Presented in a world premiere at CPH:DOX in the DOX:AWARD section, Immortals, the second feature film from Swiss director Maja Tschumi, is built around the hopes and broken dreams, but most of all the tenacity, of young people who cannot accept to live in the margins of an oppressive and uncompromising society to which they do not feel they […]
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Finnish director Karoliina Gröndahl is used to shooting the bigger part of her films herself, and her latest is no exception. Presented in a world premiere at CPH:DOX in the NORDIC:DOX section, The Labour of Pain and Joy throws us with almost brutal force into the eye of the storm, in a hospital where a person is about to give birth.
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Single parenthood and independent filmmaking have a lot in common: trials and tribulations, growing pains, and the joys of seeing your creation develop a life of its own, to name a few. It takes sincerity of the highest order to film yourself and your family daily, in an attempt to figure out how messy and
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