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This Land Is My Land and
Johanna Dohnal - Visionary of Feminism
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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DIE DOHNAL
Frauenministerin / Feministin / Visionärin,
Eisenberger and Fair Traders
THIS LAND IS MY LAND
Premieren und Sonderveranstaltungen
in Anwesenheit der Filmemacherin:
3.11., 19:00 Uhr culturcentrum wolkenstein Stainach
in den österr. Kinos:
Haydn Kino, Wien
Votiv Kino, Wien
Top Kino, Wien
Breitenseer Lichtspiele, Wien
Lichtspiele Katsdorf
Das Kino, Salzburg
City Kino Steyr
ab 30.10. Kinemathek Karlsruhe
1.-3.11. Kino in der Pumpe, Kiel
2.11. Ville de Luxembourg
3.11. dekArTe, Wiener Neustadt
3.11. s'KINO, Dorfen
3./4.11. Lungauer Kulturvereinigung
ab 5.11. Volkskino Klagenfurt
DAS FIEBER
Premieren und Sonderveranstaltungen
in Anwesenheit der Filmemacherin:
26.11. Filmforum Bregenz
27.11. Spielboden Dornbirn
9.12. Star Movie, Ried
in den österr. Kinos:
Stadtkino Center Ternitz
Actors Studio, Wien
Lichtspiele Katsdorf
Top Kino, Wien
Stadtkino Horn
ab 22.11. Volkskino Klagenfurt
ab 24.11. TAS, Feldkirch
3.12. Kolpingsaal, Bruneck
5.12. Spielboden Dornbirn
DIE DOHNAL Frauenministerin / Feministin / Visionärin
in den österr. Kinos:
Actors Studio, Wien
EU XXL - Die Reihe
Stadtkino Center Ternitz
2.11. Horizontale, Straden
16.11. Amtshaus, Josefstadt
9.12. Remise, Bludenz
AWARDS
BERGEN INT. FILM FESTIVAL 2020
THE TROUBLE WITH BEING BORN
Cinema Extraordinaire Award
FIRST STEPS AWARDS 2020
THE TROUBLE WITH BEING BORN
Bester abendfüllender Spielfilm
HEIMATFILMFESTIVAL 2020
WEIYENA - EIN HEIMATFILM
Best Documentary Award
DIAGONALE 2020
THE TROUBLE WITH BEING BORN
Großer Diagonale Preis -
Bester Spielfilm,
Beste künstlerische Montage,
Bestes Sounddesign,
Diagonale Schauspielpreis (Dominik Warta),
Thomas Pluch Drehbuchpreis
DIE DOHNAL
Großer Diagonale Preis -
Bester Dokumentarfilm,
Preis für außergewöhnliche Produktionsleistung
FESTIVALS
A BLACK JESUS
will be screened at
DOK Leipzig, DE 2020
11.30 am, 29th October
10.00 pm, 30th October
3.00 pm, 31st October