Programme 2014
Sunday | 13.04. |
Festivalzentrum
09:30
Lecture
Nouvelle Vague Polonaise
Dr. Jakub Mikurda: The “Polish New Wave“ as Phantasmatic Criticism – Zuławski, Królikiewicz, Skolimowski
Caligari
11:00
WEST
Christian Schwochow
Germany 2013
East Berlin in the late 1970s. Nelly Senf, a doctor of chemistry, is allowed to leave the German Democratic Republic together with her son Alexey. After crossing the border, the mother and son land in Marienfelde refugee centre in Berlin, where she... > more
Festivalzentrum
11:00
Lecture
Nouvelle Vague Polonaise
Dr. Elzbieta Ostrowska: Transgressions and Regressions. Gender images in Polish Cinema of the 1960s and 1970s
Festivalzentrum
13:00
Closing Panel
Nouvelle Vague Polonaise
Was there a “Nouvelle Vague Polonaise“? And if so, how many?
with Krzysztof Zanussi, Tadeusz Sobolewski, Tadeusz Lubelski, Dr. Magarete Wach
Alpha
14:00
WHEN EVENING FALLS ON BUCHAREST OR METABOLISM
Corneliu Porumboiu
Romania, France 2013
A blasé filmmaker, a young actress, an arduous shoot, a producer who is not amused: the plot of Porumboiu’s latest film is hardly new, the filmmaking process has been the subject of countless films. But the finely honed formal devices and... > more
Murnau Filmtheater
14:00
THE CITY OF THE SUN
Martin Šulík
Czech Republic, Slovak Republic 2005
What’s the best course of action when your country’s in crisis and you’re not only stuck in a two-bit town but out of a job? Karel, Tomaś, Vinco and Milan decide to buy a delivery van and strike down the path of... > more
Caligari
14:30
ZELIM'S CONFESSION
Natalia Mikhaylova
Germany 2013
“Actually, I want to forget these things,” says Zelim at the start of the film. But then the young man begins to talk. For a Chechen refugee in Ingushetia, waiting at a bus-stop proved to be a bad idea: he was spotted by a passing police... > more
Alpha
16:00
SHAME
Yusup Razykov
Russia 2013
In her fashionable blue coat, Lena doesn’t fit into the forbidding grey world of a dilapidated military base in northern Russia. It’s the height of polar winter and the Kola Peninsula a snowy wasteland. Lena is the new wife of a... > more
Caligari
16:00
QUOD ERAT DEMONSTRANDUM
Andrei Gruzsniczki
Romania 2013
As the title suggests, the drama QUOD ERAT DEMOSTRANDUM displays a certain affinity with academia and advanced mathematics. As such, the film goes against the grain of the Romanian New Wave. The old-school patina, moreover, is deepened by the plain... > more
Festivalzentrum
16:00
JUDGMENT IN HUNGARY
Eszter Hajdú
Hungary, Germany 2013
In 2008 and 2009 several Roma villages in Hungary were attacked by far-right extremists. Six people died, among them a five-year-old child. The film documents the two-and-a-half-year trial of four suspects against whom a case was brought. Because... > more
Murnau Filmtheater
16:00
STRANGER
Małgorzata Szumowska
Poland, Germany 2004
Eva, a young woman who works in a petrol station, is pregnant. The father’s done a bunk. She intends to have an abortion, but a stranger steals her money on her way to the clinic. She happens to overhear a doctor telling a mother-to-be that... > more
Alpha
18:00
KERTU.LOVE IS BLIND
Ilmar Raag
Estonia 2013
Kertu is not like other people. As far as the locals on the Estonian island of Saaremaa are concerned, the shy postwoman with girlish features is slightly mad. During the summer solstice celebrations Kertu suddenly disappears. The next morning... > more
Caligari
18:00
FILM PRIZE OF THE ROBERT BOSCH STIFTUNG
some of the particular highlights from the past ten years and A presentation of three works in progress commenced during the past two years.
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Kino DFM, Frankfurt
18:00
SHAME
Yusup Razykov
Russia 2013
In her fashionable blue coat, Lena doesn’t fit into the forbidding grey world of a dilapidated military base in northern Russia. It’s the height of polar winter and the Kola Peninsula a snowy wasteland. Lena is the new wife of a... > more
Murnau Filmtheater
18:00
THE CRUISE
Marek Piwowski
Poland 1970
A stowaway, of all people, is the activities co-ordinator who rules a cruise ship with a rod of iron. His activities reflect the behavioural stereotypes and ideologies of the communist system. The mood is grotesque, the dialogue surreal, the... > more
Festivalzentrum
18:30
VALLEY OF SIGHS
Mihai Andrei Leaha, Andrei Crişan, Iulia Elena Hossu
Romania 2013
Transnistria was still part of the Soviet Union when German and Romanian troops invaded in 1941. Along with many Jewish deportees, some 25,000 Roma were transported there from Romania. The prisoners were interred in appalling conditions, for the... > more
Alpha
20:00
FOR MARX …
Svetlana Baskova
Russia 2012
A steelworks in the Russian provinces. Workers labouring under already dire conditions face wage cuts and pay-offs. A group of workers employees decide to form a trade union. The factory owner feels more irritated than alarmed – his main... > more
Caligari
20:00
FREE RANGE - BALLAD ON APPROVING OF THE WORLD
Veiko Õunpuu
Estonia 2013
Fred, a film critic, finds himself out of a job: the editor-in-chief was not impressed by his hatchet job, richly punctuated with expletives, on Terrence Malick’s TREE OF LIFE. Fred’s not overly worried: he needs time for his own... > more
Festivalzentrum
20:00
ZELIM'S CONFESSION
Natalia Mikhaylova
Germany 2013
“Actually, I want to forget these things,” says Zelim at the start of the film. But then the young man begins to talk. For a Chechen refugee in Ingushetia, waiting at a bus-stop proved to be a bad idea: he was spotted by a passing police... > more
Murnau Filmtheater
20:00
THROUGH AND THROUGH
Grzegorz Królikiewicz
Poland 1972
A socially disadvantaged couple murders two old-age pensioners on impulse. The protagonists’ sense of futility, of being despised by the world around them, rouses an unquenchable desire to perpetrate a crime that calls to mind the resolute... > more
Palatin, Mainz
20:00
ME TOO
Aleksey Balabanov
Russia 2012
IN MEMORIAM ALEKSEY BALABANOV
Aleksey Balabanov, one of the most wayward and controversial Russian directors of the post-Soviet era, died aged 54 in May 2013. After initially establishing his filmmaking reputation with literary... > more
Programmkino Rex
20:15
KNIFE IN THE WATER
Roman Polański
Poland 1961
A chance encounter as starting point for a biting social analysis: a day out on the lake, two men and one woman desired by both her companions, a car made in the West, a yacht. Critics deemed that the embittered competition for status objects... > more
Kino DFM, Frankfurt
20:30
WHEN EVENING FALLS ON BUCHAREST OR METABOLISM
Corneliu Porumboiu
Romania, France 2013
A blasé filmmaker, a young actress, an arduous shoot, a producer who is not amused: the plot of Porumboiu’s latest film is hardly new, the filmmaking process has been the subject of countless films. But the finely honed formal devices and... > more
Alpha
22:00
A SPECTRE IS HAUNTING EUROPE
Julian Radlmaier
Germany 2012
A prologue in which two French men meditate on art, on Marx’s Capital, on bygone revolutionary times. A Georgian eking out a precarious existence in Berlin is about to hang Kazimir Malevich’s Black Square on his kitchen wall when the... > more
Caligari
22:00
SLOVAK SHORTS
4 Short Films
83 min.
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Festivalzentrum
22:00
Film Discussions
ZELIM’S CONFESSION / ZELIMS BEKENNTNIS / ZELIM’S CONFESSION
QUOD ERAT DEMONSTRANDUM / QUOD ERAT DEMONSTRANDUM / QUOD ERAT DEMONSTRANDUM
FREE RANGE – BALLAAD MAIILMA HEAKSIITMISEST / FREE RANGE – BALLADE VON DER... > more
Festivalzentrum
22:00
MARRIED TO THE SWISS FRANC
Arsen Oremović
Croatia 2013
The dream of home ownership suddenly seems less remote when banks are willing and eager to furnish a loan. For some 120,000 Croats, however, the sweet and simple deal turned out to be misleading if not to say deceptive. Encouraged by politicians and... > more
Murnau Filmtheater
22:00
THE THIRD PART OF THE NIGHT
Andrzej Żuławski
Poland 1971
This apocalyptic vision set in Lviv (Lemberg) under German occupation offers a highly idiosyncratic take on the authentic experiences of a writer who, recruited to play host for lice, contributes to the occupiers’ development of a vaccination... > more