Film Festival
CORK INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2020: GERMAN PROGRAMME
The 65th Cork International Film Festival features 4 full-length films and 6 shorts from Germany.
Due to current restrictions, the festival will be fully digital this year.
CIFF@Home tickets for online screenings are on sale now. The digital content will be available from 9 November - 15 November. Once this film goes online, it will be available for 6 days 23 hours. After starting the film, one will have 30 hours to finish watching.
Programme:
An Impossible Project
2008: While the first iPhone is being introduced, the eccentric Austrian Dr. Florian ‘Doc’ Kaps decides to save the last Polaroid factory in the world from demolition in the course of the digital revolution. His love of everything analogue, especially instant photography, gets him started on a journey that will eventually lead him to Silicon Valley, but not without having to overcome several obstacles.
The EAA 1995 European Documentary winner of Jens Meurer mirrors this story about the revenge of analogue in the way he decided to portray it: shot on analogue 35mm film, the soundtrack recorded direct-to disc and the footage intercut with the results of instant Polaroid pictures, then and now.
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Summerwar / Sommerkrieg
Five years into the war that rages in Ukraine’s eastern part, there are many citizens that want to do something for their country. The right-wing nationalist Azov regime answers to that by providing summer camps for children destined to become proud Ukrainians prepared to fight. New friendships and the wish to play and fool around come together with militaristic day structures, uniforms and target practice.
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Siberia
Clint lives in the snowy mountains, runs a small local café and is a little lost in his memories. Then one day, in an attempt to discover his true self, he begins a journey that takes him - physically, mentally and spiritually - to the very edge.
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Vivos
In 2014, a convoy of students from Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers' College was partly murdered and partly abducted by a drug cartel-afflicted Guerrero state. Weiwei portrays the families directly affected by the deaths and disappearances.
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German Shorts (as part of the "International Shorts Programme"):
(Int. Shorts 2: Worlds of Possibility)
Dir: Willy Hans, Germany 2020, 21’, German/English, subtitled
Five people, one living room. Only after the wine has been spilled, the issue with the dark matter is solved, and already long ago nobody is expecting food anymore, the music is turned up.
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(Int. Shorts 3: Free Radicals)
Dir: Sylvia Schedelbauer, Germany 2020, 12’, English
An expanding feeling, unfolding new inflections — forever different, forever changing.
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(Int. Shorts 3: Free Radicals)
Dir: Vika Kirchenbauer, Germany 2020, 13’, English
'Untitled Sequence of Gaps' uses the form of an essay film to approach trauma-related memory loss via reflections on light outside the visible spectrum, considering violence and its workings, class and queerness not through representation but from within.
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(Int. Shorts 3: Free Radicals)
Dir: Nicolaas Schmidt, Germany 2020, 8’
Autumn again on Planet Earth. A couple of rosy rose petals in eternal solidarity enduring great trouble of a heavy thunderstorm. A Romantic Conceptualism Bedtime Fable of resistance and redundance, or the awkward ambivalence of truth, dream, life and love. Let‘s unite to inflorescence!
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(Int. Shorts 4: Doc Shorts)
Dir: Shoko Hara, Germany 2020, 15’, English
Three women share glimpses of their affection, attraction and relationship with Richard Ramirez, a serial killer and rapist they contacted after his conviction in the 80s. Through their perspective we revisit exchanged letters and emotions that are as obsessive as they are hauntingly familiar.
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(Int. Shorts 5: Certainty and Doubt)
Dir: Florian Grolig, Germany 2019, 8’
Two friends. The ‘small’ one is, well, small, and the ‘big’ one definitely very, very big.
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Supported by the Goethe-Institut Irland.
Details
Online worldwide
Language: English / with English subtitles
Price: Single Films €7,50; 10 Film Digital Pass €60,-; All Access Digital Pass €99,-
+353 (0)21 427 1711 info@corkfilmfest.org