Finding Felix Project

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Berlin, Germany
The Finding Felix Project is a work for screen and publication from Katy Kavanaugh, a curator and filmmaker (katykavanaugh.weebly.com). Funding from Stanford University, The Freie Universität- Berlin and DAAD allowed her to return to the Berlin Film Festival's 35 year-old Generation (formerly Kinderfilmfest) to collect evidence of the directive impact that international films seen in childhood can have toward shaping the breadth of a person's view of the world and the decisions they make. This investigation focuses on one eleven year-old film festival-goer whom Kavanaugh met while serving on the Kinderfilmfest's international jury in 2001. Ten years later, Kavanaugh wants to know how a childhood full of international films influenced Felix's life so far. Meanwhile, with help from Media Consultant Tina Toepfel and Gintare Malinauskaite, PhD History at Humboldt Universität, Felix has been found and is now in post-production. To help meet its completion goal, please consider contributing via our fiscal sponsor, Cinefemme.net. https://cinefemme.net/projects/finding-felix/

Friday, February 6, 2015

Berlinale 2015: Generation


Berlinale 2015, Day 1

It is a pleasure to be in Berlin again for the film festival; this time, once again, as an American resident.  Despite my many years participating in this festival, each year begins with a new approach. 
My great discovery is not focusing on the films but on attending the market on the opening days: 
It’s the start of the festival, people are fresh and ready to receive.  My purpose is doubled this year as I support Gary Meyer’s new film festival Eat, Drink Films, opening in the Bay Area this October.   It is delightful to ask for films for food, wine and children. Most delightful are the faces of the human film archives who are the distribution companies, as they scroll through their mental lists of films with food, wine and children!  As interested as I am to find out about new culinary films, I am very pleased to note that so far, new films for young audiences are more abundant.

PRINCE  by Sam de Jong
The Generation section opens tonight with a feature animation, MINI AND THE MOZZIES from long-loved Danish animator Jannik Halstrup, for the youngest viewers.  The 14+  division of the section opens with PRINCE  (Netherlands) by Sam de Jong.


Americans in the line-up, showing a considerable increase in the past few years:

GOLDEN KINGDOM by Brian Perkins
KPlus for children up to fourteen years old:

GOLDEN KINGDOM by Brian Perkins
KUMA HINA short  by Dean Hammer and Joe Wilson.

14Plus for fourteen and older:
DIARY OF A TEENAGE GIRL
by Marielle Heller with Kristen Wiig
ONE & TWO by Andrew Droz Palermo


Shorts
HADIATT IDI  by Salam Salman
STAY AWAKE by Jamie Sisley 
BLOODLINES by Christoper Nataanii Cegielski
SQUIRREL by Tomas Vengris, US/Greece

Co-production films from Afghanistan and Irak make an important show in the program.
HADIATT IDI (Irak/GB/Niederland/USA) tells the story of a boy remembering his parents’ death.



MINA WALKING by Yosef Baraki
MINA WALKING (Kanada, Afghanistan) shows the turning point for a 12 year-old girl in a country dominated by men, who holds everything in her family together but knows there is something else.

www.berlinale.de/de/das_festival/sektionen_sonderveranstaltungen/generation/index.html


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