1928: Lyovuschka, a Soviet worker, is cast in the role of Trotsky for Eisenstein‘s latest film, but quickly finds his dreams of an actor‘s life shattered when Trotsky falls into Stalin‘s disfavor. Exiled from his homeland, he poses as a wealthy baron and finds himself stuck in a glamorous seaside resort in Germany awaiting a barge that will take him to Hollywood. A summer romance kicks off when he meets the eccentric factory owner Octavia Flambow-Jansen - it's just too bad there are vampires around.
This film, to be shot, edited, finished, and screened all within the dates of the First Look festival, is an open-ended homage to Wim Wenders's documentary Room 666. As in Wenders's original, visiting filmmakers, alone with a camera in a hotel room, will answer the question "Is cinema a dead language, an art which is already in the process of decline?" Participants will include an international selection of filmmakers visiting for First Look 2018.
The famous director Sandro is shooting invisible films with faith in the purity of his work. Having promised the leading role of his new film to his big love, he has to face the fact that there is nothing to see in his films.
The story of the dog from the title, who in a frame narrative explains how he came to be transformed from an unemployed communist filmmaker into a canine with a philosophical bent. Unable to finance his new project, young Berlin-based director Julian tells foreign exchange student Camille that his job in the countryside is research for an upcoming film. When Camille offers to help, he is forced to uphold the lie. The plantation isn’t the proletarian idyll he had hoped for, but fortunately the reincarnation of Francis of Assisi provides spiritual insight and a new aim in life.
Young people try to live a life of crime.
Alexandre Koberidze (Georgisch: ალექსანდრე კობერიძე; born October 19, 1984; Tbilisi) is a Georgian filmmaker, screenwriter, editor and actor. He is currently studying cinema at the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin. "Colophon" (2015) is his first short film and was presented in Oberhausen. His second feature, "Let the Summer Never Come Again" (2017) has been to FID Marseille where it won the Grand Prix of the International Competition. In 2021 Koberidze received for his second feature film "What do we see when we look at the sky?" (2021) an invitation to the competition at the 71st Berlin International Film Festival . [14] In the almost two and a half hour long work, he again devoted himself to the “poetry of aimlessness”, as previously shown in Let the summer never come again . [15] The romance film takes place in the Georgian city of Kutaisi and is about lovers who fall victim to a curse. Although the work did not receive an award from the competition jury, Koberidze was awarded the FIPRESCI Prize.
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