Film
Berlinale Spotlight: Berlinale Shorts Go Abroad

A selection of international short films of the Berlinale 2015 and the nominee of the Berlinale Shorts 2016 “Another City” by Pham Ngoc Lan.

2.+3.6.2016
7 PM
7:00 PM Goethe-Institut Hanoi

The Goethe-Institut is delighted for Pham Ngoc Lan’s nomination for the Berlinale Shorts 2016 for his film “Another City”. The Berlinale Shorts is the short film program of the Berlin International Film Festival. Pham Ngoc Lan has learned his craft at DocLab at the Goethe-Institut Hanoi. For this reason we will screen his film along with the best Berlinale Shorts of the previous year. After the screening of "Another City" we'll have a Q&A with the filmmaker via Skype.
 
„Another City“ (2016) focuses on interpersonal relationships in urban landscapes: a mature woman, a bride and a group of young people seek proximity in the anonymity of the big city.
 
On two evenings, we also present nine more exclusive films from five countries, all part of the Berlinale Shorts 2015. The short films are uncompromising and complex, and offer an undisguised image of the present. They connect fiction and reality and open up a space for interpretation and communication going beyond the events that actually took place. They vary from documentaries to fictional stories, to animated movies. Central themes are personal life stories and rituals, portraying longing, love, cruelty and absurdism. Some of the films give thought-provoking impulses, others open up a whole new world to the viewer. They show life on another planet, but also the earthly dangers emanating from humans and the power of nature.
 
The Berlin International Film Festival, more commonly known as Berlinale, ranks among the most important film festivals in the world. Movies of all genres, lengths and formats are awarded. Since 2007, the Berlinale Shorts also awards prizes to short films, mostly works of talented young artists.

Berlinale Spotlight – PROGRAMM I
02.06.2016, 7 PM
Original language with Vietnamese and English Subtitles
 
ANOTHER CITY
Vietnam 2016, 25’, Director: Pham Ngoc Lan
In the search for one’s counterpart and coexistence in the metropolitan jungle, the protagonists are connected across space and time by a popular vietnamese song.

[Q&A with Pham Ngoc Lan via Skype, followed by a short break with refreshments] 
 
PLANET ∑      Audi short film Preis 2015
France 2014, 12’, Director: Momoko Seto
Planet Sigma: Fire and ice, life and death. The proceedings on the planet, recorded in impressive pictures.
 
SHADOWLAND
France 2014, 12’, Director: Momoko Seto
Planet Sigma: Fire and ice, life and death. The proceedings on the planet, recorded in impressive pictures.
 
DISSONANCE           Berlin Nominee bester europäischer Kurzfilm 2015
Germany 2015, 17’, Director: Till Nowak
Reality and fantasy merge – a pianist is fighting against blurring boundaries. 3D animation and live action, an odyssey through time and space.
 
TAKE WHAT YOU CAN CARRY
USA/ Germany 2015, 30’, Director: Matt Porterfield
Lilly’s journey through day and night, drifting between worlds and places. The longing to arrive.

Berlinale Spotlight in Hanoi – PROGRAMM II
03.06.2016, 7 PM
Original language with Vietnamese and English Subtitles

SNAPSHOT MON AMOUR
Germany 2014, 6’, Director: Christian Bau
“Genpatsu-Rikon“ – on the trail of a new Japanese word and the connection of the wedding rocks and Fukushima.

EL JUEGO DEL ESCONDITE (VERSTECKSPIEL)
Spain 2014, 23’, Director: David Muñoz
A Syrian refugee camp in Lebanon: Refugees are hiding from the war, children play hide and seek, and the film crew is hiding as well. The synergies of reality, fiction and the filming process itself.

DÄWIT
Germany 2015, 15’, Director: David Jansen
A wolf child, a cat, an angel. Daewit embarks on a journey – he tries to find himself. In this animation film narration meets association and vice versa.
 
YÚYÚ
France/Spain/USA 2014, 15’, Director: Marc Johnson
In the Chinese province of Chongqing, a traditional rite of spring: A body is entirely covered by bees. The buzzing dominates everything.
 
SYMBOLIC THREATS
Germany 2015, 15’, Mischa Leinkauf/Lutz Henke/Matthias Wermke
Brooklyn Bridge in New York City: Two white American flags are hoisted. Poetry or threat?