Globians Film Festival – Potsdam world and culture documentary sessions

Potsdam is an open minded city influenced in its history by cultures from all over
Europe. At the Globians® festival in Potsdam (close to Berlin) we like to know and show more about cultures of the world, which in our understanding is more than just an exhibition platform for ethnological films. The need for a global understanding of regional issues may give birth to new type of individual life style: People who no longer live in just one community but have a geographical
“life span” to several cultures and continents. Hence we are proud to present movies on Globians®: the inhabitants of our globe with a global understanding of cultures, societies, politics, history and our life on earth. We are not a film festival for anti-globalization topics and their peer groups but we remain critical and open for films on economical and ecological destruction. More than that we look into new cinematic horizons on how we can overcome those destructions and find paths for a new “planetarian” life style that is more compatible to our near future than the current industrial organization of functional societies. We like to show films about this avant garde of people who are in search of this “planetarian” life style in their projects. We call those people “Globians®” and the Globians® film festival is the place to show profiles of this sort of people and cinematic introductions to their work and their understanding, their sensibility, their suffering and their success.
We are not an ethnological fim festival but we are very interested in the difference and credentials of local cultures, in the difference of their living conditions and in cultural history. We strongly believe that animal life and the rights of animals are an essential part of the human condition. Hence we also look into the communication processes of animals and humans, even if this process is disturbed or malfunctional and leads to strong conflicts between
humans and animals – and mostly to the near or fullfilled extinction of species. Hence, we show films on animals but we are not a “wild life” film festival. Furthermore, we do not see a genre difference between “ethnological movies” and “wild life” pictures, because the time when we could have pretended to present movies of “untouched wild/tribe life in danger” are definitely over. This “untouched wild/tribe life in danger” topic is pure fiction now: but we are a documentary film festival. With global communication means everything is touched now in every small part of the world. We also like to show movies that deal with this “technology intrusion into the wild” – and if there are projects which try an alternative usage of technology for the better.
In a time when the shift from analogue film production to digital production, editing and distribution is almost done, we like to see strong individual voices in film making who know what they are doing, when less “effect filters” are more to the substance of a work. We strongly believe in independence when “independent” is not just a label for better selling within current distribution
structures. We like “maevericks” in film making very much. But we don’t like “escapism”, if you know what the difference means.