FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS on Sunday, 01 November 2009

Discover DOK Leipzig Film Highlights on Festival Friday here! To find out more about the films use the FILM SEARCH on this website.

Focus Saxony

How come an atheist who used to be a Thälmann pioneer converts to Islam? Three Leipzig converts about their search for meaning and their environment's response.

>> 11.30 am | Passage Kinos: Wintergarten

Limited Home by Peter Benedix | Germany 2009 | 92 Min.
International Programme

A Lusatian village fights against Vattenfall and its destruction by excavators. Concerned inhabitants, environmental activists, politicians and mining representatives in an unequal struggle.

>> 2.30 pm | Passage Kinos: Wintergarten

Space Sailors

by Marian Kiss | Germany, Poland 2009 | 88 min.

German Competition

From 1976, the Soviet Union launched ten cosmonauts – one for each socialist state – into space. What become of the former heros? Political backgrounds and a search for their traces.

>> 5.00 pm | Cinémathèque in der naTo

The Woman with the 5 Elephants

by Vadim Jendreyko | Germany, Switzerland 2009 | 93 min.

German Competition

A portrait of Svetlana Geier, the most brilliant translator of Dostoyevskiy. A subtle interweaving of biography, history, literary creation and the mystery of language.

>> 8 pm | Schaubühne Lindenfels