Sylvain Biegeleisen

I just said goodbye to him, the director of ”Twilight of a Life”, who has played an important role in this 12th edition of the Magnificent7 festival in Belgrade. He came with his film about which I wrote – before the premiere in Nyon – ”…emotional it is, long time ago that I have watched a film with a smile on my face the whole way through and a tear in my eyes…”.

I had the same reaction, when I watched it here in Belgrade with the more than added value to experience the charismatic director as one who wants to follow his film, whereever he can, doing (as he did here) a masterclass, a Q&A session and a workshop.

A few words about the workshop: Sylvain Biegeleisen was together with a small group of young people from morning till afternoon. He told them that he was there to realise his ”One Day One Film” with the theme ”Memories”, with the participants being invited to bring a photo or an object to talk about what that means for them. ”My part was to be their humble servant”, Biegeleisen said, when he

presented the final result, a 10 minutes long, sweet and charming film with clever and innovative narratives. I can only recommend other festivals warmly to bring in the director to do this workshop.

In his masterclass Biegeleisen talked interestingly about ”Twilight of a Life” and showed clips with sequences that did not end up in the film as well as clips from his first film with his mother, ”The Last Card” shot in 2007. ”I am a man of spontaneity”, he said several times, when he was asked about how much he had planned in beforehand at the same time as he praised the collaboration with the editor Joëlle Alexis. Pedagogically it was a scoop when he showed the scene, where the mother says that ”I will not live long”, in two versions, one edited by himself and one by the editor.

2 years of shooting. And then the editing and the premiere in Nyon, where everyone, including the director of this festival, expected him to have an award. It did not happen… He was disappointed but ”I’m learning”, he said, ”the real award was that the film was made…, we made it, my mother and I” and ”the real power is not only to open the eyes of an audience but also the hearts”.

Biegeleisen told us that in Belgium there is a plan to make a book to accompany the film, that he is to attend a screening of the film in the presence of representatives from WHO, who could maybe use the film one way or the other, he has plans to establish a film festival with ”Ageing” as the theme… at the same time as he told us that the film is difficult to sell (done by the company Cats and Docs) to television, even if he has a version of one hour, in colours… at the same time as the film has been a huge success in Israel where the cinematheques announce the film with title and ”to be shown in the presence of the director and his guitar”. Wonderful to experience Jacques Brel performed by multi-gifted artist Sylvain Biegeleisen.

www.twilightofalife.com

Jerzy Śladkowski: Don Juan

Taken from the site of the Magnificent7 festival in Belgrade (http://www.magnificent7festival.org/en/) this text is written by festival directors Svetlana and Zoran Popovic about the film to be shown tonight at the Sava Center in Belgrade:

This year’s winner of Europe’s largest documentary film festival in Amsterdam, IDFA, without a doubt is one of the best documentaries produced in recent years. The initial idea of the author was to make a film about psychiatric institutions and patients in Russia, and even during the first researches suddenly appeared Oleg, a young man trapped by autism, and his mother convinced that her son can and should do more to improve his life. Especially when it comes to women. And Oleg begins long battles to learn how to become Don Juan, to pierce even a little the armor that safely shields him from the world and girls. The camera begins to follow his therapies that slowly multiply and start turning into an interesting odyssey – from conventional conversation, to shocking, grotesque procedures, and finally to making the theater.

Following his hero, Jerzy Slatkovski with his team, in which an

important role has brilliant cinematographer Wojciech Staron, manages to be present in moments of crisis, debates and quarrels, to capture moments of opening and closing of the main character, to capture his emotions and blockades, without ever endangering the intimacy of the situation, nor to exceed the invisible boundaries of participants’ dignity. While shooting this superb study of the human condition, the author and his film crew managed to achieve the ideal, unattainable request for filmmakers – they have become invisible.

The documentary by one of the masters of European documentary, directed intelligently and focused, with extremely subtle images of warm colors, with the camera that is always in pace with the events, with perfectly constructed internal rhythms, this Film, starting with the always interesting and intriguing view of the “Rain Man”, develops a deep, warm and touching story about the person, creating the true, brilliant and convincing film hero!

Director’s Word: The best stories usually result from coincidences, accidental meetings and good luck.
The first shooting period was a deep unprepared dive into the world of Russian psychiatric care, with no great expectations.
Russian producer Elena Petlarskaya and I happened to hear Oleg and his mother quarreling in a psychiatric clinic in Nizhny Novgorod about Oleg’s inability to fix up a date with a girl. We introduced ourselves and I shared some memories of my own romantic misfortunes – it was the beginning of a long-lasting friendship.

catndocs.com/index.php/categories/human-interest/744-don-juan

A comment on “Don Juan” on this site.

Sweden, Finland 2015, 92 minutes

Magnificent7 Belgrade/ Report 3

They got up from their chairs but did not leave right away, they stayed to honour the filmmaker, whose ”Mallory” had just ended. Helena Třeštíková received standing ovations for her film at the screening at the Sava Center, where it was number 3 of the 7 films selected for the Magnificent7 festival.

… and maybe also for her work in total – her unique method of long term observational documentary filmmaking that she talked so well about this morning at the masterclass for young filmmakers. Třeštíková brought clips from her films – to mention some: ”René”, ”Katka”, ”Marcela” – and raised the questions of ethical nature and basically how she establishes a contact/ an agreement with her protagonists. I have seen all three previous films mentioned before but the clips made me want to come back to them – they are all available on DocAlliance, link below, price for a film 2€!

Especially ”René”, about this intelligent young man, who goes in and out of prison, robs the home of the director at one point, tells her that in the beginning of their filming relationship (that has lasted 20 years!), he was a bit in love with her, that he has seen her more during the years than he has seen his mother… He is now out of prison, lives with a dancer and her child, a film star after he has been on television several times. (Czech television broadcasts her works in primetime).

Třeštíková is now working on 15 projects! Wow, what a filmmaker!

http://dafilms.com/search/?q=helena+trestikova

Jakob Brossman: Lampedusa in Winter

Taken from the site of the Magnificent7 festival in Belgrade (http://www.magnificent7festival.org/en/) this text is written by festival directors Svetlana and Zoran Popovic about the film to be shown tonight at the Sava Center in Belgrade:

Is there anything emptier than idyllic summer resorts in the wintertime? Jakob Brossman arrives with his crew, at such a moment of calm and low tide, when all small local problems become big events, and their main protagonists begin to resemble characters of Fellini films. On Lampedusa this is all tinged by the big, unwanted looming shadow, the drama and present of the People from the Boats, rescued in dramatic operations from storms and high seas, sometimes successfully, often not, but always at great risk. And to top it all off – discussions recalling the spirited traditions of the debate forums of the ancient world – can the fisherman survive, will Lampedusa get a ferry, what are the Africans doing in front of the church? With humor and conviviality of the Mediterranean spirit, with a lot of sound and fury, but with empathy and true understanding for the human condition. A story told in rich layers, of the clash of worlds – of Africa v. Europe, the island v. the mainland, provincial outposts v. the center, and inescapably poor v. rich.

It is certain that suffering and victims often cloud our view of the

saviors and those who welcome them, and Jakob Brossman chose to focus this documentary, about one of the greatest problems Europe is facing, through the unexpected prism of an inverted lens. Ironically showing us where the cameras “of the eyes of the world” are pointed and all the things this “all-seeing” gaze misses, the authors of the film observe carefully, analyzing even more carefully, and building a complex dramaturgical structure and composition. This specific and subtle approach allows for a unique insight into a phenomenon that has been dealt with countless time, leading towards a true culmination – an exceptionally exciting documented dramatic rescue operation in which for the first time we experience concern for all involved, for the equally endangered rescuers and drowning wretched of the sea.

A fantastic documentary of a developed spirited Mediterranean story which involves us deeper as we watch – we fear, we are entertained, we get angry, we scold and shout, we suffer and finally, all together we discover that behind it all stands a cold and distant, untouchable figure of power!

Director’s Word: Lampedusa is a beautiful place, a fantastic holiday destination; there are people there who understand life, even though at times they have to struggle with the very basics.

There are lots of camera crews on Lampedusa, especially in the period immediately after any tragedy. They generally adopt the same approach and ask the same questions. In our case, people noticed that we came in winter, and that we stayed – and if I asked any questions at all, they were not the usual ones. I had a fantastic interpreter; without her I wouldn’t have been able to overcome the language barrier. People came to appreciate the fact that we really wanted to understand the situation and the people.

www.lampedusaimwinter.derfilm.at

Austria, Italy, Switzerland 2015, 93 minutes

Magnificent7 Belgrade/ Report 2

Last night. Look at the photo – Sylvain Biegeleisen, director of ”Twilight of a Life”, is on stage with festival director Zoran Popovic in Belgrade before the screening of his film at the Magnificent7 festival in Belgrade. Biegeleisen is about to sing a Jacques Brel chanson to put the more than 1500 Belgraders present in the mood to be in the company with himself and first of all his mother for 71 minutes. He sings for her in the film that was received with applause for minutes. The well placed comment from my Serbian filmmaking friend next to me was like this, ”we are all crying”, right she was, from watching a woman at the end of her life full of wisdom and humour! There were noone rushing out of the cinema.

Biegeleisen had afterwards a packed Q&A session in the vip room of the Sava Center and this afternoon, in one hour, he will hold a masterclass for young and older filmmakers at the same place. I will report tomorrow about the many interesting comments that the director has conveyed and will come up with concerning his making of this wonderful work.

PS. A Sunday in Belgrade is not ”only” films… I started this morning being greeted by a young hotel receptionist, who said she had seen me several times on Serbien television. Proud I was, ”was it ok what I said”… until the answer came ”I don’t know, I watch tv without sound having music in my ears…”

PPS. And a tradition has grown: We go to the home of festival team colleague Nevena Donlic, an expert of tennis and admirer of – I am that as well now – Novak Djokovic, who played the Australian Open final against Scottish Murray, who as last year was beaten pretty easily by the Serbian phenomenon. Serbian brunch and television hospitality at its best, thanks.

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

Helena Třeštíková: Mallory

Colleague Allan Berg wrote a review of “Mallory” when it was shown at CPH:DOX, here is how festival directors Svetlana and Zoran Popovic introduces the film that will be shown at Magnificent7 tonight, taken from http://www.magnificent7festival.org/en/index.php:

The most recent documentary of one of the most important European authors of documentary film, awarded Grand Prix for Best Documentary at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival, made in the unique style of her most famous works, born over years of work. This time Helena Trestikova spent 13 years following and recording everything important happening to Mallory, a young, initially problematic girl, who goes on to become a mother before the camera, and struggles in clumsy and unusual ways to find her place under the sun. Despite temptations and weaknesses, she matures, stumbles and falls, but always finds the strength to pick herself back up again. Precisely in these moments of refusal to submit to despair, unusual twists occur, leading this film, one of a series of the best-known films of Helena Trestikova concerning young people left to fend for themselves on the streets, to gradually become a fascinating contemporary fairy tale told in the bitter tones of precisely documented reality.

Masterfully directed, analytical and empathic to its core “Mallory” reaches the pinnacles of verité documentary films. The film was shot by a total of six different cameraman, an unavoidable consequence of the vicissitudes of such a project, but it is astounding how the photography and camera retain their style, and the frames always appear though-out and precise, full of an authentic atmosphere of the filmed space and the lighting dispositions. The excellent editing of Jakub Hejna, a long-time collaborator of Trestikova, lends the films an extraordinary dynamism, while events and years fly before our eyes building a flawless dramatic composition of the film.

“Mallory” is a powerful testament of the wonders hidden in seemingly simple images of reality, which obtain their full meaning thanks to a unique insight, one capable of encompassing long periods in the life of the main character.

Director’s Word: We hope that our film can inspire the audience, who feel that they’re not doing well in their life. (And that can happen to almost everyone.) The message of the film is simple: change is possible and hope always exists.

negativ.cz/en/films/mallory

Czech Republic, 2015, 97 minutes

Magnificent7 Belgrade/ Report 1

12. Festival Evropskog Dugometraznog Dokumentarnog Filma… the Serbian language version for 12th European Feature Documentary Film Festival that started last night with the screening of German Kral’s ”Our Last Tango” – click on www.filmkommentaren.dk and watch the photo to see how many found their way to the Sava Center. It was record breaking, more than 2000, the first time that the balcony was opened – for the screening of a documentary. I do not recall if I have ever seen so many people gathered for a documentary screening. And judging from the applause that followed the screening the audience appreciated the choice of the lovely, spectacular, elegantly edited story about the fantastic tango dancers Maria Nieves and Juan Carlos Copes. Cinema!

And a love story difficult to make, German Kral told us at the Q&A session after the screening. Maria and Juan Carlos did at one moment not want to take part, then they changed their minds, then he found out that she had more pages in the script than him, and then she got angry watching the final film because a scene she loved was not there… it ended well, the film is there, the two masters are treated with respect and tango is being danced. Playful and joyful.

Yes, Belgrade is a city of art, a city of culture. In between tv interviews together with Svetlana and Zoran Popovic, I had time to celebrate Saint Sava’s Day, an exceptional exhibition of Russian avantgarde art, a tango concert with local Aleksandar Nikolic on bandoneon accompanied by a string orchestra – and of course visits to both classical and modern restaurants downtown and along the river.

www.magnificent7festival.org

Sylvain Biegeleisen: Twilight of a Life

Taken from the site of the Magnificent7 festival in Belgrade (http://www.magnificent7festival.org/en/) this text is written by festival directors Svetlana and Zoran Popovic about the film to be shown tonight at the Sava Center in Belgrade:

A refined documentary pearl, woven out of the finest strands that connect our inner worlds with the hidden, deepest worlds of others. A testament to a warm and fascinating communication with another being, within whom, thanks to the skill of the poet, we see a small but vigorous luminosity shining in all its power inside the body weaker than the frailest of birds. The mother of Silvain Biegeleisen, suddenly loses all physical strength at the age of 94, and he decides to spend with her and film her final days. And then a miracle happens, despite all prognosis – life refuses to bow to knowledge and begins to sing with a thin, but unstoppable voice. And an elegy, condemned to dark and narrow space suddenly, almost from the first, blossoms into a hymn to the fullness of life, the power of touch and pure emotion, an ode to joy and play, lengthening the days into weeks, weeks into months, and months into years.

Minimalist in its approach, made in black-and-white touched with

subtle, barely noticeable accents of color, this documentary, like poetry, manages to delight you completely and bring you in touch with important and unknowable secrets. “Twilight of a life” is certainly a testimonial to the extraordinary skill of a therapist and communicator with all those who need special attention and care, as well as a testimonial of a talented singer and musician, a charming master of play, who fully and uncompromisingly assumes the position of discrete and dancing shadow, one that fully traces the charismatic appearance of an irresistible woman, mother, grandmother, stuck between worlds at the crossroads of wisdom.

Winner of prizes for Best Belgian and Best Israeli documentary at the festivals in Leuven and Tel Aviv, this poetic film warns us that every moment is the one in which we might seek to better understand and feel others, in order to better understand and feel ourselves.

Director’s Word: If I had to define myself in a single word, I would choose “poet.”
Life has blessed me with diverse competencies for self-expression – poetry, photography, editing, directing, painting, writing, group coaching, to name a few…
I belong to that breed which believes that our own actions and work bring about social change, and that those actions are an inseparable chapter of the story of “humanity” and the “universe” in their entirety. I believe that we face a new age, within which art and spirit will occupy a significant space, will allow people to open their eyes and their hearts, and thus build a better world.

www.twilightofalife.com

“Twilight of Life”, review, Filmkommentaren.dk

On the director, from Filmkommentaren.dk

Belgium, Israel 2015, 71 minutes

German Kral: Our Last Tango

Taken from the site of the Magnificent7 festival in Belgrade (http://www.magnificent7festival.org/en/) this text is written by festival directors Svetlana and Zoran Popovic about the opening film, Friday January 29:

Buenos Aires nights echo with the sounds of the bandoneon, with stories of love, and with the unique and unmatchable beauty of tango. During such nights one of the greatest dancers in the history of tango, Maria Nieves, and her legendary partner, Juan Carlos Copes, share their memories with a group of young dancers and choreographers, who in turn convert their stories into breath-taking choreographies. These are stunning in their execution, not only supremely sophisticated and masterful, but also powerful in the emotions they embody with their movements. Before our eyes the dances transform into stories of love and passion, of tenderness and pain, of vulnerability and strength imbued by harmony

Masterful photography and camerawork, echoing unforgettable cinema cast a permanent spell with the scenes and images unfolding on the screen. Equally so, the close-ups of the two charismatic dancers, whose faces still radiate the fullness of emotion and dignity. Also extraordinary are the reconstructions of the milongas of Buenos Aires, those seminal events and places where energies crossed to create tango, where dancers’ steps wrote out its living history, whose essence the participants and authors of the film aim to reach. There is no doubt that German Kral is the ideal author of this documentary – Argentinian by birth, a European filmmaker by education and experience, and long-time collaborator of Wim Wenders, his professor at the Munich film school, whose influence extends beyond the role of executive producer on this film.

An exciting work which interweaves a dramatic love story with unforgettable inspired movements of tango’s finest dancers captured by fascinating and kinesthetic shots.

Director’s Words: When does a movie really start? I’m not talking about the moment when it’s projected on the screen, but when an idea begins to take shape. When it starts to conceive and develop, press and screams until it comes to life

I remember very well the first time I saw María Nieves in Buenos Aires. It was very late night and she was smoking a cigarette outside the milonga. I told her that I was preparing a film about tango and that I would like very much to talk to her…

Also I remember what I felt when I found and read the autobiography of Juan Carlos Copes. As I passed the pages of the book, I couldn’t get out of my head that in the film they had to be the two, Maria and Juan, the greatest tango dancers of all-time!

widehouse.org/film/our-last-tango

A point out on “Our Last Tango” in Filmkommentaren.dk

Germany, Argentina 2015, 85 minutes

Aslaug Holm: Brødre

Her på dette foto står filminstruktøren sammen med sine to medvirkende, det er hendes sønner, Lukas Holm Buvarp, tv og Markus Holm Buvarp, th. De tre står på en central location i filmen, familiens bådehus ved havet på dens sommersted i generationer. Gennem næsten ti år har de tre ind imellem og i perioder med mellemrum været filmholdet, de har desuden hele tiden haft faderen med i en vigtig birolle. Filmen skildrer de to drenges liv gennem årene, med hinanden, i deres familie, på dens plads i moderens slægt af fiskere ved havet. Aslaug Holms film handler nemlig også om hende selv som mor og som reflekterende filmkunstner. Fortællestemmen er hendes pesonlige, ind imellem kommer en af drengene ind. Dialogen er imidlertid filmen igennem drengenes. Fotografiet viser deres kontrakt, mellem en mor og hendes to store drenge, mellem en filminstruktør og hendes to medvirkende.

Filmen begynder i mørke, en drengestemme fortæller at ”der var ingenting i verdensrummet, der var bare én ting som kom, det var Gud. Og så skabte han Jorden. Og så skabte han to mennesker…”, og der klippes til et billede af havet i livlig blæst og en nær kysts pynt foran horisonten. De to drenge har evangelisters navne, og ”i begyndelsen var ordet…” Aslaug Holms og hendes to drenges film begynder med en skabelsesberetning og den fortsætter og udvikler sig lige så storslået som sin egen fortælling om tilblivelse, de to drenges og menneskets.

Billedet af havet er optaget fra bådehuset, det er sommer, en af de mange, vandet er nu roligt og venligt, drengene er yngre, de tager tøjet af, de vil øve sig i hovedspring. Den ældste, Markus, den udadvendte fører an. Lukas er tilbageholdende, tør ikke, Markus presser ham, men Lukas vender om og tager t-shirten på igen. De taler om at være bange og om at være modig og Markus giver Lukas oprejsning: ”Man skal være bange for at være modig.” Hvis man bare kan springe som han, er det ikke mod. Der kommer så filmens musik første gang og de er nu ude i den smukke klassiske klinkbyggede jolle, Markus ror, Lukas sidder i tanker og kigger ned på det strømmende vand omkring sin dyppede hånd. Som han i en scene senere vil vandre i ny sne ad sin skolevej på samme måde i egne tanker og med løs hånd stryge blød sne af gelændere han passerer. 

Jeg tror det var hele titelsekvensen og jeg ser, at Aslaug Holm så ordentligt og roligt her har lagt temaerne frem. Det her vil være en film hvor det hele er med: Og det skal være at det at lave film er en fortsættelse, en forlængelse af hendes families tilstedeværelse i livet. ”Hvad er meningen med livet?” spørger hun stille fra bag kameraet. ”Ja, det var jo et godt spørgsmål” svarer Markus. Lidt senere er det ham som spørger: ”Hvor stor er tanken? Er den større end hele verden?”

Både det med båd og hav og det med tænksomhed og filmfotografi hører til i moderens slægt. De var fiskere der på stedet. Men en af fiskerne lavede også film. Der er bevaret en dokumentarisk skildring af en hvalfangst, den klippes ind og fortællestemmen gør sig forsigtige tanker om Moby- Dick, den store fortælling om søfolk og den hvide hval, tanker om myter og eksistens, som ligger indlejret i slægtens liv. Et sted bemærker en af drengene let irriteret til moderen med kameraet: ” Hvorfor skal du hele tiden stille de der eksistentielle spørgsmål?” Hans brug af det ord på det sted er overraskende og bekræftende på én gang, en ægte dokumentarisk iagttagelse. Filmen består af sådanne lysende øjeblikke.

De ror atter i jollen. Og Aslaug Holm fortæller om sin fiskerslægt ved havet, alle mændene dengang var fiskere, alle drengene blev fiskere og igen er der scener fra familiens filmarkiv, men så klipper hun til nye optagelser af familiens skønne bolig fra engang, nu i et mærkeligt forfald, det bliver til sindbillede, og så fortæller en af drengene, jeg tror det er Lukas, om disse forbilledlige mænd, om engang deres trawler sank og de kun netop nåede i bådene alle sammen og billedsiden er den autentiske dokumentariske optagelse af dette forlis, hele det voldsmme forløb skildret af fiskeren som også var filmfotograf. Filmen består af sådanne poetiske fortællegreb.

De er pludselig store, de to drenge, anede voksne med en fremmed kejtethed i sig. Som større mister de vel for en tid det fornuftige barns umiddelbare charme. Den filmende mor erkender, hvad der er ved at ske og under en optagelse i køkkenet, hvor så meget af filmen foregår, protesterer den ældste. Efter næsten ti års arbejde med disse optagelser vil han ikke mere. Nu må de finde en slutning. Og moderen ved, at afslutningen er endnu mere omfattende, snart vil de løs. Flytte hjemmefra.

Og en sidste gang klipper hun optagelserne ude fra bådehuset ved havet, atter ror de jollen, nu som fine og flotte unge mænd, næsten. Og scenen fra begyndelsen fortsættes, der er flere optagelser fra dengang med udspringene, viser det sig og nu føjes den rigtige slutning til, den yngste bror sprang faktisk omsider i vandet den dag, han var modig. Fordi han var bange.

Brødre er et stort projekt der harmonisk som familien der gennemfører det velordnet og klogt hele tiden vender tilbage til de to drenges betingelser, nøje punkt for punkt låner deres omverdensforståelse netop der hvor den er i deres tilblivelser som voksende mennesker. De lærer det på den smukkeste måde, de inddrages i moderens arbejde, i hendes arbejdsverden og dens professionelle filosofiske og poetiske tænkning. Og moderens autorstatus i filmprojektet danner rammen om værket og skriver dets essay om moderrollen (faderens sideløbende arbejde med at fodboldtræne drengene kunne sikkert være en anden mester/lærling opdragelse som ramme, i en anden film ville det være det) her er det altså mere usædvanligt et kunstnerisk projekt, som essayet overvejer og fotografiet af de tre foran bådehuset bekræfter samarbejdet, hvad de har været enige om og deres overenskomst.

Aslaug Holm: Brødre, Norge 2015, 106 min.

SYNOPSIS

Brothers. The documentary answer to ‘Boyhood’. A poetic and worldly-wise film shot over eight years, as the Norwegian director’s two boys grow up.

Markus and Lukas are brothers and the sons of the Norwegian filmmaker Aslaug Holm, who over the course of more than eight years has filmed their childhood and youth from when they were five and eight years old. The result is an unusually poetic and almost epic home movie. And no, you don’t just make your own documentary version of ‘Boyhood’ from one week to the next! Big brother Markus loves soccer and is dreaming of playing at the top level in Liverpool FC, whereas little brother Lukas is less physical and more philosophically inclined. But then again, human nature is more complicated than that, and Aslaug Holm’s great talent comes through in the way she manages to show the tiny details that sometimes make way for big changes in the brother’s relation. And she doesn’t shy away from showing how the presence of her camera itself complicates the rules of the family game. Holm’s beautiful film takes part in the boys’ dreams and expectations with both tenderness and an adult eye, and follows the brothers all the way into the wildness of teenage life. You will recognise much from your own life, and be reminded of even more. (CPH:DOX)

CREDITS

Manus, foto og klip: Aslaug Holm. Medvirkende: Lukas Holm Buvarp, Markus Holm Buvarp. Produktion: Fenris Film.

BIOGRAFI

Aslaug Holm er instruktør, klipper, fotograf og medejer af produktionsselskabet Fenris Film. Som instruktør har hun ca. 20 dokumentarer bag sig, mens hun har filmet omkring 60, heriblandt Heftig og begeistret (2001) og Oljebjerget, som modtog filmkritikerprisen, FRIPRESCI, 2016. I 2015 vandt Aslaug Holm, som den første dokumentarfilminstruktør nogensinde, den norske filmpris Amanda, Bedste Instruktion for BRØDRE.

http://www.nfi.no/english/norwegianfilms/search/film?key=38484  (NFI, english)

NB

DOXBIO PREMIERE onsdag den 3. februar 2016 i hele landet i cirka 50 biografer:

http://www.doxbio.dk/kob-billet/