КАТАЛОГ СATALOG

DOCU/ЮНІСТЬ DOCU/YOUNG
Darya Bassel,
program coordinator
This year we have extended the target age
for our audience, and to mark this change
we have even invented a new name for the
program: DOCU/YOUNG.
DOCU/YOUNG is a program of documentary
films for teenagers, which includes a
collection of short films and two features.
For the viewers’ convenience, the movie
catalog and the festival program include
age ratings, assigned to each individual film.
The short cinema program includes four
documentaries intended for children from 8
to 12 years. These movies offer exciting and
inspirational stories.
For example, there is a story of a cowboy
(Crowley – Every Cowboy Needs His Horse),
who is driven by one and only passionate
ambition: to ride a wild horse.
Or there is another, about a girl who became
the first dancer of a traditional Norwegian
male folk dance called halling (Dancing
for You). On her way to victory she learns
to appreciate the process rather than the
result.
And there is a unique story in which a
young filmmaker depicts herself and her
relationship with her parents (Touch). As
the director and the main character at the
same time, she explores the issues of family
relationships from the perspective of a
teenager.
The movie White Earth offers a child’s
view on an outstanding and controversial
economic phenomenon. While their parents
spend their days on oil rigs, lost in the
depths of snowy American deserts, the
children observe and record the changes
brought to the society by the oil fever.
I am Kuba and When the Earth Seems to
Be Light are the movies we have prepared
for our teenager audience. In addition to
pressing social and economic phenomena,
the films explore issues which every person
encounters in their teens. What is freedom?
How do I define it for myself? Where are the
limits of my freedom? Am I restricted by the
society I live in, and how should I react to
that? What can I do to change the society,
and how is the society changing me? This
year we will try to reflect on these subjects
together with our young viewers at the
shows and during the following discussions.
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