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WORLD PREMIERE Documentary about the legendary French Rock Group Zabriskie Point, featuring François Bégaudeau, a former punk rocker, journalist, and writer/star of the 2008 Cannes Film Festival Palm d'Or winning and 2009 Oscar nominated THE CLASS.
CHICAGO PREMIERE Describes the history and the present-day situation
of six people, who between 1979 and 1984 belonged to the first generation of punks in the GDR. They hit the walls of a system that tried to control them when they refused to be controlled by it. Whereas the social misery of English teenagers manifested itself in the outcry "no future" the socialist misery of a planned youth in the GDR could more appropriately be described with "too much future".
- DIRECTOR CARSTEN FIEBELER IN PERSON
-Screening sponsored by the Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany Chicago
WORLD PREMIERE Theatrical cut of the famed project CAMERAWAR.TV featuring live musical accompaniment by composer Mimetic.
- DIRECTOR LECH KOWALSKI & PRODUCER ODILE ALLARD IN PERSON
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At the start of World War II, Maria Werla was taken from Poland and made a slave in a Soviet work camp in Siberia. "My mother asked, 'Why do you want to film me now'? I could not give her an answer... All I can say is that I need to arrive to some yet unknown place to take sweet revenge, shaking my insanity like a fist at the world, screaming and kicking that my mother and I survived". East of Paradise is a diptych about two characters who have many and one story to tell.
- DIRECTOR LECH KOWALSKI & PRODUCER ODILE ALLARD IN PERSON
US PREMIERE Stations of the Cross Unfinished features never-before-seen footage of New York Dolls guitarist Johnny Thunders playing at the Mudd Club in NYC and acting out a script inspired by a picture of Christ on his way to be crucified. Filming was interrupted when Thunders and his manager had to flee to Europe, and a lab vault lost some of the footage, but Kowalski finally completed the film with the material he managed to save.
- DIRECTOR LECH KOWALSKI & PRODUCER ODILE ALLARD IN PERSON
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Focusing on roots rocker Dexter Romweber and his music; one of the most influential bands of the last two decades. Inspiration for many other musicians from jack white and cat power to the rev. horton heat and neko case. Visually stunning and filmically poetic - and featuring original b & w footage dating back to 1986 - two headed cow traces the formative years of the band through their signing to a major label through the break-up and Dexter's life today - it tells the story of an artist who never compromised and never backed down.
- DEX ROMWEBER IN PERSON FOR Q&A AFTER THE SCREENING
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