ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival – The Festival Program is online
18.10.2022
Once again, Berlin will become the center of poetry film: From 3 to 6 November, ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival at Haus für Poesie and Kino in der Kulturbrauerei Berlin will present poetry film in all its facets. An international competition awards the best poetry films. A focus will be dedicated to poetry filmmaking from Ukraine. „Prism“ gives insights in the diversity of the current poetry film scene. A masterclass allows a look behind the scenes of poetry film production and a colloquium discusses poetry as coping strategy within the context of war and flight.
From 18 October, the program & tickets will be online for sales.
PROGRAM
FESTIVAL OPENING
THU 3.11. | 7.45 pm | 12/10 € | Kino in der Kulturbrauerei/ Kino 7
With poets Kateryna Babkina (Ukraine) and Ariane von Graffenried (Switzerland)
Music by Mavka (Ukraine)
Hosted by Boussa Thiam
The event languages are English and German.
AWARD CEREMONY
SUN 6.11. | 8 pm | 12/10 € | Kino in der Kulturbrauerei/ Kino 7
Music by Poly Chain (Ukraine)
Hosted by Knut Elstermann
And the winner is … 25 films are competing in the International Competition for four awards with a total value of € 9,000 – the “ZEBRA Award for the Best Poetry Film”, the “Goethe Film Award – Sustainable Living” and the “Ritter Sport Film Award”. The prizes will be awarded by the jury comprising Dagmara Kraus (poet, Germany), Ebele Okoye (multidisciplinary artist, Nigeria) and Christine Franz (director and writer, Germany). An Audience award will also be awarded in the ZEBRino competition. Ukrainian music project Poly Chain will play at the ceremony.
Festival POEM 2022
„THE HAIRCUT“
SUN 6.11. | 5 pm | 9/7 € | Kino in der Kulturbrauerei/ Kino 5
Georg Leß (poet, Germany), Beate Gördes (filmmaker, Germany), Patricia Delso Lucas (filmmaker, Belgium), Johanna Wagner (filmmaker, Sweden) and Marc Neys (filmmaker, Belgium)
Hosted by Odile Kennel
The three best film adaptations – by Beate Gördes (Germany), Patricia Delso Lucas (Belgium) & Johanna Wagner (Schweden), and Marc Neys (Belgium) – will be shown, along with the program’s longlisted works. Georg Leß will attend to read new poems. Odile Kennel, author of the 2021 Festival Poem, will speak with the author and directors about the relationship between poetry and film.
COLLOQUIUM
War and flight – Poetry as coping strategy
SUN 6.11. | 11 am | 6/4 € | Haus für Poesie
With Iya Kiva (poet, Ukraine), Kateryna Mishchenki (writer, Ukraine), Dr. Bohdan Tokarskyi (University Potsdam, Ukraine) and Dr. Annette Werberger (European University Viadrina, Germany)
Hosted by Alexander Kratochvil
Prof. Dr. Annette Werberger approaches this topic in her research from a literary-historical perspective, including in her transregional study “Border Narratives in Transnational Spaces.” Dr. Bohdan Tokarskyi researches the intersections of poetry, psychology, and philosophy, as in his current seminar, “Poetic Resistance in Ukraine: From Empire to War.” In conversation with poets Iya Kiva and Kateryna Mishchenko, they will explore the extent to which poetry and poetry film can serve as coping strategies.
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION
COMPETITION I
FRI 4.11. | 7.45 pm | Kino in der Kulturbrauerei/ Kino 5
SAT 5.11. | 2 pm | Kino in der Kulturbrauerei/ Kino 8
COMPETITION II
SAT 5.11. | 7.45 pm | Kino in der Kulturbrauerei/ Kino 5
SUN 6.11. | 2.30 pm | Kino in der Kulturbrauerei/ Kino 5
Each 9/7 €
Hosted by Gian-Philip Andreas
About 1,200 entries from over 90 countries were submitted to 2022’s ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival. A program committee nominated 25 of them for the international competition.
FOCUS Ukraine
Two film programs are part of the national focus, Ukraine. With selected poetry films from this year's submissions, as well as special recommendations from the Ukrainian Film Festival Berlin, ZEBRA will present various facets of the Ukrainian film and poetry scene. Landscape, love, culture, tradition, and conflict are just a few of the themes. Films in this program are based on poems by Yurii Andrukhovych, Hrytsko Chubai, Nadiia Kyrian, Iya Kiva, Halyna Kruk, Grigory Semenchuk, Ivan Semenenko and Serhiy Zhadan.
FILM PROGRAMS FOCUS UKRAINE
FILM PROGRAM I
FRI 4.11. | 5 pm | 9/7 € | Kino in der Kulturbrauerei/ Kino 5
Hosted by Ingrid Beerbaum
FILM PROGRAM II
SAT 5.11. | 10.15 pm | 9/7 € | Kino in der Kulturbrauerei/ Kino 8
Hosted by Ingrid Beerbaum
RETROSPECTIVE: MAYA DEREN
FRI 4.11. | 7.30 pm | 9/7 € | Kino in der Kulturbrauerei/ Kino 8
Hosted by Valentyna Zalevska
The retrospective is dedicated to the works of Maya Deren, probably the best-known US pioneer of experimental film, dancer, and film theorist of the 1940s and 1950s. Deren was born Eleanora Solomonovna Derenkovskaya in Kyjiw/Ukraine in 1917 and released nine short films during her lifetime; two more films were released after her death. She filmed Marcel Duchamp, explored voodoo rituals, experimented with cinematic language and earned the title “mother of the American avant-garde.”
MASTERCLASS
HOW DOES THE WORK OF A FILM MUSICIAN LOOK LIKE?
SAT 05.11. | 2.30 pm | free entrance | Haus für Poesie
With Maryana Klochko (Ukraine)
The host of the masterclass, Maryana Klochko, is a Ukrainian composer, performing artist, and a resident of Ukrainian Film Festival Berlin. She has created music for numerous Ukrainian full-length and short films. In her talk Maryana Klochko invites participants to consider the role of music in film not just as soundtrack but as an element of the artistic craft and shares her personal insights on film scoring.
WORD PICTURES – FIVE ZEBRA READINGS
What would a poetry festival be without live poetry readings and the people who write the poems? We invited poets from Ukraine and from German-speaking countries to meet each other. Many of them have already become part of poetry films, with their films either running in the current program or a recent feature at the ZEBRA festival. This year, we will also introduce authors and their poems – presenting them to the film world for adaptation.
The events will be held in German and Ukrainian, with simultaneous interpretation. All Ukrainian poems will be available in German translation.
FRI 4.11. | 7.30 pm | 6/4 € | Haus für Poesie
Reading and conversation with the poets
Safiye Can (Germany), Martina Hefter (Germany), Ostap Slyvynskyi (Ukraine) and Iryna Tsilyk (Ukraine)
Hosted by: Daniela Seel
FRI 4.11. | 9.30 pm | 6/4 € | Haus für Poesie
Reading and conversation with the poets
Kateryna Kalytko (Ukraine), Simone Lappert (Switzerland), Andriy Lyubka (Ukraine) and Tanasgol Sabbagh (Germany)
Hosted by: Daniela Seel
SAT 5.11. | 5.30 pm | 6/4 € | Haus für Poesie
Reading and conversation with the poets
Daryna Gladun (Ukraine), Ariane von Graffenried (Switzerland), Ursula Krechel (Germany) and Lesyk Panasiuk (Ukraine)
Hosted by: Claudia Dathe
SAT 5.11. | 7.30 pm | 6/4 € | Haus für Poesie
Reading and conversation with the poets
Josefine Berkholz (Germany), Michael Fehr (Switzerland), Iya Kiva (Ukraine) and Oleh Kotsarev (Ukraine)
Hosted by: Irina Bondas
SUN 6.11. | 2 pm | 6/4 € | Haus für Poesie
Reading and conversation with the poets
Kateryna Babkina (Ukraine), Oleksandr Irvanets (Ukraine), Ronya Othmann (Germany) and Carlo Spiller (Switzerland)
Hosted by: Karolina Golimowska
PRISM
ECO POETRY
FRI 4.11. | 2 pm | Kino in der Kulturbrauerei Berlin/ Kino 8
DEALING WITH POETRY
FRI 4.11. | 4.45 pm | Kino in der Kulturbrauerei Berlin/ Kino 8
MYTH AND FAIRY TALES
FRI 4.11. | 10.15 pm | Kino in der Kulturbrauerei Berlin/ Kino 8
INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL CONFLICTS I
FRI 4.11. | 10.30 pm | Kino in der Kulturbrauerei Berlin/ Kino 5
TIME TRAVEL
SAT 5.11. | 2.15 pm | Kino in der Kulturbrauerei Berlin/ Kino 5
MENTAL CINEMA
SAT 5.11. | 4.45 pm | Kino in der Kulturbrauerei Berlin/ Kino 8
FEMINIST VOICES
SAT 5.11. | 5 pm | Kino in der Kulturbrauerei Berlin/ Kino 5
INTERRELATIONS
SAT 5.11. | 7.30 pm | Kino in der Kulturbrauerei Berlin/ Kino 8
INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL CONFLICTS II
SAT 5.11. | 10.30 pm | Kino in der Kulturbrauerei Berlin/ Kino 5
Hosted by Gian-Philip Andreas, Ingrid Beerbaum, Ricardo Brunn
Each 9/7 €
THU 3.11.–SUN 6.11.2021
ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival
Haus für Poesie & Kino in der Kulturbrauerei Berlin Schönhauser Allee 36, 10435 Berlin
Program and tickets from 18 October online at haus-fuer-poesie.org and cinestar.de
The ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival has been running since 2002. At the time of its inception it was the first international platform for short films based on poems – poetry films – and is still the biggest of its kind. It offers poets, film makers and festival organisers from all over the world a platform for creative exchange, and the attention of a wide audience. To this end, the festival includes readings, colloquia, and screenings moderated or joined by conversations. In addition, the festival offers participatory formats, such as master classes and workshops, in which participants will be able to learn more about scenes of poetry/film, their actors and aesthetics, networks and production conditions, and how one might initiate concrete collaborations in this field.
For enquiries and accreditation
Haus für Poesie
Silvia Jackson
Media Relations
Phone: 030 48 52 45 24
Mail: presse@haus-fuer-poesie.org
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ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival is organised by Haus für Poesie and by eurobylon e.V. in cooperation with Kino in der Kulturbrauerei. Funded within NEUSTART KULTUR by the commissioner of the federal government for culture and media, by Deutscher Literaturfonds e.V. and the State of Berlin / Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Europa. With the kind support of Goethe-Institut, Alfred Ritter GmbH & Co. KG, Universität der Künste Berlin, Universität Hildesheim, Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln, Deutsches Literaturinstitut Leipzig, Ukrainian Filmfestival Berlin, the Swiss cultural foundation Pro Helvetia and the Israeli Embassy in Germany. Presented by taz, tip Berlin, EXBERLINER and Yorck Kinogruppe.