OPEN AIR CINEMA
In collaboration with Goethe-Institut Ottawa and Digital Arts Resource Center.
German Competition from International Short Film Festival Oberhausen 2020
94 mins / Original versions with English subtitles
This programme, with works from the German Competition 2020, focuses on political, but also personal crises. “The Ghosts We Left at Home” is a moving story about longing and grief against the backdrop of chaotic city life in Amman. In if there is love, you will take it, Daniel Hopp presents a small place in the middle of Germany, where criminals hang out with empty eyes and play cards. They are joined by talking stuffed animals that constantly repeat what they say. L’Artificio, on the other hand, shows the vision of a utopian urban landscape from the 1960s that is interwoven with today’s protagonists playing themselves. Cana Bilir-Meier’s This Makes Me Want to Predict the Past is about the racially motivated attack in the Olympic Shopping Centre in Munich in 2016, in which nine young people with a migrant background were murdered and many people were injured. The camera in the film follows two teenagers as they explore the mall on a daily basis while they talk about their personal dreams and fears. Finally, the cryptic collage film The Natural Death of a Mouse by Katharina Huber shows the young protagonist Anna in the dichotomy between the desire for self-improvement in a spiritual-moral sense and the doubt about her usefulness on the way to saving the world.
More info: https://www.goethe.de/ins/ca/en/ver.cfm?fuseaction=events.detail&event_id=22296144
