Film Archive

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0.2 Milligrams of Gold

0,2 miligramas de ouro
Diego Quinderé de Carvalho
Competition for the Audience Award Short Film 2021
Documentary Film
Belgium,
Brazil,
Portugal,
Hungary
2021
24 minutes
Portuguese (Brazil),
French,
English
Subtitles: 
English

8,500 kilometres lie between the Amazon and the Ardennes. In his home country of Brazil, Diego Quinderé de Carvalho only looks at the inaccessible and menacing forest from the outside. Its Belgian counter piece, however, is easy to explore. Here, everything is laid out by people, neatly ordered and reduced to the essentials. A geologist, a gold miner and an astronomer provide insights for a philosophical exploration of the origin of existence and the future of our planet.

Kim Busch

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Director
Diego Quinderé de Carvalho
Script
Diego Quinderé de Carvalho
Cinematographer
Leo Foulet
Editor
Diego Quinderé de Carvalho
Producer
Frederik Nicolai
Co-Producer
André Mielnik, Diego Quinderé de Carvalho
Sound
Sébastien Lheureux
Score
Sébastien Lheureux
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A Bay

Uma baía
Murilo Salles
International Competition 2021
Documentary Film
Brazil
2021
109 minutes
Portuguese (Brazil)
Subtitles: 
English

The Baía de Guanabara is not just any bay: the metropolitan area of Rio de Janeiro has sprawled around it. Its waste water threatens the rich ecosystem, planes roar along the approach corridors above. These filmic explorations on the margins of the megacity portray various environments that are all connected to the bay in a specific way. The people here are micro-wage earners making a modest living.

At night the lights of the city and the promises of capitalism shine in the distance. To the people living at the periphery, they seem out of reach. In eight chapters this documentary essay meditates on their habitats along the bay, following the repetitive and physically exhausting activities of humans and farm animals. Unusual perspectives, careful camera work and a poignant sound design elevate these observations to a commentary on the crisis in Brazil. Murilo Salles, who won a Silver Dove in Leipzig in 1978 for his debut “These Are the Weapons”, sheds light on the close link between geographical space and social inequality.
Annina Wettstein

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Director
Murilo Salles
Script
Murilo Salles, Eva Randolph, Itauana Coquet
Cinematographer
Léo Bittencourt, Fabrício Mota
Editor
Eva Randolph
Producer
Murilo Salles
Sound
Felipe Luz
Score
João Jabace, Sarah Lelièvre
Nominated for: FIPRESCI Prize, Prize of the Interreligious Jury
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Deliverance

Descarrego
Joana Claude
International Competition Documentary Film 2023
Documentary Film
Brazil
2023
10 minutes
Portuguese (Brazil)
Subtitles: 
English

A fairly shabby, dark, three-part wardrobe in a hallway: About ten years have passed since Joana Claude suffered sexual violence when it was assembled. Now the time has come to not only disassemble it. Instead, Joana sets out to destroy the artefact of pain completely. The gesture is made with fervour, tearing out the shelves and doors looks like retroactive resistance, what was pent up finds an outlet. At the same time, the ritual is characterised by gradual escalation: At first the director speaks of her relationship with her parents – a big sweat stain on her back already beginning to show –, in the end everything is in flames. The act is short, it lasts only a few minutes. And yet it allows an intimate insight that acquires a universal, strength-giving character as it unfolds.

Carolin Weidner

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Director
Joana Claude
Script
Joana Claude
Cinematographer
Letícia Batista
Editor
João Maria
Producer
Maria Alencar, Joana Claude
Sound
Catharine Pimentel
Sound Design
Nicolau Domingues
Extended Reality: DOK Neuland 2020
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Gravity VR
Fabito Rychter, Amir Admoni
Osario and Benedito live in a space where gravity doesn’t seem to exist. Their cosmos knows neither up nor down. But is all this lightness just an illusion after all?
2020
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Gravity VR

Gravity VR
Fabito Rychter, Amir Admoni
Extended Reality 2020
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Brazil,
Peru
2020
16 minutes
English,
Portuguese (Brazil)

Osario and Benedito, two brothers, lead a quiet and isolated life. Gravity doesn’t seem to exist in their cosmos. Objects float around – no up, no down, no points of orientation. The two have never known anything else than this floating in space. We float along and are irritated: is all this lightness just an illusion?

Lars Rummel

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Production Company
Delirium XR
VR Developer
Owen Svelmoe
Motion Capture
Fabito Rychter
Script
Fabito Rychter, Amir Admoni
Narrator
Peter Baker, Mauro Rychter
Key Collaborator
Owen Svelmoe
Director
Fabito Rychter, Amir Admoni
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Handwritten

Escrito à mão
Lui Avallos
Extended Reality 2021
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Brazil,
Portugal,
Italy,
France
2021
9 minutes
Portuguese (Brazil),
Italian,
French,
English

The global COVID-19 pandemic has changed human relationships. Archive material, 360° footage and artificially generated images are used to create a synaesthetic essay film about loneliness, insecurity and the increasing shift of our everyday life into the digital realm. Dystopic and anonymous stories merge in a collage of the disturbing social and political phenomena of our time.

Lars Rummel

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Producer
Rodrigo Moreira
Production Company
Mundivagante Studio
Editor
Lui Avallos
Narrator
Lui Avallos, Agnese Riaudo, Filippo Stagnini, Jessica Menezes
Director
Lui Avallos
Cinematographer
Lui Avallos
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What Remains on the Way

Lo que queda en el camino
Jakob Krese, Danilo do Carmo
Competition for the Audience Award 2021
Documentary Film
Brazil,
Germany,
Mexico
2021
93 minutes
Spanish
Subtitles: 
German Subtitles for deaf and hard-of-hearing, English

In 2018, thousands of people from Latin America set out together, fleeing from a lack of perspective, poverty and violence to the U.S. Among them Lilian, a single mother from Guatemala, who found the courage to leave her violent husband. The caravan was her only chance to achieve this act of strength. Nevertheless: 4,000 kilometres with four small children, walking, hitchhiking and travelling north on “La Bestia”, the freight train, are still extremely perilous.

The film contrasts the media coverage with a sensitive view that deliberately focuses on one family. It registers inconceivable hardships, but also great helpfulness, Lilian’s power of endurance and her ability to make the exertions seem like an adventure trip for her children – at least occasionally. Despite this lightness, though, the struggle remains as present as the fact that the US is simultaneously building a wall to prevent anyone from crossing the border. When Lilian and her children reach the border after weeks of fear, she breaks down. Suddenly the question arises whether her goal is really this rich country. Isn’t it rather about finally standing up to male dominance and traditional gender roles? It’s very obvious that one thing remained on Lilian’s arduous way: Fear has yielded to a new self-confidence.
Luc-Carolin Ziemann

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Director
Jakob Krese, Danilo do Carmo
Cinematographer
Arne Büttner, Danilo do Carmo
Editor
Sofia A. Machado
Producer
Annika Mayer
Co-Producer
Bruna Epiphanio
Winner of: Honourable Mention (in the frames of the DEFA Sponsoring Prize)
Camera Lucida 2022
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Swing and Sway
Chica Barbosa, Fernanda Pessoa
In the upheavals of 2020 – in the midst of pandemics, election campaigns and anti-racist protests – two friends begin a film dialogue between São Paulo and Los Angeles.
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Swing and Sway

Vai e vem
Chica Barbosa, Fernanda Pessoa
Camera Lucida 2022
Documentary Film
Brazil
2022
82 minutes
Portuguese (Brazil),
English,
Spanish
Subtitles: 
English

One film, two women, three rules: a one-year video correspondence, every three weeks and modelled on experimental female film artists. The two friends Fernanda Pessoa and Chica Barbosa begin their dialogue between São Paulo and Los Angeles in the upheavals of 2020 – in the midst of pandemics, election campaigns and anti-racist protests. In thoughtful, sometimes playful visual essays they also search for feminist cinematographic forms for the female body.

Marie Menken, Yvonne Rainer, Chick Strand, Cheryl Dunye and Ximena Cuevas are only some of the renowned experimental film inspirations for “Swing and Sway”. Sixteen references are listed in the opening credits and the stylistic variety is proportionately wide: black and white and colour, analogue and digital images, text inserts and voiceovers, CGI and stop motion, dissolves, overexposures, colour effects. In this cinephile potpourri, orientation is provided by clips of political events. “I left Brazil under Bolsonaro to come to Trump’s United States”, Barbosa reflects on her status as an immigrant denied political participation. Meanwhile, Pessoa becomes an activist during the São Paulo municipal elections and asks herself a question that other left movements will also ask looking back on 2020: “We didn’t win – but we moved forward?”
Jan-Philipp Kohlmann

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Director
Chica Barbosa, Fernanda Pessoa
Cinematographer
Chica Barbosa, Fernanda Pessoa
Editor
Chica Barbosa, Fernanda Pessoa
Producer
Jessica Luz
Sound
Chica Barbosa, Fernanda Pessoa
Score
Aline Araújo, Julia Teles, Thiago Zanato
World Sales
Renato Manganello