“Nasim found us”
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Lilian from Guatemala hopes for a better life in the USA. Thus, the caravan with Lilian, her 4 children, her grandmother and the camera team begins the 4000 km long journey through Central America.
“Basically no sleep”
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Lilian from Guatemala hopes for a better life in the USA. Thus, the caravan with Lilian, her 4 children, her grandmother and the camera team begins the 4000 km long journey through Central America.
“I wanted to look behind his mask”
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In the documentary film “Jedermann und Ich”, the filmmaker Katharina Pethke searches for the “real self” of the actor Phillip Hochmair. We met filmmaker Katharina Pethke for an interview.
“There are also Arab Jews”
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In her feature film debut “May God Be With You”, Cléo Cohen embarks on a personal search for traces of her own identity and roots. The young Frenchwoman has an identity crisis: Is she Jewish? Arab? Even her grandparents seem unclear about this. Cléo struggles for clarity: intensely, playfully.
“Control is the biggest illusion of our existence”
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Since 2014 DOK Neuland is an essential part of DOK Leipzig. This year the Virtual Reality projects are shown under the titel: “No Chaos No Change”. We did the virtual experience for you:
“Those who come tell the truth are still not believed”
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Leaving home and family behind, Fati takes the difficult and dangerous journey to Europe to give herself and her children a better future. When she arrived in Italy, however, a lot was different from what she expected – a lack of prospects, racism and concern for her children finally drove […]
Grandfather Mao – a nickname of Mao Zedong
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The Chinese director came up with the idea for her film when she couldn’t pay in cash at the register, but only with her cell phone. Later, Tan Hang took a closer look at her 100 yuan banknote.
“I’m looking for a hero for my film”
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“What is the point of the film?” asks a passer-by. “I don’t know myself,” answers Pawel – though the question is not wrongly asked as at the beginning of the film “Balcony Movie” one wonders what do these people have in common.
“I could really be a kid once again”
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In the film “My Chambers of Wonders”, four children, who couldn’t be more different and wonderful, take us on a journey into their own world. We met the filmmaker from Leipzig, Susanne Kim, for an interview and asked her, among other things, what her personal Chamber of Wonders looks like.
Foreign language as a “quiet room”
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Together with its protagonist Aliona Gloukhova, the film “Our Quiet Place” explores the limits of memory and the possibilities of reconnecting with past. DOK Spotter Cassia has watched it for us.
“My step tracker is off charts!”
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Every year the DOK Spotters start the festival week with an interview with the director. This year Christoph Terhechte told us what is special about his second year at the festival, what he does during the week and which films we cannot miss at the 64th edition of DOK Leipzig.
“It made me more confident”
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The movie “mySELFie” tells about Maya, a girl who suddenly loses her hair when she is 12 years old. The DOK spotters have watched the movie