Festivalblog: Saturday

Saturday is "Ukrainian Day" at the Cottbus FilmFestival. Seven of the ten films from Ukraine will be screened. PHOTOPHOBIA (1 pm in the Kammerbühne, double feature) shows the everyday life of two children in an underground tunnel in Kharkiv while the city's residents seek shelter from Russian bombs. YOU KNOW IT'S GOING TO BE ABOUT WAR is set in Kyiv (1 pm in the Kammerbühne, double feature) and shows the underground and party scene between excessive partying and war trauma. As in the previous year, admission to all films in the FFC programme is free on this day on presentation of a valid Ukrainian passport at the box office.

PHOTOPHOBIA

The film series Polskie Horyzonty: The Female Gaze presents a selection of very different films by Polish female directors. Agnieszka Smoczyńska's still young oeuvre takes centre stage. Her feature film THE SILENT TWINS, in which she sheds light on the fate of twin sisters who are admitted to a clinic as teenagers after years of silence and rebellion, will be screened today at 9 pm in the Stadthalle.

VIKA! by Agnieszka Zwiefka brings the true story of Poland's oldest DJane, aged 84, to the cinema screen at 6pm in the Glad House.

Starting at 3 pm, the film and talk SERBSKA UTOPIJA will focus on Sorbian utopias and futures. What could they look like? What roles do film, television and networks play in this? The panel will address questions of Sorbian futurism and the task of the present to break away from the dystopia of disappearance.

The competition film THREE THOUSAND NUMBERED PIECES at 4 pm in Weltspiegel Saal 2 will be followed by an in-depth discussion with the filmmaker Ádám Császi. In his film, a Hungarian director stages a theatre play with Roma in which they are exhibited as if in a zoo. This "Poverty Porn" is sold to the German Theatre, where the torment continues during rehearsals without anyone being interested in the perspectives of the Roma. Császi, known for his opposition to the Orbán regime, presents a masterful and provocative reflection on systemic racism, feigned altruism and the ambivalence of woke culture.

Um 19 Uhr beginnt die Preisverleihung im Scandale im Bunten Bahnhof. Wer nimmt die begehrten Lubinas mit nach Hause? Für die Party nach der Preisverleihung könnt ihr Karten kaufen und mitfeiern!

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