Today it’s all about grazing cows, Millerntor’s football turf and urban gardening in Detroit.

After a few stressful festival days it’s time for a couple of meditative moments. Grazing, snoozing, munching cows are filling the screen and will carry you away to a wonderful world of Emanuel Grass’ (yes that is his real name) film Cattle. A very refreshing new setting for the well trained eyes of cinephiles. Instead of the constantly reoccurring Prenz’l Berg, Haidhausen or Elbvilla, Matthias Glasner immerses us into the creepy gothic world of the cineasticly unexplored Erzgebirge in Die Stunde des Wolfes.

Urban gardening is apparently the newest trend of city slickers, the positive side effect: it really does something good. Detroit a city known for its lack of perspective is being turned upside down and its people are taking matters into their own hands enhancing their own environment. Feel inspired! Which also applies to Backyard, directed by Árni Sveinsson, whose film offers Iceland’s best Indie-tunes on a silver platter.
Ever since “Gerry”, if not already before that, Gus Van Sant has proven that melancholy can sweeten the soul. Deeply sad films can sometimes simply be the most beautiful ones. He has shown that a film can tell a breathtakingly beautiful story while being completely still, like the moment between breathing in and out. In Restless Van Sant demonstrates that the immanence of death is the magnifying glass to actual life.

From working for the festival to being a filmmaker: Felix Grimm introduces Das Ganze Stadion, his graduate thesis film of KHM Köln. A football-film without actual football in it, an exciting experiment with up to 14 cameras used at the same time. Due to the great demand there will an extra screening right after the film’s premiere.
Another premiere of  a graduate thesis piece that shouldn’t be missed is Slovenian film A Trip by Nejc Gazvoda. Yet another absolute MUST is Terri by Ken Jacobs’ son Azazel. And from Israel we’re welcoming Eran Kolirin who inspires with “Die Band von nebenan”. The Exchange offers a rather different timbre and tells the story of a man feeling trapped like a tourist in his own life.

At night Michelle Record will provide blasting tunes at the festival center.  Starting 9 pm the festival tent is under the banner of “Ears on Paris”.