Awards – 1st Sadho Poetry Film Fest

Every film chosen for the festival adds a unique dimension to the overall experience.

The awards are a mere pointer towards some work

that deserves special mention for the content or artistic merit.

SADHO SEVEN

Seven top films that Sadho would like to point out, as all equally the best.

A poetic portrait of the Lage Erfbrug in Rotterdam…. about the significance of a certain space; passers-by and those who wait; excitement and silence… a film about waiting and watching.

The Spider

Juan Delcan / US

An animated tribute to the sculptor Louise Bourgeois inspired by Gabor Barabas’s poem of the same name.

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Anhalter
Daniel Höpfner / Germany
A film set in the ruins of the one-time Anhalter Station in Berlin (Kreuzberg) in the end-fifties. The puppet-protagonist visits the empty station before its demolition, and is flooded with memories, visions, a sense of merging with the building & finally, the uplifting emotion of arrival at the ‘motherly cave of railways’.

A man remembers the woman who left him alone, in the city they loved each other. Writing a poem is like bringing a new life to the memories of love. The atmosphere of the city, weather and sound reflect an interior state of mind, with the disrupted, non-linear structure that remembering can have.

Love is the Law
Eivind Tolas / Norway

The film is based on a text written and performed by the Norwegian stunt poet and musician, Ole Mads Vevle. His subjective and, at times, pornographic interpretation of the Christian message of love, in the form of a news program, shocks, tickles and makes one think.

Fire

A poem about mortality from the series of five shorts ‘Motioning’, in which the directors along with poets Wim Emmerik and Giselle Meyer, present the visual power of poetry in sign language.

Moon

An impressionistic look at the urban poetic moon that evokes the eternal romance of moon watching.

VIEWERS’ CHOICE AWARD

The film chosen as the best by the viewers at the Sadho Poetry Film Fest…

Apni Bitiya Ke Liye Ek Kavita (A Poem for My Daughter)

A moving poem with lovely metaphors… a deliberately simple animation with the feel of children’s story-book illustrations and an Indian look… a ‘happy film’ that delights and moves.

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FILMMAKERS’ CHOICE AWARD

The film selected as the best by the participating Indian filmmakers …

Anhalter
Daniel Höpfner / Germany

BEST STUDENT FILM

The Boy with No Name

A traditional hand-drawn animation by Adam Smith which mixes the macabre and the innocent to tell the story of a young boy who feels lost and alone in a world he doesn’t belong in.

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SPECIAL MENTION

Wat Water Weet

Based on the Dutch poem of the same name by Ruben van Gogh, the animation shows water in all its appearances abstract and in everyday life

Breasts (From the series, ‘Songs of Resistance’)

The series foregrounds the work of four young Tamil women poets. Breasts explores the poetry of Kuttirevathi. Solitude is a crucial creative space from where her work resonates, speaking not just for herself but also for other women who are struggling to find a voice.

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The Credits…

The Festival Team

Material Exchange & Support
We gratefully acknowledge the enthusiastic and generous support of the following Sadho friends for contributing in terms of material, information, and publicity:

Material Contribution & Exchange…
Ram Devineni, Rattapallax
(more information at www.rattapallax.com)

Javier Robledo, VideoBardo
(more information at www.videopoesia.com)

Zebra Film Festival
Helen Ko, The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts

Information, Publicity & Support…
George Aguilar
Avi Dabach
Fernando Pinheiro