Lovebox

This documentary is a real treasure – a glimpse into an extraordinarily different world, sensitively told and deeply moving. A group of people from different countries decide to leave our everyday world behind for a few days and immerse themselves in a magical happening: the Burning in South Africa. There, they bring a carefully planned experiment to life with the Lovebox. Anyone who enters it embarks on a short, imaginary journey into space, where they encounter a stranger simply by looking into each other’s eyes. What happens between these two space travellers can be incredibly emotional…

**“The Lovebox Experience”** is based on a simple idea: Two strangers sit opposite each other in a small chamber, look at each other for a long time, and then start talking. About their experiences of love, closeness, and vulnerability. What emerges are moments of remarkable intensity and intimacy that we, as viewers, are privileged to witness. The film trusts in the idea that people become interesting to one another when they truly listen to each other. In doing so, it offers a refreshing, encouraging, and long-overdue counterpoint to the forces of hatred and polarization spreading all around…