Silver Lynx Documentary #2

SAT JUN 27 - 2:15pm

CASINO

Baisanos by Andrés Khamis Giacoman & Francisca Khamis Giacoman | CHL, PSE, ESP | 14’

Through an intimate portrayal of the activities of the Club Deportivo Palestino fan group, Baisanos builds a dialogue between two narrators representing Chile and Palestine. Together, they reflect on identity, the meaning of returning to Palestine, and the different ways of going back. In this way, the connection between two distant territories emerges within a space of celebration, where dreaming of victory creates a possible future.

Dance with me, Dad by Małgorzata Goździk | POL | 27’

A childhood memory of dancing together inspires the protagonist to invite her father to a dance course. The father resists, but in the end agrees. The way to the dance course is intertwined with the last part of their conversation. Father and daughter confess affection for each other, yet still having a similar wish that cannot be fulfilled. They go to the dance course and wait for the first lesson to begin.

birth date by Janssen Ewaldo | IDN | 15’

Bong Lim Fi, a Chinese-Indonesian teenager, and his sisters wanted to surprise their mom on her birthday, so they started preparing a cake and came up with a scenario. However, they realized that they had the wrong idea of her birth date: is it on the Lunar calendar or the Gregorian calendar?

in retrospect by Mila Zhlutenko & Daniel Asadi Faezi | DEU | 14’

Immigrant workers build a shopping mall for the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich.
In 2016 nine people with migrant backgrounds are killed in a racist attack at this same mall.
„Why such hatred?“ asks a woman in a Sohrab Shahid Saless’ film „Addressee Unknown“, shot in the 1980s.