Films on Hunger, Food and Taste

TALENTS ON HUNGER, FOOD AND TASTE

updated: 24, 2010

The competition of short films on “Hunger, Food and Taste“ is one of the central elements of this year's Berlinale Talent Campus. Chosen by jury members Tom Luddy and Florian von Hennet 32 Talents and their films were invited to join the Campus. Tom Luddy will present the films daily from Sunday to Wednesday at 18:00 in the Restaurant, divided into consumable bits. To enjoy the whole filmic dish, you can use the terminals at the Campus Lounge. In addition you will find the list of all 32 films including a statement from the directors.

• IM HOCHBETRIEB
  Andreas Krein, Germany:
  “Remove the music from a film, and you are taking away 51 percent of the experience.“
  
• STRAWBERRY EATING WOMAN
  Marlon Vasquez Silva, Colombia:
  “The reality is the machine of the fiction.“
  
• TO BEEF OR NOT TO BEEF
  Kristina Pozenel, Serbia:
  “We are what we eat!“
  
• CAFE 469
  Atefeh Khademolreza, Iran:
  “Nothing happened two times and never will. We couldn‘t live the same summer or winter another time. We shouldn‘t let this daily life drown us in itself. We have to feel every single moment of our life.“
  
• LA VIDA DULCE
  Rouven Rech, Germany:
  “Movies go along like trains in the night.“
  
• SLICED FOOD
  Lenka Clayton, UK:
  “A food and human dissection.“
  
• CHILI SAUCE
  Cyrus Khambata, India:
  “Do not ignore how your film smells! Cause, that is how you will know what it is going to taste like!“
  
• WILL THINK FOR FOOD
  Parvinder Kaur, India:
  “Desire, desperation, layers of an onion and taste for variety...life, food, film...it‘s all a play of ideas...“
  
• 5x1=5
  Kamal Ragani, India:
  “Hunger and Taste is within you but Food is somewhat exterior.“
  
• BLACK CHERRY
  Lucky Kuswandi, Indonesia:
  “Hunger, entitlement of one own‘s body.“
  
• MAMA LAGOS
  Kenneth Gyang, Nigeria:
  “The potency of African food.“
  
• TINY KATERINA
  Ivan Golovnev, Russia:
  “The Nature feeds Culture... The Civilization with appetite eats both…“
  
• THE COST OF DINNER
  Malam Ibrahim Malam Mahaman Saguiro, Niger:
  “Life often presents us with situations in which we have little choice, but to struggle, despite all odds for better conditions for both ourselves and those around us. This is a sense of responsability.“
  
• MEAT BALL
  Filippo Filliger, Switzerland:
  “MEAT BALL: bloody healthy!“
  
• WE ARE WHAT WE LOST
  Srdjan Mitrovic, Serbia:
  “In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.“
  
• CANTINE AND CO
  Nordine Sajot, Italy:
  “Me, myself and food.“
  
• SNAIL'S DESERT
  Gustavo Arteaga, UK:
  “From chopping-board to dinner table, this film portrays the preparation and consumption of a juicy snail‘s dessert.“
  
• THE BIRTH (TAVALLOD)
  Mostafa Emami, Iran:
  “Eating but not at any price.“
  
• THIS LITTLE PIGGY
  Kate Aidley, UK:
  “It‘s about life‘s little pleasures.“
  
• KOTZEN
  Sarah Paar, Germany:
  “To act the artist can be a perfect possibility to get over annoyance.“
  
• A LOVE SUPREME
  Nilesh Patel, UK:
  “My short film A LOVE SUPREME is a tribute to my mother, who has Rheumatoid Arthritis in her knees and shoulders, and was inspired by the boxing sequences from RAGING BULL.“
  
• DUNNY
  Phillip Van, USA:
  “The weight of a man.“
  
• HUNGER FOR FOOD / HUNGER FOR GOD
  Sergio Basso, Italy:
  “Yesterday night I prepared dinner for some friends. I put in the oven three kilos of war, five onces of religion and a spoonful of mistrust. Dinner was awful. We all spat up. Maybe it‘s time to change recipe, isn‘t it?“
  
• CHILDREN OF PARADISE
  Zahirul Islam, Bangladesh:
  No comment.
  
• HUNGR
  Maia Burduli, Georgia:
  No comment.
  
• DIVINE MEALS
  Indika Udugampola, Sri Lanka:
  “Divine meals, offered unto thy hands, now lies, rotten and stale, on temple altar.“
  
• EVIANNAIVE (EXCERPT)
  Verena Vargas, Germany:
  “I cook films, I share films and films feed us.“
  
• I LOVE LIVER
  Michael Petrowitz, Germany:
  “Live(r) Up To Life!“
  
• CAKE IN THE FACE.
  Katarina Hellberg, Sweden:
  “The pie is the limit!"
  
• THE DAY AFTER TOMATO
  Oskar Gullstrand, Sweden:
  “A tomato‘s amazing journey in the search for true love.“
  
• CHICKEN A LA CARTE
  Ferdinand de Madura, Philippines:
  “Art has the power to change the world.“
  
• FLOUR
  Yoav Cohen, Israel:
  “Feelings are my bread, I like to share it with all.“