A low-key week-end
In this week’s line-up of only eight titles, Germany and Europe make a low-key appearance, with the exception of Steven Soderbergh’s Spanish/US co-production Che: Part One - The Argentine [+see also:
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The only 100% European feature on the programme is Hellène Christos Georgiou’s Small Crime, in which zealous young police officer Leonidas is appointed to work on a sparsely-inhabited island where nothing ever happens. Even when a dead body is discovered, the locals, who remain unperturbed by this potentially shocking occurrence, each have a different version of events.
The film, co-produced by Berlin-based Twenty Twenty Vision, Cyprus’ Lychnari Productions and Athens company Bad Movies, is being released by Neue Visionen Filmverleih.
Meanwhile, Salzgeber is launching local documentary Drifter, by young director Sebastian Heidinger. Produced by his partner at Boekamp & Freunde production company, the film traces the daily life of three youngsters who are always on the move, drifting between the Zoo Bahnhof railway station, prostitution, drugs and dreams. The title picked up the “Dialogue en Perspective” award in the German section at the latest Berlinale.
Two other German documentaries hit screens yesterday: Douglas Wolfsperger’s Der entsorgte Vater, about a father who suffers because he doesn’t have custody of his daughter (distributed by GMfilms); and Georg Nonnenmacher and Henning Drechsler’s Spielverderber, which looks at the job of a referee (distributed by Zorro).
(Translated from French)
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