Gestures Of Reconciliations

To find images for gestures of reconciliation within an open, creative process was the aim of a short film competition jointly organized by the „Remembrance and Future” Fund and the Goethe-Institut in Belarus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Germany, Israel, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, the Ukraine und the United States.

CLAY PIGEON/TONTAUBE, CZ, 2005, dir. Miloš Tomic, 6:45 min A couple´s romance and love games come to abrupt end when the man is drafted into the army. A long farewell, a sad farewell, which still remains a game.

BERLIN DIARY, GERMANY/ISRAEL 2005, dir. Ester Amrami, 15 min, German version with English subtitles This short semi-documentary film portrays the life of a young Israeli woman in Berlin. It takes the form of a video letter to her grandparents in Israel who had to emigrate from Germany during the 1930s.

PREJUDICE EXCHANGE/BÖRSE DER VORURTEILE, CZ 2005, dir. Ivo Bystřičan, Kateřina Kačerovská, Radovan Síbrt, 15 min, Czech and German with English subtitles Czech and German historians come to a museum to design an exhibition on Czech-German relations. However, en embarrasing quarrel ends the endeavour. A pseudo-documentary film about Czechs and Germans, about antagonistic versions of their history, about prejudices, stereotypes and the microcosms of coexistence.

2800 KM FROM HOME, GERMANY/RUSSIA 2005, dir. Daniel Erb, 19 min, German version with English subtitles Somewhere in the Russian tundra. Hans from Thuringia is driving along in his jeep. Then, after several hours, he stops and begins to dig…

WITHOUT A WORD/ Ohne ein einziges Wort, ISRAEL 2005, dir. Alex Kreindlin, 10:30 min A black and white silent comedy that makes everything just confusing enough to make the situation perfectly clear.

THE LAWS OF LIFE IN A COLONY OF BEES/GESETZLICHKEITEN DES LEBENS EINES BIENENVOLKS, CZ, dir. Radek Tůma, 8:45 min, Czech version with English subtitles A pansophic study of the causes and consequences of the perishing of a bee colony during World War II.