<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=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><font color="#596cbc" class=""><font face="Helvetica-Light" class=""><span style="font-size: 36px;" class="">sixpack</span></font><span style="font-style: normal; font-size: 36px;" class="">film</span><font face="Helvetica-Light" class=""><span style="font-size: 36px;" class=""> - Festival news</span></font></font></div><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">We continue to condemn the aggressive act of the Putin administration towards Ukraine. Our thoughts are with the victims of this war and with our friends from Ukrainian, but also with the people in Russia who are courageously standing up against the war.</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Regardless of the sad and tragic events, we have at least good news from the film festival world:</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><b class=""><i class="">Beatrix</i></b>, the wonderful debut film by Lilith Kraxner and Milena Czernovsky, continues its successful festival career.</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><i class="">Beatrix</i> is currently screening at the </span><span style="font-style: normal; font-size: 14px;" class=""><b class="">FICUNAM Festival in Mexico City</b></span><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""> as well as is <b class=""><i class="">Singing in Oblivion</i></b>, the latest film by Eve Heller, a poetic cinematographic study of forgetting and remembering Jewish culture in Vienna.</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Furthermore, you can see the latest version of Friedl von Gröller's long-term portrait <b class=""><i class="">Max Turnheim (2002-2021</i></b>).</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><img apple-inline="yes" id="A3C770DB-60BC-4B89-8791-F8004204E044" class="" src="cid:36EC0A3A-3870-409D-A85D-AB8F674A3C78"> <img apple-inline="yes" id="FD4ACF17-1BF9-4CE6-9A07-BBF2AEB42D30" class="" src="cid:1BF68D6E-5B96-4FA2-9F99-2709A21911B2"> <img apple-inline="yes" id="8B88506C-C736-490F-A05E-9D7044B7E816" class="" src="cid:207AA1E7-6DD8-4010-AB37-7D1FA9211576"></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><font color="#34a27f" size="4" class="">-> FICUNAM Festival de Cine de Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico 10.–20.03.2022 <a href="https://ficunam.unam.mx/" class="">—>></a></font></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">——</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div></div><div class=""><span class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><b class=""><i class="">Beatrix</i></b></span><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""> has been also invited to </span></span><span style="font-style: normal; font-size: 14px;" class=""><b class="">The Art of the Real Festival at New York's renowned Lincoln Center</b></span><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">, where Peter Tscherkassky's latest masterpiece <b class=""><i class="">Train Again</i></b> will celebrate its NY premiere.</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><img apple-inline="yes" id="913AA733-8FFE-400E-B500-CB4D69725E70" class="" src="cid:D22E3E2C-EF07-4E1D-9382-2290A0910B22"> <img apple-inline="yes" id="2F3ECACA-21DE-4A00-89D5-CDC567A7BEC6" class="" src="cid:70F9F929-F764-41C7-BFFF-281CF9FC4943"></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><font color="#34a27f" size="4" style="font-style: normal;" class="">-> New York The Art of the Real 30.03.–08.04.2022 <a href="https://www.filmlinc.org/festivals/art-of-the-real-2022/" class="">—>></a></font></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">——</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Gudrun Krebitz's <b class=""><i class="">Echodrom (Nighttime at the Well)</i></b>, on the other hand, will celebrate its </span><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><i class="">world premiere</i></span><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""> at the upcoming </span><span style="font-style: normal; font-size: 14px;" class=""><b class="">CPH:DOX in Copenhagen</b></span><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">, once again exploring the boundaries of documentary filmmaking with her personal and poetic film.</span></div><div class=""><span class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Unsurprisingly </span><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><b class=""><i class="">Beatrix</i></b></span><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""> has been selected for the CPH:DOX program too.</span></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><img apple-inline="yes" id="A5605555-AD17-4B6B-9220-13E617D897E0" class="" src="cid:63E3EE23-2F82-4506-A33B-C0B61B5D6931"> <img apple-inline="yes" id="41F6B46F-AF4E-430E-B602-AD6B4B2A8980" class="" src="cid:49B652FE-0E08-445F-8DCD-DBA28C220FDD"></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><font color="#34a27f" size="4" class="">-> CPH:DOX Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival 23.03.–03.04.2022 <a href="https://cphdox.dk/" class="">—>></a></font></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">——</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">A further hybrid documentary is </span><b style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><i class="">KRAI</i></b><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""> by Aleksey Lapin, for which he was </span><span class="" style="font-style: normal; font-size: 14px;">awarded</span><i style="font-size: 14px;" class=""> Best Director </i><span class="" style="font-style: normal; font-size: 14px;">and</span><i style="font-size: 14px;" class=""> </i><span class="" style="font-style: normal; font-size: 14px;">with the</span><i style="font-size: 14px;" class=""> Price for preservation of culture</i><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""> in the Russian section at the </span><span style="font-style: normal; font-size: 14px;" class=""><b class="">Spirit of Fire Debut Film Festival</b></span><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""> in Siberia’s Kanthy-Mansiysk, just in the days when the invasion of Russian troops into Ukraine started. </span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">More festival invitations for <i class="">KRAI</i> are coming up within the next months.</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><img apple-inline="yes" id="8A917837-16A2-49B9-B6EE-115EB49D1B1E" class="" src="cid:3C7180AF-CEE8-44C0-AFFF-5AE293493545"> </span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><font size="4" color="#34a27f" class="">-> Spirit of Fire Debut Film Festival - Kanthy-Mansiysk 22.–28.02. 2022 <a href="http://ugrafest.ru/en/" class="">—>></a></font></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">——</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">For the recent edition of reknown Ann Arbor Film Festival dedicated to experimental film a number of works by sixpackfilm have again been selected. These include new titles by </span><span class=""><b class="" style="font-style: normal; font-size: 14px;">Michaela Grill, Anna Vasof, Tina Frank, Lydia Nsiah </b><span class="" style="font-style: normal; font-size: 14px;">or</span><b class="" style="font-style: normal; font-size: 14px;"> Gregor Eldarb </b><span class="" style="font-style: normal; font-size: 14px;">as well as </span><b class="" style="font-style: normal; font-size: 14px;">Peter Tscherkassky</b></span><span class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">. Some of them will celebrate their US premiere. In addition, the festival dedicates one of its <i class="">tribute programs</i> to the Austrian artist </span><span class=""><span class="" style="font-style: normal; font-size: 14px;"><b class="">Thomas Renoldner</b></span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">, who has always understood himself on the borders between animated and experimental film. Thomas Renoldner’s films have recently been acquired by sixpackfilm for distribution.</span></span></div></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><img apple-inline="yes" id="8AC522BD-BFB0-4011-A9D8-1B49AC5A49EA" class="" src="cid:0AB1C4CA-EC77-4172-803E-278EEBC1EC86"> <img apple-inline="yes" id="8A15FCF6-892B-4429-BA1D-6F0542B57771" class="" src="cid:765DD392-0047-4EFD-A2E5-7653F1E14633"> <img apple-inline="yes" id="15044F01-E040-4239-877F-F9A77A019B2F" class="" src="cid:9C394F44-76CE-4D2B-88ED-95899A38BC53"></div><div class=""><img apple-inline="yes" id="1DA203AD-53F3-4325-A5DD-B6362D90A7D8" class="" src="cid:7725FA90-1DFF-4F22-B05C-44D4BBA306F6"> <img apple-inline="yes" id="44940066-D7BA-40E9-B0EE-400A453F66C3" class="" src="cid:F9091577-5AD5-4662-8B84-B906A1AA10C5"> <img apple-inline="yes" id="C7B0D342-A80F-4F7D-99ED-9F345CFC8B2E" class="" src="cid:400D2B1D-2C80-44BC-8EC1-F2EB427ABAC2"></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><font size="4" color="#34a27f" class="">-> Ann Arbor Film Festival - 22.–27.03.2022 <a href="https://www.aafilmfest.org/" class="">—>></a></font></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">——</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-style: normal; font-size: 14px;" class="">Talking about retrospectives: the <b class="">Short film festival in Dresden </b>dedicates a special to the </span><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><i class="">Grand Dame</i></span><span style="font-style: normal; font-size: 14px;" class=""> of Austrian experimental film, <b class="">Mara Mattuschka</b>. In addition, a number of films from sixpackfilm distribution will be shown in various programs, including amongst others works by <b class="">Marzieh Emadi and Sina Saadat, Matthias Müller, Veronika Schubert or Jan Soldat.</b></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><img apple-inline="yes" id="CF84B394-6E53-4DBE-87D4-127356323489" class="" src="cid:D8D506B8-B73B-4F4E-9CAD-2025B34BB9FD"> <img apple-inline="yes" id="BE836941-EDD9-4443-818F-7A01F4AC7936" class="" src="cid:C4C3820B-06D7-4E43-BC34-6238127206EC"> <img apple-inline="yes" id="48B4D0D1-C475-4B7E-89A3-F45C689A41E7" class="" src="cid:7358B82D-339C-45E1-9DDD-849485D876EE"></div><div class=""><img apple-inline="yes" id="177580B9-6E87-44CC-AF1B-B79949F61154" class="" src="cid:1A0F23F6-6E99-4116-880E-7FC34EF753C7"> <img apple-inline="yes" id="865917CE-5E72-4304-9F31-7BC77AF7F03D" class="" src="cid:7019C469-329C-4A53-BB95-62CF6351B5D4"> <img apple-inline="yes" id="CBE3A627-41A8-476C-8074-E351D5EC4F65" class="" src="cid:D271EAD9-9A88-4A73-AACE-58398921C1D6"></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><font size="4" color="#37a985" class="">-> Dresden International Short Film Festival <a href="https://www.filmfest-dresden.de/en/" class="">—>></a></font></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">——</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">more to come: </span><span style="font-style: normal; font-size: 14px;" class=""><b class="">Diagonale - Festival of Austrian Film / Oberhausen International Shortfilm-Festival / Jeonju Film Festivl / Stuttgart - Animation Film Festival / Seattle Film Festival / ...</b></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">—</span></div><div class=""><font face="Helvetica-LightOblique" size="1" class=""><i class="">images</i></font><span style="font-family: Helvetica-Light; font-size: x-small; font-style: normal;" class="">:</span></div><div class=""><font size="1" class=""><span style="font-style: normal;" class="">Beatrix</span></font><span style="font-family: Helvetica-Light; font-size: x-small; font-style: normal;" class=""> (Czernovsky/Kraxner) // </span><font size="1" class=""><span style="font-style: normal;" class="">Singing in Oblivion</span></font><span style="font-family: Helvetica-Light; font-size: x-small; font-style: normal;" class=""> (Heller) // </span><font size="1" class=""><span style="font-style: normal;" class="">Max Turnheim (2022-2021)</span></font><span style="font-family: Helvetica-Light; font-size: x-small; font-style: normal;" class=""> (vGröller)</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica-Light; font-size: x-small; font-style: normal;" class="">-</span></div><div class=""><font size="1" class=""><span style="font-style: normal;" class="">Train Again</span></font><span style="font-family: Helvetica-Light; font-size: x-small; font-style: normal;" class=""> (Tscherkassky) // </span><font size="1" class=""><span style="font-style: normal;" class="">Beatrix</span></font></div><div class=""><font size="1" class=""><span style="font-style: normal;" class="">-</span></font></div><div class=""><font size="1" class=""><span style="font-style: normal;" class="">Beatrix</span></font><span style="font-family: Helvetica-Light; font-size: x-small; font-style: normal;" class=""> // </span><font size="1" class=""><span style="font-style: normal;" class="">Echodrom</span></font><span style="font-family: Helvetica-Light; font-size: x-small; font-style: normal;" class=""> (Krebitz)</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica-Light; font-size: x-small; font-style: normal;" class="">-</span></div><div class=""><font size="1" class=""><span style="font-style: normal;" class="">KRAI</span></font><span style="font-family: Helvetica-Light; font-size: x-small; font-style: normal;" class=""> (Lapin)</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica-Light; font-size: x-small; font-style: normal;" class="">-</span></div><div class=""><font size="1" class=""><span style="font-style: normal;" class="">Thinner than two ten-thousandths of a milimetre</span></font><span style="font-family: Helvetica-Light; font-size: x-small; font-style: normal;" class=""> (Eldarb) // </span><font size="1" class=""><span style="font-style: normal;" class="">Frozen Jumper</span></font><span style="font-family: Helvetica-Light; font-size: x-small; font-style: normal;" class=""> (Frank) // </span><font size="1" class=""><span style="font-style: normal;" class="">Amazon Woman</span></font><span style="font-family: Helvetica-Light; font-size: x-small; font-style: normal;" class=""> (Vasof)</span></div><div class=""><font size="1" class=""><span style="font-style: normal;" class="">Under the microscope</span></font><span style="font-family: Helvetica-Light; font-size: x-small; font-style: normal;" class=""> (Grill) // </span><font size="1" class=""><span style="font-style: normal;" class="">DONT KNOW WHAT</span></font><span style="font-family: Helvetica-Light; font-size: x-small; font-style: normal;" class=""> (Renoldner) // </span><font size="1" class=""><span style="font-style: normal;" class="">vs</span></font><span style="font-family: Helvetica-Light; font-size: x-small; font-style: normal;" class=""> (Nsiah)</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica-Light; font-size: x-small; font-style: normal;" class="">-</span></div><div class=""><font size="1" class=""><span style="font-style: normal;" class="">Kugelkopf</span></font><span style="font-family: Helvetica-Light; font-size: x-small; font-style: normal;" class=""> (Mattuschka) // </span><font size="1" class=""><span style="font-style: normal;" class="">There is, indeed, the unspeakable</span></font><span style="font-family: Helvetica-Light; font-size: x-small; font-style: normal;" class=""> (Emadi/Sadaat) // </span><font size="1" class=""><span style="font-style: normal;" class="">Misty Pictures</span></font><span style="font-family: Helvetica-Light; font-size: x-small; font-style: normal;" class=""> (Müller/Girardet)</span></div><div class=""><font size="1" class=""><span style="font-style: normal;" class="">O</span></font><span style="font-family: Helvetica-Light; font-size: x-small; font-style: normal;" class=""> (Wenninger) // </span><font size="1" class=""><span style="font-style: normal;" class="">Nullo</span></font><span style="font-family: Helvetica-Light; font-size: x-small; font-style: normal;" class=""> (Soldat) // </span><font size="1" class=""><span style="font-style: normal;" class="">Mindset</span></font><span style="font-family: Helvetica-Light; font-size: x-small; font-style: normal;" class=""> (Schubert)</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">about the films </span><a href="https://www.sixpackfilm.com/en/" class="">—>></a></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">—</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><a href="http://sixpackfilm.com/" class="">sixpackfilm.com</a></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div>
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