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Forget Alberto for Now
Forget Alberto for now

film type documentary film, experimental film Production Country Germany production year 2020 runtime 18'20 colour
screening format DCP aspect ratio 1.78:1 (16:9) sound format Dolby Surround languages Arabic Subtitles Englisch

A film team retraces the path of a refugee’s journey. They hope to reconstruct a memory landscape, but instead confront the artifice of documentary. What is a story and whose right is it to tell it?

https://www.kaskefilm.de/alberto/

Official Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_Yb2xEl2d4

director Beina Xu Schnitt / Editing Alex Bakri Bildgestaltung / DOP Annegret Sachse Produktion / Production Thomas Kaske Drehbuch / Script Beina Xu Tongestaltung / Sound Design Gabor Ripli
Festivals
2020 Guanajuato International Film Festival (GIFF), San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato City, Mexico
2020 Reykjavík International Film Festival, Iceland
2020 Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg, Germany
2020 KFFK - Kurzfilmfestival Köln, Germany (WDR PREIS)
2020 EXPIFF International Experimental Film Festival Bucharest, Romania
2020 International Film Festival Rotterdam, Netherlands
Production
  • Kaske Film
  • Thomas Kaske
  • http://www.kaskefilm.de

Beina Xu

Is a writer and filmmaker based in Berlin;
born in Beijing and raised in the USA;
studied comparative literature and visual anthropology in Europe and the States;
her work grapples with memory, language and migration

Filmography
2015 A Good Object
2018 The Origin Tapes