After the Emmy and European Film Academy nomination – other 6 films from DOK.Incubator are officially selected to Amsterdam – four of them are Eastern European!
The Prague based rough-cut workshop DOK.Incubator is experiencing its best festival season. Already in September, Dance for Me (DK), the film from its 2012 edition featured in the US by POV, has been officially nominated for Emmy 2015. Soon after, the nomination for the European Film Awards came for Drifter (HU), a debut of Gábor Hörcher, which has already won the Best First Appearance at IDFA 2014. Now, not only three of the eight 2015 projects, but also three films from the previous editions of DOK.Incubator are meeting in November at IDFA. In its four years’ history, DOK.Incubator has brought to the most important European documentary festival already 13 out of the total 32 films have competed in Amsterdam.
IDFA 2015 will open with A Family Affair /NL/, the personal struggle of the director Tom Fassaert (NL) with the femme-fatale of his family: the grandmother Marianne, who refuses to see him as a grand son – and not a potential partner. The film will compete in both: the Dutch and the feature-length competition. In the main category, the filmmakers will meet two colleagues from DOK.Incubator 2015: Ukrainian Sheriffs /LV, UA, DE/, following two local heroes, Victor and Volodya, appointed to keep the Order and Law in Ukraine, where even the police is not available, right now. Another film in the main competition will be Thy Father’s Chair /IT/, which tells the story of two Orthodox twins, living in New York, who have stopped throwing away anything, since the death of their parents. Now, their upstairs tenant threatens to stop paying them the only income, unless they get rid of all the accumulated stuff.
A personal fight with own past is the topic of The Life of a Butterfly /PL/, a film of the talented director Piotr Bernaś (The European Film Academy Award nominated Paparazzi). What happens if passion becomes an obsession, and love is overshadowed by ambition is an issue for the mid-length competition.
The DOK.Incubator collection at IDFA 2015 completes Holy Cow /AZ, DE, RO/ following Tapdig, an Azerbaijani, who’s is ready to risk the anger of own traditional community and challenges the conservative mentality by bringing to his picturesque village a European Cow. A comedy from a territory, where making any film means risking own security is featured at the First Appearance Competition. Outside the competitions, K2. Touching the Sky /PL/, the guest project of DOK.Incubator 2014 will appear at the Best of Fest section.
All the projects from DOK.Incubator 2015 are just before their completion and will be presented in two weeks, 28th October within the DOK Leipzig industry programme: at DOK.Incubator Preview.
