Imagina / The Recce / United Kingdom, Germany 2026
Before Palestine, the Zionist Congress set its sights on the colonisation of the Ugandan highlands, where it sent an expedition in 1904 to explore their potential as a Jewish homeland. One hundred and twenty years on, the director scouts locations in the region for a possible period film. This authentic and, at the same time, deliberately artificial documentary functions admirably on numerous levels; here, the material blends with the poetic, the practical with the elusive. No man’s lands don’t exist; even the filmmaker could be a coloniser.
Viktor Palák
16 min / Color, DCP
Director Daniel Mann
/ Screenplay Daniel Mann
/ Dir. of Photography Uganda Fixers LTD, Daniel Mann
/ Sound Oz Zichermann
/ Editor Daniel Mann
/ Producer Daniel Mann
/ Sales Square Eyes
Daniel Mann. Selected filmography: Complex (2011, short), Low Tide (2017), The Magic Mountain (2020), Under a Blue Sun (2024), The Recce (2026, short).
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