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- A sci-fi film about Africa in the future, 35 years after World War III, the water war.
- "Lost and Found" is a film project for which six young filmmakers from Central and Eastern Europe have each developed a short film on the theme of "generation". Together, these six short films make a whole cinema evening. Unique thereby is the selection of young directors, who are currently among the most talented in the Central and Eastern European region. Also special is that five of the short films (four short narrative films and one short documentary) are visually framed by an independent animation story. The filmmakers made their films with local producers in their home countries; post-production was carried out in Germany. The theme "generation" is the thread running through the whole film. It mirrors a new self-understanding of young filmmakers in Central and Eastern Europe. Traditions and national history are viewed in a new way and cinematically narrated. The concept of generation was not intended to neutralize the differences between the countries, but to create a fascinating frame for comparison. The stories were written in accordance with this thematic guideline especially for this project.
- Thodorakis, the film's hero, has a happy go-lucky attitude about life and women, but this all changes when he is forced by his uncle to train as a chef. He soon becomes a top chef and is so impressive that he enters a 'secret society' for chefs, who battle it out to see which one is the best. To his detriment he becomes so obsessive that the women in his life find him obnoxious and nothing seems likely to save him until the news of his patron's death slaps him in the face like a cold fish. In the end, the shock reminds him to keep his life in perspective.
- It is a documentary film and theater performance about Romanian seasonal workers and a generation of children growing up missing them.
- With the German Occupation in Greece (1941-1944) as a background, this film tells the love story between my father, an assistant professor at the mysterious German Scientific Institute of Athens - financed by the occupying power, Germany, but in reality a refuge for resistant students - and Nelly, a young student in Fine Arts. The film also traces the portrait of their friend Rudolf Fahrner, founder of the Institute, comrade of the Stauffenberg Brothers and one of the few conspirators of the assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler, on 20 July 1944, that survived the repression that followed.
- Excerpt from Andrej Solzhkins' travel notebooks (IV: 129a): "One can never forget the buzz of this city. It almost feels natural, it feels as if it was with you even while you were away from Athens, as if you have been carrying it all along over the lands you have been wandering on. Now it's around you again, eternal and subtle, more than a sound - a whole sensual experience. Angry cars hurrying to nowhere, the metro driving blindly under the ground, fridges struggling to maintain goods, car alarms waiting to go on, televisions on mute and computers on stand-by - all machines and their dreams, the baseline of history. The city itself will compose its melodies upon this baseline: sometimes reproductions of pop riffs sometimes free jazz improvisations; she will even perform silence upon this baseline - the melodies might temporarily cease, but the bass never stops. People synchronize their heartbeat with it and thus do I. Marble ruins and shiny metal vehicles, the city breaths out haze; glorious and insignificant at the same time, the past; conceptions of linear history collapse under the weight of the ever-present past. Sisyphian errands and dreams of the sea - everybody dreams of the sea, gentle souls in tense bodies walking on the burning pavement; sweat. Affirming motion, concluding effort, sweat appears in rorschach formations on the back of their t-shirts, revealing the schizophrenia of the city. Everybody wants to be somewhere else, somewhere south."