Film Archive

DEFA Matinee 2022
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Lighters (DEFA-KINOBOX 1985/43)
Angelika Andrees
Rolf Jarschel’s passion are lighters. He owns the largest collection in Europe with more than 3,000 items. A small showcase of his most memorable exhibits.
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Lighters (DEFA-KINOBOX 1985/43)

Feuerzeuge (DEFA-KINOBOX 1985/43)
Angelika Andrees
DEFA Matinee 2022
Documentary Film
GDR
1985
3 minutes
German
Subtitles: 
None

Rolf Jarschel’s passion are lighters of every kind. He owns the largest collection in Europe with over 3,000 items. From Phoenician oil lamps via Döbereiner’s tinderbox to a solar-powered mini-flamethrower for everyday use, he offers glimpses of his impressive repository which is also travelling the country in a touring exhibition.

Philip Zengel

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Director
Angelika Andrees
Script
Angelika Andrees
Cinematographer
Michael Halatsch, Jürgen Hoffmann, Wolfgang Randel
Producer
DEFA-Studio für Dokumentarfilme
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Lada, Ivan’s Sister

Lada, sestra Ivana
Olesya Shchukina
Competition for the Audience Award Short Film 2022
Animated Film
France,
Russia
2021
7 minutes
Russian
Subtitles: 
English

With childlike ease, entertaining and touching, this colourful animation shows the transition of a woman who was born in the “wrong body”. With her family’s support and understanding, Ivan becomes Lada – a happy, content person. Based on a true individual story, this film is also a parable on the ingenuity of the transgender community who sometimes have to take unusual paths to establish a life worth living in an ignorant environment.

Borjana Gaković

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Director
Olesya Shchukina
Script
Anastasia Patlay
Editor
Olesya Shchukina
Producer
Pavel Loparev, Irina Khodyreva
Sound
Andrey Guryanov
Animation
Iulia Voitova, Arman Avdalyan
Winner of: Silver Dove (Competition for the Audience Award Short Film)
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Landscapes

Los paisajes
Hernán Fernández
International Competition 2022
Documentary Film
Argentina
2022
65 minutes
Ukrainian
Subtitles: 
English

Valentyna and her bed-ridden mother live on a small farm surrounded by the evergreen, lush flora of the rain forest. The works and thoughts of the poet and the artist, though, are filled with the landscapes of their old home, Ukraine. Memories of snow and birch trees, thistles and orchids, vegetable gardens and their animal residents come to life in Tamara’s poems and Valentyna’s drawings.

Life flows quietly in the small house in the middle of nowhere. Valentyna takes care of the few animals, milks the cows, makes cheese, cares for her mother. The photos on the chest of drawers, the allusions to the Chernobyl disaster only hint at why the two left Ukraine a long time ago. But what they left behind still lives in exile. One wonders whether she, the celebrated poet, still remembers her writings? Mother and daughter are as gentle with each other as the film’s gaze on the two women, their animals and surroundings. Without a trace of nostalgia, cinematographer Mariano Maximovicz’s images let us see not only the beauty of the landscapes we live in but also of those that live on in our minds.
Marie Kloos

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Director
Hernán Fernández
Script
Constanza Sandoval, Hernán Fernández
Cinematographer
Mariano Maximovicz
Editor
José Goyeneche
Producer
Maca Herrera Bravo
Sound
Julián Caparrós
Score
Serguéi Rajmáninov
Nominated for: FIPRESCI Prize, Prize of the Interreligious Jury
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Last Minute

Zadnja minuta
Špela Čadež, Marina Rosset
Slowenian Animation 2022
Animated Film
Germany,
Slovenia
2010
2 minutes
without dialogue
Subtitles: 
None

The chalk chases the shadow. Once it is captured, only traces of the game remain. Drawing, erasing, drawing again on a porous surface. Like on a sloppily wiped blackboard, shades of images that have long ceased to exist shine through. Špela Čadež stages a race between fleeting and manifest forms that – at least in terms of film theory – knows no winner.

Lina Dinkla

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Director
Špela Čadež, Marina Rosset
Producer
Špela Čadež
Sound
Tomaž Grom, Johanna Herr
Animation
Špela Čadež, Marina Rosset
Matinee Saxon State Archive 2022
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Living Moor
Ingeborg Tölke
Technically elaborate and sensitively composed, the self-taught nature filmmaker Ingeborg Tölke unlocks fantastic and cruel aspects of the natural landscape of a moor.
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Living Moor

Lebendes Moor
Ingeborg Tölke
Matinee Sächsisches Staatsarchiv 2022
Documentary Film
GDR
1962
11 minutes
German
Subtitles: 
None

The self-taught nature filmmaker Ingeborg Tölke uses quotes from literary encounters with the flora and fauna of the moor in a gentle approach to this landscape. With great empathy, she uncovers the often all-too-hastily overlooked beauties and cruelties of the place, using time-lapse and macro techniques. Her debut work, which was also amazing in terms of film craft, won several awards.

Konstantin Wiesinger

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Director
Ingeborg Tölke
Kids DOK 2022
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Let’s Dance!
students’ collective TecnoCampus Mataró-Maresme
A colourful rotoscoped short film. In movement sequences drawn frame by frame, the figures whirl across the screen. Let’s just join the dance!
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Let’s Dance!

Let’s Dance!
students’ collective TecnoCampus Mataró-Maresme
Kids DOK 2022
Animated Film
Spain
2022
3 minutes
without dialogue
Subtitles: 
None

Some light relief in the form of a snappy dance number! In colourful rotoscoping, in movement sequences drawn frame by frame, the figures whirl across the screen. Students of the TecnoCampus in Mataró near Barcelona created this short film as a joint project. One can see the fun they had in the process in every scene. Let’s just join the dance!

Lina Dinkla

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Director
students’ collective TecnoCampus Mataró-Maresme
Cinematographer
students’ collective TecnoCampus Mataró-Maresme
Editor
Queralt Antú Serrano
Producer
Queralt Antú Serrano
Sound
students’ collective TecnoCampus Mataró-Maresme
Score
students’ collective TecnoCampus Mataró-Maresme
Animation
students’ collective TecnoCampus Mataró-Maresme
Kids DOK 2022
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Light
Sarah Lederman
Julie lost her parents as a small child. She is 13 now and able to talk about her loss. Despite her fate, she faces the world with her arms wide open.
Filmstill Light

Light

Licht
Sarah Lederman
Kids DOK 2022
Documentary Film
Belgium
2021
15 minutes
Dutch

Julie lost her parents when she was still very young. Now she is 13 and has long since settled in her new home, with a family who loves her. Over the years she has managed to accept her fate. “Light” follows Julie for a while and shows a girl who, despite immeasurable loss, faces the world with her arms wide open.

Lina Dinkla

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Director
Sarah Lederman
Cinematographer
Pieter-Jan Claessens
Editor
Marielle Dazler, Fairuz Ghammam
Producer
Sofie Van Noten
Sound
Florian Keirse
Score
Lars Overstijns
Slowenian Animation 2022
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Liliana
Milanka Fabjančič
Milanka Fabjančič uses sepia and pastel-coloured drawings to bring to life the miraculous story of the factory worker Liliana, who carries a shining secret in her heart.
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Liliana

Liliana
Milanka Fabjančič
Slowenian Animation 2022
Animated Film
Slovenia
2019
7 minutes
without dialogue
Subtitles: 
None

Misty-eyed and nostalgic, this film takes us into the past. The accomplished illustrator Milanka Fabjančič uses sepia and pastel-coloured drawings to bring to life the miraculous story of the industrious and meek factory worker Liliana. Every night she takes off a shining necklace, every morning she puts it back on. During the day, the secret of her meekness remains hidden in her heart.

Lina Dinkla

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Director
Milanka Fabjančič
Script
Milanka Fabjančič
Editor
Milanka Fabjančič, Matic Drakulić
Producer
Kolja Saksida
Co-Producer
Tanja Prinčič, Teo Rižnar
Animation
Milanka Fabjančič
Kids DOK 2022
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Lost Brain
Isabelle Favez
One day the crocodile loses her mind by sneezing and finds herself unable to do the simplest tasks. Meanwhile, everything around her goes black and white. Who can help?
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Lost Brain

Lost Brain
Isabelle Favez
Kids DOK 2022
Animated Film
Switzerland
2021
6 minutes
without dialogue
Subtitles: 
None

Louise the crocodile lives in a pretty flat in the city. The elevated train rattles, the coffee hisses on the stove and the walk takes her to a green park. But what is this? When Louise sneezes, all the colours fade away one by one! The crocodile also seems to lose her mind, because suddenly Louise can’t do the simplest tasks. Who can help her?

Lina Dinkla

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Director
Isabelle Favez
Cinematographer
Isabelle Favez
Editor
Jérôme Vittoz
Producer
Nicolas Burlet
Sound
Jérôme Vittoz
Score
Jérôme Vittoz
Animation
Isabelle Favez, Camille Müller
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Love Is Not an Orange

Love Is Not an Orange
Otilia Babara
Panorama Middle and Eastern Europe 2022
Documentary Film
Belgium,
Moldova,
Netherlands,
France
2022
73 minutes
Romanian
Subtitles: 
English

“Imagine this camera is your mother”, a father tells his daughter. In the 1990s, scores of families from the Republic of Moldova began a ritualised mail exchange between the mothers, who had emigrated for economic reasons, and their relatives back home. The former sent money and goods; the latter sent videotapes. These amateur recordings are the material of this film. They testify to the painful gaps the absent persons left in the lives of those who stayed behind.

Migration is a big factor in post-socialist states buffeted by recession and inflation after the end of the Soviet Union – and in this case, also by the civil war over Transnistria. According to data from 2011/2012, about a third of Moldovan children had one parent abroad. In this small country between Romania and the Ukraine, too, a higher percentage of fathers choose work migration. Otilia Babara, however, is specifically interested in the consequences of long absent mothers, who work for nursing services in Italy, for example, to earn their family’s livelihood, and who express their love through care packages. The loss of connection to their mother – all of whom stay out of the frame –, which affects girls in particular, emerges in the cracks of the staged home videos, when wandering glances reveal that the children no longer believe in their return.
Jan-Philipp Kohlmann

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Director
Otilia Babara
Script
Otilia Babara
Editor
Pierpaolo Filomeno
Producer
Hanne Phlypo
Co-Producer
Christine Camdessus, Simone van den Broek, Otilia Babara
Sound
Mark Glynne
Sound Design
Olmo van Straalen
Nominated for: MDR Film Prize
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Lovesick

Lovesick
Špela Čadež
Slowenian Animation 2022
Animated Film
Germany,
Slovenia
2007
9 minutes
without dialogue
Subtitles: 
None

A pain in the heart, never-drying tears and turned heads are hard to treat, but fortunately not incurable. In X-ray images and tissue samples, on examination couches and in waiting rooms, always under medical supervision, Špela Čadež’s puppet animation studies the difficult-to-diagnose lovesickness. An animated physiological case study.

Lina Dinkla

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Director
Špela Čadež
Script
Christina Zimmermann
Cinematographer
Špela Čadež
Editor
Eli Cortina Hidalgo
Producer
Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln
Score
Mateja Starić
Animation
Špela Čadež, Matej Lavrenčič, Oliver Thorm