CPH:CONFERENCE - DAY 2

How did the first-time filmmaking team behind Jaripeo craft the film’s lush, poetic language by drawing on their multidisciplinary art backgrounds, and how did embracing a vision of queer, hybrid storytelling shape their journey?

In this panel, filmmakers, policy experts and critics move past the usual doom-or-utopia debate to ask harder questions: How can filmmakers navigate the narrative terrain of technological change and tell complex stories that surfaces power dynamics? Who should own the data, the tools, the infrastructure?

Why are we more drawn to images of dystopia than to acts of collective hope? Do the stories we tell about the future shape our emerging realities, leading to the creation of the very worlds we fear? Does dystopian ideation risk normalising despair?

The consensus amongst documentary peers is unanimous: the most recent golden age of creative documentaries with more bountiful funding, financing, distribution and broadcasting opportunities is now firmly consigned to the history books, leaving in ...