Berlinale | In Focus | Berlinale Topics. Berlin Harlem – Germany (Federal Republic), 1. By Lothar Lambert, Wolfram Zobus.
Directed by Chantal Akerman. With Natalia Chakhovskaia. A look at life in Eastern Europe after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Teddy30. 1987: In the first Teddy year the Spanish director won the prize for Best Feature Film for La leyo del deseo (Law of Desire). Akerman en 2012 Données clés Nom de naissance Chantal Anne Akerman Naissance 6 juin 1950 Bruxelles (Belgique) Nationalité Belge Décès 5 octobre 2015 (à 65 ans.
Legendary film from super- indy filmmaker Lambert, one time most- featured Berlinale director, about the forms of racism in Berlin’s vibrant lifestyle at the time of the film's making. Brimming with cameos galore: alongside leading actor Conrad Jennings the likes of Ortrud Beginnen, Tally Brown, Ingrid Caven, Peter Chatel, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Günter Kaufmann, Dietmar Kracht, Evelyn Künneke, Lothar Lambert, Y Sa Lo, Bernd Lubowski, Brigitte Mira, Vera Müller can all be seen. Anders als die Andern (Different from the Others) - Germany, 1. By Richard Oswald. A significant world premiere: realised by the Outfest UCLA Legacy Project/UCLA Film & Television Archive, the newly- restored version of this cultural document of immeasurable value is screened for the first time – in a 3. Before Stonewall – USA, 1.
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Chantal Akerman's audacious first feature, 'Je Tu Ill Elle (I, You, He, She)' (1975), centers on an aimless young woman (played by Akerman) navigating the space of a. Further reading. Sultan, Terrie (ed.) Chantal Akerman: Moving through Time and Space. Houston, Tex.: Blaffer Gallery, the Art Museum of the University of Houston.
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By Greta Schiller, Robert Rosenberg. Info- Schau (former title of Panorama) 1. The legendary film from Greta Schiller reveals a lot which is missing from Roland Emmerich's Stonewall - but nevertheless agrees with him in quite a few details. The world "before Stonewall", the beginning of the post- war gay rights movement: the German portrait of this dark Adenauer era in which homosexuals were transferred directly from concentration camps to West German correctional facilities and have not been rehabilitated is yet to come. Greta Schiller later gained renown with Paris Was A Woman which she screened together with her partner and screenwriter Andrea Weiß in the 1.
Panorama. Die Betörung der Blauen Matrosen (The Enchantment of the Blue Sailors) - Germany (Federal Republic), 1. By Ulrike Ottinger. Ulrike Ottinger won the Special Teddy Award in 2.
Madame X and Bildnis einer Trinkerin (Ticket of No Return). Die Wiese der Sachen (The Meadow of Things) - Germany (Federal Republic), 1. By Heinz Emigholz. Panorama / Teddy Award winner 1. At a time when New German Cinema still appeared to be elusive, this artist and architect amongst West German filmmakers inspired with strikingly visual collages, associative streams and intellectual juxtapositions. An important work from an important German filmmaker. Gendernauts - Eine Reise durch die Geschlechter (Gendernauts - A Journey Through Shifting Identities) - Germany, 1.
By Monika Treut. Panorama / Teddy Award winner 1. One of the early researchers into the walled- in, gender- dualistic world of female and male, Monika Treut is at once a pioneer and veteran of Queer Cinema - an icon of the emancipation movement. She has screened numerous works in Panorama. Hedwig and The Angry Inch - USA 2.
By John Cameron Mitchell. Panorama / Teddy Award winner 2. Hedwig was once called Hansel and lived in East Berlin.
After an operation and having crossed the border she now finds herself deserted by love, in pursuit of rock star Tommy, playing small clubs with her band in the US. This musical was produced by Christine Vachon, who is receiving a Special Teddy Award in 2. Je, tu, il, elle (I, You, He, She) - France / Belgium, 1. By Chantal Akerman. In her boundary- breaking feature debut Chantal Akermann herself plays a young woman who seeks to address her experience of isolation through the study of other individuals. In tribute to Chantal Akerman, Panorama is screening two of her films: alongside Je, tu, il, elle, her. Panorama film from 1.
Toute une nuit (A Whole Night). Looking for Langston - United Kingdom, 1. By Isaac Julien. Panorama / Teddy Award winner 1. Now a star of the video art world, Isaac Julien has always first and foremost been a poetical activist, aesthete and cultural historian in the service of emancipation. This montage of archive material, dramatised scenes and literary texts creates an image of black gay identity exemplified by the life and work of Langston Hughes during the “Harlem Renaissance” in 1. New York City. Machboim (Hide and Seek) – Israel, 1.
By Dan Wolman. Info- Schau (former title of Panorama) 1. Today it is exactly the same as 3. Arabs and Jews is punished, hate and murder are accepted as normality. Dan Wolman casts a brave early look at this never- to- be- accepted situation.
Marble Ass – Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, 1. By ЕЅelimir ЕЅilnik.
Panorama / Teddy Award winner 1. ЕЅilnik counters the homophobia and transphobia of Balkan societies which came to light years after the fall of the Berlin Wall with an early and anarchistic stand in what is still, to this day, one of the most extraordinary films to emerge from the entire region.
Nitrate Kisses – USA, 1. By Barbara Hammer. Forum 1. 99. 3A never seen in this way before, sensitively creative conquest of the female sexual realm, radically beyond the prescriptions of mainstream culture.
Barbara Hammer has screened many of her works at the Berlinale. Parting Glances - USA 1. By Bill Sherwood. One of the first films which realistically, poetically and brutally embraced the then still taboo topic of AIDS. Parting Glances remained Bill Sherwood's only feature- length film – in 1.
The Watermelon Woman – USA, 1. By Cheryl Dunye. Panorama / Teddy Award winner 1.
Racist tendencies might appear to have been expunged from emancipation and gender discourse – but this is far from being the case. The racism inherent in mainstream culture is not necessarily recognised as such by alternative thinkers. Dunye takes a stance with a reflection on a representative figure of this complex issue. Tongues Untied – USA, 1. By Marlon Riggs. Panorama / Teddy Award winner 1. An early work of queer black emancipation from the then beacon of hope in the Afro- American gay rights movement – another artist and intellectual who died far too young from AIDS. Toute une nuit (A Whole Night) - France / Belgium, 1.
By Chantal Akerman. Info- Schau (former title of Panorama) 1. The director at the forefront of the post- war gender debate was already present in only the third year of the Info- Schau with this film. Virtuoso atmospheres between people and things, between spirit and world and time and space distinguish the work of this passionate artist who took her own life in October 2. Panorama is screening two films in tribute to Chantal Akerman: alongside Toute une nuit, her debut from 1.
Je, tu, il, elle (I, You, He, She). Tras el cristal (In a Glass Cage) – Spain, 1. By Agustí Vilaronga. A scandalous film at the time of making: an old Nazi and his young carer in Spain. A truly dark work about dark subject matters, the concealment and unrepentant nature of the post- fascist Spanish world when it had not yet begun to grapple analytically and politically with those grim times.
In 2. 00. 0 Vilaronga won the Manfred Salzgeber Prize with El Mar.