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The highlights from the competition programs as well as the anniversary retrospective will already be presented in advance at a reception at the Representation of the Free State of Saxony to the Federal Government in Berlin. The Representative of the Free State of Saxony to the Federal Government, Dr. Michael Wilhelm, and Claas Danielsen, director of the International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film, will welcome representatives from politics, business and culture to the Saxon State Representation, Brüderstraße 11/12, 10178 Berlin-Mitte, on 01 October 2007 at 19:00.
An entry nominated from the International Competition for Animated Film opens the event. The retrospective “Searching for Traces – Film Positions from Five Decades” was put together jointly by the Bundesarchiv-Filmarchiv Berlin and DOK Leipzig. For the German part of the review, “Hochwaldmärchen”, the first part of Peter Rocha’s Lusatia trilogy (GDR 1987), will be shown; for the international part of the retrospective, guests can look back to 1969: “Far from Home” (Kais Al-Zubaidi, Syria) tells of Palestinian refugee children and was the first Arab film in Leipzig to receive the Silver Dove. Claas Danielsen will talk about how the retrospective came about, its focal points and the selection of films with Karl Griep and Barbara Heinrich-Polte from the Bundesarchiv-Filmarchiv Berlin and Dr. Grit Lemke, curator of the international part of “Searching for Traces”.
As a German entry in the International Competition for Documentary Film, “Children. As Time Passes.” is nominated in 2007. The production is the third, overarching part of Thomas Heise’s Halle –Neustadt films “STAU – now it starts” and “NEUSTADT (Traffic Jam – The State of Things)”, both of which have already been shown in Leipzig and address the situation of young people and families in a new housing development in Halle. After a short excerpt from the film, which will be shown as a world premiere in Leipzig, director Thomas Heise will tell Claas Danielsen more about the background of the film and its protagonists.
Further Links:
- DOK Leipzig
