Trees of Syntax, Leaves of Axis in 2010.
Nishikawa was invited to join the jury for the short film competition in early March. The festival took place both online and in person this year from April 1 through 12.
For the short film competition, three jury members Nishikawa, film director and programmer Maike Mia Höhne and cinematographer Ming-Kai Leung watched 19 nominees, all under 20 minutes. They then discussed the entries one by one over Zoom. “Each of us shared what elements we thought were compelling and remarkable with the others,” Nishikawa said. “The whole process was fun, and I enjoyed the conversation with the other jury members as the way we see a work of art is slightly different.”
The Dream of Cinema – YELLOW CAT Poised to Open 21st Edition of goEast
Short, Shorter, Anarchic – The RheinMain Short Film Award and Anarcho Shorts at goEast // Propulsive Balkan Beats // Experimental Film Master Class with Péter Lichter and Márió Z. Nemes
Wiesbaden/Frankfurt, 4 March 2021
YELLOW CAT (Zheltaya Koshka, Kazakhstan/France, 2020), directed by long-time festival friend Adilkhan Yerzhanov, has been selected as the opening film for this year s edition of goEast – Festival of Central and Eastern European Film (running from 20 to 26 April). The festival, hosted annually by DFF – Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum, is proud to present the German premiere of this tragicomic road movie revolving around Kermek, who is released from prison thanks to a shady deal. In the grim reality of life on the outside, Kermek seeks escape in cinema, spurred on by the dream of creating his own movie theatre in the mountains where he can finally lea
Understanding the world with Berlinale Shorts 2021
A Love Song in Spanish by Ana Elena Tejera
Due to the very nature of their production, short films can react with a creditable immediacy to current events. Yet – with a couple of notable exceptions – the 20 films that make up the selection of Berlinale Shorts 2021 don’t directly deal with the pandemic or the isolation of the past year. Indeed, the shorts that will be vying for the Golden Bear – going under the subtitle of “Tell Me About Yourself So That I Can Understand the World” – remind us that, despite the preoccupations of 2020, the world still continues to face many other issues which humanity is constantly struggling to make sense of. With a diverse range of genres, approaches – involving directors from cinema, theatre and fine-art backgrounds – and established talents and new voices, the 2021 iteration is a fascinating snapshot of both the state of the world and cinema on the cutting edge.