Family Album, Later
Nostalgia to hold on to: Wedding photos, holiday memories, group pictures, portraits with a cloudy blue studio backdrop, snapshots at the festive dining table. Photographs, slides, super 8 and video, and even magnetic tape and audio cassettes are part of some family archives. As emotionally charged as all these artifacts may be for the owner, to outsiders, they often seem trivial. But not in this program, in which we screen the private collections of four families – four films about remembering and forgetting, about the past and the present and the urge to take the family story into one's own.
Give me Back my Own Picture Perfect Memory!
„While my father created a picture archive of my childhood, my grandmother destroyed the family photo albums just before her death. Stuck between these extremes, I venture out to question old pictures, produce new ones and find a perspective. My journey takes me to East Berlin, Poland and through Hamburg. This documentary deals with the shape of memory, the ease of forgetting and last but not least, making films.“ (Luise Donschen)
- Deutschland
- 25:45 Min.
- Director: Luise Donschen
- Languages: deutsch
- Subtitles: englische
- Year: 2012
TOYOKORO
It's time to pack the moving boxes, to say goodbye to the parents' house and the hometown. The memories need to be packed up as well – photographs and videos of people, places and objects, of everyday life, festive events and rituals. But before the past is stored away in boxes, it is once again recalled to life and put in the picture – so the past enters into a multifaceted dialogue with the present.
- Japan
- 14:00 Min.
- Director: Maki Satake
- Languages: japanisch
- Subtitles: englische
- Year: 2012
It was Related to Me
A meditation on the complex relationship of two brothers. Image material from family albums and home videos is juxtaposed with sounds extracted from popular radio and television programs in the 1990’s, unfolding this relationship and the interplay of notions of brotherhood, patronage, masculinity, and sexuality.
- Ägypten, Deutschland
- 18:00 Min.
- Director: Mohammad Shawky Hassan
- Languages: arabisch
- Subtitles: englische
- Year: 2012
My Father is still a Communist, Intimate Secrets to be Published
Between 1978 and 1988, Maream and Rachid send each other audio tapes, delivered by acquainted travellers. While Rachid works abroad, Maream builds their house and brings up their four children. Now, tens of years later, the son makes use of the remaining tapes and lets them tell the story of his parents' marriage: Maream's voice, her fury, her longing and loneliness. And family pictures in which the ever absent father is retrospectively inserted, in an awkward attempt to put things right. An unconventional portrait of a marriage in times of political and economic instability.
- Libanon, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika
- 32:00 Min.
- Director: Ahmad Ghossein
- Languages: arabisch, französisch, englisch
- Subtitles: englische
- Year: 2011