Doel

"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".

Awarded as Best Feature Film @ DokuBaku 2018

Visions du Réel, Switzerland - BelDocs, Serbia - Filmmaker Day, Italy - Viewpoint Ghent Documentary Film Festival, Belgium - Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam The Netherlands - PROVINZIALE Eberswalde Filmest, Germany - Gentofte Hovedbibliotek, Denmark - Freunde von Freunden, Germany - Cinema L'Univers, France - CPH:DOX, Denmark - Sheffield DocFest, UK - DOK Leipzig, Germany - DMZ Docs, South Korea - International Debut Documentary Film Festival Rudnik, Russia - DokuFest, Kosovo - Black Canvas FCC Film Festival, Mexico - DokuBaku, Azerbaijan, 2018 (Awarded for Best Feature Film) - Escales Documentaires, France - Kino Svetozor, Prague - IndieCork Film Festival, Ireland - Samsø Bio, Denmark - Øst For Paradis, Denmark - HEART, Herning Museum of Contemporary Art, Denmark

Director: Frederik Solberg

Cinematographer: Jonathan Wannyn

Editor: Mads Hedegaard

Sound: Neal Willaert

Grading: Jian Zhi Zhang

Producer: Made In Copenhagen

Camera: Sony Fs7

Lenses: Cine Alta T2.0