Sunset Boulevard
The films in SUNSET BOULEVARD are looking at romance and kitsch in the contemporary society of consumption. Smart and with easiness stories of allegedly romantic sceneries and their protagonists are told. On the beach, in the city, in the mall or in the nursing home. The most different relationships between humans and things are in the focus. The relationships reach from sentimental to pragmatic, from escalating in terms of quantity to dubious in terms of quality.
Set
For this found footage animated film Peter Miller downloaded ten thousand photographs of the sunset, adjusted each one so the horizon remains the same and the sun is always in the center and then arranged them in order, setting into motion a singular, colossal, collective sunset. Always the same sun, it sets differently for everyone.
- Deutschland
- 00:09:38
- Director: Peter Miller
- Year: 2016
Colombi
A couple of lovers spends together a century of life, while trends, object and films decline towards the horror. They are obsessed with the octagonal knobs of coffee pots and anonymous design all of their life. While aging, they slowly lose their strength, but never their clarity of mind. They prefer excluding the outer world, darkening and shuttering their house and withdrawing into themselves, browsing through old encyclopedias about extinct animals.
- Italien
- 00:20:00
- Director: Luca Ferri
- Production: Andrea Zanoli
- Photography: Giulia Vallicelli
Andrea Zanoli
Pietro de Tilla - Editing: Stefano p Testa
- Music: -
- Sound: Assila Cherfi
- Languages: it
- Subtitles: en
- Year: 2016
- Website
- German Premiere
Turtles Are Always Home
"I left Lebanon in 2006. For the past 10 years I lived in 7 countries, 10 cities, and 21 homes. I slept in 21 beds, cooked in 21 kitchens, wrote on 21 desks and locked 21 doors behind me. Somebody somewhere uses my bed, somebody somewhere has my shoes, somebody somewhere maybe remembers me in those fragmented traces of mine. I was there. But now I am here. In Qatar. In a fake Venice with colorful houses. Houses have memories too. They hide them under their windowsills, tuck them in layers of paint and sometimes whisper them to birds passing by. I wonder whose memories these houses will keep. I live here but I am unable to leave a trace. I try to attach myself to the walls, dirty them, mark them… but I fail. They are constantly cleaned, watched, and protected. I caress them instead. And I film them, lest I forget. Home is where the heart is, they say. I disagree. My heart is everywhere. It left with the music. Like a turtle, I am always home."
- Libanon, Katar, Kanada
- 00:11:50
- Director: Rawane Nassif
- Production: Rawane Nassif
- Photography: Rawane Nassif
- Editing: Rawane Nassif
- Music: Rawane Nassif
- Sound: Rawane Nassif / Victore Bresse / Sasha Parsons
- Languages: ar
- Subtitles: en
- Year: 2016
Final Stage [The Time for all but Sunset - BGYOR]
![Final Stage [The Time for all but Sunset - BGYOR]](https://submit.kasselerdokfest.de/assets/Uploads/_resampled/SetWidth360-1509620736-FINAL-STAGE-3a-I-am-HappyONLY-FULL-FRAME.jpg "Final Stage [The Time for all but Sunset - BGYOR]")
Enjoy the Party, Enjoy your Night, Enjoy the Sun, Enjoy your Freedom, Enjoy the Love, Enjoy your Life, Enjoy the Colors, Enjoy your Style The world is on colors. Times are hard, modern and bitter. A teenage boy in "Europes Largest Shopping Mall". He sheds lonely tears over someone. He senses that something is wrong. Brutalism, Sadness, Consumerism – Enjoy a Contemporary Love Story
- Deutschland
- 00:27:00
- Director: Nicolaas Schmidt
- Production: Ray Juster, Nicolaas Schmidt
- Photography: Arne Körner, Nicolaas Schmidt
- Editing: Nicolaas Schmidt
- Sound: Pablo Paolo Kilian, Nicolaas Schmidt
- Year: 2017
- Website
- A38-Production Grant
