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exground filmfest’s youth film program - the exground youth days – will open this year on November 16, 2008, with Wiesbaden „youth film contest“. Talented domestic directors will compete with their short films for the audience-chosen winner’s cheque, endowed with 450 Euros. The award money will again be donated by the “Hessische Landeszentrale für politische Bildung”. From November 17 through November 22, 2008, the exground youth days turn international: In the course of the „youth days – international youth film“ contest, seven current productions from all over the world are being shown: LOVE, PEACE & BEATBOX by Volker Meyer-Dabisch, a documentary on beat boxers in Berlin;
THE SPEED OF LIFE by Ed Radtke, a US feature film about youths in New York who rob tourist’s video cameras; the German premiere of AURORA BOREAL by Mexican Sergio Tovar Velarde, a sort of video diary of a 14-year-old boy planning his suicide; Spanish production COWARDS by José Corbacho and Juan Cruz, about violence and mobbing at school; TEENAGE ANGST by Thomas Stuber from Germany, about dangerous games in a clique of pupils;
THE KING OF PING PONG by Jens Jonsson from Sweden, a sensitive portrait of a 16-year-old outsider way up in Northern Europe; and the German comedy LEROY by Armin Völckers, which is being presented non-competitively in the course of a school screening. |
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