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International Competition
Documentary
# 2 |
Saturday 19, January 2019 / 10 pm
ACUDkino
Berlin / Germany
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A Life from Death |
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Elämä Kuolemasta
Sweden
2017 / 0:20:00
Sound seeps away from the piano, breath from life, focus from the
film. A mimesis of dying, stylised, but tangible. Death from the
perspective of the attending carers: changing the sheets, holding back
tears, having a coffee break, holding fading hands, lighting candles.
And once more: changing the sheets, holding back tears, the coffee …
life cycles.
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BERLIN PREMIER |
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Combat Obscura |
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GERMAN PREMIER
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Miles Lagoze
USA
2018 / 1:08:00
You've seen war documentaries from civilian journalists, reporters,
and independent filmmakers. Now, for the first time, is a look at war
from inside the military, filmed exclusively by Marine combat
cameramen.
For years, Miles Lagoze served in Afghanistan as a Combat Camera,
shooting footage and editing videos for Marine Corps recruiting
purposes. In this devastating film, Lagoze assembles his own footage
and that of his fellow combat cameramen into a never-before-seen look
at the daily life of Marines from the ultimate insider's point of
view. More than a mere compilation of violence, the edit ingeniously
repurposes the original footage to reveal the intensity and paradoxes
of war in an age of ubiquitous cameras, when all soldiers can record
themselves with helmet-cams and cellphones. Combat Obscura revels in
the chasm separating civilian from military life and questions the
psychological toll war exacts on all that it touches. |
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January 18 - 21, 2019
An international jury overview the sections of short films coming from all over the world. We prefer documentaries which succeed in representing the complexity of reality and discover in a new way its sensible and perturbing aspects on the same time accentuating the ambivalent and enigmatic status of reality in avoiding sterotypes and simplifing conclusions.
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