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Highlights friday to sunday
For the last three days exground filmfest 21 in Wiesbaden has more highlights in store: the last festival weekend starts on Friday, 21. November 2008, 20.00 at Caligari FilmBühne with the Greek psychothriller TALE 52 by Alexis Alexiou, followed by Johnnie To‘s latest masterpiece SPARROW at 22:15: set in Hong Kong’s pick-pocket scene, the film convinces with a congenial soundtrack and perfect dramaturgy. Same time, different place exground filmfest’s documentary section shows BERLIN by Julian Schnabel, a hommage to Lou Reed and his 1973 album of the same title, a great mix of film, art and music (Friday, 21 November 2008, 22:15 at Alpha Kino). Also Jens Hoffmann will be there to present his film 9TO5 – DAYS IN PORN on Saturday, 22 November 2008, 22:15 at Caligari FilmBühne as well as Gustav Hofer and Luca Ragazzi their documentation SUDDENLY, LAST WINTER, same day 20:00 at Kulturpalast. While 9TO5 – DAYS IN PORN allows intimate insights into the US porn industry‘s epicentre in California, SUDDENLY, LAST WINTER strikingly shows the homophob tendencies in Italian society and the still overwhelming influence of Catholic church and Vatican on politics between Bozen and Messina. Also worth seeing ESTÔMAGO – A GASTRONOMIC STORY by Marcos Jorge, a wonderfully told fairy tale for grown ups around eating, sex and power, which will be presented within exground filmfest’s international section on Saturday, 22 November 2008, 20:00 at Caligari FilmBühne.
Also about to finish are exground filmfest‘s youth days, the last stage with two films ahead. On Friday, 21 November 2008, 17:30 the director Sergio Tovar Velarde and the producer Edgar Barrón will present their film AURORA BOREAL as a German premiere at Caligari FilmBühne. It’s a sort of video diary of 14-year old Mexican boy Mariano telling about his planed suicide. The international youth film contest will be completed by the Swedish tragic comedy THE KING OF PONG from Jens Jonsson about a 16-year old underdog from the North of Europe. After the screening of this film on Saturday, 22 November 2008, 17:30, the youth jury will decide, which of the six feature films will be awarded with the prize money of EUR 2,500.
Last but not least there are to come two premieres within the competitions and as part of the XTRA program: BETTING ON SHORTS on Friday, 21 November 2008, 19:30 in the Kulturpalast – and the very special cineastic walking tour A WALL IS A SCREEN on Saturday 22 November 2008, 20:00, starting in front of the Caligari FilmBühne. BETTING ON SHORTS comprises a program of 17 short films from eleven countries on the topic "Money, Money, Money" and will be shown at the same time in numerous European cities. The clou about it is that the audience can bet before the screening which film will be ahead of the others and win this European contest. The one who wins the bet will get two free tickets for the German short film contest on Sunday 23 November 2008, 19:00 at the Caligari FilmBühne – the traditional closing night program. This year there are ten German shorts that compete for the first three places worth EUR 6,000 that the audience will vote.
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