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If the UK holds a distinctive place in the history Welcome to the 2019 edition of Open City of non-fiction film, this is in part because of Documentary Festival. As a festival, we are the support from public subsidy throughout committed to creating a platform for non-fiction the twentieth century. For better or worse, that as an artform and seek to build a community Sponsors & Cultural Partners time is passing. A decade ago, when I began for those makers who weave their stories in the to formulate the idea that became Open City realm of the real. This year’s programme brings Documentary Festival, I was aware that should together a collection of documentary works that we wish to preserve the uniquely rich form of will provoke, move and inspire you. We continue storytelling that is non-fiction, we would need to interrogate the boundaries between fact and to begin exploring new forms of funding and fiction as well as the delineation between modes collaboration between different parts of society. - placing films, audio and cross-media projects in For us this meant working from within a great dialogue with each other. 2019 sees us looking university like UCL. forward, creating space for authored, urgent narratives, while contextualising these new voices Our festival is part of a new kind of ecosystem with historical work. in which education, production and exhibition THE BOTANIST ISLAY DRY G IN come together to support each other, and where This year’s film programme offers radical ways the work we promote and that of our students of representing reality and distinct perspectives is inspired by the research ambition of all those on the political and the personal. 2019 also around us. With new masters programmes sees the inaugural edition of our documentary launching soon in ‘Broadcast Documentary’ development lab, Assembly. Bringing together and ‘Audio’, and with our new documentary seven filmmaking teams from around the world, development lab, Assembly, Open City Docs’ the lab continues our work in supporting Programme Partners vision continues to expand. emerging voices in non-fiction storytelling.

Since the festival was launched I have been Forging a space for connection and communion, privileged to work with some of the most creative the festival exists to bring people together. and talented arts professionals in the city. Oliver This year our festival hub returns to The China Wright has accompanied us since our first few Exchange, walking distance to our five Central months, and Chloe Trayner, to whom I have London cinema venues. Our industry programme handed the directorship of the festival this year, offers an arena for debate and discussion about has shared much of our journey. Lately, I have non-fiction creative practices. Elsewhere, spent much of my time planning our move to Expanded Realities reimagines the intersection UCL’s new campus, which will include a cinema, of art and technology with our free exhibition of studio spaces and post production facilities, immersive projects and symposium, in partnership with connections to the creative and media with Digital Catapult. industries of east London. There, our aim is that different creative storytellers, young people We invite you to join us at our ninth edition to and communities can come together in the celebrate the art of non-fiction, past, present uniquely protected space of an institute of higher and future. Venue Partners education to find new ways to tell stories about the world we live in. It will create a new sort of cultural space for making, showing and talking together that lay at the origin of Open City Docs in 2011.

Michael Stewart – Director, Open City Docs Chloe Trayner – Festival Director Image: Vanishing City by Nie Lanshall

This unique practical MA programme is based out of UCL but run by leading film practitioners, offering high-quality practice-based learning in a top level university research environment.

Offers the choice of 5 Studios (‘Experimental & Cinematic Contents Non-Fiction’, ‘Documentary For Broadcast & Beyond’, ‘Cinematic Documentary Storytelling’, ‘UCL 360: Immersive Factual Storytelling (VR/AR)’, and ‘Narratives In Non-Fiction’).

Students will produce 3 non-fiction films in various modes, developing a diverse portfolio of work, before producing a graduation film of 15-25 minutes in length. 06-11 The 2019 Awards & Juries 61 Parties Students have their own camera equipment and editing suites year-round, and a dedicated senior mentor guiding 12-13 Opening & Closing Nights 62–63 Expanded Realities them through their final graduation film. 14-19 Zhao Liang: In Focus 64–69 Open City Docs School For more information please visit: opencitylondon.com/school 20–25 : In Focus 70 Tickets & Venues 26–45 Film Programme 71 Thanks

46–50 Special Events 72–73 Directory

51–60 Industry Events 74–75 Festival Schedule MA in Ethnographic and MA in Ethnographic Film Practice Documentary Anthropology UCL at

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A 2 year MFA providing all the technical and intellectual resources required to not just make About Us outstanding non-fiction moving image, but to discover new ways of looking at the world.

An advanced practical programme that also draws upon broad-based anthropological and critical thinking about the Open City Documentary Festival creates We aim to challenge and expand the social and cultural world. an open space in London to nurture and idea of documentary in all its forms. We champion the art of creative documentary provide a platform for emerging talent Students will leave with a deep practical knowledge of the craft of non-fiction filmmaking, and a mid-length (40mins+) feature and non-fiction filmmakers. as well as established masters working documentary film to their name. within the documentary form. Although Based at UCL and working with partners grounded in reality, the festival fosters a Taught by leading filmmakers: directors Sophie Fiennes across London and throughout the UK, Open spirit of experimentation and often blurs the (Grace Jones: Bloodlight & Bami, The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema), City Docs delivers training programmes, our boundaries between traditional dichotomies Kim Longinotto (Salma, Divorce Iranian Style), and producer Riete Oord (The Leader, His Driver and The Driver’s Wife). annual documentary festival, and live events of fact and fiction. Alongside our screening throughout the year to support the next programme, we bring together non-fiction For more information please visit: generation of filmmakers. storytellers and industry experts to explore and opencitylondon.com/school debate the current landscape of documentary. In 2019 we launched Assembly, a development lab for creative documentaries for international Open City Documentary Festival is a space for filmmakers working on their first or second feature. conversation, appreciation and examination. MFA in Creative in Creative MFA (Practical) Documentary Anthropology UCL at 7 Festival Awards & Juries Awards Festival Contemporary Art’ (2013), the co-editor of co-editor the Art’ (2013), Contemporary and (2016), Disciplines’ Across ‘Documentary such as magazines to contributor a frequent & Sound. In 2018, and Sight Frieze, Artforum, and the Prize a Leverhulme awarded she was the from award essay Singer Kovacs Katherine Studies. and Media Cinema for Society Steven Eastwood His is an artist-filmmaker. Eastwood Steven vulnerable encountering involve often projects The critically populations. and marginalised LFF and at screened (2018) ISLAND acclaimed in the UK. The sister released IFFR, and was is a (2017) and the Instant The Interval artwork commissioned video installation multiscreen (2010) Buried Land feature His first Fabrica. by Mumbai Moscow, Tribeca, for selected was nominated been has Eastwood and Goteborg. Eastwood awards. and Grierson the BIFA for Queen Mary at Practice Film of is Professor in London. and works London. He lives University (Jury photos read L-R mirroring the written bios) Lucy Cohen film- in documentary worked Cohen has Lucy as a initially training after 14 years for making and directing producing After journalist. print feature her first 4 and the BBC, Channel for by released Us, was Kingdom of documentary, Documentary Best won The film in 2017. for nominated was Festival, London Film at for nomination a BAFTA and received a BIFA short- makes also Debut. Lucy Outstanding and institutions artists charities, for work form screenplay. writing her first and is currently Erika Balsom Erika Studies in Film lecturer is a senior Balsom Erika College London. She is the author of King’s at and Video Film of A History Uniqueness: ‘After in Cinema ‘Exhibiting (2017), Art in Circulation’ Tabitha Jackson (Chair) Tabitha Film and the Documentary Jackson Tabitha are the at Sundance Institute Program filmmakers supporting non-fiction to dedicated cinematic of in the production worldwide compelling stories, tell that documentaries or address the form, push the of boundaries justice including social issues contemporary years 25 With almost rights. and human award-winning in the field, she is an experience and producer. director, Commissioning Editor, as served joining Sundance she recently Prior to in London. 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Festival Awards & Juries Awards Festival at Carthage. She is lecturer in Film Practice at Film Practice in She is lecturer Carthage. at London, and is also Queen Mary University, an organisation Arts, Highlight of co-founder of conflict. with in times artists works that Kevin B. Lee is a filmmaker and critic who has and critic who is a filmmaker Lee B. Kevin film and exploring essays 350 video over made The Premake media, including Transformers: the best one of named which was & Sound. Sight by 2014 of documentaries at the Harun Residence in Artist 2017 He was European in Berlin and 2018 Institut Farocki at m-cult in Resident Platform Media Artist and Editor Founding Helsinki. He was 2011-2016, from Fandor at Video Essayist Chief Ebert Presents Roger at supervising producer for The New written and has the Movies, At and Indiewire. & Sound, Slate Sight Times, York at Publishing Crossmedia of He is Professor Stuttgart. Merz Akademie, (Jury photos read L-R mirroring the written bios) Kevin B. Lee Edward LawrensonEdward London-based is a Lawrenson Edward at premiered (2018) Uppland filmmaker. Abandoned Goods whilst réel, du Cinéma the won with Pia Borg) co-directed (2015, International Best for Golden Leopard at and played Festival, Film at Short the Locarno He has written others. amongst Sundance, on & Sound, including Sight for publications film and International, and Screen Quarterly Film is & Sound. He Sight of deputy editor was and also Open City Docs UCL for at a Tutor University. Kingston at teaches Yasmin Fedda Yasmin Tereza Šimíková is the Head of CPH:FORUM, CPH:FORUM, is the of Head Šimíková Tereza and co-production financing main CPH:DOX’s Prague, FAMU, at graduating After platform. short documentaries several she directed Vit. She served Saint of including Double Life and dok.incubator of Manager as the Program Platform. Doc East of Industry the of Head Consultant, In as an International position her for strategies international tailors Tereza a US Awards, and Egg the Chicken of recipients filmmakers. female for fund international based programs organised has Jr. de Cuir Greg DC), (Washington Art Gallery of National at African of Museum (London), National ICA DC), (Washington and Culture History American Angeles Los (Brussels), Beaux-Arts des Palais Film Flaherty Festival, Film Locarno Filmforum, Oberhausen, York,Kurzfilmtage in New Seminar Museum Modern Art (Warsaw), of Museum Sad), (Novi Vojvodina Art Contemporary of and other Video (Belgrade), Film Alternative been commissioned His writing has institutions. London, and ICA Paris Pompidou Centre by Cut’, ‘Jump in ‘Cineaste’, and featured other and Margins’, ‘Art Journal’, ‘Millennium Film in Belgrade and works lives De Cuir publications. and translator. writer, curator, as an independent Yasmin Fedda is an award-winning documentary documentary is an award-winning Fedda Yasmin BAFTA been have films whose filmmaker Queens Sundance. at and screened nominated Abu at award Pearl the Black won Syria of Director Female and Best Festival Film Dhabi Tereza Šimíková (Chair) Šimíková Tereza Greg de Cuir Jr. Elections Belonging Alice Riff | 2018 | Brazil | 100’ | Brazil Alice Riff | 2018 Rosine Mbakam | 2018 | | 70’ | 2018 Mbakam Rosine Chez Jolie Coiffure Filmmaker Award Filmmaker Kavich Neang | 2019 | Cambodia, | 77’ | Cambodia, France | 2019 Neang Kavich Burak Çevik | 2019 | , Canada, France | 72’ France Canada, | Turkey, | 2019 Çevik Burak Emerging International Emerging Last Night I Saw You Smiling Last You Night I Saw

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OCDF 2019 10 13 Film Programme Film Tuesday 10th September 10th Tuesday The White Building in Phnom Penh, a large a large Building in Phnom Penh, The White built block originally apartment municipal and subsequently the Khmer Rouge by community, a thriving artistic of the centre and developers Japanese to been sold has demolition. Filmmaker for is scheduled in born and raised Neang—himself Kavich fellow interview to the building—returns up their pack belongings as they residents interweaves Neang eviction. for and prepare with reminiscences the and their reflections which the building to history national turbulent having tenants borne witness—the original has the Cambodian genocide during been evacuated the past of the ghosts the 1970s—invoking of walls. within the building’s reside still that Closing Night: Night: Closing Kavich Neang, 2019 2019 Neang, Kavich Cambodia, France 77’ 10th 19.00 Sept, Tue Cinema Street Regent Last Night I Saw You Smiling You I Saw Night Last Director Country Duration Date/Time Location In partnership with Day for Night Films. for Night with Day In partnership A public high school in São Paulo is preparing is preparing in São Paulo A public high school council elections. the upcoming student for alliances halls, and school In the classrooms on their based pick sides and students form Four their education. of the future for hopes their canvas strategies, campaign plan teams with the walls and plaster students, fellow the nears, As the polling day their slogans. the student reveal public debates heated visions. and shared differences political body’s with and humour, compassion Observed spirit of is imbued withElections the youthful the to its up a mirror while holding subjects turmoil. wider political country’s Elections Opening Night: Night: Opening Alice Riff, 2018 Alice Riff, Brazil 100’ 4th 18.30 Sept, Wed Soho Curzon Director Country Duration Date/Time Location

Wednesday 4th September 4th Wednesday OCDF 2019 12 In Focus: Zhao Liang Introduction

Zhao Liang is one of China’s most celebrated documentary artists and a key figure within the independent documentary movement that developed in the country at the turn of the century. His work spans cinema, video art and installation and has been presented at festivals and exhibitions worldwide. This programme brings together three essential early works: Paper Airplane (2001), Crime and Punishment (2006) and Petition (2009). Produced concurrently over the course of a decade, these raw, uncompromising films depict life on the outer margins of Chinese society, detailing, with unflinching honesty, the harsh realities of daily life for the country’s most disenfranchised and persecuted people. In Focus: Zhao Liang Films

Crime and Paper Airplane Petition Punishment (In partnership with Chinese Visual Festival) Please note that this film contains scenes of intravenous drug use that some viewers might find distressing.

Director Zhao Liang, 2007 Director Zhao Liang, 2001 Director Zhao Liang, 2009 Country China Country China Country China Duration 122’ Duration 77’ Duration 124’ Date/Time Thu 5th Sept, 18.30 Date/Time Sat 7th Sept, 12.30 Date/Time Sun 8th Sept, 16.30 Location ICA Location Prince Charles Cinema Location ICA

In this masterful observational work, Zhao For this remarkable early feature, Zhao Filmed between 1996 and 2008, Zhao Liang records life inside a remote military Liang embedded himself amongst a Liang’s magnum opus follows those who, police station in Northeastern China. group of down-and-out young punks, having suffered abuses at the hands of The officers rule the inhabitants of the living in Beijing at the tail end of the 20th local governments, travel to Beijing to impoverished town with an iron fist, century. Outcasts and misfits, these petition the court of complaints. Forced employing cruel and unscrupulous tactics friends travelled from across China in to wait indefinitely for an official in their attempts to resolve even the most search of new freedoms; looking to hearing, many end up living in a nearby minor infractions, but their brutality is often form bands and live bohemian lifestyles. shantytown known as ‘Petition Village’. matched by comic levels of confusion and However, with the transition towards Hopeless, lonely and far from home, the ineptitude. Laced with moments of surreal democracy underway and the old petitioners must endure dire living satire, Crime and Punishment offers a socialist support systems starting to break conditions and threats from hired thugs harrowing look into the machinations of down, they find themselves increasingly in their seemingly endless search for low-level law enforcement in the world’s adrift; marginalised, drug-addicted, and justice. A modern classic of Chinese largest authoritarian state, revealing the out of control. Paper Airplane is a potent documentary, Petition is an unflinching methods police use to coerce suspects to and visceral vision of a wayward, reckless depiction of the powerlessness of confess crimes – and the consequences youth struggling to find a place in a individuals in the face of the cruel “[Zhao Liang] display[s] a bond and intimacy with his subjects, shared in the glances and moments of recognition that cut through a handheld, observational style.” when such techniques backfire. rapidly changing China. indifference of the state. In Focus: Zhao Liang The Power of Being Seen, by Carol-Mei Barker

A man listens helplessly as his in the glances and moments of recognition son talks about the pain of heroin addiction. that cut through a handheld, observational Turning to the filmmaker he says: “our style. Paper Airplane was his first feature country needs to see this”. Referring to the length documentary; completed in 2001 after wider social problems framing the lives of a five years spent forming a close relationship group of young drug addicts in Zhao Liang’s with a group of young heroin addicts living Paper Airplane (2001), the man highlights on Beijing’s societal margins. His interest a problem of concealment in China, where was initially the city’s emerging punk rock state sanctioned media heavily controls scene, but was drawn to the lives of these the national image. In Zhao’s documentary young adults whose brutal, self-destructive Petition (2009), a community of homeless cycle of drug-use is made more devastating petitioners appealing injustices ranging by their dreams of experiencing a new China from land-grabs to murder, are also rendered that promises more, or as one subject puts it invisible due to their dissident status. As “that one small chance to fly”. such, they speak to Zhao’s camera with Despite his interpersonal an anger and urgency that suggests a true style, much like the wider Documentary understanding of the power of being seen. Movement his focus remains on institutional Better known for his more recent spaces, and the power structures within. feature Behemoth (2015), a poetic visual Crime and Punishment (2007) observes a small interpretation of Dante’s ‘Divine Comedy’ group of military law enforcers policing a and ode to the industrial workers of rural village on China’s border with North Korea, China, Zhao Liang’s earlier documentaries as they arrest and violently interrogate petty spanned from the mid nineties to the late thieves and people barely surviving on the 2000s. During this time the filmmaker played brink of poverty. Themes of violence and a pivotal role in the evolution of China’s ‘New fear are presented with complexity: spectres Documentary Movement’, from the earlier, of a history of state militarisation loom in stoically observational styles seen in films cutaways from the drama of the interrogation by Wu Wenguang and Zhang Yuan, to a more room to arbitrary routine police procedures complex and interpersonal style favoured by – marching, gun cleaning. The men are directors such as Ou Ning and Ai Xiaoming; soldiers, but are also vulnerable and fallible; a style that has been termed “ethically victims of the same regime they uphold. In reflective” due to the filmmakers’ direct Petition, Zhao persistently returns to Beijing’s involvement in the lives of their subjects. makeshift “petition village” for almost In his early films, Zhao’s preoccupation is twelve years to make visible what Chinese those trapped within spaces of control – authorities sought to hide. Receiving no petitioners seeking justice; military police official media coverage the petitioners perpetuating a cycle of poverty-inducing hold their written signs of appeal up to laws - lives shaped by socio-political changes Zhao’s camera; a testament to the power of beyond comprehension and reason. His films documentary and the power of being seen. are characterised by encounters that are Kazuo Hara: Shoes Still On “ethically reflective” because they display a –Carol-Mei Words by Barker Julian is aRoss writer, filmmaker, & researcher bond and intimacy with his subjects, shared specialising in independent Chinese cinema. In Focus: Naomi Kawase Introduction

Born and raised in Nara, Japan, Naomi Kawase graduated from Visual Arts Osaka in 1989. With her first fiction feature, Suzaku (1997), she became the youngest filmmaker to receive the Caméra d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival; whilst the Nara-set The Mourning Forest (2007) won the Grand Prix there, inspiring her to return to her hometown to found the Nara International Film Festival. Her acclaimed fiction work has become internationally renowned, but this special focus programme offers an incredibly rare opportunity to see the personal documentaries that Kawase has made throughout her career - several series of films that explore themes of identity, family and intergenerational relationships.

Presented in partnership with Japan Foundation. Background Image ©︎ Kumie Inc. In Focus: Naomi Kawase Films

Embracing + Katatsumori Birth/Mother Sky, Wind, Fire, + See Heaven + Extended Water, Earth + Chiri Conversation

Director Naomi Kawase Director Naomi Kawase Director Naomi Kawase Country Japan Country Japan, France Country Japan, France Duration 90’ Duration 95’ Duration 43’ Date/Time Sun 8th Sept, 13.30 Date/Time Sun 8th Sept, 16.00 Date/Time Mon 9th Sept, 18.30 Location Regent Street Cinema Location Regent Street Cinema Location Curzon Soho

In these two deeply personal films, Naomi This triptych of moving tributes from Naomi About to give birth to her own child, Kawase reflects on her relationship with her Kawase creates an affectionate portrait of Naomi Kawase turns her camera back on father, absent throughout her childhood. her bond with her great-aunt who adopted to her adoptive mother and great-aunt Embracing (1992) revolves around Naomi’s and raised her. Capturing her lovingly in this riveting examination of family, search for her father despite her adoptive with close up Super 8mm photography, motherhood and the female body. An mother’s discouragement and her own Katatsumori (1994) introduces us to Uno intensely intimate and candid film, Birth/ doubts about what she might find. Combining Kawase as she enters her eighties. A Mother (2006) captures images of her nostalgic home movies and handheld Super recurrent figure in all of Kawase’s personal great-aunt’s ageing body while Kawase 8mm footage of nature, Kawase weaves documentaries, Uno remains kind, good- reflects on her own journey to becoming together an achingly beautiful search for humoured and devoted to her adoptive a mother. The film offers a more complex identity and the true meaning of family. Sky, daughter, and See Heaven (1995) offers an portrayal of the relationship between Wind, Fire, Water, Earth (2001) chronicles intimate, experimental collage of images the two women than Kawase’s earlier Naomi’s reaction to her father’s death a dedicated to the playful but tender shorts, but the connection between them decade later, drawing lifelong connections relationship between the two. In Chiri (2012), remains undeniable. Naomi Kawase will between her original search, her childhood with we witness Uno’s daily routine as she nears her join us after the screening of the film for her adoptive parents and her unfulfilled final days and Kawase grapples with coming an extended in-conversation event. “Kawase’s films revolve around her sense of dislocation and not “Kawase’s films revolve around movies.” belonging, and as such are, in essence, road longing for a relationship with her birth parents. to terms with her great-aunt’s passing.

Image ©︎ Kumie Inc. Image ©︎ Kumie Inc. Image ©︎ Shunji Dodo In Focus: Naomi Kawase Rupture & Healing, by Ela Bittencourt

Naomi Kawase recorded her loneliness. She evokes it numerous times. family passionately, at times with rancor but In the short, See Heaven (1995), a song in the always with sincerity, for over thirty years. voiceover asks why a turtle (an animal with At the root of her obsession lay a double a shell) must be so slow, the slowness with absence: her mother left her in the care of which grief catches up to us, and of recovery, her great aunt when Kawase was a child; she by now an established theme; and again in didn’t know her father until her adulthood. Sky, Wind, Fire, Water, Earth (2001), in which This abandonment fueled Kawase’s Kawase finds herself feeling dejected and experimental work in Super 8 and 16mm, lonely, despite her commercial success. in which melancholy and a desperate search If her previous films were gestures for one’s origins, but also, increasingly, the of reconciliation, Birth Mother (2006) is affirmation of ties beyond the parental ones, Kawase’s protest-film. In it, despite filming became crucial themes. intimate scenes with her great aunt, Kawase Kawase’s films revolve around also gives vent to the years when she felt her sense of dislocation and not belonging, unloved. Morbidity and pain resurge, as and as such are, in essence, road movies. they did in Sky, Wind, Fire, Water, Earth, in Embracing (1992) is a travelogue and a diary. which in one crucial scene, Kawase gets a Kawase collages images of home—sun-filled tattoo, even though she knows that the new rooms, flowers, the food being cooked and permanent marks on her skin will forever served—with fleeting snapshots of cities evoke a father she never truly had. And so, she visits during her search for her father. in Kawase’s filmography, grief emerges as a The voiceover injects the film with further potent natural force. It sweeps and propels tension and doubt. On one hand, Kawase her until, in her last film dedicated to her revels in being alive—“this may not be the great aunt, Chiri (2012), it finally brings place where my mother used to live,” she about a restoration. It is only in Chiri that says in one scene, “but there’s the light and we fully note the comforting hum of the the wind”—yet on the other hand, questions film projector—a reminder that in her film- her mother’s keeping the pregnancy. She diaries, Kawase transmutes anguish and then relates the final father-daughter rupture into healing. meeting with a phone call, and ends her film abruptly, without a resolution. Ela Bittencourt works as a critic and programmer This cathartic suspension carries in the USA and Latin America. She publishes over into her subsequent films. Katatsumori in various publications inc. Film Comment, Frieze, (1994) offers a rare chance for Kawase to Artforum and Hyperallergic, and runs a film get closer to the great aunt who raised her, site, Lyssaria. but who appears to have been emotionally aloof when Kawase was a teenager. The gardening sessions, captured on film, are a rapprochement. Meanwhile, the film’s title, which Kawase invented, playing on the word, “snail,” thinking of a shell as a kind of imperfect home, hints at her perennial

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Film Programme Film Wednesday 4th September 4th Wednesday

A public high school in São Paulo is preparing is preparing in São Paulo A public high school council elections. the upcoming student for alliances halls, and school In the classrooms on their based pick sides and students form Four their education. of the future for hopes their canvas strategies, campaign plan teams with the walls and plaster students, fellow the nears, As the polling day their slogans. the student reveal public debates heated visions. and shared differences political body’s with and humour, compassion Observed spirit of is imbued withElections the youthful the to its up a mirror while holding subjects turmoil. wider political country’s

Elections Opening Night: Night: Opening Alice Riff, 2018 Alice Riff, Brazil 100’ 4th 18.30 Sept, Wed Soho Curzon Director Country Duration Date/Time Location Film Programme Thursday 5th September Thursday 5th September

Shorts: 29 28 Labour/Leisure

Midnight Family Crime and Punishment

Director Luke Lorentzen, 2019 Director Zhao Liang, 2007 Country USA Country China Duration 81’ Duration 122’ Date/Time Thu 5th Sept, 18.30 Date/Time Thu 5th Sept, 18.30 Location Curzon Soho Location ICA

The Ochoa family careen across City in In this masterful observational work, Zhao pursuit of accidents and crime scenes. Soaked Liang records life inside a remote military in the red and blue lights of their private police station in Northeastern China. Date/Time Thu 5th Sept, 18.15 Image: Labour/Leisure ambulance’s sirens, the family must dodge The officers rule the inhabitants of the Location Prince Charles Cinema the police and navigate standstill traffic while impoverished town with an iron fist, employing racing their competitors to the incident. In a cruel and unscrupulous tactics in their Play can sometimes require an inordinate Please be advised that a film within this city that operates less than 45 government- attempts to resolve even the most minor amount of work. The uncomfortable and programme contains images of dead jellyfish run ambulances for the city’s population of 9 infractions, but their brutality is often matched increasingly liminal spaces between labour which some viewers may find distressing. million, the for-profit first responders provide by comic levels of confusion and ineptitude. and leisure are brought into focus within this a crucial stop-gap for the critically injured Laced with moments of surreal satire, programme of shorts. Total runtime: 91’ patients that they care for. Midnight Family Crime and Punishment offers an unflinching invites us along for the ride as the family look into the machinations of low-level grapple with the financial stresses and moral law enforcement in the world’s largest dilemmas of offering a vital service within a authoritarian state, revealing the methods Labour/Leisure Country Girl broken system. police use to coerce suspects to confess Ryan Ermacora, Jessica Johnson | 2019 | Canada | 19’ Ellen Evans | 2019 | UK | 14’ crimes – and the consequences when such techniques backfire. All Inclusive The Circle Corina Schwingruber Ilić | 2018 | Switzerland | 13’ Lanre Malaolu | 2019 | UK | 15’

The Blessed Assurance Deeper Vibrations Isabelle Carbonell | 2018 | USA | 22’ Dorothy Allen-Pickard | 2019 | UK | 8’

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Many Undulating Taste of Hope The Hottest Caballerango Things August

Director Bo Wang, Pan Lu, 2019 Director Laura Coppens, 2019 Director Brett Story, 2019 Director Juan Pablo González, 2018 Country USA, South Korea, Country Switzerland, Country USA, Canada Country Mexico Hong Kong, China Duration 70’ Duration 94’ Duration 61’ Duration 126’ Date/Time Thu 5th Sept, 20:30 Date/Time Fri 6th Sept, 18.30 Date/Time Fri 6th Sept, 18:30 Date/Time Thu 5th Sept, 20.30 Location Bertha DocHouse Location Curzon Soho Location Bertha DocHouse Location Regent Street Cinema Is there a viable alternative for commerce “How are you feeling about the future?” Filmed After Nando—a young horse-wrangler from a A rich and expansive film essay in many to that offered by capitalism? Taste of in New York City over a single summer month, small farming town in the Mexican state of forms, Many Undulating Things explores Hope offers one possibility in the form of a Brett Story’s dystopian sci-fi documentary Jalisco—takes his own life, his surviving family contemporary Hong Kong through its history tea factory in France owned by a workers’ paints a complex portrait of a city straining and neighbours retrace his final hours, slowly of urban change. Formerly a British colony and collective. After spending years struggling to under the pressure of economic uncertainty, piecing together the events that led to his death. now a Special Administration Region in China, gain control from Unilever, they now face a social conflict, and impending environmental His village is no stranger to tragedy, having Hong Kong has been passed back and forth new challenge as their idealism clashes with disaster. Labelled as “a film about climate witnessed a spate of suicides amongst its young between imperial powers of East and West for the harsh realities of the market. An elegantly change, disguised as a portrait of collective inhabitants in recent years, upon whom the centuries. Through a forensic examination of crafted observational film, Laura Coppens’ anxiety”, the film’s series of unpredictable effects of rapid modernisation and ensuing its unique urban topography, filmmakers Bo attentive anthropological feature guides encounters with New Yorkers across the economic hardship have placed particular strain. Wang and Pan Lu shift the form of their film us through the factory floor into general city reveal a community gripped by fears Juan Pablo González—who himself grew up within to draw connections across time, finding in assemblies and out into the supermarket, for a turbulent present and an even more the community—patiently recalls the lost through the ghost houses, shopping malls, convention as the collective try to reconcile their utopian precarious future. Yet, amidst this climate of the memories of those they left behind, crafting a centres and skyscrapers of the capitalist present vision of communal existence with the ever unease, Story finds warmth, humanity, and quietly devastating study of a grief-stricken town. remnants and residues of a colonial past. present stress of the bottom line. perhaps even some hope. Please be advised that this film contains In partnership with The Essay Film Festival. Supported by the Embassy of Switzerland discussion of suicide that some viewers might in the UK. find distressing.

Screens with: Las Nubes Juan Pablo González | 2018 | Mexico, USA | 20’ Supported by the Embassy of Mexico.

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No Data Plan Belonging Paper Airplane Greetings From Free Forests

Director Miko Revereza, 2019 Director Burak Çevik, 2019 Director Zhao Liang, 2001 Director Ian Soroka, 2018 Country USA Country Turkey, Canada, France Country China Country USA, , Croatia Duration 70’ Duration 72’ Duration 77’ Duration 99’ Date/Time Fri 6th Sept, 18.45 Date/Time Fri 6th Sept, 20.30 Date/Time Sat 7th Sept, 12.30 Date/Time Sat 7th Sept, 13.30 Location ICA Location Regent Street Cinema Location Prince Charles Cinema Location Regent Street Cinema

“Mama has two phone numbers. We do not Everybody has their own tragedy. An opening For this remarkable early feature, Zhao Liang In his debut feature, Ian Soroka creates a talk about immigration on her Obama phone. monologue, accompanied by a series of embedded himself amongst a group of down- hauntingly atmospheric study of the southern For that we use the other number with no precise, pristine and entirely people-free and-out young punks, living in Beijing at the tail Slovenian landscape that was once the data plan.” In his accomplished first feature, images, details a premedidated murder - a end of the 20th century. Outcasts and misfits, site of one of World War II’s most stubborn undocumented filmmaker Miko Revereza familial affair told in the first person, voiced these friends travelled from across China in resistance movements. Following German depicts a train journey he took across America by the filmmaker himself. From here, an search of new freedoms; looking to form bands and Italian occupation of Slovenia, thousands last year. Utilising a potent mix of discreet extended, elegantly lensed exchange between and live bohemian lifestyles. However, with the were forced to flee their homes, eventually recordings, sound design, on-screen subtitles two key participants in this crime plays out, its transition towards democracy underway and seeking refuge in the forests of Yugoslavia and instagram stories, the film successfully charming contours charged by the viewer’s the old socialist support systems starting to where a communist-led resistance movement reflects its maker’s lived experience, but also understanding of where this newly blooming break down, they find themselves increasingly known as the Liberation Front would operate that of the millions of other marginalised relationship will lead. Belonging, the second adrift; marginalised, drug-addicted, and out of in secret for almost two years. Soroka people whose every movement is similarly feature from new Turkish talent Burak Çevik, control. Paper Airplane is a potent and visceral artfully interweaves archival material with imperilled. Both scintillating observational is a startling, impressively playful piece of vision of a wayward, reckless youth struggling rich landscape photography and evocative study and politically charged personal autofiction; a compelling, cleverly constructed to find a place in a rapidly changing China. testimony from survivors, historians, and documentary, No Data Plan is a travelogue exercise in reframing and restaging the naturalists to excavate the traces of memories of an altogether different kind. unknowable peripheries of the past. Please note that this film contains scenes of and unearth the remains found beneath the intravenous drug use that some viewers might forest floor. Screens with: Dear Santo Toribio [Audio] find distressing. Sarah Geis | 2013 | USA | 5’ In partnership with Chinese Visual Festival. In partnership with MUBI. Screens with: City Scene Zhao Liang | China | 2005 | 23’ OCDF 2019 Film Programme 34 Supported by Austrian Cultural Forum London. capital andpeoplein a globalised economy. ever-increasingand the circulation of goods, and touching reflection on labour, industry at work, gradually developing into aprofound rhythms subtle the andgestures of his subject deeply engaged,humane observation captures export to his native Nigeria.Brameshuber’s solitary labour, breaking down cars for parts to Ancient Rome, hisdays are spent inquiet, ‘mountain of iron’ that has beenmined since Austrian Alps. shadow Inthe of Erzberg, a abandoned industrial site foot at the of the a self-taught mechanic working inaremote, elegantly composed, multi-layered portrait of Sebastian Brameshuber’s third feature isan OCDF 2019 Nearby Mountain Movements of a Saturday 7thSeptember Location Date/Time Duration Country Director ICA Sept,Sat 14.45 7th 85’ Austria Sebastian Brameshuber, 2019 Action Pyramid |UK2018 |7’ Screens with:Sighting [Audio] tragicomic countdown to extinction. The Last MaleonEarth isamoving, of ourown rapacious greed andegotism. majestic, agrand monument to true cost the humanthis circus stands Sudan,weary but chancethe to hear hisstory. At centre the of whilst tourists stand inlinefor photos and keepers, journalists, salesmen andscientists, armed guards andsurrounded by acoterie of protective custody underaconstant watch of debut feature depicts hislast days, spent in Floor van derMeulen’s precise, compelling male white northern rhinoceros left on earth. In March 2018, Sudandied.Hewas last the on Earth The Last Male Location Date/Time Duration Country Director Curzon Soho Sept,Sat 15.30 7th 72’ Floor van derMeulen,2019 Chiemi Shimada |2019 |Japan, UK|13’ Chiyo Rolla Tahir |2018 |Canada, Egypt |6’ Sira Diana Allan |2018 |Lebanon, Canada |24’ So Dear, SoLovely Yaser Kassab |2019 |Syria |19’ I Have IHave SeenNothing, SeenAll portraits. Total runtime: 79’ collection ofthis personal, intimate shortfilm expressed through movement andtravel in Individual andcollective identities are Location Date/Time Regent Street Cinema Sept,Sat 16.10 7th I Have SeenNothing, I Have SeenAll Shorts: Shorts: Rhea Storr |2018 |UK12’ A Protest, ACelebration, AMixed Message Stroma Cairns|2019 |UK5’ If You Knew Sayre Quevedo |2017 |USA |13’ Espera [Audio] A Protest, ACelebration, AMixed Message Image: Saturday 7thSeptember

Film Programme 35 37 Film Programme Film Saturday 7th September 7th Saturday Lucy Parker, 2019 2019 Parker, Lucy UK 76’ 7th 20.50 Sat Sept, Cinema Street Regent Director Country Duration Date/Time Location Solidarity is a rigorous, impassioned impassioned Solidarity is a rigorous, of impact the long-lasting into investigation a industry; in the UK construction blacklisting which thousands through illegal process now for denied employment were workers of in workplace involvement tenuous even Through union activism. and trade disputes interviews, worker of structure a composite the parliamentary from footage archival contemporary school’s and a law inquest, the examines carefully Parker investigations, as she angles of a multiplicity from situation explain, than rather understand, to seeks and itsthe agendas underlying the Blacklist A consequences. continuing reaching, far into enquiry powerful immensely yet spare of dismantling and ideological the systemic in the UK. rights workers’ Kevin B. Lee, 2018 Lee, B. Kevin Germany 60’ 7th 19.00 Sat Sept, ICA Director Country Duration Date/Time Location Kevin B Lee / Harun Farocki GbR B Lee / Harun Farocki Image ©︎ Kevin Harun Farocki (1944-2014) produced over over produced (1944-2014) Farocki Harun but and video art, television film, of 120 works on the media landscape impact his immense Following appreciated. be fully to yet has of artist-in-residence as the first his tenure in Institut Farocki Harun formed the newly video of a series Lee produced B. Berlin, Kevin The the Goethe-Institut. for on Farocki essays strategy own Farocki’s adopt video essays the explore to images” studying “images of applying such formidable oeuvre, own artist’s documentary as desktop approaches novel This screening lexicography. and videographic works with key the video essays matches career. decade five Farocki’s spanning London. by the Goethe-Institut Supported Images Studying Studying Images Images: Farocki Lee on Harun B. Kevin Priya Sen, 2018 Priya India 70’ 18.35 7 Sept, Sat Cinema Street Regent Director Country Duration Date/Time Location Yeh Freedom Life Freedom Yeh Filmed over the course of a year in Ambedkar in Ambedkar a year of the course over Filmed area class working largely a dense, Nagar, moves Life Freedom in South Delhi, Yeh of its worlds different very the two between feverishly Sachi and Parveen, protagonists, and swings up with the currents keep trying to a local at Sachi works loves. their respective of small the runs family’s Parveen parlour; beauty intersection. at a crowded counter cigarette Delhi- city, a cacophonous by Surrounded charts Sen their pursuit Priya filmmaker based lives” Sachi, their “freedom to according of, the constant outside of – an open existence family. and society of and sanction scrutiny [Audio] with: ROW-cub Screens | 5’ | USA | 2019 Pathak Neena Films. Lab with Urban In Partnership Rosine Mbakam, 2018 Mbakam, Rosine Belgium 70’ 7th 18:30 Sat Sept, DocHouse Bertha

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Coiffure Chez Jolie Jolie Chez OCDF 2019 Saturday 7th September 7th Saturday Supported by Wallonia-Brussels International. Wallonia-Brussels by Supported Stacia Brown | 2017 | USA | 13’ | USA | 2017 Brown Stacia Public White Protest [Audio] Protest White Public Private Black Motherhood Black and with: Private Screens known corner of the city. corner of known camera reveals the reality of life in this little life of the reality reveals camera of the salon, Mbakam’s engaged, attentive engaged, attentive the salon, Mbakam’s of deportation. Shot entirely within the confines within the confines entirely Shot deportation. of whom also harbour the same fears about the same fears harbour whom also of eclectic cast of patrons and visitors, many visitors, and patrons of cast eclectic whiling away time talking and laughing with an and laughing time talking whiling away life at the salon, perfecting her craft whilst whilst her craft the at salon, perfecting life This intimate portrait captures Sabine’s daily Sabine’s captures portrait This intimate awaiting a decision on her asylum application. application. a decision on her asylum awaiting in Belgium for almost a decade, she is still she is still a decade, almost in Belgium for district of Brussels. Despite having been having Despite Brussels. of district a small salon, Jolie Coiffure, in the Matonge in the Matonge Coiffure, salon, Jolie a small Sabine is a Cameroonian hairdresser who runs who runs hairdresser Sabine is a Cameroonian 36 39 Film Programme Film Sunday 8th September 8th Sunday Lei Lei, 2019 USA 68’ Sun 8th 14.15 Sept, ICA Director Country Duration Date/Time Location Breathless Breathless Animals This entrancing first non-fiction feature feature non-fiction first This entrancing Lei—whose Lei filmmaker Chinese from animation— is in experimental background conducted interview an audio around revolves her recounts who mother, with the director’s China. up in Maoist growing of recollections a collage against set are Her anecdotes from collected and imagery footage found of eye-catching and enigmatic markets; flea era. a bygone of visual detritus anonymous using materials these Lei Lei processes them causing techniques, animation analogue The the frame. scuttle and skip across to and sound image between subtle interplay as slippery the past of in an evocation results as memory itself. and elusive with: Ashes Screens | 20’ | Thailand | 2012 Weerasethakul Apichatpong with MUBI) in association (screens Frame. of Edge with In partnership Teresa Arredondo, Carlos Carlos Arredondo, Teresa 2018 Méndez, Vásquez Chile 80’ Sun 8th 13:45 Sept, DocHouse Bertha Director Country Duration Date/Time Location Only days after the 1973 military coup against coup against military the 1973 after Only days nineteen of a group the Allende government, were factory in a paper union members remained The case without trace. disappeared a policeman until years, forty for a mystery pact the broke finally in the massacre involved alongside his confession Taking silence. of voiced families—all the victims’ from testimony unravel forensically filmmakers actors—the by using stark the murders, to leading the events the depict landscape to 16mm photography A bold and formally a crime scene. like unearths a bravely The Crosses work, rigorous for that history political in Chile’s dark moment been buried in silence. had years London. Institute by Cervantes Supported The Crosses Naomi Kawase Naomi Kawase Japan 90’ Sun 8th 13.30 Sept, Cinema Street Regent Director Country Duration Date/Time Location In these two deeply personal films, Naomi films, deeply personal two In these with her relationship on her reflects Kawase her childhood. throughout absent father, Naomi’s around revolves (1992) Embracing her adoptive despite her father for search doubts and her own discouragement mother’s find. Combining she might about what Super and handheld home movies nostalgic weaves Kawase nature, of 8mm footage for search beautiful an achingly together family. of and the meaning true identity chronicles (2001) Earth Water, Wind, Fire, Sky, a death her father’s to reaction Naomi’s connections lifelong drawing later, decade her childhood search, her original between and her unfulfilled parents with her adoptive with her birthparents. a relationship longing for Foundation. Japan with in partnership Presented Image ©︎ Kumie Inc. Image ©︎ Embracing + Sky, + Sky, Embracing Water, Wind, Fire, Earth Erige Sehiri, 2018 Switzerland, France, 75’ Sun 8th 12.40 Sept, Cinema Prince Charles

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post-revolutionary society. post-revolutionary is experiencing as it strives towards creating a creating towards as it strives is experiencing mirrors the profound difficulties that Tunisia Tunisia that difficulties the profound mirrors OCDF 2019 network and the plights that its workers face face its that workers and the plights network of the North, this increasingly strained railway railway strained the North, of this increasingly Rumbling through the breathtaking landscape landscape the breathtaking through Rumbling incompetence halt progress at every turn. turn. every at progress halt incompetence remain as state corruption and bureaucratic and bureaucratic corruption as state remain line have found that many of the old problems the old problems of many that found line have the Jasmine Revolution, those working on the working those theRevolution, Jasmine regular occurrence. After the initial promise of of the initial promise After occurrence. regular fallen into disrepair and accidents are now a now are and accidents disrepair into fallen After years of neglect, ‘The Normal Line’ has has ‘The neglect, of Line’ Normal years After Marrakech—was once the pride of Tunisia. Tunisia. once the pride of Marrakech—was Mediterranean coast from Tunis to to Tunis from coast Mediterranean Railway Line No.1—running along the Line No.1—running Railway Railway Men Railway Sunday 8th September 8th Sunday 38 Sunday 8th September Sunday 8th September 41 40

Katatsumori Petition Treasure Island Winter’s Yearning + See Heaven + Chiri

Director Naomi Kawase Director Zhao Liang, 2009 Director Guillaume Brac, 2018 Director Sidse T. Larsen, Country Japan Country China Country France Sturla Pilskog, 2019 Duration 95’ Duration 122’ Duration 96’ Country Norway, Greenland, Denmark Date/Time Sun 8th Sept, 16.00 Date/Time Sun 8th Sept, 16.30 Date/Time Sun 8th Sept, 17.15 Duration 75’ Location Regent Street Cinema Location ICA Location Curzon Soho Date/Time Sun 8th Sept, 18.10 Location Regent Street Cinema This triptych of moving tributes from Naomi Filmed between 1996 and 2008, Zhao Set over the course of one long, hazy Kawase creates an affectionate portrait of her Liang’s magnum opus follows those who, summer, Treasure Island is a sundrenched In Maniitsoq, Greenland, US aluminium giant bond with her great-aunt who adopted and having suffered abuses at the hands of local portrait of a private beach and water park in Alcoa Corporation has been planning to build raised her. Capturing her lovingly with close governments, travel to Beijing to petition the socially disadvantaged suburbs of Paris. a smelting plant for years. Promising economic up Super 8mm photography, Katatsumori the court of complaints. Forced to wait Guillaume Brac’s languorous camera drifts renewal for the region, the sense that the (1994) introduces us to Uno Kawase as she indefinitely for an official hearing, many end freely through the park’s beaches, lakes plant may never actually come to fruition enters her eighties. A recurrent figure in all up living in a nearby shantytown known as and trails, encountering an eclectic cast of is palpable throughout Winter’s Yearning. of Kawase’s personal documentaries, Uno ‘Petition Village’. Hopeless, lonely and far from characters: mischievous youngsters breaking Following the lives of the area’s loyal ageing remains kind, good-humoured and devoted home, the petitioners must endure dire living into forbidden areas, uber drivers catching population and its stymied youth—in a place to her adoptive daughter, and See Heaven conditions and threats from hired thugs in a few hours of sun before the night shift, where employment opportunities are limited (1995) offers an intimate, experimental collage their seemingly endless search for justice. and teenage employees slacking off to flirt to fisheries—the contemporary colonial of images dedicated to the playful but tender A modern classic of Chinese documentary, with customers. However, the tensions and violence of Denmark is figured through relationship between the two. In Chiri (2012), Petition is an unflinching depiction of the pressures of city life never feel too far away stories of economic ruin, frustrated we witness Uno’s daily routine as she nears her powerlessness of individuals in the face of and another, harsher world awaits beyond communities and shared national trauma. final days and Kawase grapples with coming to the cruel indifference of the state. the park’s walls, when the summer ends. Pictured against immense, isolating terms with her great-aunt’s passing. landscapes, the people of Maniitsoq await their plant - and with it, Greenland’s possible Presented in partnership with Japan Foundation. first step towards sovereignty. Image ©︎ Kumie Inc. Screens with: Disconnected Alice Aedy | 2018 | UK | 14’

OCDF 2019 Film Programme 42 OCDF 2019 In partnership withAnother Gaze. Jackson, agroup of Londoners, andadog. Luka Zimmerman andtheatre-maker Adrian long collaboration between filmmaker Andrea stage, Here for Life marks culmination the of a Eventually comingtogether onamakeshift borders between reality andfiction are porous. another’s performance are blurredthe and The lines between oneperson’s story and differencestheir andsharetheir talents. eat together; agree anddisagree, celebrate stacked against They them. dance, steal, and and resistance. They grapple asystem with loss andlove, trauma andbravery, struggle by ten Londoners. Allhave lives shaped by An uncommonstory told oncommonground Here for Life Sunday 8th/Monday9thSeptember Location Date/Time Duration Country Director Regent Street Cinema Sept, 20.35 Sun 8th 87’ UK Adrian Jackson, 2019 Andrea Luka Zimmerman, Image ©︎ShunjiDodo Presented inpartnership with Japan Foundation. in-conversation event. screeningthe of film the for an extended undeniable. NaomiKawase willjoinusafter connection betweenbut the remains them twothe women than Kawase’s earlier shorts, complex portrayal the of relationship between to becomingamother. Thefilm offers amore body whileKawase reflects onher own journey captures images of hergreat-aunt’s ageing intimate andcandid film,Birth/Mother (2006) femaleand the body. Anintensely riveting examination of family, motherhood adoptive andgreat-aunt mother inthis Kawase turns hercamera back onto her About to give birth to her own child,Naomi Conversation + Extended Birth/Mother Location Date/Time Duration Country Director Curzon Soho Sept, 18.30Mon 9th 43’ Japan Naomi Kawase Alison Nguyen |2019 | USA |6’ every day dog has its Jessica Bardsley |2019 |USA | 13’ Goodbye Thelma Yoshiki Nishimura |2018 |Japan |7’ Border On the Tulapop Saenjaroen |2018 |Thailand |28’ A Room aCoconut View with analogue anddigital media.Total runtime: 83’ up aseries of unexpected collisionsbetween reconstructed shortfilm inthis programme, setting Found andarchival materials are repurposed and Location Date/Time Bertha DocHouse Sept, 20.30Mon 9th On the Border On the Shorts: Shorts: Stuart Pound |2018 |UK 1’ Trotters Simon Liu|2019 |HongKong, UK | 13’ E-Ticket Maryam Tafakory |2018 |Iran, UK|8’ I Have SinnedaRapturous Sin Russia, USA |7’ Sid Iandovka, Anya Tsyrlina |2019 |Switzerland, horizōn viewers may finddistressing. and references to sexual assault whichsome programme contain stroboscopic imagery, Please beadvised that filmswithinthis Image: Image: E-Ticket Monday 9thSeptember

Film Programme 43 44 OCDF 2019 Sofia Bohdanowicz |2013 |Canada |6’ Screens Dalsza with: Modlitwa-(Another Prayer) family’s archived memories. legacy, melancholy and the present ina investigation into burdens the of ancestral MS Slavic 7isanelegant andwitty of collaborations between co-directors, its of bone-dryhumour. Part of anongoing series enter fray, the each punctuated by moments disagreements, andmatters the heart all of surface. Familial resentments, intellectual sees simmeringtensions bubblingto the begins asapurely scholarly endeavour soon Zofia Bohdanowiczowa—are held.What grandmother—the renowned Polish poet, Archives, where letters the of hergreat- on aresearch tripto Harvard University distinctive hybrid follows ayoung woman Sofia Bohdanowicz andDeragh Campbell’s MS Slavic 7 Monday 9th/Tuesday 10thSeptember Location Date/Time Duration Country Director Regent Street Cinema Sept, 21.10Mon 9th 64’ Canada & Deragh Campbell,2018 Sofia Bohdanowicz The Trial In partnership withICA. considerable contemporary resonance. is afascinating historical document with propagandisticits machinery, TheTrial inherentundermining the theatricality of perilsofthe authoritarianism whilst to crimes they never committed. Illuminating and fracture USSR—are the forced to confess forming asecret pact to restore capitalism population.the Theaccused—charged with as adisplay of government’s the power over crime isfakebut the -aspectacle concocted 1930. consequences Thetrialandits are real, Stalin’s first show trials, recorded inMoscow in restored archival material from oneof Joseph is comprised of painstakingly researched and Sergei Loznitsa’s found footage documentary Location Date/Time Duration Country Director ICA Tues Sept, 18.30 10th 125’ Netherlands Sergei Loznitsa, 2018 Inpartnership withDay for Night Films. Location Date/Time Duration Country Director Last Night ISaw You Smiling Regent Street Cinema Tue Sept, 19.00 10th 77’ Cambodia, France Kavich Neang, 2019 Closing Night: that still reside building’s the within walls. of 1970s—invoking the ghosts the of past the been evacuated during Cambodiangenocide the has original bornewitness—the tenants having turbulent national history to building whichthe reflectionstheir and the reminiscences with and prepare for eviction. Neang interweaves residents asthey belongings pack uptheir building—returnsthe to interview fellow Kavich Neang—himself bornandraised in is scheduled for demolition.Filmmaker has beensold to Japanese developers and centrethe of artistic athriving community, by KhmerRouge the andsubsequently municipal apartment blockoriginally built The White BuildinginPhnomPenh, alarge Tuesday 10thSeptember

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Special Events Thursday 5th September Thursday Marc Levin, 1998 Levin, Marc USA 99’ Mon 9th 18.30 Sept, Cinema Street Regent Director Country Duration Date/Time Location A central figure in the London jazz scene, scene, in the London jazz figure A central Prize is a Mercury Hutchings Shabaka saxophonist, jazz British-Barbadian nominated the He leads leader. and band clarinetist and the and Shabaka Kemet Sons of bands Is The Comet of and is one third Ancestors, saxophone played also has Coming. Hutchings Points, Floating with Arkestra, the Sun Ra Down Melt Yourself Bear, Polar Astatke, Mulatu (1998), Slam selected has Hutchings and more. it. and discuss introduce to and will be present Marc both and Cannes, Sundance A winner at work hugely influential and powerful Levin’s performance a young follows vérité cinema of Williams), as he (Saul Joshua Raymond poet, Dodge inside a tough life survive to struggles and poetry searing City jail. With Williams’ is a Slam Spooky, DJ from a score featuring the importance to testament gut-wrenching expression. artistic of and the impact Shabaka Shabaka Hutchings Slam Presents:

Various UK 90’ 7th 20.40 Sat Sept, Soho Curzon Director Country Duration Date/Time Location Laura Grace Ford Ford Grace Laura An Act Presents: Unforgetting of Laura Grace Ford (formerly Oldfield Ford) is Ford) Oldfield (formerly Ford Grace Laura concerned and writer artist a London based space, contested narratives, with spatial Drawing and memory. fiction architecture, Ford and the dérive mapping on cognitive the psychic mapping by place interrogates a curated has Ford the city. of contours TV archival of combined programme Trafalgar of Battle placing documentaries, Summer on of (1990) alongside an episode discuss to be present and will (1991) the Estate “These the programme. and contextualise and unofficial visible London’s make films that stories narratives, unrecognised of the city. text the official beyond exist rekindle to is an attempt them here Screening moment historical a particular and revive or re-member visualise might we that so different a radically piece together) (literally films I am these showing By imaginary. social otherwise might that unlocking memories Ford Grace - Laura unretrieved” remain Events Special 49 Special Events Thursday 5th September Thursday Sun 8th 16.00 Sept, Studio ICA Date/Time Location Analogue Analogue Foundation: Session Listening Sunday In partnership with the Analogue Foundation Foundation with the Analogue In partnership listening attentive of an afternoon present we the highest through played and conversation speaker A guest equipment. audio grade gathered records of will bring a selection under a theme their and discuss significance, it and placing the material audio examining This event context. within a wider cultural considered a collective, for space will create a through and music records of examination lens. and contemplative critical Elevado Russell Audio-Technica, by Founded the Analogue Collective, and Soundwalk helping experiences, of is a curator Foundation the value and appreciate understand us all to the future. into and long now analogue of Sun 8th 11.30 Sept, Spitalfields Point: Starting Date/Time Location The Ring of Steel: Steel: of The Ring the Around Tour A Walking London City of the hidden reveal to seeks tour This walking – a security Steel’ the ‘Ring of of structures London’s the City of around installation the boundary mirrors that district financial the of structures Roman the ancient line of the counter to introduced First London Wall. the 1990s, early of IRA bombing campaign surveilled as a heavily acts Steel’ the ‘Ring of the financial protect boundary to invisible will be led by The walk London. of centre Williams Henrietta researcher and artist theories; urbanist explores practice whose fortress around ideas considering particularly Ticket and surveillance. security, urbanism, the meeting of details full will receive holders email. by point the of details full will receive holders Ticket email. by point meeting Laboratory. with UCL Urban In Partnership Fri 6th 18.40 Sept, Fri Cinema Street Regent Date/Time Location Rainer Kohlberger uses digital-projection digital-projection uses Kohlberger Rainer impulses Through way. in a radical technology the intentional light, pure of and waves apparatus perception the human of overload appear that visual impressions to leads the beholder«. of »eye in the literal exclusively and stroboscopic drones noise, of Layers well as as the infinite of a sense unfold lights space and image surface Image now. the very in which (consciousness-)state, one meld into such as being and non-being, categories In obsolete. appear and immaterial material live a unique present will Kohlberger this event, of screening by a preceded A/V performance, film. recent his most once and be lived to with: It has Screens twice dreamed | 28’ Austria | Germany, | 2019 Kohlberger Rainer will contain this event that be advised Please images. stroboscopic London. Forum Cultural Austrian by Supported Rainer Kohlberger: Kohlberger: Rainer Brainbows Thurs 5th 18.00 Sept, Thurs Cinema Street Regent

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Audio Evening: Audio The Whickers The Whickers beer and fun activities. beer and fun part of the audio afternoon, featuring free free featuring afternoon, of audio the part networking drinks in the foyer between each each between in the foyer drinks networking with £1000 for the runner-up. There will be will be There the runner-up. with £1000 for (Documentary Audio Recognition Award), Award), Recognition Audio (Documentary to a completed project through the DARA the DARA through project a completed to for a runner-up. £3000 will also be given be given will also £3000 a runner-up. for to make their audio documentary, with £3000 their documentary, audio make to OCDF 2019 the five RAFA finalists will be awarded £7000 awarded will be finalists RAFA the five pitch (page 52) earlier in the afternoon, one of one of in theearlier afternoon, 52) (page pitch RAFA and DARA awards. Following the live the live Following awards. and DARA RAFA Kohli hosts the presentation of this year’s this year’s of the presentation hosts Kohli After, comedian and presenter Hardeep Singh Hardeep comedian and presenter After, will be followed by a Q&A with Isis Thompson. with Isis Thompson. a Q&A by will be followed composer Axel Kacoutié. The audio showcase showcase The audio Kacoutié. Axel composer piece will be performed in collaboration with in collaboration piece will be performed growing landscape of activism in the activism UK, the of landscape growing Funding Award) winning work. Charting a new a new Charting winning work. Award) Funding Isis Thompson’s 2018 RAFA (Radio & Audio & Audio (Radio RAFA 2018 Isis Thompson’s live performance and world premiere of world premiere and performance live brilliance, that’s what. Join us for a special us for Join what. that’s brilliance, give to the world? A fine piece of audio of A fine piece the world? to give What does £7,000 of documentary funding funding documentary of £7,000 does What

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Industry Events Industry Thursday 5th September Thursday Thurs 5th 13.30 Sept, Thurs Hub - Studio Festival Date/Time Location Mila Turajlic, a documentary filmmaker, visual filmmaker, a documentary Turajlic, Mila (then) Belgrade, born in scholar and archive artist discussing a masterclass will present Yugoslavia, Everything The Other Side of practice. her creative Cinema IDFA. at Film Documentary Best won (2017) and won 100+ at festivals played (2010) Komunisto archive- of is a series work Her latest 16 awards. MoMA. commissioned by video installations based engaging memory and of ways explores Turajlic of her PhD on the role and obtained history, narratives. political of in the construction cinema Thinking Internationally Masterclass: Masterclass: on Filming a Nation Turajlic Mila audiences everywhere. This session will session This everywhere. audiences to discuss experts industry bring together of thinking internationally the importance themselves, can equip filmmakers and how distribution, to through development from as wide an reach to their projects allow to as possible. audience Thurs 5th 15.00 Sept, Thurs Hub - Studio Festival Thurs 5th 12.00 Sept, Thurs Hub - Studio Festival Date/Time Location Date/Time Location Nobody wants their project to exist in a exist to their project Nobody wants ever market With the international bubble. faced with the are filmmakers evolving, to their projects translate to how of challenge The worlds of academia and documentary and documentary academia of The worlds utilising with filmmakers overlap, often film practice. their creative inform to research filmmakers will bring together This session of with engages the intersection work whose their explore to film and non-fiction research of the and discuss possibilities process academic merging through reality reframing image. with the moving enquiry Research as Research Practice Creative

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for a deeper understanding of the news, the news, of a deeper understanding for podcast that takes you behind the headlines behind the headlines you takes that podcast ‘Today in Focus’ is The Guardian’s daily is The Guardian’s in Focus’ ‘Today part of The Whickers Audio Evening (see pg 48). (see Evening Audio of The Whickers part this event takes place at Regent Street, and is Street, Regent at place takes this event £3,000 will be gifted to the runner-up. Please note: Please the runner-up. to £3,000 will be gifted As well as the winner’s £7,000, a mightily handy handy a mightily £7,000, as the winner’s As well Rajam and BBC commissioner Steve Titherington. and BBC commissioner Steve Rajam founder Nina Garthwaite, Overcoat Media’s Steven Media’s Overcoat Garthwaite, Nina founder to a panel of top industry judges: In The Dark judges: industry top of a panel to around the world to pitch their projects non-fiction pitch to the world around Funding Award as we bring together finalists from finalists bring together as we Award Funding Join us at The Whickers Radio and Audio Radio The Whickers us at Join dreams? £7,000 to create the audio documentary of their of the documentary audio create to £7,000 Five finalists, one amazing prize. Who will win prize. one amazing finalists, Five OCDF 2019

RAFA Pitch RAFA The Whickers The Whickers Thursday 5th / Friday 6th September 6th Friday 5th / Thursday 52 55 Film Programme Film Saturday 7th September 7th Saturday Sat 7th 15.30 Sat Sept, Hub - Studio Festival Date/Time Location World Records: Records: World Orders Artificial What’s so good about authenticity? After After good about authenticity? so What’s “authentic” and the “natural” to all, appeals of the ranks bolster to used often are repression state justify supremacists, white and depict rights, gender and sexual of should In this context, as invaders. immigrants faithful remain be to documentary of the task with realistic worlds social representing to the acknowledge documentary can or, clarity, envision and to order worlds in of our artifice imagination of forms democratic more invent celebrate building? Is it time to and institution In panel, filmmakers, this the artificial instead? engage the and critics term programmers, practice, own of their artificial in the context documentary and against for arguing term. this vexed embrace that approaches Sat 7th 13.30 Sat Sept, Hub - Studio Festival Date/Time Location Making documentary films often comes with comes often films Making documentary yet attached; risk and personal emotional leaving discuss, rarely this we is something you Whether as filmmakers. us vulnerable juggling or filming trauma, experiencing are financial facing relationships, work difficult or are pressures, with creative instability the people being of concerned about the well health mental film with - our collective you and should be high on the agenda. This frank personal a mix of will present panel intimate and directors producers from experiences documentary by chaired within the industry, Rebecca and psychotherapist, producer the from In Mind. Participation Film from Day is welcome. audience The Emotional RisksThe Emotional Documentary of Making Sat 7th 12.00 Sat Sept, Hub - Studio Festival Date/Time Location Hear from a collection of filmmakers embracing embracing filmmakers of a collection from Hear of and challenges about the possibilities realism When done filmmaking. observational mode allows the observational masterfully, with the and a subjects intimacy a unique for will This panel building experience. rich world the fly- of consider the implications ethical for the process explore camera, on-the-wall and argue without narration, a narrative crafting of observing. the art of the preservation for The Observational The Observational Lens Fri 6th 15.30 Sept, Fri Hub - Studio Festival

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Friday 6th / Saturday 7th September / Saturday 6th Friday OCDF 2019 The Dark Room The Dark Presents: Presents: In the Dark packed venues around the world. around venues packed for its regular live listening events, held in events, listening live its regular for producers and radio enthusiasts best known known best enthusiasts and radio producers a collaborative project between radio radio between project a collaborative The event is brought to you by In The Dark, by you to is brought The event to Radio module. module. Radio to producers and teachers of UCL’s Introduction Introduction UCL’s of and teachers producers Garthwaite and Isis Thompson, independent independent Thompson, and Isis Garthwaite maximum. The session will be led by Nina Nina will be led by The session maximum. piece or excerpts with a duration of 8 minutes 8 minutes of with a duration piece or excerpts opencitylondon.com. We are able to play play able to are We opencitylondon.com. this session can be found online at www. at online be found can this session Details on how to submit your audio for for audio your submit to on how Details listen, or offer feedback of your own. your of feedback or offer listen, you are playing a piece, just want to come and to want just a piece, playing are you producers. Everyone is welcome, whether is welcome, Everyone producers. projects, however developed, with like-minded with like-minded developed, however projects, you can share your ideas and independent and independent ideas your share can you crowd. This is a creative gathering where gathering where This is a creative crowd. of works in progress in front of a friendly of in front in progress works of documentaries with feedback on a selection on a selection with feedback documentaries Join us for a constructive crit of short radio short of crit a constructive us for Join 54 57 Industry Events Industry Mon 9th 12.00 Sept, Hub - Studio Festival Sunday 8th / Monday 9th September / Monday 8th Sunday Date/Time Location Animating Animating Reality will and filmmakers animators of Our panel the intersection approach they how share with documentary practices animation of their engagement questioning approaches, for and the possibilities with the ‘real’ The reality. of representations expanding Ellie Land. by will be hosted discussion Speaking Truth Truth Speaking to Power of has a long history film The documentary to thevoice calling giving to injustice, attention but is change, and demanding oppressed, This today? and well alive still cinema political using are who filmmakers will bring together panel to discuss their to power truth to speak non-fiction to balance journalism and how process, creative impact lasting for creating strategies art, and with their work. Sun 8th 12.30 Sept, Hub - Studio Festival Sun 8th 15.30 Sept, Hub - Studio Festival Date/Time Location Date/Time Location Combining the worlds of animation, non- animation, of Combining the worlds this filmmaking, experimental and fiction the creative into a deep-dive offers session documentaries. behind animated process Your Documentary Documentary Your on Paper Idea If you’re applying for funding, a commission funding, applying for If you’re with your forum in a pitching or a place its presentation nailing idea, documentary Patrick In this paper’ is crucial. session, ‘on of Director Doc/Fest’s Sheffield Hurley, the will discuss various & Talent, Marketplace about a new write to and ways elements gaining of its chance will enhance that project in the market. traction Sun 8th 11.00 Sept, Hub - Studio Festival Date/Time Location This year we welcome Zhao Liang to the festival the festival Liang to Zhao welcome we This year and alongside filmmakers our In Focus as one of on a masterclass he will present the screenings, Liang is one of process. and creative his work and artists documentary celebrated most China’s documentary within the independent figure a key at within the country developed that movement cinema, spans His work the century. the of turn has been presented and video art and installation worldwide. and exhibitions festivals at Masterclass: Masterclass: Liang Zhao Sat 7th 17.00 Sat Sept, Hub - Studio Festival (2017), in Lebanon Lost Sama (2019), For

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sound design as well as song-writing. as well design sound electronics, found sound and experimental and experimental sound found electronics, to music with ethnic influences incorporating incorporating with music ethnic influences to genres moving between working with orchestras with orchestras working between moving genres Nainita works across a wide range of musical of a wide range across works Nainita . I Jump film The Reason Rothwell upcoming Jerry (2018) and the (2018) Untamed Musical (2015), (1992), Mumbai High - The (1992), Darkness of Lessons include films and TV projects. Her non-fiction credits Her non-fiction films and TV projects. her career and experience scoring countless countless scoring and experience her career designer Nainita Desai will join us to discuss discuss will join us to Desai Nainita designer Multi-award winning composer and sound and sound composer winning Multi-award Nainita Desai Nainita Masterclass: Masterclass: Composer Composer Saturday 7th / Sunday 8th September 8th / Sunday 7th Saturday OCDF 2019 56 59 Industry Events Industry Tuesday 10th September 10th Tuesday Tues 10th 12.00 Sept, Tues Hub - Studio Festival Date/Time Location Collaborative Collaborative Community Filmmaking First emerging in the 1970s, community community in the 1970s, emerging First of challenging has a long history filmmaking in filmmaking inherent structures the power the and dissolving traditional practices and filmmaker. subject between boundaries of their experiences will share Our panel led work, community collaborative making representation, of thediscussing challenges best and exploring inclusivity and advocacy storytelling. to this approach for practices Tue 10th 10.30 Sept, Tue Hub - Studio Festival Date/Time Location Arrow Media chose Clear Cut Pictures to to Pictures Cut Clear Media chose Arrow and Science their Discovery post-produce Apollo: documentary feature Channel and ‘day a global had Films that Forgotten coincide with the 50th to transmission date’ the Apollo moon landing. of Anniversary challenges many presented This documentary who needed the team edit and audio for archive unseen the extraordinary handle to show. a fascinating deliver to sensitively and Audio, of Head Ben Newth, Using clips, will Editing, of Head Dan Preston-Bear, – the the project to theirdiscuss approach and mix; the the design sound vision for and manipulation image for challenges this brought – that approach technical generation. a new for life to footage Clear Cut Pictures Pictures Cut Clear Study: Case Films Apollo: Forgotten Mon 9th 15.00 Sept, Hub - Studio Festival Date/Time Location Artists and filmmakers will discuss the role of role will discuss the and filmmakers Artists image and the corporeal performance physicality, how the documentation film and in non-fiction practice. their creative informs bodies human of implicit in the dynamics upon power Reflecting this conversation image, moving of creation and political cultural of the body as a site frames of it as a means of and themeaning capturing visual language. a new proposing the most out of a short runtime with the runtime a short out of the most the will explore They team. British Council Film form and how the short of possibilities creative advice as sharing as well funding access to and the other festivals of the most on making short docs. for available avenues distribution Small but Mighty: Mighty: but Small Short Docs The Body in The Body Non-Fiction Cinema Mon 9th 16.30 Sept, Hub - Studio Festival Mon 9th 13.30 Sept, Hub - Studio Festival

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OCDF 2019 Roundtable the Cut: Editors’ the Editors’ Cut: Contemplating Contemplating Monday 9th September Monday the potential of short docs and how to make make to and how short docs of the potential filmmakers and industry experts to discuss to discuss experts and industry filmmakers This session will bring together a panel of of a panel will bring together This session footage to build an immersive world on screen. world immersive build an to footage as well as offering advice on weaving together weaving advice on as offering as well project, building narrative arcs without a script, arcs building narrative project, of finding the right visual language for eachfor language visual finding the right of stories. Our speakers will share their experiences their experiences will share Our speakers stories. of post to explore the challenges of cutting real cutting of the challenges explore to post of narrative, breaking down the creative process process the creative down breaking narrative, to talk about the art of crafting a non-fiction of crafting about the art talk to Join a line-up of talented documentary editors editors documentary talented a line-up of Join 58 Bootcamp Social Events 61 60 & Happy Hours & Parties

Industry Bootcamp BFI Doc Society Drop In Meet other filmmakers and festival guests at Sat 7th Sept (20.00 - 01.00) Date/Time Fri 6th Sep, 16.00 our nightly social events and parties. Good The Burlington Arms Party Aimed at students, recent graduates and Location Festival Hub - Lounge music and good times guaranteed. 21 Old Burlington Street, London W1S 2JL emerging filmmakers, these sessions will be The BFI Doc Society team will be taking over Join us as we take over a classic London about preparing for the next steps in your our Festival Hub Lounge to host an afternoon Wed 4th Sept boozer for one night only. A cosy affair, all career and getting ready to enter the industry. of one-to-one surgeries alongside other (Following the Opening Night Film) welcome. Supported by the Open City Docs School MA experts in the field. Documentary producers are Opening Night Reception Ethnographic and Documentary Film at UCL. invited to drop in to get advice and feedback Bar at Curzon Soho Sun 8th (19.00 - 23.00) on a range of issues: from commissioning 99 Shaftesbury Avenue, London W1D 5DY Bar at Curzon Soho Branded Visions: Working Commercially opportunities and funding to festival strategy 99 Shaftesbury Avenue, London W1D 5DY Date/Time Thu 5th Sep, 10.30 and sustainability. The surgeries will be followed Thu 5th Sept (20.00 - 00.00) Location Festival Hub - Studio by our networking happy hour. Full details to be Bar at Regent Street Cinema Mon 9th (19.00 - 23.00) Step into the world of branded documentaries announced online. 307 Regent Street, London W1B 2HW Arts Theatre Club with our panel of filmmakers talking 50 Frith Street, London W1D 4SQ about working commercially. Discover the Industry Happy Hour Networking Fri 6th Sept (20.00 - 01.00) differences in working for a client from how to Friday Night Party with Anu & Friends Tue 10th Sept pitch, responding to a brief and maintaining Join us daily in the Festival Hub Lounge to ICA Theatre (Following the Closing Night Film) creativity in a commercial space. meet other industry delegates and festival Institute of Contemporary Arts Closing Night Reception filmmakers. Drinks will be provided by our The Mall, London SW1Y 5AH Bar at Regent Street Cinema Making the Leap: Your First Feature sponsors The Botanist, Gipsy Hill Brewing Dance into the weekend with us. Music by DJ, 307 Regent Street, London W1B 2HW Date/Time Sat 7th Sep, 10.30 Company, and Gunna Drinks. illustrator and NTS Radio resident Anu and a Location Festival Hub - Studio selection of her musical pals. Festival Hub Café Hear from a line-up of filmmakers about the trials Thu 5th Sept 17.30 - 19.00 The Colombian Coffee Company will be joining and tribulations of making a first feature. From Fri 6th Sept 17.30 - 19.00 us at the Festival Hub this year selling coffee, creative development to building a crew and finding Sat 7th Sept 18.00 - 20.00 cakes and a selection of food. Open Thursday funding, get a behind-the-scenes insight into taking Sun 8th Sept 16.30 - 18.00 5th - Tuesday 10th September from 10.00 in a step up from short films to feature projects. Mon 9th Sept 17.30 - 19.00 the Festival Hub Lounge at China Exchange (Level 2). What Funders Want: Meet the Commissioners Festival Hub at China Exchange, Date/Time Mon 9th Sep, 10.30 32A Gerrard Street, W1D 6JA Location Festival Hub - Studio Our panel of commissioners will take you through the process of getting work funded. This session will cover how to pitch your project, the inside scoop on what funders are looking to support and how to build a good relationship with the individuals that matter. 63 Expanded Realities Expanded (Kelsey Boncato, Daniel Oldham | 2019 | 2019 Oldham Daniel Boncato, (Kelsey FOREST immersive is a meditative | 8’) FOREST | USA landscape in a hand-drawn media experience sculpted trees, bristlecone pine of ancient earthy-electro and transmuted matter, organic sounds. | 2019 Levenson (Noah Ur Feelings Stealing you knows that AI the | 6’) Meet new | USA Ur Stealing yourself. you know than better experience reality is an augmented Feelings use can apps favorite your how reveals that make to technology recognition emotion facial inequalities, promote life, decisions about your democracy. destabilize and even II: Collaboration Act Bricks Weightless | | UK, The Netherlands | 2019 Bodies (Soft will combine mixed-reality 10’) The project explore to films and drawings experiences, remote-access the freelance, of roles future home and workplace where workforce, gain as we one, become blended into may through space’ ‘long-distance the ability to technologies. virtual growing 360 Cinema filmmaking reality in virtual visions new Explore about the Information in our 360 Cinema. on our website. included is available projects (Tamara Shogaolu | 2019 | | 2019 Shogaolu (Tamara Another Dream , Dream Another | 23’) USA Egypt, Netherlands, and documentary animated a hybrid VR game, an of story brings the love gripping, true with Faced a life. couple to lesbian Egyptian the LGBTQ against backlash post-revolution asylum seek to Cairo escape they community, in the Netherlands. and acceptance | 10’) | UK | 2019 Dark Origins (Calum Bowden is a Dark Origins it seems. than is stranger Life deep inside live that lifeforms of VR discovery to be twice thought the earth in an ecosystem Dark Origins goes oceans. the world’s of the size about mysteries scientific unravel to on a journey without thrive that creatures extremophiles, and pressure. heat extreme in sunlight, any | UK | | 2019 Everything (Universal Emergence is an open-world Emergence varies) Runtime to desire the primal expressing environment, being whilst identity individual your maintain in yourself you immerse As of a crowd. part beckon light of shafts thousands, of a crowd the the light, touch As you closer. you and its gravity – its atmosphere, environment – transform the crowd of the choreography challenging continually ways, in powerful perception. your | | 2019 Horobin-Worley Bed (Harriet Escape get to difficult really it’s UK | 7’) Sometimes Bed is bed in the morning… Escape out of part child- adventure, point-and-click part between space the liminal of exploration like and poke prod Explore, and awake. dreaming ready are you until littlethis vignette colourful day. and begin your the back duvet throw to 11.00 - 17.30 11.00 - 17.30 11.00 - 18.00 11.00 - 16.30 11.00 - 17.30 11.00 - 14.00 Fri 6th Sept Fri 7th Sat Sept Sun 8th Sept Mon 9th Sept 10th Sept Tue Projects Interactive with our worlds in new yourself Immerse installations. interactive La | Molécule | Amaury Kounen (Jan -22.7°C | 10’) Alone in Greenland, France | Burthe | 2019 captures Molécule producer music electronic his next compose to the Arctic the of sounds the -22.7°C this adventure, by Inspired piece. on an initiatory you takes VR experience creation. musical origin of the at very journey Booking information Hub the is at Festival The exhibition Street, Gerrard 32A Exchange, (China London W1D 6JA) and will attend to is free The exhibition You system. reservation an on-site operate for time slots book individual will be able to while our 360 Cinema projects interactive a select can you where time slots will offer will only Registration experiences. of number Hub. the at Festival in person be available will be open from: The exhibition 5th Thu Sept Expanded Realities Expanded

Presented in partnership with Digital Catapult. with Digital in partnership Presented visions of documentary storytelling. storytelling. documentary visions of opportunity to experience a breadth of new of new experience a breadth to opportunity open and free to the public and offers an the public and offers to open and free the digital landscape. The exhibition will be The exhibition landscape. the digital of interaction, connection and space within and space connection interaction, of to push the boundaries of our understanding our understanding push the of boundaries to reality films. This year’s installations all seek all installations year’s This films. reality OCDF 2019 360 Cinema showcasing a selection of virtual virtual of a selection showcasing 360 Cinema number of interactive installations as well as a as well installations interactive of number in our Festival Hub. The exhibition includes a includes The exhibition Hub. in our Festival a line-up of innovative cross-media projects projects cross-media innovative a line-up of The Expanded Realities exhibition platforms platforms exhibition Realities The Expanded Expanded Realities Exhibition Realities Expanded Digital Catapult. Digital exhibition, presented in partnership with in partnership presented exhibition, storytelling with and our symposium storytelling explores the current status of cross-media of status the current explores This year’s Expanded Realities programme programme Realities Expanded This year’s the world around them. around the world expand and re-evaluate their experience of of their experience and re-evaluate expand and offer audiences a space to enhance, to enhance, a space audiences and offer to challenge our understanding of “reality” of our understanding challenge to and filmmakers are grasping the opportunity grasping are and filmmakers algorithmic living becoming the norm, artists the digital increasingly ever-present and ever-present increasingly the digital intersection of art and technology. With technology. art and of intersection to find new pathways for storytelling at the storytelling for pathways find new to The Expanded Realities programme seeks seeks programme Realities The Expanded 62 Open City Docs School 65 64 Autumn / Winter Short Courses

Since 2014, Open City Docs School has been Creating Animation in Virtual Reality Expanded Realities Symposium Symposium Schedule running short documentary courses at UCL Sept 26th - Oct 31st 2019 Date/Time Fri 6th Sept, 11.00 - 17.30 10.00 Masterclass Anthropology. These vary from film theory Using Virtual Reality as the primary tool, Location Digital Catapult 11.15 Panel: The Encounter lectures, practical camera training, film editing students will learn how to animate characters, 13.00 Artist Lightning Talks: Round 1 and workshops, and are led by award-winning objects, cameras and lights, gaining hands The Expanded Realities symposium will bring 14.15 Panel: Disrupting the System filmmakers and provide access to high-quality on experience with building, animating and together creators, innovators and researchers 15.45 Artist Lightning Talks: Round 2 equipment. See upcoming courses below. Find capturing movement with a range of different to bridge the gap between the worlds of 17.00 Panel: The Future of the Market more information about the school and book tools and techniques. Taught by artist Sean technology and storytelling. The day of talks on our website. Rodrigo. will feature speakers from around the world For more information on the symposium who are pioneers in their fields, pushing the schedule and to book your place, please visit Visual Anthropology and the City Creative Writing Workshop: boundaries of what is possible in the our website at www.opencitylondon.com Sept 17th - Nov 5th 2019 Writing the Self, Writing the Other cross-media space. Led by Dr. Barbara Knorpp, this film history Oct 7th - Nov 11th 2019 course examines documentaries on the city, In this course, led by acclaimed author Alba Raising questions around the future of as envisioned by everyone from Jonas Mekas, Arikha (‘Major/Minor’, ‘Where To Find Me’) interaction and the encounter, the possibility James Benning, Molly Dineen, Kent Mackenzie, students will explore the meaning of ‘self’ of protest and disruption in the digital Chantal Akerman, to Kim Longinotto, running and ‘other’ in non-fiction and fiction writing. space, and the potential of the new market from the city symphonies of the 1920s to Students will focus on matters such as plot, landscape, the symposium will explore the current day urban anthropology. structure, narrative, dialogue and character issues facing the industry as well as offering development, and receive feedback inspiration for any aspiring creators looking to Using Video for Ethnographic Research on their writing. move into the world of XR. Sept 21st - Oct 12th 2019 This course - led by filmmaker and Ipsos MORI 360 Audio Production: The symposium is held at Digital Catapult ethnographer Pinny Grylls - teaches students An Introduction / Advanced Techniques (101 Euston Road, London NW1 2RA). It is free how to capture authentic human behaviour Oct 14th - Nov 11th 2019 / Oct 16th - Nov to attend but requires advance booking. on video, generating more insightful and 13th 2019 meaningful footage for ethnographic research, In this course, offered in both introductory starting with basic camera skills and editing. and more advanced formats, leading sound engineer Jack Reynolds will teach students Documentary Storytelling how to create soundtracks for 360 video, Sept 25th - Oct 30th 2019 covering all aspects of 360 spatial audio Targeted towards documentary practitioners recording, mixing, and exporting for delivery currently working on projects, scholars with on multiple platforms. an interest in non-fiction, or anyone with a passion or curiosity for the form, this course with Dr. Catalin Brylla covers how theoretical concepts relate to formal considerations in documentary filmmaking. OCDF 2019 MA in Creative & UCL 360 - Studio 4: Collaborative Enterprise Immersive Factual at UCL Anthropology Storytelling (VR/AR) doing things that peopleneedorwant.doing things application of creative practices to making and isasimportantthings aswhat you do. It’s an innovative businesses where way the you do A practice-based MAfor those whoare starting the UK,andoneofthe first the the in world. Documentary Film first –the course kindin of its (VR /AR) studio inUCL’s MAEthnographic & ImmersiveUCL 360isthe Factual Storytelling creative-collaborative-enterprise-ma ucl.ac.uk/prospective-students/graduate/taught-degrees/ For more information please visit: and Enterprise modelsincluding Lean Startup andDesign Thinking. The programme draws from onsocial theory UCLAnthropology including Improbable, Danny Scheinmann andEd Woodall. creative practitioners from UK’s the performing communities arts Creative andcollaborative techniques are taught by leading producttheir orservice. processes to create customers andgrow acircle of interest in practical steps to deliver value implement andthen iterative Students enterprise begintheir during course the insmall opencitylondon.com/school For more information please visit: immersive factual filmmaking the for future. fast-moving mediasector, andbecomeinvolved inshaping Receive training from experts the sittingheart at this of new, immersiveand other technologies. alongside introduction to awiderange of latest the VR/AR Offers access to 360°filming equipment throughout the year, post-production techniques for 360°VR. storytelling formats -teaching filmmaking, spatial sound and Provides students foundations the with inimmersive factual TRUE/FALSE FILM FEST “A COMMITMENT TO CREATIVE MARCH 5 - 8, 2020 NONFICTION THAT FEELS COLUMBIA, MISSOURI GENUINELY TRUEFALSE.ORG GROUND- BREAKING” - SIMRAN HANS, THE GUARDIAN Team and Thanks Jeannette Crosier, Rebecca Day, Simon Duffy, Jo Duncombe, Vanessa Fewster, Fiona Fletcher, Eduardo Florez, Laura Grace Ford, Edward Forth,

Tickets Open City Documentary Festival Team: Jason Fox, Petra Freimund, Michael Garrard, 71 70 Michael Stewart - Director, Open City Docs Nina Garthwaite, Kirsten Geekie, Phoebe Hall, Venues Chloe Trayner - Festival Director Toni Heath, Maren Hobein, Cass Horowitz, Mike & Booking Oliver Wright - Director of Film Programme Huddart, Shabaka Hutchings, Bella Ilinskaya, Jess Franses - Festival Producer Kiri Inglis, Ellie Land, Erick Lárraga, Karla Lucas, Matt Turner - Marketing Manager Shira Macleod, Chiara Marañón, Nico Marzano, Emma Green - Social Media Manager Eleanor McDowall, Rachel Millar, Sophie Misrahi, For screenings and special events, book 1. Festival Hub Andrew Northrop - Marketing Assistant Sarah Mosses, Patrick Nation, Veton Nurkollari, your tickets online or in person at the China Exchange, 32A Gerrard Catriona Mahmoud - Marketing Assistant Gabriela Oakley, Will Peck, Ignacio Peyró relevant cinema venue. For industry events, Street, London, W1D 6JA Miranda Mungai - Festival Assistant Jiménez, Puja Phakey, Nicolas Raffin, Jane Ray, book your tickets online or in person at the Fiona Hegarty - Production Manager Joséphine Rousseau, Rowe, Lisa-Marie Festival Hub. Please visit opencitylondon.com 2. Regent Street Cinema Marta Génova - Delegate Services Manager Russo, Natalie Samson, Emily Savage, Daniella for further information. 307 Regent Street, Lucy Wardley - Delegate Services Assistant Shreir, Julia Scott-Stevenson, Jag Singh, Abby London, W1B 2HW Will Swinburne - Technical Manager Sun, Junko Takekawa, Antoine Teillard, Michael Looking to maximise your festival experience? Helen MacKenzie - Expanded Realities Temple, Paul Vickery, Elizabeth Wood. Our industry accreditation allows you to take 3. 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Film Title Director Year Country of Production Runtime Page A Protest, A Celebration, A Mixed Message Rhea Storr 2018 UK 12’ 35 A Room With a Coconut View Tulapop Saenjaroen 2018 Thailand 28’ 43 All Inclusive Corina Schwingruber Ilić 2018 Switzerland 10’ 28 Ashes Apichatpong Weerasethakul 2012 Thailand 20’ 39 Battle of Trafalgar Despite TV 1990 UK 52’ Belonging Burak Çevik 2019 Turkey, Canada, France 72’ 32 Birth/Mother Naomi Kawase 2006 France, Japan 43’ 42 Breathless Animals Lei Lei 2019 USA 68’ 39 Caballerango Juan Pablo González 2018 Mexico 61’ 31 Catch Phrases – Catch Images. Harun Farocki 1986 Germany 13’ 37 A Conversation with Vilém Flusser Chez Jolie Coiffure Rosine Mbakam 2018 Belgium 70’ 36 Chiri Naomi Kawase 2012 Japan, France 45’ 40 Chiyo Chiemi Shimada 2019 Japan, UK 13’ 35 City Scene Zhao Liang 2005 China 23’ 33 Country Girl Ellen Evans 2019 UK 14’ 28 Crime and Punishment Zhao Liang 2007 China 122’ 29 Dalsza Modlitwa (Another Prayer) Sofia Bohdanowicz 2013 Canada 6’ 44 Dear Santo Toribio [Audio] Sarah Geis 2013 USA 5’ 32 Deeper Vibrations Dorothy Allen-Pickard 2019 UK 8’ 28 Disconnected Alice Aedy 2018 UK 14’ 41 E-Ticket Simon Liu 2019 Hong Kong SAR China, UK 13’ 43 Elections Alice Riff 2018 Brazil 100’ 27 Embracing Naomi Kawase 1992 Japan 40’ 38 Espera [Audio] Sayre Quevedo 2018 USA 7’ 35 every dog has its day Alison Nguyen 2019 USA 6’ 43 Goodbye Thelma Jessica Bardsley 2019 USA 13’ 43 Greetings From Free Forests Ian Soroka 2018 USA, Slovenia, Croatia 98’ 33 Harun Farocki - Counter Image Kevin B Lee 2018 Germany 11’ 37 Harun Farocki - Lexicon Kevin B. Lee 2018 Germany 13’ 37 Harun Farocki - Presented Kevin B. Lee 2018 Germany 11’ 37 Here For Life Andrea Luka Zimmerman, Adrian Jackson 2019 UK 87’ 42 horizōn Sid Iandovka, Anya Tsyrlina 2019 Switzerland, Russia, USA 7’ 43 I Have Seen Nothing, I Have Seen All Yaser Kassab 2019 Syria 19’ 35 I have Sinned a Rapturous Sin Maryam Tafakory 2018 Iran, UK 8’ 43 If You Knew Stroma Cairns 2019 UK 5’ 35

It has to be lived once and dreamed twice Rainer Kohlberger 2019 Austria, Germany 28’ 48 Katatsumori Naomi Kawase 1994 Japan 40’ 40 Labour/Leisure Ryan Ermacora & Jessica Johnson 2019 Canada 19’ 28 Las Nubes Juan Pablo Gonzales 2018 Mexico, USA 20’ 31 Last Night I Saw You Smiling Kavich Neang 2019 Cambodia, France 77’ 45 Many Undulating Things Bo Wang, Pan Lu 2019 United States, South Korea, 126’ 30 Hong Kong China Midnight Family Luke Lorentzen 2019 USA 81’ 29 Movements of a Nearby Mountain Sebastian Brameshuber 2019 Austria 85’ 34 MS Slavic 7 Sofia Bohdanowicz, Deragh Campbell 2018 Canada 64’ 44 No Data Plan Miko Revereza 2019 USA 70’ 32 On the Border Yoshiki Nishimura 2018 Japan 7’ 43 Paper Airplane Zhao Liang 2001 China 77’ 33 Parallel II Harun Farocki 2014 Germany 9’ 37 Petition Zhao Liang 2009 China, France 124’ 40 Private Black Motherhood & Public Stacia Brown 2017 USA 13’ 36 White Protest [Audio] Railway Men Erige Sehiri 2018 Tunisia, Switzerland, France, Qatar 73’ 38 ROW-cub [Audio] Neena Pathak 2019 USA 5’ 36 See Heaven Naomi Kawase 1995 Japan 10’ 40 Sighting [Audio] Action Pyramid 2018 7’ 34 Sira Rolla Tahir 2018 Canada, Egypt 6’ 35 Sky, Wind, Fire, Water, Earth Naomi Kawase 2001 Japan 50’ 38 Slam Marc Levin 1998 USA 99’ 47 So Dear, So Lovely Diana Allan 2018 Lebanon, Canada 24’ 35 Solidarity Lucy Parker 2019 UK 76’ 37 Summer on the Estate Eric Harwood 1991 UK 38’ Taste of Hope Laura Coppens 2019 Switzerland, Germany 70’ 30 The Blessed Assurance Isabelle Carbonell 2018 USA 22’ 28 The Circle Lanre Malaolu 2019 UK 15’ 28 The Crosses Teresa Arredondo / Carlos Vásquez Méndez 2018 Chile 80’ 39 The Hottest August Brett Story 2019 USA, Canada 94’ 31 The Last Male on Earth Floor van der Meulen 2019 Netherlands, Belgium, Germany 72’ 34 The Trial Sergei Loznitsa 2018 Netherlands 125’ 44 Treasure Island Guillaume Brac 2018 France 97’ 41 Trotters Stuart Pound 2018 UK 1’ 43 Winter’s Yearning Sidse T. Larsen, Sturla Pilskog 2019 Norway, Greenland, Denmark 75’ 41 Yeh Freedom Life Priya Sen 2019 India 70’ 36 Zwei Wege Harun Farocki 1966 Germany 3’ 37 All start times are correct at time of printing. Please check website before travelling to venue. Schedule Arrive promptly as there are no trailers preceding screenings.

Date Time Event Title Venue Date Time Event Title Venue Wed 4 18:30 Elections Curzon Soho Sat 7 19:00 Images Studying Images: Kevin B. Lee ICA Wed 4 20:00 Festival Party: Opening Night Reception Curzon Soho Bar on Harun Farocki Thu 5 10:30 Industry Bootcamp - Branded Visions: Festival Hub - Studio Sat 7 20:00 The Burlington Arms Party The Burlington Arms Working Commercially Sat 7 20:40 Laura Grace Ford Presents: Curzon Soho Thu 5 12:00 Research as Creative Practice Festival Hub - Studio An Act of Unforgetting Thu 5 13:30 Masterclass: Mila Turajlic on Filming a Nation Festival Hub - Studio Sat 7 20:50 Solidarity Regent Street Cinema Thu 5 15.00 Thinking Internationally Festival Hub - Studio Sun 8 11:00 Masterclass: Zhao Liang Festival Hub - Studio Thu 5 16:00 The Whickers RAFA Pitch Regent Street Cinema Sun 8 11:30 The Ring of Steel: A Walking Tour Around Starting Point: Spitalfields Thu 5 16.30 The Producer Director Relationship Festival Hub - Studio the City of London Thu 5 17:30 Happy Hour Networking Festival Hub - Lounge Sun 8 12:30 Animating Reality Festival Hub - Studio Thu 5 18:00 The Whickers Audio Evening: ‘It’s Not Easy Being Regent Street Cinema Sun 8 12:40 Railway Men Prince Charles Cinema Green… and Black’ + The Whicker Awards Sun 8 13:30 Naomi Kawase: Embracing + Sky, Wind, Fire, Regent Street Cinema Thu 5 18:15 Shorts: Labour/Leisure Prince Charles Cinema Water, Earth Thu 5 18:30 Midnight Family Curzon Soho Sun 8 13:45 The Crosses Bertha DocHouse Thu 5 18:30 Crime and Punishment ICA Sun 8 14:00 Awards Ceremony Festival Hub - Studio Thu 5 20:00 Festival Party Regent Street Cinema Bar Sun 8 14:15 Breathless Animals ICA Thu 5 20:30 Many Undulating Things Regent Street Cinema Sun 8 15:30 Your Documentary Idea on Paper Festival Hub - Studio Thu 5 20:30 Taste of Hope Bertha DocHouse Sun 8 16:00 Naomi Kawase: Katatsumori + See Heaven Regent Street Cinema Fri 6 10:00 Expanded Realities Symposium Digital Catault + Chiri Fri 6 10:30 Today In Focus Festival Hub - Studio Sun 8 16:00 Analogue Foundation: Sunday Listening Session ICA - Studio Fri 6 12:00 Take It Personal: Sayre Quevedo Festival Hub - Studio Sun 8 16:30 Petition ICA Fri 6 13:30 Masterclass: Sruthi Pinnamaneni Festival Hub - Studio Sun 8 16:30 Happy Hour Networking Festival Hub - Lounge Fri 6 15:30 In the Dark Presents: The Dark Room Festival Hub - Studio Sun 8 17:15 Treasure Island Curzon Soho Fri 6 16:00 BFI Doc Society Drop-In Festival Hub - Lounge Sun 8 18:10 Winter’s Yearning Regent Street Cinema Fri 6 17:30 Happy Hour Networking Festival Hub - Lounge Sun 8 19:00 Festival Party Curzon Soho Bar Fri 6 18:30 The Hottest August Curzon Soho Sun 8 20:35 Here For Life Regent Street Cinema Fri 6 18:30 Caballerango Bertha DocHouse Mon 9 10:30 Industry Bootcamp - What Funders Want: Festival Hub - Studio Fri 6 18:40 Rainer Kohlberger: Brainbows Regent Street Cinema Meet the Commissioners Fri 6 18:45 No Data Plan ICA Mon 9 12:00 Speaking Truth to Power Festival Hub - Studio Fri 6 20:00 Friday Night Party with Anu & Friends ICA Theatre Mon 9 13:30 Contemplating the Cut: Editors Roundtable Festival Hub - Studio Fri 6 20:30 Belonging Regent Street Cinema Mon 9 15:00 The Body in Non-Fiction Cinema Festival Hub - Studio Sat 7 10:30 Industry Bootcamp - Making the Leap: Festival Hub - Studio Mon 9 16:30 Small but Mighty: Short Docs Festival Hub - Studio Your First Feature Mon 9 17:30 Happy Hour Networking Festival Hub - Lounge Sat 7 12:00 The Observational Lens Festival Hub - Studio Mon 9 18:30 Shabaka Hutchings Presents: Slam Regent Street Cinema Sat 7 12:30 Paper Airplane Prince Charles Cinema Mon 9 18:30 Naomi Kawase: Birth/Mother Curzon Soho Sat 7 13:30 The Emotional Risks of Documentary Making Festival Hub - Studio + Extended Conversation Sat 7 13:30 Greetings From Free Forests Regent Street Cinema Mon 9 19:00 Festival Party Arts Theatre Club Sat 7 14:45 Movements of a Nearby Mountain ICA Mon 9 20:30 Shorts: On the Border Bertha DocHouse Sat 7 15:30 World Records: Artificial Orders Festival Hub - Studio Mon 9 21:10 MS Slavic 7 Regent Street Cinema Sat 7 15:30 The Last Male on Earth Curzon Soho Tue 10 10:30 Clear Cut Pictures Case Study - Festival Hub - Studio Sat 7 16:10 Shorts: I Have Seen Nothing, I Have Seen All Regent Street Cinema Apollo: Forgotten Films Sat 7 17:00 Composer Masterclass: Nainita Desai Festival Hub - Studio Tue 10 12:00 Collaborative Community Filmmaking Festival Hub - Studio Sat 7 18:00 Happy Hour Networking Festival Hub - Lounge Tue 10 18:30 The Trial ICA Sat 7 18:30 Chez Jolie Coiffure Bertha DocHouse Tue 10 19:00 Last Night I Saw You Smiling Regent Street Cinema Sat 7 18:35 Yeh Freedom Life Regent Street Cinema Tue 10 20:00 Festival Party: Closing Night Reception Regent Street Cinema Bar