Friday, March 10. 2017
Directors Birkenstock & Tengeler's #SoundOfHeimat
Framing our March 7-14 film series Heimat NOW, we are asking filmmakers from different backgrounds and places What's your #SoundOfHeimat. Here is what German doc directors Arne Birkenstock and Jan Tengeler, from whose music documentary SOUND OF HEIMAT we borrowed the title of our campaign, had to say ... or rather enthusiastically perform for you right here:
Don't miss their music doc-cum-road movie SOUND OF HEIMAT closing Goethe Films @ TIFF Lightbox March 14!
Email me by 5pm EST Friday, March 3, for your chance to win a pair of tickets to either of the 5 screenings. Only the winners will be notified.
Feel inspired? You can pitch in too. Share your sound of home with us on social media to win swag at our author reading at the Goethe-Institut Toronto on March 10.
Arne Birkenstock, born in Siegen, West Germany, in 1967, has been working as a filmmaker since 1994. He has written and directed countless shorts and TV documentaries, including UNTER DEUTSCHEN DÄCHERN, as well as the award-winning documentary CHANDANI: THE DAUGHTER OF THE ELEPHANT WHISPERER (2010). He has also been playing the accordion in tango, zydeco and chanson ensembles. His first cinema feature 12 TANGOS – ADIOS BUENOS AIRES (2005) was followed by SOUND OF HEIMAT (2012). Birkenstock took Toronto’s Reel Artist Film Festival by storm with his art crime doc BELTRACCHI - THE ART OF FORGERY (2014).
Jan Tengeler, born in Kiel, North Germany, in 1969, studied German, Philosophy and Sociology in Cologne. He was trained as a musician and is a member of several symphony orchestras and jazz bands. Since 2002 he has been developing music documentaries for German television together with Birkenstock.
image: SOUND OF HEIMAT, courtesy Arne Birkenstock
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