Kinocenter Kehl: The Caligari Film Award at the Bridgehead of the European Metropole
This year, the municipal cinemas (organized by the Bundesverband kommunale Filmarbeit e.V.) awarded the Caligari Film Award at the Berlinale Forum for the 40th time. Fabian Schauren, the long-term managing director of the Bundesverband, was one of those responsible for organizing the prize for 12 years. Last summer, he took over the Kinocenter Kehl. From a Berlin perspective, Kehl is small, around 38,000 inhabitants, but most people who travel to France will have heard of this border town in Baden just across the way from Strasbourg. When there are reports about border controls on the evening news, they are currently illustrated with a picture of a police officer at one of the four bridges that cross the Rhein in Kehl. Given the proximity of the neighboring European metropole of Strasbourg, the first idea was to show the European winners of the award in May (Europe month), but only an international selection can truly show the diversity of the prize and that of the Berlinale Forum.
DIE GREGORS – KOMM MIT MIR IN DAS CINEMA (Alice Agneskirchner, Germany 2022, 8.5.) is being shown as a prologue, a tribute to Arsenal’s founding couple, Erika und Ulrich Gregor. SHOAH (Claude Lanzmann, France 1985, 9. & 10.5.) is a milestone in cinema’s engagement with the Holocaust and was the first winner of the Caligari Film Award in 1986. Short stories by Russian writer Daniil Charms show a series of absurd events in CHARMS ZWISCHENFÄLLE (Michael Kreihsl, Austria 1996, 14.5.). In his historical account of the 20th century HEIMAT IST EIN RAUM AUS ZEIT (Germany 2019, 15.5.), Thomas Heise proceeds from the story his own family. TEPENIN ARDI (Beyond the Hill, Emin Alper, Turkey 2012, 16.5.) is a parable about the familiar and the strange in a landscape plucked from a Western. AKHER AYAM EL MADINA (In the Last Days of the City, Tamer El Said, Egypt 2016, 21.5.) is a portrait of the city of Cairo that moves between fiction and documentary. The setting of GEOGRAPHIES OF SOLITUDE (Jacquelyn Mills, Canada 2022, 22.5.) is Sable Island, a remote island before the coast of Nova Scotia whose only inhabitant is a naturalist and artist. LA CASA LOBO (Cristóbal León und Joaquín Cociña, Chile 2018, 23.5.) is a stop motion animated horror film about Colonia Dignidad. (Fabian Schauren)
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