DOK.Incubator is bringing the talented newcomers onto the international stage again. On Wednesday, October 30th, DOK.Incubator Preview will be held at the DOK Leipzig festival. This year’s topic of the presentation, A Flash of the (his)STORY, marks the principle point of the workshop, which, in the long term, pushes film makers to reflect on the historical climate of the reality we live in in their stories.
The Agreement /DK/ is an exclusive insight into the diplomacy behind the scenes of the Kosovo conflict. Cardiopolitika /RU/ tells the Faustian story of a Russian cardiologist, who agrees to candidate for Putin in order to build up a better clinic for his patients. A tragicomedy Men with Balls /HU/, already selected for IDFA competition, follows a tiny Hungarian Roma village struggling for daily bread. Will the EU-funded tennis court do the trick there? Okhwan, in his Mission Impossible /SK/ fights for the reunification of Korea. He is not scared of a meaningful death, but of a meaningless life. The intimate yet disturbing Family Hole /CZ/ closely observes the struggle of one woman, her two husbands, four children, seven pigs and a herd of goats surviving on the last farm in the modern district of Kyiv. Where does the maternal love finish and manipulation start? 16 Years till Summer, however, goes through the painful return of a prodigal son to a small village in the middle the impressive Scottish loch landscape after 16 years in prison. The Life of a Butterfly follows the self-destruction of a fighter, who dreamed to reach the very top, but his body refuses to keep on fighting, and Chuck Norris vs. Communism blows the lid on an underground operation that took Romania by storm and played a crucial part in the 1989 Revolution.
In addition to the traditionally strong European team of lecturers, this year a notable US delegation has shown their presence at the DOK.Incubator. The workshop has launched a partnership with New York IFP (Independent Film Project) and in Leipzig, the first US film, In Country, will be presented. A deep journey into the world of the Vietnam War re-enacting reveals a disturbing question: if war is hell, why would anyone want to spend their weekends there? Since this year, IFP and DOK.Incubator are exchanging a participant project, one film from DOK.Incubator will be travelling to the Independent Week 2014.
The deadline for the 2014 edition of DOK.Incubator is March 3rd, 2014. The films with a rough cut ready by the start of May can apply on the webpage of the workshop, www.dokincubator.net
