Even though it is young filmmakers who are showing their works at the Flicker & Rush festival, one thing is astonishing: “They deal a lot with the topic of age,” says Karolina Weiß from the junior festival management trio. For example, “Rummy”https://www.sueddeutsche.de/muenchen/.”Moritz Mayer made the documentary about his own grandmother; he accompanies her for a day and is there when she visits the graves of her two deceased husbands.” She is actually a very positive person, but the increasing loneliness caused by the loss of friends and relatives is bothering her.
Or “Glückstag”, a feature film by Bernhard Wohlfahrter, Samuel Zerbato and Lea Dähne about the widowed pensioner Gerd, who sets out early one summer morning in Munich to collect the remains of the people working, bathing and partying in the big city: deposit bottles.
In “Glückstag” the young filmmakers follow the footsteps of pensioner Gerd through Munich.
(Photo: Bernhard Wohlfahrter / Samuel Zerbato / Lea Dähne)
Over three days at Germany’s oldest youth film festival, organized by the Munich Media Center, the Munich Film City and the Munich Cultural Department, over 90 short films of different genres will be shown, divided into five categories by age. This also includes Carolin Wittmann’s film “Coma”, in which the 23-year-old media designer Weiß worked as set manager: When a young man falls into a coma, he encounters lost loves and repressed feelings in a surreal dream world. “The black-and-white film was shot with an analog camera; it was an incredibly disciplined shoot, simply because the film material is so expensive compared to digital,” says Weiß.
For her, the nine o’clock block on Friday mornings for elementary school classes has a special charm, “a wonderful bustle of children looking at their own contributions and those of their peers.” From category one comes the animated film “Karlo the Cat in the Continents” about a little tomcat who loves to travel and was made in the Haus für Kinder Baubergerstrasse.
She is particularly excited about the feature films and documentaries in the penultimate category four: “The filmmakers are 17 to 21 years old, have real film equipment in their hands for the first time, and it’s great what they can do with it,” says Weiß .
Dangerous game: The film “Three-Phase Alternating Voltage” is based on a true incident in the 1970s – with Ben Simader, Felix Nölle and Marlene Seidl (from left).
(Photo: Maximilian Miller)
Where the journey can then lead is revealed in Category Five with contributions from film school students and graduates up to the age of 26. These include, for example, “Three-Phase Alternating Voltage” by Anna Niebert and Maximilian Miller, in whose short film three child protagonists provoke a life-threatening electrical accident – based on a true event in Neufelden in the 1970s.
Regardless of the film program and the award ceremonies, Weiß expects a lot from the festival breakfast on Saturday morning. “We want to discuss handling on the film set and have invited experts from the industry, a producer, an actor and a director,” says Weiß. Even if the young filmmakers are highly motivated and generally do unpaid work, certain rules still need to be observed. “Take breaks, provide food and catering,” says Weiß. And directing means having to make announcements and exercising power, but you still have to pay attention to the tone. “Ideally, following this exchange of experiences, we will create a guide for young filmmakers.”
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