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I Am von Höfler - Variation on Werther pt. 1

I Am von Höfler - Variation on Werther pt. 1
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Péter Forgács specializes in collecting amateur movies and re-editing them into unique cinematic works. This time, he presents the von Höfler family saga, which began 250 years ago. The family belonged to the aristocracy and owned a leather factory in the city of Pecs in southern Hungary. Tibor Höfler, the main protagonist, documented the history of the family throughout the 20th century, and it is his films and letters, as well as additional archival material, that give us a look at the story of his life and that of his family-his relations with women, his complex relationship with his son, born out of wedlock, his life during World War II when many of his family members were sent to ghettos and concentration camps, the communist era during which the family property was confiscated, and even a brief visit to Israel in 1967.

I Am von Höfler - variation on Werther pt. 2

I Am von Höfler - variation on Werther pt. 2
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How does the process of film-making—like weaving a carpet, a of a 250 years saga of the Hungarian von Höfler family—render the chosen subject topical, re-liveable? And what is the topical signifier, is it merely a fleeting (a momentary) décollage — which is neither a piece of news, nor official history? And what does the glance at (the films, stories) from the past of my protagonist, the young Tibor Höfler projected into his future (our present), offers to find, by such puritan means, about the vortex called time? The twists of a long life, the elegy of the last member of the great Pécs leather manufacturers. Recently researchers claim that Goethe modelled his famous Werther figure after an ancestor of Tibor Höfler: our film journey presents itself in time and space with this double twist. Not only Goethe's hero Werther is different from the real 18th-century Jakob von Höfler, but thus the threads of the Höfler saga intertwine in a double spiral of fate within the 20th century Central Europe's turmoil. The real and invisible images of the melancholic hero, Werther — a literary fate — cross cut with the real life protagonist von Höfler's life, his love, his family, his fate.

One-Way Kids

One-Way Kids
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During the Greek civil war (1946-1949) 25.000 children were transferred by the communist partisans to socialist countries, in order to "protect them until the victory". The victory never came, the children never came back. Nikos was one of them. In 1948, he was sent with 250 other children from his village to Hungary. Later he escaped to France and lost track of the other village children. Now retired, Nikos has decided to find out what happened to them.

Industrial Elegy

Industrial Elegy
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A visually poetic documentary about people living in the mining colonies in Ostrava that are gradually being shut down. As this world slowly disappears, we also lose the local traditional values, unique experiences and important memories of remarkable people who live very tough lives.

John Dored’s Island

John Dored’s Island
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This film is based on the life story of the distinguished Latvian cameraman John Dored and his wife, the painter Elisabeth Dored. The producers of the film have had access to John and Elisabeth's letters and other documents. This is a film about profession and destiny,love, life and death. Dored spent the last years of his life in Norway, which was his wife's native country. They lived on the shore of a lake near the small town of Halden. Local residents named a nearby island - John Dored Island. "I've always felt limited by scripts and staging, I always yearned for freedom. I became a film reporter to shoot footage of those things for which our Father in Heaven writes the screenplay," Dored wrote in his memoirs.

Testimony

Testimony
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When the clock starts ticking, what really matters? When death is at hand or the body disabled, what happens to creativity? Diagnosed with a brain tumour and with three more years to live, the Romanian-born director, Razvan Georgescu (38), takes issue with a tricky social taboo. The filmmaker sets out to explore the realm between life and death, in search of some of its most famous inhabitants. He meets world famous artists willing to talk candidly about their own terminal illness or their traumatic brush with mortality. Can death and disability be a motor for creativity? Can creativity armour us against oblivion or surrender? Razvan Georgescu gets intriguing answers. The film starts on an operating table in Germany and follows the filmmaker on a very personal journey along Venetian canals, down Broadway, up Sunset Boulevard, coming full circle to Romania. Arresting, unsettling and surprisingly humorous, ‘Testimony’ rides a rollercoaster of emotions, in a series of encounters with artists hoping to stand the test of time: Jörg Immendorff, the painter (+2008), Bill Viola, the videoartist, Katherine Sherwood, the painter, Peter Jecza, the sculptor, William Filnn, the Broadway musical composer. TESTIMONY is a film about finding beauty in the face of death, about the healing qualities of art. A road movie full of twists and turns that took three years to complete. It’s not about watching the body surrender to disease. It’s a film about life before death and against all odds. It will make you think and it will make you laugh TESTIMONY is a film about finding beauty in the face of death, about the healing qualities of art. A road movie full of twists and turns that took three years to complete. It’s not about watching the body surrender to disease. It’s a film about life before death and against all odds. It will make you think and it will make you laugh.

Hello Willy!

Hello Willy!
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Twenty years ago he could be found playing the trumpet in the Moscow streets and pedestrian subways. Today you can find him on the Cologne streets in Germany. He calls himself a Prussian baron, former GULAG prisoner and one of the best trumpeters in the world. He has lived many years, with many names and many lives.

Today I was Young and Pretty

Today I was Young and Pretty
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Most of the Gypsy population of Clejani, a village located some 50 km away from Bucharest, traditionally consists of musicians going back for many generations. After the collapse of communism, two Belgians mustered up some of the "lăutari" in Clejani and formed a band called, "Taraf des Haidouks", which was soon to attain international fame. After 17 years on tour, Stephane Karo, one of the managers, had the idea to pep up the "Taraf" repertoire, and suggested that they try their hand at classical music. The film follows the progress of interpreting a classical suite - inspired from the Romanian folklore - from practice and rehearsals to the first public performance in France. We can thus see how a classical piece originating in the folklore comes full circle.

Visoko - Flying High

Visoko - Flying High
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In 2005, the Texas-based businessman and pyramid researcher Semir Osmanagić visited the Bosnian town of Visoko. He claimed that the hills surrounding the town could well be the oldest existing pyramids in the world. The hypothesis awoke the war-torn region from its slumber and inspired more than just the inhabitants of Visoko, which during the Middle Ages was at the heart of the Bosnian kingdom, to some extremely creative flights of the imagination. Visoko - Flying High tells of euphoric plans for the future in a region of Europe where globalisation is only just starting to take effect. The newly discovered pyramids fulfil multiple functions: they act as a beacon of hope, a source of inspiration and, not least of all, as an important economic catalyst.

Trivial Europe

Trivial Europe
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What´s the European thing about Europe and how trivial is everyday life? There are lots of stereotypes about each European country. What do these images mean to networked and cultural addicted coevals? In nighttime walks DIE FABRIKANTEN, an artist collective from Linz, are looking for answers: Residents of Thessaloniki, Novi Sad, Linz, Essen and Liverpool lead us to their favourite places. The result is a transition of a different kind.

 

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