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Delikado

Delikado
Karl Malakunas
Time to Act! 2022
Documentary Film
USA,
UK,
Philippines,
China,
Australia
2022
94 minutes
English,
Filipino
Subtitles: 
English

On the island of Palawan in the Philippine archipelago, more and more rainforest is falling victim to the saws. The clearances have long been illegal but are protected and even initiated by President Duterte’s corrupt regime. Local resistance is forming. A group of courageous men around a determined human rights lawyer decide to react. They sneak into the forests to take away the logging teams’ chainsaws, cars and boats. This exciting film, constructed like a thriller, follows them on their dangerous missions, which they call “meta-legal”. But the price is high: Some of the activists pay for their resistance with their lives.

Luc-Carolin Ziemann

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Director
Karl Malakunas
Cinematographer
Tom Bannigan
Editor
Michael Collins, Eric Daniel Metzgar
Producer
Marty Syjuco, Michael Collins, Kara Magsanoc-Alikpala
Score
Nainita Desai
World Sales
Jenny Bohnhoff
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Pink Mao

Pink Mao
Tang Han
Animation Perspectives 2022
Documentary Film
Germany,
China
2020
22 minutes
Chinese
Subtitles: 
English

An investigative examination of the colour spaces of the 100 Yuan note reveals a paradigm shift. Officially declared by the central bank to be red, the note bearing the portrait of Mao is, physically speaking, actually pink. This has consequences for China’s political narrative, as Tang Han’s uncompromisingly precise and refreshingly clever cinematic experimental setup illustrates.

André Eckardt

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Director
Tang Han
Script
Tang Han
Editor
Tang Han
Producer
Tang Han
Sound
Tang Han
Animation Perspectives 2022
Filmstill Shape of Appetite [excerpt]
Shape of Appetite [excerpt]
Tang Han, Xiaopeng Zhou
Magnificent works of art made of fruit once lent the Chinese restaurant business a radiant glamour. Today they are overshadowed by a heavily economised food culture.
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Shape of Appetite [excerpt]

Shi yu de xing zhuang [excerpt]
Tang Han, Xiaopeng Zhou
Animation Perspectives 2022
Documentary Film
China
2017
5 minutes
Chinese
Subtitles: 
English

A giant ginger mountain landscape that five cooks spent a week to make: Once magnificent culinary works of art were created in Chinese restaurants. Food was associated with a wealth of money and time. The world today is short-lived, customers have become few and far between. Chefs talk about the connection between food culture and socio-economic change in China.

André Eckardt

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Director
Tang Han, Xiaopeng Zhou
Producer
Tang Han, Xiaopeng Zhou
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Sliver Cave

Yin mu
Caibei Cai
International Competition Short Film 2022
Animated Film
China
2022
14 minutes
Chinese
Subtitles: 
English

Bizarre animations of strange beauty on a metal plate, set to Free Jazz. Light reflexes. Lines and circles that take on human or insect form, merge and dissolve. Sometimes a voice from offscreen gives directions, demands a new plate. Then everything starts again – but differently. The realization dawns slowly: This is an expedition to an underworld that generates silently communicating ghost lights.

Anke Leweke

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Director
Caibei Cai
Script
Caibei Cai
Cinematographer
Leilei Xia, Suwen Chen
Editor
Caibei Cai
Producer
Caibei Cai, Shuolu Si
Animation
Caibei Cai, Jie Shen
Winner of: Mephisto 97.6 Audience Award
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Will You Look at Me

Dang wo wang xiang ni de shi hou
Shuli Huang
International Competition Short Film 2022
Documentary Film
China
2022
20 minutes
Chinese
Subtitles: 
English

The summer after graduation: Own life plans and expectations of the parents’ generation collide. While Shuli films his friends with a Super 8 camera, his mother wants nothing more than for him to get married. She resolutely refuses to speak about the fact that her son loves men and has been living with his boyfriend in Beijing for years. A deafening silence. Idyllic family pictures are overlaid by a long overdue confrontation.

Marie Kloos

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Director
Shuli Huang
Cinematographer
Shuli Huang
Editor
Shuli Huang
Producer
Shuli Huang
Sound
Nicolas Verhaeghe, Jingxi Guo
World Sales
Flavio Armone
Winner of: Golden Dove Short Documentary (International Competition Short Film)