Sergio Oksman’s oeuvre remains totally unclassifiable, oscillating between reality and fantasy, the personal and the collective, documentary and fiction. Exile Room is proud to present a mini retrospective to the talented Brazilian director that will culminate in a 2-day masterclass that’s not to be missed.
With the support of AC/E Acción Cultural Española and the Spanish Embassy in the Athens.
What’s it like growing up thinking you owe your life to one of the most ruthless murderers in history? Emmy Blum is a 76-year-old redhead, working as a beautician in Sao Paolo, Brazil. According to her, the notorious nazi doctor Josef Mengele was obsessed with redheads!
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Every summer, a crowd of bearded gentlemen meet at Florida, USA, in order to compete for the most convincing Ernest Hemingway double award! But there was one day, specifically in July 1924, when Hemingway himself longed to become someone else.
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In 2013, director Sergio Oksman was reunited with his father, Simao, who had walked out on his family 20 years earlier. Father and son promise each other to meet up a year later and watch the FIFA World Cup 2014 together.
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The chance discovery of an incredible VHS tape leads Sergio Oksman to conjure up the biography of a wannabe superstar, who never got his big break.
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For the duration of two days, Sergio Oksman will dissect his own and other people’s movies, showcasing how reality and fiction feed off each other in documentary filmmaking. The workshop will explore the boundaries that divide the two and how the filmmaking toolkits of each one can be implemented in the other.
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