24 hours: One day ? one night. One fight. At Mark?s farewell party everything collides: aspirations, fears, desperation, sex, intoxication and reality. The film depicts a group of teenagers in a desolate American suburb striving for acknowledgment, love and security. Each day they have to struggle for their future in a world that doesn?t grant them a chance. In the course of the next 24 hours everything is going to change for some of them. An up-and-coming film by two-time German Film Prize nominee Holger Ernst.

A man meets a woman who straightens out his chaotic life. The woman looses her memory and her commemoration of him. He fights for her, but is at risk of reverting into the patterns of his past. And other mothers have got pretty daughters, too. So far so good?.

Fabo is a marauding emotion fen fire, such as flutter by the thousands through nocturnal cities: he has problems without women and alcohol, and with them his problems even seem to multiply. But the painful acquaintance with his dream woman Tami also reveals the solid sides of the hardcore romantic: wife, house, tree, children welcome. And because Fabo is able to enjoy this new life, fate hits him the harder in the hour of his largest bliss?

A film about bereavement and the fight for love, about male bonding, alcohol and crashes from different heights.

Windows, bath tubs and cars are used for other purposes than the intended and every ?dirty? word is just an expression of love and closeness. Dirty and hokey?

It is like Bukowski in an Edward Hopper painting, that has been fallen off the wall years ago?.

And the best: it is not a comedy!

Freelance photographer since 1993, focus puller and still photographer for several film productions (e.g. TATORT, JULIETTA, SCHERBENTANZ).

1997-2004 studied at the Filmakademie Baden-W?rttemberg film direction and works as a film director since then.

2005 KAHLSCHLAG

2003 DER TYP

2000 RILLENFIEBER

VALLEY OF FlOWERS is a Himalayan legend of a love struggling against the inevitability of death, an astonishing tale spanning from the early 19th century mountain existence, to hectic, bustling modern day Tokyo.

Kinofilme als Autor & Regisseur:

2006: VALLEY OF FLOWERS

(Dreh Sommer 2004)

SATORI (Sudden Enlightenment)

(in development, geplanter Dreh 2007)

2002: SAMSARA

35mm/CinemaScope/Dolby Digital/OV Ladakhi/138minutes

Dokumentarfilme als Autor & Regisseur:

2003: MYSTIC REVELATION of RASTAFARAI

(in research & development)

2000/1: AYURVEDA: ART OF BEING

35mm/Dolby Stereo/110minutes

1999: AMAZING WORLD: INDIA

50minutes/Stereo ?Indien/Frankreich/USA

1997: DEVADASI: THE SACRED COURTISANE

55minutes/S16mm/Stereo ?Frankreich/UK/Belgien/D?nemark/Indien

1995: THE NAGAS

50minutes/16mm/Stereo ?France/USA/India

1993: TULKUS

56minutes/S16mm/Stereo ?France/India

Kurzfilme als Autor & Regisseur:

1996: DOUBT

1995: EIFFEL TOWER TRILOGY: Height, Weight & Gravity

1992: KHAJURAHO

"The Monks waren f?nf amerikanische GIs in Deutschland w?hrend des Kalten Krieges, die sich selbst als Anti-Beatles ank?ndigten. Sie sparten nicht mit Feedback, Nihilismus oder dem elektrischen Banjo. Sie hatten komische Frisuren, waren schwarz gekleidet, machten sich ?ber das Milit?r lustig und rockten h?rter als jeder ihrer Vorg?nger Mitte der Sechziger w?hrend sie quasi Industrial Music, Heavy Metal, Punk und Techno erfanden.

Der genre-?bergreifende Dokumentarfilm zeigt nicht nur das Popmusik-Ph?nomen in einem politischen, sozialen und kulturell-historischen Kontext, sondern enth?llt auch das Monks-Projekt als die erste Verbindung von Kunst und Popmusik, die Monate vor Andy Warhol und The Velvet Underground.

Die f?nf Protagonisten des Films kamen 1961 w?hrend des Kalten Krieges als Soldaten nach Deutschland und verlie?en das Land 1967 als Avantgarde-Monks. Mehr als 30 Jahre konnten sie nicht ?ber ihre seltsame Erfahrung sprechen. In diesem Film erz?hlen die f?nf Original-Bandmitglieder zum ersten Mal ?ber ihr Abenteuer. "

"Dietmar Post films as director/producer:

Bowl of Oatmeal (short, USA, 1996, 16mm, 10 min)

Cloven Hoofed (short, USA/Germany/Spain, 1998, 16mm, 12 min)

Reverend Billy (documentary, USA/Germany/Spain, 2002, digital video/16:9, 60 min)

Luc?a Palacios as producer and production manager include:

Reverend Billy & The Church of Stop Shopping, documentary by Dietmar Post.

The Nomi Song, documentary by Andrew Horn for WDR (Germany).

La Espalda del mundo, documentary by Javier Corcuera for El?as Querejeta P.C (Spain).

Cloven Hoofed, short by Dietmar Post (Germany/USA)."

they were heavy on feedback, nihilism and electrical banjo. They had strange haircuts, dressed in black, mocked the military and rocked harder than any of their mid-sixties counterparts while managing to basically invent industrial, heavy metal, punk and techno music.

The genre-overlapping documentary film not only illustrates the pop music phenomenon in its political, social and cultural-historic contexts, but also reveals the monks project as the first marriage of art and popular music and this months before Andy Warhol and the Velvet Underground.

The five protagonists of the film came to cold war Germany in 1961 as soldiers and left the country in 1967 as avant-garde monks. For more than thirty years they were not able to talk about their strange experience. In the film the five original band members recount for the first time their adventure."

"Dietmar Post was born in Germany in 1962. He studied Television, Theatre & Cinema Studies and Spanish Language at the Free University of Berlin, New York University and at the Complutense University of Madrid (Spain). He received a Master?s degree in 1995. After living for many years in New York Post currently resides in Berlin.

Luc?a Palacios was born in Spain in 1972. She studied Cinema Studies at the Complutense University of Madrid. In 1996 she obtained a scholarship at New York University through the Spanish government. While in New York she worked as production manager for several films and as TV news reporter for Canal+Televisi?n Espa?ola and SAT. Currently she resides in Berlin (Germany)."

Based on an English academic's memoir on stalking and being stalked, Unrequited Love is a film essay on cinema and absence (a story told without reverse angles), on Hitchcock and Antonioni, on cinema and cities. A story of waiting, self-delusion, panic, fear of violence, of a modern technology which defines the urban stalker as it does the new terrorist. The methods duplicate: irrational and targeted -- a black valentine.

"Chris Petit is a prolific filmmaker and writer of international standing.

His feature films include Radio On (1979) and Chinese Boxes (1984). More recent experimental work includes Negative Space (2000)-- an essay on the legendary American painter and film critic, Manny Farber - and film collaborations with his fellow writer Iain Sinclair, among them The Falconer (1997), Asylum (2000) and London Orbital (2002). As a novelist he has specialised in revealing secret political histories: The Psalm Killer (1996), The Human Pool (2002) and The Passenger (2006). He is the only man alive who appears in the Pocket Essential guides to both Agatha Christie (as director of Miss Marple: A Caribbean Mystery; 1989) and London Writing (as author of Robinson; 1993)."

September 1, 2001.

Elliot, an American spy decides to go into hiding as he has received a crucial information. At the same time he wants to see his daughter Orlando again whom he has left ten years ago. Ir?ne, an old friend of his, is to organise their meeting in Venice together with Elliot's adopted son David. She doesn't expect William Pound, though, an unscrupulous killer and occasional poet...

Santiago Amigorena was born in Buenos Aires some 40 years ago. After having written the scripts for about 20 films (LES GENS NORMAUX N?ONT RIEN D?EXCEPTIONNEL, LE FILS DU REQUIN, LE P?RIL JEUNE, SAMBA TRAOR?, POST CO?TUM ANIMAL TRISTE, RIEN ? FAIRE, TOKYO EYES among others), she published four books (UNE ENFANCE LACONIQUE, UNE JEUNESSE APHONE, UNE ADOLESCENCE TACITURNE, LE PREMIER AMOUR). She then decided to make her first film: QUELQUES JOURS EN SEPTEMBRE.

Little time after the shock of September 2001, appear on the roofs of Paris, Cats. By a simple and perfectly controlled graphic, which slices on the sometimes muddled by tags virtuosity, they post a broad smile. Thus somebody, during the night is likely to break the neck to make float a message of benevolence on this city which needs some so much. It is while following the track of the Smiling Cats that this film was built, active of surprised in surprise.

"Chris Marker, born in 1921

Filmmaker, part-time photographer, computer geek, traveller, catlover

Selected movies:

La Jet?e (1962)

A Grin without a Cat (1977)

Sans Soleil (1982)

The Last Bolshevik (1993)

One day in the life of Andrey Arsenevich (1999)

The Case of the Grinning Cat (2004)"

"Founded in the Philippines in 1904 by the american colonial administration , Iwahig is a penal farm almost completely self-sufficient and self-managed by its inmates serving long sentences who have become farmers, fishermen, watchmen?

After being tested for several months, they can move freely within the 38,000 hectares of jungle, mountains and wild prison coastline and bring their families to live with them. No fences separate them from the neighbouring villages where they are used to going for a walk.

Their hierarchical organization, based on promotion by merit and seniority, allows for minimum intervention by the penitentiary staff.

Alejandro, chief of the inmates, plunges us into this universe through the portraits of a few fellow prisoners :

Toting who goes fishing on the open sea without a guard tells us about his past.

Denelyn and Jenelyn, two adolescents whose father is serving a life sentence and are trying to help the family survive.

Rodrigo, a young inmate beaten by a prison employee.

A prison system unique to this world, Iwahig opens up new horizons."

"Alexandre Leborgne: Born in 1973, France ? Anthropologist specialized in Philippines? languages and cultures.

He discovered the Iwahig prison when crossing it by bus to reach an ethnic group where he was studying chamanism.

First Film

Pierre Barougier: Born in 1971, France ? Cinematographer ? graduated from ENS Louis Lumi?re.

2001: Radio la Colifata, 52 mn. , DV cam

A radio made by patients from a psychiatric hospital in Buenos Aires (Documentary).

2004: D?sirs d?Ecole, 52 mn. , DV cam

A year in an alternative school following the Freinet pedagogy in France (Documentary)."

Zingarina arrives in Transylvania, in the heart of Romania, looking for the man she loves. She had met him in France, but one day he left without a word of explanation. With her friend Marie, who jealously watches over her, Zingarina throws her body and soul into a romantic quest and gets caught up in a fascinating land. But when she finds her former lover in the midst of a pagan festival, he brutally rejects her. Mad with anguish, she then flees Marie, who reminds her too much of her past, to fully merge into this new land, Transylvania, where she meets Tchangalo, a loner, a man like her, without borders, without ties.

Born in 1948, French film-maker, born in Algiers, Algeria. Of Gypsy and Algerian descent, his films are concerned with the situation of both these groups and their relations with mainstream society, such as Les Princes (1982) and Gadjo Dilo (1998), portrayed with unflinching honesty and without sentimentality.

2006 TRANSYLVANIA

2004 EXILS

VISIONS D?EUROPE ? Paris by night ? (S?rie Arte)

2002 SWING

2000 VENGO

1999 JE SUIS N? D?UNE CIGOGNE

1998 GADJO DILO

1996 MONDO

1995 LUCUMI, L?ENFANT RUMBEIRO DE CUBA

1993 LATCHO DROM

1990 GASPARD ET ROBINSON

1989 PLEURE PAS MY LOVE

1985 RUE DU D?PART

1983 LES PRINCES

CANTA GITANO (c.m.)

1982 CORRE GITANO (in?dit)

1978 LA TERRE AU VENTRE

1975 LA T?TE EN RUINES

1973 MAX L?INDIEN (c.m.)

Dans Paris follows the romantic adventures of two brothers. It?s also the portrait of a family whose motto could be: Take time to ignore the sadness of the closest to you.

2006 DANS PARIS

2003 MA M?RE

2002 17 FOIS C?CILE CASSARD

2001 NOUS DEUX (Court M?trage)