THE SELF PORTRAIT

Cannes Docs

MONDAY 20 MAY 2019
10:00 1h30

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Doc Corner Screening Room

THE SELF PORTRAIT

Category: Norwegian Showcase

Directed by: Margreth OLIN, Katja HØGSET, Espen WALLIN

Produced by: Margreth OLIN (Speranza Film AS)

Country of production: Norway

Original title: Selvportrettet

Completed in: September 2019

Main contact: Margreth OLIN - lena.sandvik@speranza.no

Lene Marie is an unique talent in the world of photography facing an international breakthrough. Critics claim she’s among the best still photographers in our present time. At the same time she appears to be dying from anorexia. Lene Marie stopped eating when she was 10 years old. She didn’t want to grow up. Twenty years later she still doesn’t eat.