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Wunderland - Vom Kindheitstraum zum Welterfolg (2023)
More a documentary about the founding brothers and their personalities
Visually and animation-wise really beautiful, original and captivating. Apart from that it was more a documentary about the founding brothers and their personalities rather than about the Miniaturwunderland itself and how it functions. The two brothers receive a lot of screen time speaking about each other and themselves. I had hoped to learn more about how such a complex form of organisation works, it's challenges and it's technologies. It wasn't omitted completely but it wasn't the focus of the documentary.
Also I felt uncomfortable when the relationship between the German and the Argentinian teams were portrayed - for the first the cooperation was apparently somewhat interesting and a bit challenging and for the latter it was portrayed as profoundly, emotionally life changing. The way it was recounted, it felt like a weirdly imbalanced portrayal. Hard to say if it was a cinematographic choice to portray it this way or wether it reveals the real imbalance in how they approached each other, I feel like it's more a cliché like and frankly cringe worthy cinematography choice.
Im toten Winkel (2023)
Something special
This film has an unusual way of story telling, it is a unique combination of documentary and drama/thriller and a hint of metaphysical/fantasy (for lack of a better word for this genre aspect of the film). The underlying theme is the Turkish-kurdish conflict and the film represents in a unique way how this conflict lingers in society, haunts it and impacts lives in different ways. At the same time the plot drew me in like a good thriller would.
I was especially captivated by the way the young child actress portrayed the character of Melek, her performance was truly impressive. She was extraordinarily present and serious in spite of her young age.