Documentary feature film
Why is it so important to have a place called home?
Doel is a ghost town in Belgium surrounded by a nuclear power plant, a gigantic container dock, and the port of Antwerp. For decades the inhabitants have been battling the authorities who want to tear the town down and build a new container dock. Now there is only 24 inhabitants left - a colorful crowd of common and uncommon people clinging onto the idea of keeping their vandalized and abandoned town alive. "DOEL" is a quirky, humourous, and poetic portrait of six of the remaining inhabitants and their struggle with Dutch techno ravers, curious urban explorers, and political havoc.
"DOEL" is a slow cinematic ghost town comedy.
Directed by: Frederik Sølberg
Director of Photography: Jonathan Wannyn
Sound recording: Neal Willaert
Assistant director: Sam Peeters
Edited by: Mads Hedegaard
Sound design & mix: Søren Bendz & Andreas Sandborg
Colorgrading: Jian Zhi Zhang
Produced by: Mathilde Hvid Lippmann & Frederik Sølberg
Co-produced by: Puk Lodal, Eisenhardt, Charlotte van Hassel & Kaat Camerlynck
Executive producers: Helle Faber, Eurydice Gysel, Thor Hampus Bank, Emil Johnsen, Peter Leys
Production company: Made In Copenhagen, CZAR Belgium, LOOKING FORWARD & GotFat Productions
Awarded as Best Feature Film at DokuBaku 2018.
Nominated for the NEXT:WAVE competition at CPH:DOX 2018, International Competition at DMZ Docs 2018, International Competition at DokuFest 2018, the DOC ALLIANCE Award 2018, and the New Talent competition at Sheffield DocFest 2018.
Screenings / Selections:
FFD Yogyakarta, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, 2020
Visions du Réel, Nyon, Switzerland, 2019
BelDocs, Belgrade, Serbia, 2019 (International Competition)
Filmmaker Day, Torino, Italy, 2019
Viewpoint Ghent Documentary Film Festival, Ghent, Belgium, 2019
Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 2019
PROVINZIALE Eberswalde Filmest, Eberswalde, Germany, 2019
Arquiteturas Film Festival, Lisbon, Portugal, 2020
Gentofte Bibliotek, Gentofte, Denmark, 2019
Freunde von Freunden, Berlin, Germany, 2019
Cinema L'Univers, Lille, France, 2019
CPH:DOX, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2018 (NEXT:WAVE Competition)
Sheffield DocFest, Sheffield, UK, 2018 (New Talent Competition)
DOK Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, 2018
DMZ Docs, South Korea, 2018 (International Competition)
Gdansk Doc Film Festival, Gdansk, Poland, 2018
International Debut Documentary Film Festival Rudnik, Russia, 2018 (International Competition)
DokuFest, Kosovo, 2018 (International Competition)
Black Canvas FCC Film Festival, Mexico, 2018
DokuBaku, Azerbaijan, 2018 (Awarded for Best Feature Film)
Escales Documentaires, La Rochelle, France, 2018 (International Competition)
Kino Svetozor (Doc Alliance screening), Prague, Czech Republic, 2018
IndieCork Film Festival, Ireland, 2018
Doc Alliance Award, 2018
Samsø Bio, Samsø, Denmark, 2018
Øst For Paradis, Aarhus, Denmark, 2018
HEART, Herning Museum of Contemporary Art, Denmark 2018
