ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival Münster | Berlin: Programme Highlights and Advance Ticket Sales
19.11.2018
The programme of the ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival Münster | Berlin. International competition. Perspective Russia. Focus Berlin is online! From 6 to 8 December 2018, the festival will take place in the cinema in the KulturBrauerei and in the Haus für Poesie. It shows the best the poetry film has to offer. From now tickets can be purchased.
ADVANCE TICKET SALES
Tickets 7€ | 5€, Colloquium 3€
At the Kino in der KulturBrauerei, open
daily from 13.45, on Sundays from 11.00.
Online: www.cinestar.de/berlin-kino-in-der-kulturbrauerei
PROGRAMME HIGHLIGHTS
Festival Opening
TH. 6.12. | 20.00
| Kino in der KulturBrauerei | Room 7
With the authors: Erik Lindner (Amsterdam) and Liao Yiwu (Berlin)
With the directors: Anna Eijsbouts (Amsterdam), Hanna Slak (Berlin) and Dawn Westlake (Los Angeles), Requested: Tom Speers (Dublin) and Jac Hamann (Kapstadt)
Music by KARAGOD | Friedel
Hosted by Knut Elstermann (film journalist, Berlin)
We’ll be celebrating the opening of the ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival in Berlin with guests, film makers and poets. The winning films from the ZEBRA Festival Münster | Berlin in Münster from September 2018 will be shown in the presence of the artists who made them. The invited authors read from their new works. To set the tone for the country focus, the festival will begin with a musical mix of Russia and Berlin with the group KARAGOD joining Berlin beatbox artist Friedel to combine the tradition of Slavic music with the present.
Winners:
- “ZEBRA Award for the Best Poetry Film”, contributed by the Haus für Poesie
Boy Saint (IRL 2018) by Tom Speers | Poem: Boy Saint by Peter Laberge
- “Goethe Film Award”, contributed by the Goethe-Institut
Stad in die mis | City in the Mist (ZAF 2016) by Jac and Wessel Hamman
Poem: Stad in die mis by D.J. Opperman
- “Award for the Best Film for Tolerance”, contributed by the Federal Foreign Office
Hate for Sale (NLD 2017) by Anna Eijsbouts | Poem: Hate for sale by Neil Gaiman
- “Ritter Sport Film Award”, contributed by Alfred Ritter GmbH & Co. KG
Standard Time (DEU 2017) by Hanna Slak | Poem: silhouetten in turbulenz by Daniela Seel
- “ZEBRINO Award for the Best Poetry Film“, contributed by Filmwerkstatt Münster
Scrappy (USA 2016) by Dawn Westlake | Poem: Scrappy by Donald G. Westlake
- “Prize for the Best Poetry Film from North Rhine-Westphalia”, contributed by
Filmwerkstatt Münster (No) We, I, Myself and Them? (DEU 2017) by Christin Bolewski
Poem: Massacre by Liao Yiwu
COMPETITIONS
More than 1,200 entries from 97 countries were submitted for the ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival Münster | Berlin 2018. We show 42 films in the International Competitions and in the German Language Competition.
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION 1 – ASCENTS AND DESCENTS
FR. 7.12. | 17.00 | Kino in der KulturBrauerei | Room 5
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION 2 – LIFE AND OTHER CRISES
FR. 7.12. | 22.00 | Kino in der KulturBrauerei | Room 8
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION 3 – ME AND THE WORLD
SA. 8.12. | 18.30 | Kino in der KulturBrauerei | Room 5
GERMAN LANGUAGE COMPETITION
FR. 7.12. | 19.30 | Kino in der KulturBrauerei | Room 8
PERSPECTIVE RUSSIA
FR. 7.12. | 19.30 | Kino in der KulturBrauerei | Room 5
With the authors and film makers: Roman Osminkin, Andrey Rodionov, Inga Shepeleva, Andrey Silvestrov, Anna Tolkacheva, Ekaterina Troepolskaia
“Pyataya noga” (the fifth leg) is an idiom that sums up the position of video poetry in Russian culture. It presents Russian poets and film makers who are experimenting with video poetry and shows a selection of their work.
COLLOQUIUM DISCUSSION: PROMOTE. PRODUCE. ESTABLISH POETRY FILMS.
SA 8.12. | 12.00
| Haus für Poesie | Knaackstraße 97
With the participants: Juliane Fuchs (Producer), Sonja Hofmann (Academyof Media Arts, Cologne), Emmanuel Ryz (TANT MIEUX PROD, Paris), Michiel Snijders (il Luster Films Foundation, Utrecht), Kathrin Tillmanns (Institute bild.medien, Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences), NN (AG Kurzfilm)
Presenter: Claudia Maaß
Can we strengthen poetry film production in Germany, excite curiosity and continue to expand expertise? In this colloquium discussion we will be having a look at the perspectives for the genre in the past, present and future and its connection to television and new media.
NEW TALENTS
SA. 8.12. | 16.00
| Kino in der KulturBrauerei | Room 5
The fascination for poetry films has long captured the students of German universities and film schools. The festival presents the latest generation of university films from Düsseldorf and Cologne.
THE AVANTGARDES OF THE POETRY FILM
SA. 8.12. | 16.30 | Kino in der KulturBrauerei | Room 8
This flashback is dedicated to works by the avantgardes of the experimental film in the 1920s. The selection of great classics of the American experimental film and the French Surrealists is accompanied live by Carsten-Stephan Graf von Bothmer, one of Germany’s hottest silent film musicians.
FOCUS BERLIN
SA. 8.12. | 21.00 | Kino in der KulturBrauerei | Room 5
Presenter: Bas Böttcher
Berlin, Berlin, Berlin! After prizewinning films from around the world and Russian poetry we are celebrating and presenting the Berlin poetry film scene for the great ZEBRA finale.
ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival Münster | Berlin
International Competition. Perspective Russia. Focus Berlin.
6–8 December 2018
Kino in der KulturBrauerei, Schönhauser Allee 36, 10435 Berlin
Haus für Poesie, Knaackstraße 97, 10435 Berlin
For questions and information:
Mira Lina Simon / Press and Public Relations
Tel: 030. 48 52 45 24
E-Mail: presse@haus-fuer-poesie.org
The ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival Münster | Berlin in Berlin is promoted by the Haus für Poesie in co-operation with the Filmwerkstatt Münster and the Kino in der KulturBrauerei. It gratefully acknowledges the support of the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe and the Federal Foreign Office (Auswärtiges Amt). It is presented by taz and ASK HELMUT. The ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival Münster | Berlin in Münster was sponsored by Kunststiftung NRW, the Ministry for Culture and Science of the Federal State of North-Rhine-Westphalia and the City of Münster.