Film Selection
In Between / Në Mes
Brothers and sons who live abroad build identical houses to express equality and unity in the family. An empathetic portrait of families which, by economic necessity, need to live much of their lives separated, in cultures not their own.
Samir Karahoda started as a photography apprentice in 1992, later to graduate from the Department of Photography at the Faculty of Fine Arts of Mimar Sinan University in Istanbul, , where he is now a postgraduate candidate. As a successful photographer behind many unique photography projects, Samir crafted himself into cinematography. He was behind the lens of several award-winning short and feature-length Kosovar films. In addition, Samir is also a short film programmer at DokuFest, Kosovo’s major film festival and one of the most important in the Balkan region. He is regularly invited to curate short film programmes on and from the Balkans for film festivals all over the world. In Between is a short documentary film inspired by an early photography project. This is also his directorial debut.
Biotope / Biotop
Life in Neuperlach, a Munich suburb, is quaint. It is a safe neighborhood, where people know and greet each other. Everybody has their own backyard; single car garages are lining the narrow footpaths and everything is groomed. But for some time now that peacefulness is troubled, because refugees are supposed to move in next door. As some of the residents are afraid of the noise to be expected, they are putting up a noise protection wall. Biotope shows the life of the locals and gets to the bottom of the reason for building that wall.
Paul Scholten was born in 1996 in south Germany. He started filmmaking when he was 17. His films were screened at various festivals. Since 2017, he studies Documentary Film at the University for Film and Television.
Facade Colour: Blue
Florian Yuriev is an architect, artist, violin maker, theoretician and poet. At the age of 90 he has to master another, completely new skill. In order to save his architectural project, Kyiv’s ‘Flying Saucer’, from turning into part of a shopping mall, Florian Yuriev launches a campaign against the arbitrary power of developers in the capital.
Oleksiy Radynski is a documentary filmmaker and writer. His films have been screened at the Oberhausen International Short Film Festival, DOK Leipzig, Guanajuato, Watch Docs (Warsaw), Odesa IFF, Nowe Horyzonty (Wroclaw), ‘86’ (Slavutych) and other festivals, as well as at e-flux (New York), S A V V Y Contemporary (Berlin), the Institute for Contemporary Arts (London), and other venues. His film The People Who Came to Power (2015, co-directed with Tomáš Rafa) won the main prize in the national competition at Docudays UA in Kyiv.
Show time & place
Uzhhorod,
Koshitska str., 28
