In times of growing nationalism, the Festival-Motto “We is”. Suitable for films about outsiders and idealists, in search of their place in society. The guest of honour Margarethe von Trotta.
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Film festival in Bad Saarow: Of dreamers and rebels
When the Bauhaus began to run
Not a game movie, but two episodes of the TV show “The new time” in Bad Saarow, this time the Festival kick-off. Suitable for the 100. Anniversary of the Bauhaus, the production of the ZDF (Second German television) shows the problems of the progressive Bauhaus school in a conservative time. In focus: its founder, Walter Gropius, and the talented and rebellious art student Debbie helmet.
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Film festival in Bad Saarow: Of dreamers and rebels
Not to tame
With the feature film debut of Director Nora Fingscheidt, the Festival is a cinematic gem in the program, which won the Berlinale, only a Silver bear, but also for the foreign language film Oscar nominated. It tells the story of the unpredictable and highly aggressive Benni. The Film asks the court for such a “systems busters” in the company.
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Film festival in Bad Saarow: Of dreamers and rebels
“God exists, your Name is…”
In a Macedonian village, a priest throws every year, a cross in the Creek. Who gets it, to gain happiness and prosperity. This time it is fishing, the unemployed Petrunya out of the water. The Problem here is that the Ritual only men are allowed to participate. Petrunija want to keep the cross, but in the conservative place for indignation. A powerful plea for recalcitrance.
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Film festival in Bad Saarow: Of dreamers and rebels
Quite the best of friends?
Human grace in a number of robots are now among us. The Director Isa Willinger shows in their award-winning documentary “Hi AI”. But you can also build emotional closeness and relationships with people? An ironic, intelligent Outlook on the relationship of man and machine.
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Film festival in Bad Saarow: Of dreamers and rebels
Broken Ideal
Director Bernd Böhlich told in “And looking to the future”, the life story of a woman, the break of the balancing act between the socialist Ideal and Parteiräson. As a convinced Communist imprisoned in the Soviet Union, false for espionage, tried it later with a fresh start in the GDR. Increasingly, she quarrels with the state, and is bitter to the fall of the Berlin wall in 1989 finally.
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Film festival in Bad Saarow: Of dreamers and rebels
Rebellion against the ruling System
In 1981, Margarethe von Trott’s game movie appeared in “The leaden time,” about two sisters involved in the 1970s for social change. The a as a journalist, the other as a terrorist. The empathetic Drama of the biographies of the sisters Christiane and Gudrun Ensslin numerous film based and raking in awards, including the Golden lion in Venice.
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Film festival in Bad Saarow: Of dreamers and rebels
When the Bauhaus began to run
Not a game movie, but two episodes of the TV show “The new time” in Bad Saarow, this time the Festival kick-off. Suitable for the 100. Anniversary of the Bauhaus, the production of the ZDF (Second German television) shows the problems of the progressive Bauhaus school in a conservative time. In focus: its founder, Walter Gropius, and the talented and rebellious art student Debbie helmet.
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Film festival in Bad Saarow: Of dreamers and rebels
Not to tame
With the feature film debut of Director Nora Fingscheidt, the Festival is a cinematic gem in the program, which won the Berlinale, only a Silver bear, but also for the foreign language film Oscar nominated. It tells the story of the unpredictable and highly aggressive Benni. The Film asks the court for such a “systems busters” in the company.
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Film festival in Bad Saarow: Of dreamers and rebels
“God exists, your Name is…”
In a Macedonian village, a priest throws every year, a cross in the Creek. Who gets it, to gain happiness and prosperity. This time it is fishing, the unemployed Petrunya out of the water. The Problem here is that the Ritual only men are allowed to participate. Petrunija want to keep the cross, but in the conservative place for indignation. A powerful plea for recalcitrance.
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Film festival in Bad Saarow: Of dreamers and rebels
Quite the best of friends?
Human grace in a number of robots are now among us. The Director Isa Willinger shows in their award-winning documentary “Hi AI”. But you can also build emotional closeness and relationships with people? An ironic, intelligent Outlook on the relationship of man and machine.
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Film festival in Bad Saarow: Of dreamers and rebels
Broken Ideal
Director Bernd Böhlich told in “And looking to the future”, the life story of a woman, the break of the balancing act between the socialist Ideal and Parteiräson. As a convinced Communist imprisoned in the Soviet Union, false for espionage, tried it later with a fresh start in the GDR. Increasingly, she quarrels with the state, and is bitter to the fall of the Berlin wall in 1989 finally.
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Film festival in Bad Saarow: Of dreamers and rebels
Rebellion against the ruling System
In 1981, Margarethe von Trott’s game movie appeared in “The leaden time,” about two sisters involved in the 1970s for social change. The a as a journalist, the other as a terrorist. The empathetic Drama of the biographies of the sisters Christiane and Gudrun Ensslin numerous film based and raking in awards, including the Golden lion in Venice.
“In our not in the seventh festival of the year, we want to celebrate with our visitors, the obstacles and limits to be overcome, WE are,” says the Credo of the Festival-makers Susanne Suermondt and Tanya Berndsen. “Although many people economically as well as never, you feel more and more ‘arm’: poor bindings, to belonging, to community. We want to be together with film producers and visitors to consider: Where is the WE in our society?”, Suermondt explained the motto of the Festival.
In search of the “We”
A question that haunts the protagonists in the carefully selected program of “Film without borders”. There is still a “We”, asks the Cuban, and Mariella in the award-winning British documentary “Voices of the Sea”, where more and more friends and neighbours escape over the sea the car in the USA? To dream of an attempt, the death of her first husband’s life and she’s not stopping yet, of a better life far from home.
Mariella and her family to fight in Cuba to Survive each day – is flight the answer?
And how much feeling there is in a society in which there is one good and the other living on the breadline? This is the topic of the docu-fiction “Scheme Birds” on the young Scot Gemma, the rebel full of Confidence against hopelessness and violence.
The opening to match the 100. Anniversary of the Bauhaus, two episodes of the TV show “The new time” is shown. How much “We” gave it in the beginning of the new school of Walter Gropuis, where different understandings of Art have collided?
The documentary film series “24 Europe – The Next Generation” brings the “We” eventually, across borders to the point: 60 young protagonists from 26 European countries tell of their everyday lives and their dreams for the Future and reflect the diversity but also the similarities of the Nations.
Fixed size in the Brandenburg Festival
Since 2013’s film festival in Bad Saarow documentary are part of the Brandenburg-, game -, and short films are on the programme, dealing with the great questions of our time: “issues in our films, human rights, human dignity, humanity,” says Festival Director Suermondt. Perhaps one reason for this is that the 60 kilometers from the city of Berlin, the hotel-the Festival attracts on the shores of the idyllic scharmützelsee lake, so many visitors and long for fixed size in the Brandenburg Festival has become. “A place where there is plenty of beauty and a program that there is no lack of sense,” said the screenwriter and Director Wolfgang Kohl Haase, the film festival, and Director Volker Schlöndorff added: “The liveliest exchange, you could wish for!” – because, after all, only movies will not be watched, but it is also discussed eagerly about what they have Seen.
Margarethe von Trotta: “one of the great filmmakers of our time”
This year, the multi-award-winning filmmaker Margarethe von Trotta, for the first time as the guest of honor of the party. In her films, she prefers to devote itself to strong women and portrayed among others by Hannah Arendt, illuminations of Hildegard of Bingen and Rosa Luxembourg. In Bad Saarow, your Drama will be shown “The leaden time” from the year 1981: It is the story of two sisters. between the left-wing RAF Terror and civic resistance for your way to decide. To see as well in the program, the documentary film, “supporters – Our German autumn” of her son Felix Moeller from the year 2018. He shows Trott’s personal point of view as a witness to the politically highly explosive-1970s, the Federal Republic of Germany, as the left-extremist Red army faction held the country in breath.
The Festival “Film without borders” Bad Saarow takes place from 29. August to 1. September 2019 instead. The Deutsche Welle is a media partner.