Film Brunch: The Festival Team’s Foster Films
Date: May 17th, 2009, 12.30 a.m. (screening) – brunch: 10.30 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Location: Top Kino [Info]
Brunch with or without film programme.
Film programme with or without brunch.
A wonderful concept and idea reached us this year from the Stuttgarter Filmwinter – the "foster-film programme" (Patenfilmprogramm). There it is already a longstanding tradition that has now also awakened a desire in us to find a way to show films during the festival, which were much loved and/or discussed but in the end couldn’t be included in the final programme.
Unfortunately there is never enough room … as the old festival organiser’s saying goes. So this is a selection of "saved" films – each team member has chosen one film to be their "foster-film". We hope that with a nice cup of coffee and a fried egg, you will be able to enjoy these films that we just couldn’t get out of our heads.
Milbe (Mite)
Germany 2008, 6 min, language: German, subtitles: English
director, screenplay: Karl Tebbe | production: Marjorie Bendeck | photography: Jamie Barrios | editor: Ivan Morales jr. | music: Boris Joens, Ole Wulferes | cast: Helga Uthmann, Alexander Maria Schmidt
A film that touches the heart, very funky and quirky – and, at least on the surface, the content has nothing to do with the restless mites at Granny Grete’s...
Foster parents: Michael Reutz, Barbara Schubert
Le feu, le sang, les étoiles (The Fire, the Blood, the Stars)
France 2008, 16 min, language: French, subtitles: English
director, screenplay: Caroline Deruas | production: Olivier Berlemont, Ludovic Henry / Les films au long cours | photography: Pascale Marin | editor: Floriane Allier | cast: Caroline Deruas, Léna Garrel, Maurice Garrel, Arthur Igual, Lolita Chammah
7 May 2007. The lefties have lost the vote in France. Beautiful images about dealing with disappointment and the desire to fight for one’s own conviction.
Foster parent: Alexandra Valent
Résonances (Resonances)
Tunesia 2008, 7 min, language: Arab, subtitles: English
director, production, photography: Ismaïl Bahri
The bathtub as a resonating body. Arabic in black ink. Unsettled horizon, interrupted flow. Material and metamorphosis.
Foster parent: Raimund Liebert
Bitch
USA 2006, 15 min, language: English
director, screenplay, editor: Lilah Vandenburgh | production: S. J. Main | photography: Jarin Blaschke | music: Timothy Den | cast: Keira Leverton, Juan Garcia, Katlin Rivers, Zia Harris, Kathy Bell-Denton
Bitch, brutal, reckless and feared by all, meets Fucker who remains unimpressed by it all. That can only be love.
Foster parent: Katharina Liebert
In Tram (On the Streetcar)
Italy 2003, 9 min, language: Italian, subtitles: English
director: Filippo Soldi | screenplay: Carlo Giuseppe Gabardini, Filippo Soldi | production: Caro Film | photography: Aldo Di Marcantonio | editor: Giuseppe Pagano | music: Enrico Elia | cast: Piera Degli Esposti, Gigio Alberti, Carlo Giuseppe Gabardini
It’s cramped, stuffy and uncomfortable in the tram – and as if that weren’t enough, you suddenly find yourself being talked at by everyone in a foreign language!
Foster parent: Michael Lingitz
Wu
France 2009, 13 min, language: French, subtitles: English
director, screenplay: Cécile Vernant | production: Alexandre Charlet | photography: Yohann Charrain | editor: Franck Nakache | music: Erwann Kermorvant | cast: Didier Menin, Marie-Anne Mestre, Océane Decaudain
On his 50th birthday a man plays scrabble with his wife and curses his life. A delightful film about the hope for change and pipe dream that is perfection.
Foster parent: Katharina Beyrich
Rudi 35
Belgium 2008, 16 min, language: Dutch, subtitles: English
director, production, editor: Joris Vanden Berk | screenplay: Bert van Dael, Joris Vanden Berk | photography: Nicolas Karakatsanis | music: Stefan Andzrejewski | cast: Rudi de Jong, Ad van Roy, Sylvia Vandenweyer, Christiane Sleurs
Rudi leads an aimless life. When a nuclear catastrophe destroys his town, he realises it’s about time he started looking for happiness.
Foster parent: Wolfgang Pielmeier
Lost Paradise
France/Israel 2008, 10 min, language: English
directors, screenplay: Mihal Brezis, Oded Binnun | production: Pablo Mehler, Guillaume Benski | photography: Oded Binnun | editor: Mihal Brezis | music: Ronen Shapira | cast: Moris Cohen, Rotem Zissman-Cohen
A touching love story, its social relevance regarding religion, sexuality and nationalism revealing itself only gradually. Worth watching!
Foster parent: Marija Milovanovic
Les miettes (Crumbs)
France 2008, 30 min, language: French, subtitles: English
director, screenplay: Pierre Pinaud | production: Sophie Benoise | photography: Frédéric Mainçon | editor: Jean-Gabriel Périot | cast: Serpentine Teyssier, Roger-Patrice Bernard
Work place, outsourcing, factory: the silent-movie-look may seem dated, yet the content is still topical and explosive. The crunch of capitalism is summed up perfectly without words.
Foster parents: Daniel Ebner, Wiktoria Pelzer