DOK.INCUBATOR
is seeking for ambitious feature documentaries in the rough cut stage.
The submission deadline is January 27th, 2021, more about the call can be found here.
A circus wagon and a shipping container serve as stonemason Michael Spengler’s workshop. It is here that he receives people in mourning. Together they design headstones that tell of the deceased.
Mr. and Mrs. Neustadt have lost their two-year-old son. Through their dialogue with Michael they find the words to express their emotions, words that become form and substance—their child’s breath is to be represented in a fragile limestone. Hardburg Stolle is a woman of few words, through Michael’s guidance she dauntlessly swings the hammer that splits a boulder and feels a sense of strength that had been long buried. The Jacob family searches for the essence of their grandfather’s life: lover of nature, bon vivant, patriarch. What should an object that encapsulates him look like? Michael approaches the material and the people with great sensitivity and accompanies each family on a process that often takes months, one decision at a time.
The film tells the story of this difficult and intimate process and shows how working on the stone makes death concrete in the truest sense of the word. As the stone takes on its form, the families discover a new relationship with the deceased—and to life.
DOK Leipzig 2018, DE | Achtung Berlin Film Festival 2019, DE
ver.di Award (DOK Leipzig 2018, DE) | Honorable Mention Goethe-Institute (DOK Leipzig 2018, DE) | Ecumenical Award (Achtung Berlin Film Festival 2019, DE)
is seeking for ambitious feature documentaries in the rough cut stage.
The submission deadline is January 27th, 2021, more about the call can be found here.
Una Primavera,
This Land Is My Land
and
Johanna Dohnal - Visionary of Feminism
Die Dohnal - Frauenministerin / Feministin / Visionärin,
and
Walter Arlen's first century
EFEBO D'ORO 2020
Premio Speciale
Centro Ricerca Narrative e Cinema
FREE ZONE FF 2020
Audience Award
DOQUMENTA 2020
Honorable Mention
VIENNALE 2020
Special Jury Prize
will be screened at
Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis, DE 2021
Opening film
8.00 pm, 17th January (Online)