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Why My Mum Loves Russell Crowe

Why My Mum Loves Russell Crowe
Emma van den Berg
International Competition Short Film 2022
Documentary Film
UK,
Netherlands
2022
25 minutes
Dutch
Subtitles: 
English

“Sex does strange things to people!” This sentence reverberates from her childhood. What did her mother mean? What fears did she pass on to Emma? The budding filmmaker sets up the camera in her mother’s apartment, invites mum’s friends, creates an open atmosphere. Coby opens up more and more, talks about a repressed topic. At the same time, she gets to show a wholly different side of herself, performing song and dance numbers in front of her daughter’s lens.

Anke Leweke

Credits DOK Leipzig Logo

Director
Emma van den Berg
Cinematographer
Emma van den Berg
Editor
Emma van den Berg
Producer
Emma van den Berg
Co-Producer
Imoje Aikhoje
Sound
Jack Evans, Peter Sant
Score
Joel Whitaker
Funder
Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds
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William Jefferson Wilderness

William Jefferson Wilderness
Ben Young
International Competition Short Film 2020
Documentary Film
UK,
USA
2020
6 minutes
English
Subtitles: 
English

An inventive examination of the legacy of the 1990s: In his experimental short film, Ben Young portrays the figure of the then U.S. president – whom he is said to have met once in person in Louisville, Kentucky – as a foil for the questionable political developments, the beginnings of a globalised world and a society marked by collective amnesia. The director’s intelligent, witty and very personal reckoning with Bill Clinton.

Borjana Gaković

Credits DOK Leipzig Logo

Director
Ben Young
Script
Ben Young
Editor
Theo Watkins
Producer
Ben Young
Sound
Emily Wiles, Jack Eyres
Animation
Theo Watkins