Still: Where Dragons Live - Suzanne Raes

In the Highlights section is Suzanne Raes feature doc Where Dragons Live**. The imaginative and intimate portrayal of an eccentric family coming to terms with the loss of their parents, childhood and family home world premiered at Sheffield Docfest 2024 and was selected for IDFA. SEE NL spoke to Raes about her film before heading to Sheffield. The film is produced by Docmakers, sales are handled by Film Harbour.

Seen Unseen: An Anthology of (Auto)Censorship (prod. Institute of Time) by the Seen Unseen Collective is part of the festival's Artists & Auteurs section. The work, in which a group of filmmakers and artists from Turkey collaborated to create videos on “(auto)censorship”, in response to the increasingly repressive climate in Turkey, world premiered at IFFR and had its international at MoMa Doc Fortnight. 

Furthermore, six Dutch co-productions have been selected throughout different festival sections:

• Flophouse America* | World Premiere
  Monica Strømdahl
  DOX:AWARD (12 films have been selected to compete in the festival's international main competition)
  NL co-prod: Basalt Film

• The Lions By The River Tigris | World Premiere
  Zaradasht Ahmed
  Section: Human:Rights Award (competition)
  NL co-prod: DoxyFixy

• Writing Hawa
  Najiba Noori & Rasul Noori
  Section: Urgent Matters
  NL co-prod: Een van de jongens
  World premiered at IDFA 2024

• Youth (Hard Times) + Youth (Homecoming) 
  Bing Wang
  Section: Artists & AuteursNL co-prod: Volya Films

• Holy Electricity
  Tato Kotetishvili
  Section: Parafictions
  NL co-prod: GoGoFilm
  
  Find out more about CPH:DOX here.

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*Film is supported by the Netherlands Film Fund
**Film is supported by the Netherlands Film Fund and Production Incentive