The Remarkable Life Of Ibelin
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Winner of the Sundance World Cinema Documentary Directing and Audience Awards, this singular, exceptionally powerful documentary reveals a boy’s hidden – and deeply cherished – online life in a video game, discovered by his parents after his death.
Keen gamer Mats Steen was just 25 when he died of a degenerative muscular disease that severely impacted his movement and speech. His parents mourned not only the death of their son, but the experiences he had missed out on. But then they discovered his other life: Mats’ World of Warcraft persona, Ibelin, sulks, jogs, makes friends and falls in love. Norwegian filmmaker Benjamin Ree (The Painter and the Thief) makes use of reconstructed animated gameplay as well as interviews with Mats' online community to reveal the complex, vibrant life that Ibelin/Mats enjoyed in this extraordinarily moving film.
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- Program Strand
- International Documentaries
- Year
- 2024
- Classification
- All Ages
- Country
- Norway
- Language
- In Norwegian with English subtitles
- Director
- Benjamin Ree
- Producer
- Ingvil Giske
- Cinematographer
- Rasmus Tukia, Tore Vollan
- Editor
- Robert Stengård
- Premiere
- Australian Premiere
- Genre
- Animation, Documentary, Festival Award Winners, Scandinavia, Disability, Biography
- Company Credits
- Sales Agent: Netflix
