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Documentary Films
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Wednesday June 29, 2016 / 6.30 pm
Filmhaus
Saarbrücken / Germany
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Simple Story, Mine, Yours and M's |
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Atefeh Yarmohammadi
Switzerland, Iran
2015 | 0:33:00
Atefeh Yarmohammadi works out her personal history in a palimpsest
of historical and contemporary film footage accompanied by a
distinctive soundtrack. She was born in Tehran in 1984 during the
Iran-Iraq war that drove her parents apart. Impressive, non-linear
autobiography; painful, yet not sentimental.
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Shoulder the Lion
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Erinnisse Rebisz, Patryk Rebisz
United States
2015 | 1:17:00
Three artists, three tragedies. The usual story told in a very unusual way.
Photographer who is blind. Painter who was the title character of the
Academy AwardŽ winning film "Million Dollar Baby." Musician
reinventing his future due to his hearing loss. Three artists, three
tragedies. The usual story is told in a very unusual way in the
upcoming documentary "SHOULDER THE LION." The film attempts to ask a
seemingly banal question, what it takes for someone to keep on going,
and uses unique film form to produce unexpected answers. The film
takes viewers on a journey into the lives of these artists through
haunting images that avoid prosaic documentation. Talking is largely
eschewed in favor of long meaningful shots trying to put form to the
indescribable, making for a rare film that is more an artwork in
itself. The film asks serious questions about art, self-image, meaning
of images and sound but leaves it to the audience to work through the
answers.
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Juni 24 - 29, 2016
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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