From January 31st to February 3rd 2008 the selection committee met at IWF to decide on the film programme of this years Göttingen International Film Festival. 312 mostly excellent films had been submitted. For the student film festival 18 films have been selected, for the main film festival 35 films. Additionally, 5 media were selected for multimedia presentation (on a special point of information) and 2 for online presentation.
Wednesday 30-4-2008
| 10:00 | Registration |
Student Film Competition |
|
| 13:00 | Rolf Husmann (block moderation) |
| 13:10 |
Wo Lang? (59’) |
| 14:20 |
Allotment Happiness (19’) |
| 14:50 |
Out of School, … (51’) |
| 15:50 |
Later (14’) |
| 16:20 |
The Boxers from Crooswijk (20’) |
| 16:50 |
The Intimacy of Strangers (19’) |
| 17:20 |
Temporary Sanity: The Skerrit Bwoy Story (32’) |
| 18:00 |
Behind Green Doors (45’) |
Break |
|
| Steef Meyknecht (block moderation) | |
| 20:00 |
A Life With Slate (59’) |
| 21:10 |
Tiempo de Vals (22’) |
| 21:45 |
Growing Pains (41’) |
| 22:35 |
Morokapel's Feast. The Story of a Kara Hunting Ritual (26’) |
| 23:10 |
Senegallemand (86’) |
Thursday 1-5-2008
| Florian Walter (block moderation) | |
| 9:00 |
If I Were a Flower… (52’) |
| 10:05 |
Javja - Come on! Let's Go! (70’) |
| 11:25 |
Telling Fortunes (13’) |
| 11:45 |
Cinema at 92.3 FM (8’) |
| 12:05 |
Viva Constanta! (43’) |
13:00 |
Cay Wesnigk: New Distribution Possibilities: The OnlineAG |
Films from Film and Television Schools |
|
| Torsten Näser (block moderation) | |
| 14:00 |
Party of the Aged (58’) |
| 15:10 |
Poem of a Revolt (40’) |
| 16:00 |
Grandma's Salon (33’) |
| 16:45 |
Casa Mia (64’) |
18:00 |
AG Visuelle Anthropologie: Meeting Film School Filmmakers |
19:00 |
Festival Opening Ceremony |
| Rolf Husmann (block moderation) | |
| 20:00 |
Children of Stalin (52’) |
| 21:05 |
The Outside World (55’) |
| 22:15 |
Koriam's Law - and the Dead Who Govern (110’) |
Friday 2-5-2008
Migration and Integration |
|
| Metje Postmaa (block moderation) | |
| 9:00 |
Osdorf (75’) |
| 10:25 |
Jew by Choice (52’) |
| 11:30 |
Here To Stay (72’) |
|
|
Multimedia Presentation |
| 13:00 |
Experimental multimedia ethnography about the popular Store "Tati" in Paris(40’) |
Ritual and Traditions: Contemporary Challenges |
|
| Karin Klenke (block moderation) | |
| 14:00 |
When the Sun Rises: A Toraja Priest of the Ancestral Way (65’) |
| 15:15 |
Jengi (20’) |
| 15:45 |
The King Never Dies (73’) |
| 17:05 |
Maimouna - The Life in Front of Me (60’) |
Network Meetings |
|
| Rolf Husmann (block moderation) | |
| 20:00 |
Delhi-Mumbai-Delhi (63’) |
| 21:15 |
Room 11, Ethiopia Hotel (23’) |
| 21:45 |
Ceremony - The Djungguwan of Northeast Arnhem Land (excerpt 65’) |
| 23:00 |
Schroeder liegt in Brasilien / Brasilien is in Germany (95’) |
Saturday 3-5-2008
Globalisation: Threats and Temptations |
|
| Irmy Schweiger (block moderation) | |
| 9:00 |
Being Innu (77’) |
| 10:30 |
The Shadow (69’) |
| 11:50 |
East of Eden (40’) |
13:00 |
Andreas Bresler: IVE - Institute for Visual Ethnography |
Surveying Europe |
|
| Ulrich Roters (block moderation) | |
| 14:00 |
Skärikvinnor - Women of the Islands (78’) |
| 15:30 |
Peace For All (26’) |
| 16:10 |
The Boatman's House (61’) |
Break |
|
18:00 |
Presentation of Student's Film Award Winner |
| 19:00 |
On Being Banana (24’) |
| 19:40 |
The Art of Regret (59’) |
21:00 |
Dinner and Party |
Sunday 4-5-2008
Intercultural Dialogue Through Football |
|
| 9:15 | Wolfgang Buss and Rolf Husmann (Introduction) |
| 9:30 |
The Unknown World champions - Football Manufacture in Pakistan (33’) |
| 10:10 |
Zinedine Zidane: The Glory of Wrath (6’) |
| 10:20 |
The Last Line of Defence (46’) |
| 11:15 |
"We Too Have No Other Land" (61’) |
Multimedia Presentation |
|
| 11:30 |
Dane Wajich- Dane-zaa Stories and Songs: Dreamers and the Land |
Experimenting with New and Old |
|
| Henning Engelke (block moderation) | |
| 14:00 |
The Devil's Mills (55’) |
| 15:10 |
SchoolScapes (77’) |
| 16:30 |
The Future of Visual Anthropology (15’) |
| 16:45 |
The Art of Documentary Filmmaking - Myanmar 2005 (15’ excerpt) |
| 17:00 |
Cham in the Lepcha Village of Lingthem (15’ excerpt) |
| 17:15 |
Dane Wajich- Dane-zaa Stories and Songs: Dreamers and the Land |
17:30 |
Roundtable: Experimenting with Film – The Future of Ethnographic Film |
End of Festival |