Scientist
Hannele Korhonen has one ultimate passion: to be the best at what she does and be recognised for it. Her life changes dramatically when she is awarded a 1,5 million dollars research grant by the United Arab Emirates to participate in their ambitious project to stimulate rainfall over the notoriously arid region. The opportunity to get proper funding and do good sounds amazing. But gradually, Hannele learns that the financiers have their own agenda. Her enthusiasm morphs into an ethical dilemma and inner conflict. If she manages to make it rain, is she creating a way to rule the clouds? What is the ultimate price of ambition?
The Pawnshop by Łukasz Kowalski
PRAGUE: Eight projects developed in the dok.incubator workshop in 2020 were introduced in a live online broadcast on 9 February 2020 in a carefully curated presentation. They were selected for their unique cinematic potential from over one hundred submitted rough cuts. The films were intensively developed throughout 2020 with tutors and experts during and in between three sessions and are all ready for release in the near future.
The year 2020 marked the ninth edition of dok.incubator. Six films from three previous years premiered at Sundance, two of them awarded. Three were launched at Berlinale, one nominated for an Emmy. Last year four dok.incubator films were selected by their respective countries to represent them at the 2021 Academy Awards. As the CEO of dok.incubator Andrea Prenghyová commented, every documentary production presented at this Preview has been hit by coronavirus consequences. The Preview itself took place virtually with modera