Festivalblog: Wednesday

The opening ceremony of the 33rd FFC took place yesterday. Many thanks to all guests, participants and sponsors. It was a great start to our festival week!

Mayor Tobias Schick with the FFC student jury

Programme director Bernd Buder in conversation with presenter Attila Weidemann

Director Grit Lemke and protagonists of the opening film BEI UNS HEISST SIE HANKA/PLA NAS GRONJE JEJ HANKA / POLA NAS RĚKA WONA HANKA

Today a full day of great films awaits us. Films from Kazakhstan are being shown in this year's Close-Up series. Here, slacker comedy meets pop folklore and silent protest encounters historical genre thrillers. At 5 pm, the documentary DER WEITE WEG ZURÜCK will be shown at the Glad House (tickets available via the link to the film title). During the subsequent SlowTalk with Alexej Getmann (director of DER WEITE WEG ZURÜCK), Ira Peter (blogger, influencer, journalist specialising in Russian-German topics) and Edwin Warkentin (cultural mediator, head of the cultural department for Russian-Germans) in the Glad House, "Steppenkinder. The Aussiedler Podcast" will be recorded live.

The Spektrum section shows films that are anything but ordinary. In TAMARA, director Jonas Ludwig Walter tells the story of East German biographies and their ruptures from the perspective of a woman born in 1990. TAMARA will be screened at 4.30 pm in the Weltspiegel (Großer Saal).

CLARA CLARA is the story of a young Romanian woman who leaves her home country and her child to earn money in Germany. A film about the losses suffered by migrant workers and their families, but also their wishes and desires. CLARA will be screened at 7 pm at the Weltspiegel (Großer Saal).

THE CHOICE, which will be shown at 22:30 in the Weltspiegel (theatre 2), is an independently produced one-man chamber drama thriller from Russia about a country caught in financial crisis.

Don't miss out on this diverse programme! 

Many film guests are arriving in Cottbus today: here you can see the director, a leading actor and the composer of the film CLARA, which is celebrating its world premiere at the FFC today.

 A screening of TAMARA took place at the Weltspiegel - director Jonas Ludwig Walter and actresses Lina Wendel and Linda Pöppel were present.

The artist and inventor of the Lubina, Beate Bolender, also stopped by the festival centre today. Here you can see a video about the creation of the Lubina.

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