The selection committee met at the Institute for Cultural and European Anthropology, University of Göttingen, to decide on the film programme of this years Göttingen International Film Festival. 379 mostly excellent films had been submitted. For the student film festival 22 films have been selected, for the main film festival 36 films.

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Wednesday 12-5-2010

10:00 Registration
 

Student Film Competition

13:15 Rolf Husmann (block moderation)
13:30

Inbetween Worlds (26')
- Germany, Russia -
Stefanie Trambow, Germany 2008

14:10

Meet Me on Manners (15')
- New Zealand (Wellington) -
Julian Hoben, Jack O'Donnell, Tracey Taylor, Kyla Walker, 2009

14:25

"The World is Our Playground". Parkour and Freerunning in Basel (20')
- Switzerland (Basel, Lenzburg, Kaiseraugst) -
Eva Niklaus, Schweiz 2009

14:55

Hillside Beauties (30')
- Brazil (Rio de Janeiro) -
Julia Kurc, Brasil 2008

16:00

Behind the Curtain (18')
- Germany (Brandenburg) -
Silvia Chiogna, Germany 2008

16:30

The Principal's Fight (31')
- Mali -
Sidy Lamine Bagayoko, Mali 2009

17:15

A Spark in Him (29')
- India (Mavelikara, Kerala) -
Claudia Engels, Germany 2008

17:55

How Are You Going to Wake up Tomorrow? (24')
- Guinea-Bissau -
Patrícia Pedrosa, Portugal 2008

18:30

Gaps - An Experiment on Transcultural Montage and Haptic Visuality (25')
- Germany (Berlin), Iran (Teheran) -
Sadaf Javdani, Marie-Claire Fredrich, Carolin Röckelein, Karin Dürr, Kay Möpert, Diamantino Fejio, Anna Lässer, Günter Marks, Martin Tscholl, 2009

 

Break

  Sandra Eckert (block moderation)
20:00

As Long as the Mines Whistle, the Crops Will Dance (56')
- France (Aveyron) -
Marie Devuyst, Belgium 2009

21:10

In Vino (30')
- France -
Juliana Villela de Andrade, Nicolas Tassi, 2009

21:50

Facing the Moment (21')
- Germany (München) -
Miriam Hornung, Julie Weissmann, Anna-Kristina Pfeifer, Germany 2008

22:20

Take Me to a Place Outside (6')
- Great Britain (Cheshire) -
Martha-Cecilia Dietrich, Österreich 2009

  Hans Reithofer (block moderation)
22:45

Enet Yapai - An Ambonwari Girl (25')
- Papua New Guinea -
Daniela Vávrová, Slovenia 2008

23:20

Nokondi's Morning Call (9')
- Papua New Guinea -
Nafaro Ere-Epa, 2009

23:35

The Absence (11')
- Chile -
Ricardo Greene, Chile 2008

23:50

Sermiligaaq 65°54'N,26°22'W (64')
- East Greenland (Denmark) -
Anni Seitz, Sophie Elixhauser, Germany 2008

Thursday 13-5-2010

  Anne-Marie Reynaud (block moderation)
09:00

The Red Forest People (52')
- Madagascar -
Federico Varrasso, Belgium 2009

10:05

Esset Soul of the Gurage (32')
- Ethiopia -
Haile Seifu W., Norway 2009

11:05

Only Thinking (27')
- Spain (Ceuta, Spanish enclave in North Africa) -
Gabriel Josef Merrún, France 2009

11:45

Rapresent (31')
- Serbia (Belgrade) -
Ivana Todorovic, Serbia and Montenegro 2008

12:15

Roma Boys - The Love Story (30')
- Czech Republic, Austria -
Rozálie Kohoutová, Czech Republic 2009

 

Break

 

Films on Europe

  Rolf Husmann (block moderation)
14:00

You Live and Burn (69')
- Finland -
Iiris Härmä, Finland 2007

15:20

Tobacco Girl (29')
- Macedonia -
Biljana Garvanlieva, Deutschlanf 2009

16:00

Anica and Marija (6')
- between Slovenia and Croatia -
Ana Radoslović, Catarina Leal, Slovenia 2009

16:10

Altzaney (31')
- Georgia (Pankisi Gorge) -
Nino Orjonikidze, Vano Arsenishvili, Georgia 2009

 

Films on Latin America

  Florian Walter (block moderation)
17:00

Owners of the Water: Conflict & Collaboration Over Rivers (34')
- Brazil, Venezuela -
Laura R. Graham, David Hernández Palmar, Caimi Waiásse, Venezuela 2008

17:45

Yvy Katu - Sacred Land (20')
- Brazil -
Eduardo Duwe, Brasil 2008

18:15

Songs of the Lowland (44')
- Mexico (Guanajuato) -
Fernando Colin Roque, Mexico 2008

 

Break

 

Films on Africa

  Roman Loimeier (block moderation)
20:00

Black Milk (79')
- Germany, Kenya, Russia -
Britta Wandaogo, Germany 2009

21:20

If Vagina Had Teeth (57')
- Mozambique (Manica Province) -
Liivo Niglas, Frode Storaas, Estonia 2007

 22:45  

Banking the Unbanked (56')
- Gambia -
Sarah Vos, The Netherlands 2009

 23:55  

The Messiah Will Always Come (54')
- Israel, Palestine (occupied territories) -
Lea Klibanoff, Israel 2009

Friday 14-5-2010

  (Visual) Anthropology in Focus
  Peter Crawford (block moderation)
09:00

The Professional Foreigner: Asen Balikci and Visual Ethnography (60')
Rolf Husmann, Manfred Krüger, Germany 2009

10:10

Luc de Heusch. Wild Thinking (50')
- Belgium, Africa -
Karine de Villers, Brüssel, Belgium 2007

11:30

Claude Lévi-Strauss, Return to the Amazon (71')
- Brazil, France -
Marcelo Fortaleza Flores, France 2009

 

Break

 

Coping with Global Change

  Julia Binter (block moderation)
14:00

The Bagyeli Pygmies at the Fringes of the World (87')
- Cameroon -
François-Philippe Gallois, France 2009

15:40

Today the Hawk Takes One Chick (72')
- Swaziland -
Jane Gillooly, USA 2008

17:20

The Shaman, His Nephew... and the Captain (87')
- Philippines (Palawan) -
Pierre Boccanfuso, France 2008

 

Break

 

Films on India

  Anna Balikci-Denjongpa (block moderation)
20:00

The Golden Beach (58')
- India -
Hasse Wester, Sweden 2008

21:10

The Dance (84')
- India (Sonepur, Bihar) -
Saba Dewan, India 2008

  Rolf Husmann (block moderation)
23:00

A Film From My Parish -6 Farms (7')
- Ireland (Tipperary) -
Tony Donoghue, Ireland 2008

23:10

Umbrella... (93')
- China (Guangzhou, Zhejiang, Henan, Shanghai) -
Du Haibin, 2008

Saturday 15-5-2010

  Janine Prins (block moderation)
09:00

A Well-kept Secret (38')
- France -
Patrick Prado, France 2008

09:50

Dawn Rose Up (37')
- Iran -
Reza Majlesi, Iran 2009

11:00

Milltown, Montana (34')
- USA (Western Montana) -
Rainer Komers, Germany 2009

11:45

Diary of a Times Square Thief (60')
- USA (New York), The Netherlands (Amsterdam) -
Klaas Bense, The Netherlands 2008

 

Break

 

Cultural Heritage in Focus

  Beate Engelbrecht / Michaela Schäuble (block moderation)
14:00

A Two Day Fair (60')
- India (Kutch) -
Anjali Monteiro, Ph.D., K.P. Jayasankar, Ph.D., India 2009

15:10

Songs of a Sorrowful Man (35')
- India -
Lina Fruzzetti, Ákos Östör, Aditinath Sarkar, USA 2009

16:25

Granny Glory (44')
- China -
Bao Jiang, P.R. China 2009

17:10

Shooting with Mursi (57')
- Ethiopia -
Ben Young, Great Britain, Olisarali Olibui Ethiopia

 

Break

19:00

Presentation of Student's Film Award Winner

 

Presentation of the Centro Inconri Umani Award Winner
given for the best film promoting intercultural understanding in the context of natural disasters or human conflicts

21:00

Dinner and Party

Sunday 16-5-2010

  Torsten Näser (moderation)
09:30

Schwere Geburt (Motherbirth) (60')
German with English subtitles
- Germany (Stuttgart) -
Christa Pfafferott, Germany 2009

10:40

Für Dagegen (For Against It )(18')
German with English subtitles
- Germany (Köln) -
David M. (punk), Germany 2009

11:20

Kid Mountain (62')
- Romania (Maramures) -
Björn Reinhardt, Romania 2009

12:35

Stone, Fish, River: Itamatatiua (67')
- Brazil -
Iban Ayesta, Spain 2010

 

Break

  NN (moderation)
14:30

Gandhi's Children (185')
- India (New Delhi) -
David MacDougall, Australia 2008

 

End of Festival