{"id":72841,"date":"2020-03-07T12:00:05","date_gmt":"2020-03-07T10:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.visionaerfilmfestival.com\/?p=72841"},"modified":"2020-03-07T13:24:41","modified_gmt":"2020-03-07T11:24:41","slug":"4-visionar-film-festival-berlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visionaerfilmfestival.com\/news\/visionaer-film-festival-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"4. Vision\u00e4r Film Festival Berlin"},"content":{"rendered":"
[vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/1″][vc_custom_heading heading_semantic=”h3″ separator=”under” separator_color=”yes” sub_lead=”yes”]A Journey From Latin America to Latvia Through the Gaze of New Daring Directors[\/vc_custom_heading][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n
They take on hope, disillusionment, denunciation; they fight, they are revolutionary, they dream, they hunt for themselves and for the truth. They rise, they fall and finally rise again. They are the visionary talents of today and masters of tomorrow presented at the 4<\/span>th<\/span>\u00a0edition of\u00a0<\/span>Vision\u00e4r Film Festival<\/b>\u00a0<\/span>\u2013 Encounters with New Talents<\/b>\u00a0back in Berlin from\u00a0<\/span>the 1<\/b>st<\/b>\u00a0to the 5<\/b>th<\/b>\u00a0of April 2020 at ACUDkino.<\/b><\/p>\n The program offers an\u00a0<\/span>international selection of<\/b>\u00a0<\/span>9 first or second feature films<\/b>\u00a0<\/span>in competition\u00a0<\/b>for the Audience and Jury Awards (all Berlin or German premieres) and the\u00a0<\/span>Short Berlin Encounters<\/b>, a\u00a0<\/span>selection of 19 Short Films\u00a0made by Berlin filmmakers<\/b> for the Audience Award. <\/span>Chile, Colombia (in co-production with Belgium), Brazil, Canada, USA (in co-production with France and China), Austria, Spain and Latvia\u00a0<\/b>are the countries of this year\u2019s edition. This year Latin America, with the political gaze of their directors, has caught – and well deserves – our attention. The social turmoil following the state of repression needs voices of denunciation that will never be silenced. Now more than ever they need to be heard. Not only political but also social, intimate, sexual and artistic is the revolution undertaken by our international new talents. Sometimes it can be even funny.<\/span><\/p>\n Films tell stories but they are also a territory to reflect, investigate and rethink, aesthetically and formally, their language. The boundaries between documentary and fiction are now blurred. Arthouse and genre films don\u2019t necessarily exclude each other. As Vision\u00e4r\u2019s mission is to discover and support new visions and talents, the selected films will also reflect a daring and unusual way of developing a discourse.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span>The section\u00a0<\/span>Short Berlin Encounters<\/b><\/em>\u00a0will be presented in four blocks under a common topic:<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Vision\u00e4r believes and respects\u00a0<\/span>gender equality and gender inclusivity<\/b> in its selection. In an industry that doesn\u2019t always make it so easy for women*, in a world in which it\u2019s still necessary to impose the \u201cpro film quote\u201d in order to assure their presence, Vision\u00e4r is very proud to contribute support to women. We\u2019ll have 6 men directors and 6 women directors in the feature films competition and 8 male filmmakers and 13 female filmmakers in the Berlin Short Encounters.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n A section of short films made by women* directors from Northern Europe under the name of\u00a0<\/span>Panorama Nordic | Female* Voices<\/em>\u00a0<\/b>will be the special focus of this upcoming edition. This is a curated section which changes every year and intends to draw attention on specific topics, regions and concepts. Countries in focus will be: <\/span>Finland, Iceland, Lithuania, Sweden<\/b>. <\/span><\/p>\n As a multidisciplinary event, Vision\u00e4r will host a film concert under the name of\u00a0<\/span>Kino Sonico.<\/em><\/b> This is a female project where two<\/span>\u00a0<\/b>well-known female electronic musicians develop new scores for silent films made by a woman pioneering in cinema. <\/span>Alice Guy Blach\u00e9<\/b><\/a>\u2019s<\/span>\u00a0<\/b>short films of 1912,\u00a0<\/span>Falling Leaves<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<\/span>Making an American Citizen<\/em>,<\/b>\u00a0will be shown together\u00a0<\/span>with a live performance of Marion W\u00f6rle aka Frau W and Lena Kocisova aka Akkamiau.\u00a0<\/b>Guy-Blach\u00e9 was a producer, a writer, a casting director, a set designer and the first female film director \u2013 for some years the only female director – in cinema history. She began working for France\u2019s Gaumont pictures, then moved to the US and founded her own studio, Solax. She made more than 1.000 films. How such a pioneer faded into obscurity has much to do with her gender and with how film history has been written by men. In fact, while her male colleagues were glorified, Guy-Blach\u00e9\u2019s work was neglected, if not even attributed to the men.<\/span><\/p>\n On duty call to judge our nine feature films and assign the\u00a0<\/span>Jury Award<\/b>\u00a0are three film directors:\u00a0<\/span>Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese<\/b>\u00a0(Lesotho),\u00a0<\/span>Jules Herrmann<\/b>\u00a0(Germany) and\u00a0<\/span>Pippo Mezzapesa<\/b>\u00a0(Italy).\u00a0Also, the audience is called to serve as a judge for both the full-length and short film selections.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n More info about the Homage and our panels, organized in collaboration with Filmnetzwerk, as the whole program will be revealed soon. <\/span><\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/1″][vc_custom_heading heading_semantic=”h3″ separator=”under” separator_color=”yes” sub_lead=”yes”]A Journey From Latin America to Latvia Through the Gaze of New Daring Directors[\/vc_custom_heading][vc_column_text] They […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73198,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[93],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n