Straight from Sundance 2018
World Cinema Documentary - Special Jury Award for Cinematography!

EFM Screening:
18.02 - 11:50 - Kino Arsenal 2

Documentary Film by Christian Frei
Co-Directed by Maxim Arbugaev
Switzerland 2018

On the remote New Siberian Islands in the Arctic Ocean, hunters search for tusks of extinct mammoths. There is a kind of gold rush fever in the air, because the prices for this white gold have never been so high. One day, they discover a surprisingly well-preserved mammoth carcass with liquid blood and muscle tissue.
 
Such finds are magnets for high-tech Russian and South Korean clone researchers in search of mammoth cells with the greatest possible degree of intact DNA. The goal of synthetic biology is to produce complete artificial biological systems.
 
Resurrecting the woolly mammoth is a first manifestation of this next great technological revolution – genetics. An exercise. A multi-million dollar game. It may well turn our world as we know it upside down.
 

WATCH THE TRAILER HERE

Nominted NP Awards, Official Selection IDFA 2017
SILVANA
EFM Screening:
20.02 - 10:30 - CinemaxX 1

Documentary Film by M. Gustafson, O. Kastebring, C. Tsiobanelis
Sweden 2017
 

˝Let’s smash patriarchy!“ With her uncompromising lyrics against all forms of oppression, Swedish rapper Silvana Imam has taken Scandinavia by storm. She uses her razor-sharp tongue to spotlight movements taking place in today‘s society, embodying the voice of a new generation along the way. An intimate love story and filmic journey through the first years of the career of a contemporary feminist icon.

WATCH THE TRAILER HERE

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