Colorful summer festival in the district of Starnberg with around 130 selected films
Created: 07/11/2022, 14:54
Matthias Helwig will present around 130 selected films at the 16th Five Lakes Film Festival in the Starnberg district.
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Starnberg - Festival director Matthias Helwig promises the 130 best Central European films of this year, an opening ceremony in front of the charming Alpine backdrop and many prominent guests at the 16th Five Lakes Film Festival at four locations in the district of Starnberg.
What's on offer from August 24th to September 4th.
According to the organizer in a press release, the 16th Five Lakes Film Festival is showing around 130 of the best Central European films of the year in Starnberg, Gauting, Seefeld Castle and Weßling.
Many of them celebrate their premiere or can only be seen in Bavaria at the Five Lakes Film Festival.
The opening ceremony will take place on August 24th on the shore of Lake Starnberg with a view of the Alps.
Over the next eleven days, the audience can look forward to a colorful summer festival against the breathtaking backdrop of the Upper Bavarian lakes.
And after three years, the legendary steamer trip on Lake Starnberg will take place again on August 29, with film screenings on the ship and on the open-air deck.
Film offer also forms the situation in the world
The guests can expect evenings in a summery, light atmosphere, but the content of the festival also reflects the dramatic situation in the world.
Several films are set in Ukraine, including Maryna Er Gorbach's Klondike, a sensitive drama about a young family whose village in eastern Ukraine is engulfed in war in 2014.
Another focus is on countries where human rights, democracy and national unity are under threat: several films provide insights into the southern Balkan states of North Macedonia, Kosovo and Albania, including "Vera Dreams of the Sea" and "Hive".
From all the films that deal with questions of peace, freedom and justice, one work will be awarded the Horizons Audience Award.
Films about human rights and climate initiatives
For the second time there will be the “Cinema & Climate” series, which is supported by the independent initiative “Unserklima.jetzt” by Anne and Alex Eichberger.
From August 25th to 29th, you are invited to the cinema to find out about aspects of climate change, about the changing world and its dwindling resources.
One of the six films in the series is the internationally acclaimed documentary “Into the Ice”, which will be released in German cinemas after the festival in mid-September with Campino as the narrator: director Lars Ostenfeld accompanied researchers who risk their lives in the extreme landscapes of Greenland to investigate climate change directly on site.
In his film "Alpenland" Robert Schabus portrays the region and its people: Tourism gives many of them work - and eats up nature.
Two other films revolve around Fridays for Future, "Tout Commerce" and "Rise up".
In addition, there will be lectures and discussions in the "Cinema & Climate" series, and a climate camp for young people is planned in parallel in the Five Lakes Region.
450 entries for the short film competition
In the popular short film series, 27 works were selected from around 450 entries.
From August 25th to 28th, the audience will choose one winner in each of four programs and decide in the final who will be awarded the Golden Glowworm prize.
The medium-length films between 20 and 60 minutes also get a platform: This year eleven films compete for the Short Plus Award.
The winners of both series will be awarded on August 28th.
Red carpet and flashbulbs at the Five Lakes Film Festival in Starnberg
In addition to the films, the conversations and encounters make up the Five Lakes Film Festival.
Also this year, numerous prominent guests from the film industry will discuss their works and filmmaking with the audience - in the relaxed, personal and warm atmosphere of the festival by the lakes, far away from red carpets and flashing lights.
Every evening at 7 p.m., filmmakers will talk about their works under the title “Meet the Festival”.
These film talks will take place in the Breitwand cinema in Gauting, admission is free.
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Cocktail evening, concerts, culinary cinema
The highlight of the festival talks is the traditional film talk at the lake in the Academy for Political Education in Tutzing (September 4th).
There is also a supporting program at the festival with concerts, a cocktail evening, culinary cinema, a film quiz evening and much more.
Festival director Matthias Helwig: The cinema is not doing well, after two years of the pandemic, many of the previous guests are still staying away.
We fight passionately to win them back!
The Five Lakes Film Festival aims to reach as many people as possible, in a wide variety of ways: with excellent, important films, with a great, diverse supporting program and with prominent guests who are more approachable to the audience here than anywhere else. The festival and the cinema offer something streaming at home is not possible: people come together, see intensive images and talk to each other.
Five Lakes Film Festival - one of the three largest in southern Germany
The Five Lakes Film Festival is one of the three largest film festivals in southern Germany. In the past few years, around 20,000 viewers and more than 100 filmmakers have attended.
This year's guests will be announced in the coming weeks, as will the winner of the renowned Hannelore Elsner Prize, the guest of honor at this year's festival and the program for the main series.
To get in the mood for the Five Lakes Film Festival, the Open Air Cinema Starnberg will take place again from July 29th in the local seaside resort.
Further information:
www.fsff.de, on Facebook and Instagram.
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