Highlights 13/15
22/03/2017, 9.00 PM
CITY KINO
Jochen Kuhn
Sonntag 3
The third part of a series of films about Sunday outings. In Sonntag 3 the main character has a blind date with an suprisingly well known woman at the Grand Café in Berlin.
Almagul Menlibayeva
Transoxiana Dreams
As seen through the eyes of a fisherman’s young daughter, the film illustrates the dramatic environmental changes in the Aral region where bizarre creatures, half horse, half human, are suddenly romping around. A tribute to the nomadic past of its people.
KINO DER KUNST Main Award 2013
Till Nowak
The Centrifuge Brain Project
Since the 1970s, scientists have been conducting research to study the effects of amusement park rides on the human brain. Adapting the aesthetics of a television documentary, this film takes a tongue-in-cheek look at humanity’s confusing search for bigger, better, faster and higher ways to happiness.
KINO DER KUNST 2nd Main Award 2013
Pierre Huyghe
Untitled [Human Mask]
La Condition Humaine: Pictures of a deserted Fukushima after the 2011 tsunami. Then, a monkey educated in Japan as a server is wearing the mask of a woman and waiting on tables in an empty restaurant…
KINO DER KUNST Main Award 2015
Hu Wei
Butter Lamp
In their studio, a young photographer and his assistant photograph group shots of Tibetan nomad families in front of various backdrops. Personal contacts between the photographer and his subjects develop more and more.
KINO DER KUNST 2nd Main Award 2015
Bjørn Melhus
Freedom & Independence
Money and faith, religion and capitalism, the bold of theses of the self-proclaimed inventor of American Objectivism, Ayn Rand, and the half-baked sermons of today’s cult gurus. A mix of musical and science fiction, elaborately filmed in Istanbul model settlements and a Berlin morgue.