One is working. The other one is too but it doesn't seem that way. Or she is on vacation, or only the environment is like that. Or one is retired, and everyday life is like a vacation. Whether at work or on vacation, the great art is to listen to each other and to overcome and forget linguistic and cultural differences. Filmmaking is often a means to this end, blurring the boundaries between staging and reality. People get closer, togetherness counts, a warm feeling arises. (Linn Löffler)
“I hear the whales mating | I hear the neighbors | Making love in the open | I
hear big human babies | Howling crying screaming | I comb my hair | I drink the
tea | The time has come | I go into the day |”
Vivid colors, rhythmic lyrics, I GO INTO
THE DAY moves between Dadaist poem, minimalist pop song, and everyday narrative
and possesses the very own aesthetic of the artist Mariola Brillowska who
fortunately constantly delights us with her enduring creativity.
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Nominated:
A38-Production Grant Kassel-Halle
- Director: Mariola Brillowska
Claudia cleans. Claudia works. Claudia cooks. Maider reads. Maider watches movies. But Maider also asks Claudia to clean in front of the camera and says "Scene: Claudia cooking". Their daily life is both hindered and stimulated by the fiction that has taken over the house. As laundry, dishes to clean, and food to prepare pile up, there are films to think about, produce, and make. How does the house hold up? How does a film hold up?
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Premiere:
World Premiere
- Director: Maider Fernández Iriarte
Pepe, an elderly Spaniard, has improvised his own golf course on the outskirts of Madrid. Daniela, a young Cuban filmmaker, discovers his routine as she tries to portray him. Both have hearing disabilities. On the border of a space destined to disappear, the camera translates this improbable "dialogue of the deaf". Two very different generations and cultures meet through film and get to know and appreciate each other's everyday lives.
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Premiere:
German Premiere
Nominated:
A38-Production Grant Kassel-Halle
- Director: Daniela Muñoz Barroso
A summer's day between languages, meals and misunderstandings. Far from home, Gül lives and works with a patchwork family in a Turkish village. While Filiz, the youngest of the family, is killing time, Gül has to leave the village earlier than expected. Torn, her thoughts revolve around home and family in everyday life, as well as in the distance; Meanwhile, the village, seemingly untouched, continues to swing to its own rhythm.
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Nominated:
Goldener Key
- Director: Lidija Rukiye Kumpas
