Son of God

This film was made as part of the Dox:Lab workshop, an international co-operation in which filmmakers from Scandinavian countries (in this case Danish former Tiger Award contender Michael Noer) were linked to filmmakers from developing countries (in this case the Philippines, where the film was shot). Memory and Chips & Liver Girls, in the Raiding Africa program, also came about in this way. Son of God was originally made as a documentary, but during the process the makers deliberately allowed their work to go off the rails and involve more and more fiction. The director also plays the protagonists. The Son of God of the title is a dwarf in a blonde wig, dressed as a bishop and worshipped like a returning Christ. Yet the tiny healer is not just a strange, implausible phenomenon: he has many followers and really does perform miracles. The two filmmakers made two versions of their film, of which this is the longer.