NORDOX celebrates its 6th anniversary this year with a selection of more than twenty films from all five Nordic Countries. One major focus of this year’s festival will be North Korea. Two documentaries, ‘The Red Chapel’ and ‘Yodok Stories’, will explore the political and social environment of one of the last countries truly closed off from the outsider’s gaze, each film from their unique perspective.
In addition to many new full-length documentaries, a new feature on this year’s programme is ‘TEMPO in Beijing’. This is a selection of short films provided by the Tempo Documentary Film Festival, a well-known Swedish film festival and partner of NORDOX for several years. NORDOX will also present a retrospective selection this year called ‘The best of NORDOX’, consisting of documentaries that have been audience favourites and highlights in past five festivals. Like in previous years, the audience will get a unique chance to ask questions to some of the directors.
This year, NORDOX will also ‘go on the road’, and bring the festival to Guangzhou and Shanghai for the first time, albeit in a smaller format than in Beijing.
Since its inception in 2006, NORDOX has become a platform for some of the best recent Nordic documentary films in Beijing. The vision of NORDOX is to explore the language of documentary film and screen documentaries that are cutting-edge, artistically ambitious and relevant in this time. The festival also hopes to spread knowledge about Nordic culture in China, as well as create opportunities for cross-cultural dialogue. The selected documentaries outline Nordic perspectives on a diversity of themes including politics, society, environmental issues, art and music.
In 2011, the film festival will also be joined by a photo exhibition presenting recent works from 7 Nordic artists. Read more about the photo exhibition here!
Read more about NORDOX and get up-to-date information on what is happening on their webpage: www.nordox.cn
When and where:
Beijing 12 – 20 November 2011 – Ullens Centre of Contemporary Art (UCCA)
Guangzhou 19 November – 4 December 2011 – Times Museum
Shanghai 29 November – 2 December – Rockbund Art Museum