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Golden Ger international film festival 2016

At the 2016 festival, 28 works were screened from 483 works from 53 countries and were presented in the competition section. Also, a jury consisting of Chinese film producer Zhang Xianmin, film producer Ts. Ariunaa, art critic J. Bodbaatar, film critic J. Tegshzaya, and artist M. Erdenebayar selected the best works from the competition.

Golden Ger Award

Experimental

Fields in Mist

The video is a long continuous take made by filming into a mist within the River Eden Valley, Cumbria. The changing density of the mist intermittingly obscures clear perception of the represented image. Sometimes the video becomes an image solely of mist and at others of trees within fields and at yet at other times subtle combinations of both. The transient quality of the mist is portrayed through the long continuous take which provides a reflexive quality and a contemplative space for the spectator. In this respect the ‘out of frame’ sound recorded in real time sync with the image also plays a part in creating and imaginary space for the viewer. The phenomenological and perceptual experience of this kind of video/film viewing has been called an ‘analogue for consciousness’.

John Woodman

Best Mongolian Experimental Short

Experimental

Anxiety

Everybody has a common anxiety.

Saruulbileg Ganbaatar

Best Mongolian Animated Short

Experimental

Madonna

A man and a woman exist in a person because the sum of the two is "You beautiful beauty has a mother's heart."

Gantumur Enkhtumur

Best International Narrative Film

Experimental

Dark Germany

The film transports us from the inside of an old factory of cinematographic films to a sensory journey to places initially unknown, but that gradually enclose a belonging region. The film presents the integration of Socialist Germany – ironically called by Western Dark Germany – and the definition of a new scope. In the darkness of the plant and from other hidden sensations of places, we are immersed in constant discoveries of the territory, combined with feelings of opening and closing, evaluation of distances and survey of new measures. The film overlaps past and future in layers of sensations that balance between the disappearance and the invention of a place.

Stefanie Schroeder, Juliane Jaschnow

Best International Animated Film

Animation

Died 100 times

An intuitive contemplation on how we die many times during our life and through that become more alive.

Ruah Edelstein

Best International Documentary Film

Documentary

A New Family

Chantrea is banished from home by her sons when they discover she has HIV. She accepts her exile, even though supporting her family was the reason she worked as a prostitute.

Simone Manetti

National Competition Section

Narrative

Beer

Chinzorig Enkhchuluun

Experimental

Gap

Jargalan Bayarbat

Experimental

Now

Otgon-Erdene

Experimental

Road Trees

Uuganbayar Batbayar

Experimental

Wheen

International Competition Section

Narrative

1961 to Tuesday

Kwok Li Chen

Experimental

Black Hole Person

Mateo Vega

Animation

The Song of Wandering Aengus

Matthew Lawes

Experimental

Warm Pond

Taylor Beldy

Narrative

Blattaria

Thomas Pantalacci

Documentary

Clitorissima

Vulvah van Klitt

Experimental

Dissolved

Stefanie Weberhofer

Documentary

First Bath

Michael Lyons

Documentary

Listening in Context

John Grzinich

Documentary

Pushing Potion

Horacio Pollard

Experimental

Self and Others

Patricia Silva

Experimental

Take the Bus on a Hot Summer Day

Gloria Chung

Experimental

The Bags, Probably 1971

Yates

Experimental

2999

Stephen Quinlan

Documentary

Controversy

Thomas Lallier

Experimental

Control/Response

Anthony Stagliano

Opening Film

Narrative

The Forbidden Room

Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson

Special presentation

Narrative

Time to Die

Narrative

Under the Sun

Qiu Yang

Narrative

Butter Lamp

Hu Wei

Documentary

Ketchup

Narrative

The Poet and Singer

Bi Gan

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