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  We are very happy to announce that the documentary REVISION by Philip Scheffner will premiere at Berlinale Forum 2012!

  Screenings:
  12.02.12,  19:15  CineStar 8 OmeU  WORLD PREMIERE
  16.02.12,  19:30  Delphi-Filmpalast OmeU
  17.02.12,  14:30  Cubix 7 OmeU
  19.02.12,  19:00  Arsenal OmdU

  Press Screening:
  03.02.12,  10:30  bta Arsenal OmdU
  14.02.12,  15:30  Cinemaxx 6 Press and Market Screening OmeU

• Nostalgia de la Luz is awarded the prize for BEST DOCUMENTARY 2011 by IDA (International Documentary Association) in Los Angeles
• Nostalgia de la Luz (Heimweh nach den Sternen) will be broadcasted by WDR on December 15th, 2011 at 23:15.
• Blinker shows two documentaries at the 24th International Documentary Film Festival of Amsterdam
• Citadel by Diego Mondaca premieres at IDFA on November 19, 2011:  find out when and where
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Twice as Wise by Piet Eekmann premieres at IDFA’s kids & docs programme on November 20, 2011: find out when and where

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  Nostalgia de la Luz is winner of the EUROPEAN FILM ACADEMY DOCUMENTARY 2010 – Prix ARTE!

  Thetrical release in Germany on Dec. 23rd 2010

Premiere REVISION Berlinale Forum 2012

Documentary by Philip Scheffner

D 2012, XDCam/35mm, 106′ colour

A documentary becomes a cinematic REVISION. It reconstrues the circumstances that lead to the death of two men in 1992 on a field near the German-Polish frontier. With increasingly disturbing closeness, Scheffner interweaves landscape and memory, testimonies, files and investigations.

…Read On / Weiterlesen

The giraffe communicates soundlessly. A filmic contemplation of the giraffe’s traces tells about human culture. Ambulating through time, multilingual stories unfold. Analogies, symbols, presumptions, investigations, propositions, unexpected leaps, references. An essayistic embrace.

Writer and director: Lea Hartlaub
Development funding by Film- und Medienstiftung NRW

Documentary film by Diego Mondaca

Germany/Bolivia 2011, color, HD, 48

Citadel captures, through a technique of apparent explosive disorder, the disturbing and mysterious place of the male prison in La Paz, Bolivia.

The film attempts to expose life inside the detention facility which does not adhere to the traditional icons of prison as some inmates’ wives and children live alongside the prisoners.

Despite physical marginalization and the punitive prejudice that hovers over the inmates and their families, this unique coexistence alongside the tenement architecture constructs an unexpected community.

…Read On / Weiterlesen

Premiere: German Competition DOK Leipzig (special mention)

Documentary by Stefan Kolbe and Chris Wright, D 2010

On the black earth of Germany’s agricultural heartland stands a medieval castle. Upstairs, seven teenagers and their carers. The boundaries of life are school and chatroom, clandestine date and job interview. Gradually, a year passes and the world grows with us. This is a film about finding your place in this world, in this time. And, inevitably, about carrying the burdens parents can lay on us.

…Read On / Weiterlesen