Sünke Michel, Bergmann-Michel's daughter-in-law, and Thomas Worschech (DFF) talk about Ella Bergmann-Michel's body of work, her techniques and the editorial history of her films.
For the opening of the film series 'The Act of Filming – Reflections on cinema and politics', we welcome Tamer El Said, filmmaker and co-founder of the Cimatheque - Alternative Film Centre Cairo and director of the documentary AKHER AYAM EL MEDINA.
For the opening of the 14th edition of the Hessen School Cinema Weeks, we screen Agnès Varda's LES GLANEURS ET LA GLANEUSE (THE GLEANERS AND I), and invite the audience to a discussion about collecting and food sharing.
Henner Winckler presents his latest film DAS FREIWILLIGE JAHR (A VOLUNTARY YEAR), which he made together with Ulrich Köhler and which premiered at last year's International Film Festival in Locarno, Switzerland.
Eldzhon Abbasov, Uzbek documentary filmmaker, and Nigora Karimova, film critic (Academy of Sciences, Tashkent), talk about two rediscovered works from the 1920s.