Land at CPH:DOX Copenhagen in version ON LINE Welcome Palermo directed by MASBEDO with selfies Augustine Ferrente

The Copenhagen Documentary Festival is the most important event in Scandinavia and also among the most important in the world dedicated to documentaries and has an audience of over 100.000 audience. It has also various competitive sections, as well as concerts, exhibitions, Market projections, panel.

Because of the 19-COVID pandemic, however, the festival is converted into the digital version that sees six sections of the competition that will be esperite via web, the availability of Danish films and part of CPH sections:MARKET, CPH:FORUM, CPH:CONFERENCE e CPH:LAB transferred online

Live Debates

Although 160 debates in the Copenhagen cinemas have been canceled, There are still important to follow conversations in digital films – online!

Is an essential part of CPH: DOX to follow up the film with the insights and opinions of experts, debates, researchers and directors, and so we look forward to presenting for the first time a digital debate in the festival program.

With great support from both producers of the film that the panellists, we present a total of 15 debates on the heels of very different films. All debates can be experienced for free and live during the festival. 16:00 e 20:00 everyday.

We look forward to get comfortable on the couch and take part in important conversations about the world that has not stopped, even if we are at home.

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Among the films in competition from Italy's first two award-winning selfie Augustine Ferrente that needs no further introduction launched in the Berlinale Panorama 2018 and the other of a collective Palermo. It is Welcome Palermo.

Welcome Palermo It is the formal and narrative evolution of the project Videomobile, the articulated video installation multi channel conceived and realized by MASBEDO for Manifesta 12 Palermo. Welcome Palermo takes its title from a mural that welcomes everyone who comes to the city from: a welcome message dystopian, which places the city as a protagonist and not as a simple frame.

The heart of the film about 80 minutes is the journey of Videomobile, an old van goods OM seventies that artists have turned into a "video bandwagon", means of testing used to scan the area and the Sicilian artist film.

Research, started in 2018 thanks to the suggestions developed by the curatorial team of Manifesta 12, He is involving people who have worked in the film industry in almost anonymous or marginal and investigated the leading figures of the iconic movie scene, as Vittorio De Seta, Hugh Gregory, Luchino Visconti.

Welcome Palermo is not only a deepening of the material collected for the project Manifesta 12, but a further evolution of the research process continued by the artists at the end of the event. The "video bandwagon" has become a stage for new performances, actions and interviews, involving personalities such as the Mayor of Palermo Leoluca Orlando, Princess Victoria due Villafranca and Valguarnera and the Tamil community living in the city.

The Videomobile of MASBEDO performs a physical journey through the archives and memory of the Sicilian research film and becomes the means by which memory takes shape and meaning in contemporary society.

But the most interesting part are the films of NORDIC section for the landscapes in which we are not accustomed kidnap.

We report through the first two films is SJÄLÖ – Island of Souls that is presented the world premiere of The writer and film director Lotta Petronella will compete with other 11 NORDIC films in competition: DOX Award, a selection of documentaries from the Nordic countries, reflecting the diversity of the films with a clear vision and a personal touch.

SEILI, that means island of the soul, He has captured the fate of countless women for hundreds of years isolated in the hospital in the Baltic Sea island of Själö. With a very personal interest and a unique aesthetic approach, Finnish artist Lotta Petronella immersed herself in the history of the institution, following the few traces remained. Explore the old building, its archives and contrasted the beautiful landscape that surrounds it. Reliving those memories hidden, finally he gives voice to the unknown and forgotten women.

The second is an environmental thriller WOOD, directors Monica Lazurean-Gorgan, Michaela Kirst ed Ebba Sinzinger, world premiere at CPH: DOX. The film will be screened in the F: ACT Award, a line-up 10 film between investigative journalism and documentary film.

Every two seconds the illegal loggers destroy forests the size of a football field. From taiga in Siberia to the primary forests of Romania to the jungle in Peru – all over the world – billions of dollars are taken from illegal logging. Benefiting from the low prices at hardware and furniture stores, consumers are unaware of the illegal origins of these products. WOOD wants to raise public awareness and political exhaustion on the disastrous consequences of the forests. Given the poor state of “green lung” the planet has long assumed dramatic proportions, This condemnation documentary sheds light on the mechanisms underlying illegal logging: political corruption, indifference of the authorities and if the so-called control systems are capable of protecting individual greed community.

WOOD He follows the environmental activist Alexander von Bismarck on a trip in the Russian taiga, where deforestation is even a threat to the existence of the Siberian tiger. Von Bismarck meets anonymous factories in northern China, where the illegal Russian timber is processed and dispatched. The film takes us in the US, where the biggest company of wood flooring continues to sell products even if doubts are already under investigation. We are located in primary forests in Romania, who, a great Austrian businessman prepares illegal timber in national parks. The jungles of Peru have laid the groundwork: Mafia timber exploits and terrorizes the owners of the forest, definitely, the indigenous population.