Our next event Filmmakers' Choice session on June 13 addresses strategies for measuring location in film: Four films put together by Constanze Fischbeck and Daniel Kötter range from the structuralist experimental film to ethnographic documentary. They center on the contingency of a real location in relationship to the cinematic construction of space and time. While Chris Kennedy measures the Credit River in rural Ontario, Clemens von Wedemeyer transforms seemingly diffuse research material on housing estates on the outskirts of Leipzig into a strictly composed reflection about transformations of urban space after the fall of the Berlin Wall. The spatial and social conditions of the "Polish market" on Potsdamer Platz in 1989 forced Emie Gehr to adopt an indirect strategy to document upheaval and change. The improvisational use of the camera was a means for Robert Fenz to depict New York and reflect on urban revolution itself.

"The Hotline for Refugees and Migrants" is a small NGO based in Tel Aviv dedicated to promote the rights of refugees and uninformed migrants in Israel. The Hotline’s work includes weekly visits in detention centers, an hotline service, legal aid, and public policy lobying. HOTLINE, the film, gets to the heart of this association and observes how an NGO functions in the democratic arena. In following the Hotline's volunteers and employees in their daily tasks, in public information meetings, at the Knesset, at the Supreme Court… HOTLINE explores, beyond the complexity of the Israeli case, the universal topic of immigration and asylum. (Production company)