Filmblock "Between the Worlds"

Friday, April 24 - 14.00h Thalia 1


Between

Between
Between

Animation | Germany | 2008 | Tim Bollinger | 4'58''

With Between, we are off on a trip through the human psyche with its complex alliances and the dream images that arise from it. In the underworld of the emotions, between anxiety, loneliness and the wish for freedom, the only way out is simultaneously the way in.

Rien Ne Va Plus
Rien Ne Va Plus

Feature Film | Switzerland | 2007 | Gregory Bindschedler | 15'

On the top of a mountain, a man in a cowboyoutfit is pondering the future. To deal with his past, he decides to go down into the valley. This film uses impressive images to relate a confusing encounter of a lonely author with absinthe and with the heroine of his novel.

Rien Ne Va Plus

Le Couvre Chef
Headgear

Animation | France | 2008 | Marie Delmas | 4'58''

According to the French writer, Tristan Bernard, wearing a big hat can have an undeniable effect of authority on those without such headgear. That is what the eccentric inhabitants of a little, hilly country find out when the wind brings them a particularly magnificent example one day

Unter Nachbarn
Among Neighbours

Documentary | Germany | 2008 | Steffen Düvel | 43'

Twelve years after the genocide in Ruanda, which cost ca. 800,000 people their lives, the government demands that the perpetrators and victims live peacefully alongside each other. Perpetrators are supposed to ask pardon, and the victims are supposed to forgive them. “Among Neighbours” tells its story from the perspective of the victims, how they cope with their memories and what price they have to pay today for surviving.

CHEEESE...
CHEEESE...

Feature Film | Austria | 2008 | Hüseyin Tabak | 12'

In the cellar of their ruined house, a Kurdish family is waiting for the arrival of the American troops to rescue them during the Iraq War. As the bombs explode around them, the trapped people try to stay in touch with their apparently meaningless everyday life and the small problems associated with it.


CHEEESE...