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BURGER HIGHLIFE – EXPLOSION !!!<br />
A FILMIC DISCOVERY OF AN UNKNOWN PART OF POP MUSIC HISTORY<br />
by Wilma Kiener, Dieter Matzka and Alpha Yahaya Suberu MUSIC | CULTURE | EXILE | MIGRATION<br />
Highlife Music of Ghana has proven to be one of Africa’s most popular and potent form of music.<br />
Highlife can be considered as a fusion of indigenous dance rhythms and melodies with western influences<br />
including regimental music, sea shanties and church hymns, which first emerged in the coastal<br />
towns of Ghana in the early years of the twentieth century.<br />
Since the end of the 1970s Burger Highlife has been the traditional music which keeps the people in<br />
parts of West Africa from morning until late after midnight in movement and tune. Created by<br />
Ghanaian musicians mainly in Germany, Burger Highlife found its way back to its origins in West<br />
Africa.<br />
Burger Highlife will offers a wonderful example of the benefits of cross cultural exchanges between<br />
Africa and Europe. The film follows the surprising evolution of the diverse styles with respect to the<br />
history of West Africa. It is fascinating to note that Africans have not been confronted with a one way<br />
influence that eventually destroys their old traditional music. On the contrary, Burger Highlife is the<br />
epitome of the African point of view of encountering the foreign world. The film Burger Highlife, is<br />
promising swing, entertainment, emotion, pleasure and also a kind of education about a shared<br />
culture and entangled history.<br />
A good film should have a message. The message Burger Highlife seeks to give is: COME TO AFRICA<br />
like in a Burger Highlife song composed and performed by George Darko with the same tiltle. And we<br />
meet other Burger Highlife stars like Lee Dodou, Pat Thomas, Bob Fiscian, Albert Jones, McGod, Nana<br />
Aboagye Da-Costa, Daddy Lumba, Nana Acheampong, Nana Asamoah, John Collins ...<br />
60min | 16:9 | PAL | DigiBeta | English and German version<br />
BUT LIFE GOES ON deals with the subject of expulsion that has, for decades, been a conflict-ridden<br />
issue in the relationship between Poland and Germany.<br />
Three Polish and three German women, representing two families, meet in Platerówka, formerly<br />
known as Niederlinde, located about 20 kilometres from the German-Polish border at Görlitz /<br />
Gorzelec. Both families suffered expulsion from their ancestral farms. Today they want to overcome<br />
the paralysing speechlessness. Their desire is to find reconciliation without denying the cruelty of<br />
historical events. Events which have led to the profound vulnerability of those who experienced the<br />
trauma of losing all feeling of security from one moment to the next.<br />
Filmmaker Karin Kaper tells the story of forced displacement of her mother’s family in a very personal<br />
way. The protagonists of the film are Edwarda Zukowska, her daughter Maria, her granddaughter<br />
Gabriela, Ilse Kaper, her sister Hertha and Karin Kaper.<br />
Supported with means by the Foundation of German-Polish Cooperation; World Premiere April/May <strong>2011</strong><br />
German title: ABER DAS LEBEN GEHT WEITER<br />
104min | DigiBeta | Beta | DVD | 16:9 | Polish or German version with English subtitles availabel<br />
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World Sales:<br />
SHK Distribution<br />
105, rue de l'Abbé Groult<br />
75015 Paris, France<br />
tel.: +33 1 45547979<br />
fax: +33 1 45547980<br />
shk@wanadoo.fr<br />
BUT LIFE GOES ON<br />
by Karin Kaper and Dirk Szuszies CONFLICTS | CONTROVERSY | NS-POLITICS | ORAL-HISTORY | PORTRAIT | WAR&PEACE<br />
Where are the Cape Verde Islands?<br />
Very few people know where they are. Alexander Schnoor is half-German and half-Capeverdian and<br />
has never been to the Cape Verde Islands. Grown up in <strong>german</strong>y, he never got in touch with<br />
Capeverdian culture, therefore he had problems to feel associated to an ethnicity… He does not feel<br />
like a <strong>german</strong>, so he wants to find out if his other half matches the Capeverdian character. In<br />
Hamburg he discovers a little community of Capeverdians and get to know more about Capeverdians.<br />
In the Netherlands he compares himself with a girl that is like him half-German and half-Capeverdian<br />
and discovers similarities. Finally he travels for the first time to the Cape Verde islands and finds out<br />
what cultural roots lies inside him.<br />
Awards: nominated for ‘Hessischen Hochschulfilmpreis’, AudienceAward / mediale; AnnualCapVerdeExpo N.Y<br />
35min | HD-Video | DVD | 16:9 | PAL | original version with German or English subtitles available<br />
Contact:<br />
Karin Kaper Film<br />
Naunynstr. 41a<br />
10999 Berlin, Germany<br />
tel/fax: +49 (0)30-61507722<br />
kaperkarin@web.de<br />
www.karinkaper.com<br />
CABO VERDE INSIDE<br />
by Alexander Schnoor CULTURE | TRAVEL | PERSONAL POINT OF VIEW<br />
Contact:<br />
Alexander Schnoor<br />
Seelenberger Str. 25<br />
60489 Frankfurt/Main, Germany<br />
tel.: +49 (0) 69-17508211<br />
alexander.schnoor@gmx.de<br />
www.alexander-schnoor.de
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