Private Eyes
Private Eyes
Private Eyes
Thu, 20th of February 2025 – 7 p.m. Hackesche Höfe Kino
Film: MEASURES FOR A FUNERAL
Debate Format: HALBWISSEN
In this format, the moderator knows nothing about either the evening’s films or the people on the podium – but is curious about both. A debate that challenges the invited guests to give particularly precise descriptions of the films and their own attitudes.
Guests: Sofia Bohdanowicz, Valerie Dirk, María Dueñas, Barbara Morgenstern, Sonya Vseliubska
MEASURES FOR A FUNERAL
D: Sofia Bohdanowicz, C: Deragh Campbell, María Dueñas, Melanie Scheiner, Mary-Margaret O’Hara, DOP: Nikolay Michaylov, CAN 2024, 142 Min., English Original – German Premiere
The life of young academic Audrey Benac is at a turning point. Driven by the looming death of her mother, Audrey delves into her life story, including an unsuccessful career as a violinist. She also researches, almost obsessively, the life and work of successful violinist Kathleen Parlow. In this commanding, strong-willed film, Sofia Bohdanowicz interweaves pieces of her own biography with the perspectives of four women: the fictional Audrey and the historical Parlow, plus the contemporary violinist María Dueñas, who makes her debut as an actress in the film; and finally, that of Deragh Campbell, who is here playing Audrey for the fifth time. This film tells of a standstill, and yet it possesses an evolutionary energy – the evolution of a director, a collaboration, and a style.
Sofia Bohdanowicz is an award-winning filmmaker from Toronto known for her work at major festivals such as BFI, NYFF, Berlinale, and TIFF. Her debut feature NEVER EAT ALONE earned the Emerging Filmmaker Award at the Vancouver International Film Festival in 2016. In 2017, she was honored with the Jay Scott Prize by the Toronto Film Critics Association, and her film MAISON DU BONHEUR was nominated for the Rogers Prize. MS SLAVIC 7 premiered at Berlinale, was featured in Cinema Scope and Página/12, and screened at the Harvard Film Archive. A WOMAN ESCAPES, co-directed by Burak Çevik and Blake Williams, won the Churubusco Prize at the Festival Internacional de Cine UNAM and premiered at FIDMarseille. In 2020, MEASURES FOR A FUNERAL earned the Kodak and Silveryway Award at FIDMarseille and was shown in TIFF’s Centerpiece programme. Bohdanowicz has been recognized as one of Canada’s most influential filmmakers by Barry Hertz in The Globe and Mail. Her films are available on the Criterion Channel.