The 14th Filmfest Eberswalde at Paul Wunderlich Haus will be opened with ‘Zavtra More / Sea tomorrow’ by Katerina Suvorova. The film also marks the beginning of the Long Documentary competition.
Inéz & Sammeltonium Wunderland will accompany the opening event with their music.
Zavtra more / Sea Tomorrow
Kazakhstan, Germany / 2016 / Documentary / 82 min
OT Kazakh / UT English
Music: „Inéz & Sammeltonium Wunderland“
Inéz (voc) – Jan Heinke (steelcello) – Demian Kappenstein (drums, perc)
The Short Documentary, Short Feature and Animated Film categories will each contribute their own opening films, made up into a block.
We’ll be showing:
“Down by Love”, Animation, Spain 2016
“Gamosvla / Exodus”, Short Feature Film, Georgia 2015
„Kino otok / Islands of Forgotten Cinemas ”, Short Documentary, Croatia 2016
Gateway to the province – the Filmfest Eberswalde as a room for artists
The province matters
The Eberswalde film festival has given itself the epithet Provinziale, which says a lot about our programmatic line. We strive to explore the bright and dark sides of what we call province and to discuss the future of rural and remote areas. Above all, we wish to make decisions not subject to the rules of attention dictated by showbusiness but serving civil society here and now.
Provinziale invites you
We have seen in recent years that film is a perfect medium to achieve the kind of communication we are looking for. But we want to integrate and invite artists from other genres as well to take part in a debate about meaning and content – referring mostly to visual artists based in the region, although local ties are not an absolute must.
Artists show us their province – the idea
Every year the Provinziale invites an artist to decorate the entrance area of the Paul Wunderlich Haus for the duration of the festival. Each work is self-contained and unique in its approach but may also comment on those of the past. Over the years, we thus want to establish a dialogue between artists. The usable area is fixed, but the artists are free in applying any means and techniques they may choose.
This year the artist Antoinette followed our invitation to design this years gateway to the province.
The closing event will see the presentation of awards in all international competitions. In the long documentary category, the jury will present the ‘e’ prize, donated by the Brandenburg State Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy. The Sparkasse Barnim municipal savings bank will hand over their award for the audience’s favourite short feature film. A prize funded by the mayor of Eberswalde will go to the long documentary which has best reflected on the topic of province, in the eyes of the audience. Further audience prizes will be awarded in the short documentary film and animated film categories.
After the reception, visitors can choose between watching the award-winning films and a live performance by Jindrich Staidel Combo in the festival club.
