BOOK PRESENTATIONS & TALKS

In addition to the film screenings, which will take place over the six days of the festival in the Leokino and the Cinematopgraph, there will be numerous fringe events before and during the festival that complement the diverse film program and bring guests together.

CURATOR'S TALK with Valeryia Kim (Taschkent) & Anna Ladinig (Innsbruck)

To kick off IFFI 2024, the two curators of the Tashkent Film Festival Retrospective, Valeriya Kim and festival director Anna Ladinig, explain how festival programmes are created, how films are selected and what difficulties have to be overcome in the process.

BOOK PRESENTATION: Weltreise in 40 plus 3 Tagen um die Welt by Helmut Groschup

The texts for "Weltreise" were written during a travel-free period from March to May 2021. Every day during the lockdown, Groschup took his family and closest acquaintances on a journey to his places of longing and past memories via email. The last place he visited was the film festival in Munich, where he died on July 1, 2023. "My trip around the world is a spontaneous recording of my memory at the time of writing and nothing else. If I write a story on a different day, it sounds different and the person or place looks completely different."

BOOK PRESENTATION: films for creative resistance - the work of Karl Saurer

A captivating, entertaining exploration of Karl Saurer and his films. This wonderful book provides an insight into how the films came into being, how they were made and how they were used. Through texts and pictures, the book shows a passionate filmmaker who never got weary of demonstrating creative resistance against injustice and injury. This entertaining monograph is a rallying cry to stand up for the values that make life more just and more sustainable. The book presentation will take place in German.

FILMBISQUIT: Diversity or Cultural Approbriation?

The terms ‘international film’ or ‘world cinema’ are used to describe cinema outside of the film culture of one’s own country. But how diverse are films in cinemas really? Productions outside of the dominant Hollywood canon are still outsiders in Europe. When it comes to real representation in films, too, we seem to prefer what’s tried and tested rather than what’s authentic. What can we do to bring more diversity onto cinema screens? We want to discuss these topics in an interactive format.

TALK: Who is actually speaking? A panel discussion on participation in film.

Documentary film is many things, but it is not fiction. Or maybe it is? It is tempting to completely strip the documentary material of its original context during the artistic process in order to fit it into one's own idea of a functional story. But what if it is only in these moments that the documentary film comes into its own, as Werner Herzog likes to claim? Is this a glimpse into the hidden depths of reality or are filmmakers ignoring their responsibility towards the protagonists? The question of power takes centre stage here: who is telling a story about whom and how? After all, it is the narrator who determines our perception of the world. In this panel discussion, dok.at, together with selected IFFI filmmakers, will address these questions and take a critical look at the positioning and purpose of documentary film.