“Where are you from? Do you have a home?” Sofia Brockenshire, the director of “The Dependents”, deals with this question in her film. Together with her family, she moved to a new country every few years until adulthood.
In her video diary the Ukrainian director Hanna Trofimova takes us into her life, in the midst of war. She shows images of fear and tells about the guilt she feels, leaving her homeland behind. We met her for an interview about her film “When will the Winter of 2022 end ?“
Kornelia und Karolina are aktivists from Poland. They try to provide refugees who want to flee from Belarus across the border to Poland with food, water, clothes and medicine. “Border Conversations” tells about their everyday life.
“What actually is squirting?” – this is how openly Grandma Sylvia and mother Janet talk to each other. For the lockdown, the two of them moved in together, to support each other. We met filmmaker Dana Reilly for an interview about her film “favorite daughter”.
For several years now, DOK Neuland, an exhibition for innovative virtual and augmented reality projects, is part of DOK Leipzig. We met with DOK Neuland Lars Rummel for an interview.
Christoph Terhechte is head of the DOK Leipzig for three years now. The DOK Spotters had the chance to interview him even before the official start of the festival.
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.
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.
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.
This year the Virtual Reality projects of DOK Neuland are shown under the titel: “No Chaos No Change”.
Leaving home and family behind, Fati takes the difficult and dangerous journey to Europe to give herself and her children a better future.
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.