Kazakhstan / Germany, 2016, 88 min
Director: Katerina Suvorova
Cinematography: Eugen Schlegel
Producers: Sain Gabdullin, Stefan Grobe and Anna Vilgelmi, KINO Company Studio
Language: Russian / Kazakh with English subtitles

Happily, we have been able to re-schedule this screening, which had to be cancelled earlier this year due to the state of emergency of COVID-19. Please re-join us at Cinema Ponrepo for our return to the silver screen.

Lithuania / Estonia / Germany, 2017, 85 min.
Direction, camera: Mindaugas Survila
Scenario: Gintė Zulyte, Mindaugas Survila
Editing: Danielius Kokanauskis
Sound: Mindaugas Survila, Ginte Zulyte, Radvile Sumile
Producers: Mindaugas Survila, Ginte Zulyte, Radvile Sumile
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In the twentieth century, the natural and social sciences alike imagined the world as composed of individuals with distinct bodies, genomes, and competing vested interests. Twenty-first-century research has shown that symbiosis is a near-requirement for life – even for Homo sapiens. Life is symbiosis “all the way down.” However, when conditions suddenly shift, once life-sustaining relationships sometimes turn deadly. The Agosto Foundation sponsored Symbiont film series is a storytelling response in times of vulnerability and radical ecosystemic changes. Each film will include a personal introduction by its creator.

—Pavel Borecký, curator of Symbiont

El Mar La Mar
USA, 2017, 95 min.
An immersive journey through the Sonoran Desert on the U.S.-Mexico border.
Directed / Edited / Cinematography by Joshua Bonnetta and J.P. Sniadecki
Languages: English, Spanish with English subtitles.

Thinking Like a Mountain
Germany, Colombia, 2018, 93 min.
Written and directed: Alexander Hick
Director of Photography: Immanuel Hick
Music: Christian Castagno and Nacho Drault
Production: Flipping the Coin Films, Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film
Language: Chibcha, Spanish, German with English subtitles.

Windjarrameru, The Stealing C*nt$
2015, 35 min
The Mermaids, or Aiden in Wonderland
2018, 26 min
Conceived and produced by the Karrabing Film Collective
Director: Elizabeth A. Povinelli
Language: English
Australia  

Directed and written by Emma Davie and Peter Mettler
Cinematography: Peter Mettler
Sound Design: Jacques Kieffer, Peter Bräker, Peter Mettler
Producers: Cornelia Seitler, Brigitte Hofer, Rebecca Day, Sonja Henrici (maximage, Scottish Documentary Institute, SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen)
Switzerland/UK, 2018, 78 min.

Directed by Paul Wright
Music by Will Gregory and Adrain Utley
Producers: Hopscotch Films
UK, 2017, 78 min.
English

Prague premieres:

Curupira: Creature of the Woods / Curupira, bicho do mato
France, 2018, 35 min, DCP
Sound / directed / produced by Félix Blume

Fevers / Fiebres
France, 2013, 45 min, DCP
Directed by Adrien Lecouturier
Sound Recording: Félix Blume
Production: Zaradoc / Les Films Nus

Directed by Ziad Kalthoum
Produced by Ansgar Frerich, Eva Kemme, and Tobias Siebert
Written by Ziad Kalthoum
Cinematography: Talal Khoury
Lebanon/Germany/Syria/Qatar/UAE, 2017, 85 min.
In Arabic with English subtitles

Czech Castles and Palaces (Karel Hašler, 1914, 7 min.)
One Night in Karlstein Castle (Olaf Larus-Racek, 1919, 44 min.)
Prague in the Shining Lights (Svatopluk Inneman, 1928, 22 min.)

Directors, Producers: Christian Frei, Maxim Arbugaev
Scenario: Christian Frei
Camera: Peter Indergand, Maxim Arbugaev
Production: Frei Filmproduction
Switzerland / China / Russia / South Korea / USA, 2018
DCP, 113 min, English

Directed by: Ben Rivers (UK, 2015, HD Video, 98 min.)

Prague premiere
Our Daily Bread / Unser täglich Brot (Austria, 2005, 92 min, DCP)
Directed by: Nikolaus Geyrhalter
Sound: Stefan Holzer, Andreas Hamza, Hjalti Bager–Jonathansson

Produced by: Nikolaus Geyrhalter Filmproduktion GmbH

Czech premiere
Dawson City: Frozen Time (US, 2016, 120 min, DCP)
director: Bill Morrison
music: Alex Somers

producers: Madeleine Molyneaux/Picture Palace Pictures; Bill Morrison/Hypnotic Pictures

The Prague premiere of Rati Oneli’s widely acclaimed documentary film centering on an economically depressed mining town in Georgia.

The Czech premiere of Nicolas Humbert's film, with a discussion about guerilla gardening.

Program
Homeostasis. 2017, 24 min.
Echoes. Miloš Šejn, 1979, 5 min.
Troublemakers: The Story of Land Art. James Crump, 2015, USA, 68 min.

An evening program of supermedia presenting the activities of The Peerless Brotherhood of the Holy Nurture, Universal Psychiatric Church 316a, The Holy Scrap Unit, with several views on trash.

During the evening the ceremony of the small Poodja.

In the process of going through the archives from the symposia at Plasy monastery from 1992-1999, we have uncovered two films which were created during that time. Both will have their Czech premieres during an upcoming screening at the Bio Ponrepo. The evening will start with an ultraaleatoric infrasound performance by LFNFU (The Legendary Forever Night Frog Unit).

Prague premiere of biographical documentary on Tony Conrad takes place 9 February, 2017 at 8 PM at the Bio Ponrepo. The screening includes the vs. Interpretation 2016 Festival documentary by Dominik Žižka and a short performance by Prague Improvisation Orchestra as an homage to Tony Conrad.