Best of Input: Television out of the Box
Date: Sunday January 29, 2012 - Saturday February 4, 2012
Time: various
Location: Goethe-Institut, German Cultural Center
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INPUT, the International Public Television Conference, is an annual producers’ screening and discussion showcase. Held in cities around the world since 1978, the conference reviews submissions from over sixty countries. A number of the international jury-selected finalists from the May 2011 conference in Seoul will be screened and discussed.
Sunday, January 29, 3:00 pm
La Maison Française, 4101 Reservoir Road NW
Moloch Tropical
France, 106 min., drama
Director: Raoul Peck
In a fortress perched on the top of a mountain in northern Haiti, a democratically elected "President" and his closest collaborators get ready for a state celebration with many international guests. Meanwhile, the country is in turmoil. As the day goes on, the rebellion worsens.
This event requires a reservation. For more information visit www.la-maison-francaise.org.
Tuesday, January 31, 6:30 pm
Goethe-Institut, Unusual Programming from Germany and Switzerland
20x Brandenburg – Warriors without Enemies (Krieger ohne Feind)
One episode of twenty, Germany, 15’, television piece
Director: Burhan Qurbani
Part of a project to mark the twentieth anniversary of the eastern German state of Brandenburg. This episode is a “play with reality” - young right-wing extremists in a rural setting are supposed to take part in a social rehabilitation program and learn to sing together. Their teacher is from Cameroon.
Either Broder. On Safari in Germany (Entweder Broder)
Germany, 30’, television-specific episode
Writer/directors: Joachim Schröder & Tobias Streck
Henryk M. Broder and Hamed Abdel Samad travelled across Germany with their specially customized colorful Volvo. They spoke with “aryans,” vegetarians, fundamentalists, socialists, friends of peace, and war profiteers. They covered a distance of 30,000 km on their safari in Germany, with Jesus, Mohammed, and Moses on board and a fox terrier named Wilma in the back seat.
Low Cost (Claude Jutra)
Switzerland, 60’, fiction
Director: Lionel Baier
Shot entirely using a mobile phone, this fiction film’s main character has known the date of his death since he was nine years old. As it approaches, he spends his final moments with those dear to him. A fiction film about the value of human life in an age where everything is at a “discount.”
This event requires a reservation. Contact 202.289.1200 ext. 169 or rsvp@washington.goethe.org
Wednesday, February 1, 6:30 pm
Goethe-Institut, Presented by the Embassy of Brazil
Home Key / Chave da Casa Brazil
60 min., documentary
Directors: Paschoal Samora, Stela Grisotti
The documentary follows the last 48 hours of a group of Palestinians in the refugee camp of Al-Rweished, on the border between Jordan and Iraq, before leaving for Brazil. They leave behind family, friends and a past full of memories. Nine months later, the film follows five of them in different points of Brazil, showing their adaptation issues, their fears for family safety, for the ones that were left behind in the Middle East, the country, the uncertainties and hopes for a new future. RSVP to 202-289-1200 ext. 170 or rsvp@washington.goethe.org
Full schedule and updates are available at www.centerforsocialmedia.org.
All programs are free, but reservations may be required for certain screenings (see individual listings)
Partners: Goethe-Institut, La Maison Française, Silverdocs/American Film Institute, Embassy of Brazil, the Hill Center at the Old Naval Hospital, American University’s Center for Social Media, WHUT/Howard University Television, Women in Film and Video, in cooperation with INPUT, and the International Public Television Screening Conference