Went to two Berlinale Films - the first was the movie version of Josef Haslinger's novel Vaterspiel by Michael Glawogger. Nicely done, very close to the text - even structurally - but no WOW-surprise there ... and i was fairly tired too.
Yesterday afternoon we went to Delhi cinema (one of the great things about festivals is that you get to got to all those amazing old movie halls) to watch the documentary Letters to the President by a Czech-Canadian filmmaker about the populist president of Iran. It was an interesting movie and rather nicely filmed but although he claimed he did not intend to give anything like a cohesive picture of Iran, the film still somehow looked as if it pretended to do that and ended up giving a very hard binary opposition between poor-religious-uneducated-followers and urban-educated-unreligious-critics. It would have been more honest to stick with the original theme of just portraying the populist politics, how they work and possibly what all does not work due to the populist approach. And the best thing was that we were there with our two Iranian friends and they then provided many very interesting glimpses into Iranian politics and society - a culture I am yet much too unfamiliar with! - over a late lunch in a cafe underneath the stadtbahn which was rather audible ....
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by the way, everyone was heartbroken that you didn't come to grainau... and mita banerjee's talk was nice, i think i still need to ask her some folow-up questions, though :)
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