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Breathing life into stone

DE 2018, 79 min, Katinka Zeuner

A circus wagon and a shipping container serve as stonemason Michael Spengler’s workshop. It is here that he receives people in mourning. Together they design headstones that tell of the deceased.

Mr. and Mrs. Neustadt have lost their two-year-old son. Through their dialogue with Michael they find the words to express their emotions, words that become form and substance—their child’s breath is to be represented in a fragile limestone. Hardburg Stolle is a woman of few words, through Michael’s guidance she dauntlessly swings the hammer that splits a boulder and feels a sense of strength that had been long buried. The Jacob family searches for the essence of their grandfather’s life: lover of nature, bon vivant, patriarch. What should an object that encapsulates him look like? Michael approaches the material and the people with great sensitivity and accompanies each family on a process that often takes months, one decision at a time.

The film tells the story of this difficult and intimate process and shows how working on the stone makes death concrete in the truest sense of the word. As the stone takes on its form, the families discover a new relationship with the deceased—and to life.

festivals

DOK Leipzig 2018, DE | Achtung Berlin Film Festival 2019, DE

awards

ver.di Award (DOK Leipzig 2018, DE) | Honorable Mention Goethe-Institute (DOK Leipzig 2018, DE) | Ecumenical Award (Achtung Berlin Film Festival 2019, DE)

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NEWS

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Screenings im Oktober

SOULS OF A RIVER
4.10. & 5.10.
, Cinema Dornbirn

GLORY TO THE QUEEN
6.10.,
Waltherpark Innsbruck

VERSCHWINDEN/IZGINJANJE
15.10., 
BILKA Ludmannsdorf/Bil?ovs

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FESTIVALS

SIGNS OF WAR

will be screened at

NNW IFF Gdynia, PL 2023
27th - 30th September

FRAGILE MEMORY

will be screened at

London Georgian BLACK SEA FF, UK 2023
6.30 pm, 30th September

INFINITY ACCORDING TO FLORIAN

will be screened at

Festival Film a Architektura, CZ 2023
29th September, Bílovec
30th September, Hodonín
3rd October, Prague
3rd October,  Žilina
4th October, Brno

HE FLEW AHEAD - Karl Schwanzer | Architect's Poem

will be screened at

Architectur Film Festival Rotterdam
17.00, 6th October 2023 
Intro: Jan Pesman 

SHE CHEF

will be screened at
Crossing Europe goes... , AUT 2023
1st December
DAS KINO Salzburg

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