KUFI
2000er

A film diary as part of a project that the outstanding Polish neo-avant-garde artist Józef Robakowski calls his "personal cinema" and in which he has invited us to spend almost 20 years at his home. Robakowksi observes and comments looking out of the kitchen window of his high-rise apartment recurring and quietly changing everyday activities and thereby creating an anything but monotonous social, political and private political, private journey through recent, turbulent Polish history. history. We were happy to be guests.

So many great films from Northern Europe and at least ONE has to be this selection. A three-minute, charming, acted joke by the Swede Per Carleson? A beautiful to look at experimental film by the Finn PV Lehtinen? An award-winning Icelandic coming-of-age drama like "Smáfuglar"? Or perhaps that typical Scandinavian humor in a Norwegian comedy about the toughest about the hardest and at the same time most everyday struggle of our life?

In the staccato montage of a machine gun through the Second World War and then an almost never-ending punch to the gut. "Even if it had been criminal, this medieval sadism would have deserved no less revulsion" (Jean-Paul Sartre in the newspaper "Combat" of September 2, 1944). Hardly any other movie was so unbearable, has had such a long-lasting effect.

This heartbreaking and perceptive, social-realistic study of a milieu about an overburdened single mother is probably THE short film of the 2000s. After "Milk" from 1998, this film marks the beginning of the career of a great director and was awarded practically every prize a short film could win in a festival and award year. Since her brief visit to Regensburg in 2004, a chair in the "Kinokneipe" will always be kept free for Andrea Arnold.

Somehow the Short Film Week sees Lola Randl as a kind of home-grown talent, she is, alongside Johannes Schmid or Dietrich Brüggemann, probably the prime example of the fact that cinematic beginnings in the regional window lead to a film education and paves the way to be an exciting and successful director and author. Her short film series "The Sufferings of Mr. Karpf" about the strangely normal Mr. Karpf, which she made together with Rainer Egger, has that certain something in its subtlety and hilarity, even if her even if her first short film "Vom Bett aus gedacht" or the short play "Nachmittagsprogramm" made at the KHM have left a lasting impression.

"That was that short, funny movie where cows get knocked over, right?" Somehow everyone remembered this clip in which cows are actually knocked over.

The Re-/deconstruction of an advertising icon and activist of the American anti-homosexual movement by Jay Rosenblatt, one of the masters of of archival material (and an exceptionally nice person), who is also representative of the great experimental and avant-garde avant-garde filmmakers such as Peter Tscherkassky and Matthias Müller, who were guests in Regensburg with many of their works and who all would have deserved to be included in the film selection.

The question "What actually is a short film?" one should - at least in the 'short fiction' category - give this movie as answer and show it. With this sad and beautiful excerpt from the life of a man in search of love and a woman who wants to get involved, we would like to let to release the audience nto the evening.