Stream, DOK Leipzig in Brussels
Each year three important German film festivals are represented in Brussels: the Forum of the Berlinale, DOK Leipzig and the Duisburger Filmwoche. As part of the series of German Film Festivals on Tour, this year the Goethe-Institut Brüssel and BOZAR present two outstanding films from the programme of DOK Leipzig:
Space Dogs by Elsa Kremser and Levin Peter and
Zustand und Gelände (Status and Terrain) by Ute Adamczweski.
On 15 June Space Dogs will be available as a stream. It documents street dogs in Moscow at night and deals with the history of the dog Laika and Soviet space travel. The streamings will be followed by a digital Q&A with the directors and
Ralph Eue, the head of programming at the DOK Leipzig.
Film:
https://vimeo.com/ondemand/dokspacedogs/427743405 , Code: DOKLPZG2020
SPACE DOGS - ELSA KREMSER AND LEVIN PETER
T/D, 2019, 91 minutes, Russian
subtitles: English, German, French
Available for 24h - 15.06 – 19h > 16.06 – 19h
Watch Spacedogs
here by using this code DOKLPZG2020
The lead roles in the film Space Dogs are played by the street dogs of Moscow. The film skilfully combines images of the dogs as they roam and maraud through the sleeping city with the story of the dog Laika and space travel in the Soviet Union. Although it is generally known that Laika was the first living creature to be launched into space, it is less well known that she came from the streets of Moscow. She was captured by the Russian space organization for this mission because the toughness of the street dogs was thought to make them ideal for space travel.
Through the observation of Laika's successors, the film creates a magical decor of today's Moscow by night, in which people play no more than a secondary role, watched over by the spirit of the cosmic dog.
Elsa Kremser, born in 1985 in Wolfsberg, Austria, studied film at Vienna University. While at the Ludwigsburg film academy she made a number of documentaries, as author and producer, that have been shown all over the world.
Levin Peter, born in 1985 in Jena, Germany, made several documentaries while studying at the Ludwigsburg film academy. Together they founded Raumzeitfilm Produktion in Vienna in 2016. They are currently directing their first feature film titled Der grüne Wellensittich.
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