DOK Leipzig will open on 28 October with the world premiere of Tracing Light, the latest film by German filmmaker Thomas Riedelsheimer.
Tracing Light explores the phenomenon of light, bridging art and physics. The film journeys from Scotland’s Outer Hebrides to the Advanced Research Centre at the University of Glasgow and the Max Planck Institute in Erlangen. Featuring leading scientists and artists like Ruth Jarman, Joe Gerhardt, Julie Brook, Johannes Brunner, and Raimund Ritz, it investigates the nature of light, photon behavior, and human perception.
The festival also presents two out-of-competition sections: «Camera Lucida» and «Panorama: Central and Eastern Europe.» «Camera Lucida» showcases five documentary films with distinctive artistic character, appealing to fans of unconventional cinema. Topics range from the sixth mass extinction to an Argentinian zoo and a U.S. salt lake that was once a nuclear testing ground.
«Panorama: Central and Eastern Europe» features films from Georgia, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Germany, Poland, and Croatia. The documentaries explore themes such as rural depopulation, balancing family and personal dreams, strict parenting methods, women’s roles in Albania, and Poland’s historical tensions in the early 1980s.
