Started the day with Nelly & Nadine, a moving detailed history of two women who fell in love in a German POW camp in WW2 and spent the rest of their lives together. The story is relatively newly uncovered, using some astounding archive footage and unearthed family 8mm film and photos. Their relationship has clearly not been openly discussed in the family for years and is slowly and emotionally unearthed through Nelly’s granddaughter (now middle aged herself), who has been putting off reading her grandmother’s diaries and looking through her treasures until now.
I had a lovely meeting at lunch with Adam Isenberg, co-director of Eat Your Catfish, which sounds like a fascinating and unique film (and took approx 7 years to edit!). Adam contacted me for a chat about a new film idea he has, which was a most enjoyable discussion and I very much look forward to hearing his future progress. I will certainly catch up with Eat Your Catfish at the first possible opportunity!
Finally I saw Pryvoz, a marvellous fly-on-the-wall slice of life from a market in Ukraine. The film follows several rough and ready ‘characters’ as well as a look at a number of stalls, stallholders and surroundings to give a real sense of daily life, place and atmosphere. Some excellent footage of cute market cat life also. The film is being screened as part of a cultural exchange with Ukraine as film festivals there are unable to take place at present, and DocFest is helping support some of these films and events.
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