New Cinema Forum Programme

27/01/2003 - International Forum brings 52 new films, 26 of which world premieres, from 24 countries to Berlin

This year’s 33rd International Forum of New Cinema includes 52 films from 24 countries, and showcases contemporary independent filmmaking. Twenty-six of the films - half of the programme - are world premieres.
Digital works of all sorts will be screened at the CinemaxX, Kino Arsenal and Filmkunsthaus Babylon on an equal footing with 35mm productions. As in recent years, “Forum” premieres will be screened at the Delphi Filmpalast.
Once again German cinema will be well represented at the Forum. The opening film, Michwald, is the directorial debut of Christoph Hochhäusler, a graduate of Munich’s HFF film school. It is a contemporary take on one of the Grimm brothers’ most famous fairy tales: “Hansel and Gretel”, only set in a small town on the Polish-German border. Identity Kills, the second feature by Berlin-based Sören Voigt, is an experimental work that combines elements of documentary filmmaking into a narrative feature. Voigt was so keen that the acting and camerawork be spontaneous, that he decided against using a screenplay. The German selection also features documentaries and experimental works by Romuald Karmakar, Jörg Siepmann, Uli Gaulke and Jeanette Eggert, Barbara and Winfried Junge, Angelika Levi and Heinz Emigholz.
Fans of Hong Kong productions will enjoy the tribute to filmmaking siblings Run Run and Runme Shaw with a retrospective of five of their recently restored classics.
List of European Films listed in alphabetic order by country of origin:
My Camera Doesn't Lie, China 2003, Solveig Klassen, Katharina Schneider-Roos, 92 min., DigiBeta
Klíc k urcování trpaslíku aneb poslední cesta Lemuela Gullivera (The Key to Determining Dwarfs or The Last Travel of Lemuel Gulliver)by Martin Šulík, Czech Republic

Mimi by Claire Simon, France

Mon Voyage d'hiver (Meine Winterreise) by Vincent Dieutre, France

Marie et le loup (Mary and the Wolf) by Eve Heinrich, France

Heirate mich (Marry Me) by Uli Gaulke and Jeaneete Eggert, Germany

196 bpm by Romual Karmakar, Germany

Identity Kills by Sören Voigt, Germany

Eigentlich wollte ich Förster werden - Bernd aus Golzow by Barbara and Winfried Junge, Germany

Golden Lemons by Jörg SiepmannGermany

Milchwald (This Very Moment) by Christoph Hochhäusler, Germany

Mein Leben Teil 2 (My Life Part 2) by Angelika Levi, Germany

Goff in der Wüste - Photographie und jenseits Teil 7(Goff in the Desert) by Heinz Emigholz Germany

Rengeteg (Forest) by Benedek Fliegauf, Hungary