Particularly looking forward to “Introduction to General Linguistics” and “London Transfer”, went to the screening of the last program. Left the cinema highly impressed by “The Death of One”.

Introduction to General Linguistics

A son tells the story of his own procreation in Péter Szeiler’s “Introduction to General Linguistics”. The father, who is deeply in love with the woman who is going to be the mother, is not a guy one could call sociable. However, a drunk night at a bar, where the girl tells the silent man about the unsatisfying relationship with her egoman boyfriend, ends up in a one night-stand. Whoever would hope for a happy ending is going to be disappointed: instead of living with the man who really loves her she decides to stay with her boyfriend, letting him believe the child was his.

The kind of documentary “The Death of One” by Patrick Dobrenz and Philipp Enders gives something to think about, displaying the distinct, very pervert “duties” the family members of deceased Karl Gabler have to fulfill, from a talk with an investment adviser to a meeting with the mortician. One realises that even our death doesn’t really belong to us, it’s being formalised, marketed and statistically evaluated. A visitor complimented the film saying he’d been deeply impressed by the very accurate representation of this process he had gone through himself when his father died. A thought that was constantly in my mind for the 31 minutes of the film was just: “What a sick society!”

London Transfer

An enjoyable and profound feature, “London Transfer” by Roozbeh Betaji left a mark. Not only because it was the last movie I was going to watch at the festival. Sam has to go from one London airport to another in the middle of the night, which will take him about seven hours. He tries to find a toilet, but looking Arabian and having a huge, shabby suitcase with him he raises some suspicions. The only person who is willing to help him is a funny, bald guy called Steve. Now it’s Sam who doesn’t trust the other. A convincing storyline and great pictures of the nightly metropolis.

Other films shown in the last block were Michal Ronan’s animation “In Aporia” and Mariana Campos Carvalho’s very personal documentary “Electric Garden of Darkness”. In the beginning the “Climate Clips” were screened. The Climate Clips Award is donated by the Nagelschneider Foundation and endowed with € 5.000,-.