Elvira Lind (DK)
Film: Bobbi Jene
Experience the critically acclaimed documentary about dancer Bobbi Jene, who has to let go of the legendary Israeli dance company Batsheva to go her own way. Presented in collaboration with Øst For Paradis.
ABOUT THE FILM
Don’t miss this opportunity of a peek behind the personal facade of an artist in a storm of feelings and difficult decisions in an artistic separation process in the highly praised documentary Bobbi Jene by the Danish director Elvira Lind in collaboration with Øst for Paradis.
The american-born dancer Bobbi Jene has been the starring in the legendary isrealian dance company Batsheva for 10 years. She has decided to pursue a new artistic solo career back home. The final decision and tearing away those well-known bonds she formed to both the country Israel, her loved ones, her fellow dancers in the company are turning out more painful than first expected.
Bobbi Jene has to say her goodbyes to choreographer and mentor, Ohad Naharin. Will the stormy love relation to the isralian dancer Or survive the distance?
A documentary about being torn between career and love and ultimately following your own path as an artist in the midst of change, through choices and insecurity of the unknown.
The film premiered in 2018 and won both the award for ‘Best Documentary’, ‘Best Photographer’ and ‘Best Editing’ at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York.
English language with Danish subtitles.
Age limit: Allowed for children from 11 years.
CREDITS
Director: Elvira Lind
Producer: Sara Stockmann, Julie Leerskov
Photographer: Elvira Lind
Editor: Adam Nielsen
Sound: Jacques Pedersen, Mattias Sandstrøm
Composer: Uno Helmersson
Actor: Bobbi Jene Smith
Production countries: Danmark, Sverige, Israel, USA
Danish distribution: Det Danske Filminstitut, Camera Film