ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival program announced
ZEBRA, the world’s most prestigious poetry film festival and competition, is fast approaching. Here’s the English version of the latest press release from Haus für Poesie:
The Zebra Poetry Film Festival will take place this year from June 5–8, running concurrently with the month-long Poesiefestival Berlin. For four days, the festival will showcase the diversity of poetry film in the Kuppelhalle at silent green.
More than 1,000 submissions from over 90 countries were received for this year’s International Competition. The competition films will be screened in two evening programs on June 6 and 7 at 7:30 PM.
In addition to the International Competition, the festival will present four thematic programs — Histories, Connections, Voices, and Hauntings— offering insight into the diversity of the poetry film scene with around 50 animations, fiction, experimental films, and documentaries. Both the films and the poems they are based on question history and current political conditions, explore identity and the ever-relevant longing for human connection, are guided by spirits, and travel through landscapes and memories. The films range from visionary dreams to clear documentary approaches — poetic and fearless.
The award ceremony for the International Competition will take place on Sunday, June 8 at 7:30 PM. Three awards totaling €9,000 will be awarded: the Zebra Award for the Best Poetry Film, the Goethe Film Award – The Art of Listening, and the Ritter Sport Film Award. The Goethe Prize will be presented by Dr. Wolf Iro, Head of Literature and Translation Promotion at the Goethe-Institut, while the Ritter Sport Prize will be awarded by Michael Edmund Böttner, Head of Bunte Schokowelt Berlin at Alfred Ritter GmbH & Co. KG. This year’s jury consists of Christine Franz (editor at ARTE, Germany), Ariane von Graffenried (poet, Switzerland), and Anne Isensee (filmmaker, Germany). In the Zebrino Competition for children and youth, an audience award will also be presented. The award ceremony will feature live music by A.S. Fanning.
The full festival program is available at: hausfuerpoesie.org.
Alert readers may have noticed that Moving Poems failed to post ZEBRA’s cfw last year — entirely my fault for not paying closer attention to my inbox! I’ll try to do better this year. Congratulations and best of luck to all the filmmakers who submitted regardless and had films accepted for screening.
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