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International Competition
Documentary
# 8 |
Monday 21, January 2019 / 8 pm
Lichtblick-Kino
Berlin / Germany
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Our Song to War |
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BERLIN PREMIERE
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Juanita Onzaga
Belgium, Colombia
2018 | 0:15:00
An unusual commemoration called “novenario” – a nine-day prayer in
honour of the dead. But actually it’s about souls, water spirits,
crocodile people and ghosts living on the sites of massacres and
haunting people. Today’s children have long forgotten which grave
belongs to their family. Memories of the dead civilians in Bojayá,
Colombia, killed in a skirmish between FARC rebels and paramilitary
forces in May 2002.
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All inclusive |
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BERLIN PREMIERE
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Corina Schwingruber Ilic
Switzerland
2018 | 0:10:00
In times of terror and blue algae, cruises have replaced the holiday
resorts in Antalya and the Costa Brava as the perfect travel
destination for package tourists. The ships move across the global
seas like floating cities and the never-ending spectacle aboard makes
shore excursions almost redundant. Once you’re immersed in the
structure of forced pleasures you can have ceaseless fun with
aerobics, dancing competitions and captain’s dinners. At least while
your money holds out.
/ In Zeiten von Terror und Blaualgen haben Kreuzfahrten die
Urlaubsresorts in Antalya und an der Costa Brava als perfektes
Reiseziel für Pauschaltouristen abgelöst. Wie schwimmende Städte
bewegen sich die Schiffe durch die Weltmeere, und das nie enden
wollende Spektakel an Bord macht Landgänge fast überflüssig. Wer
einmal in die Struktur des forcierten Vergnügens eingetaucht ist, kann
sich mit Aerobic, Tanzwettbewerb und Captain’s Dinner amüsieren, ohne
Luft zu holen. Zumindest, wenn das Geld reicht.
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Srbenka |
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BERLIN PREMIERE
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Slijepcevic Nebojsa
Craotia
2018 | 1:12:00
During the winter of 1991, Croatia defended itself against the
military aggression of neighbouring Serbia. Among the innocent victims
of this conflict was Aleksandra Zec, a teenager of Serbian origin, who
was hatefully lynched in Zagreb. A generation later, while in Croatian
schools, Serbian pupils continue to be taken for the “enemies” of
yesterday, Oliver Frljic adapts “the Zec affair” at the theatre, with
Nina, a Serbian, born in 2001, in the title role. In front of Nebojša
Slijepcevics camera, the troupe’s rehearsals turn into collective
psychotherapy, interspersed by shots of an empty stage haunted by
personal accounts that build up in voiceover. Through skilful
metatheatre that involves both the troupe’s acting and sense of self
as they work on their own memories, distanced by the theatrical
device, Srbenka delineates a public space likely to break the cycle of
vengeance. Slijepcevics film also constitutes a powerful reflection
on one of the possible functions of art: to dry out, metre by metre,
the cesspool of hatred fed by the entrepreneurs of ethnic cleansing
who continue to act today.
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January 18 - 21, 2019
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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