Everybody should do the things they love. Why should being blind change that? Milos Devise has been blind since having an eye operation when he was four-years-old. Milos loves rock music and fast machines ? and riding around on the bus without paying his fare. In just nine minutes, Nadja Elabbadi?s film presents a young man?s unconventional and inspiring outlook on life.

Nadja Elabbadi,

born 31.03.1979 in Wetzlar. Studies Design and Film at the Hochschule f?r Gestaltung Offenbach since 2001.

"Slow Space takes the viewer on a visual trip through places of glass architecture in Chicago. Filmed entirely within the urban constructed environment that makes up this contemporary North American city, Slow Space is a visually arresting investigation into how space is described, defined and ultimately experienced. Berlin filmmaker Klaus W. Eisenlohr commutes this relationship with the outside ?world? via an array of constructed transparencies in the glass domes and atriums that formed so much of architecture?s modernist preoccupation for a constructed inside/outside dialectic. Descriptions and ultimately opinions on the status of public space in Chicago form part of the film?s identity via a series of interviews conducted from the participant?s private domains. Street scenes with performers complement this film essay.

With his project in Chicago, the artist Klaus W. Eisenlohr has investigated the relationship between the body and the urban architectural environment over the time period of three years."

Klaus W. Eisenlohr was born in Tuttlingen and has been living in Berlin since 1989. He studied in Berlin and Chicago. The main focus of his works, many of which have received prizes at exhibitions in Germany, France and the USA, is with photography, experimental film and media art.

"Stadtrandzone Mitte ? Center of Urban Periphery 43min 2005

Slow Space 72min 2006

lesson one Die Allm?hliche Verfertigung des Bildes beim Malen ? The Continuous Process of Image Making through Painting 38min 2002 (collaboration with Johann Zeitler)

Slow Space - The Interviews 27min 2001"

Elisabeth Hartnagel, now eighty-five, is the last surviving sister of Hans and Sofie Scholl, the German teenagers who were executed by the Nazis for openly defying the criminal regime. In this gripping film project, Hanna Laura tells the story of Sofie?s twin sister, who was unlike her in so many ways. The film also illuminates the social and cultural background of the Scholl family for the first time and shows how strongly Hans and Sophie Scholl were motivated by their family context.

"Young rent boy Sebastian is one of Georg's little opportunities left to break out of his solitary life and exchange it for a brief coexistence ? at least for a couple of hours. Georg loves Sebastian's easyness and playfulness. He loves the absurd stories the boy sponateously comes up with even though he never really knows if he can believe them or not.

And today a long cherished wish seems to come true for Georg. This time the boy asks him if he could stay the night ? on his own free will. Georg does everything to entirely savour the rare and valuable moments. He hopes for more. But the more Georg dares to approach the boy the more Sebastian withdraws. In just a short time the boys seems to advance in quite a few years. Georgs hopes break into pieces.

In the light of a pocket torch the last remaining night becomes a declaration of love to the times spent and to all people who've brushed life for just a short and brief moment ? it becomes a moving protest against transitoriness."

Stefan Westerwelle. Born in 1980 in Detmold. 1998 ? 2000: Graphic and web designer in various agencies. Studies film/television at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne since 2001 . 2002: Half-year animation project in London. ?Solange Du hier bist? is his graduate film from the Academy of Media Arts Cologne.

"In the state of Judea in southern Africa, violence, poverty and sectarianism are endemic. The neighbouring Alliance has invaded to restore ?peace? at gunpoint. Bloody street battles accompany the neighbouring dictatorship?s incursion into its weaker satellite. Promises of a transition to open democratic rule accompany summary executions and brutal massacres.

As the civil war reaches a new level, a divine child is born to a lowly couple. As he grows and witnesses the inhumanity of the world he lives in, his angelic guardians offer him an escape to the heavens. He refuses. This is his world and he must try to save it from the work of evil men and from the darkness working through them.

As an adult, he travels to the capital, gathering followers from the armed factions of rebels that crisscross the land. He demands that his followers give up their guns and confront their corrupt rulers with a vision of non-violent protest and solidarity. Inevitably, he attracts the attention of the Judean tribal leaders who have struck a power-sharing deal with the aloof Governor Pilate. The Son of Man must be brought down and destroyed. It should be another simple ?disappearance? like any other?

Son of Man was filmed in the township of Khayelitsha and on the Eastern Cape of South Africa. This new and adventurous interpretation of the New Testament was filmed by Mark Dornford-May in collaboration with the pioneering Dimpho Di Kopane theatre troupe and choir network. As with his first film, U-Carmen eKhayelitsha? the classic Carmen opera translated into the Xhosa tongue?the original yet traditional dance, songs and rhythms infuse this film with the life and spirit that really cuts its own voice to speak. "

"Mark Dornford-May worked in theater in England for 25 years and founded Broomhill Opera. Mesmerized by the talent he had witnessed in South Africa, he returned in 2000 with Charles Hazlewood to create a new theatre company in Cape Town. That troupe would become Dimpho Di Kompane

U-Carmen eKhayelitsha, Dornford-May?s first film, won the Golden Bear for Best Film at the Berlin International Film Festival 2005.

Son of Man is Dornford-May?s second film"

"""What is public space today?"" Filmmaker and artist Klaus W. Eisenlohr poses this question at the beginning of his research with reference to the city of Hannover. The resulting film takes the viewer on a trip through a number of public spaces in Hannover's metropolitan area. Devised as a series of portraits with varying urban qualities, the film dwells not only on the visible urban attributes but also on the activities and connectedness that 'make-up' a public space.

Undertaking an array of spatial explorations, the film seeks to find out as to what kinds of interference or interventions can activate public place(s). Eisenlohr proposes that to entice or provoke responses, one such activation can be drawn 'out of' art performances. Interviews with city planers interwoven with scenes of everyday occurrences with young people, together, form a complement to Eisenlohr's photographic vision - a film essay of the everyday and its places inherent in Europe's modern cities."

Klaus W. Eisenlohr was born in Tuttlingen and has been living in Berlin since 1989. He studied in Berlin and Chicago. The main focus of his works, many of which have received prizes at exhibitions in Germany, France and the USA, is with photography, experimental film and media art.

"Bollywood goes Europe ? im Ma?anzug !

Isaar, the unique Indian tailor, sets off on an adventurous trip across Europe to his once faithful customers, in hope of new orders, the reunion with old friends and in hope of love.

Marco Wilms accompanies Issar on his trip through European cities, living rooms and mentalities.

This final journey is also Issar?s last chance to fulfill a secret wish: his first role as Bollywood star ? in Europe?s first Bollywood documentary!"

"This is how I met Issar 4 years ago:

It was in Thailand during the rainy season. I had a job interview, I was running late and had to take a motorbike taxi. On the highway it was raining the proverbial cats and dogs. When I eventually reached the address of where the interview was I was soaked to the skin. Right next to the place was a tailor?s shop. Issar, the Indian tailor, offered me tea and lent me one of the suits still waiting for collection for the interview. With this ? my first ever ? tailor-made suit I got the job. I found a new friend and have loved tailormade suits ever since.

Issar was leading a double life. The name on his business card said Mike. Supposedly because that made it easier for foreign customers to remember his name. In actual fact he had named himself after a rich, snobbish gangster from the film China Town. This criminal called Mike has a much more respectable twin brother ? a typical slightly nerdy Bollywood crooner. Both parts were played by Indian superstar Shammi Kapoor ? Issar?s idol. The film was a fable about the dark and light sides of the human soul. Or about how fate can mercilessly push people in one or the other direction. And why would the hardworking little tailor Issar choose to name himself after the gangster and womaniser Mike?? In Issar?s chest, too, there are two hearts beating.

When Issar, aka Mike, first told me about his unlived film star dream, this immediately made me think of the mythological Writers Journey by Christopher Vogler. The hero leaves his normal environment and sets out for strange and distant lands to try and find a special elixir which changes his life. Issar?s journey to distant Europe ultimately also becomes a journey to himself.

As we wanted to bring Issar?s Bollywood dreams to life in the best possible way ? creating scenes like the one in the film Sangam which was shot in the permanent snow of the Swiss mountains ? financing took slightly longer. During this period Issar had to undergo serious bypass surgery and at times it looked like he might not be able to realise his dream. Nonetheless, we set out on our big adventure in the summer of 2005. At times it felt like I had adopted the role of the son looking after his father. But maybe this is only because Issar reminded me of my own father, of the impermanence of the human body and of the fact that one has to live one?s dream while there is still time.

Marco Wilms"

"Born in 1966 in former East Berlin, German Democratic Republic (GDR)

Completed apprenticeships as toolmaker, graphic designer and model

1990 Student in STAGE DESIGN at the Academy of Fine Arts, East Berlin, GDR

1991 Student in PRODUCTION DESIGN at the Film and Television Academy,

Potsdam-Babelsberg, Germany

1993 Scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)

at Michigan State University, USA

1998-99 Scholarship as FILM DIRECTOR from the German Academic Exchange Service

(DAAD) at Film Department, Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand

ACTING WORKSHOP by John Costopulus from Actors Studio New York, USA

2000 CREATIVE DIRECTOR, DIRECTOR Music Clips, Shorts Production Berlin

Germany

Scholarship for Young Journalists in Bangkok, Story ?Angel on the Highway to

Death?

2001 Masterdegree as FILM DIRECTOR at the Hochschule fuer Film und Fernsehen

?Konrad Wolf? Potsdam Babelsberg, Germany

2002 Scholarship as FILM DIRECTOR from Stiftung Kulturfonds, Berlin Germany

2003 Scholarship as FILM DIRECTOR in Thailand from the German Academic

Exchange Service (DAAD); LECTURER at Filmdepartment

Thammasat University

TEACHER Documentary Workshop for DAAD in Saigon, Vietnam

2004 DISCOVERY CAMPUS MASTERSCHOOL

2005 Scholarship as FILM DIRECTOR from DEFA, Berlin, Germany"

"2000 NAAM DJAI ? THE RIVER OF THE HEART (61min)

documentary

2003 BERLIN VORTEX (82min) (German title: MITTENDRIN)

theatrical documentary for ZDF, Das Kleine Fernsehspiel

2005 TAILOR-MADE DREAMS (52 / 87min, 35mm)

(German title: MASSGESCHNEIDERTE TR?UME)

theatrical Bollywood documentary about a singing Indian made-to-order tailor who travels to Europe the first time and meet his old customers"

"In TELL ME DO YOU MISS ME, the four members of the celebrated New York-based indie-rock band LUNA confront the ceiling of their ambition, the harsh realities of their modest success, and their conflicted feelings about each other as they embark on their final world tour and uncertain futures.

Laced with moments of both humor and melancholia, TELL ME DO MISS ME earnestly exposes the underbelly of a touring rock band in their final days together.

Supported sonically with Luna's dreamy catalog of indie-pop and visually with lush travelogue footage with adventurous stops in England, Japan, and Spain, TELL ME DO YOU MISS ME is an elegy for an era."

"Matthew Buzzell is a Los Angeles-based filmmaker.

Matthew received his M.F.A. in Directing from the American Film Institute. Films include WHAT A GIRL WANTS (2001), Jimmy Scott: If You Only Knew (2002). Putting The River In Reverse, is a document of the collaboration between music legends Elvis Costello and Allen Toussaint as they embark on the first major recording sessions to take place in New Orleans post-Katrina.

Matthew?s most recently completed project, Companeras, tells the story of America?s first female Mariachi band. Currently, Matthew is in post-production with his debut narrative feature, a dark comedy starring Saturday Night Live cast-member Chris Parnell and Napolean Dynamite?s Diedrich Bader. The film is called Sunny and Share Love You."

The forgotten story of the women who killed their husbands The Angelmakers is an observational portrait of the sleepy village of Nagyrev in rural Hungary. We meet its inhabitants, who share with us their daily life as well as their memories of the village's tainted past. We gradually come to understand the extent of the 'arsenic murders' which took place in 1929, when a large group of women were held responsible for poisoning their husbands with the so-called 'flypaper' method. An intriguing web of stories unfolds through the characters' memories which recapture old but ever-lasting tales of life, death and the struggle between the sexes.

Astrid Bussink (Eibergen, 1975) studied several disciplines at the Academy of fine Arts, AKI in Enschede. She graduated with a project consisting of an art magazine and organisation 'Het Ei'. Besides her studies she was active in several art organisations and the local radio.

After her studies she was involved in the fireworks explosions of Enschede and had to flee her burning house. This experience and the aftermath of the disaster she closely followed and documented, from a personal as well as a creative point of view. This is where her fascination for documentaries developed.She moved to Amsterdam and for several years worked as a picture editor for the glossy business magazine Quote. However, it eventually became clear that her real interest lay in film-making. She studied the technical aspects of filmmaking at Open Studio in Amsterdam. To deepen her knowledge and ideas she consequently did a Masters in Film at the ECA. During this master she stayed in Budapest for four months to work together with the Budapest Filmschool (ZSFE) to shoot her first documentary 'The Angelmakers' that has won several prizes (First Appearance Award IDFA, Amsterdam, Best young author award, Zagreb, Best short Documentary, European Independent Fimlfestival Paris and more) and is still screening on many, many festivals.

Her second short documentary is called R?ckenlage / Upside Down about the mysterious flight of deputy F?hrer Rudolf Hess to Scotland. It will be screening at Edinburgh Filmfestival and New Zealand Documentary Filmfestival, among others.

Astrid Bussink now lives and works in Amsterdam where she just finished another short documentary 'The 9 lives of my car' (premiere Dutch Filmfestival october 2006) and is currently working on a feature length documentary.

In her work as an artist and filmmaker, Astrid is interested in the theme of escape. She is intrigued by how people make certain decisions that appear incomprehensible outside the specific contexts they were taken in, why do people make certain choices, how do they handle limiting and disturbing circumstances and how far will they go to escape, these are reoccurring themes in her work.

"?The whole knowledge of the human soul passes through a football field?

Albert Camus

?The Art of Football? by Hermann Vaske is an exciting and irreverent rollercoaster ride through the crazy and creative world of football. It kick starts the inevitable frenzy in a run up to the 2006 World Cup in Germany. Offering a view of a game that attracts more viewers than the Olympics, more money than Hollywood, more media than any politician.

The legendary John Cleese (?Monty Python?, ?James Bond?, ?Harry Potter?) as host will guide the audience through the diverse football landscape. Following the introduction, the format revolves around Mr. Cleese introducing the letters of the alphabet, from A to Z, with each letter representing one particular word or catch phrase relevant to football.

In the documentary sequences both football geniuses and artists, musicians, politicians express their thoughts on the game and prove it is a part of the great global zeitgeist Hermann Vaske talked to legends like Pel?, Franz Beckenbauer and Michel Platini and today?s super stars like Thierry Henry, Ruud van Nistelrooy, Kak?, Michael Ballack, as well as world soccer players Birgit Prinz and Mia Hamm. From the field of managers and referees Vaske interviewed Ars?ne Wenger, Giovanni Trapattoni and Pierluigi Collina.

From the field of music he talked to Dave Stewart from the Eurythmics. From the field of film he interviewed directors like Wim Wenders (?Buena Vista Social Club?) and Tony Kaye (?American History X?) as well as producer Nick Powell (?Fever Pitch?). From the field of acting Dennis Hopper (?Easy Rider?) und Keith Allen (?Trainspotting?) share their views on the beautiful game with us. And last but by no means least Nobel laureate Dr. Henry Kissinger, archbishop Desmond Tutu and painter Markus L?pertz are part of the film.

In the final sequence of ?The Art of Football? Cleese compares football with other art forms, and concludes that football fulfils the definition of art better than many so-called art forms: it has the power to move people. As Ars?ne Wenger once said, ?football is a branch of creativity, a branch of the arts.?

?The Art of Football? was shot in Brazil, the United States, Italy, Great Britain and Germany. Hermann Vaske shot on Digital Betacam, High Definition and Super8 in order to mix the different formats. The authenticity of the Super8 offers an exiting contrast to high definition.

?The Art of Football? is an official project of the artistic and cultural programme of the Federal Government for the FIFA World Cup 2006. It is a co-production of Hermann Vaske?s Emotional Network, Studio Hamburg, ARTE and ZDF. Director, author and producer is Hermann Vaske.

"

Hermann Vaske (director, author, producer)

Hermann Vaske is a director, author and producer. As a director he worked with actors such as Dennis Hopper, Harvey Keitel, Sir Peter Ustinov and John Cleese.

He is the winner of the Grimme Award (Germany's TV Oscar) and more than 100 creative awards.

After studying at the University of the Arts in Berlin and at the American Film Institute in Los Angeles Hermann worked as Creative Director at Saatchi & Saatchi in London and at FCB. With it?s numerous creative Awards Hermann Vaske?s Emotional Network is one of Germany?s most awarded Advertising Agencies and Production Companies. Clients include ARTE, Deutsche Bahn, Audi, ZDF, BMW, VW,

Bayern 4 Klassik and Hornbach.

Hermann's previous television films include features on David Bowie and Yohji Yamamoto, as well as the feature length documentaries "The Fine Art of Separating People From Their Money", ?The A ? Z of Separating People From Their Money? and "The Ten Commandments of Creativity" starring Dennis Hopper and Sir Peter Ustinov, for which he won the Special Award of the Jury of the International Television Festival of Venice.

His recent books include "Standing on the Shoulders of Giants ? Conversations with the Masters of Advertising" and ?Why Are You Creative?? Which has also been presented as a TV-Series on ARTE and as an exhibition in Cannes at the International Film Festival and at the Frankfurt Book Fair..

In 2003, Hermann directed the short film "Who Killed the Idea?" starring Harvey Keitel, Debi Mazar and supermodel Nadja Auermann.