Filmmakers' Choice

In this month's Filmmakers' Choice session on May 21, Bärbel Freund presents films by Karl Heil, Reinhard Kahn and Michel Leiner. Karl Heil's MMH (1981) introduces us to several young people in search of happiness in the West Berlin of the time, their existences in this summery, urban space becoming tangible in the process. The adventurous, defiant and dreamily playful way in which Karl Heil discovered the medium of film for himself is shared by Reinhard Kahn and Michel Leiner, both from Frankfurt. PLATZWUNDER (1983/84) by Kahn / Leiner draws on Hamburg-Wilhelmsburg. In RÜCKE VOR AUF: FRÜHLINGSMORGEN (1988/89) and ETWAS AUS GLAS (1989/95), both by Reinhard Kahn, Hamburg and its surroundings also enchant us. The characters radiate with a fine soulful aura from the deepest twilight: a restless sense of yearning, departure and blessed uselessness (Peter Nau).