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20/04/2022 - The rough-cut training workshop has revealed the creative documentaries that have been selected for its 2022 edition
The dok.incubator rough-cut training workshop has unveiled the final selection of international documentary projects for its class of 2022. For the coming six months, the teams’ goal will be to improve the cut, dramaturgy and marketing strategy of each film, preparing them for their festival premieres in 2023.
“During the selection process, we searched for films reflecting the current social and political situation. I believe we have brought fresh and diverse perspectives on topics that carry an important message about the world today,” says Andrea Prenghyova, dok.incubator’s CEO.
The Czech project Blix by Greta Stocklassa, which has just been pitched in the Czech Docs… Coming Soon industry sidebar of the 2022 East Doc Platform (see the report), is among the selected creative documentaries. Stocklassa’s film features an intimate dialogue between the director and former UN chief weapons inspector Hans Blix, who was tasked with investigating the existence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Wartime history is also the subject of Vlad Petri’s work Between Revolutions, produced by Monica Lăzurean-Gorgan. The film is composed exclusively of archive images, most of them never seen before, mixing personal with official materials as it tracks the epistolary exchanges between two former university classmates, one Romanian and one Iranian, between the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran and the Romanian Revolution of 1989, with the Iran-Iraq War in the middle.
A trio of projects grapple with social issues and taboos, with intersexuality being the subject of Tunde Skovran’s Who I Am Not. The film follows the stories of national beauty queen Sharon Rose Khumalo and intersex activist Dimakatso Sibidi, who “emphasise the diversity of human existence, offering a new depiction of womanhood and femininity that speaks to people of all genders”. The Estonian-German project A Sad and Vulgar Loner, directed by Efthymia Zymvragaki, centres on an abusive man who becomes a critic of violence, “bringing a new perspective on violence and abuse, with a focus on the breaking of violent cycles and the urgent need for a healing process in society”. Italy’s Pure Unknown by Mattia Colombo unveils the valiant mission of a medical examiner who is striving to uncover the identity of undocumented bodies that end up on her autopsy table. A dysfunctional relationship is at the centre of the Polish project Man of Marble, directed by Szymon Kuriata: Magda is growing more and more frustrated that her partner, Remik, is not taking on his share of the daycare responsibilities for their four-year-old son. Remik decides to rectify his parenting and partnering errors by taking up a job as a construction worker and documenting it on his own YouTube channel, called Man of Marble, so that one day his son “can see that his dad is somebody”.
The selection of Slovak projects was announced previously. The 2022 edition involves four projects, including All Good Everywhere, co-directed by Debora Pastirčáková and Martina Buchelová, following youngsters as they grow up in the Slovak region with the highest unemployment rate, and the effects that this environment has on them. The remaining projects are also team efforts: Caution, Risk of Falling Exhibits! by Jana Durajová and Lena Kušnieriková focuses on the reconstruction of the Slovak National Gallery, which has been ongoing for more than ten years; directors Adam Šoltés and Matúš Chovanec have joined forces for City of Dreams, mapping life in one of the biggest Roma communities in Slovakia; and Sabina Pappová and Tomáš Bačo are co-directing On the Edge, which follows a Roma family up close and asks whether there is a way out of generational poverty.
The full list of the films selected for the 2022 dok.incubator international workshop is as follows:
Blix (Czech Republic/German/Sweden) Director: Greta Stocklassa Editor: Jorge Sánchez Calderón Producer: Petra Dobešová Production company: Pink Productions, sro
Between Revolutions (Romania/Croatia/Ireland) Director: Vlad Petri Editor: Cătălin Cristuțiu Co-editor: Andrei Gorgan Producer: Monica Lăzurean-Gorgan Executive producer: Elena Martin Production company: Activ Docs
Who I Am Not (USA/Germany) Director: Tunde Skovran Editor: Marianna Rudas Producer: Andrei Zinca Co-producer: Patrick Hamm Production company: Double 4 Studios Co-producer: Bulldog Agenda GmbH
A Sad and Vulgar Loner (Estonia/Germany) Director: Efthymia Zymvragaki Editor: Tin Dirdamal Producer: Patricia Sánchez Mora Production company: laudiovisual prod
Pure Unknown (Italy) Director: Mattia Colombo Editor: Valentina Cicogna Producer: Sebastiano Luca Insinga Production company: Jump Cut
My Missing Aunt (South Korea) Director: Juyeon Yang Editor: Duhyun Ko Producer: Sarah Kang Producer: Duhyun Ko Production company: Keumyoil Film Production
The Boy and the Suit of Lights (UK/USA) Director: Inma de Reyes Casas Editor: Nick Gibbon Producer: Ronny Merdinger Producer: Aimara Reques Production company: Rustic Canyon Pictures Co-producer: Aconite Productions Ltd
Man of Marble (Poland) Director: Szymon Kuriata Editor: Michał Poddębniak Co-editor: Patrycja Piróg Producer: Aneta Zagórska Production company: Film Kraków
The full list of the films selected for the Slovak edition of dok.incubator 2022 is as follows:
All Good Everywhere (Slovakia) Directors: Debora Pastirčáková, Martina Buchelová Editor: Katarína Pavelková Producer: Michaela Kaliská Production company: NINJA film
Caution, Risk of Falling Exhibits! (Slovakia) Directors: Jana Durajová, Lena Kušnieriková Editor: Alexandra Jonášová Producer: Ľubica Orechovská Producer/sales: Arkaitz Basterra Production company: PubRes Ltd
City of Dreams (Slovakia) Directors: Adam Šoltés, Matúš Chovanec Editor: Matúš Chovanec Producer: Lukáš Berberich Production company: Cinefil
On the Edge (Slovakia) Directors: Sabina Pappová, Tomáš Bačo Editor: Ivan Zmoray Producer: Tomáš Bačo Production company: ICAMS sro
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