Block 5. Fathers
dir. Jack Dunphy ("Bob's Funeral"); Ömer Sami ("Eternal Father"); Siddharth Potade, Nikhil Lama ("Dentures"); Camilla Jämting ("Project Dad") / USA/2023 („Bob's Funeral”); Denmark/2023 ("Eternal Father"); India/2023 ("Dentures"); Norway, Sweden, Estonia/2023 ("Project Dad") / 94min.
„Bob's Funeral”, dir. Jack Dunphy, USA 2023, 19 min
Searching for the root of generational trauma, the director takes a camera into his estranged grandfather’s funeral.
"Eternal Father", dir. Ömer Sami, Denmark 2023, 31 min.
Nasar still feels young. But the truth is that the time he has ahead of him is becoming much shorter than the time behind him. His body is starting to show wear and tear, and there’s a chance he won’t live to see his young children grow up. In an attempt to cheat death, the amiable Brit wants to be cryonically frozen at the moment when his heart stops beating –the idea is that in a distant future, all being well, he can then return to life again. The film unfolds in the warm embrace of the family, observing the effects of Nasar’s decision on his loved ones from within. His desire to evade death, partly inspired by the traumatic loss of his mother, means that the family members are constantly preoccupied with his mortality –as well as their own. After all, what sense does it make if Nasar has himself frozen but his wife and children don’t? What if he wakes up in a world full of strangers?
"Dentures", dir. Siddharth Potade, Nikhil Lama, India 2023, 16 min.
It is a special day for Ajju: he is celebrating his father's 90th birthday. However, the latter is suffering from dementia. He is continually losing his bearings and has problems recognizing his own son. While his party is ongoing, the father embarks on a solitary quest to find his teeth, presumably lost somewhere in the hotel where the celebration is taking place. For him, the hotel is a strangely familiar non-place, completely void of memories, which he wanders through in a disconcerting hallucinatory quest for his missing prosthesis.
"Project Dad", dir. Camilla Jämting, Norway, Sweden, Estonia 2023, 28 min.
Camilla's dad is a pick-up artist who teaches other men how to succeed on Tinder, and who seeks self-development through ice-cold topless walks inspired by Wim Hof. Camilla is an artist and a feminist, and there's not much she and her father agree on. How can they maintain a strong bond?
- duration:
- 94 min
- country:
- USA/2023 („Bob's Funeral”); Denmark/2023 ("Eternal Father"); India/2023 ("Dentures"); Norway, Sweden, Estonia/2023 ("Project Dad")
- director:
- Jack Dunphy ("Bob's Funeral"); Ömer Sami ("Eternal Father"); Siddharth Potade, Nikhil Lama ("Dentures"); Camilla Jämting ("Project Dad")
- cinematography:
- Alexander Girav ("Bob's Funeral"); Roxana Reiss ("Eternal Father"); Jigmet Wangchuk ("Dentures"); Petter Blix ("Project Dad")
- producer:
- Andrew Morrison / Dumpy Films ("Bob's Funeral"); Alma Dyekjær Giese, Paul Moakley / The National Film School of Denmark, The New Yorker ("Eternal Father"); Prabhav Sharma, Siddharth Potade ("Dentures"); Camilla Jämting / Jämting Konstfilm ("Project Dad")
- selected festivals and awards:
- 2024 – FF Sundance ("Bob's Funeral"); 2023 – IDFA Amsterdam ("Eternal Father"); 2023 – Visions Du Réel, 2023 – IDFA Amsterdam ("Dentures"); 2024 – Göteborg FF ("Project Dad")
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