ednesday 26

 

 

 

Festival ■  Seminar Rooms I to III, Kamaladevi Complex from 14:00 onwards & C.D. Deshmukh Auditorium at 19:30

 

Film Festival for Generations: 24 to 26 September 2018

 

 

 

Astu – So Be It (India)

 

(120 min; 2013; dvd; Marathi with English subtitles)

 

Directors: Sumitra Bhave & Sunil Sukthankar

 

 

 

Multiple award winner including Audience Award for Best Film, 11th Indian Film Festival, Stuttgart 2013; Award for Best Dialogue & Best Supporting Actress, 61st National Film Awards, India 2013; Awards for Best Screenplay, Best Film, Best Direction, Best Actor, Best Actress & Best Actress in a Supporting Role, Marthi International Cinema and Theatre Awards; among others

 

 

 

Screening will be followed by a discussion with Dr. Mohan Agashe and Mr. Matthias Roos

 

 

 

At 17:00

 

The Song of Life (Das lied des lebens; Germany)

 

(90 min; 2013; dvd; English subtitles)

 

Director: Irene Langemann

 

 

 

With admiration for the beauty of the old 'wrinkled' voices, the composer Bernhard Koenig imparts to seniors the meditative, mournful, affectionate, enlightening, protesting, marvelous and joyful experience of music

 

 

 

Screening will be followed by a discussion with students of South Asia Institute, Institute of Gerontology and Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies

 

 

 

At 19:30 in C.D. Deshmukh Auditorium

 

Sputnik Moment 30 Extra Years (Sputnik Moment – 30 Gewonnene Jahre; Germany)

 

(60 min; 2015; dvd; English subtitles)

 

Director: Lukas Schmid

 

 

 

A documentary film that has been inspiring people to talk about the age (s), the demographic change and the chances of a longer life

 

 

 

Screening will be followed by a discussion with Mrs Wackernagel – Jacobs