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The 15th International Festival
Signes de Nuit
in Berlin
Germany
January 21 - 22 , 2017
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Competition International
Documentary
# 1 |
Saturday 21, January 2017 / 2 pm
ACUDkino
Berlin / Germany
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Dum Spiro Spero |
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GERMAN PREMIERE
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Pero Kvesic
Croatia
2016 | 0:50:00
"Dum spiro spero" is a Latin saying meaning ‘while I breathe, I hope’.
Until this day it has remained the motto of those who refuse to quit
until the very last breath. Intertwining daily life, books and death,
the author speaks about losing strength and the strength to cope with
the loss. Everybody die the moment they are born, which is the
greatest reason why to understand the values of life and enjoy the
joys it gives. The acclaimed writer after a series of book made his
first film and his literatal experience spoke in a cinematic language
that reaches the level of his literature. Details of ordinary
surrounding and daily life fit in with the story they engender. This
film is to a great extent a one-man show, because next to the script
and directing, the author also filmed all the material and played the
mouth harp.
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My privat War |
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Lidija Zelovic
Netherlands
2016 | 0:57:00
How do you get to terms with your war history? And how can you ensure
that your children don’t have to carry this burden? In this very
personal documentary Lidija Zelovic tries to answer this question.
Zelovic grew up in Bosniain the city of Sarajevo, then still
Yugoslavia, where the civil war of 1992 divided the population. In
1993, she fled to the Netherlands. As a war correspondent for the BBC
and later as a filmmaker, she kept trying to get closer to the truth
about war.
What happens to a family long after the war is over? During the making
of this film Zelovic finds that the real war is raging within people.
Even inside herself. To try and leave the past behind and no longer
feel like a refugee, Zelovic tries to identify the source of
hostility. She gets in touch with a cousin who was a sniper during the
war, speaks with a journalist friend who was close to Mladic and goes
on a holiday with her son back to the family roots.
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January 21 - 22, 2017
An international jury overview the sections of short films coming from all over the world. We prefer documentaries which succeed in representing the complexity of reality and discover in a new way its sensible and perturbing aspects on the same time accentuating the ambivalent and enigmatic status of reality in avoiding sterotypes and simplifing conclusions.
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