We played last Wednesday at the 7. HHU Filmfest in Düsseldorf. There were a couple of fimls I had already seen in other festivals so I knew what we were up against. Unfortunately the film played with terrible sound which, for people who have seen the film, know it´s very important part of it. I learned on a book about film festivals that you shouldn´t complain about technical issues in festivals since they deal with different films, in different formats, with differents audio levels, etc., so there´s no point on complaining about something that already went wrong. Anyway I think the audience of “The Line” is also not the one we encountered at the auditorium, which was packed with late teens, early twenties year old students. I think our target group is a bit more adult, 25 up. I also noticed that the whole Berlin Wall theme is actually not very hot at this western part of Germany. I went to see a film called Lieber Mauer (Dear Wall) which is about a love story playing in 1989 Berlin just before the wall came down, and even though the movie had its premiere just 2 days before, we were only 5 people at the cinema, which makes me draw this conclusion. We did have some nice comments from the organizers of the festival who expressed interest in projects to come. The whole festival experience is also very fruitful when you meet fellow film makers and you simply network around.
The audience award went to a nice film called Eni, by Ingo Monitor and Jury award for a very well done animation film called Milbe by Karl Tebbe, wich actually played at this year´s SXSW film festival which is one of the biggest indie festivals in the U.S. you can see a trailer below.
