Double Feature: 113 bottles of water in a nightshop // En vez de árboles / Instead of Trees / Anstatt Bäumen

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113 bottles of water in a nightshop

Leo Rottmann, DE/BE/TN 2024, 11 min, English OmeU

A dinar goes across the table for an ice cream. It's hot in a city in Tunisia. The camera follows a woman through the streets. A female voice reads aloud from off-screen - letters to Salma Paralluelo, to Jennifer Hermoso. Who? Exactly, the footballers. In the letters, she talks about how she discovered watching soccer for herself and about the first game she saw. The ticket wasn't expensive at all. Why not? Oh, it's a long story. The movie tells it in 11 minutes and doesn't leave out anything important. It's funny, even though it's sad, and hopefully by the end of the film, viewers will have experienced what soccer is all about for many people: they will have laughed, cried, shouted, shown solidarity and been angry. Let's crush a drinks carton on that, please.

Guest: Leo Rottmann

En vez de árboles / Instead of Trees / Anstatt Bäumen
Philipp Hartmann, DE 2024, 79 min, Spanish/German/English/Port. OmeU

Two men stroll through the forest, talking fables, a cell phone in their hands to capture an image of nature. On their cinematic journey from the Vienna Museum of Natural History, across a Bolivian salt desert, into the virtual world of "Red Dead Redemption", Philipp Hartmann and film critic Roger Koza meet friends, filmmakers and experts from different countries. They philosophize about the attempt to depict nature and bond over their love of cinema. Hartmann playfully interweaves art history and criticism of colonialism, the spun and the factual. In its open, collaborative form, the film is guided by its protagonists and the mosaic-like narrative, bubbling over with ideas, also becomes a manifestation of friendship and cinephilia.

Guest: Philipp Hartmann

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