[sixpackfilm] festival-report, oct 2020 - Dok-Leipzig, Hofer Filmtage, Jihlava IDFF, DocLisboa

Fri Oct 23 14:52:46 CEST 2020

Some good news!
Festivals are still very active and creative despite the restrictions imposed by the authorities in order to reduce the spread of the virus.
Viva la Cinema!

We are thrilled to announce the selection of some of our new films to major festivals taking place in theaters and/or online these days.
Warm congratulations to the filmmakers!

DOK-LEIPZIG 
International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film
oct 26 – nov 1, 2020 – onsite & online
website <https://www.dok-leipzig.de/>

zwischen mir und der welt / aufräumen
by Michaela Schwentner
2020, 20 min
World Premiere

Michaela Schwentner looks into the phenomenon of autism spectrum disorder (also called Asperger syndrome) in a refreshingly understanding and perceptive way.

Set theory, one of the cornerstones of mathematics, serves as a metaphor for “social structures as spatial arrangement”, as the first sequence of the film reveals. The visual playfulness first becomes an exploration of two- and three-dimensionality and then turns out to be a well-founded reflection of social power relations. The search for a supposedly correct “order of things” triggers the compulsive element in many viewers. Who’s (not) afraid of being different? (Borjana Gaković)

Erwin
by Jan Soldat
2020. 16 min

A mobile home in his front garden is Erwin’s refuge. Here he drinks his coffee and writes applications, here he satisfies his desire for men. Jan Soldat comes to visit.

58-year-old Erwin introduces himself as “old but horny”. He has declared the mobile home in his front garden his favourite refuge, where he has everything he needs: a computer, a bed, a coffee machine. Two webcams link Erwin to other men who satisfy his carnal desires. In this tiny space, Jan Soldat comes close to him, of course. He learns of love affairs, as great as extinguished, of a complicated family web and worries about the future. (Carolin Weidner)

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JIHLAVA - International Documentary Film Festival
oct 27 – nov 1, 2020 - online only
website <https://www.ji-hlava.com/>

Jochen
by Daniel Fill
2020, 47 min
World Premiere

As a 19-year-old, Jochen was drawn to Berlin. He sold stolen records and weed to finance his studies. Later it was heroin. He dropped out of university and went to Afghanistan to smuggle marihuana to Australia. He arrived here, in the south of Tuscany, a couple of years later. 
He’s turning seventy in two months time. The film shows Jochen’s everyday life and his thoughts. Of his time as a hippie, dealer, prison inmate, father and farmer. It’s about handling your own story. Remembering and forgetting. About transcience/mortality. A film about the here and now. (prod. note)

Shimmer
by Betty Blitz
2019, 4 min
International Premiere

In Shimmer, Betty Blitz collages images that frame the crystal clarity of a thought: in a density that while never emotional, is nonetheless insistent; in a succession that is enumerative, and yet a flowing movement of thoughts. It´s about nearly nothing, but for precisely that reason, it´s about the core: the seeing, the light, the movement, the material, the darkness. (Alejandro Bachmann)

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HOFER FILMTAGE
oct. 20 – 25, 2020 - onsite & online
website <https://hofer-filmtage.com/>

Wohnhaft Erdgeschoß / Resident Ground Floor
by Jan Soldat
2020, 48 min
International Premiere

Resident Ground Floor is a short, unassuming, stirring but not humorless Mini-DV portrait of a damaged man that gradually unfolds a multi-layered memorial for all those damned by Germany's peaceful revolution – people whose (body) stories reveal the repressed flipside of Federal Germany's progressive ideology and joyous reunification. From this perspective, Heiko's proud pissing predilection no longer appears as a perversion induced by trauma, but rather as a rebellion against an unjust decree of fate. For him pissing is just what it is for everybody else – only to a greater degree: a pressure valve, relief, an instant of golden freedom. (Andrey Arnold) 

Rudern
by Sophia Hochedlinger
2020, 36 min
International Premiere

How do you start a revolution, and, actually, where do you buy a door? Leon and Annika aren’t sure which delivery service they should decide on, but they are absolutely sure about the world’s injustices. Tableau-like dialogue between kitchen and bedroom, pasta and politics. 
Annika works on her podcast, which is critical of the political system, while Leon polishes his fingernails. She wants to change the world, he is fed up with the daily news. Annika is serious. Her ideas about a political uprising are just as ubiquitous as his desire to change his haircut. The word and the deed. Narcissistic generation “Why?” Or generation “Fridays for Future?” The camera observes the two students like a sober, (semi-)close observer. The times of day blend into each other. Revolution tutorials are followed by video messages, phone calls, and Facebook events. (Bianca Jasmina Rauch)

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DOC-LISBOA
Festival International de Cine Documental
oct 22, 2020  – march 21, 2021 - onsite & online over extented period
website <https://doclisboa.org/2020/en/>

LOLOLOL
by Kurdwin Ayub
2020, 20 min

Anthea’s working on her art in her studio, which is also her home. A two-dimensional Plexiglas image emerges; it shows hard to interpret forms: animals or arcane symbols, which match the way the protagonist looks. She has on a T-shirt from the doom metal band Saint Vitus, black miniskirt, delicate chain belt, and pale orange hair, completed with the omnipresent work and communication technology. Retro-modern. As Anthea sits in the swing set up in the door frame and checks her cell phone, the picture format has already changed from landscape to portrait. The movement goes Ti(c)k To(c)k, the cell phone—also the one that the camera woman Caroline Bobek uses to film—doesn’t care much about antiquated conformities. (Melanie Letschnig)

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