Documentaries 2.11 6 and 9 PM
The programme block at 6 p.m. shows three documentaries and a mockumentary. In ‘Ice Framers’, we meet Pakistani scientists who are trying to combat climate change using traditional glacier engineering methods. The middle block features two documentaries that deal calmly and sensitively with often forgotten German realities. At a truck stop and in a small, slowly dying community. The last film, about a lone activist, is a parody that is meant to appear to be a real documentary.
| Ice Framers | Afsar Awan | Germany | 14:00:00 |
| Noch acht Stunden | Marius Schwingel | Germany | 30:00:00 |
| Spiegelberg | Adrian Sagolla | Germany | 30:00:00 |
| Plantasia | Marius Schwingel, Nola Anwar, Janna Häcker | Germany | 13:00:00 |
The finale is the film ‘Macula’ by Mexican artist Mariana Xochiquétzal Rivera.
It is within the macula, at the back of the eye, that the images are fixed in the retina.
Sonia’s gradual vision loss becomes the filmographic allegory that allows her daughter to make a journey to unveil the events that had been kept in silence until then, and that had eclipsed the primeval memories of her gestation and birth.
Director Statement
This film inquires within the silences that are kept as a result of tacit pacts, and that have an impact on our personal story.
Film here becomes a form of self-exploration; a tool that both confronts us with and reveals to us the fact that our personal biographies are actually related to collective memory, and the relevance of giving voice, of giving a narrative to ourselves.
This story vindicates the right to our emotional memories from the moment we inhabit our mother’s womb.