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film id
47
section
Dok Market
HungrY MinDs
by Beatrix schwehm
‘Words and literature are like ants or water, they spread
everywhere, permeating even the tiniest cracks and
crevices.’ As this sentence from Orhan Pamuk is written
out, at reading speed, on a black background, you hear
the creaking of a ship, the splashing water and voices
from a distant land. Thus begins the new film from the
Grimme-Prize winning director Beatrix Schwehm.
The film tells of books and people, from the love of
literature, and how the written word makes its way into
the most remote corners of this world. The 90-minute
documentary follows 3 mobile libraries: in Kenya,
Mongolia and Bangladesh.The Bengalese architect
Mohammed Rezwan builds library boats that can bring
books to people even during the monsoon season.
The Mongolian author of children’s books Jambyn
Dashdondog packs two boxes full of books each
summer to provide reading material to children in
remote areas. The Kenyan librarian Abdullah Osman
leads caravans of camels loaded with boxes of
books to the nomadic tribes bordering Somalia. Despite
the heat, wind, rain or snow, they still manage their
long journeys with their mobile libraries. A film about
the love of literature and the respect for knowledge
that accepts no boundaries.
genre
ethnology / religion
Human interest
facts
germany, 2012
colour, HDcam
87 min
original title
erlesene Welten
original language
Bengali, english, Mongolian,
somali, swahili
Produced by
Beatrix schwehm
beatrix schwehm film, germany
www.trifilm.de
involved broadcasters
radio Bremen / arte, germany
Public screenings
8 / 2012 fünf seen festival,
germany
10 / 2012 nordische filmtage
lübeck, germany
sales contact
Beatrix schwehm
beatrix schwehm film
am Dobben 105
28203 Bremen, germany
beatrix.schwehm@trifilm.de
www.trifilm.de
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Dok Market
i aM louisa Jules
by roberto Manhães reis, Viola scheuerer
Louisa is 19 years old and looking for something.
As a small child, Louisa was adopted and grew up with
three brothers in a family in Berlin. While she was
growing up, she noticed similarities in her brothers and
parents which she did not share with them. Louisa
asks herself what she has inherited from her physical
parents. Louisa’s physical parents are of Madagascan
origin, more she doesn’t know. Through her own efforts
and after searching for a long time, she actually found
her father and her mother. The father, whom she thought
had died, is a geology professor. Her mother works
as a high school teacher. While studying in Kiev in the
Soviet era, her mother had given her up for adoption.
19 years old, Louisa is looking forward, together with
her ‘Berlin family’, to visiting the country of her African
parents and grandparents. How will her parents –
who have since separated – react to seeing their long
lost daughter again ? Will Louisa at last find the similar-
ity to her mother ? Will she feel like a Madagascan in
the foreign country or more like a black German ? What
stories does Louisa carry with her without knowing ?
genre
arts / culture / Music
portrait
facts
germany, 2012
colour, HDcam
92 min
original title
ich Bin louisa Jules
original language
german
Produced by
sidney Martins
cinemanegro filmproduktion,
germany
sales contact
sidney Martins
cinemanegro filmproduktion
schönhauser allee 32
10435 Berlin, germany
info@cinemanegro.de
160 161
film id
1308