the many activities that the film crew has caught so well during filming over several seasons.

And there are other characters of importance – the owner of the

sawmill, a third generation factory, that has problems to overcome but succeeds. You see him with his wife, and you see him in a lovely scene with his daughter, where they are decorating the xmas tree. Daughter: Cool down, let’s have a nice and quiet xmas, she says. Father is stressed but ”yes, and Aleppo is liberated”! Dialogues like that pop up in the film in situations of understated humour that there are so many of. The film lives from situations that are put very well together following the seasons.

And for a jealous Dane: Swedish summer, forest, it’s green, lakes, cows, horses and blond young girls and boys, who sing and dance, when it is mid summer and make activities like setting up ”Annie”. There is a positive welcome attitude to immigrants and to the parliament member, who come to learn about the problems the community have, like falling prices on milk.

11 meter tall Bule and the saga about him, the Giant, the symbol of Ydre, is embracing the film and its characters, Sven-Inge and his lovely citizens in a film that is much more than a report from a depopulated town due to the excellent cinematic storytelling that made me sit with a smile the whole film along. This is how life, according to the filmmaker’s interpretation, should be lived in small towns!

https://cphdox.dk/program/film/?id=722

Doker Moscow Russia

In a break of the Danish television 3 hour long coverage of the re-election of President Putin – instead of falling asleep – I checked facebook and saw that the organisers of the independent documentary festival in Moscow had chosen the opening film, Polish Marta Prus ”Over the Limit”, for festival that runs April 12-17. A fine choice of course – the film is excellent and the characters are Russian.

I have since the first edition of the festival been a fan of what Irina Shatalova and Nastia Tarasova, and their team, have set up. This is the fourth edition and it includes a main competition of feature docs, a short film competition, docs for kids, masterclasses, discussions.

Other films in the main competition are ”A Woman Captured” by Hungarian Bernadett Tuza-Ritter (shown these days at CPH:DOX and is the opening film on friday 23rd at DocuDays in Kiev), the touching Dutch film ”Alicia” by Maasja Ooms, the equally moving Belorussian film about women in prison, ”Debut” by Anastasiya Miroshnichenko and French Emmanuel Gras Congo-film ”Makala”. 14 films are shown in the main competition.

High quality, a focus on how people live around the world.

https://www.midff.com/

Marie-Clémence Andriamonta Paes: Fahavalo

”I’ll try to tell you the story”, says the weak old man in a blue shirt with a hat on his head. He is adressing the camera crew. ”I was 22 in 1947”, the year that is the focus of the film, the year when a rebellion took place led by the ”Fahavalo”, the enemies it means, against the French who had colonised Madagascar. An uprising against the Vazaha, the French, the Europeans. He was one of the freedom fighters and he paid his price, 8 years and 9 months in prison. The rebels were hiding in the forests and long after they were defeated, many of them were still there.

That old man is just one of the storytellers in the film. A handful of other men and women still alive are the witnesses found and involved in the film by the filmmakers. In conversations, which are conversations and not interviews – and conversations that most of the time include listeners, relatives, children and grandchildren, who want to hear and – you sense that – are proud of what they did back then. The tellers are mostly ordinary (hate that word) people but there are also some, who have studied this crucial point in the Malagasy history… The way they talk is wonderful. They like to bring to life the dramatic stories about what happened, and about how life was, these 70 years ago, and they often do it in a flowerish, metaphoric language, helped by questions from the film crew. It is no secret that there is a film crew, who asks and respects and are curious on behalf of the viewer. Oral history at its best. At one sequence one of the old men starts his talk but is interrupted by one of the relatives, who says ”don’t talk so much, get to the point”, but behind the camera the filmmakers object: Let him talk. This is why one gets to love the people in the conversations: they are given space to express themselves. And it is an evidence of the love and cinematic competence the filmmakers have dedicated to the film.

A few words more on Malagasy history at that time: During WW2 many Malagasy men were going to Europe to fight with the French against the Germans. At the same time the official Madagascar was supporting the French Vichy government led by Marechal Pétain. For that reason the English occupied Madagascar during WW2. After the war the soldiers came back – for their support to France de Gaulle had promised them independence. It did not happen. Instead Madagascar became a part of France Union, a colony. This disappointment led to the rebellion. As one says: ”A lot of Malagasy blood was spilled back then”. Another sweet old man says that “de Gaulle colonised us to help us”!

The film is built as a journey in history and literally to find the survivors. Along and through mountain tunnels, passing lakes and rivers, bigger and smaller villages, inside and outside houses. The Film as a Film is excellent. Content and form go hand in hand. The scoop is that at the same time as you experience a historical event told as old men and women remember it – the insurrection against power and colonialism – it is also, through the images, giving the viewer a sense of the island of today. Daily hard life in the countryside as it was also at that time, like building a house from clay, carrying food and goods in baskets on their heads, cooking at a fireplace outside… With rituals like the Sikidy – I am not able to tell you what it is, but fascinating to watch.

A sequence to make you understand the way the film is shifting from then to now and back again: A man talks about the many rebels who were being killed in battles, where they fought with spears and machetes against guns and knives; cut to a poor cemetery where you find the inscription ”The Tomb of the Brave”; cut to a lake where a lonely man in a canoo is paddling; cut to the same motif in the past in one of the extraordinary black/white archive scenes that the film is full of; cut to animals crossing a river… and all that accompanied by the captivating accordéon music composed by Régis Gizavo, who is from Madagascar. It’s superb!

And I love the long scenes like the one, where a boy is cutting wood meant to give fire with a big knife. It is no surprise for me, who knows what cameraperson César Paes has been doing before together with Marie-Clémence as producer and co-director; he has ”a documentary eye” and knows a poetic situation, when he feels or sees one. There are many.

On the photo above you see cameraman César Paes, assistant director and set photographer Tiago Paes, Berthe Raharisoa, in her white dress, a lively lady, born in 1925, who was part of the MDRM. In the film she sings the anthem of the resistance party. Lovely!

And to the right director and producer Marie Clémence Andriamonta Paes, as the name indicates she is half Malagasy, half French. It is of course a huge advantage that she speaks the language and can communicate directky with the witnesses.

All I know about Madagascar, I know from Marie-Clémence and César Paes and their films. Way back from the 1989 “Angano… Angano”. That we bought for distribution in Denmark. It is so beautiful and well shot that our grand master of Danish documentary, Jørgen Roos, thought it was shot on 35mm film. Thank you for that and “Mahaleo” and more films and let this new wonderful film travel!

France, 2018, 90 mins.

http://fahavalo-film.com

CPH:DOX 2018/ Exit

KAREN WINTHER: EXIT

“How do you get out of the closed and often violent milieu among extremists without risking your life? Norwegian filmmaker Karen Winther has taken the journey herself. With her past as a right-wing extremist, she visits other defectors in the United States, Germany and Denmark, where she meets the former Danish left-wing activist Søren Lerche and the Frenchman David, who spent six years in prison as an accomplice in a terrorist attack in France. Jihadis, Nazis and violent Antifas: All the people whom Winther meets on her journey have broken with their past and are now living with the consequences. ‘Exit’ is an exploratory firsthand account about de-radicalisation and about the tough exit which leaves those involved looking back and asking the same question: Why me? The excitement and the clear sense of identity as a rebel and as a part of a group on a mission are among the obvious answers. But the truth is often more complex, and what they most often have in common is regretting the bitter mistakes of the past.” (CPH:DOX programme)

KOMMENTAR

Det er en beslutsom films beslutsomme slutscene. Manuel har skåret igennem sin tøven og har pakket det nødvendigste og er på flugt med sit barn til et nyt hemmeligt sted, fordi de tidligere venner i organisationen har fundet ham. Han er igen på flugt i sit eget land, i Tyskland, han er nødt til at beskytte barnet og sig selv. Jeg har ved gennem 80 minutter at være med Karen Winther på hendes gentagne møder lært ham at kende, og er med hende og hendes film faktisk kommet til at holde af ham, dette voldelige og fredelige menneske.

Det er en rigtig god film, det er en aldeles vedkommende og sober tv-dokumentar, en tilbageskuende jeg-fortælling i filmens nutid med en undersøgelsesrejse efter lignende fortællinger og samtaler med vigtige velformulerede vidner som denne de-radikaliserede mand. Alt skildret i et ordentligt og tvivlende og tænkende journalistisk essays form. Filmen er beregnet til tv, tror jeg, og den vil bestemt kunne findes på tv den kommende tid, men jeg vil lige så bestemt anbefale at se den i en biografs mørke koncentration nu det, er vil jeg igen tro, enestående muligt. Der er meget at lytte intenst til, fine nuancer i sjældne formuleringer at opfatte og vende og dreje i billedsidens vignetters korte hvile. Mine fordomme om moralsk og politisk radikalisering er blevet grundigt rystet.

Karen Winther: Exit, Norge, 2018, 83 min. Præsenteres på CPH:DOX 2018, som har visninger tirsdag, torsdag og følgende søndag: https://cphdox.dk/program/film/?id=571 (Datoer, tider, steder, billetter)

CPH:DOX 2018/ Lost Warrior

NASIB FARAH OG SØREN STEEN JESPERSEN: LOST WARRIOR

Mohammed was just three years old when he was sent away from Somalia without his parents to a better life in England. As a teenager in London he got involved in crime and ended up in prison where he became radicalised. As a 19-year-old he was extradited to Somalia, where he landed straight in the arms of the terrorist organisation Al-Shabab. But when Mohammed finds out that Al-Shabab is not a liberation movement, but kills innocent people, he decides to flee. As a 23-year old he is living undercover in Mogadishu in the hopes of hiding from Al-Shabab. Here, he meets Fathi who was born in London, but sent to Somalia to be ‘reeducated’. They get married and when Fathi returns home to London she is pregnant with their child. ‘Lost Warrior’ follows the young couple’s attempt to be united as a family and to create a future for themselves and their son, Yassir. But Fathi and Mohammed are caught in the global politics of the day. Where to go? And what are his options now? They are also caught in their own culture, where the demands to maintain traditional and religious patterns is not at all consistent with being a young person in a modern world.

KOMMENTAR

Jamen det er jo en kærlighedshistorie og den fortælles sådan. Der er forhindringer, politiske, juridiske, administrative, kulturelle, familiemæssige, og i denne umulighed er der alligevel korte løsninger og øjeblikke af mulig lykke, i en scene snakker de tæt sammen om farverne på europæiske pas, og i den smukkeste scene forsøger han at placere et øresmykke med sine fumlende hænder så nær hendes ansigt og hvisker genert undskyldende: det er min første gang. Det er regulært spændende og det er meget ungt. Der er de to og der er deres barn, som både er sammenhængskraften og udmattelsen. Fortællingen begynder midt i det hele og slutter der, fortællingen er en række kapitler i de tres dannelseshistorier kombineret til en familiehistorie. Hele tiden i to byer, i to verdener, i to kulturer, hvor de tre er én historisk fremspirende kultur, dannet i det nye moderne, det nye modernes unge familie, som er bundet i det globale, men med en længsel mod det nye lokale sted.

Det er et stærkt hold, som fortæller den historie: filmen åbner i fotografisk skønhed, et vidunderligt gadebillede med mange filmhistoriske mindelser om stedet for handlingen med det samme roligt defineret, fortsætter i lutter regelbundet billedskønhed med lange scener på række, alle med Henrik Bohn Ipsens tydelige signatur, vel at mærke ikke påskrevet, men indarbejdet sammen med Anita Hopland. Et filmfotografisk mesterværk.

Filmoptagelsernes fortælling skrider roligt og omhyggeligt frem i klart afgrænsede scener, som alle holder deres intensitet til sekundet før de dør og så bringes videre i en ligesom umærkelig intens, stadigt stigende spænding, et drama af overblik og ro, endnu et klippekunstnerisk mesterværk af Steen Johannessen.

Personinstruktionen og det velforberedte arrangement i en lang række af disse scener af replikfyldt og gestiktydeligt samvær, ja, det er for en stor del en iscenesat dokumentarfilm, efterlader hver af disse en sjælden tilfredsstillelse af dybere forståelse og kompliceret anfægtelse hos mig,

Det er et dristigt kunstnerisk eksperiment, det er opdateret iscenesat dokumentarisme, det er i alle detaljerne (fotografi, klip, lyd, dialog, dekoration…) rene og ganske klare stiliserede, improviserede, ekstemporerede eller altså iscenesatte samvær og samtaler uden mislyde for mig at høre. Lost Warrior er modigt kontrolleret filmkunst af instruktørduen Nasib Farah og Søren Steen Jespersen.

Det en vigtig problemfyldt historie, hvis både juridiske, etiske og socialantropologiske sider i min oplevelse af fortællingens virkelighed behændigt i klippet bringer mig i anfægtelsens tvivlende syv sind, når jeg lytter til den britiske advokats i samtalen med den fortabte kriger og til onklen fra hans familieklans besindige rådgivning i scenerne med ham, dels krigeren alene, dels hvor krigeren har sin mor med. Men, men de to besindige voksne har jo kun små, omend vigtige biroller og fylder ikke nok til at fungere som mine helte, jeg som publikum i biografen holder med, knytter min identitet til. Men de er mig nærmest.

For jeg kan slet ikke komme i kontakt med de to unge, specielt ikke med ham, finder ham som 23 årig barnlig og urimelig og mærkeligt uerfaren trods sin angiveligt begivenhedsrige fortid som selvhjulpet barn, gangster, udvist efter afsoning og deserteret hellig kriger. Hun er lettere at forstå som ung mor i et britisk-somalisk hjem med genkendelige generationsmodsætninger. De to er imidlertid overdådigt smukke, de er overvældende selvoptagne, især han, og min forståelse for deres ungdomskultur svigter.

Onklen, som griber ansvarligt objektivt analyserende ind, bliver min nærmeste helt i filmen, advokaten analyserer jo blot og lægger med en beklagelse sagen bort i den således helt centrale skype scene, som sammenfatter den episode i den tre personers dannelsesroman Lost Warrior er, en episode, som både begyndes og afsluttes in medias res. Så jeg har et problem: jeg nyder uansvarlig filmværket på dets smukke overflade, men jeg kan ikke trænge ned i dets indholds skarptkantede dybde uden tvivl, tvivl… Men at forårsage anfægtelse hører jo netop filmkunst til.

Danmark, 2018. 82 min. Produktion: Helle Faber, Made in Copenhagen med fast hånd må jeg tro i det komplicerede værk som hun præsenterer på CPH:DOX 2018:

https://cphdox.dk/program/film/?id=515 (Datoer, tider, steder, billetter)

http://www.madeincopenhagen.dk/da/den-fortabte-kriger