Battles

Isabelle Tollenaere / Documentary / 2015 / 82'
International Rotterdam Film Festival, 2015 - FIPRESCI award
International Rotterdam Film Festival, 2015 - FIPRESCI award

An associative film in which the Flemish director Isabelle Tolleneare portrays a poetic view on how Europeans are remembering, (re)presenting and interpreting the impactful events of the past 100 years. She presents this through landscapes, people and objects reflecting the scars of their past. The movie shows how bunkers become cow stables in Albania, how forgotten bombs are blown up at an abandoned amusement park in Belgium, how inflatable artillery is put together in Russia and how prison camps in Soviet Russia are sold as tourist attractions in Latvia.
Battles is filmed in the present, it talks about the past, but looks into the future.

 

 

Partners

Producer
Michigan Films VZW
Co-producer
Witfilm
Financed by
Vlaams Audiovisueel Fonds, Netherlands Film Fund

Credits

DOP
Frédéric Noirhomme
Editor
Nico Leunen
Sound
Michel Schöpping

Festivals

International Rotterdam Film Festival, 2015
Visions du Réel, 2015
Nederlands Film Festival, 2015
Film Festival Hamburg, 2015
DMZ, 2015
Krakow Film Festival, 2015
IDFA, 2015
DOCVILLE, 2015
WatchDocs, 2016
Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, 2016

Awards / Nominations

International Rotterdam Film Festival, 2015 - FIPRESCI award

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