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DOEL

CO-PRODUCTION

By Frederik SØLBERG

CZAR FILM - as PROD

Documentary - Completed 2018

Doel is a bittersweet and humoristic portrait of a ghost town in Belgium and a film about why it is so important to have a place to call home.

DokuBaku 2018

Best Feature Film

- Year of production
- 2018
- Genres
- Documentary
- Countries
- BELGIUM, DENMARK
- Languages
- FLEMISH
- Duration
- 70 mn
- Director(s)
- Frederik SØLBERG
- Writer(s)
- Frederik SØLBERG
- Producer(s)
- Frederik SØLBERG, Helle FABER (MADE IN COPENHAGEN)
- Synopsis
- 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 down the town and build a new container dock. Now there is only 24 inhabitants left – a colorful crowd of common and uncommon people struggling with techno ravers, curious urban explorers, and political havoc while clinging onto the idea of keeping their vandalized and abandoned town alive. Frederik Sølberg‘s fun, quirky, and slow cinematic debut film about the outskirts of Europe is a visually stunning portrait of a ghost town and its 24 inhabitants trying to hold on to the dream that their town is a town and their home is a home. ”DOEL” is loaded with subtle humour, visual excess, and crooked cinematic tableau shots. The pace of the film is slow and lingering – often interrupted by abrupt editing and poignant sound design creating a dynamic, refreshing, and adverse expression.