One of London’s autumn film highlights, the BFI London Film Festival offers an exciting and diverse programme of films, talks and industry events throughout its various strands and across its many London venues. With films from over 67 countries, it is a place to look and think beyond physical and mental borders and enjoy encounters with film makers and enthusiasts from all over the world.
It is also a place to discover new productions and co-productions from Germany, from shorts to features, from archive treasures to experimental gems.Who is to say what it means that three German feature films are showing the festival’s
Dare strand. Nicolas Wackerbarth’s brilliantly performed
Casting sharply observes the power plays on the set of a TV-remake of Fassbinder’s
The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, while Valeska Grisebach’s
Western explores the complex dynamics between a group of German construction workers and the inhabitants of Romanian small town. In Jakob Lass‘
Tiger Girl an anarchist anti-Capitalist renegade takes an impassive police-school dropout under her wings and unleashes unexpected power. Artist Julian Rosefeldt’s opulent and meticulously choreographed
Manifesto has found its place in the
Create strand, a single channel adaption from his 13-channel installation, in which Cate Blanchett inhabits 13 different characters (e.g. a school teacher, a scientist,a puppeteer a punk) and the corresponding carefully designed sets to represent and perform the ideas of different famous manifestos. Rosefeldt and Blanchett will visit the festival for a
special conversation event. This year’s Experimenta strand brings us
Spell Reel by Berlin-based artist Felipa César, which follows the process to preserve the history of revolutionary cinema in Guinea-Bissau, particularly the work of filmmakers Sana Na N’Hada, Flora Gomes, José Bolama Cobˉumba and Josefina Crato, which documented Guinea-Bissau’s war of independence from Portugal. A special treasure from the archive is Frank Osten’s 1928 silent classic
Shiraz: A Romance of India, which filmed entirely in India, tells the story of the Taj Mahal and is shown in a re-mastered version with a new score by Anoushka Shankar.
We are pleased to support Valska Grisebach’s and Nicolas Wackerbarth’s attendance of their films.
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