Lichter Films

Selection of animation, documentary and experimental work from the Lichter film festival in Frankfurt.

In the run-up to this year’s festival we got an email from Lichter Filmtage, a festival in Frankfurt covering very similar territory to Flatpack (all sorts of films in venues across the city, live stuff, and a lively hub where they serve good food and beverages). Not only that, but Lichter happens on exactly the same weekend as us, and Frankfurt and Birmingham are twinned. Reason enough to do some shared programming, but we were also really excited by the new work coming out of the city. This little selection includes animation by Björn Ullrich (Boule, pictured), Eva Becker and Olga Petrova, forest films by Jörn Staeger and Andre Kirchner, and a calming documentary about how barrels are made.

www.filmtage-frankfurt.de