german documentaries 2011

BAKHMARO
by Salomé Jashi ARCHITECTURE | CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY | SOCIAL | SOCIETY | WORK
A journey into a lively but rotting building – a microcosm intruded
by the constant anticipation of change. A three-story brick
building in a provincial Georgian town. At the center of the
building is a restaurant whose walls are covered with bright
green and orange plastic foam and where tables are set, waiting
for customers – who rarely come. Just like customers,
change also comes rarely here. Just like the others in the building
waitress Nana and her boss are waiting...
This building, which resembles Noah’s Ark, is a microcosm, a model of this troubled country with its
endless demonstrations and opposition rallies. On the backdrop of political events, somehow, all of
life is here.
58min | HDCam SR | 16:9 | DigiBeta | LTRT | 16:9 | original Georgian version with English or German subtitles
Bülent, Murat, Fatos¸ and Cigˇdem work for German Callcentre in Turkey and share the memories of
their youth in Germany. Now all of them live in Istanbul, three of them against their will. Only Cigˇdem,
the young manager with a German passport freely opted for a life in Istanbul. Bülent was de ported
five years ago; Fatos and Murat were forced to go to Turkey by their parents. Even after decades in
their parents’ country of origin, the three have never really managed to make it their home.
“The Berlin filmmaker shows a reality which falls through all the grids of the reductive image of Turkey
widespread in Germany.“ (taz) BASED DOWN SOUTH is a haunting contribution to the theme of
home, Heimat.“ (tip) „A definite must-see is also ,Based down South‘, a document of globalization (SZ)
German title: WIR SITZEN IM SÜDEN
Festivals/Awards: DOKLeipzig, Istanbul, London, Filmschau Baden-Wuerttemberg, nominated for Grimme Preis
88min | HD | DigiBeta | HDcam SR | original German/Turkish version with German or English subtitles available
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BASED DOWN SOUTH
by Martina Priessner EXILE | MIGRATION | CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY | POLITICS | PORTRAIT
BATTLE OF THE QUEENS is a film from and about rural Europe capturing a timeless cultural event:
a series of head-to-head fights of cows (not bulls) set in the valley in sunny Southern Switzerland,
nestled amongst the Alps. The fights are sudden snorting seesaws, explosions of mass and muscle,
archaic and wild. We follow three concurrend story lines: an anxious farmer with his beloved contender,
a neurotic unemployed reporter from Zurich come to find a story and a gang of adolescent boys
on mopeds trying to catch a pretty girl's eye. The festival is a balancing act between fascinating tradition
and modernity. This black and white film serves as both an exciting visual treat and a long overdue
documentation of a quaint Swiss tradition.
German title: KAMPF DER KÖNIGINNEN
Festival: Berlinale / PERSPECTIVE
70min | HDCam | 16:9 | b/w | original German version with English subtitles available
Contact:
pangeafilm
Claudia Wolf
Drosselsteig 23
15827 Blankenfelde, Germany
cell: +49 (0) 174-3120905
tel: +49 (0) 3379-206042
fax: +49 (0) 3379-206056
kontakt@pangeafilm.de
Martina Prießner
m_priessner@web.de
www.wir-sitzen-im-sueden.org
BATTLE OF THE QUEENS
by Nicolas Steiner CULTURE | CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY | NATURE | EXPERIMENTAL
Contact:
Filmakademie
Baden-Württemberg GmbH
Sigrid Gairing, Vertrieb & Lizenzen
Akademiehof 10
71638 Ludwigsburg, Germany
tel.: +49 (0) 7141-969193
fax +49 (0) 7141-96955193
sigrid.gairing@filmakademie.de
nicolas.steiner@filmakademie.de
www.filmakademie.de