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Lina Zacher is being interviewed by Peter Crawford at Nafa international ethnographic documentary film festival Lina Zacher

Q&A at Nafa International Ethnographic Film Festival

Happening now: Q&A with Peter Ian Crawford, General Secretary of NAFA and Chairman of the NAFA 2023 Film Selection Committee

Fonja Lina Zacher Nafa International Ethnographic Film Festival

Fonja invited to Denmark

Fonja at Nafa International Ethnographic Film Festival in Copenhagen

26th of August, 7pm 

Gothersgade 55, 1123 Copenhagen, Denmark

check out the full program

Fonja Lina Zacher KHM

Fonja screened at KHM Academy of Media Arts Cologne

Guests in the seminar: the artist Lina Zacher and her past work with juvenile prisoners in Madagascar and the anthropologist Angélica Cabezas Pino and her work with people who are socially marginalized in Chile because of their HIV infection.

5th of December 2022, 1 - 5 pm

Q&A after the screening

program

Fonja DaFilms

Fonja at DaFilms

Fonja is now available at DaFilms in all countries!

Check it out!

Fonja Ecrans Noirs

Fonja screened at Ecrans Noirs in Cameroon

7pm, 11. October 2022, Institut Francais, Yaoundre, Cameroon

Read the report from André

Fonja african film festival premiere

African Premiere of Fonja 

Fonja will have its African Festival-Premiere at Ecrans Noirs in Yaounde in Cameroon!

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Fonja BURG

Fonja screened at "Einblicke Ausblicke"

Annual exhibition / Jahresausstellung 2022

Burg Giebichenstein

University of Art and Design

16. and 17. July 2022, 10 to 6 pm 

opening

Friday, 15. July, 6 pm

full program here

Lina Zacher takes part in an online Q&A at German International Ethnografic Film Fesival

Q&A at GIEFF 2022

also join the conferece!

GIEFF 2022 Conference

Full Programm here

Collaboration and Authorial Diversity in Film

Collaborative Projects

25.5. 13:00

Fonja - Speaker: Lina Zacher

Paulinerkirche, Göttingen

Institute on the Arts and Civic Dialogue presents "Fonja" at the NYU

Fonja invited to New York!

Institute on the Arts and Civic Dialogue at

New York University presents

the Global Artists Convening

 

on Monday, May 23, 2022

at the President‘s Residence

37 Washington Square West

 

6:15 pm 

„Fonja“

By Lina Zacher

 

To be followed by a discussion with 

Anna Deavere Smith, Professor Patricia Williams, Dr. Joshua Lubin-Levy and Lina Zacher

Fonja from Lina Zacher is presented at German International Ethnographic Film Festival 2022

Fonja invited to GIEFF

Find the full programm here

Wednesday 25-5-2022

Student Film Competition

Fonja - 13:00, Paulinerkirche Göttingen

+ Q&A afterwards

Lina Zacher speaks at the panel discussion of Producing Spaces

Happening Now!

11.15 - 12.00 Uhr 
Participatory Video 
Speaker: Lina Zacher about „Fonja“

and Paneldiscussion

Full programm here

 

 

 

 

Producing Spaces Dokumentarfilminitiative

Producing Spaces

Wirkungsräume dokumentarischer Arbeit
Werkstattgespräche

11.15 - 12.00 Uhr 
Participatory Video 
Speaker: Lina Zacher about „Fonja“

Filmhaus Köln • Maybachstraße 111 • 50670 Köln

27.01.2022

Full programm here

Fonja at Bozar 6.July 2021

Fonja in Brussels

Happening now!

Q&A with Lina Zacher and Alexander Scholz, festival director of Duisburger Filmwoche

Bozar Centre of Fine Arts

"Fonja" from Lina Zacher is screened at Bozar, German Film Festivals on Tour

German Film Festivals on Tour

In its film series PERSPEKTIVEN – Berlinale Forum, DOK Leipzig, Duisburger Filmwoche, the Goethe-Institut in Brussels, Bozar and Le P’tit Ciné present a selection of films from major German film festivals. 

Dates Tuesday 6 July, 20:00 → 22:00

Location Studio  Rue Ravenstein 23 1000 BRUSSELS 

Followed by a Q&A with the director

Bozar

Fonja documentary

Fonja at Spielboden Dornbirn

Sa, 1. Mai 2021, ab 17.00 Uhr

Spielboden Kino

Färbergasse 15, 6850 Dornbirn

Programm

Minors from the youthprison in Madagascar try out the camera. The documentary Fonja is distributed by Film Expanded

Fonja distributed by Film Expanded in Slovakia

Thanks for the good cooperation Matej Sotnik and Adam Straka!

Film Expanded

Lina Zacher and Matej Sotnik meet for an online Q&A

Interview with VOD premiere in Slovakia

Don't miss

moderation Matej Sotnik, Film Epanded

live-stream and full video

VOD Start of Documentary "Fonja" in Slovakia

VOD start in Slovakia

now on DaFilms SK

Check it out!

DaFilms

The boys from the youthpriosn are working on the Documentary "Fonja"

Flash-back: two years ago:

Postproduction of "Fonja" in Antanimora

January 2019:

the youth minors are working on the postproduction of Fonja

All our filmmakers:

Adriano Raharison Nantenaina, Sitrakaniaina Raharisoa, Alpha Adrimamy Fenotoky, Jean Chrisostome Rakotondrabe, Lovatiana Desire Santatra, Sitraka Hermann Ramanamokatra, Erick Edwin Andrianamelona, Ravo Henintsoa Andrianatoandro, Elani Eric Rakotondrasoa, Todisoa Niaina Sylvano Randrialalaina

Access, self-representation and cultural capital. The example of Fonja

"Access, self-representation, and cultural capital. The example of Fonja"

a presentation by Dora Bartal

 

8.2.2021

16:30

SZFE

SZÍNHÁZ -

ÉS FILMMŰVÉSZETI EGYETEM

1088 Budapest, Vas u. 2/c.

+36(1) 318 8111

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Lina Zacher and Jairus Nouvel in an online Q&A about the documentary Fonja

"MIZARA" featuring "Fonja"

Gasikara sy Jairus 360

Welcome / Tonga Soa

Thank you to Jairus Nouvel!

6.2.2021

18:00

live

© Jairus Nouvel  
Lina Zacher is featured of one of the artists during covid by Hartmut Bühler

Filmmaking in the time of Covid-19

A portrait project from Hartmut Bühler

DIE 20er JAHRE – DÜSSELDORFER PORTRAITS _

VON HARTMUT BÜHLER

Wir leben in einer besonderen Zeit. Und der müssen wir uns stellen.

Wie stellt sich die Situation derzeit speziell in ihrer madagassischen Film-Haftanstalt dar?

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Instagram

Hartmut Bühler

© Hartmut Bühler / Lina Zacher
Lina Zacher at Jeden Svet

Fonja at One World Film Festival / Jeden Svet in Slovakia

10. nov 12:00 — 11. nov 12:00

 

Don't miss!

© Jeden Svet / One World Festival / Lina Zacher
Discussion at Jeden Svet with Lucia Kiss, Andrea Najvirtova and Lina Zacher

Stop Filming Us

Live-discussion at One World film festival / Jeden Svet in Slovakia

A discussion on the films Stop Filming Us and Fonja.

Is Western aid always necessary and beneficial? How do we view the countries that receive our help? Do we sometimes do more harm than good? In the discussion on the films Stop Filming Us and Fonja, we will look at the positive as well as the negative aspects of the European Union’s development aid. Moreover, we will consider not only the view of Slovak humanitarian and development organisations on neocolonialization, but the depiction of the countries of the global south in audiovisual and visual arts as well.

GUESTS: Lucia Kišš (Slovak Aid), Andrea Najvirtová (People in Peril Association), Lina Zacher (director of the film Fonja)

 

MODERATOR: Frederika Halászová

Join online or watch later!

 

©Jeden Svet
Filmtip from Kinorama for Documentary Fonja

Filmtip on Kinorama

Thank you for a great interview, Jozef Banyak!

Kinorama filmtip November 6 2020

www.kinorama.sk

©Kinorama / Fonja review
Coverage about Documentary Fonja on 3Sat

coverage about Fonja on 3Sat

5. November 2020

 

Kulturzeit

7:20pm on 3Sat

3Sat Mediathek

Podcast of Susanne Quester with Lina Zacher for Duisburger Filmwoche

Duisburger Filmwoche:

Podcast mit Susanne Quester

Podcast – Von Susanne Quester mit Lina Zacher

Filmscheinwerfer blenden ein fast kindliches Gesicht. Ein junger Gefangener erzählt von Waffen und Raub, Scham und Stolz. Beim Hofgang gibt ein Anderer Regieanweisungen: Seine Kameraden sollen gefälligst gerade stehen, während er den Appell filmt. Gemeinsam zeigen und inszenieren seine Insassen ein Gefängnis in Madagaskar. Mit der Kamera vermessen sie Räume, die zu eng sind für weite Einstellungen. Und bedenken die Welt außerhalb der Mauern, die ihre Perspektiven begrenzen.

verfügbar ab
Mi 4.11. / 19.00 Uhr

full podcast

Lina Zacher speaks with Christiane Büchner about Fonja

Duisburger Filmwoche:

Interview mit Christiane Büchner

Fonja diskursives Surplus

Full interview on Vimeo

 

© Duisburger Filmwoche / Christiane Büchner, Lina Zacher
Q&A about Documentary Fonja  at Filmwerkstatt Cologne organized by Baustelle Schaustelle

Q&A at Filmwerkstatt

Happening now!

Join!

Thursday, 29.10.2020

7pm Birkenstrasse 47, Düsseldorf

©Baustelle Schaustelle / Fonja at Filmwerkstatt Düsseldorf
grouppicture with Lina Zacher is invited by Baustelle Schaustelle

Big Thanks to Baustelle Schaustelle!

Thank you to Anne, Brigitte and Teresa!

Today!

7pm Birkenstrasse 47, Düsseldorf

with Q+A

Join!

www.baustelle-schaustelle.de

© Hartmut Bühler / Teresa Linhard, Lina Zacher, Brigitte Krieger
Anspruch Duisburger Filmwoche

Duisburger Filmwoche

4. November 2020

 

7pm with Q+A

Kino
filmforum 
Dellplatz 16 
47051 Duisburg

©Duisburger Filmwoche / Fonja at Filmforum Duisburg
Fonja in Hamburg at Duisburger Filmwoche

Fonja in Hamburg

3. November 2020 6pm with Q+A

Metropolis Kino Hamburg, Kleine Theaterstr.10

Duisburger Filmwoche

©Duisburger Filmwoche / Fonja at Metropolis Hamburg
Documentary Fonja invited to Baustelle Schaustelle

Fonja at the Baustelle Schaustelle in Düsseldorf

Thursday, 29.10.2020

7pm Birkenstrasse 47, Düsseldorf

with Q+A

Join!

©Baustelle Schaustelle / Fonja screening invitation
Fonja at Radio Student

Radio review of Fonja

Don't miss!

Samo Oleami 22.10.2020 13:30 / Kinobar

https://radiostudent.si/kultura/kinobar/čuza

©Radiostudent / Radio review Fonja
Fonja at Top Kino Vienna

Today last screening!

20.10 6pm + Q&A

 

at Top Kino Vienna

Rahlgasse 1, Vienna, Austria

check out the Top Kino website

©This Human World / Cinema release Fonja at Top Kino Vienna
PHOTO-2020-10-22-20-59-30(1).jpg

Cinema release of Fonja in Vienna!!!

15.10  7:30pm

19.10  6pm

20.10 6pm + Q&A

 

at Top Kino Vienna

Rahlgasse 1, Vienna, Austria

check out the program

©This Human World / Cinema release Fonja at Top Kino Vienna
Fonja at Shifting Perspective in Prague

Talk: Shifting Perspective

with:

Susanne Keichel
Kristin Loschert
Tobias Neumann
Aleksandra Vajd
Lina Zacher

11/10/2020  4 pm

Please join!

An encounter in the form of a portrait: on the photographic gaze. The artists Susanne Keichel, Kristin Loschert, Tobias Neumann, Aleksandra Vajd and Lina Zacher will talk about the possibilities of a social documentary practice in contemporary photography and film.

©Lina Zacher / Fotograf Festival Prague
Fonja at Praha Zari Festival

Fonja at the Praha Zari Festival

Fonja is screened at Praha Zari!

check out the program and events!

7-9pm  

areál Výstaviště 67 170 00 Prague

Czech Republic

Fonja at Fotograf Festival in Prague

Fonja back in Prague

Fonja is exhibited at the Fotograf festival in Prague

check out the program and events!

Uneven ground

Gamu

Malostranske namesti 12

Praha 1

gamu.cz

opening hours:

13h-19h

©Lina Zacher / Fotograf Festival Prague
Fonja at Luru Cinema in Leipzig

2. screening of Fonja at

Luru Kino in Leipzig

Catch the screening at Luru Kino

in the Spinnerei Leipzig

Luru-Kino in der Spinnerei
Spinnereistr. 7
04179 Leipzig

04.10.2020

17:00

Lina Zacher is holding up the award for best documentary from Sehsüchte International Student Film Festival

Fonja wins"Bester Dokumentarfilm"!

© Sehsüchte International Student Film Festival / Lina Zacher
Fonja at Latent Space

Fonja goes to Leipzip!

Catch the screening at Luru Kino

in the Spinnerei Leipzig

Luru-Kino in der Spinnerei
Spinnereistr. 7
04179 Leipzig

27.09.2020

17:00

Fonja wins Best Documentary at Sehsüchte International Student Film Festival

Happening now! Awards Cermeny

Catch it online!

27.09.2020

15:00

Fonja at Praha Zari

Happening now! Fonja back in Prague at the Praha Zari Festival

© Film Expanded
Lina Zacher wins the Cinegate Prize at IFFC

Fonja wins Cinegate Prize!

Thank you IFFC!

© IFFC / Lina Zacher
Creator Talk with Lina Zacher

German Premiere of Fonja at the International Film Festival Cologne

Cineova Theatre 1 Cologne

12.09.2020

14:00 Screening

15:30 Q&A

© IFFC / Lina Zacher
Lina Zacher during a discussion at Dokudoc

Q&A at DOKUDOC

© Igor Unuk / Maja Weiss, Maja Malus Azhdari, Lina Zacher
Dokudoc in Slovenia

Fonja goes to Slovenia

Welcome to the Dokudoc Film Festival!

Don't miss the Slovenian Premiere!

MMednarodni festival dokumentarnega filma DOKUDOC

 

04.09.2020

21:OO

© Igor Unuk / Docudok Film Festival Slovenia
Fonja at Dukla at Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival

Fonja goes on tour!

Don't miss the screenings!

18.09.2020  Echoes Ji.hlava International Filmfestival in Bratislava, Slowakei 

4.-6.9.2020  Dokudoc Filmfestival, Slovenien 

12.09.2020  International Filmfestival Cologne, Deutschlandpremiere im Cinenova in der Herbrandstr. 11 

23.9-27.9.2020  Sehsüchte International Student Film Festival, Filmuniversität Babelsberg Konrad Wolf, Berlin 

26.9 + 27.9.2020  Latent Space, Luru Kino, Spinnerei, Leipzig 

9.10.- 1.11.2020  Fotograf festival, Galerie GAMU, Prag  

15.10.- 25.10.2020  Kinostart in Wien, Kick-off: Topkino Wien 

29.20.2020  Baustelle Schaustelle Art Gallery Düsseldorf 

5.10-11.10.2020  One World Film Festival, Slowakei 

13.11.2020  Filmstart Slowakei 

Lina Zacher is holding a masterclass with Matej Sotnik

Happening now! Masterclass in Bratislava

Masterclass

Nova Cvernovka

21:30

© Film Expanded / Matej Sotnik, Lina Zacher
Lina Zacher, Matej Sotnik and Juraj Machalek on a group picture

Fonja goes to Bratislava!

Check out the event!

 

Echoes Ji.hlava International Filmfestival in Bratislava, Slovakia + Masterclass with Lina Zacher

Venue: 

Račianska 1575/78, 831 02 Bratislava, Slovakia

 

Date

Aug 18, 2020 8:00 PM

Organizer:

Film Exanded

© Film Expanded / Matej Sotnik, Juraj Machalek, Lina Zacher
Still from Fonja by Lina Zacher

Fonja goes to New York!

Check out the event!

Venue: 

Bohemian National Hall, 321 East 73rd Street
NY 10021 New York
United States

 

Date

Feb 27, 2020 7:00 PM

Organizer:

Czech Centre

Filmstill Fonja  
Still from Fonja by Lina Zacher

Premiere of Fonja in Finland

Don't miss the screenings!

Tue 28.1. at 18.45, Kinopalatsi 6 

Kinopalatsi, Kaisaniemenkatu 2, Helsinki


Fri 31.1. at 15.00, Maxim 1 

Maxim, Kluuvikatu 1, Helsinki


Sun 2.2. at 15.15, Maxim 2

Maxim, Kluuvikatu 1, Helsinki

Filmstill Fonja  / Adriamamy Feotoky Alpha, Santatra Lovatiana Desire
Fonja at DocPoint Helsinki

Fonja at Docpoint Helsinki

Fonja at This Human World in Vienna

Thank you This Human World!

© This Human World
Fonja by Lina Zacher wins the Up & Coming Award

Fonja wins Up& Coming best picture

Jurystatement:

Das vielschichte Kammerspiel führt uns in einen geschlossenen Mikrokosmos, verwebt Dokumentarisches mit Fiktionalem und erzählt dabei gleichzeitig vom handwerklichen wie vom sozialen Moment des Filmemachens: ein Film im Film im Film.

Eine junge deutsche Regisseurin erschafft den Insassen einer Jugendstrafanstalt in Madagaskar einen Möglichkeitsraum in der Isolation. Sie entfacht Leidenschaft, Zuversicht und Vertrauen und überreicht ihrem Team die Werkzeuge um sprichwörtlich ein Fenster zur Welt in ihre Gefängnismauern zu schneiden. Eine vermeintlich verlorene Generation verleiht sich mittels kollektivem Selbstportrait eine starke Stimme. Dabei gewähren die Filmemacher uns nicht nur Einblick in ihre Schicksale, sondern erlauben uns an einem Reflexions- und Selbstermächtigungsprozesses Teil zu haben, der weit über das finale Filmprodukt hinaus geht. 

© This Human World
Fonja by Lina Zacher is screening at Schikaneder in Vienna

Second screening!

© This Human World
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Happening Now: Fonja celebrates its Austria-Premiere!

antanimora 46.jpg

Thank you for a great interview Tim Dams / variety.com

© Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival / Lina Zacher
Lina Zacher wins the main award "Best World Documentary" at Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival 2019

Fonja wins Best world documentary at Ji.hlava

Best World Documentary Film 2019

Jury statement:
For the warmth, the intuition, the trust, the courage and generosity that are holding together a film that keeps on reafirming the power of the innocent gaze while echoing the voices of the old masters.

Special mention

Jury statement:
For the intelligent and inspired use of the cinematographic device in her search for the ineffable.

Fonja wins best documentary and special mention

© Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival , Lina Zacher
World Premiere of Fonja at Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival 2019

World Premiere of Fonja happening now!

Thursday 24. 10. 2019, 19:30

Dukla Cinema – Reform

Saturday 26. 10. 2019, 20:00

Dukla Cinema – Reform

Fonja at creative documentary film festival ji.hlava

Lina Zacher and Jobina Diez at Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival

We arrived at Jihalava

Thank you for accompanying me, Jobina!

Fonja at creative documentary film festival ji.hlava

© Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival / Jobina Diez, Lina Zacher
Fonja in the programme catalogue  of Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival

Check out the program!

Thursday 24. 10. 2019, 19:30

Dukla Cinema – Reform

Saturday 26. 10. 2019, 20:00

Dukla Cinema – Reform

Ji.hlava program

Fonja at JIDFF

Fonja invited to Jihlava International Film Festival

Thursday 24. 10. 2019, 19:30

Dukla Cinema – Reform

Saturday 26. 10. 2019, 20:00

Dukla Cinema – Reform

Fonja at creative documentary film festival ji.hlava

"Fonja" documentary, 82min., Mad/De, OV, Eng. subt., 2019, © Lina Zacher kontakt www.mio.world  e-mail

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