Doc Alliance Selection 2012

The visitors of six film festivals, which are members of the documentary Doc Alliance, can watch three remarkable films in the Doc Alliance Selection competition section.

This year Doc Alliance is proud to welcome FID Marseille as its sixth partner and has chosen a new procedure for selecting the films that will be screened at Visions du Réel, Planete Doc Film Festival Warsaw, FID Marseille, DOK Leipzig, Jihlava IDFF and CPH:DOX Copenhagen. Each member festival has proposed a film critic and a film. Out of the six nominations, three films have been selected. The selected films will be screened at the six festivals and will compete for the Doc Alliance Award to be presented at the end of the year.

Doc Alliance Selection 2012

• Work Hard – Play Hard

Directed by Carmen Losmann / 2011 / Germany

Work and working have become something different. Director Carmen Losmann introduces us to a world made of non-territorial office space where time clocks have ceased to exist. The new workers are multi-mobile knowledge-equipped ones and dominate a post-industrial landscape where human resources are the real value. A world where people are completely committed to making their job their purpose in life.

• The Anabasis of May and Fusako Shigenobu, Masao Adachi, and 27 years without Images

Directed by Eric Baudelaire / 2011 / France

As the screenwriter for directors such as Nagisa Oshima and Kōji Wakamatsu, Masao Adachi was deeply involved with the left-wing radical politics of his time. After a trip to Lebanon to meet the notorious Japanese United Red Army, he decided to join them. Masao Adachi was arrested in 2001 and forced to return to Japan. Director Eric Baudelaire uncovers one of the best-kept secrets of Japanese cinema and society.

• The Will

Directed by Christan Sønderby Jepsen / 2011 / Denmark

Sometimes reality surpasses even the most incredible cock-and-bull stories. And Christian Sønderby Jepsen's tragicomic and warm film about three brothers who inherit a fortune from their grandfather is certainly stranger than fiction. Even in Hollywood, nobody would believe the story… A film which proves that blood is thicker than water, and that true happiness cannot be bought with money.