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The Other Side of the Rainbow

Friday, November 13th 2015 AT 11:15 h, Großes BALi

Hardly any dream is catered to in the cinema as much as the wish to be elsewhere: the desire to be in a strange place, to discover the unknown. Anywhere but here, that's where some of the protagonists of the six films in this programm want to be. They dream themselves away – in other countries, other times, even other planets. Some put their dreams to the test and, once arrived at their destination, have to deal with the discrepancies between their vision and reality. A program about the grass, that's not always greener on the other side.

Dark Light

Dark Light

"The only time I’ve visited a communist country was when I went to Poland in 1980, not long after Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative government was first elected in Britain. I first visited the former East Germany in 1997, eight years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and a few months after Tony Blair’s ‘New Labour’ government was elected. Recalling these experiences many years later, Dark Light questions idealised imaginings of life in other places, times and political systems, mirroring its narrative through its form. London and Warsaw, 1980. London and Leipzig, 1997. Where now?" (John Smith)

  • Großbritannien
  • 00:04:00
  • Director: John Smith
  • Languages: en
  • Year: 2014

A Souvenir from Switzerland

A Souvenir from Switzerland

Sorayos Prapapan travels to Switzerland to present his short film at a film festival. While there, he coincidentally mets his Afghanistan filmmaker friend who has become a refugee since they last spoke to each other. Back home in Thailand Sorayos tells the story of this Afghanistan filmmaker to his friends.

  • Thailand
  • 00:12:51
  • Director: Sorayos Prapapan
  • Production: Sorayos Prapapan
  • Photography: Sorayos Prapapan
  • Editing: Sorayos Prapapan
  • Music: -
  • Sound: Sorayos Prapapan
  • Languages: th
  • Subtitles: en
  • Year: 2015
  • Golden Key
  • German Premiere

Prodigal

Prodigal

A strange choir forms on the streets of Bucharest – after years of living in New York, filmmaker Livia Ungur is back in her home country Romania and reads her own story off of the lips of strangers in the street. The director projects her own wanderlust into the mouths of passers by, who she secretly films in and around the capitol city's main station. They, in turn, tell a story of doubts, desires and the urge to break free – in Livia Ungur's words and those of none other than Alicia Keys and Jay-Z.

  • Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, Rumänien
  • 00:08:11
  • Director: Livia Ungur , Sherng-Lee Huang
  • Production: Livia Ungur
    Sherng-Lee Huang
  • Photography: Livia Ungur
    Sherng-Lee Huang
  • Editing: Livia Ungur
    Sherng-Lee Huang
  • Music: N/A
  • Sound: Livia Ungur
    Sherng-Lee Huang
  • Languages: ro,en
  • Subtitles: en
  • Year: 2015
  • Website
  • German Premiere

Shadowland

Shadowland

Images of the Californian landscape pass by at a very slow pace, reminiscent of Scandinavian film noir. Shot on 16mm, the multifarious environment seems to be a place that functions outside the realm of time. Fragments of recognition and memory are resurrected by revisiting locations that have "played" other parts of the world in early Hollywood films. Echoes of classical films are heard within a collage constructed of audio fragments that were once recorded here. A „local world trip“ through tinseltown.

  • Schweden
  • 00:15:20
  • Director: John Skoog
  • Year: 2015

Bailu Dream

Bailu Dream

Bailu, a village located in the Sichuan province, was destroyed by an earthquake in 2008. The Chinese government decided to rebuild it as a “French village”. In a single take, BAILU DREAM explores this new village under construction treating it's residents as actors and extras in an intricate choreography.

  • Frankreich
  • 00:11:56
  • Director: BOONE Nicolas
  • Production: TOURNAGE3000 PRODUCTION
  • Photography: Qiao Long
  • Editing: Nicolas Boone
  • Music: no muisc
  • Sound: Thomas Fourel
  • Languages: zh
  • Subtitles: en
  • Year: 2014
  • Website

Mars Closer

Mars Closer

“We have made our peace with the fact that we are not coming back. We are real, true pioneers. The first ever people on another planet. We are now interplanetary”. In 2024 a private organization plans to send a group of four people to Mars. Paul Leeming and Pauls Irbins are both shortlisted candidates for the planet’s first human settlement. The mission is going to be a one-way trip.

  • Deutschland
  • 00:16:12
  • Director: Annelie Boros, Vera Maria Brückner
  • Production: Fabian Halbig, Florian Kamhuber
  • Photography: Julian Krubasik
  • Editing: Falk Müller
  • Music: Cico Beck, Florian Kreier
  • Sound: Annelie Boros, Vera Maria Brückner
  • Languages: en
  • Subtitles: de
  • Year: 2015
  • Website