[sixpackfilm] sixpackfilm @ Rotterdam IFFR/Tiger Shorts and Saarbrücken Max Ophühls Award 2021

[international at lists.sixpackfilm.com]

While Covid continues to shape our lives, especially those of cinemas and film festivals, we have some exiting news:

Both Rotterdam International Film Festival and Saarbrücken’s Max Ophühls Awards announced their line-ups for their upcoming editions and we are extremely happy that several films distributed by sixpackfilm ara amongst the selections. May 2021 be a year of celebrating cinema again !!!


ROTTERDAM INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2021 
feb 1 – 7, 2021

TIGER SHORTS AWARDS

ERDE ESSEN // EATING SOIL
by Laura Weissenberger
AT 2021, 25 min
World Premiere



Erde essen/ Eating soil is an essay film that deals with the stories of Colombian women originating from director Laura Weissenberger’s memories and projections on her home country. It is exploring Colombian narrative culture based on the stories of a fictional family, which metaphorically represent a society rather than individual fates. Structured like a memory itself, the viewer encounters topics involving migration, hopes, regrets and approaches to life. 

more on the film <https://www.sixpackfilm.com/en/catalogue/2610/>

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IFFR–line-up February <https://iffr.com/en>



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MAX OPHÜHLS AWARDS 2021, SAARBRÜCKEN 
jan 17 – 24, 2021 - online edition


Feature Documentary Competition

NICHTS NEUES / NO NEWS
by Lennart Hüper
DE/AT 2021, 81 min
World Premiere



The crew of the non-governmental sea rescue vessel "Lifeline" has been stuck in Malta for several weeks now. After the rescue of over 450 refugees from distress at sea, Captain Claus- Peter Reisch must stand trial and the ship remains confiscated for its duration. Hopes for a speedy trial are dwindling more and more. 
What is it like to be forced to wait while people are drowning just a few miles away? 
No News gives an insight into the absurdity of European migration policy and observes people who stood up for change but got to feel how little we want it.


more on the film <https://www.sixpackfilm.com/en/catalogue/2657/>


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Shortfilm Competition

LIFE ON THE HORN
by Mo Harawe
AT/SO 2020, 20 min
selected festivals: Locarno Leopardi di Domani, Uppsala SFF (Ingmar Bergmann Award), Cairo IFF, Rio de Janeiro,...



Two men squat on their beds, still half asleep. Entering by way of a crack in the door, the wind blows through their meagre dwelling. After a while, the young man hands the older one a pill, adding it is the last. 
It has been over the course of several decades that Europeans, above all the former colonial power Italy – have been dumping illegal toxic garbage in the ocean at the Horn of Africa, allegedly in exchange for arms shipments to local warring parties. Since the 2004 earthquake and subsequent tsunami devastated the region, the Somali coastal area is contaminated.
How does one show such a "slow" catastrophe, with causes and effects that stretch over the course of several human lifetimes? Life on the Horn tells it elliptically, near wordlessly, using the bare minimum, finding precise and highly sensitive images to register this chronic violence – in gazes, gestures, landscapes.  

more on the film <https://www.sixpackfilm.com/en/catalogue/2614/>

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Max Ophühls Awards line-up <https://ffmop.de/programm/wettbewerbe>


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