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Waidmannsheil: ‘Hail to the Good Shooter’
UK PremiereKlaas Boelen | Belgium | 26 mins
The pomp and savagery of a Belgian group hunt is exposed in this atmospheric, suspenseful and sometimes ironic piece of direct cinema. WAIDMANNSHEIL‘Hail to the good shooter’ scrutinizes with an icy detachment the rituals of a wily group of bourgeois weekend warriors as they compete to kill deer in a pastoral landscape.
They trespass the wet, silent woods in awe and play a defined game of strategy in which all their resources are summoned up for the capture of their treasured preys.
It is a mystical experience centered around the encounter with wild-life. It is a matter of pride for the man and a matter of life and death for the animal.
Every moment of endurance brings the hunter closer to this decisive act. The adrenaline rushes through his mind. His primeval instincts take control of his body.
Once again he feels like the master of all creatures.
Thanks to a man-made decorum of ritual gestures and ceremonies, the act of killing stands out as a paradoxical way of celebrating life.
But often it appears that power and weakness go hand in hand in this most primitive experience of being human.
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The Summer of Giacomo
UK PremiereAlessandro Comodin | Belgium, France, Italy | 78 mins
It's summer in the countryside of north-eastern Italy. Nineteen year-old Giacomo, deaf since childhood, and Stephanie, his childhood friend, go to the river for a picnic. As if in an enchanted fairytale they get lost in the woods and find themselves in a heavenly place, alone and free, during an afternoon that seems to last a whole summer. Love, lost time, escape, youth. A gorgeous evocation of those private moments that define lives and memories.
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