Filmblock "Arena"
Wednesday, April 22 - 14.00h Thalia 1
Von Mädchen und Pferden
About Girls and Horses
Documentary | Germany | 2008 | Ulrike Vahl | 15'
The 10-year-old Pawel and the 11-year-old Ricardo spend their days in the gym. This is the place where the young high-performance athletes are also quite normal boys, despite their ambition and the discipline. It is particularly the impressive camerawork that we have to thank for this film manages the bond between reticence and closeness to the protagonists so expressively.
Das Mädchen mit den gelben Strümpfen
Das letzte Rad
The Last Wheel
Feature Film | Germany | 2009 | Olaf Held | 6'
In a dark, damp jail, the inmates hatch strange ideas. To break out of their confinement, they use their own bodies in a very idiosyncratic way. An impressive mixture of animation and feature film with atmospheric images and a very ornate presentation.
Das Mädchen mit den gelben Strümpfen
The Girl with the Yellow Stockings
Feature Film | Germany | 2008 | Grzegorz Muskala | 6'
A young couple, a bed and a question – in a little, apparently everyday scene the film tells of power, love, independence and the desire for intimacy. It turns out that elementary questions about life can be resolved between two sheets.
Bean Sprout Project
Bean Sprout Project
Feature Film | South Korea | 2008 | Park Chul Soon | 14'
In their attempts to gain the favour of a girl in their class, the little protagonist and his rival go in for many an imaginative contest. At the centre of one of these contests is a stray bean that almost seals the lovesick youth’s fate. A cute little story about love, which endears itself through humour, imagination and enchanting figures.
Bean Sprout Project
Our Wonderful Nature
Our Wonderful Nature
Animation | Germany | 2008 | Tomer Eshed | 5'
The law of the strongest doesn’t exclude even the most entertaining little creatures too. In Our Wonderful Nature, it comes to a hectic struggle between two mice over the favours of a lady mouse. Fabulously animated and humorously configured, this battle becomes a beguiling pleasure full of humour, charm and intelligent jokes with genre conventions.
On the Road with Andras Szirtes
On the Road with Andras Szirtes
Documentary | Belgium | 2008 | Maarten Bernaerts | 24'
Andres Szirtes is an artist who sees himself confronted by peculiarities of the modern world as he tries to promote his art. The charming portrait of this eccentric artist stands out by its humorous treatment of documentary’s methods and through a protagonist, who never becomes boring.
Touchdawn of the Dead
Touchdawn of the Dead
Animation | Belgium | 2008 | Pierre Mousquet | 5'
A man wants to win a bet regardless. The impending apocalypse and a town full of bloodthirsty zombies can’t stop him either. A headlong drive begins, in which not a few of the undead get massacred. Will our hero manage to alter circumstances in his favour?
Touchdawn of the Dead
