Check out details on films, lectures, panel discussions and our speakers. Here, you can also rewatch all presentations and discussions online after the festival. No registration or accreditation required! The festival explores the collective experience of filmmaking, film screenings, and film archiving and restoration, as well as the many stories in movies about community, whether in social movements, political organisations or families.
A film is rarely the work of a single person. Joint work begins during production and ends in its collective perception in the cinema. No wonder, then, that from the outset, the medium of film has served as a platform and often a playground for collaborative communities in search of new forms of expression. It made almost forty films centred on the smallest Slavic ethnic group in Europe, the Sorbs.
This film is the almost forgotten debut of Mauritanian director Med Hondo, one of the pioneers of African cinema. The role and responsibility of archives toward marginalised communities informs a panel discussion on queer film heritage. The digitally restored film will be screened in 35mm with live piano accompaniment. In this comedy, young metropolitan Joan Webster finds herself stranded on the remote Scottish Isle of Mull, where she runs into a rural community marked by superstition and the harsh laws of nature.
For the 25th time this year, repertory cinemas and cultural film initiatives will be awarded the Prize of the Association of German Cinematheques. In the run-up to the award ceremony, films of particular interest to repertory cinemas will be screened. To this day, repertory cinemas are characterised not only by close ties to their local community but also by a close connection to the movie-goers that frequent them: audiences share their love of cinema and they often know each other personally.
This debut film by Mauritanian director Med Hondo and French archaeologist Bernard Nantet charts the journey of an African emigrant from his native land following the independence of North African countries. Off-screen thoughts about identity and belonging are echoed in observations of passing people and landscapes. The retrieval and restoration of this film is a prime example of collaborative work in the archive community.
