FILMFEST
FILM
In times of constant acceleration and competition, the BERLINAIRE filmfestival calls cineastes to put some emphasis on the most important theme of all: “love is all around”. With short films, documentaries and reports about intense devotion, hidden emotions, sold warmth and false love, the film festival will round off the BERLINAIRE weekend. Parallel to the screenings, there will be plenty of room for debates, networking and interaction with producers, artists, editors, directors, scriptwriters and other cinephiles. The synergies will emerge to a fully-fledged international platform for the young film in the course of the event series.
FILMFEST PROGRAMM
Friday: 2:30 pm – 8:00 pm |
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2:30 pm |
“Paroles” |
Encounters at night refer to a comeback, a comeback that should make leaving easier. |
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3:15 pm |
“Of love off” [Aus Liebe aus] |
Olga and Jiri are married for 55 years, when Jiri suddenly decides to leave. Because of love, he says. A film about adherence and loss and about the difficulty to accept the decision of the other. |
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3:40 pm |
“Hitomi” |
Tom is a young man who has a strong connection with the Japanese culture. When a young Asian lady enters his life he sees knowledge as the perfect attraction. |
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4:10 pm |
“Children of the Sea” [Les enfants de la mer/mere] |
Since 1906, a Flemish boarding school has been ruling with an iron fist to train boys from broken homes for the fishing industry. |
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4:50 pm |
“NOŞ” [Cheers to you] – “NOŞ” [Auf dich] |
Havi and Vina, two young Kurdish Germans, try to find a balancing act between the two cultures, nevertheless they accept arranged marriages. But what if you doubt your own marriage at wedding day? |
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5:20 pm – 5:50 pm Break 30 min |
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5:50 pm |
“Mushrooms of concrete synopsis spelling” [KERPUDHE BETONI] |
750.000 bunkers we’re build in Albania, which hat to protect the country against an invasion that never came. Communism fell but the bunkers remained; what to do with this concrete mushrooms now? |
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6:25 pm |
“Beelzebub” |
Driven by his possessive love for daughter Lilly (22), her father Hannes shoots Lilly’s 50-year old boyfriend. Cushioned by their daily lives in a one-cop, one-priest village no one would seriously suspect anyone. |
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7:10 pm |
“Siku Moja” |
In the slums of Kinshasa (DR Congo) some old musicians still bring the music from JECOKE, The Young Comedians of Katanga Elisabethville. No studios, no professional instruments or sound systems. Their music is raw, sometimes tender. Humor never far away. Now, in their seventies, their mix from American blues, South-African gospel and Congolese rhythm touches new generations. |
| 8:00 pm | Bar 25 Film |
Saturday: 12:00 am – 7:30 pm |
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12:00 am |
“Since then we are” [Alle Tage meines Lebens] Feature Film, 26min (Germany) |
The disparate brothers Felix and Jan spend the night after their sister’s wedding together with their girl-friends at the manor of their family. During the night restrained desires and fears evoke and the situation escalates. |
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12:45 pm |
“Liberty” [Liberty Cherie] |
Agata had a dream last night: she is wearing a beautiful old fashioned dress and has to meet someone, a big fish…LIBERTY CHÉRIE proposes a breathtaking trip through a european semi conscious reality. |
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1:15 pm |
“Miles Away” |
It feels like Cow Camp is the most desolate place in the world. For six months, this is the place that Gene and Josh, two young cowboys, call home. Born a cowboy, die a cowboy. |
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2:00 pm |
“Fathermotherchild” [vatermutterkind] |
Little girl Mieke is searching for stability in her family. Although belonging to the middle id, her anarchic parents try to avoid any bourgeois way of life. Caught in a world, where the supposedly parents are actually the children, Mieke tries to reorganize the roles insides her family. |
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2:50 pm – 3:30 pm Lunch Break |
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3:30 pm |
“The extraordinary life of ROCKY” [Het bijzondere leven van ROCKY DE VLAEMINCK] |
Rocky grows up, surrounded by death and sorrow; whenever he loves someone that person dies. The only happiness in his life is the beautiful girl named Angie. But Rocky isn’t allowed to love her, because we all know what happens if he does. Or not? |
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3:55 pm |
“You know where my ranch is, Curly?” |
Images from John Ford’s “Stagecoach” (1939) and other types of images are used in this short experimental documentary on seeing and being and on the tactile experiences of deaf-blind people. The film is the distillation of manifold audiovisual impulses, small ideas and wonderings. |
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4:20 pm |
“Because we are visual” |
The directors immerse themselves into the world of public video journals. The internet and its online communities intend to bring people closer together. Yet, surprisingly, it seems that the virtual world confronts these so-called vloggers more than ever with their own loneliness. |
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5:15 pm |
“Sometime later” [Misschien later] |
Everyone is busy. Everyone ‘has to…’ because there are constant expectations. People think all kind of things about others, and they’re afraid that others think all kinds of things about them. A hardly perceptible loneliness sneaks up on the independent, prosperous and successful individual. |
| 7:00 pm |
Awards Ceremony | |
| 7:30 pm |
Bar 25 Film |
BERLINAIRE JURY
The Berlinaire jury consists of belgian and german high-quality filmmakers, journalists and artists. During the festival it chooses their favourites. The members:
Professor Dr. Dieter Kronzucker is a highly distinguished world-traveler in the field of journalism |
The actor Nikolai Kinski moved to Berlin in 2004. He attended UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television where he recieved a BA in acting. At the age of eleven he acted in his first film alongside his father Klaus Kinski in Kinski Paganini. Since then he has appeared in numerous German and international film and television productions. He starred in Aon Flux with Charlize Theron in 2005. In 2006, Nikolai won the Romy Award for best newcomer for his portrayal of Egon Schiele in Klimt with John Malkovich. |
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Dany Deprez, director, visual artist and creator OFF |
Ruben Impens – one of Flanders most wanted cameramen. Steve + Sky, DagenZonderLief, De HelaasheidderDingen, Aanrijding in Moskouare a just small grasp from his work. |
