A HUNGARIAN PASSPORT
Sandra Kogut, F 2001, 72`
"I'm going to ask for the Hungarian nationality." This administrative process will be the guiding line of the film. It brings essential questions to me: what is a nationality, what's the use of a passport, what do we inherit? (Sandra Kogut)
Thu. 3. April, 21.30 h DKH

A LUCIA
Julia Lazarus und Ben Pointeker, A/I 2001, 10`
The film is not an homage, neither to a specific individual nor a tradition in film or art history. The images, time delayed and sequential individual impressions, produce and visualize various states of emptiness: a concentration of the senses which is both idyllic and agitated. These images have been imbued with stormy elements and a forced graininess, while the intermittent crackling Soundtrack Supports both density and emptiness.
Sa. 5. April, 21.30 h DKH

AFGHANISTAN UNVEILED
German premiere
Brigitte Brault und Florent Milesi, Afg 2003, 52`
The first 1 hour documentary film ever made by Afghan camerawomen is an invitation to see and hear Afghan women unveiled by other Afghan women. Who could better tell about the condition of Afghan women today? In July 2002, 7 months after the collapse of the taliban, a unique project started in Kabul. A group of young women get initiated to camerawork with the aim of becoming the first Afghan women filmmakers in the history of their country.
Sa. 5. April, 12.30 h DKH

ALLES ANDERS / EVERYTHING'S DIFFERENT
Ina Weisse, D 2002, 19`
A cabdriver takes a pregnant woman to his home. He doesn't know that she will tear his world apart.
Fr. 4. April, 21.30 h DKH

AM SEE / AT THE LAKE
Ulrike von Ribbeck, D 2002, 10`
A little boy can survive in a family even when everyone in it is lonely. But what happens, when there is an accident
Fr. 4. April, 21.30 h Camera

ANDERS-ARTIG / OTHER-WISE
Christina Schindler, D 2001, 7`
As soon as they've hatched, the chameleons realise that one of them is somehow different! Not only is he incapable of changing his colour to adapt to his environment, he just doesn't behave like you would expect. And then, when an eagle starts eyeing them as his next prey, the "odd" chameleon is made responsible for their bad luck. A wild chase through the jungle ensues...
Fr. 4. April, 21.30 h DKH

A ROOF OVER MY HEAD /
EIN DACH ÜBER DEM KOPF
Eva Kroll, D 1950, 15’
A metalworker lives with his wife and child in a dingy flat in a block likely to collapse any day. He knows that they can't stay there much longer but sees no way out. Depressed, he wanders through the city. New buildings as far as the eye can see, shops mushrooming everywhere, but nothing's being done to help the people in emergency housing and inadequate accommodation. His search for financial assistance with a mortgage on a new house gets him nowhere: Then, to his astonishment, he sees a new kind of construction.
Su. 6. April, 11.00 h DKH

AND WHAT DO YOU THINK?
Eva Kroll, D 1950, 22’
A megaphone van announces a discussion evening about women's equal rights. Once there, though, the speakers all start to talk at one and the same. As a dialogue begins in the audience, the rules of debate and thus the principles of democracy emerge. The participants meet up later for a seminar on "how to chair a meeting" at Haus Schwalbach and the workgroup, supervised by a role-model American woman, make quick progress. In the third part of the film, the techniques so learned are put into practice by one of the attendees. Wagging its finger in the air charmingly, this didactic film explains democracy and discussion technique to the postwar Germans.
Su. 6. April, 11.00 h DKH

AUX FRONTIERE / ON BORDERS
Danielle Arbid, F/B 2002, 60`
Aux Frontières starts with a Super-8 sequence along the border between Egypt and Israel. The sumptuous colours, slightly choppy camerawork and sophisticated soundtrack express an empathetic sense of distance that only travellers experience. Of Lebanese origins, now an Arab affairs specialist, Danielle Arbid shadowed the Israeli border, trekking through all the neighbouring countries without once setting foot on Israeli soil. Her encounters with the people there draw a portrait of worn-down communities whom the West purposely ignores.
Fr. 4. April, 14.30 h DKH

BITTER
Tamara Tracz, GB/USA 2002, 4`
There's something I tell myself. I tell myself every day. “Don't be bitter, Tamara" I say. "Don't be bitter. Bitter is bad." Bitter is a very short comic/tragic film about feeling bitter and miserable and twisted. It is a combination of live action with animated text, made by hand, with a camera and an optical printer.
Fr. 4. April, 21.30 h DKH

BORDER
Annette Solakoglu, USA 2001, 8`
Imagine you are walking on a lonely, deserted road, putting one foot in front of the other. The next step will put you in a different place, even though the terrain, the sky and the road don't change. A haunting short about the arbitrary lines we have drawn on the earth.
Thu. 3. April, 17.00 h CineStar

CARGO
Laura Waddington, NL 2001, 29`
"CARGO is the story of a journey, I made on a container ship with a group of Rumanian and Phillipino sailors, who were delivering cargo to the Middle East. I stayed on the ship six weeks. The sailors weren't allowed to leave the boat and they spent their days waiting, singing karaoke and telling me stories in a small TV room. In Syria, the ports were military zones. I hid at a porthole and secretly filmed the life below: a man stealing wood, a soldier fishing off the edge of an abandoned submarine. Later, I took the most abstract images and made a narrative that falls between reality and fiction. It was my way of showing the limbo these men were living in." (Laura Waddington)
Thu. 3. April, 16.30 h DKH

DAS IST KEIN LEBEN / THIS IS NOT LIVING
Alia Arasoughly, Palästina 2001, 42`
Hay Mish Eishi - This Is Not Living features portraits of eight Palestinian women from different social and religious backgrounds exploring how they live war and imagine peace in the middle of reality lived and pain felt. These are not unusual women, women leaders or exceptional women in the news media sense. They are a newspaper subeditor, a theatre worker, a farming woman, a cleaning lady, a boutique owner, a university student, a high-school teenage girl and a housewife. These are the ordinary lives which make up the news but which news management somehow makes invisible.
Sa. 5. April, 10.30 h DKH

DAS SCHLAFENDE MÄDCHEN / GIRL SLEEPING
Corinna Schnitt, D 2001, 8`
The viewers are presented with a single camera-crane shot as it tracks a residential estate of detached houses. The mass of nice-looking residences takes on the look of a model board— a worthwhile ideal, yes, but somehow spooky. It's only at the end of the film that the tense atmosphere is interrupted by a voice on an answering machine. The recorded message sequence gives us an insight into actual problems and material values. It's all a question of financial security, a work disability pension and a ballpoint pen.
Fr. 4. April, 21.30 h DKH

DAS TRIO / THE TRIO
Hermine Huntgeburth, D 1997, 90`
Zobel and Karl have been lovers for a long time. Almost too long if you take Zobel's neverending and increasingly hurtful gibes into account. Worse, at the fairground, Karl manages to get pickpocketed, the irony being that he, Zobel and Zobel's daughter, Lizzi, form a pickpocketing team of three: the trio. The ploy is this: Zobel, disguised as a blind man, bumps into the victim and Lizzi grabs the loot and passes it on to Karl. But, just as the two men's relationship is in crisis, the trio's criminal operation is looking shaky too. The 50-something Karl suffers from both the illegality of his "profession" and from his lover's domineeringness and lack of control. Though unpredictable and irresponsible himself, Zobel unreasonably demands absolute trust as a friendship basis.
It seems almost inevitable, then, that something will happen to Karl: he dies as the result of a car accident. Deeply shocked on the one hand and seeking refuge in memory suppression on the other, Zobel looks for somebody to replace Karl "professionally" ... and finds him in the person of the young thief who tricked Karl at the fairground! As Zobel and Lizzi initiate Rudolf, he becomes the object of desire to both of them. The further irony of father and daughter in love with the same guy makes for a few amusing scenes but, eventually of course, leads to a rift between the two. Lizzie too has become fed up with her father's extravagances and possessiveness. But before the surprisingly happy end (with agreeable prospects for all) can come about, Zobel has to face a few home truths and even go to prison.
Thu. 3. April, 20.00 h CineStar

DAUGHTER FROM DANANG
Gail Dolgin / Vincente Franco, USA 2001, 80`
Born to a Vietnamese mother and an American serviceman, seven-year-old Hiep was part of »Operation Babylift«, a military operation to relocate Vietnamese children to the United States for adoption. Her mother feared for Hiep's safety if she were to remain in Vietnam and agreed to send her to the States. Now Hiep decides to make the journey to her native home/and to meet her family and soon realizes just how deep their cultural differences run.
Sa. 5. April, 15.00 h CineStar

DEADLY REMNANTS
Nelofer Pazira, CDN/AFG 2002, 24‘

DE L´AUTRE CÔTÉ / FROM THE OTHER SIDE
Chantal Akerman, B 2002 99`
Originally a project shown at Documenta 11, Akerman's *De l'autre côté* was shot in the border region between Mexico and the USa. Its harrowing theme: the misery of the countless people who try to get into North America. It is a story as old as time but one that never seems to lose its topicality. Indeed, the horror grows as the poor migrants risk their lives to flee their homeland in hope of surviving elsewhere. But in the place where they are headed for they are simply not wanted. Except, perhaps, to do everybody's dirty work for as little pay as possible. Chantal Akerman shows the border in its entirety: desert landscapes, sweeping skies, mountains in the distance, road junctions, a sandstorm sweeping over the border, a tailback of cars inching towards the outposts. At night, the border fences is tracked by the camera from a car. Otherwise, the camera holds its deadpan gaze, not moving, not zooming.
At a talk she gave in Cannes, Akerman asked the audience what they thought of those night-time tracking shots along the fences, adding that "my best viewer is my mother: she said she immediately thought of a concentration camp".
Thu. 3. April, 17.00 h CineStar

DER FREIE MENSCH / Free Man
Sylvie Boisseau, Frank Westermeyer, D 2001, 3`
Life is full of choices.
Fr. 4. April, 21.30 h DKH

DER FREUND DER FRISEUSE / INGEBORGA
Catharina Deus, D 2002, 13`
Jozef is looking for his girlfriend Ingeborga to tell her that he wants to break up with her. He becomes angry, it starts to rain and he gets drunk. Then he finds her using a hair-dryer. A little tribute to suffering.
Fr. 4. April, 21.30 h DKH

DER UNSICHTBARE STACHELDRAHT /
INVISIBLE BARBED WIRE
Eva Kroll, D 1951, 12’
The Schulze family come from Germany, the Jones family from the USA, and they meet up in the postwar Germany of 1951. All of them have their own habits and lifestyles. Gradually, they begin to warm to one another as the men discuss politics and the women exchange recipes. This is an illuminating and entertaining look at the problem of German/American understanding and offers a way out of mutual preconceptions and misunderstandings.
Su. 6. April, 11.00 h DKH

DIE KATASTROPHE / DISASTER
Leni Fischer, D 1930, 5`
This animated film was made for the washing powder Famos produced at soap factories in Riesa-Gröba and Düsseldorf. The insert titles are written in that old-fashioned German script known as Sütterlin. Here we see a German housewife doing the washing the traditional way — i.e. putting it out to bleach on the grass. Unfortunately, some hens walk all over it and leave some unwelcome dirt. All that work for nothing! So the sun, who has observed all these goings-on, recommends Famos as a bleaching agent. Just let the washing soak in the bleach trough overnight and hang it up on the line the next day!
Fr. 4. April, 21.30 h DKH

DIE KROKODILE DER FAMILIE WANDAOGO /
THE WANDAOGO FAMILY'S CROCODILES
German premiere
Britta Wandaogo, D 2003, 71`
"The Wandaogos used to be a royal family in Burkina Faso, their protectors and talismans being the crocodiles. The sacrificial ceremonies at the Crocodile Lake are seen by the Elders as an integral part of their life in honour of the crocodiles. "The crocodiles, they are our ancestors", they say. "Every winter, taking our daughter Kaddi with us, we travel to the family court. The former life of kings has given way to more pragmatic obligations and, for our idyllic nuclear family from Cologne, the clash between strange and familiar each trip means more complications and impediments." (Britta Wandaogo)
Fr. 4. April, 17.00 h CineStar

DIE KÜMMELTÜRKIN GEHT / THAT TURKISH WOMAN'S LEAVING
Jeanine Meerapfel, D 1985, 88`
Made in 1985, this film confronted the then buzzword of "foreigner problem" with the reality of an individual destiny. Melek, a 38-year-old Turkish woman, is leaving West Berlin after 14 years and returning to her home country. The film is an attempt to portray the invisible hurt that was done to a "guest-worker" who lived in Germany for 14 years. Finally, it is the portrait of an unusual woman, one of life's survivors, who forces us to rethink the preconceptions we may have about a typical Turkish woman.
Su. 6. April, 14.30 h DKH

DIM SUM
Jane Wong, GB 2002, 36`
Liverpool, England. A Chinese Grocery. Three Chinese women sit making dumplings. The filmmaker, Jane Wong, is the daughter of one of the women. They chat about traditions, family and men. From the grocery to the cityscape of Liverpool, the women's everyday lives and acceptance of fate is revealed through humorous observations.
Fr. 4. April, 16.30 DKH

DOG
Suzie Templeton, GB 2001, 5`
A young boy longs for reassurance about how his mother died. To protect each other, he and his father hold their pain inside, where it festers.
Sa. 5. April, 21.45 h Camera

DOMESTIC
Suzi Ewing, GB 2002, 12`
Domestic is a short film about Barry, a man who is struggling to come to terms with his redundancy. In order to occupy himself whilst apparently at work, he breaks into stranger's houses to clean them. It is through this cleaning process that Barry regains a sense of harmony and purpose in his life and the strength to confront his situation. He unwittingly becomes an angel in another couple's troubled life.
Fr. 4. April, 21.30 h DKH

EINS ZU EINS -
GESCHICHTE GLÜCKLICHER TAGE / ,
ONE TO ONE - A STORY OF HAPPY DAYS
Natalie Muntermann, D 2002, 20`
The "Family Home and Garden Park" in Wuppertal is the oldest of its kind. A total of 37 different construction firms got together so that they could exhibit 50 or so ideal homes. Natalie Muntermann's film shows how the dream of you own home is staged by this model housing estate. The bourgeois lifestyle is depicted on a 1:1 basis, prefabricated as a virtual experience. If the village functions as a large theatre, it has only one show in its repertoire: The Dream Home (and variations).
Fr. 4. April, 21.30 h DKH

EIN TRAUM VON KABUL / A DREAM OF KABUL
Wilma Kiener, Dieter Matzka, D 1996, 80`
They were still young in 1972. They came from Europe, Australia and America and they were convinced that the culture of their parents had nothing to offer other than refrigerators and the Vietnam War. In Kabul, they had decided, they could live as peaceful, just human beings. More than 20 years later, a film-team visits the lost paradise of the flower children. This documentary film - A DREAM OF KABUL - records the story of these European, Australian and American young people, the era of the flower children, their ideals and their hopes. In contrast, we also see the naked reality of the contemporary Kabul.
Fr. 4. April, 15.00 h CineStar

ER PFEIFT DRAUF / HE COULDN'T CARE LESS
Eva Kroll, D 1952, 12’
The town council invites all the just-turned 21-year-olds, and thus newly franchised voters, to a celebration. If, at first, one young man "couldn't care less", he eventually learns to make use of his rights, showing the way in an otherwise leave-me-out-of-it culture.
Su. 6. April, 11.00 h DKH

EUROPLEX
Ursula Biemann, CH 2003, 20`
Europlex tracks distinct cross-border activities through the Spanish-Moroccan borderlands and seeks to make these obscure paths visible. On their repetitive circuit around the check-point to the Spanish enclave, the video follows in three borderlogs the smuggling women who strap multiple layers of clothes to their bodies, the daily commute of "domesticas" who turn into time travellers as they move back and forth between the Moroccan and European time zones and the Moroccan women working in the transnational zones in Northafrica for the European market.
Fr. 4. April, 14.30 h DKH

FRÜHEHE / A WAYWARD GIRL
Edith Carlmar, NOR 1959, 95`
Norwegian director Edith Carlmar's last feature film A WAYWARD GIRL was shot in 1959 and stars 20-year-old Liv Ullman in her first major role as Gert (a young woman born out of wedlock and thus without family support) who "goes off the rails". An upright student falls in love with this rebellious young woman and whisks her off to a lonely mountain cabin for purposes of "rescue". And there they live on love and air until Benedik the tramp shows up and stirs things up. Things can only deteriorate – plus which, the parents don't like the relationship anyway – but, at the end of the day, love triumphs over all obstacles.
This witty mix of the Heimat and morality film genres gives a clear picture of the moral constraints and of the limitations imposed on women in the Europe of the 1950s and 1960s. "The lack of pompousness and the sympathetic observation of the characters make up for a certain superficiality, and the clichés are treated so lightly that they seem almost fresh" [Monthly Film Bulletin October 1962].
Su. 6. April, 12.30 h DKH

GOOD HUSBAND DEAR SON
Heddy Honigmann, NL 2001, 50`
In the hills surrounding Sarajevo lies the village Ahatovici. In 1992 about 80% of all the men were killed. The village was burnt to its foundations. Women and children were spared. It is about the memories - beautiful, melancholic and sad ones - that cling to a watch that's been recovered, an apple tree, a bricklaying tool or a T-shirt. Bit by bit it's these memories that project on a hill in Bosnia the image of a disrupted community.
Sa. 5. April, 18.00 DKH

HER GRANDMOTHER’S GIFT
Emily Hubley, USA 1995, 5`
Narrated by Emily Hubley's own mother, Faith Hubley, a Grandmother discusses menstruation with her young grandchild. She explores the myths and practices of ancient times but also tells of her own trauma and fears when she was a young girl. Relating her period to the cycle of the moon, the grandmother helps the girl to understand that it is not a thing to fear, but rather the foundation for creating life. Pictures of how traditions are handed down from generation to generation.
Sa. 5. April, 15.00 h CineStar

HIMMEL FLUGZEUG MÄDCHEN /
THE SKY, THE PLANE, THE GIRL
Vera Storozheva, RUS 2002, 84`
A story like this happens to every man once in a lifetime. Quite by chance, in the wrong time and the wrong place there comes "the most beautiful girl in Moscow and environs". She walks right into Georgy's pre-planned and stable life. Lara is strange, she is inconceivable, and she does not look like anyone he had known before. She is chameleon. As a flight attendant, she is permanently on a temporary stay basis in airports (whose names she cannot always remember) as well as in hotels, waiting rooms and metro stations. She finds life too short to miss and is always starting over and taking off.
Sa. 5. April, 17.45 h Camera

HINTER DER KAMERA / BEHIND THE CAMERA
Joanna Maxellon, D/ISR 2002, 18`
BEHIND THE CAMERA is an essay film based on documentary footage shot in the 1930s. This, in retrospect, highly unusual film material was stored away in a cardboard box in a basement for 60 years. The unspectacular pictures of Jewish everyday life – picnics, holidays and weddings – show how life slowly but surely changed in response to the political situation. One takes in the subtle threat through the eyes of a young woman who wishes her youth to be as carefree as possible. The complete opposite of the person who, in a later diary, was to write about being prevented from carrying out her job and being forced to move house. Rachel Rockstein's home movies were shot between 1927 and 1936.
Fr. 4. April 17.00 h CineStar

HINTERLAND
Esther Johnson, GB 2002, 12`
By focusing on a specific community which live on South Cliff, Skipsea in East Yorkshire, HINTERLAND examines and reflects on details of their lives. This particular area of the East Coast is rapidly eroding with the cliff-edge dangerously encroaching on people's homes. A sense of paranoia and threat are intertwined in such a place.
Sa. 5. April, 21.30 h DKH

HOME
Andrijana Stojkovic, YU 1996, 8`
An old married couple do their best to maintain homeliness in exceptional circumstances.
Mi. 2. April, 20.00 h and Su. 6.April, 17.00 h CineStar

HOPE TO RETURN
Fariba Jamali Nemati, IR 2002, 19`
An Afghan school in Iranian exile. Some of the girls are taking their leave of their co-students and teachers. They are to return to Afghanistan with their families — and with the hope that they can build a new life. For some of the younger ones, it will be their first visit to their home country.
Fr. 4. April, 12.30 h DKH

HYSTERICAL BLINDNESS
German premiere
Mira Nair, USA 2002, 96`
Gena Rowlands, Juliette Lewis and Uma Thurman, who won the Golden Globe 2003 for her role, star in an intimate, character-driven drama that follows three working-class women – two best friends in their late 20s, and one older woman who’s the mother of one of the two friends – as they attempt to build relationships and find meaning in their lives within the cultural boundaries of 1980s Bayonne, New Jersey. Trolling for men in an extremely limited world of row houses, diners and a local bar, the younger women stoop to desperate measures in their unrelenting attempt to find "Mr. Perfect," more often than not settling for men who have no interest in building a long-term relationship with someone they perceive as a jaded barfly. Ironically, it is the older woman who manages to find happiness with a retired widower she meets in the diner where she works as a waitress – a romance of which her daughter is initially skeptical, but one that ultimately brings them closer together.
Sa. 5. April, 19.30 h DKH

IF YOU LIVED HERE, YOU'D BE HOME BY NOW
Diane Bonder, USA 2001, 15`
The film is about the divisiveness over land, the relationship of public and private space in small town America, and the concept of home.
Fr. 4. April, 21.30 h DKH

IMA
Caterina Klusemann, D/USA/I 2001, 58`
A journey into repressed memories, IMA is a story about four women and three generations: grandmother, mother and two daughters … one of them Caterina Klusemann. Only five years ago, she still believed that she came from a Venezuelan-Polish background. But only after close observations, long conversations and confessions reluctantly extracted did it emerge that her grandmother and her mother are Holocaust survivors. This personal testimony pursues a long-kept family secret, gradually and painfully unveiling it.
Fr. 4. April, 16.30 h DKH

IM FILMATELIER / IN THE STUDIO
Gerda Otto, Hedwig Otto, D 1927, 5`
A commercial for aspirin. We see an advert being filmed: a "lady" suffering from headache takes some aspirin tablets. But the director is in no way satisfied with her acting abilities and shows her how it's done. This early puppet film is remarkable for its love of detail. Both the design and the animation of the puppets bear impressive witness to the professionalism of the two sisters Gerda and Hedwig Otto in this genre. The box of tablets and the hands holding it, by the way, are real. The Greek lettering on the box indicates that the film was produced for advertising purposes abroad.
Fr. 4. April, 21.30 h DKH

IT´S MY LIFE
Nataliya Berezovaya, RUS 2000, 3`
A very small pig tells the story of its life.
Fr. 4. April, 21.30 h DKH

KATHERINE
Elly Heuss-Knapp, Rudi Klemm, D 1938, 2`
Kunterbunt the poster artist is looking for a model for a Nivea poster. But his colleague is unshaven and scruffy. Entirely unsuitable. A lady calls and she, thanks to Nivea, is always well-groomed. He hires her on the spot.
Fr. 4. April, 21.30 h DKH

LA FIANCEE / THE FIANCEE
Annie Zorz, F 1974, 26`
Shot in North Afghanistan, LA FIANCÉE is an ethnographically interesting film about the preparations for the wedding of a 15-year-old girl. She is to be married to a much older man and be his second wife. Since she is still young and shy, she doesn't speak herself but lets her 17-year-old cousin Fatima tell us about her childhood and the forthcoming wedding. For her part, Fatima has been married for two years.
Sa. 5. April, 20.00 h Petri Church

LA MAISON DE CARTON
Isabelle Martin, B 2000, 13`
In the same house, a mother wonders if she will eventually have a place of her own, a daughter sticks to her little world, a father is satisfied with building sand castles, but will they finally dare to leave?
Sa. 5. April, 21.30 h DKH

LEB WOHL / FARE WELL
Florencia Hurtado, D 2002 ,13`
In her mind's eye, Mexico-born Florencia is writing letters to her dead mother. Letters describing her new life in a strange country. Completely different to how her mother would have wanted it but, perhaps, a little like it too. Florencia depicts her initial powerlessness and her dependence … and how she learnt to face up to her problems.
Su. 6. April, 14.30 h DKH

LES PETITES COULEURS
Jessica Plattner, CH 2002, 94`
Christelle, a hairdresser whose husband beats her, runs away after a violent quarrel. She ends up in a delapidated motel called the Galaxy, frequented by truck drivers and travelling salesmen. Mona, the owner, a loveable and bubbly widow, takes Christelle under her wing and helps her to rekindle an interest in life. They both become passionately devoted to a TV soap opera entitled "The Ranch of Love".
Fr. 4. April, 20.00 h CineStar

LE TROP PETIT PRINCE / PIPSQUEAK PRINCE
Zoia Trofimova, F 2002, 7`
A very small boy tries all day to clean the dirty sun.
Thu. 3. April, 19.30 h DKH

LETTER TO AMERICA
Iglika Trivonova, BG/NL/H 2001, 88`
"Life passes like a shadow ..." Ivan can only remember the first line of an old folk song once believed capable of resurrecting the dead. The young man used to sing it with his best friend, Kamen, who now lies between life and death in a US hospital. When denied a visa to travel to Kamen's bedside, the sensitive and handsome Ivan takes for the road in search of the forgotten song.
Fr. 4. April, 17.45 h Camera

LITTLE BO POOP
Wendy Griffiths, GB 2001, 7`
When her sheep decide to visit the big city, Bo Poop has no option but to follow them. She soon finds herself in unfamiliar and threatening surroundings.
Fr. 4. April, 21.30 h DKH

LITTLE DICKIE
Anita McCee, CDN 2002, 7`
A mysterious cowboy rides into town, enters the saloon and orders a whiskey. He drinks silently. A mysterious woman enters the bar and tries to make small talk. When she asks "What's a girl gotta do to get a little conversation going on around here," she gets more than she bargained for.
Fr. 4. April, 21.30 h DKHH

MEIN KLEINES KIND / MY LITTLE BABY
Katja Baumgarten, D 2001, 88`
An ultra-sonic scan in the middle of pregnancy. Diagnosis: complex malformation in the 21st week; suspected chromosomal anomaly. Chances can only be described as poor. "You must decide", the prenatal diagnostics specialist told the mother. "The usual way in such a situation is an immediate termination".
This autobiographical documentary is about the existence, birth and departure of the filmmakers son Martin Tim. It examines the personal issues and developments after that confrontation with the terrible diagnosis, to have to decide the length of life and the circumstances of death for a child.
Su. 6. April, 16.30 h DKH

MEMOIRES INCERTAINES
Michale Boganim, F/GB 2002, 36`
A young woman, caught between London and Paris and two separate ages, tries to get a picture of her dead uncle whose turbulent life has become more than legendary. Each member of the family has a different story to tell about his mysterious personality. From archive to archive, via words to pictures, and on to the inexorably confused threads of memory, *Mémories incertaines* is a poetic journey of research during which the researcher, with unflagging persistence, tracks down memories in the depths of a labyrinth where all the different stories intertwine.
Sa. 5. April, 16.30 h DKH

MEXICO CITY
Christiane Lilge, D 2000, 5`
„People don´t interest me. I´m only interested in the surroundings, the genre, the niche. I´m interested in the general and the common values. The people that stand in between all this, they bore me.“
Sa. 5. April, 21.30 h DKH

MY DOLL AND ME
Parivash Nazarieh, IR 1999, 13`
The solitude of a little girl who with her doll, experiences the events with her childish perception in the world of grown-ups.
Thu. 3. April, 21.45 h Camera

MY LIFE WITHOUT ME
Isabel Coixet, E/CND 2002, 100`
Ann (Sarah Polley) is twenty-three. She has two daughters, a nice husband who spends most of his time unemployed, a mother who hates the world and a father who has spent the last ten years in prison. She lives with her family in a trailer on her mother's land in a suburb of Vancouver. Ann's monotonous life takes a radical turn when she learns from her doctor that she only has a short time to live - just two months, in fact. She compiles a list of the things she wants to do before she dies and comes up with a number of eclectic entries, ranging from "always say exactly what I think" to "wear false fingernails'! Much to her own astonishment, Ann soon develops a love of life she never knew before.
Mi.2.April, 20.00 h und Su. 6. April, 20.00 h CineStar

MY TERRORIST
Yulie Cohen Gerstel, ISR 2002, 58`
A girl in the Seventies who always wants to be a brave child. Who dreams of being an officer in the Israeli Defense Force. Who is proud and a great patriot and who gets shot and wounded, in 1978, in a terrorist attack of The Popular Front for The Liberation of Palestine on an El Al flight crew in London. The girl has grown to be a woman, and has today daughters herself. Patriotism, to her, now means to try reconciling with the terrorist who shot her 22 years earlier, and who still serves his sentence in a UK prison.
Sa. 5. April, 10.30 h DKH

NOMADES AFGHANS /
NOMADS OF THE FRONTIER
Ella Maillart, CH 1932, 30`
In the 1930s, Ella Maillart – a great traveller, journalist and photographer – recorded her expedition through Iran, Afghanistan and India, partly with a motion picture camera. This silent movie travelogue takes us on a trip into Afghanistan's past, to a time when it was still a dream country. NOMADS OF THE FRONTIER received its premiere in Bombay in September 1940.
Sa. 5. April, 19.00 h Petri Kirche

ON EDGE
Maria Lappalainen, FIN 2002, 55`
Five boys in a Russian children's home, none of them older than 15: they have stolen, raped and killed. For them, the time they spend in the home is a break from the misery of their lives. They tell of their broken families, their dreams and their uncertain future.Director Maria Lappalainen gets close to her young protagonists without actually leaving the position of silent observer.
Thu. 3. April, 13.00 h DKH

OUR BURMESE DAYS
Lindsey Merrison, USA 1996, 90`
Sally Merrison, who so deeply renounced her background that she used to tell her children she came form Wales, returns to her native Burma as the subject of daughter Lindsey Merrison's documentary. After making a life for themselves in England, Sally and her brother Bill revisit their homeland for the first time since childhood, and their antithetical views of memory, identity and their Eurasian heritage form an irresolvable dialogue which reflects on both personal and political history.
Thu. 3. April, 19.30 DKH

PASO INVERSO - ARGENTINA, NOS VAMOS /
REVERSE STEP - ARGENTINA, WE ARE LEAVING
Claudia Lorenz, CH 2002, 37`
Since Argentina went into economic and social freefall, many of its citizens want to emigrate. PASO INVERSO is the story of some Argentinian women and men who decided to go back to their Swiss roots and flee the hopelessness of their home country. Expecting a better future, they return to the land of their ancestors.
Thu. 3. April, 14.30 h DKH

POST MARK LICK
Sonia Bridge, GB 2002, 4`
POST MARK LICK explores the materiality of the postage stamp, and fleeting narratives of postcards. In the soundtrack fragments can be heard from a collection of sent postcards that date from 1902 to the present. Accumulating gummed paper from friends and family divided by geography, personal or global history, seemed a bygone pastime considering global changes in transportation, mass telecommunications, and the development of the internet.
Sa. 5. April, 17.45 h Camera

QUI VEUT DU PATE DE FOIE?
Anne-Laure Bizot, F 2001, 6`
The terrible destiny of a weak, little child, mismatched with a gluttonous family…
Fr. 4. April, 21.30 h DKH

RAILROAD OF HOPE
Ning Ying, China 2001, 56`
Every year during August and September, several thousand agricultural workers leave Sichuan by train for a long trip of more than 3,000 km, lasting three days and two nights, towards China's far west: Xinjiang Autonomous Region, where endless cotton fields are awaiting the harvest.
Thu. 3. April, 16.30 h DKH

RAIN
Christine Jeffs, NZ 2001, 92`
Janey, her little brother and their parents spend a lazy, hazy summer by the coast with each day drifting into the next. While the children play on the beach the parents drink, bicker and host parties for other holidaymakers.
Janey is at that awkward stage; no longer a child but not quite an adult. She spends her day teaching her little brother how to swim, but at the parties she sits on the sidelines observing and judging the sexual tensions between the adults, in particular the flirtation between her mother, Kate, and handsome photographer Cady. In turn Kate is threatened by her daughter’s blossoming into maturity and bored by her husband’s contentment with life. She responds to Cady’s admiration and – never the most domestic mother- turns away from her family to glow in her won re-awakened sexuality. Janey’s challenge to her mother for the attentions of Cady, and, in essence, their struggle for control of the family, ultimately has fatal consequences. Jeffs has sympathetically adapted Kirsty Gunn’s novel to create a tense, shimmering film that challenges notions of maternal love and childish innocence.
RAIN is Christine Jeffs’ powerful feature debut, and her own background and the close relationship with cinematographer John Toons are apparent in the breathtaking beauty of every shot here.
Thu. 3. April, 17.45 h Camera

R.I.S.E –
Revolutionary Women Reenvisioning Afghanistan
Ronit Avni, AFG/USA 2001, 13‘
R.I.S.E reveals Afghan reality under the Taliban. Part of the footage was shot by RAWA members after the September 11 attacks. At no small risk to their lives, a camera hidden under the burka, RAWA members filmed the cruelty and atrocities of the Taliban against the Afghan public. In RAWA's view, the release of these video pictures became an important medium, a weapon, against the repressive regime.
Sa. 5. April, 12.30 h, DKH

ROUND TRIP TICKET
Denise Iris, USA 1996, 12`
In this video diary, the filmmaker - a Romanian immigrant living in America - chronicles her first trip back to her home country after the fall of communism. Through talks with family and friends and through Iris's own reflections, the film creates an intimate portrait of Romania, a country in the midst of profound changes.
Thu. 3. April, 21.30 h DKH

SAINKHO
A VOICE ON THE EDGE- A JOURNEY OF EXTREMES
Erica von Moeller, D 2002, 80`
The venues: a baroque concert-hall somewhere in England; a run-down club in Rome; a dusty village square at the other end of the world. The music: jazz, pop, drum 'n' bass. The woman: a vocal wonder of the modern world, a bundle of energy, an injured party, a grandmother and a girl-friend. Those of you who first hear Sainkho Namchylak in this film – hear how that voice opens up space, how she unexpectedly switches from a whisper to a scream and how she segues from overtones into scat singing – will understand that there is more to this person than just musical parts.

SAYA ET MIRA / SAYA AND MIRA
Jasna Krajinovic, B 2002, 52`
In the days following the war in Bosnia, Saya and Mira live, like many other people, in houses which do not belong to them. Saya, an Serbish-Orthodox, is an old woman. The war destroyed her house. Today, a refugee in the town of Brcko, she lives under the threat of expulsion. Mira, aged 17, is a Bosnian Muslim. The war forced her family to flee the town to take refuge in the country. Both women dream of being able to return to their homes one day.
Thu. 3. April, 14.30 h DKH

SCHORNSTEIN NR. 4 / CHIMNEY NO. 4
Jean Chapot, F/D 1966, 88`
Six years into their marriage, Julia Kreuz confesses to her husband Werner that she has a son - living with his adoptive Polish parents, the Kostrowitzes. He will now be seven years old and she thinks about him all the time. Driven by an uncontrollable urge, she stalks the Kostrowitz family who soon sense imminent danger. Having suggested a move to another town, Werner eventually locks Julia in the flat … in vain. Julia goes to the Kostrowitzes and pleads and begs. They cannot, of course, come to an agreement. Whereupon she kidnaps the boy from the school swimming pool. A portrait of an unusual woman starring Romy Schneider in her first role in Germany after her Sissy movies. Shot in stark b/w pictures, long dialogues, an unfolding psychogram.
Su. 6. April, 17.45 h Camera

SINGSINGSING
Roswitha Menzel, D 2002, 12`
The quiet life of a tidy seamstress is thrown out of balance when a mermaid crosses her path...
Sa. 5. April, 17.00 h CineStar

SISTER MY SISTER
Nancy Meckler, GB 1994, 89`
The film is based on the same famous story which inspired Jean Genet's "The Maids". It is the story of the two sisters Christine and Lea, who work as servants in the bourgeois household of Mme Danzard and her daughter. A French provincial town in the 19303. The house and the atmosphere are dominated by Mme Danzard, who lives in the most claustrophobic provinciality. To escape from their hard reality the two sisters build up their own world of strong feelings. An incest story that is suspiciously watched over by Mme Danzard who does not really understand. The tension between the four women reaches the point, where the act of shocking violence erupts, that assured Mme Danzard's household a place in history.
Thu. 3. April, 21.45 h Camera

STORE LILLE TRUDE METTE
Benedicte M. Orvung, FIN 2002, 28`
Succesful Norwegian stand-up comedian Trude-Mette returns for the first time to her home town on the Barents Sea in search of her family and reconciliation with her past. Trude-Mette wants to know how the local community will accept her now as she achieved success and fame.
Fr. 4. April, 21.30 h DKH

SUSPICIOUS RIVER
Lynne Stopkewich, CDN 2000, 92`
There are structural and narrative elements of a bleak fairy-tale in this story about a girl searching for a better life. Amongst other things, Lynne Stopkewich's SUSPICIOUS RIVER deals unpretentiously with casual prostitution, rape, violence and exploitation. It all starts off as a quiet, observant movie which creates a provincial backwater atmosphere reminiscent of David Lynch's TWIN PEAKS and form which Leila desperately wants to get away. Slowly but unobtrusively, the plot begins to overwhelm its protagonist and take a penetrating look into the depths of the human psyche.
Fr. 4. April, 21.45 h Camera

TEKNOLUST
Lynn Hershman Leeson, USA 2002, 85`
Anxious to use artificial intelligence robots to improve the world, Rosetta Stone (Tilda Swinton), a bio-geneticist, devises a recipe by which she can download her own DNA into a "live" brew she is growing in her computer. She succeeds in breeding three Self-Replicating Automatons - S.R.A.'s - that look human, but were bred as intelligent machines. She names them Ruby, Marinne and Olive.
In order to survive, the S.R.A.'s need injections of male Y chromosomes found only in spermatozoa. Rosetta programs Ruby while she sleeps to absorb images and dialogue of classic movie clips of famous seductions. Ruby acts these out in the real world and shares "donations" with her sisters. Ruby's evolving contact with the real world eventually introduces her to art, spirituality, and ultimately, when she meets Sandy, the capacity to fall in love.
Su. 6. April, 19.30 h DKH

THE BIRTHDAY
Lucy Blakstad, IR 2002, 12`
The O'Connors live on the small Island of Inishea. They can only get over to the mainland by driving over on a tractor at low tide, or paddling there in a currach.
It is Padraig's mother Maureen's 65th birthday and Padraig has persuaded his mother, who has not left the island since the death of her husband, to go on an excursion to the mainland. Half way to the mainland, Padraig realises to his horror that there isn't enough water in the tractor's radiator...
Su. 6. April, 21.45 h Camera

THE HOUND AND THE FURY
Kirsten Kelly, GB 2001, 3`
The antics of a dog, a fish and a diva unwittingly create a unique arrangement of a classical tune...
Fr. 4. April, 19.30 h DKH

THE SETTLERS
Ruth Walk, ISR 2002, 58`
THE SETTLERS traces the daily lives and routines of the population of Tel Rumeidah (Hebron) comprised of seven families with a total of 43 children. In their relentless efforts to preserve normality, they ignore the surrounding political and military chaos and in no way acknowledge the existence of their Arab neighbours. Only religious celebrations and excitement surrounding the tenuous governmental permission to build permanent housing punctuate their routine. The significance of this Israeli outpost far outweighs its size, and its existence is only made possible by the massive and disproportionate military presence surrounding it. Their unwavering belief that they belong here, in the midst of Palestinian Self Rule Territories and amongst a people they deem invisible, is to say the least, surreal.
Thu. 3. April, 18.00 h DKH

THE TOWER
Quirine Racké, NL 2001, 16`
The aristocratic, hippie family Flatz lives in a medieval tower near Salzburg, Austria, bought shortly after the Second World War by their British grandmother Prunella, who now lives there with her son Martin, his wife Ulrike and their two children Sirius and Isis. Ulrike is the “quintessential sixties beauty” according to Martin who professes to be something of an expert in the field of pretty women. Thanks to a large family fortune, none of them has ever had to work for a living, but the “three generation millions” - one generation makes a million, the second keeps it and the third spends it - are slowly disappearing. So now the heavy burden of maintaining the tower falls on the children, of whom Sirius (the Latin form off Osiris) actually seems to enjoy making money. His dreamy, fairy-like sister Isis seems less cut out for that particular task. With the Flatzes, reality and fantasy tend to become pretty mixed up as they talk openly, and with a keen sense of drama, about their lives, money, art love, misunderstandings and dreams. The natural, easy manner in which they do this almost makes one wonder whether this is a real family or just a group of actors.
Sa.. 5. April, 21.30 h DKH

THE WORLD OF INTERIORS
Bunny Schendler, GB 2001, 6`
A darkly comic story about procrastination in which a man becomes entangled in his own domestic web. His repeatedly unsuccessful attempts to leave his flat eventually set off a series of chain reactions ensuring his inevitable descent into domestic chaos! The film is a psychological drama that strikes a chord with the audience by depicting the character in the grip of this common neurosis.
Fr. 4. April, 20.00 h CineStar

TROUBLE EVERYDAY
Claire Denis, F 2001, 100`
This story of the borderline scientist – a victim of his own experiments who wants to supress his inner metamorphosis and conceal his bloodlust from his bride – draws its inspiration and ideas from the classic horror film. Vincent Gallo as a man caught between two women: his young and innocent wife totally unaware of her husband's bestial lusts and the other woman, a former colleague, someone on his wavelength and just as dammed. The director updates the tragically coded and sexually fraught motifs of gothic horror and romantic thriller into a coolly realistic and rawly erotic production of the present. A film of opposites in both content and form, Agnés Godar's photography on TROUBLE EVERY DAY is clear and sober, the original soundtrack by Tindersticks warm and sensual.
Sa. 5. April, 21.45 h Camera

TSCHADARI & BUZ KASCHI
Elke Jonigkeit, D 1989, 99`
Two opposite poles form one whole in Afghan society. The chadar (veiling cloak) symbolises women's withdrawn role in public life. The popular horseback game of buz kashi demonstrates what particular attributes are expected of a man, namely, physical strength and toughness. In 1989, during the Russian occupation, Elke Jonigkeit, visited Afghanistan to meet local women and learn about their destinies, their attitudes to life: Women who fled to Pakistan and women who – whether consciously or merely resigned to the situation – stayed in Afghanistan. Here, the active resistance fighter on the side of the mujahedin; there the socialist working woman. Like in many other wars, the women here carry out dangerous spying and courier duties, tend to the injured and ensure that the elderly and the children survive. And, sharing equal rights with the men, they have to bear the consequences of war. Women too go to prison, are tortured, are murdered. Particularly viscous are the rapes: the women have to leave their homes and flee to foreign exile.
Fr. 4. April, 10.30 h DKH

UND WAS MEINEN SIE DAZU?
AND WHAT DO YOU THINK?
Eva Kroll, D 1950, 22’
A megaphone van announces a discussion evening about women's equal rights. Once there, though, the speakers all start to talk at one and the same. As a dialogue begins in the audience, the rules of debate and thus the principles of democracy emerge. The participants meet up later for a seminar on "how to chair a meeting" at Haus Schwalbach and the workgroup, supervised by a role-model American woman, make quick progress. In the third part of the film, the techniques so learned are put into practice by one of the attendees. Wagging its finger in the air charmingly, this didactic film explains democracy and discussion technique to the postwar Germans.
Su. 6. April, 11.00 h DKH

UN EXERCICE EN PASSAGE
Lin Chalozin-Dovrat, ISR 2002, 8`
UN EXERCICE EN PASSAGE is an alternative voyage journal, dealing with the concept of passage. It does not document a passage from one place to another or from one language to another, but aspires to seize the slippery notion of passage itself, and remain within its realms for as long as possible. Both image and sound are mobilized for that end, and create a space of allegedly no starting points or finishing lines. Coming to terms with the eternal exercise of passage is the only completion proposed.
Sa. 5. April, 21.30 h DKH

UN' ORA SOLA TI VORREI / FOR ONE MORE HOUR WITH YOU
Alina Marazzi, I 2002, 55`
A woman's face. Two voices, joking, then a song, "Juste une heure toi et moi...", then the singer stops, just as her life did. This face, this voice are all that remains to Alina Marazzi of her mother:
“A few years ago I found some old films shot by my grandfather during his life.
I started to watch them with great curiosity and strong emotion, especially those marked with an "L", the initial of my mother's name: Liseli. As if by magic those images projected in front of my eyes seemed to give life back to a mysterious and unknown person to me: Liseli, my mother, died when I was 7years old.
This film is my personal quest of my mother's face, of whom I hadn't almost no memory at all. For most of my life my mother’s name has been ignored, avoided, hidden. Her face alSu. But I am lucky enough to be able to see her move, laugh, run….even see her on the day she was born! And then see her grow up, learn how to walk, marry, take me on a boat trip!”
Sa. 5. April, 16.30 h DKH

URBAN GHOST STORY
Genevieve Jollife, GB 1998, 90`
The grim council-flat tower-block where Lizzie lives with her single-parent mother and younger half-brother is pure horror in itself, as is the credit shark menacing the family. More trouble starts when Genevieve Jolliffe introduces a sort of poltergeist that terrorises the three protagonists in the safety of their own home. As it seems to develop an affinity with Lizzie, she inhabits a strange demi-world. A remarkable combination of realistic scene-setting with classic shock effects.
Su. 6.April, 21.45 h Camera

WUNDERBAR / WONDERFUL
tsarah and arani, D 2001, 4`
WUNDERBAR is a short film about an encounter between two yonis, red silk and the roar of the sea. "As I saw her for the first time, I had no idea how well we would get along". Whereupon the conversation begins.
Fr. 4. April, 21.30 h DKH

YO SOY ASI
Sonia Herman Dolz, NL 2000, 80`
Mario has lived for thirty years in a small room on the fourth floor of a house without a lift. At night he changes into a woman to work in a nightclub and when day breaks he 'shrivels up' into a man. Mario is a ‘transformista’. With a few other ageing artistes he performs every evening in front of a tiny audience in the variety club 'La Bodega Bohemia' in Barcelona. Host and manager Enrique is like a father to this strange collection of artistes who include a mentally handicapped adopted 'son' (54), a singing plumber, ageing transvestites (the oldest is 77) and the only real imitator of the legendary Cuban singer Antonio Machin. Mario's main act is called 'Yo Soy Asi' (That's how I am), a song in which he ridicules who he is. One day Mario and the other artistes hear they will be sacked, because the wife of the senile owner has sold the club.
Fr. 4. April, 21.30 h DKH

ZAZA
Allan Dwan, USA 1923, 88`
At this year's festival, Cora Frost (and her musicians) will be accompanying a silent movie for the first time — ZAZA (1923) in which Gloria Swanson gives a "virtuoso example of comic acting": In Paris, a cabaret artiste falls in love with a married diplomat. How-ever she renounces her chance of happiness when she sees him with his wife and children. Melancholy and inner turmoil were not part of Gloria Swanson's usual repertoire, but the range of her performance here brought her new success and restored her image as a femme fatale. Dwan managed to get Paramount to agree to his shooting the film in the Long Island Studios in New York. ZAZA was the first of eight films he and Swanson were to make together
The encounter between diva Cora Frost and vamp Gloria Swanson promises to one of the festival's highlights!
Fr. 4. April, 19.30 h DKH