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#15 Life Insurances


(BALi, KulturBahnhof Kassel)

CN: Thematization of violence
People always die. Especially on screen. The cinema-deceased transform according to genre; their death is business and as undetached from patriarchy as life. So the advice from writer Langston Hughes comes at just the right time: “Birthing is hard, and dying is mean – so get yourself a little loving in between.” - For everyone, who loves grand and small cinema. (Theresa George)

Pistoleras

The duel as a cinematic arrangement: shot, counter shot, extended time, violence and, of course, men. Music that sounds like a spaghetti Western and, a costume of jeans and cowboy hat evoke an entire cinematic genre. However, everything is different here: we do not follow the male gaze but are fascinated by the sophisticated game of mirrors. Natalia del mar Kašik entertains us by playing with our expectations, subverting all of the classical (visual) relationships and at the same time paying homage to the tradition of feminist art.

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  • Duration: 2 Min.
  • Nominated: A38-Production Grant Kassel-Halle
    • Director: Natalia del Mar Kašik

    Beautiful Dead Woman

    Out of 300 episodes of the German TV-series “Ein Fall für zwei (A Case for two)“, the short film BEAUTIFUL DEAD WOMAN re-arranges female death stagings. The result is a short found footage montage about the obsession with and fetishization of female murder victims, about the staging of female passivity and about a culture of romanticized femicide.

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    • Duration: 7 Min.
    • Director: Jan Soldat

    Servicio necrológico para usted (Obituary Service for You)

    This film is a tour of the funeral home in a small Cuban town led by Maurilio and Fidela, driver and assistant on duty, who have been preparing the corpses for 17 years in the same space where they live.

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    • Duration: 12 Min.
  • Premiere: German Premiere
    • Director: María Salafranca

    Loving in Between

    Between birth and death is the power to love and live. Political rules, religious orders, social norms and cultural taboos control who we love and how we love. The right to love is controlled and regulated by how we live. But the erotic has the power to emancipate. With spoken word and archive sources, love is unboxed from categories in queer expression and a celebration of eros as the power to change our attitudes to life and to allow others to live their lives without judgment or prejudice.

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    • Duration: 18 Min.
    • Director: Jyoti Mistry

    Tudo Que Vi Era o Sol (All I Could See Was the Sun)

    Gil works in construction, goes to his mother’s bar and has love dates with Kátia. On a day like so many others, Gil is disappearing.

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    • Duration: 21 Min.
  • Premiere: German Premiere
  • Nominated: Goldener Key
    • Director: Ralph Antunes, Pedro Maia de Brito, Leonardo Amaral