Film Archive

Slowenian Animation 2022
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Far East Film Festival Trailer 2009
Špela Čadež
The Far East Film Festival in Udine is dedicated to popular Asian films. Špela Čadež’s trailer for its 11th festival edition is dedicated to the love of noodles that unites nations.
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Far East Film Festival Trailer 2009

Far East Film Festival Trailer 2009
Špela Čadež
Slowenian Animation 2022
Animated Film
Italy,
Slovenia
2009
1 minute
without dialogue
Subtitles: 
None

Since 1999, the Far East Film Festival, the biggest festival of popular Asian films in Europe, has been held annually in the Italian city of Udine. Špela Čadež was commissioned to design the trailer for its 11th edition in 2009 and delivered a crisp and short, wonderfully incisive puppet animation about the love of noodles – with or without cheese – that unites cultures and continent.

Lina Dinkla

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Director
Špela Čadež
Script
Špela Čadež
Producer
Far East Film Festival (FEFF)
Sound
Johanna Herr
Animation
Špela Čadež
Slowenian Animation 2022
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Farewell
Leon Vidmar
Lovro steps into the bathtub. A drop falls from the faucet and makes waves – into the past, back to the day he went fishing with his grandfather for the first time.
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Farewell

Slovo
Leon Vidmar
Slowenian Animation 2022
Animated Film
Slovenia
2016
6 minutes
without dialogue
Subtitles: 
None

Lovro steps into the bathtub. A drop falls from the faucet and makes waves – into the past, back to the day he went fishing with his grandfather for the first time. Thoughts, sounds, bath utensils swirl memory and reality together … With this animated melancholia, Leon Vidmar, a student of Špela Čadež, continues in the vein of his teacher’s works in terms of craft and atmosphere.

Lina Dinkla

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Director
Leon Vidmar
Script
Jerneja Kaja Balog
Cinematographer
Miloš Srdić
Editor
Leon Vidmar, Teo Rižnar
Producer
Kolja Saksida
Sound Design
Julij Zornik
Score
Tomaž Grom
Animation
Leon Vidmar, Jaka Kramberger
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Favorite Daughter

Favorite Daughter
Dana Reilly
International Competition Short Film 2022
Documentary Film
USA
2022
20 minutes
English
Subtitles: 
None

Take: three generations of women in Covid lockdown in New York, enough white wine, vodka and time to talk about the really important issues. Dana Reilly makes the best of the pandemic restrictions and films what happens when her mother Janet and 90-year-old grandmother Sylvia decide to move in together. The result is a funny and at the same time lovingly raw tribute to two strong personalities, their not uncomplicated closeness and completely different worlds.

Luc-Carolin Ziemann

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Director
Dana Reilly
Cinematographer
Dana Reilly, Janet Isa
Editor
Keith Maitland
Producer
Dana Reilly
Sound
Dana Reilly
Score
Maya Dunietz
Dancing in the Dark 2022
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FKA twigs: How’s That
Jesse Kanda
A naked body: Its skin envelope spreads and longs to be touched. The music asks what lust feels like and is answered by enchanting computer-generated images.
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FKA twigs: How’s That

FKA twigs: How’s That
Jesse Kanda
Dancing in the Dark 2022
Animated Film
UK
2013
4 minutes
English
Subtitles: 
None

A naked body liquifies and becomes weightless. What’s left is its skin envelope which expands endlessly, longing for the tiniest touch. The increasingly shapeless figure vibrates in colours, fragments flashing, until the video track fails. The sensual piece by FKA twigs asks in slow motion what lust feels like. Jesse Kanda answers with enchanting computer-generated images.

André Eckardt

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Director
Jesse Kanda
Dancing in the Dark 2022
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Floralia II
Sabrina Ratté
From the pictorial concept of the floral still life to a 3D archive for extinct plants: Floral sculptures add a new dimension to representation. But life? Stays still.
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Floralia II

Floralia II
Sabrina Ratté
Dancing in the Dark 2022
Experimental Film
Canada
2021
4 minutes
without dialogue
Subtitles: 
None

Ratté develops the pictorial concept of the floral still life into a new kind of illusionary space. The fragmented floral sculptures, created by 3D scans, design a speculative future in which extinct plants are preserved in a weightless archive. The representation gains a dimension but does not become more than a surface mould with no informative value about the living core.

Robert Seidel

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Director
Sabrina Ratté
Producer
Sabrina Ratté
Sound Design
Andrea-Jane Cornell
Score
Sabrina Ratté
Soul-Things 2022
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Flood
Malte Stein
While an adolescent boy follows his clique to a shits and giggles party, his mother floods their sparse home with separation anxiety. A mysterious tale of cutting the cord.
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Flood

Flut
Malte Stein
Soul-Things 2022
Animated Film
Germany
2018
10 minutes
German
Subtitles: 
English

Sigmund Freud’s dream symbolism relates birth to water that one – or so he says – either dives into or rises out of. While an adolescent boy gets mysterious phone calls and shyly follows his clique to a shits and giggles party, his mother floods the ever-sparser home with separation anxiety and absurd scenes, mocked by the pompously wall paper pattern with all its curlicues.

André Eckardt

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Director
Malte Stein
Script
Malte Stein
Editor
Malte Stein
Producer
Malte Stein
Sound
Malte Stein
Score
Malte Stein, Mauro Marzo
Animation
Malte Stein
Camera Lucida 2022
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Foragers
Jumana Manna
The battle of the herbs: Collecting edible plants is a political issue in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, with economical, ecological and cultural implications.
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Foragers

Al-yad al-khadra
Jumana Manna
Camera Lucida 2022
Documentary Film
2022
63 minutes
Arabic,
Hebrew
Subtitles: 
English

The herb dispute, in this case about ’Akkoub (gundelia) and Za’atar (wild thyme) is one of the more bizarre aspects of the Middle East conflict. These plants are much sought-after ingredients of Palestinian cuisine and have been collected for generations; for reasons of nature conservation, however, this is forbidden in the West Bank. Israeli park rangers thus find themselves in hot pursuit of their collectors for a fistful of greens. Jumana Manna humorously presents the poaching as civil disobedience.

The Berlin-based Palestinian artist combines documentary and scripted material with pop references. Once, when archival footage illustrates the hype surrounding the illegal herbs, we hear Jefferson Airplane’s “White Rabbit” and Morricone’s harmonica melody from “For a Few Dollars More”. The ban also has an economic side, since Israeli companies are selling Za’atar as a spice mix. Drone and panoramic shots suggest the absurd manhunt for elderly people picking for their own needs. One of them says: “I’ll also be caught in 2050 with my children and grandchildren.” Manna wrote the court hearings based on real cases with lawyer Rabea Eghbarieh. Not mentioned in the film is the political success the attorney of the Adalah NGO contributed to in 2019: According to the new directive of the Ministry of the Environment five kilogrammes of the plants may be picked.
Jan-Philipp Kohlmann

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Director
Jumana Manna
Script
Jumana Manna, Rabea Eghbarieh
Cinematographer
Marte Vold, Ashraf Dowani, Yaniv Linton
Editor
Katrin Ebersohn, Jumana Manna
Producer
Jumana Manna
Co-Producer
Eyal Vexler
Sound
Montaser Abu 'Alul
Score
Rashad Becker
Nominated for: Leipziger Ring
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Fragile Memory

Krykhka pam’yat
Igor Ivanko
Panorama Middle and Eastern Europe 2022
Documentary Film
Ukraine,
Slovakia
2022
85 minutes
Ukrainian,
Russian,
Polish
Subtitles: 
English

In the 1960s, the Soviet cinematographer Leonid Burlaka worked on films that went around the world for the Odesskaya kinostudiya in his native city of Odesa in the former Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. Today he is eighty years old and diagnosed with Alzheimer’s; his memory is visibly fading. Filmmaker Igor Ivanko follows the traces left by his grandfather and discovers an archive of immense value in the garage.

Dozens of rolls of photo film, albeit almost decayed, are found between gardening and other tools. The grandson scans the material and shows it to his grandparents. Burlaka’s face brightens when he recognises familiar faces, but he can’t remember much. Ivanko realises that he has a treasure of historical dimensions in his hands. Leonid Burlaka began his career when many Soviet creative artists were struggling with censorship. When state repression eased in the mid-1960s, he had long established himself in his profession. The political change, however, was reflected in his works. Ivanko’s attempt to record his grandfather’s memories before they disappear forever comes too late. But he succeeds at making a film that looks back on fifty years of cinema and life in the USSR: a stirring portrait of the times and the family between emotion and information.
Lina Dinkla

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Director
Igor Ivanko
Cinematographer
Igor Ivanko, Illia Yehorov
Editor
Igor Kosenko
Producer
Mariia Ponomarova, Alexandra Bratyshchenko, Igor Ivanko, Peter Kerekes
Sound
Karina Rezhevska
Score
Marek Piaček
World Sales
Clementine Engler
Nominated for: MDR Film Prize
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Fragments from Heaven

Fragments from Heaven
Adnane Baraka
Competition for the Audience Award 2022
Documentary Film
Morocco,
France
2022
84 minutes
Arabic,
French
Subtitles: 
English

In the midst of the Moroccan desert, characterised by rocks, scrubs and immeasurable expanse, two men are looking for celestial bodies. Pacing out this weathered ground is a downright gargantuan task. Both have great hopes tied to the meteorite fragments: While one of them is looking for knowledge, the other longs for a better life. Adnane Baraka’s impressive directing debut traces existential questions in powerful images.

The barren landscapes of south-eastern Morocco are known for frequent meteorite impacts. Mohamed, a nomad who lives with his family in a tent in the desert, decides to start searching. Like the other men who scour the terrain with him he hopes to find a valuable rock from space that would mean his escape from poverty. On the other side of the country, scientist Abderrahmane analyses meteorites for enclaves of long-dead celestial bodies. To reach the origin of our life, we have to look at the stars.
Marie Kloos

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Director
Adnane Baraka
Cinematographer
Adnane Baraka
Editor
Karine Germain, Adnane Baraka
Producer
Adnane Baraka, Jean-Pierre Lagrange
Sound
Adnane Baraka, Lama Sawaya, Sara Kaddouri
World Sales
Michaela Čajková
Kids DOK 2022
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Franzy’s Soup-Kitchen
Ana Chubinidze
Franzy seasons her dishes with a special pink ingredient. When she searches for new supplies, she reaches a planet full of hungry creatures delighted with her culinary skills.
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Franzy’s Soup-Kitchen

La soupe de Franzy
Ana Chubinidze
Kids DOK 2022
Animated Film
France,
Georgia
2021
9 minutes
without dialogue
Subtitles: 
None

Franzy is an extraterrestrial cook who lives alone and also feels a little lonely. She loves to season her dishes with a special pink ingredient that makes everything taste extra delicious. But when the spice tin is empty, Franzy must go in search of new supplies. She reaches a planet full of hungry creatures delighted with her culinary skills.

Lina Dinkla

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Director
Ana Chubinidze
Cinematographer
Sara Sponga
Editor
Antoine Rodet
Producer
Reginald de Guillebon
Co-Producer
Ana Chubinidze
Sound
Beso Kacharava, George Murgulia, Biko Gogaladze
Score
Erekle Gestadze, Zviad Mgebry
Animation
Chaitane Conversat, Lorelei Palies, Sophie Roze, Iulia Voitova
Dancing in the Dark 2022
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Free Radicals
Len Lye
Flashes of dots, squiggles and lines scratched on the black leader create a space and an energy field to the rhythm of percussive African tribal music.
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Free Radicals

Free Radicals
Len Lye
Dancing in the Dark 2022
Animated Film
New Zealand
1979
4 minutes
without dialogue
Subtitles: 
None

Len Lye’s uncompromising and poetic reduction of movement to its absolute essence. Flashing dots, squiggles and lines scratched directly on the black leader, sometimes as compressed or stretched zigzags, sometimes as straight or feathered verticals. They start running, then dancing, creating in the dark void a space and energy field to the rhythm of percussive African tribal music.

André Eckardt

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Director
Len Lye
DEFA Matinee 2022
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Friedrichstadtpalast
Angelika Andrees
Wolfgang E. Struck, artistic director of the Berlin Friedrichstadt-Palast, wistfully considers the imminent demolition of his house. A look behind the scenes of this renowned theatre.
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Friedrichstadtpalast

Friedrichstadtpalast
Angelika Andrees
DEFA Matinee 2022
Documentary Film
GDR
1980
20 minutes
German
Subtitles: 
None

In 1980, Wolfgang E. Struck, artistic director of the Berlin Friedrichstadt-Palast, wistfully considers the imminent demolition of his house due to structural deficiencies. Employees rhapsodise about working at this historical stage, where international stars like Louis Armstrong and Juliette Gréco performed. Nearby, construction of the new Friedrichstadt-Palast is starting.

Philip Zengel

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Director
Angelika Andrees
Script
Angelika Andrees
Cinematographer
Lars Barthel, Jürgen Brock
Editor
Christine Schrandt, Ingeborg Marszalek
Producer
DEFA-Studio für Dokumentarfilme
Sound
Stefan Edler