January 2012
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Jan 24th
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INSTALLATIONS | LOOPS
ongoing | in exchange pictured: Trust in Me Trust in You by Habby Osk pictured: Drama by Timo Kahlen Giuseppe Boccassini IT  B#O 000001 13 min  2011 | European Premiere Nicolas Carrier  FR  Grand Tour  7 min 35s  2011 | European Premiere James Cho  US  Bamboo Road: Meditation Through the Shakuhachi Flute  35 min 15s  2011 | World Premiere Kim Collmer  DE  Juicy  2 min  2011 |...
Jan 23rd
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WOHNZIMMER SCREENINGS
pictured: Psychohydrography by Peter Bo Rappmund In our small cosy screening room in the basement, called “Wohnzimmer”, we will show works on a loop, which you will enjoy watching in the small intimate environment we have set up. Come and go as you like, or watch a movie full length and several times, it is up to you. Sun 12 Febr. 6 pm Adam Kossoff  UK  Moscow Diary  22 min...
Jan 22nd
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How to find us
Find us at Naherholung Sternchen, convenient located behind the Kino International (on the left) only a minute away from the subway station Schillingstrasse (line 5) find us on google maps
Jan 21st
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WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS - A MAN WITHIN | Yony Leyser
Sun 19 | 6pm in attendance of Yony Leyser Featuring never-before-seen archival footage of Burroughs, as well as exclusive interviews with colleagues and confidants including John Waters, Patti Smith, Iggy Pop, Gus Van Sant, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Sonic Youth, Laurie Anderson, Amiri Baraka, Jello Biafra, and David Cronenberg, WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS: A MAN WITHIN is a probing, yet loving...
Jan 19th
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FAREWELL MIX | part I
Farewell Mix I   Farnoosh Samadi Frooshani IR  It’s Your Turn 2011 | World Premiere Claudia Guilino DE  Stony Sleep 2011 | World Premiere John Woods  CA Victor #5  2011 | World Premiere Santiago Parres (EZO)  ES Sinecdoquanon   2011 |  World Premiere Simon Ellis What About GB The Bodies  2002 Joe McClean and Sarju Patel  US How To Make David Lynch Film 2011
Jan 19th
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SPECIAL PRESENTATION by NICK ZEDD
Sun 19 | 9pm pictured: Tom Thumb by Nick Zedd in attendance of Nick Zedd “Nick Zedd makes violent, perverted art films from Hell- he’s my kind of director!” John Waters Nick Zedd is the filmmaker, writer, painter, actor and political satirist who coined the term Cinema of Transgression, a movement he spearheaded in New York 25 years ago and whose reverberations are still being felt . ...
Jan 19th
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FAREWELL MIX | part II
Farewell Mix II   Marc Dusseiller / Philipp H. CH  Haseznacht 30s 2006  Daina Krumings The Divine Miracle 1973, 5 min 50s Faith Holland  US   RIP Geocities  2 min 31s  2011 | World Premiere Hegle Pooja  IN Pop  15 min  57s 2010 Sandra Dollo and Ulrich Berthold /Sansculotte  DE  9 times  4 min 22s 2011
Jan 19th
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AT THE TURNTABLES | surprise, surprise
Sun 19 | - till dawn DJ Grammophon www.djgrammophon.de
Jan 19th
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URBAN RESEARCH – III SPECIAL
Sat 18 | 6pm Adam Kossoff  UK  Moscow Diary  46 min 30  2010  and some surprise from the Urban Research Program Curated by Klaus W. Eisenlohr
Jan 18th
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URBAN RESEARCH – III Activismo Experimental:...
Sat 18 | 6:45pm pictured: Bandit Bull by Eduardo Srur Curated by Klaus W. Eisenlohr Cesy  Leonard  DE  Schuld. Die Barbarei Europas  16 min 00  2011 Eduardo  Srur  BR  Bandit Bull  3 min 22  2010 Russell J.  Chartier  US  Confined  3 min 34   Daniel  Künzler  AT  Inside Pockets Of The City  13 min 17  2011 Diane  Nerwen  US  Up On The Farm  16 min  2011 Vladimir  Turner  CZ  Dum Z...
Jan 18th
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PRIMORDIAL BREATH | Rosetta Messori
Sat 18 | 8:00pm pictured: Primordial Breath by Rosetta Messori Rosetta Messori  IT Primordial Breath 5 min 18s 2011 | World Premiere in attendance with music taken from the album: “Draw a line Egyptian contemporary music” by  Khaled Shokry Primordial Breath is a visual journey based on 18 photographs from her book  Visioni Mediterranee  (Skira 2010). In a continuous state of...
Jan 18th
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TELEMACH WIESINGER: NEUE FILME
Sat 18 | 8:30pm Telemach Wiesinger presents his new films As filmmaker his experimental films are shown on numerous festivals and solo programs: International Film Festival Rotterdam, European Media Art Festival, Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, Black Maria Festival, Festival de Cine Experimental Quito, Tampere Film Festival Finland, Filmfestival Seoul Korea, Edinburgh...
Jan 18th
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DL Selection VIII
Sat 18 | 10pm pictured: Square Dance Hypnotist by Allan Brown Christina McPhee US Penumbra Blind 4 min 56s 2012 | German Premiere Barbara Friedman and Gilivanka Kedzior  FR  [ THE SECRET ]  3 min 18s 2011 | World Premiere Allan Brown CA  Square Dance Hypnotist 17 min 10s 2011 | German Premiere Santiago Parres (EZO) ES  Dove  2 min 40s  2011 | World Premiere in attendance Ron Toole US ...
Jan 18th
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SILENCES | PLACENESS
Fri 17 | 6pm pictured: Strange Land Vol I - The Miner by John Douglas Gerard    Cairaschi    FR    SILENCES    11 min 30s    2012 PLACENESS curated by Shaun Wilson Australian video artists respond to the notion of place and explore through the physical and mnemonic how locations impact on the ways in which art and land coexist within the image. Seth Keen    AU   Purrumbete...
Jan 17th
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ANDREAS MÜLLER-POHLE IN PERSON
Fri 17 | 7pm pictured:Yumiko by Andreas Müller-Pohle Kuratiert von Klaus W. Eisenlohr Andreas Müller-Pohle, der bekannte Künstler, Fotograf und Herausgeber Zeitschrift European Photography präsentiert zum ersten Mal eine Auswahl seiner Videoarbeiten in einem Screening. Entropia, screening version SV  6 min  1996 Hiroshima, SV  29/3/01  3 min  2002 Dark Waves, SV  2 min  2011 Zigzag ...
Jan 17th
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TWO SHORT STORIES
Fri 17 | 8:15pm pictured: Jákob’s Ladder by Robert Carrithers and Marianna O (Auster) Robert Carrithers and  Marianna O (Auster) CZ  Jákob’s Ladder 6 min 27s 2009 | German Premiere in attendance A loose mystical portrayal of the Biblical story: Jákob’s Ladder, inspired by Masonic lore and Prague mystic symbols. This is a short film, told with marionettes and with the...
Jan 17th
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PATRICK JOLLEY | THE DOOR AJAR
Fri 17 | 8:30pm pictured: still from The Door Ajar by Patrick Jolley Renowned installation artist, photographer and filmmaker Patrick Jolley tells a self-spun tale of what may have happened during six lost weeks in the life of French poet Antonin Artaud, who in 1937 came to Ireland claiming to have in his possession the Staff of St. Patrick, which he wished to return to its...
Jan 17th
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VLADIMIR HIRSCH | UNDERLYING SCAPES
Fri 17 | 10:30pm live performance of the album “Underlying Scapes” Vladimír Hirsch is a Czech contemporary avantgarde composer, instrumentalist and sound alchemist, integrating contemporary classical, industrial and dark ambient music. His compositional style is characterized by polymodality and using digital technique to enhance sonic means of expression. Besides creating solo...
Jan 17th
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DL Selection VI
Thurs 16 | 7pm pictured: Night and Day by Firas Khnaisser Timothy Nohe  US  People as Verbs  3 min 17s  2011 | European Premiere Laura Soria  MX  Love from L’Ephimere 1 min 03s  2010 | World Premiere George Drivas  GR  Closed Circuit  4 min 55s 2005 | German Premiere Tim Glover  US  1000 Blisters  11 min 48s  2011 | European Premiere Jean-Gabriel Périot  FR  Regardez Les Morts  24 min...
Jan 16th
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DL selection VII
Thurs 16 | 9pm pictured: Dr. Valentyn Machines A Heart by Stephen Dirkes Vicky Langan and Maximilian Le Cain  IE  Contact  3 min  2011 | German Premiere Seppo Renvall  FI  Black 2 min 45s 2011  J.X. Williams  US  Credit Sequence from “Space Vixens”  3 min  1967 Woori Cho  KR  Oh Fate 10 min 02s  2010 | World Premiere Florian Grolig  DE  MS. Found in a Bottle 9 min 15s 2010...
Jan 16th
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LIVE: MOVING SILENCE
Thurs 16 | 11pm Moving Silence new platform for contemporary silent movies The Berlin based platform Moving Silence brings back the poetry of silent movies, connecting the early days cinema-form with the present aesthetics of image and live music production. In this frame, musicians join directors to create a live event focused on various works of all kind and genre. “silent cinema :...
Jan 16th
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URBAN RESEARCH – II The Future is Now, the City...
Wed 15 | 6pm (upfront the Festiweltparty) pictured: I never told you what i do for a living by Curtis Burz Curated by Klaus W. Eisenlohr Beate  Hecher  AT  Silent Circles  3 min 00  2007 Marjorie  Hernandez Tejada  VE  Here  5 min 48  2011 Curtis  Burz  DE  I Never Told You What I Do For A Living  12 min 11  2010 Hirakawa Youki  JP  Depth of Whisper  4 min 00  2011 Alastair  Cook  UK ...
Jan 15th
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ONE MINUTE VOLUME 5
Wed 15 | 8pm (upfront the Festiweltparty) pictured: Sketch by Nicki Rolls (above) and Words by Jennifer Ross curated by Kerry Baldry One Minute Volume 5 (the fifth in the series of artists moving image programmes curated by filmmaker Kerry Baldry) is an eclectic mix of experimental, oblique and poetic moving image and features the work of 40 artists at varying stages of their...
Jan 15th
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YOU SAY FESTIVAL | WE SAY PARTY
Wed 15 | from 9pm on Festivals United | The Official Festiwelt Party The 8th Berlin International Directors Lounge will be an ongoing, eleven days in a row, cinedalic party. But we are going to top it off by celebrating with all the Berlin Film Festivals. This will be the night to party with all the movers and shakers of the Berlin Film...
Jan 15th
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JÜRG BARILETTI - Acoustic Lap Top Mobile
Wed 15 | 9:30pm pictured: The Acoustic Lap Top Mobile Jürg Bariletti and his Acoustic Lap Top Mobile - Elektroakustik, Experimental, Jazz
Jan 15th
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JAZZ aus BERLIN
Wed 15 | 10:30pm pictured: Sebastian Kommerell (left) and Marbo Becker JAZZ aus BERLIN - Piano: Sebastian Kommerell / Gesang: Marbo Becker Liebe ist im engeren Sinne die Bezeichnung für die stärkste Zuneigung, die ein Mensch für einen anderen Menschen zu empfinden fähig ist. Der Erwiderung bedarf sie nicht.
Jan 15th
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AT THE TURNTABLES
Wed 15 | - till dawn The Foxy Boxers – Indie, Electro, Rock’n’Roll DJ Starfish - Electro, Indie, Hiphop The Incredible YipYips DJ-Team: Cup of Jazz, Stephie Strumpet and    The Henrik Maneuver. Swing vs. Electro VJ Chuuu - Turntable Animation    watch out for more…
Jan 15th
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DESSOUS
Tues 14 | 6pm pictured: Buy Me!  by Catalina Flórez Cristina Zabalaga  PT   Bra-Fitting 11 min 38s 2011 | World Premiere Catalina Flórez  CO  Buy me! 59 min Feature Documentary 2011 Vivan designs dessous for prostitutes. With her partner Michel she sells her creations to the girls in the red-light districts in the Netherlands. Vivian’s longtime relationship with the prostitutes...
Jan 14th
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ON HARD ART OF STROLLING - Ivan Garcia
Tues 14 | 8pm stills: On Hard Art Of Strolling A Documentary Film directed by Ivan Garcia Five strolls. Shanghai before Mao, interwar Paris, the Soviet Union during industrialization, Japan before invading Manchuria and Barcelona at the beginning of Spanish Civil War. It’s just about wandering down the streets, taking a tram, having lunch in a restaurant, seeing how the...
Jan 14th
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DL Selection V
Tues 14 | 9pm pictured: There Is Wind That Blew, CArl Elsaesser Susanne Wiegner  DE  One Moment Passes  3 min  2011 | German Premiere Neil Ira Needleman  US The Good Old Days  4 min 33s  2011 | World Premiere Alina Gavrielatos  UK  The Ghost of Morris Horn  10 min 17s  2010 | German Premiere Daniel Nicolae Djamo  RO  Menu  5 min 27s  2011 Stephan Kaempf  DE  Chaos ca 5 min 43s  2011 in...
Jan 14th
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CREATURES OF THE NIGHT
Tues 14 | 11pm pictured: Vile Beast by Justin Crooks B-GRADE curated by Shaun Wilson A collection of screen horror-based short films which celebrate bad taste, the technologically inferior, political incorrectness, bad acting, appalling story lines, and drug induced spiders. Justin Crooks  AU   Vile Beast 4 min 2010 Justin Crooks  AU   Nightshift of A Vampire 10 min 30s 2010 Andrew...
Jan 14th
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LIVE: SUSANNA BERIVAN
Tues 14 | midnight pictured: Susanna Berivan by Jon Clay SUSANNA BERIVAN - voice, guitar, songwriting weird folk/ rough soul/ blue merry-go-round/ jazz/ punk “First up on stage was the lovely Susanna Berivan and she made sure that nobody would be leaving the place without knowing her name. This lady has it all. Style, grace, musical talent, a beautiful voice to fall in love with...
Jan 14th
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OUT OF THE BLUE - Plötzlich wird alles anders
Mon 13 | 6pm pictured:Fury by Tanya Ury (above) and PFFFHP TT! by Deborah S. Phillips curated and presented by Deborah S. Phillips screening starts about 6:15 pm Lutz Garmsen  Sirenen ca. 5 min. 2012  | World Premiere Tanya Ury Fury 16 min 2009  | World Premiere Jakob Kirchheim and Teresa Delgado Terrorsounds 6 min 2010 Melissa Delius and Gustavo Jahn Don’t Look Back/Labirinto 7...
Jan 13th
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URBAN RESEARCH - I Urban Observations and Local...
Mon 13 | 8pm pictured: 10 Moments by Wenhua Shi Curated and presented by Klaus W. Eisenlohr Alejandro  Bernal  DE  Zentralflughafen  14 min 38  2011 Caroline  Koebel  US  Swoop  7 min 36  2011 Yptu End  DE  Verlassen den Hafen  8 min 34  2010 Wenhua  Shi  RC/US  10 Moments  5 min 23  2011 Deron  Williams  US  We Want To Give You $40 Ask Us How  2 min 30  2010 Leslie  Supnet  CA ...
Jan 13th
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DL Selection IV
Mon 13 | 10pm pictured: The Last Picture by Andras Gyorgy Desi and Garbor Moray Astrid Busch  DE  Silhouette 6 min  2010 in attendance Hannaleena Heiska  FI  Ridestar  3 min 12s  2010 Panu Johansson  FI    Out of Order  11:58   2011 | German Premiere Alexandros Raptis  GR  Journey 13 min 53s  2011 | World Premiere Farnoosh Samadi Frooshani  IR  It’s Your Turn  7 min 02s  2011 | World...
Jan 13th
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Babobilicons And Miracles
Sat 11 | 6pm Three Films by Daina Krumings Think of New Jersey. Think of Man Ray and Jean Cocteau. Now think of Daina Krumins — the state’s homegrown surrealist filmmaker. ”The Divine Miracle,” ”Babobilicons,” (the title is a word she invented) and ”Summer Light” — will be shown today as a special feature. Ms. Krumins spent nine years making ”Babobilicons,” which she finished in...
Jan 12th
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MY SWEET CANARY - ROY SHER
Sun 12 | 6pm A journey through the life and music of Roza Eskenazi She was the most famous singer of the ‘30s in Greece and Turkey, the Diva of Rebetiko. With her posters displayed in every gramophone store, her Bohemian looks would drive even the toughest men crazy. (From the short story Roza, by Dinos Christianopoulos) Roza Eskenazi sang the way she lived, with passion, fire and love....
Jan 12th
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ZEBRA POETRY FILM FESTIVAL
Sun 12 | 8pm pictured: Nachtfahrt by Hansjörg Pal and Ruedi Bind selected and presented by Thomas Zandegiacomo Del Bel Diego Maclean CA The Art Of Drowning (Animation | The Art Of Drowning, Billy Collins) 2 min 06s 2009 Ralph Kühne CH Halbdichtheiten (Spielfilm | Halbdichtheiten, Ralph Kühne) 7 min 30s 2009 David Alexander Anderson GB/IR The Tongue Of The Hidden (Animation | Peacock +...
Jan 12th
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PARASITEN DER OHNMACHT
Sun 12 | 10pm pictured: Miron Zownir (left) and Birol Ünel by Nico Anfuso An Evening with Miron Zownir and Birol Ünel Actor Birol Ünel (Head On, Soulkitchen) reads bizarre short stories and hard boiled poetry from Miron Zownir’s book PARASITEN DER OHNMACHT. Empathetic and venturous at the same time, he sets out on a fearless descent into existential nightmares of paranoia, violence and...
Jan 12th
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Babobilicons And Miracles
Sat 11 | 6pm Three Films by Daina Krumings Think of New Jersey. Think of Man Ray and Jean Cocteau. Now think of Daina Krumins — the state’s homegrown surrealist filmmaker. ”The Divine Miracle,” ”Babobilicons,” (the title is a word she invented) and ”Summer Light” — will be shown today as a special feature. Ms. Krumins spent nine years...
Jan 11th
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SIMON ELLIS - Swimming In Pictures and Sound
Sat 11 | 7:30pm pictured: Soft by Simon Ellis in attendance of Simon Ellis, presented by Kenton Turk DL has a real treat this year in the person of Simon Ellis, who started making waves long before his short “Soft” won both the International Jury Prize at Sundance as well as the British Independent Film Award (not to mention some 35 more!). He has taken on offbeat terrain...
Jan 11th
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LIVE: OST- WEST- ACHSE
Sat 11 |9:30pm Balkan Bond Blues Shaken, not stirred Do we need to say more? Viktoria Lasaroff voc Christoph Bauer guit
Jan 11th
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DL selection III
Sat 11 | 10pm pictured: Portrait Serie - Jonas Mekas by Olivier Dekegel  H.D. Motyl US  Nudes Descending a Staircase #2  4 min 53s   2010  | European Premiere in attendance Nina Lassila FI  Günter und Mutti  3 min 17s 2011  Nicolas Ramel  FR  A/V Sketch#5  40s  2011 | World Premiere Stefan Adamski  PL  RE:   3 min 41s  2011 | German Premiere Muriel Montini  FR  Hysterical Fantaisy  3 min...
Jan 11th
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LIVE: OST - WEST - ACHSE pt II
Sat 11 | midnight Balkan Bond Blues Shaken, not stirred Do we need to say more? Viktoria Lasaroff voc Christoph Bauer guit
Jan 11th
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MEDIA IN MOTION
fri 10 6pm pictured: 3 channel-video (excerpt) Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb, The Year we make contact, Media-Scape 2010 by Heiko Daxl   curated and presented by Ingeborg Fülepp and Heiko Daxl mim&more emphasize media in in a broader sense. Operating from Berlin and Zagreb, mim&more is fostering the artistic exchange between both cities. Anna Anders (DE) “Schlag auf...
Jan 10th
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DL Selection I
Fri 10 8pm pictured: Irma by Charles Fairbanks (above), A Man Asleep by Ophir Ben Shimon Isaac Berrokal  ES  Contranatura 12 min 2010 Craig Webster  US   Carbon 9 min 30s 2012 | European Premiere Joacelio Batista  BR  The Boy Who Collected Skins 13 min 45s 2011 | German Premiere Ophir Ben Shimon  IL  A Man Asleep 15 min 40s 2011 | German Premiere Ali Asgari  IR  Tonight Is Not A Good Night...
Jan 10th
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DL Selection II
Fri 10 10pm pictured: Miss Mia Meows by Maurizio von Trapp Emilio Rizzo  IT The Story of Dreams  2 min 38s  2009 | German Premiere Paul O’Donoghue  IE  Follow Your Skin  4 min 41s  2010 Betty Boehm  DE  Bitter Tango  1 min 45s  2011 Claudia Guilino  DE  Stony Sleep  6 min 24s  2011 | World Premiere in attendance pictured: Paints by Akinori Okada and Daisuke Hagiwara / Kukikodan ...
Jan 10th
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the opening party
thurs 9 8pm Let´s celebrate. Join us for the opening night of [DL8] We won´t spoil the fun, just say tonight is the night to dive into the fun. We start with assorted highlights from this year´s Directors Lounge alongside live music by the fast swinging  Kings Of Spreedelta. doors open at 8 pm pictured: Decapoda Shock by Javier Chillon | German Premiere
Jan 9th
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the opening mix I
thurs 9 8:30pm pictured: In Dreams by Samuel Blain Dalibor Martinis HR Egyptian Odessa Stairs  6 min 54s  2011 Dora  Martinkova GB The Most Important Thing… 9 min 45s  2011 |  World Premiere Miron Zownir DE Auf Offener Straße  2 min 1993 Anton Corbijn GB Some Yoyo-Stuff  12 min 34s 1993 John Woods   CA    7246 120’ WE  2 min 17s 2011 | World Premiere Seth Siddharth IN ...
Jan 9th