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Focus Germany
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Monday, December 15th, 2014 / 4 pm
Maison Heinrich Heine
Cité Universitaire / Paris
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Taweez - l'auteur de talismans
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Taweez – der Talismannschreiber |
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Ali Hakim
Germany
2014 | 0:20:00
Taweez tells the story of a lonely old talisman writer in a little afghan village who already gave up hope to receive acknowledgement in life. But after rumors spread in the village, people elevate him to a messiah. Taweez tells the story of a lonely old talisman writer in a little afghan village who already gave up hope to receive acknowledgement in life. But after rumors spread in the village, people elevate him to a messiah. While some of the people woreship him, others fear his power. Fear transforms to hate and hate needs a goal. This is a story about the dangers fanatism, superstition and the besetment of otherness.
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The Bathtub
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Die Badewanne |
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Gloria Endres de Oliveira
Germany
2014 | 0:08:00
Tub is an 8-minute experimental short film, written, directed and edited by Gloria Endres de Oliveira and starring Melissa-Kelly Franklin. It is based on & influenced by: Shakespeare's Ophelia and her Pre-Raphaelite depictions; 19th century asylums for women & their treatment form for hysteria called Hydrotherapy, Hans Christian Andersen's "The Little Mermaid", found footage horror films, Jung's and Freud's models of dream interpretation, the footage of Laura Palmer and Donna at a picnic in "Twin Peaks" and the Japanese, Korean and American screen adaptations of Koji Suzuki's novel Ringu.
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Eternity
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Die Ewigkeit |
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Patrick Müller
Germany
2013 | 0:04:00
Healing breaks and changes are the subject in Arthur Rimbaud's (1854-1891) autobiographical nature poem, which is confronted with equally disturbing images.
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Bahar in Wonderland
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Behrooz Karamizade
Germany
2013 | 0:17:00
Young Bahar is surrounded by danger as she and her father try to make their way from Syria to Germany, but she believes she has found her own unique way to defend herself and fight her fears.
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The last will
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Erledigung einer Sache |
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Dustin Loose
Germany
2014 | 0:20:00
To fulfill the last will of his mother, the young Jakob Adler needs to meet his biological father, who is inmate of a forensic psychiatric hospital for murdering his own brother for over 25 years. Jakob wants to talk to the doctor in charge before and unfolds the true scale of the tragedy that happened long time ago.
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Playground: Matter
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Tobias S. Hoffmann
Germany
2014 | 0:02:30
Nanotechnology is a highly controversial key technology of the 21st century. It does not only promise groundbreaking achievments in medicine, energy generation and environment protection – it also entails risks for nature and society. „Playground: Matter“ shows the large spectrum of future developments of Nanotech without giving a pre-built opinion. Which aims do we want to support? How will we take responsibilty? This new form of scientific communication combines cinematic storytelling and creative 3D animations to call the attention of the audience to the divisive topic Nanotechnology in an innovative and aesthetic way.
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Swimming of Stones
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Peter Jonas
Germany
2014 | 0:03:15
You better start swimming or you`ll sink like a stone, drenched to the bone. For the times they are a-changin.
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Do it !
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Tu' es! |
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Andreas Irnstorfer
Germany
2013 | 0:30:00
In search for social awareness and fame, Leon, an internet video activist and August, a dissatisfied and bored bank assistant, meet each other by chance. Together they shoot videos for Leon’s blog, which is meant to call attention to social deficits in society. While the number of clicks rises, their friendship grows deeper. Yet to create something that lasts in times of medial ephemerality, August decides that their videos have to be more extreme. Soon the addiction of success and clicks displaced the ideals they shared in the beginning. Not until Leon realizes that August will not stop at harming other people, Leon decides to break their friendship. As the police recovers a dead body from a lion’s compound the question arises: `How far would you go for you immortality?´
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December 5th - 15th, 2014
The FISDN presents film secions focused on different countries and regions. This section intends to discover and explore different spaces and cultures with the aim to understand the specific regional, political and social circumstances, do reconstruct the emotional and intellectual spécificities of a special region or country. In this critical work we belief it's essencial to prefer films which rufuse, in its form and expression, the retake of sterotype ways of reality restituition. This refuse is an act of resistance against the actual period of "globalisation", which inclins to impose one dominating model of culture and habitutes.
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