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Directed by: 
KONRAD MÜHE
Awarded a Special Mention at Berlinale, QUESTIONS TO MY FATHER is an imaginary dialogue between the filmmaker and his father, Ulrich Mühe, star-actor in The Lives of Others. Interrogating the limit between reality and fiction, privacy and art, Konrad Mühe edits fragments from his father’s films, attempting to find answers to the questions he never had the chance to ask him while he was alive. However the dialogue turns to an interrogation, and feelings blend together in a mix of conflicting emotions. A painful, but affectionate reunion, the film becomes both a way to handle the loss of the father, and of keeping his memory alive. (Diana Mereoiu, BIEFF 2014)
Directed by: 
BEN RUSSELL
“In a “master class of psychedelic ethnography”, RUSSELL takes his transcendent cinema to new heights with his fascinating RIVER RITES, which transforms an idyllic riverside scene of a group of Saramaccan Maroon children - playing and washing in the river - into a sort of sacred animist rite.” (New Zealand Film Festival) “Mystery and beauty are created through a simple cinematic device. A river somewhere in Suriname: children and young adults run about in the water. From this scene that has a mythical sense to it, the filmmaker creates a dance, in which the grace of the people’s gestures becomes pure energy and rhythm. A cinematographic play in the truest sense of the word, reminiscent of some of Maya Deren’s films. Or, in other words, how cinema becomes poetry, the human body a tireless tightrope walker, and some simple dance steps a philosophy of life.” (Senscritique) “Misterul şi frumuseţea acestui film au la bază un truc cinematografic simplu. Un râu undeva în Surinam: copii și tineri zburdă în apă. Regizorul transformă această scenă cu aer de mit într-un dans, în care grația gesturilor protagoniştilor devine energie şi ritm în formă pură. Un joc filmic în cel mai adevărat sens al cuvântului, amintind de unele dintre filmele Mayei Deren. Sau, în alte cuvinte, un film despre cum cinemaul devine poezie, corpul uman un artist acrobat neobosit, iar câţiva paşi simpli de dans o filozofie de viață.” (Senscritique)