{"id":5090,"date":"2019-10-02T12:17:08","date_gmt":"2019-10-02T10:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/exground.com\/?p=5090"},"modified":"2019-10-09T18:09:27","modified_gmt":"2019-10-09T16:09:27","slug":"pressemitteilung-exground-filmfest-32-eroeffnet-mit-der-deutschlandpremiere-von-the-fathers-shadow-aus-brasilien","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exground.com\/en\/pressemitteilung-exground-filmfest-32-eroeffnet-mit-der-deutschlandpremiere-von-the-fathers-shadow-aus-brasilien\/","title":{"rendered":"press release: exground filmfest 32 Announces Opening Film: THE FATHER\u2019S SHADOW (A SOMBRA DO PAI) by Brazil\u2019s Gabriela Amaral Almeida"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The 32<sup>nd<\/sup> edition of exground filmfest will open on 15\nNovember 2019 with a screening of the Brazilian mystery-thriller <strong>THE FATHER\u2019S SHADOW (A SOMBRA DO PAI)<\/strong>\nby Gabriela Amaral Almeida at Caligari FilmB\u00fchne in Wiesbaden, Germany. The\nfestival will be hosting the German premiere of the film, which also serves as\nthe kick-off for this year\u2019s Country Focus on Brazil. From 15 to 24 November, exground\nfilmfest will be presenting a total of roughly 200 independently produced short\nand feature-length films at Wiesbaden\u2019s Caligari FilmB\u00fchne, Murnau-Filmtheater\nand inside the crypt of the city\u2019s Marktkirche church, including a host of\ninternational, German and world premieres, accompanied by a multi-faceted\nsupporting program featuring exhibitions, concerts, panel discussions, a film\nquiz and the cult classic &nbsp;exground Gong Show. This year, the exground filmfest opening party will be\nreturning to Wiesbaden\u2019s Kulturzentrum Schlachthof. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"678\" src=\"https:\/\/exground.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/MainCut_01-1024x678.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5094\" srcset=\"https:\/\/exground.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/MainCut_01-1024x678.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/exground.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/MainCut_01-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/exground.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/MainCut_01-768x509.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Nina Medeiros starring as Dalva in exground&#8217;s opening film <strong>THE FATHER\u2019S SHADOW<\/strong> by  Gabriela Amaral Almeida <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>exground opening film: THE FATHER\u2019S SHADOW (A SOMBRA DO PAI)<br> <\/strong>Director:Gabriela Amaral Almeida \/ Brazil 2018 \/ 92 min. OV w\/ English &amp; German subs \/ German premiere <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following her mother\u2019s death, nine-year-old Dalva lives with her aunt and father. While the latter begins to see ghosts and sink ever deeper into depression, Dalva attempts to reanimate her mother. With convincing performances from the ensemble cast, in particular Nina Medeiros as Dalva, Gabriela Amaral Almeida pulls off a well-balanced mixture of drama, horror and fantasy elements.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Country Focus: Brazil<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to the opening film, the Focus features approximately 20 other\ncurrent and historical short and feature-length films from Brazil, an\nexhibition showcasing Brazilian video art, an exhibition with work from\nphotographer and Brazil expert Anja Kessler as well as two panel discussions on\nthe situation for filmmakers and current human rights issues in Brazil. The\nfilm program promises to deliver plenty of highlights, such as the award\nwinning <strong>BACURAU<\/strong> by Kleber Mendon\u00e7a\nFilho and Juliano Dornelles, starring Udo Kier as a sadistic bounty hunter, or\nKarim A\u00efnouz\u2019s most recent work <strong>THE\nINVISIBLE LIFE OF EURIDICE GUSM\u00c3O (A VIDA INVIS\u00cdVEL DE EUR\u00cdDICE GUSM\u00c3O)<\/strong>.\nThe latter, a drama set in 1950s Rio de Janeiro depicting two dissimilar\nsisters, is Brazil\u2019s official submission for the Academy Award in the Best\nForeign Language Film category.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/exground.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/ECUADOR_THE-LONGEST-NIGHT-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"5098\" data-link=\"https:\/\/exground.com\/pressemitteilung-exground-filmfest-32-eroeffnet-mit-der-deutschlandpremiere-von-the-fathers-shadow-aus-brasilien\/ecuador_the-longest-night\/\" class=\"wp-image-5098\" srcset=\"https:\/\/exground.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/ECUADOR_THE-LONGEST-NIGHT-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/exground.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/ECUADOR_THE-LONGEST-NIGHT-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/exground.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/ECUADOR_THE-LONGEST-NIGHT-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/exground.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/ECUADOR_THE-LONGEST-NIGHT.jpg 1919w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>No\u00eblle Sch\u00f6nwald in THE LONGEST NIGHT by Gabriela Calvache <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"922\" height=\"615\" src=\"https:\/\/exground.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/it-must-be-heaven-d7909.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"5099\" data-link=\"https:\/\/exground.com\/pressemitteilung-exground-filmfest-32-eroeffnet-mit-der-deutschlandpremiere-von-the-fathers-shadow-aus-brasilien\/it-must-be-heaven-d7909\/\" class=\"wp-image-5099\" srcset=\"https:\/\/exground.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/it-must-be-heaven-d7909.jpg 922w, https:\/\/exground.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/it-must-be-heaven-d7909-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/exground.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/it-must-be-heaven-d7909-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 922px) 100vw, 922px\" \/><figcaption>Elia Suleiman in IT MUST BE HEAVEN <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Further Oscar Hopefuls: More Films Revealed for exground 2019<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Additional films among those already selected for screening in the\nfestival program beyond the Country Focus also have a shot at the Oscar for best\ninternational film. For instance, the festival\u2019s section for young film fans,\nthe exground youth days, features Mounia Meddour\u2019s <strong>PAPICHA<\/strong>, Algeria\u2019s official Academy Awards submission. Set in Algiers\nin 1997, the film portrays the risky exploits of brave young Nedjima and\nWassila, who regularly remove their hijabs and don racy outfits at night before\nhitting the club.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The International section features a screening of Swedish Oscar\ncandidate <strong>AND THEN WE DANCED<\/strong> from\nGeorgian-Swedish director Levan Akin. Young dancer Merab\u2019s life revolves\nexclusively around his career in Georgia\u2019s national ballet company, until one\nday carefree Irakli joins the company, quickly becoming Merab\u2019s biggest rival\nand object of desire at the same time. The film received no less than three\nprizes at Odessa International Film Festival, including best film and best\nactress for Levan Gelbakhiani.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gabriela Calvache\u2019s drama <strong>THE\nLONGEST NIGHT (LA MALA NOCHE)<\/strong> will be entering the Oscar fray for Ecuador.\nThe situation seems hopeless for young mother Dana, whose prescription drug\nhabit has forced her to become a prostitute. There seems to be no escape from dependency\non her violent pimp \u2013 at least until Dana resolves to take her fate into her\nown hands. Gabriela Calvache\u2019s debut takes an uncompromising look at the\nconsequences of sexual violence and the exploitation of women and children in\nLatin America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the Palestinian Oscar submission <strong>IT\nMUST BE HEAVEN<\/strong> by Elia Suleiman, the director himself appears before the\ncamera as his alter ego, as so often the case in his films. Here, Suleiman ends\nup far from his homeland of Palestine when the search for a new place to lay\nhis head takes him to New York and Paris, among other locales. With copious\nhumour, the \u201cBuster Keaton of the Near East\u201d manages to tackle the serious\ntopic of the Palestinian conflict.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"577\" src=\"https:\/\/exground.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/amazing_grace_still-1024x577.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"5101\" data-link=\"https:\/\/exground.com\/pressemitteilung-exground-filmfest-32-eroeffnet-mit-der-deutschlandpremiere-von-the-fathers-shadow-aus-brasilien\/amazing_grace_still\/\" class=\"wp-image-5101\" srcset=\"https:\/\/exground.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/amazing_grace_still-1024x577.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/exground.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/amazing_grace_still-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/exground.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/amazing_grace_still-768x433.jpg 768w, https:\/\/exground.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/amazing_grace_still.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption> Aretha Franklin in AMAZING GRACE<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"647\" src=\"https:\/\/exground.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/wir_waeren_andere_menschen-online1-1024x647.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"5102\" data-link=\"https:\/\/exground.com\/pressemitteilung-exground-filmfest-32-eroeffnet-mit-der-deutschlandpremiere-von-the-fathers-shadow-aus-brasilien\/wir_waeren_andere_menschen-online1\/\" class=\"wp-image-5102\" srcset=\"https:\/\/exground.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/wir_waeren_andere_menschen-online1-1024x647.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/exground.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/wir_waeren_andere_menschen-online1-300x190.jpg 300w, https:\/\/exground.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/wir_waeren_andere_menschen-online1-768x485.jpg 768w, https:\/\/exground.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/wir_waeren_andere_menschen-online1.jpg 1795w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Matthias Brandt and Silke Bodenbender in WE WOULD BE DIFFERENT<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Strong\nDocumentaries, a German Provincial Thriller and the Banality of Human Existence<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Aside from potential Oscar nominees, exground filmfest has also selected\na number of further films for this year\u2019s program, including two strong\ndocumentaries: <strong>AMAZING GRACE<\/strong> depicts\nthe live recording of Aretha Franklin\u2019s eponymous 1972 album, which would go on\nto become the most successful gospel record of all time. A film team from\nWarner Brothers, helmed by director Sydney Pollack, accompanied the two-day\nsession in a Los Angeles church. Shelved for decades under the pretence of\ntechnical shortcomings, this extraordinary concert film was finally shown for\nthe first time in 2018, following the iconic soul singer\u2019s passing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The deeply touching documentary <strong>FOR\nSAMA <\/strong>by Waad al-Kateab and Edward Watts takes the audience to the\nbombed-out streets of Aleppo. With her camera, over the course of five long\nyears young filmmaker Waad al-Kateab captured life in the Syrian city, where\nshe choose to remain and give birth to her daughter Sama in spite of all\nwarnings to the contrary. Among other honours, the film received the award for\nbest documentary in Cannes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the Made in Germany series, the competition for Germany\u2019s only award\npresented by an inmate jury, DAS BRETT, features Jan Bonny\u2019s rural thriller <strong>WE WOULD BE DIFFERENT<\/strong>: Rupert Seidlein\n(Matthias Brandt) returns to his hometown, where as a 15-year-old he was\nwitness to the police fatally wounding his parents and best friend, a crime\nthat went unpunished. Rupert seems to have made his peace with the past, until\nthe murder of one of the police officers involved in the incident raises fresh doubts.\nSeidlein\u2019s wife (Silke Bodenbender) suspects that her husband is far from\nhaving overcome his trauma.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In his newest work<strong> ABOUT ENDLESSNESS<\/strong>,\nSwedish director Roy Andersson also treats the pain, vulnerability and beauty\nthat characterise life on Earth. In diverse episodes, Andersson assembles\ngripping and mundane everyday dramas both small and large into a tragicomic\nkaleidoscope of human existence. Andersson received the award for best director\nin Venice for this effort. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before announcing the f<strong>ull festival program in October<\/strong>, the exground filmfest selection committee has to reach a final selection from the over 2,500 submitted films and favourites from scouting trips to various international film festivals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>exground filmfest would like to thank all of its&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/gallery.mailchimp.com\/fda673c30cc5a98a608e27899\/files\/ee65b7e0-55f6-410b-bd77-8e40f561a594\/ex32_partners_Sponsors_en.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">supporters and sponsors<\/a>.\n                        <\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>END OF PRESS RELEASE<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Pre<\/strong>ss Contact<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>( ( ( NOISE Film PR ) ) )<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dagny Kleber<br> +49&nbsp;(0) 171 \u2013 402 48 03 <br><a href=\"https:\/\/exground.com\/pressemitteilung-exground-filmfest-32-eroeffnet-mit-der-deutschlandpremiere-von-the-fathers-shadow-aus-brasilien\/exground@noisefilmpr.com\">exground@noisefilmpr.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 32nd edition of exground filmfest will open on 15 November 2019 with a screening of the Brazilian mystery-thriller THE FATHER\u2019S SHADOW (A SOMBRA DO PAI) by Gabriela Amaral Almeida at Caligari FilmB\u00fchne in Wiesbaden, Germany. The festival will be hosting the German premiere of the film, which also serves as the kick-off for this year\u2019s Country Focus on Brazil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5092,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1],"tags":[29,25,28,26,27],"class_list":["post-5090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pressemitteilungen","category-mediadaten","tag-eroeffnungsfilm","tag-exground-filmfest","tag-filmfestival","tag-fokus-brasilien","tag-wiesbaden"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.1","language":"en","enabled_languages":["de","en"],"languages":{"de":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":true},"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":true}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exground.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exground.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exground.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exground.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exground.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5090"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/exground.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5131,"href":"https:\/\/exground.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5090\/revisions\/5131"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exground.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exground.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exground.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exground.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}