HAVARIE by Philip Scheffner has received the main award of the Duisburger Filmwoche - the ARTE-Dokumentarfilmpreis worth 6.000 Euros.

The jurors Alejandro Bachmann, Pepe Danquart and Antje Ehmann said: "93 Minuten, eine Einstellung, die unentwegt ein Boot mit Flüchtlingen im Mittelmeer fixiert. 'Fixiert' scheint das richtige Wort auch für die ästhetische Erfahrung, die HAVARIE seinen Betrachtern zumutet: Im Zerdehnen der Zeit, im Insistieren eines Blicks, in der Monotonie der Formen und Farben im Bild entschleunigt der Film den Bilderwahnsinn rund um die sogenannte „Flüchtlingskrise“. Die mit diesem Blick verwandten Diskurse, Geschichten, Ereignisse und Trivialitäten durchkreuzen das Bild auf der Tonebene, verleihen dem Bild Tiefe und sprengen es zugleich über die Grenzen des Kaders hinaus auf. Wenn am Ende der einzige Fixpunkt im Bild – das Boot der Flüchtlinge – scheinbar spurlos verschwunden ist, bekommt man eine Idee davon, was es bedeutet, wenn etwas verlustig gegangen ist – auf dem Meer wie im Bild."

It's hard to find another French filmmaker of such standing as Philippe Garrel who still remains a more or less blank slate in Germany. Although he’s regarded as a key figure in post-Nouvelle Vague cinema, his 30-film oeuvre is largely unknown in this country. With the exception of L'OMBRE DES FEMMES (In the Shadow of Women, France/Switzerland 2015), not a single one of his films has received a standard German theatrical release over the last couple of decades. Arsenal is dedicating a comprehensive retrospective to Philippe Garrel in October, which will enable Berlin audiences to grasp the different phases of his over 50-year career and get to the very heart of his concerns by looking at his entire oeuvre for the very first time. For the opening on October 1, we are presenting Garrel's penultimate film LA JALOUSIE (France 2013) as a German premiere. Introductions by Birgit Kohler, Thomas Arslan, Volker Pantenburg, Marc Siegel, Angela Schanelec, and Anja Streiter complement the program.

The next Filmmakers' choice event presented by Nicolas Cilins and Frank Westermeyer will take place on October 31 entitled "Agents Provocateurs: artists, strategies, objects".

The program is dedicated to filmmaking strategies which construct films as experimental situations. The artists both find and invent objects and tools to create work to test the real. Alongside the camera, these can be an object, a foreign being, or an imaginary point on a visual medium. The idea here is that of the agent provocateur, a silent form that provocatively involves the artist, the spectator, and the people and situations contained in the film in the confrontation with results of the cinematic experiment.