"No Room" ("Nema mjesta") by Jelene Oroz
Short film bike tour through Wiesbaden on October 3rd
On the 3rd of October, Day of German Unity, we bring together two of the most beautiful things: cycling and cinema! Together with the goEast> Filmfestival, we organise a cinematic bike tour through Wiesbaden – with short films about mobility, living together and living in the city.
The event combines open-air short film cinema at various locations, which are connected by small bicycle stages to be ridden together to form a cinematic bike tour.
Shown are – typically goEast> Filmfestival – short films by East German and East European filmmakers. Thematically, the topics are ‘mobility’, ‘living together’ and ‘living in the city’.
Advertising poster for the bike tour with film still from "Heaven like silk, full of oranges" © Interfilm
START OF THE EVENT:
6:45 p.m.
1. Station: Square of German Unity
(Quartiersplatz/Bertramstraße)
FURTHER STATIONS OF THE TOUR:
2. Station: Rhine-Main University of Applied Sciences
3. Station: Mosbacher Berg high school
4. Station: Lessingstraße
Last stop: Kulturpark am Schlachthof (Murnaustraße)
END:
approx. 9:00 p.m.
Participation is free & without registration
Here is the preliminary programme of the short films shown:
Heaven like silk, full of oranges
by Betina Kuntzsch, Germany 2024 (10 mins)
In the spring of 1990 – between the fall of the Berlin Wall on 9 November 1989 and German Unity on 3 October 1990 – the first package travellers from the GDR to Mallorca start … From research, press articles and interviews with contemporary witnesses, the short film reconstructs a travel report as a collage of animated postcards, documents and holiday photos.
No Room (‘Nema mjesta’)
by Jelena Oroz, Croatia 2024 (6 min)
The film tells the story of the traffic situation in the capital Zagreb: everything is full of cars. They race across the streets, block the footpaths, use them as parking spaces and take no account of the other road users: inside. It's time to get revenge!
With successful images and an angry voice-over, the filmmaker tells a personal story that can be easily transferred to other countries, cities and people
It’s a Date
by Nadia Parfan, Ukraine 2023 (6 min)
At breakneck speed, a car races through the city at dawn, filmed from the subjective in a setting without cut. The contemporary remake of Claude Lelouch’s ‘C’était un rendez-vous’ describes a way of life in the midst of a war-related state of emergency.
Bike portraits
by Sashko Danylenko, Ukraine 2016 (5 min.)
A bicycle is a good means of transportation to explore a city, and discovering cycling culture is a good approach to understanding local society. What can a bicycle portrait tell us?
The kiosk
by Anete Melece, Switzerland 2013 (7 min.)
The kiosk woman Olga is always in a good mood. She knows the wishes and problems of the people who visit her every day and lovingly serves them. However, when she is alone – and she often is – she wishes to be far away: out of this monotonous life. Through absurd incidents, she is finally washed away from her city and reaches the place of her dreams …
What would Nazis never do / Because I live here
Movies from the series Spots NSU-Tribunal about how we imagine Nazis, Germany 2017 (3 + 1 min.)
In the film, people on the street are asked whether they can imagine a neo-Nazi on a bicycle or which means of transport neo-Nazis would use. At several NSU crime scenes, witnesses had observed white cyclists, but the investigators had excluded (neo-)Nazis as perpetrators.
Revolvo
by Francy Fabritz, Germany 2019 (8 min.)
Anette (55) and Carla (70) have known each other for years. Her rebellious nature and her special humor connect the two self-confident women. They have always swam against the tide and to this day they stand up for their values. The social shift to the right and the fact that they are not only marginalized as women, but now also because of their age, does not let the two go. Undaunted, they use their supposed invisibility to do what many do not dare.
Everything belongs to you
by Mani Pham Bui and Hien Nguyen, Germany 2022 (13 mins)
To be different or not to feel belonging is not a strange feeling for many Viet Germans and especially for Yen Nguyen. Instinctively, she tries to adapt to the masses in the German small town. Be more white, have more German friends. From her new life in Oslo, 900 km away from the family, Yen embarks on a journey and engages with self-acceptance, identity and family.
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