Home - a controversial term
Heimatfilmzeit in Kempten
In addition to the competition of international films, mostly with English subtitles, we are holding a new competition at our second festival location with predominantly German-language productions.
It is dedicated to an ambiguous topic that is discussed with varying expectations and is more acute than ever before: "Heimat", or HOME.
In a mix of genres, the competition presents very different perspectives: What is HOME? A place, a feeling, an ideology? Old home, new home, home in a religious, cultural or spiritual sense? Where is HOME? In the family, in a club or any other community, in traditions or in an open society?
We will debate these questions with the participating film-makers and with our audience.
Shortlist
Silvia Armbruster
The artistic director of the Kempten Theatre studied German and philosophy at the LMU Munich.
She found her current vocation through her work as an assistant director in Stuttgart, Mannheim, Bremen and Munich, with George Tabori and Johann Kresnik, amongst others. She received a one-year scholarship for screenwriting at the University for Television and Film in Munich. Since 2003 she has been teaching acting at the Bavarian Theatre Academy in Munich.
Her productions have won several awards, including the Bavarian Theatre Days Prize for the world premiere of HYÄNEN (Kerstin Hensel).
Photo © Birgitta Weizenegger
Elmar Giglinger
Initially trained as a journalist, during his five years as managing director for location marketing of the Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg he also came into contact with the promotion of innovative audiovisual content. He was a member of the boards of trustees of the FilmFestival Cottbus and the Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF, amongst others.
In 2016, the Kempten native returned to his hometown. As a board member of Netzwerk Kultur- und Kreativwirtschaft Allgäu e.V., he advocates for stronger networking and better visibility.
Photo © Tobias Hertle
Leo Hiemer
The director, producer and author was already making films in Super 8 format while studying German and history.
In 1981 he co-founded the Westallgäuer Filmproduktion (WAF), which produced independent, challenging and often provocative films that repeatedly dealt with his Allgäu homeland. Several of them have received the film rating “Prädikat Wertvoll” or “Prädikat Besonders Wertvoll”.
In 1998 he founded the "Leo Hiemer Filmproduktion". In 2017 he was awarded the first Bavarian Dialect Prize for the Allgäu region.
DAHEIM STERBEN DIE LEUT‘ in particular achieved cult film status as one of the most successful German cinema films of 1985. We will show the classic at the opening of filmzeitallgäu on 9 October.
Photo © Christoph Morlok
