"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)."

"Mr. Schwartz, Mr. Hazen & Mr. Horlocker" is an animated short-film about different inhabitants of an appartment-house. Because of someone claiming too much noise a policeman is called and everything turns into chaos. Technic: hand-drawn animation & 3D

1974 born in Limburg/ Germany ? 1994 Abitur ? 1994 apprenticeship as a sign-painter ? 1997 University of applied Sciences Wiesbaden ? 2002-2004 Universidad Complutense Madrid

The film deals with the pain felt at the death of one?s mother. A young woman?s voice-over talks about the impossibility of coming to terms with this pain through various therapies. She does this with the same laconic humour which marks the images of the film. They are images of absurd moments which reveal the faultline running through the world, when everything in life seems somehow wrong. It makes us laugh, but this laughter is always a way to recognise a pain that won?t go away. Anna Berger uses simple means to find strong images and words for a form of mourning based on humour.

anna berger

born: frankfurt/main 1975

1997-2005 studied at the academy of art and design offenbach, diploma

studied film (prof. helmut herbst and prof. rotraut pape)

and experimental spatial concepts (prof. heiner blum)

films (selection)

2000 dish, 4min, 16mm farbe/beta, dokumentarfilm

2001 where the rabbit sleeps/sensorama, zus. mit michel kl?fkorn, 4min, dv, musikvideo

2002 hose, 2min, dv

2004 ballet, zus. mit michel kl?fkorn, 3min, dv

2005 untitled, 12min, dv

"In rural Slovenia, Pero (Gregor Bakovic) is a sensitive intelligent man in his mid-thirties who lives close to death. He works writing and giving the speeches of the town?s funerals. These are not mere eulogies for the deceased, since Pero consciously or unconsciously entwines his own perception of the course of events and his life philosophy into them.

Pero lives with his father, Dedo, and his two sisters Ida, who is deaf and dumb, and Vilma who has a son. Pero?s neighbour, Shooki , is also his best friend and a very close member to Pero?s family. Gravehopping is a film about the ups and downs of our protagonists' destinies and about their search for warmth and love in the absurd chaos that is life.

The story of the film and its essence establishes itself through the prism of their interpersonal relationships. While Ida (Pero?s younger sister) falls for Shooki, Vilma tries to cope with a no-good husband. Meanwhile Pero seeks to win the heart of local girl Renata, whereas the solitude and sadness Dedo feels since he widowed are the cause of his frequent by but farcically inept, suicide attempts. The film focuses on the basic force of human existence; Fear. Out of fear from death stems the craving for eternity, while out of fear from life stems the desire for security, warmth and love.

Love is the only drug powerful enough to overcome death. The story of the film and its essence establishes itself through the prism of the interpersonal relationships of this small community. Although the film sets off with a comical tone it leads up to a tragic finale that leaves both Pero, and the viewer, literally speechless.

"

"Born in 1966, Slovenia, Jan studied archaeology, receiving his degree in 1999.

Since 1998 he has written the screenplays for shorts, feature films and TV series. His first written work was for the award winning short ?Robbery of the Century? (Rop stoletja) . Thereafter, Jan played the leading role as well as co-writing with director Janez Burger the award-winning film Idle Running (V leru) in 1999.

His 2001 first feature film debut Bread and Milk ( Kruh in Mleko ) won the Golden Lion of the Future Best First Film at Venice Film Festival . "

"They'll smack your face if they don't like it. Tomorrow is a bad day: Yvonne is

going to prison...

The story takes place during the doldrums between Christmas and New Year?s Eve in a typical West German suburb. Christmas lights still adorn the dull apartment blocks, cheap motels and discount markets as premature fireworks echo throughout the industrial wasteland. Eighteen-year-old Katharina, who has resettled from Russia to Germany, spends her time with Yvonne and the rest of the gang. The girls roam through their territory in search of something. They don?t know what for. But it must be something that will change their lives irrevocably."

?The place is some West German suburb: everything is clean and monotone. It is a place to escape from. But where to? My protagonists look for ways by rebelling with force against the desolation and despair that surrounds them. At heart they are romantics; as little girls they knew they wanted to grow up to be a princess. But they are no longer little girls.? Birgit Grosskopf

Born 1972 in Cologne, Germany. A-levels in 1990. While studying archeology for one year, she also performed at the college theatre. From 1993-96 film and drama studies at Reading University, England. Graduation in 1996: BA (Hons). Work as German teacher at a language school in London. From 1996 on, as a graduate student of film directing and screenwriting at the German Film- and Television Academy Berlin, she shot her first shorts. Work as reader and translator for some prestigious German film companies. ?Princess? is her first feature film.

"Babies in Pockets

(10 min., 16mm, 1998)

The Pilot

(10 min., 16mm, 2000)

Live Boys

(12 min., 35mm, 2001)

Tabula Rasa

(15 min., super 16mmm, 2003,

script with Martina Klein)

Princess

(81 min., 35mm, 2006,

script with Daniela Hilchenbach)"

An umbrella, a young woman and her shoes get whirled around on a windy afternoon.

1997 - 1998 Art School P.ART, Stuttgart, Germany

1998 Studies at the Hochschule f?r Gestaltung Offenbach/Main Germany

since 2001 different practicals at advertising agencies, publisher, television (editorial department)

since 2003 Freelancer for Graphics and AV (Photography, Editing, Compositing?)

since 2001 Different Exhibitions of Graphic Works, Photographs and Installations

Sept. 2003 Foundationmember of "Ex.For- Institute for Existance Research" and the "Zuchtfilmkollektiv"

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.

In a world with so many stories Nathlie el-Jorr, Anna Myung-Sook Kim and Karoline Schwikal, betook theirselves to a countr, nestled between the improbable borders of Syria and Israel, to show the lives of young people caught up by the tide of its development. Lebanon. In view of their final project they decided an a creative cinematic piece of work, that ought to be challenging and influential at the same time.

Julia Barker is late for work at the Paradise Bingo, again. Struggling to make ends meet and to raise her daughters, Julia suppresses her own needs and desires to support her family. But the headaches, excruciating migraines, keep coming.Inside her splitting mind, disturbing visions erupt: water, rafters and then the blinding white windows of a warehouse sized room. The space is menacing, mysterious and seductive. The visions intensify and soon there are signs. Julia knows that she must find the room. Desperate, she robs the Bingo hall, abandons her family and flies to New York. Her pilgrimage has begun.

Kyle has directed two documentaries: AMERICAN COWBOY, a ?98 Student Academy Award winner, and UNIVERSITY INC. (?99), a doc about the corporatization of the largest university in America. Kyle is also the editor of the Sundance award-winning film MANITO (?02), and the PBS documentaries ARE THE KIDS ALRIGHT (?04) and LEARNING TO SWALLOW (?05).. He calls Austin, Texas home, and ROOM marks his feature narrative film debut.

"Nobody sees and nobody is aware, a tremendous man is living in our midst.

""Remembering the past is also a dream"" ? Grandfather

""My grandfather Abraham, my mother's father, has been part of my life since infancy. I rediscovered my grandfather three years ago when making a film about my mother. He was 90. Since then I want to be close to him, part of him. I see my grandfather as a universal human character, ""aged and old"" to use his words, far removed from all definitions of time and place, while at the same time well grounded in the reality of present day life, living it and feeling its pain.

His face is like an engraved stone, with an eternal smile that never falters or is never eroded by the negativities of life in this world. My grandfather is big on blessings. He's always making some kind of blessing, even for those for whom he feels no love. Everyone is holy, even if we cannot see it, even if they themselves are unaware.

My grandfather is a man of words, and that's why he speaks very little. He knows and understands the value of words, be they written and signed or spoken, which may detract from their power. But when my grandfather says something, it really resonates. His words come from entirely different places, that are unknown, so content with themselves, precise and accurate, that it is hard to believe that human lips have uttered them.

For over three years now, I have been following my grandfather Abraham. I have been documenting my journey and our common journey out into the world in writing, photography, and most importantly, thirstily gulping it down into my soul.

The film is a journal in which I see my grandfather, my grandfather's journal, through which I let his voice be heard.

His voice has almost never been heard. His story has almost never been told. "

"""Reminding the forgotten, arousing the dormant""

3 years ago, Grandfather and I departed on a journey of revealing his forgotten self.

A journey of a man to his own self, to a part which even he, is unaware of its existence.

Grandfather, who was born in Iraq and had experienced countless transitions, had completely assimilated in Israeli western secular society.

?It is not the same man, it is a reincarnation.?

Grandfather is my spiritual guide.

The film reveals the hidden treasure within him and reconnects both him and his audience to the timeless human essence which is us. "

"Canadian/ Israeli filmmaker.

Graduate of the Film & Television department at the Sapir Academic College.

As a Filmmaker, he won many grants and prizes, among them the America?Israel Cultural Foundation special award, IRC Scholarship Committee (Canada?Israel) and he won the David Perlov Grant for the film ""SABA"".

Amram practices stills Photography as well as Cinematography and one of his main works was the catalogue for Dorit Jacoby's Exhibition ""Gate of Tears, Rain of Roses"",that was shown in the Vatican in 2001.

As well as having his photographs published in various travel and art magazines, he was awarded a Prize at the Dead Sea Photo Contest in October 2002."