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DYING NOT PLANNED FOR<br />
by Matthias Stoll SOCIAL | SOCIETY | HUMAN-INTEREST | DOCU-FICTION | SHORT<br />
After you died I sometimes watched old men in the street, the kind who just waste their time, drifting<br />
rather than always rushing somewhere. Were you afraid of this loneliness? Were you afraid of being<br />
alone with yourself? Perhaps I imagine you are alone with yourself now. You had built up and secured<br />
everything you needed for the twilight years of your life that you ended up never having. What is left?<br />
A few memories and a feeling that you and me had a lot in common…<br />
German title: STERBEN NICHT VORGESEHEN<br />
Festivals: Berlinale / PERSPECTIVE<br />
24min 42sec | HDcam | DCP | color & b/w | original German version with English subtitles available<br />
THE EDUCATION OF AUMA OBAMA<br />
by Branwen Okpako WOMEN | PORTRAIT | POLITICS | SOCIETY | ORAL-HISTORY | AFRICA<br />
THE EDUCATION OF AUMA OBAMA is a captivating and intimate portrait of the U.S. president’s older<br />
half-sister, who e<strong>mb</strong>odies a post-colonial, feminist identity. An academic overachiever, she studied<br />
linguistics and contemporary dance in Heidelberg, Germany, before enrolling in film school in Berlin,<br />
where she met Nigerian-born Okpako in the nineties. After living in the United Kingdom for a short<br />
period, Auma Obama eventually moved back to Kenya to mentor a young generation of community<br />
activists, social workers and other a<strong>mb</strong>itious young men and women who lacked her privileged education<br />
and training, but were nonetheless determined to make a positive contribution to their society.<br />
Okpako has always been interested in questions of identity, affiliation and belonging. Although she<br />
frames her film as a biographical portrait of Obama, she goes much further, providing a layered<br />
historical context and discussions of postcolonial African identity from a feminist perspective.<br />
Okpako collects testimonies almost exclusively from women, echoing the African tradition of women<br />
as chroniclers of oral history. When coupled with these accounts, Okpako’s use of archival footage –<br />
filmed during colonization for an entirely different purpose – offers a new reading of history and the<br />
present. Obama is also the daughter of a charismatic man who fought for the liberation of his country<br />
and participated in the shaping of the first years of independence. She witnessed his hopefulness and<br />
rise as well as his disillusionment and demise, coming into adulthood as her country – and continent –<br />
fell prey to despotism, corruption and poverty. and as well a film about a generation of politically and<br />
socially engaged Africans whose aspirations are informed by their parents' experiences, and whose<br />
a<strong>mb</strong>ition to forge a better future for their communities starts from the ground up.<br />
German title: DIE GESCHICHTE DER AUMA OBAMA<br />
Festivals/Awards: AFRIFF – Africa International Film Festival / People’s Choice Award; Toronto, Dubai, Max Ophüls Preis<br />
79min | HDcam | German or English version<br />
EDWARD & GEORGE – TWO BROTHERS, ONE THRONE<br />
by Claire Walding HISTORY | PORTRAIT | WAR&PEACE<br />
On 11th Dece<strong>mb</strong>er 1936 following the abdication of his brother Edward VIII, King George VI ascended<br />
to the British throne. The day marked the culmination of a crisis that had threatened to destroy the<br />
British crown and Empire. Never before had a British monarch voluntarily renounced their title. Edward<br />
did so in order to marry the woman he loved, Wallis Simpson. It would be left to the younger brother<br />
to restore the credibility of the world's foremost constitutional monarchy; a feat George would have<br />
found impossible without the support of his ‘helpmate’ and wife, Elizabeth.<br />
It also marked the end of the fraternal friendship between Edward and George; one that would never<br />
be repaired. Co<strong>mb</strong>ining excellent archive footage with new interviews, this film examines how,<br />
whatever their differences, the brothers looked for similar qualities in the women they loved, but how<br />
this, in turn, set them apart and changed their relationship from one of love and loyalty to one of<br />
suspicion and betrayal.<br />
German title: EDWARD & GEORGE – ZWEI BRÜDER, EINE KRONE<br />
52min | HD | English or German version<br />
750<br />
<strong>german</strong> <strong>documentaries</strong> <strong>2012</strong><br />
Contact:<br />
Academy of Media Arts Cologne<br />
Peter-Welter-Platz 2<br />
50767 Cologne, Germany<br />
www.khm.de<br />
Matthias Stoll<br />
cell: +49 (0)1577-1985504<br />
tel.: +49 (0) 221-82822567<br />
World Sales:<br />
Doc & Films<br />
13, rue Portefoi<br />
75003 Paris,France<br />
tel.: +33 (0)1 42 77 56 87<br />
fax: +33 (0)1 42 77 36 56<br />
www.docandfilm.com<br />
www.filmkantine.de<br />
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30159 Hannover, Germany<br />
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