17th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival –
Images of the 21st Century
13-22 March 2015
TRIBUTE: GERMAN DOCS
13-22 March 2015
TRIBUTE: GERMAN DOCS
Among the 17th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival – Images of the 21st Century tributes (more to be announced soon) is German Docs featuring a representative selection of the recent German documentary production.
The tribute includes the following films:
The cinematic life, both on and off screen, of Hollywood legend Katharine Hepburn is celebrated in Andrew Davies’ and Rieke Brendel’s Katharine Hepburn – The Great Kate, while Heidi Specogna’s Pepe Mujica – Lessons From the Flowerbed puts the world’s poorest leader in the spotlight, weaving together archival material, his own testimony and snapshots from his everyday life.
A different view of Africa is captured in Oswald von Richthofen’s 35 Cows and a Kalashnikov (executive produced by Roland Emmerich), which poetically praises the continent’s beauty. Von Richthofen, who grew up in Khartoum and sadly passed away while filming his documentary, offers a “personal trilogy about Africa” blending unknown cultures with European influences, voodoo, guns and exotic fashion choices.
Alexander Gentelev’s revelatory Raiders investigates a secret Russian mafia network that comprises, among others, gangsters, politicians and judges who illegally seize other people’s houses, businesses and plots of land. On the other side of this materialistic spectrum, stands Kordula Hildenbrandt’s Spirit Berlin that follows a young actor on his journey seeking enlightenment among Berlin’s various spiritual offerings.
An elegy to love and, at the same time, a poignant comment on prejudice and the limits of freedom in western societies, Maximilian Haslberger’s The Humanitarians follows two people with physical and developmental disabilities as they fight for their right to be active sexual beings.
