Program overview | ANIMAL REALITIES
Retrospective | ANIMAL REALITIES
ANIMAL REALITIES
We celebrate the animal kingdom, everything that crawls and flies, and head out on no easy trail into the animal realms of documentary film. How are our companions on land, in water and in the air discussed in documentary film, how are they displayed? What is our connection as humans, but also as viewers in cinema, to a reality of life that surrounds us everyday, with which we coexist? On the one hand, we resemble animals, reflect ourselves in them or feel close to them, then again they remain unknown and mysterious – entirely taken for granted, we keep drawing our benefit from them. They are livestock, creature, beast, attraction or friend. Animal documentary film offers a wide range of tension in which filmmakers have always moved, reflecting on and exploring our relationship to animals. Let us take the time to look at the animals, to look closer and to spend some quality time with them – with the beings we share our planet with.
Our selection assembles international short and long documentary films from the 1940ies to contemporary positions. With a particular stylistic and aesthetic precision, they provide unknown or unusual insights into the world of animals, which go far beyond of being purely informative, as we know it from classical, explanatory animal documentaries. We dive into the ecological and political entanglements of animal and human habitats, espy the subtle imbalances in power and brutal exploitation machineries of humans towards the animal world, detect the coexistence with and fascination and care for the diversity of other species, chase after activist-political struggles and crawl into mythological chargings and secrets. Sometimes poetic and sensual, sometimes violent and brutal, or both at the same time, the films are always oriented towards the truthfulness of two worlds that – if we do not consider them separated so much – feature an immense dynamic and create a rescuing bond.
| Fr 08.09.23 Luru Kino 6 PM | ANIMALS AND MORE ANIMALS BE/NL/CD 2023, D: Baloji, A: Marc Zinga, Lucie Debay, Eliane Umuhire, Yves-Marina Gnahoua, 91’, original with English subtitles, DCP NO ANIMAL DE 2022, D: Christoph Girardet, Matthias Müller, 21‘, without dialogue, DCP BELOVED (GELIEBT) DE 2010, D: Jan Soldat, 15‘, Doc, original with English subtitles, DCP |
| 10 PM | STATE OF DOGS BE/MN 1998, D: Peter Brosens, Dorjkhandyn Turmunkh, Doc, 91‘, English version with English subtitles, 35mm SEASONS OF THE YEAR SU 1975, D: Artavazd Peleshian, Doc, 29’, without dialogue, DCP |
| Tue 12.09.23 Luru Kino 9 PM | PRIMATE US 1974, D: Frederick Wiseman, Doc, 105‘, English OV, 16mm |
| Sat 16.09.23 Schaubühne Lindenfels 6 PM | LE SANG DES BÊTES FR 1949, R: Georges Franju, Dok, 23’, original with English subtitles, DCP LEVIATHAN FR/UK/US 2012, R: Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Véréna Paraval, Doc, 87’, English OV with german subtitles, DCP |
| Sun 17.09.23 Luru Kino 17 Uhr | ALL THAT BREATHES UK/IN/US 2022, D: Shaunak Sen, Doc, 97’, original with English subtitles, DCP |
| 19 Uhr | IT IS NIGHT IN AMERICA BR/FR/IT 2022, R: Ana Vaz, Dok, 66‘, original with English subtitles, DCP {IF YOUR BAIT CAN SING, THE WILD ONE WILL COME LIKE SHADOWS THROUGH LEAVE} SG/FI 2021, D: The Migrant Ecologies Project (Konzept: Lucy Davis), Doc, 28‘, original with English subtitles, DCP |
