FRIDAY 31 OCTOBER AT 7PM GOETHE INSTITUT
R/T 60 mins Ft Beta Director Joakim Demmer Producer Samir DoP Hoyte von Hoytema Screenplay Joakim Demmer, Ingrid Landmesser, Natali Barrey Print Source German Film and Television Academy (dffb) Email c.marx@dffb.de

Every month thousands of migrants try to pass illegally the narrow straight between Morocco and Spain in small rubber boats. Many make it across, but some don't. In the surfer paradise of Tarifa, finding bodies on the beach has almost become a daily occurrence. The film tells the story of those that drowned and indirectly poses the question of Europe's responsibility. MH

Joakim Demmer was born in 1965. He took a degree in photography before working as cameraman in Stockholm, Prague and London. In 1992 he moved to Oslo where he worked in the news department and as cameraman, editor and co-director in the documentary department of a TV station. In 1995 he took up studies at the German Film and Television School in Berlin.

COMING UP [GROSSE AUSFAHRT] R/T 60 mins Ft Beta Director Maximilian Erbacher DoP Roland Bauer, Daniel Gr 0bner Print Source Academy of Media Arts Cologne (KHM) Email dilger@khm.de

A film about uncertainty set in an area of Germany where for generations life has revolved around brown coal surface mining. What is going to happen once the coal is all gone? The mine workers and residents contemplate the changes ahead of them and the instability they face. MH

Maximilian Erbacher was born in 1970. He studied graphic design before enrolling at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne in 1999, graduating in 2002.