Big titles
18 feature-length films have made it into the official UNDERDOX selection this year. Among them are major titles such as GRAND TOUR by Portuguese director Miguel Gomes (Best Director, Cannes), PEPE by Colombian Nelson Carlo de los Santos Arias (Silver Bear, Berlinale) and DIRECT ACTION by Frenchman and Berliner-by-choice Ben Russell and Guillaume Cailleau (Berlinale Encounters Award). But also the “unspectacular” award winners THE OTHER WAY AROUND by Spaniard Jonás Trueba (Best European Film, Cannes) (German premiere), EIN SCHÖNER ORT (A GOOD PLACE) by Cologne-based Katharina Huber (Best Director, Locarno, Best Actress Locarno for Clara Schwinning) and ANIMAL by Greece’s Sofia Exarchou (Best Actress Locarno for Dimitra Vlagopoulou).
Theme: “awareness”
This does not mean an esoteric or sensitive orientation. We are focusing our attention on what is happening on the screen. And on everything that heightens our awareness: that is the awareness we mean.
We often become conscious when something is missing. Stanley Schtinter brings the most radical version with his film SCHNEEWITTCHEN (German premiere). Based on the drama by Robert Walser, the film pays homage to the Portuguese master João César Monteiro, who accidentally hung his coat over the camera while shooting BRANCA DE NEVE. An illustrious cast investigates the attempted murder of Snow White. Hanns Zischler (the hunter), director Stanley Schtinter and Joshua Bonnetta (film editor) are present. (Saturday, 12 Okt 6pm, Filmmuseum München)
artist in focus: Oskar Alegria
Basque director Oskar Alegria is a master at detecting nuances, the unspoken and the invisible. We are also showing his films under the theme of awareness, and he is also this year’s Artist in Focus. Our opening film ZINZINDURRUNKARRATZ (German premiere) invites you on a journey full of memories, in search of an old shepherd’s path, with a Super 8 camera and a donkey as your companion. (Thursday, 10.10. 7 p.m., Filmmuseum Munich)
Also in the “Artist in Focus” program: THE SEARCH FOR EMAK BAKIA (2012), about the search for the location of Man Ray’s surrealist cine-poem EMAK BAKIA (1926).
(Friday 11.10. 9 pm, Werkstattkino) Oskar Alegria will be present at both screenings.
this is not the artist in focus: KHAVN
Filipino filmmaker KHAVN is the master of This is not. Therefore we deny that he is our second artist in focus, KHAVN is a musician as untamed as filmmaker. He unleashes Alexander Kluge and Lilith Stangenberg and scratches the picture while hammering into the piano keys. In our closing night he will give a ciné concert on the wing of the Filmmuseum accompanied by Babel Gun. Also running KLUGE’S 5TH BIRTHDAY 1937 (German premiere), and as a closing film we show MAKASIMA: PHANTASM OF REVENGE with Lilith Stangenberg. We are expecting Alexander Kluge and Lilith Stangenberg as guests (requested). Also in the program: MAKBETAMAXIMUS (2024), Monday 14.10., 9.30 pm, Werkstattkino. Khavn will be present at both screenings.
young people’s choice: Belgrade Youth
For the second time, we have invited the younger generation to curate a program of films by young filmmakers in the Young People’s Choice funding program. Vid Radičević (Belgrade) and Paula Ruppert (Munich) have also found two world premieres for their short film program Belgrade Youth, which consists of seven films. They will be present at the screening. (Tuesday, 7 p.m., Werkstattkino)