<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;">While Covid continues to shape our lives, especially those of cinemas and film festivals, we have some exiting news:</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">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 !!!</span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class=""><font size="5" class=""><span style="font-style: normal;" class="">ROTTERDAM INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2021</span></font><font size="4" class=""> </font></b></div><div class=""><b class=""><font size="4" class="">feb 1 – 7, 2021</font></b></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><font size="4" class="">TIGER SHORTS AWARDS</font></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><font face="Helvetica-LightOblique" size="4" class=""><i class="">ERDE ESSEN // EATING SOIL</i></font></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">by Laura Weissenberger</span></div><div class="">AT 2021, 25 min</div><div class="">World Premiere</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><img apple-inline="yes" id="C6A7C2BA-9779-433A-8871-F16031A8500E" class="" src="cid:05985B84-E12A-4105-ADC3-36E5B48654E6@home"></div><div class=""><strong class=""><br class=""></strong></div><div class=""><strong class="">Erde essen/ Eating soil</strong> 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. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://www.sixpackfilm.com/en/catalogue/2610/" class="">more on the film</a></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><span style="font-style: normal; font-size: 14px;" class="">—>></span></div><div class=""><a href="https://iffr.com/en" style="font-style: normal; font-size: 14px;" class="">IFFR–line-up February</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><span style="font-size: 36px;" class="">—</span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class=""><font size="5" class=""><span style="font-style: normal;" class=""><b class="">MAX OPHÜHLS AWARDS 2021, SAARBRÜCKEN </b></span></font></div><div class=""><font size="4" class=""><span style="font-style: normal;" class=""><b class="">jan 17 – 24, 2021 - online edition</b></span></font></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><font size="4" class=""><span style="font-style: normal;" class="">Feature Documentary Competition</span></font></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><font face="Helvetica-LightOblique" size="4" class=""><i class="">NICHTS NEUES / NO NEWS</i></font></div><div class=""><span style="font-style: normal; font-size: 14px;" class="">by Lennart Hüper</span></div><div class="">DE/AT 2021, 81 min</div><div class="">World Premiere</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><img apple-inline="yes" id="10FCF416-44FE-4C77-825D-94BECA9F5DB4" class="" src="cid:7FD6E4F4-BBFB-4242-B6BF-9678FCB7C514@home"></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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. <br class="">What is it like to be forced to wait while people are drowning just a few miles away? <br class=""><strong class="">No News</strong>
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.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://www.sixpackfilm.com/en/catalogue/2657/" class="">more on the film</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span style="font-style: normal; font-size: 36px;" class="">—</span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><font size="4" class=""><span style="font-style: normal;" class="">Shortfilm Competition</span></font></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><font face="Helvetica-LightOblique" size="4" class=""><i class="">LIFE ON THE HORN</i></font></div><div class=""><span style="font-style: normal; font-size: 14px;" class="">by Mo Harawe</span></div><div class="">AT/SO 2020, 20 min</div><div class="">selected festivals: Locarno Leopardi di Domani, Uppsala SFF <i class="">(Ingmar Bergmann Award)</i>, Cairo IFF, Rio de Janeiro,...</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><img apple-inline="yes" id="4B2FD030-3B6C-4182-8545-8DB127141D6B" class="" src="cid:C7720DBA-BE9F-4F9F-B746-C498D8EC7E3C@home"></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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. </div>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.<br class=""><div class="">How does one show such a "slow" catastrophe, with causes and effects that stretch over the course of several human lifetimes? <em class="">Life on the Horn </em>tells
it elliptically, near wordlessly, using the bare minimum, finding
precise and highly sensitive images to register this chronic violence –
in gazes, gestures, landscapes. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://www.sixpackfilm.com/en/catalogue/2614/" class="">more on the film</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">—>></span></div><div class=""><a href="https://ffmop.de/programm/wettbewerbe" style="font-style: normal; font-size: 14px;" class="">Max Ophühls Awards line-up</a></div><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 36px;">—</span></div><div class=""><font size="4" class=""><a href="http://www.sixpackfilm.com" class="">www.sixpackfilm.com</a></font></div></div></div></body></html>