Still: Burning Out - Saskia Gubbels

Burning Out* (prod. Tangerine Tree) by Saskia Gubbels, about inclusivity within the Amsterdam fire department,  is competing for the Audience Award in the Grand Angle section. The doc celebrated its international premiere at CPH:DOX after world premiering at IDFA at the end of last year. SEE NL interviewed Gubbels about her documentary in the run-up to IDFA.  

Rogier Kappers' Glass, My Unfulfilled Life is also joining the Grand Angle section. The funny and melancholic “coming of old age” doc had its international premiere at Thessaloniki's Documentary Festival and was part of IDFA Luminous last year, where it made it to the IDFA Audience Award top 10. Before attending the documentary fest in Amsterdam, SEE NL interviewed Kappers on his midlife crisis self-portrait in which he decides to pursue a boyhood dream: to become a famous musician on the glass organ.

World premiering in the International Medium Length & Short Film Competition is Marcel Mrejen's Memories of an Unborn Sun (NL min. co-prod). Based on eyewitness accounts, hearsay and fake news, it explores the relentless (neo)colonial exploitation of the Algerian territory.

Somewhere between a nature documentary and philosophical fable, the puzzle-like Apple Cider Vinegar* by Sofie Benoot invites us to examine the link between the human body and the planet. The film, minority co-produced by Pieter van Huystee Film (sales: Filmotor), is having its world premiere in the International Feature Film Competition.
 The Miracle of Almería* (min. co-prod. BALDR Film) is presented in the National Competition. In the doc, farmers and migrant workers start a dialogue in order to understand how Almerìa grew from an empty desert to a white, plastic kingdom and thereon to an exhausted wasteland.

Special Screenings

• Occupied City* / Steve McQueen / prod. Family Affair Films / sales: A24
• The Human Surge 3* / Eduardo Williams / NL co-prod. Revolver Amsterdam / sales: Rediance Films
  

Lastly, Grandmamauntsistercat by Zuza Banasińska is selected for DocAlliance. It won a Teddy Award at the Berlinale earlier this year. SEE NL spoke to Zuza before heading to Berlin.  

Find out more about Visions du Réel International Film Festival Nyon here.

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*Film is supported by the Netherlands Film Fund