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Post-Angst 2017
#theircatsaswell Lisbeth Kovačič

Stations of an animal refugee story in which, thanks to Social Media, the cat gets a German passport sooner than its owners.

#theircatsaswell

Animated Film
Austria
2016
4 minutes
Subtitles: 
No

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Producer
Lisbeth Kovačič
Director
Lisbeth Kovačič
Music
Matija Schellander
Editor
Lisbeth Kovačič
Animation
Lisbeth Kovačič
Sound
Matija Schellander
Stations of an animal refugee story in which, thanks to Social Media, the cat gets a German passport sooner than its owners.

Franziska Bruckner
Next Masters Competition 2016
#uploading_holocaust Sagi Bornstein, Udi Nir

Young Israelis performing a rite of initiation, the “Journey to Poland”: seven days, three mass graves, four concentration camps, and cameras running all the time. An exercise in identity made up of YouTube videos – horror 2.0.

#uploading_holocaust

Documentary Film
Austria,
Germany,
Israel
2016
75 minutes
Subtitles: 
English

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Producer
Gebrüder Beetz Filmproduktion, udiVsagi production
Director
Sagi Bornstein, Udi Nir
Music
Uri Agnon
Editor
Sagi Bornstein, Gal Goffer
Sound
Aviv Aldema
It’s like an initiation ritual. Every year 25,000 Israeli pupils and students go on a trip to Poland, visiting four concentration camps, three mass graves and two ghettos in seven days. It’s a journey to the dead, their roots, and themselves: as Jews and citizens of Israel. They document everything on their smartphones: hotel rooms, barracks, shooting ranges, themselves, their friends. The material shared on YouTube is the basis of this film – and it’s revealing. The two Israeli directors Sagi Bornstein and Udi Nir set contemporary recordings against videotapes from the 1980s. How will the memory change when there are no more contemporary witnesses? What can the crumbling sites still reveal? When will the rituals become hollow?

The Holocaust is the narrative of Israel, the constituent element of the state, even more than Zionism. That’s what the young people are taught to believe. The concept is historical imagination and immersion. They are supposed to feel the squeeze of the cattle wagons, the hardness of the narrow pallets and the oppression of the gas chambers. Horror 2.0. The video material also shows, however, how much smarter the young people are. There are no stupid questions, documentary filmmaker Marcel Ophüls once said, only stupid answers.

Cornelia Klauß


Nominated for Young Eyes Film Award
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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
Intervening Nature
Redistribution and Having a Say

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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
Kids DOK 2017
1 Minute of Nature – Birds of Prey Stefanie Visjager, Katinka Baehr

Lizzy has some very special pets. Alba the striped owl is her favourite among the four birds of prey and occasionally gets to ride on the handlebars of Lizzy’s bicycle.

2016

1 Minute of Nature – Birds of Prey

Animadoc
Netherlands
2016
1 minute
Subtitles: 
English

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Producer
Stefanie Visjager
Director
Stefanie Visjager, Katinka Baehr
Cinematographer
Lotte van Dijck
Animation
Kris Kobes
Script
Tjitske Mussche
Sound
Tjitske Mussche, Arno Peeters
Lizzy has some very special pets. Alba the striped owl is her favourite among the four birds of prey and occasionally gets to ride on the handlebars of Lizzy’s bicycle.

Lina Dinkla
Kids DOK 2017
1 Minute of Nature – Blackbird Stefanie Visjager, Katinka Baehr

Kasper has taken in a young blackbird and nursed it until it was able to fly.

2016

1 Minute of Nature – Blackbird

Animadoc
Netherlands
2016
1 minute
Subtitles: 
English

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Producer
Stefanie Visjager
Director
Stefanie Visjager, Katinka Baehr
Cinematographer
Lotte van Dijck
Animation
Kris Kobes
Script
Bente Hamel
Sound
Bente Hamel
Kasper has taken in a young blackbird and nursed it until it was able to fly. He tells us what it’s like to have to say goodbye.

Lina Dinkla
Kids DOK 2017
1 Minute of Nature – Boxing Stefanie Visjager, Katinka Baehr

Geertje knows how to box and occasionally teaches boys who make trouble a lesson.

2016

1 Minute of Nature – Boxing

Animadoc
Netherlands
2016
1 minute
Subtitles: 
English

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Producer
Stefanie Visjager
Director
Stefanie Visjager, Katinka Baehr
Cinematographer
Lotte van Dijck
Animation
Kris Kobes
Script
Laura Stek
Sound
Laura Stek, Arno Peeters
Geertje knows how to box and occasionally teaches boys who make trouble a lesson. They should learn that girls can be stronger than they are.

Lina Dinkla
Kids DOK 2017
1 Minute of Nature – Squirrel Spot Stefanie Visjager, Katinka Baehr

Victor has discovered that he can watch a squirrel from his window.

2016

1 Minute of Nature – Squirrel Spot

Animadoc
Netherlands
2016
1 minute
Subtitles: 
English

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Producer
Stefanie Visjager
Director
Stefanie Visjager, Katinka Baehr
Cinematographer
Lotte van Dijck
Animation
Kris Kobes
Script
Maartje Duin
Sound
Maartje Duin, Arno Peeters
Victor has discovered that he can watch a squirrel from his window. It’s quite trusting and he’s thinking about giving it a name.

Lina Dinkla
Werkschau Lutz Dammbeck 2018
1. Leipziger Herbstsalon Lutz Dammbeck

In 1984, the “First Leipzig Autumn Salon” took place. Bypassing every state institution, six painters, sculptors and filmmakers organised an art exhibition.

1. Leipziger Herbstsalon

Documentary Film
GDR
1984
22 minutes
Subtitles: 
_without dialogue / subtitles

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Producer
Lutz Dammbeck
Director
Lutz Dammbeck
Cinematographer
Thomas Plenert
Editor
Lutz Dammbeck
In 1984, the “First Leipzig Autumn Salon” took place – a risk and a caesura for Dammbeck. Bypassing every state institution, six painters, sculptors and filmmakers organised an art exhibition. It was the first and last of its kind. This recapture of public space through art challenged the government’s monopoly on power and triggered similar activities by other artists in the art centres of the GDR. A brave signal to the SED who saw this exhibition as a “counter-revolutionary development”. After that, there were only two options: regress or leave.

Sven Safarow

1/2

Animated Film
Germany
2012
14 minutes
Subtitles: 
_without dialogue / subtitles

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Producer
Jürgen Schopper, Georg-Simon-Ohm Hochschule Nürnberg
Director
Kate Haase
Music
Verena Marisa Schmidt
Cinematographer
Sebastian Hühnel
Editor
Kate Haase
Animation
Kate Haase, Sebastian Hühnel
Script
Kate Haase, Sebastian Hühnel
Sound
Verena Marisa Schmidt
"1/2" is an animated short film about one question: How do you get up if you have lost everything that is worth living for?

10 Years Smart

Animated Film
Germany
2008
Empty

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Producer
Stephan Reinsch, Sehsucht
Music
NHB, Gerret Frerichs, Wenke Kleine-Benne
Animation
Hannes Geiger, Timo Schädel, Niko Tziopanos
Client
BBDO Duesseldorf / Smart
Re-Visions 2020
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100 Years of Cinema
Heinrich Sabl
A short and entertaining foray through 100 years of international cinema history: an animated man takes a walk that leads us from the magic cylinder into legendary film scenes.
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100 Years of Cinema

100 Jahre Kino
Heinrich Sabl
Re-Visions 2020
Animated Film
Germany
1994
3 minutes
without dialogue
Subtitles: 
None

Cinema turned 100. With his homage Heinrich Sabl went one short step further back into the prehistory of cinematography for a run-up. Individual images are set in motion in a praxinoscope, invented by Émile Reynaud in 1877. A pedestrian seizes this illusion as an occasion to walk out of the magic cylinder through scenes from international film history.

Ralph Eue
Witty

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Director
Heinrich Sabl
Script
Heinrich Sabl
Cinematographer
Hans Moser
Producer
Heinrich Sabl
Animation
Sven Pannicke

11 Images of a Human

Documentary Film
Finland
2012
75 minutes
Subtitles: 
English

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Producer
Markku Lehmuskallio, Giron Filmi Oy
Director
Markku Lehmuskallio, Anastasia Lapsui
Music
Heikki Laitinen, Anna-Kaisa Liedes
Cinematographer
Johannes Lehmuskallio, Markku Lehmuskallio
Editor
Anastasia Lapsui, Markku Lehmuskallio
Script
Anastasia Lapsui, Markku Lehmuskallio
Sound
Martti Turunen
A poetic and reflective exploration of the surviving silhouettes marked on rocks sometimes thousands of years ago: Anastasia Lapsui and Markku Lehmuskallio regard the petroglyphs they sought out in many places of the world as captions meant to express our ancestors’ understanding of the world, or as mirrors in which they saw their own reflection. But most of all they regard them as phenomena charged with a magic aura: objectifications of human amazement. Stories are adapted and transformed. “Make a picture in which you can live forever”, says one of the narrators. Subject-object relations apparently set in stone are made liquid again by the magic. Frequently the images in the film speak, say “I” and talk to “US”. Because not only do we look at the figures on the rock, they look back at us. At one point these enchanted creatures, animated by the filmmakers’ visionary power, even detach themselves from the rocks, cross to the other bank of reality like shamans – and immerse themselves for a moment into the present day of a dance ritual before they return, ghost-like and thoroughly unconcerned, to their stony eternity.
– Ralph Eue
Everyday Life in the GDR 2016
1165/1965 – Mein Leipzig lob ich mir … weil wir die Hausherren sind [Ausschnitt] Herbert Kasinski, Karl-Heinz Naumann, Werner Wienhold

Three film lovers work for the 800th anniversary celebrations of their hometown.

1165/1965 – Mein Leipzig lob ich mir … weil wir die Hausherren sind [Ausschnitt]

Documentary Film
GDR
1965
4 minutes

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Director
Herbert Kasinski, Karl-Heinz Naumann, Werner Wienhold
Three film lovers work for the 800th anniversary celebrations of their hometown: directed by a shoe salesman, the film section of the Cabinet for Cultural Work and a photographer document the grand parade on Leipziger Ring, whose hackneyed agitation is swept away in a symbolic clean sweep and last dance.

Stefan Gööck

117

Documentary Film
Yugoslavia
1976
19 minutes
Subtitles: 
No

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Producer
Adil Begolli
Director
Besim Sahatçiu
Cinematographer
Afrim Spahiu
Editor
Mentor Kaçi
Winner of the Grand Prix at the 1978 Belgrade Documentary and Short Film Festival, this is one of the finest examples of ethnographic film from this region and certainly the best ethnographic documentary to come from Kosovo in a long time. Shot in the Kosovar village of Nevokaze, it depicts the traditional lifestyle of an Albanian family numbering 117 members, all living under one roof and in great harmony. Hailed by critics as the “spiritual portrait of the nation” it marked a turning point in Kosovar documentary cinema by introducing high aesthetical values never before seen in Kosovo’s film history.
Veton Nurkollari

149th and Grand Concourse

Animadoc
USA
2016
3 minutes
Subtitles: 
No

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Producer
Andy London
Director
Andy London, Carolyn London
Cinematographer
Terri Ridout, Andy London
Editor
Andy London, Terri Ridout, Kay Xia
Animation
Terri Ridout, Andy London
Sound
Quinten Diego
The subway station is going crazy. The call box wants to bring about world peace like the Dalai Lama, the construction area light is heartbroken and the newspaper vending machines belt out a hit song from the eighties. A street filled with rhythm and passion.

Kim Busch

15 Corners of the World

Documentary Film
Germany,
Poland
2014
75 minutes
Subtitles: 
English

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Producer
Marta Golba, Erik Winker
Director
Zuzanna Solakiewicz
Music
Eugeniusz Rudnik
Cinematographer
Zvika Gregory Portnoy
Editor
Mateusz Romaszkan
Script
Zuzanna Solakiewicz
Sound
Marcin Lenarczyk
“Digital is better” – nowadays this title of a 90s track by the German band Tocotronic is a popular phrase we use without thinking. It’s a good thing then that our memories of the unique opportunities offered by analogue technology are now impressively revived by this film, which imaginatively demonstrates what spaces are disappearing in the wake of its loss. Its audiovisual journey starts at Polish Radio’s legendary experimental studio, which in the 1960s saw science fiction sounds created in a sound lab that looked like a spaceship’s control room. The head-strong composer Eugeniusz Rudnik, a former pioneer of electroacoustic music, is still working obsessively at his analogue editing station, trying to create unknown sound spheres in order to learn more about human nature. A discarded piece of tape, a voice, a stone, anything can become the basic material of a composition. Even a house – pending proof.

This tongue-in-cheek portrait of the artist as a sound tinkerer invites us on a visual expedition into his sound worlds. The camera, too, takes experimental choices, translates the acoustic dimensions into architecture, dance or landscapes, offers multiple interpretations and creates a synaesthetic experience for the big screen. No need to add that the film is also an ode to the analogue age.

Lars Meyer