Ceniza Negra | Land of Ashes

Sofía Quirós Ubeda | Fiction | 2019 | 82 Minutes | Costa Rica, Argentina, Chile, France |

OV with eng. Sub.

Q&A with a crew member after the screening

Friday, 29.11.19 | 20:30

Selva (13) lives in a Caribbean coastal town. After the sudden disappearance of her only motherly figure, Selva is the only one left to take care of her grandfather, who doesn’t want to live anymore. Between mysterious shadows and wild games, she debates whether helping her grandfather achieve his desire, even though this might mean going through her last moments of childhood alone.

With:

Smachleen Gutiérrez, Humberto Samuels, Hortensia Smith & Keha Brown

Camera: Francisca Saéz Agurto

Editor: Ariel Escalante Meza

Art director: Carolina Lett

Sound designer: Christian Cosgrove

Original music: Wissam Hojeij

Casting: Florencia Rovlich

Producer: Mariana Murillo,

Co-Producer: Cecilia Salim, Matías Echeverría & Millaray Cortés, Samuel Chauvin

Production company: Sputnik Films, Murillo Cine, La POST Producciones, Promenades Films

Animus Animalis (istorija apie žmones, žvėris ir daiktus)

Animus Animalis (a story about People, Animals and Things)

Aistė Žegulytė | Documentary | 2018 | 70 Minutes | Lithuania | OV with eng. Sub.

Q&A with a crew member after the screening

Saturday, 30.11.19 | 20:30

A taxidermist, a deer farmer and a zoology museum worker live in the surroundings  where  the  line  between reality  and  artificiality  has  almost  become  imperceptible.  While the dead beasts compete for  the  most  vivid posture and the most real look in their eyes, the human keeps trying to bring back life to things in which life has long been absent.

Production: Giedrė Burokaitė

Camera: Vytautas Katkus LAC

Editor: Mikas Žukauskas

Composer: Gediminas Jakubka, Mindaugas Urbaitis

Production company: Meno avilys

Deckname Jenny

Samira Fansa, Co-Director: Jane George Leonhardt | Fiction | 2019 | 108 Minutes | Germany |

OV with eng. Sub.

 Q&A with director and co-director after the screening

Sunday, 01.12.19 | 20:30

„Jenny’s“ gang won’t go on just watching: Refugees fenced in, in camps along the closed up borders of Europe. The alias “Jenny” belongs without doubt to the young activist. But the seemingly clear association becomes more and more ambiguous, the more endangered it gets for everyone concerned.

With

Sarah Graf – Jenny, Ulf Peter SchWitht - Felix, David Schellenberg – Theo, Susan Ihlenfeld – Merle, Momo Wiedemer – Sybill, Mehrdad Taheri - Halit, Jörg Messerschmidt - Jäntsch, Detlef Neuhaus - Jenny's father, Friedrich-Adolf Roth - Lawyer Wegener, Vera Müller - Militant of the Roten Zora, Beate Maria Schulz - Jenny's mother, Marie Düe – Jenny as a child

DoP: Christian Taschka

Art director: Samira Fansa

Editor: Andre Weinreich

Production: Filmarche, Samira Fansa, Jane George Leonhardt

Sound recorder: Mohammad Alzamel, Celine Keller

Music: Guts Pie Earshot, Nomi, Aino

Princesa Morta do Jacui | Dead Princess of Jacui

Marcela Ilha Bordin | Fiction | 2018 | 17 Minutes | Brazil | OV with eng. Sub.

Short Films I: Smells green, Tastes red | 30.11.19 18:15

Q&A after the screening

The archaeologist Margot Moreira returns to his place of birth, the exclusion zone called Central Depression, in southern Brazil. There, the sun never stops shining.

With: Gabriel Palma, Maíra Flores

Production: Paola Wink, Davi Pretto, Bruno Carboni, Marcela Ilha Bordin

DoP: Glauco Firpo

Editor: Bruno Carboni

Art Director: Maíra Flores, Luciano Scherer

Sound Designer: Tiago Bello, Marcos Lopes da Silva

Photo: Marcela Ilha Bordin

Ulaanbaatarjilt | Ulaanbaatarization

Zulaa Urchuud | Experimental | 2017 | 3 Minutes | Mongolia | OV with eng. Sub.

Short Films I: Smells green, Tastes red | 30.11.19 18:15

Q&A after the screening

In the 1970s Socialist era Ulaanbaatar, Mongolian urban mentality took shape. Originally nomads, Mongolians had to adapt to the urban livelihood and environment, thus the special kind of urban mentality was originated. This change from nomadic way of life to the urbanized life still influences Mongolian people’s mind now.

Photo: Zulaa Urchuud

The Giverny Document (Single Channel)

Ja'Tovia Gary | Experimentell | 2019 | 42 Minutes | United States, France | Original version

Short Films I: Smells green, Tastes red | 30.11.19 18:15

Q&A after the screening

Filmed on location in Harlem, USA and in Claude Monet’s historic gardens in Giverny, France, The Giverny Document is an experimental, multi-textured cinematic poem that meditates on the safety and bodily autonomy of Black women. Filmmaker Ja’Tovia Gary unleashes an arsenal of techniques and materials including direct animation on archival 16mm film, woman on the street interviews, and montage editing techniques to explore the creative virtuosity of Black femme performance while interrogating the histories of those bodies and lives as spaces of forced labor and commodified production.

Photo: Ja'Tovia Gary

Strong Hair

Kokutekeleza Musebeni | Documentary | 2019 | 14 Minutes | Germany | OV with eng. Sub.

Short Films II: Past from now on | 01.12.19 18:15

Q&A after the screening

Even today, Marie the protagonist of STRONG HAIR, will not leave the house without a decorative hair ribbon over her afro hair. Filmmaker Kokutekeleza Musebeni accompanies Marie on her hair journey. Soon it becomes clear that afro hair is still highly political. STRONG HAIR is a powerful reminder of how awareness around racist behavioral patterns rises within the young black generation and how they start to overcome them.

Photo: Holger Borggrefe