Saturday, April 10, 2010 - 7 PM, Room 10-250
Introduction by Saša Stanišić (Max-Kade Writer-in-Residence, Foreign Languages and Literatures)
Das Mädchen in der dritten Reihe / The Girl in the Third Row (Stephan Bergmann, Academy of Media Arts Cologne, Germany, 2008), 1:25 min.
If you keep your mobile switched on, we’ll sort it out.
Ein Tag und Eine Ewigkeit / A Day and an Eternity (Anna Hepp, Academy of Media Arts Cologne, Germany, 2009), 25:00 min.
A film about the love of life, about people letting go and saying goodbye, and the dignified transcendence of the finite found in the embrace of death.
8:00 a.m. / 8:00 a.m. (Pablo Ortega, Pablo Ortega Medina, Spain, 2009), 11:00 min.
A humorous look at a relationship where the partners have forgotten why they are together, but the narrator behind the curtain knows.
Kaszel Umarlaka / Dead Man’s Coughing (Krzysztof Borowka, WRITV University of Silesia, Poland, 2009), 22:00 min.
Ed, a cynical and jaded political figure leaves Warsaw and goes to a small town to strike a deal with a local mayor. An episode with a drowned man and a peculiar friendship with a pig will change his life forever.
Wanna Be / Wanna Be (Christina Ebelt, Academy of Media Arts Cologne, Germany, 2009), 30:00 min.
A cycling accident brings together Henning and Elli, who is confined to a wheelchair. Before long they are in the throes of a passionate and complicated love affair.
Di Me Que Yo / Tell Me (Mateo Gil, ECAM, Spain, 2009), 15:00 min.
He and She meet exactly when they have both broken up with their partners. Is it possible for two strangers to begin a conversation full of recriminations, arguing until they get hoarse, and passionately reconcile?
INTERMISSION, 20'
Hörspiel - Der Film / Radio Play - The Movie (Lutz Heineking, Jr., Academy of Media Arts Cologne, Germany, 2009), 22:00 min.
This is the story of two men who were unaware of the exceptional powers that lay dormant within them until they create a radio play for a child.
Do Not Disturb / Do Not Disturb (Tommi Kainulainen, Aalto University School of Art & Design, Finland, 2009), 21:00 min.
A random meeting between a hotel cleaner and a customer turns out to be significant for both of them.
Echo / Echo (Magnus Von Horn, Polish National Film, Television & Theatre School, Poland, 2009), 14:00 min.
Through crime reconstruction at the scene and meeting the family of the victim, two young men have to confront their feelings and relive the crime they committed.
Doppelgänger / Doppelgänger (Óscar de Julián, ECAM, Spain, 2009), 20:00 min.
Óscar de Julián discovers that there is another Óscar de Julián. From that moment on, their lives are intertwined. One story cannot be understood without the other.
Allein der Gedanke / The Mere Thought (Alexander Kluth, Academy of Media Arts Cologne (KHM), Germany, 2010), 24 min.
There is an accident when farmer Mathias lets his 8-year-old daughter Nora take an agricultural machine's wheel for a brief moment. He internalizes the guilt, and his inner turmoil creates an emotional distance that shatters the family.
Kurjuuden Kuningas / Love in Vain (Mikko Myllylahti, Aalto University School of Art & Design, Finland, 2009), 21:41 min.
Jakke, a lazy warehouse worker, is about to marry a very pregnant girl he barely knows. When Jakke’s friends find out his plans, they take him to a local pub for a last night out as a free man.
Montag / Monday (Christian Bäucker, UDK - Berlin, Germany, 2010), 18:00 min.
The characters in this film, narrated in real time, are individuals who cannot escape their tacit loneliness.
Dirty Martini / Dirty Martini (Iban del Campo, Limbus Filmak, Spain, 2009), 24:00 min.
Burlesque is the new punk rock according to Dirty Martini, who reveals some of the secrets of her art: with clips from performances in night clubs and cabarets in New York’s Off Off Broadway.
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