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17.Oktober 18.00 Uhr | Puschkinsaal
Direction: Martin Pflanzer
Animation | Germany | 2022 | 05:15 min
Synopsis:
Based on the murder of 22-year-old Mahsa Jina Amini by the Iranian morality police, the film shows the terrible situation of women and human rights since the Islamic Revolution in Iran. The hand-drawn animation illustrates a poem by author Ayeda Alavie.
Direction: Martina Pfaff
Feature Film | Germany | 2022 | 03:04 min
Synopsis:
Time is running, thoughts are racing, life time is running out: is the protagonist in Sylvia Plath's poem treading water or is she resisting it? Her loneliness and despair become palpable, but also the strength with which she runs against it.
Music video for Ella Milch-Sheriff's song "Composition for mezzo-soprano and piano" after a poem by Sylvia Plath. With Uta Christina Georg | Mezzosopran.
Direction: Dawn Westlake
Feature Film | USA | 2022 | 03:14 min
Synopsis:
Democracies protect freedom of expression. In the field of information, however, this freedom comes with a very heavy obligation. The press and the social decision-makers they report on should seek the truth as best they can; not to incite or entertain, but to enlighten and educate. Information providers are under pressure to adapt to new technologies and revenue streams. But despite change, the truth always remains important.
Direction: Leang Ren Ong
Feature Film | Singapore | 2021 | 04:15 min
Synopsis:
Now comes the Even in Singapore's formative years, the news was part of the culture of the local Chinese community, especially its morning routine. But the permanent change of times also caught up with the haptic form of news presentation. The film is a tribute to the last day of printed news, an event we all know, from the point of view of the society that has to adapt to the new times.
Direction: Fernanda Caicedo
Animation | Ecuador | 2022 | 06:30 min
Synopsis:
Now follows the At the end of the horizon a singing cicada is born. Their flight is short, but their song is eternal.
Direction: Shiyu Tang
Animation | China | 2022 | 04:45 min
Synopsis:
In a damp and warm place I existed. The covered-up "gender selection" takes place in two different spaces where satisfaction and despair mix.
Direction: Cia Rinne
Feature Film | Germany | 2022 | 02:09 min
Synopsis:
"sentences" is based on sentences from the book of the same name by Cia Rinne. In "sentences" it is the sentence as a linguistic unit itself that reflects its purpose and position.
this sentence is looking for the ideal reader.
this sentence is a lifetime sentence.
this sentence wishes it were written by somebody else.
Direction: Helmie Stil
Feature Film | England | 2022 | 02:19 min
Synopsis:
The poetry film is about the transition from girl to woman from the perspective of a mother who wants to protect her daughter, but at the same time let her go. Rebecca Goss's poem "When it feels hot, that rage against me" was awarded the Sylvia Plath Prize in April 2022. It has been adapted as a poetry film by Helmie Stil of PoetryCinema and The Poetry Society for the Sylvia Plath Literary Festival in October 2022.
Direction: Zeynep Sıla Demircioğlu
Animation | Turkey | 2020 | 01:23 min
Synopsis:
The poem of the communist poet and writer Nâzım Hikmet Ran "Üç Selvi" is about three cypress trees. In his metaphorical narrative, the trees initially live in harmony with nature. After their destruction, the joy of life is gone and the world is poorer for the sound of cypress leaves. Although Hikmet wrote this sad poem in 1933, readers may find different meanings as they grapple with the dark side of Turkish collective memory.
Direction: Charles Badenhorst
Animation | South Africa | 2023 | 04:12 min
Synopsis:
In Eugene Marai's poem "Winter's Day," written during the Boer War in South Africa, he beautifully describes the perfect winter morning, of a quiet day. The kind of quiet you can only find on a winter morning on the African steppe. But in it there is also danger and sadness, the sadness of a lost life.
Direction: Pierre Guiho
Feature Film | France | 2021 | 10:02 min
Synopsis:
Fabien works as a caregiver in a residential home for people in need of care. In addition to his duties, he reads for Mr. Verdier, a man who can neither speak nor walk. One day, while reading poetry, Fabien notices that his listener's eyes linger on certain parts of his body. On impulse, he suggests taking him for a walk....
Direction: Maurice Huvelin
Feature Film | France | 2021 | 02:03 min
Synopsis:
TUTOPIQUE is a series of wonderful utopian tutorials and silly little tricks to learn how to imagine a less paradoxical and terribly happier world.