Self-criticism of a Bourgeois Dog
Julian Radlmaier | Selbstkritik Eines Bürgerlichen Hundes
Germany | 2017 | DCP | 99min | MR: 14 years old
A bourgeois dog and former filmmaker confesses how he became four-legged by failing in love, apple-picking and participating in a revolution. Unable to find financing for his film, Julian is forced to accept a job as a seasonal farmhand. At a party, however, he makes the young Canadian expat Camille believe that he's going to do research for a communist fairy-tale film. To his great surprise, she decides to accompany him, sparking off Julian's lurking romantic fantasies. A political comedy with magic twists.
The Park
Damien Manivel | Le Parc
France | 2016 | DCP | 71min | MR: 14 years old
Summer time. A teenage boy and girl have their first date in a park. Hesitant and shy at first, they soon discover each other, get closer as they wander, and end up falling in love. But as the sun goes down, it is time to part… And a dark night begins.
Spell Reel
Filipa César | Spell Reel
Germany/Portugal/France/ Guinea-Bissau | 2017 | DCP | 96min | MR: 14 years old
In 2011, an archive of film and audio material re-emerged in Bissau. On the verge of complete ruination, the footage testifies to the birth of Guinean cinema as part of the decolonising vision of Amílcar Cabral, the liberation leader assassinated in 1973. In collaboration with the Guinean filmmakers Sana na N’Hada and Flora Gomes, and many allies, Filipa César imagines a journey where the fragile matter from the past operates as a visionary prism of shrapnel to look through. Digitised in Berlin, in superbly vivid tableaux, the film juxtaposes the black-and-white 16mm footage with contemporary digital images, subtly manipulating scale, orientation, and text to alternatively create distance or achieve proximity between past and present.Image and sound (1967-80): José Bolama, Cobumba, Julinh Camará, Djalma Fettermann, Flora Gomes, Josefina Lopes Crato, Sana na N'Hada, Rudi Spee
Image and sound (2012-15): Suleimane Biai, Filipa César, Marta Leite, Nuno da Luz, Dídio Pestana, Benvindo dos Santos, Aissatu Seidi
Additional text and commentary: Anita Fernandez, Flora Gomes, Sana na N'Hada
Rudzienko
Sharon Lockhart | Rudzienko
USA/Poland | 2016 | DCP | 53min | MR: 14 years old
Sharon Lockhart’s film Rudzienko was shot over three years in collaboration with the residents of the Youth Center for Sociotherapy in Rudzienko, Poland. Lockhart conceived of a series of workshops to empower the young women to find their voice. The group worked together to develop dialog and movements out of their collective activities. The resulting film depicts a mix of conversations from the philosophical to everyday teenage concerns. The Polish language film proposes an innovative approach to the relationship of image to language by offsetting the conversations with their textual translations into English, creating a space of quiet reflection.
