Jessica Manstetten
Curator The Film All-Nighter
Panorama
Panorama
The theme of being forced to start over and move from one place to another runs through the Panorama section’s documentary films. The main figures find different ways of coping with where they end up. They catalogue memories and testimonies of their previous lives on cassettes, explore their past through home movies, or find solace in mythical literature. At the same time, they discover their new surroundings via smartphones, analyse traces of the past through historical sources, reinterpret them and overwrite them with their own meanings. In one way or another, in some cases quietly and in others loudly, they offer resistance in adverse circumstances. But playing a role in all cases are practices of remembering which find traces of the past in the present.
The diversity of the methods used by the protagonists to recall the past is also mirrored in the cinematic approaches to depicting and narrating them. Sometimes observational, sometimes participatory, sometimes poetic, sometimes reflective, the selected documentaries take a close look at individual and collective memories. They are representative of a variety of documentary narratives ranging from direct cinema to essay film through to smartphone video, and the dynamic relationship between film-makers and those filmed unfolds in the most diverse ways.
Ain’t No Time for Women
Sarra El Abed
Tunis, November 2019. A group of women is gathered at Saïda the hairdresser’s on the eve of the presidential election. […]
Centauress
Deniz Şimşek
A defining childhood experience gets the mind going and poses the question: How does memory work? At home, the TV […]
Der natürliche Tod der Maus
Katharina Huber
These are catastrophic times: climate collapse, the waste from today’s civilisation, contaminated fruit, not to mention the social pressures. The […]
Far From You I Grew
Marie Dumora
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie. You […]
Glory to the Queen
Tatia Skhirtladze
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie. You […]
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie. You […]
Landscapes of Resistance
Marta Popivoda
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie. You […]
Nothing but the Sun
Arami Ullón
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie. You […]
Inside out (side) Using astuteness coupled with bitterhumour the film-maker and protagonists analyse the balancing of their own needs in […]
Self Surgery
Hikari Wajima
How do we accept our own bodies, our hair and skin colour, figure, muscle form and fat, things we can’t […]
Spontaneous
Lori Felker
»I had a miscarriage while attending a film festival in 2016. This is a story about bad timing, ignorance, public […]
Their Algeria
Lina Soualem
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie. You […]
