\nI, Olga Hepnarova<\/p>\n
Czech Republic\/ Poland\/ Slovakia\/\u00a0 France 2016
\n105\u00b4
\nDirector: Tomas Weinreb, Petr Kazda
\nCast: Michalina Olszanska, Martin Pechlat, Klara Meliskova, Marika Soposka<\/p>\n
Olga is a complex young woman desperate to break free from her unfeeling family and social conventions. With her Louise Brooks like tomboyish looks she drags herself, chain-smoking, from one job to another until she appears to find her niche as a truck driver. Although she has female lovers she does not form a bond with any of them; instead she clashes, time and again, venting herself in wordless emotional outbursts and other behavioural extremes. Meticulously composed and shot in elegiac black-and-white this film tells the story of the short life of an exceptionally lonely young woman who turns into a mass murderer when, on 10 July 1973 \u2013 as she has just turned 22 \u2013 she drives a rented truck into a group of people, killing eight. In a letter acknowledging her deed she writes that she sought to take revenge on the world and on those she felt hated her. In spite of clear indications that she was mentally ill she was executed \u2013 making her the last woman to be publicly executed in Czechoslovakia. After producing several documentaries and shorts together, this film marks the directors\u2019 first drama. The film is based on a lengthy period of research which culminated initially in a documentary entitled Everything is Crap.<\/p>\n
Jonathan\u00a0<\/span> Germany 2016 Jonathan is 23; he and his aunt, Martha, work on their farm. Jonathan also devotes himself to looking after his father Burghardt, who has cancer. But, railing against his own decrepitude that prevents him from a dignified end, his father stubbornly sabotages all of his son\u2019s efforts. Jonathan finds it increasingly difficult to cope until they hire a young carer, Anka, to help. Jonathan and Anka fall in love; her experience of working at a hospice helps Jonathan to gain a new inroad into his father\u2019s situation. When Burghardt\u2019s long-lost boyhood friend Ron appears on the scene his health visibly improves and, although the family sees Ron as an intruder and is against it, Ron continues to stay on to be with Burghardt. Jonathan discovers that, many years ago, his father and Ron were deeply in love. All at once, the fa\u00e7ade of cherished family beliefs crumbles and long-repressed secrets come to light \u2013 but Jonathan also learns how to let go of his father and to accept his death as something that will open up the path towards a self-determined life.<\/p>\n 22:30, CinemaxX 7<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Jug-yeo-ju-neun Yeo-ja<\/span> South Corea 2016 Youn So-young has contracted gonorrhoea. \u2018Make me well again quickly\u2019 she tells her gynaecologist, because she wants to get back to work. In a park in Seoul, this senior citizen manages to scrape together just enough money as a \u2018Bacchus lady\u2019 to avoid begging. \u2018Bacchus ladies\u2019 are elderly women who sell a popular soft drink containing taurine known as \u2018Bacchus\u2019 and offer sexual services on the side. Korea\u2019s rapidly ageing society barely has any money left for its pensioners and poverty among the elderly is soaring. When little Min-ho\u2019s mother is detained by the police, So-young takes him in. The boy, who only speaks Filipino, experiences a rather unique sort of patchwork family in this courtyard peopled, alongside So-young, by her transgender neighbour and a one-legged young man. Many of So-young\u2019s aged former clients and friends can no longer see a way out of their situation. One after the other, they ask this laconic lady, who for years has been harbouring a secret, for one last favour.<\/p>\n 20:00, CinemaxX 7<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Kiki<\/span> Sweden\/ USA 2016 Twenty-five years after Paris is Burning, the 1991 Teddy Award-winning film that brought Berlinale audiences closer to New York\u2019s ballroom scene, Kiki provides an insight into the world of today\u2019s young black LGBT community, by taking a look at the balls where participants of voguing competitions compete for trophies, and by listening to proponents talking about their dreams and their lives. In contrast to the time when Paris is Burning was made, these balls are no longer born of a subculture but are instead organised by queer youth welfare organisations. The enlightened manner in which the young people discuss gender-political questions today and how naturally they use terms such as heteronormativity and gender deconstruction is striking. The city, the social structures and the gender-political consciousness may have changed since the 1980s but what remains is the desire for acceptance and a safe place to celebrate one\u2019s individuality. Even if coming out would seem to be easier today for some of the protagonists and same-sex marriages are now legalised in the US, co-writer Twiggy Pucci Gar\u00e7on puts it straight: \u201cThere is so much left to fight for.\u201d<\/p>\n 22:30, CineStar 7<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n M\u00e3e s\u00f3 h\u00e1 uma <\/span> Brazil 2016 Pierre is seventeen and in the middle of puberty. He plays in a band, has sex at parties and secretly tries on women\u2019s clothing and lipstick in front of a mirror. Ever since his father\u2019s death, his mother Aracy has looked after him and his younger sister Jacqueline, spoiling them both. But when he discovers that she stole him from a hospital when he was a new born baby, Pierre\u2019s life changes dramatically. Overnight, his world falls apart and his mother Aracy is arrested. His biological parents Gloria and Matheus have spent seventeen years searching for him; they are now desperate to make up for the lost years and spend time with their eldest son, whom they call Felipe. Observed from a critical distance by his younger brother Joca, Pierre\/Felipe moves in with his well-heeled new family, who are determined to mould him according to their ideals. But Pierre has his own designs for his life. Director Anna Muylaert won the Panorama Audience Award in 2015 for Que horas ela volta? (The Second Mother). In her new work she explores the mother-child relationship through the eyes of a rebellious son whose whole world unravels overnight.<\/p>\n 19:30,\u00a0 Zoo Palast 2<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Uncle Howard<\/span> Great Britain\/ USA 2016 After Howard Brookner, director of two documentaries and a feature film, died from AIDS related illnesses at the age of 34 in 1989, his slender oeuvre was in danger of being forgotten \u2013 until his nephew Aaron decided to preserve his uncle\u2019s legacy and to digitalise his first film, the cult classic Burroughs: The Movie (1983). This endeavour led to the discovery of a number of other gems stored in the godfather of Beat\u2019s legendary \u2018bunker\u2019 in New York\u2019s Bowery district. This rich archive of material, shot by film maniac Brookner from 1978 until the end of the 1980s, represents a unique document of the decade\u2019s incredibly vibrant art and gay scene in downtown New York. Aaron Brookner\u2019s film Uncle Howard takes us on an adventurous, artistic and very personal journey back in time, accompanied by conversations with both relatives and his uncle\u2019s close friends (including Robert Wilson, Jim Jarmusch, Brad Gooch and James Grauerholz). The resulting film is a powerful and loving portrait of an artist who left this world far too soon.<\/p>\n 20:00, CineStar 7<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Girl Talk<\/span> USA 2015 Girl Talk features poet and critical theorist Fred Moten dancing in slow motion, or \u2018dragged time\u2019, to an a cappella rendition of Betty Carter\u2019s jazz standard \u201cGirl Talk\u201d, here reinterpreted and performed by musician Josiah Wise. Wearing a velvet cloak covered in jewels, Moten turns euphorically in a sunlit garden as the crystals adorning his body refract pink, blue, and green rays. In exploring the figure of the drag queen and the mother, Moten and Tsang, poet and artist, remain unfixed in any one persona.<\/p>\n 10.02-22.0 2. \/ daily 19:00 \u2013 21:00 Akademie der K\u00fcnste as an Installation<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" That relationships between parents and their children are not always the easiest, i am sure everyone got their stories to tell about that. But two of the films from the TEDDY program, which will be shown today, brings this subject on a whole new level. In “Jonathan”, the protagonist of the same name, takes care … Continue reading Day 2: The Kids are Alright (sometimes)<\/span> ![\"Ja\u0300,](\"http:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/01\/Ja\u0300-Olga-Hepnarova\u03001.jpg\")
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\nJonathan<\/p>\n
\n99\u00b4
\nDirector: Piotr J. Lewandowski
\nCast:\u00a0Jannis Niew\u00f6hner, Andr\u00e9 Hennicke, Julia Koschitz, Thomas Sarbacher, Barbara Auer<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
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\nThe Bacchus Lady<\/p>\n
\n110\u00b4
\nDirector: E J-yong
\nCast: Youn Yuh-jung, Chon Moo-song, Yoon Kye-sang, An A-zu, Choi Hyun-jun<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
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\nKiki<\/p>\n
\n95\u00b4
\nDirector: Sara Jorden\u00f6<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
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\nDon\u00b4t Call me Son<\/p>\n
\n82\u00b4
\nDirector: Anna Muylaert
\nCast: Naomi Nero, Dani Nefussi, Matheus Natchergaele, Daniel Botelho, Luciana Paes<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
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\nUncle Howard<\/p>\n
\n96\u00b4
\nDirector: Aaron Brookner
\nCast: Jim Jarmusch, Sara Driver, Tom DiCillo, Brad Gooch, Frederic Mitterand<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
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\nGirl Talk<\/p>\n
\n4\u00b4
\nDirector:Wu Tsang
\nCast: Fred Moten<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n