By the Time It Gets Dark


director:	Anocha Suwichakornpon,
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country:	Thailand
year:	2010 prio:
synopsis:	The storyline chronicles the adventures and misadventures of a strong woman who is looking for freedom in the way she lives. Despite its metaphorical sounding title, the film is based on the physical realities of everyday life. The jury is impressed by the use of unconventional ‘episodic’ storytelling to evoke a strong and highly personal perspective on contemporary Thailand. The story is only advanced by the inner desires of the main character, while exploring the physical realities of everyday life and digging deep into the landscapes, whether they be the factories and high rise buildings of the expanding mega polis of Bangkok or the natural beauty of Thailand. It is a portrait of Thailand that will never make it to the tourist-billboard dotted Bangkok. By The Time It Gets Dark will be the second feature film of a young, yet mature filmmaker that has already impressed the jury with her first feature film Mundane History, supported by the Hubert Bals Fund and currently in competition at IFFR. The script evokes a strong and unique perspective on Thai culture; as marvelous sceneries combined with images and sound overtake established conventions of storytelling. To quote director Anocha Suwichakornpong, ‘It is my intention to make a film that digs deep into the landscapes, whether they be the man-made landscape or the natural landscape [....] it is the heroine’s inner conflicts and her emotions which remain the core of the story, and thus the main subjects of study in this film.’

Truls Lie

Dokumentar.no

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email: truls@dokumentar.no
phone: +47 90855066

In his film company dokumentar.no Lie has since 2008 been working as a film director, cinematographer and producer for documentaries. He works with the new Canon EOS 5D/7D with HD film, and edits in Apple's Final cut.

With Haiti mon Amour (Kjære Haiti, hva nå?) Lie went to Port-au-Prince after the earthqake with Ole Paus and others. We followed the money collected by the norwegian consert Dugnad for Haiti and NRK, and then given to Red Cross, Church Aid and UNICEF. It is edited as a low budget film essay, an montage of images. (se video below)

He has since 2007 worked on a documentary portrait – The Seduced Human – Jørgten Leth and Haiti on the danish renowned filmmaker Jørgen Leth (2011). This one-hour documentary is financed so far by the Norwegian Film Institute with 720 000 kroner – and will be released in 2011. (se video below)

Lie is also editor-in-chief for DOX, the leading European quarterly magazine for documentary films, published by the European Documentary Network. See PDFs of the last magaines below.

Lie has been the editor-in-chief and publisher for Morgenbladet between 1993-2003, and has been editor-in-chief/publisher of the Nordic edition of the monthly newspaper Le Monde diplomatique between 2003-08, where he now is still the publisher and regulary film critic.

Se filmen Kjære Haiti, hva nå nå i august/september 2010 på NRK2
Les også reportasjen En uke som dokumentarist i Port-au-Prince ifm besøket på Haiti i mai 2010 i Le Monde diplomatique (LMD)
Les også kommentaren Den monterte virkeligheten om klippeprosessen i juli 2010 i LMD

Les også kritikken Rystende korrupsjon og klassekam av Leths siste bok i mai 2010 i LMD
Les også artikkelen Haiti mon amour, beretningen om et besøk på Haiti mai 2009, der jeg filmet Jørgen Leth i LMD
Les også artikkelen - En film skal ligne et dikt i tilblivelse, et intervju med Jørgen Leth fra september 2008 i LMD

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Open publication - Free publishing - More documentary