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- Memory Books
In New York and LA cinemas
- Mozart in China
In German Cinemas starting August 21, 2008
- Eileen Gray – Invitation to a Voyage
Winner "Award for Best Portrait" at FIFA-Festival Montreal – now available on DVD!
Memory Books
In New York and LA cinemas
"Prix des Jeunes Europèenes" FIPA-Festival Biarritz, Honourprice Berlin Filmball, Winner Prix Micheline Vaillancourt- Panafrican Filmfestival, "International Grand Prix for Author's Documentaries" Monte Carlo, HotDocs Festival Toronto
A film by Christa Graf
In Uganda, AIDS-infected mothers have begun writing what they call Memory Books for their children. Through the process of remembering and writing, both parents and children discover a sense of strength and solace that they could never have foreseen while creating what will quite likely become the most important road map that these orphans will have in life.
Henning Mankell: These Memory Books, these little booklets with pasted in pictures and stories, written by people who hardly know the alphabet, could in many ways be one of the most important documents of our time.
Classified by the German Film Board as Outstanding: Memory Books is unquestionably one of the best documentaries currently being released. Unlike many of the films so carelessly labeled 'important',this film actually deserves to be called just that: Important.
In coproduction with ZDF in cooperation with arte, SF, snakefilm. Subsidized by BKM, DFFF, MFG and Volkart Foundation.
Mozart in China
In German Cinemas starting August 21, 2008
"Audience Award" FIDEM Montreal, Audience Award Der kleine Star, FBW: Rated Especially Valuable.
A young Chinese Austrian boy invites his friend Danny to spend their summer vacation at the house of his grandfather on Hainan Island on the southern tip of China. Mozart, a theater marionette, comes alive that night, hides in Danny’s suitcase and flies with the two to China.
With the help of his granddaughter Lin Lin, Grandfather restores his shadow theater. A friendship develops between Danny and Lin Lin, and Mozart falls in love with the beautiful shadow princess, for whom he composes the “Chinese Sonata.”
A catastrophe arrives when the loan shark comes knock at Grandfather’s door. As the colorful shadow puppets come to life in the shadow theater only, Mozart and the kids have to find a solution to keep the theater intact. Will they succeed?
A German, Austrian, Chinese Co-Production of Kick Film GmbH Munich, Extrafilm Vienna, COOP99 Vienna, Kery Media Co. Ltd. Beijing.
Homepage Mozart in China
Eileen Gray – Invitation to a Voyage
Winner "Award for Best Portrait" at FIFA-Festival Montreal – now available on DVD!
Eileen Gray was always ahead of her time. Thirty years after her death, she is still considered to be the very essence of the Modern. Everyone has seen her furniture, her famous Adjustable Table, the Lota Sofa, the Tube Light – but most people don’t really know the designer and architect behind them.
Category: History, Lifestyle, Art, Biography
Running time: 52/60 min.
In Coproduction with RTE and AVRO
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