Only three more days to go only ‘til GEGENkino #5 starts. Here’s our festival trailer and your chance to get a glimpse of the diversity of things in our programme this year. Check it!
Big thanks to Katharina Wittmann for the teaser!
The booklet for the Sensory Ethnography Lab homage is out! Designed by Sophia Eisenhut. Also available as online and download version: https://view.publitas.com/gegenkino/sel-2018
A Zambian Fairy Tale: Rungano Nyoni Discusses Her Debut “I Am Not a Witch” on Notebook
Here’s an interesting short interview with Rungano Nyoni about her singular, strange witch-hunt fairy tale »I Am Not A Witch« (for MUBI Notebook).
»I wanted to make it a fairy tale because I found a really good Zambian way of saying the story, without making it about Zambia. I grew up on fairy tales. I’ve always wanted to do this, actually. In a way, I was trying to get away—perhaps as a first-time filmmaker this is a bit of a cliché—I was trying to get away from ›the arc.‹ It’s always ›the arc, arc, arc arc,‹ and I was trying to do something different. I was trying to do something that I grew up with, which is that my family used to tell me fairy tales and they were really particular. Fairy tales in general are very strange, but Zambian ones mix genres. They’re for kids, but they’re really violent, and they’re funny, and they mix magic realism. All of these things I wanted to take for my film. They are really musical. I was trying to do that.«
Make sure not to miss its Leipzig premiere at GEGENkino 2018: Luru Kino in der Spinnerei, 12th April, 10pm.
Thanks to Forgotten Film Entertainment the film will get the chance to contimate a lot of other German cinemas. But before the official start on May 17, come and watch “Hagazussa: A Heathen’s Curse” at Luru Kino as our opening film for GEGENkino 2018 (on April 5).
Here’s a hint on what to expect:
Now be prepared!
Hey hey! If you find the idea of leaving the house too dangerous or unappealing right now, here’s another option for how to get to read are new, fresh and hot GEGENkino 2018 booklet. Just follow this link…and there you go! If you want to download the whole thing, follow this way!
(Thanks again to ricaletto and Alex Brade for design and layout and to Gangart Werbung GmbH for spreading it!)
