Docs in Progress – Selected Projects 2018
8 feature documentary projects in post-production have been selected for the Docs in Projects 2018
BARACOA
by Pablo Briones & The Moving Picture Boys
Switzerland, Colombia, United States| 90’
Benjamin Poumey – C-Side Productions | Jace Freeman & Sean Clark - The Moving Pictures Boys | Liliana Díaz Castillo & Estephania Bonnett Alonso - Black Factory Cinema
Expected release: Summer/Autumn 2018
Leonel (9) and Antuán (13) live in a tiny village in the Cuban countryside. Hot Summer has come and they overcome boredom the best they can, in a world of their own. But while Cuba is going through a historical and transitional period, the two friends also come to a crossroads that makes them reconsider how they see the world and their future.
MY FATHER'S ACRES
by Carl Olsson
Denmark | 70'
Anne Köhncke – Final Cut for Real
Expected release: Summer/Autumn 2018
My Father’s Acres is a film about the landed gentry, battling on the border between history and modernity. With subtle humour, a strong sense for details and with striking visuals, it explores this tension, hereby examining time itself, and the human’s struggle against it.
JUST A GAME
by Daniela Lanzuisi
France | 58’
Thomas Ordonneau – Shellac Sud
Expected release: May - June 2018
A former lawyer helps a group of teenagers to act out justice in a role-playing game. The only thing “Law” means to them, is the institution that once placed them in the foster home they are living in. They will nevertheless become the actors of a trial in a real Criminal Court. How will they react now that it is up to them to deliver a verdict?
LEMEBEL
by Joanna Reposi
Chile, Colombia | 90’
Paula Saenz Laguna – Solita producciones
Expected release: November 2018
An intimate portrait of the writer and visual artist, Pedro Lemebel, pioneer of queer movement in Latin America. Was one of the first who shakes conservative chilean society post Pinochet's dictatorship. Through stinging performances and sharp tongue said what nobody wanted to listen in an homophobic, militarize and repressed country.
LAST NIGHT I SAW YOU SMILING
by Kavich Neang
Cambodia | 90’
Davy Chou – Anti-Archive
Expected release: December 2018
The White Building, an iconic structure in central Phnom Penh from 1963 and home to 493 families, faces demolition. Kavich Neang, a young lmmaker raised there, documents the nal days of its residents, most of whom have resided there for more than three decades. Kavich follows three families, including his own, packing their clothes and belongings, sharing their memories, expressing their anxiety and eventually moving out from the building, before its total destruction.
SPEAK SO I CAN SEE YOU
by Marija Stojnić
Serbia, Croatia | 75’
Marija Stojnic & Miloš Ivanović – Bilboke | Vanja Jambrovic & Tibor Keser - Restart
Expected release: Spring 2019
Set at the intersection of an observational documentary and an audio-visual experiment, this film connects the strangers from the opposite ends of the radio signal and reimagines the role of the old-school, live, spoken word radio in contemporary life.
THE ISLANDERS
by Stéphane Goël
Switzerland, Chile | 100’
Stéphane Goël – Climage
Expected release: September 2018
In 1877 a Swiss aristocrat, Alfred von Rodt, became the king of the Chilean island of Robinson Crusoe in the Pacific Ocean. He ruled for 30 years over a handful of fishermen, some goats, cows and thousands of seals. Nowadays his descendants still live there and they dream of becoming politically independent.
KONGO
by Hadrien La Vapeur, Corto Vaclav
France | 90’
Hadrien La Vapeur – Expédition Invisible
Expected release: June 2018
Nobody ignores the power of witchcraft in the Brazzaville’s neighbourhoods. The invisible world orchestrates the visible world. Apostle Médard’s mission is to fight witchdoctors who destroy people’s lives. To achieve this goal, he seeks to increase his power and earn more prestige. Until the day he is publicly accused to be a witchdoctor as well.
BARACOA
by Pablo Briones & The Moving Picture Boys
Switzerland – C-Side Productions
Colombia - Black Factory Cinema
United States - The Moving Pictures Boys
MY FATHER'S ACRES
by Carl Olsson
Denmark – Final Cut for Real
JUST A GAME
by Daniela Lanzuisi
France – Shellac Sud
LEMEBEL
by Joanna Reposi
Chile – Solita producciones
Colombia - Señal Colombia
LAST NIGHT I SAW YOU SMILING
by Kavich Neang
Cambodia – Anti-Archive
SPEAK SO I CAN SEE YOU
by Marija Stojnić
Serbia – Bilboke
Croatia - Restart
THE ISLANDERS
by Stéphane Goël
Switzerland, Chile – Climage
KONGO
by Hadrien La Vapeur, Corto Vaclav
France – Expédition Invisible