Daniel Roher (Navalny) and Lars Ostenfeld (Into The Ice) are among the leading international documentary filmmakers taking part in CPH:Conference, the industry event running from March 29 to April 1 as part of Denmark’s CPH:DOX.
The ‘A Morning With’ discussion strand filmmakers will participate in a session about the contemporary role of leaders and the themes of access and risk in non-fiction filmmaking.
All the sessions will be available to watch live for free via this story from March 29 (see below). Festival accreditation is not required.
Roher will be joined in his session by Christoffer Guldbrandsen, Danish director of A Storm Foretold, about the role of Trump advisor Roger Stone in the January 2021 insurrection at the US Capitol building. Navalny premiered at Sundance 2022, and follows the Russian opposition politician who survived an assassination attempt via nerve agent in August 2020.
Further ‘A Morning With’ sessions include a look at the intersection between science and documentary filmmaking, between Lars Ostenfeld, director of CPH:Dox 2022 opening film Into The Ice, and Fire of Love director Sara Dosa.
The final session will see Riotsville, USA filmmaker Sierra Pettengill and The Eclipse director Natasa Urban consider the interconnection between past and present and their relation to memory.
They are all moderated by Screen’s contributing editor Wendy Mitchell.
Find out more about each session below (summaries provided by festival)
Wednesday, March 30 10:30-12:00 CET
A Morning with Sara Dosa and Lars Ostenfeld
Top notch science meets breathtaking and haunting visuals in the films Fire Of Love and Into The Ice. Whether it’s glaciologists studying the melting ice in Greenland or volcanologists fascinated by eruptions, what is the relationship of humankind to nature and vice versa? To what extremes are scientists willing to go to get their material, with filmmakers and audiences tagging along? Where is the line between truth and risk, between beauty and danger? How can films about science be told in an emotionally engaging and visually beautiful way, whilst getting the message about science across?
Thursday, March 31 10:30-12:00 CET
A Morning with Sierra Pettengill and Nataša Urban
The theme of memory is poetically scrutinized in the documentary essays Riotsville, USA and The Eclipse. While the first refers to collective memory, depicting the American militarisation of the late 1960s by the construction of army-built towns, and the latter touches on the individual memory, unearthing director’s growing up in Serbia in the late 1990s, they both reflect the threads between past and present by using analog footage. Is humankind able to make sense of its own recent history? Where does personal – and artistic – responsibility end when evil things unfold?
Previous sessions
A Morning with Daniel Roher and Christoffer Guldbrandsen
In times when the truth is often about political spin, there are those who are willing to sacrifice their own lives for democracy. The documentary Navalny about the courageous Russian opposition leader and anti-corruption activist Alexei Navalny meets the political spin doctor Roger Stone, in the final months of the Trump administration in A Storm Foretold. How to gain access to political figures and be present with your camera at pivotal moments in history? Where do the narrative and reality meet? And what happens when the filming itself acquires a thriller-like quality?
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