A nishinaabe filmmaker Lisa Jackson’s feature documentary Wilfred Buck is among the Canadian projects making their world premiere in competition at the CPH:DOX Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival.

Wilfred Buck, which will compete for the DOX:Award, is written and directed by Jackson and coproduced by Toronto-based Door Number 3 Productions and the National Film Board of Canada (NFB). Jackson is also a producer alongside Clique Pictures’ Lauren Grant and the NFB’s Alicia Smith.

Wilfred Buck is a hybrid feature documentary that follows the life story of the eponymous Cree Elder through verité-style filming, archives and stylized re-enactments. The film is adapted from Buck’s memoir I Have Lived Four Lives. Jennifer Baichwal, Nicholas de Pencier and the NFB’s David Christensen are executive producers.

The film is produced in association with Clique Pictures, Crave, the Canada Media Fund, Telefilm Canada, Ontario Creates, the Rogers Documentary Fund, the Indigenous Screen Office, the Ford Foundation’s fund Justfilms, and APTN, with the support of Sandbox Films and the Sundance Institute.

French-American director Tal Barda’s feature doc I Shall Not Hate, coproduced by Montreal’s Filmoption International with France’s Mandala Films, will be competing for the Human Rights Award. The film is co-written by Barda, Saskia de Boer and Geoff Klein. Paul Cadieux is the producer for Filmoption.

I Shall Not Hate looks at the life and work of Palestinian-Canadian physician and author Izzeldin Abuelaish. Filmoption is handling international sales.

Sandra Ignagni’s short Ottu rounds out the Canadian titles. Directed and produced by Ignagni, Ottu is a Canada-France-Italy copro that uses found footage and 16mm hand-processing experiments to explore the Mediterranean island of Corsica. The project was funded primarily through the Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate scholarship and was produced as Ignagni’s Master of Fine Arts thesis at Toronto’s York University. Ottu will be competing for the New Vision award.

The Copenhagen festival takes place from March 13 to 24.

Photo courtesy of Door Number 3 Productions