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Kobe

film type documentary film Production Country Germany production year 2006 runtime 45'00 colour Color
screening format 35mm aspect ratio 1.85:1 sound format Dolby SR

KOBE is a composition of images and sound. Without narration or interviews, the film explores the daily tasks and little pleasures of people: a fish auction at the wholesale market, karaoke singers in a private music saloon, the men of Kobe Rescue on their training ground. Kobe is a poetic documentary giving an insight of human activities within a Japanese seaport.

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director Rainer Komers Editing Bert Schmidt DOP Rainer Komers Script Rainer Komers
Festivals
Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Germany
Filmfest Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany
Viennale International Film Festival, Wien, Austria
DOK Leipzig - Internationales Leipziger Festival für Dokumentar- und Animationsfilm, Germany
Kasseler Dokumentarfilm- und Videofest, Germany
Production
  • Rainer Komers Film
  • Rainer Komers
  • +49 170 8018593
  • http://www.komersfilm.com
Distribution
  • Rainer Komers Film
  • Rainer Komers
  • +49 170 8018593
  • http://www.komersfilm.com

Rainer Komers

Born 1944 in Guben;
film studies at the Düsseldorf Art Academy, master student;
made documentaries in Alaska, Germany, India, Japan, Latvia, Montana, Yemen;
received the German Short Film Award in 2004.

Filmography
1999 B 224
2004 Nome Road System
2006 Kobe
2009 Milltown, Montana
2010 Seseke classic
2012 25572 BÜTTEL
2025 KAMOGAWA

Portrait of Rainer Komers