COVID Dystopia is an official selection at the Berlin Short Film Festival. Pam and I ordered new passports and they came back surprisingly fast. My film will screen on February 11, 2024 at the 6PM screening slot. The Babylon Theater is located at Rosa-Luxemburg-Straße 30, Berlin, Germany. Today we will make plans for plane flights and an air B&B inn Berlin. I found a nice place within walking distance of the theater but we aren’t sure of flight times yet. These international festivals don’t give much time for making plans.
I am of course curious about the films in my screening block. I found a couple on youTube. One was an interview in German about stereotypes associated with Germans. The other, also in German I gave up on. I will not watch any others, I would rather see them on the big screen.
There is one social event where film makers can mix and mingle. It is being held at an “American Style” bar. The place is a hole in the wall dive with graffiti on the facade. It is quite a walk from the theater. There is quite a bit of large graffiti in the neighborhood reminiscent of the days of the Berlin Wall.
This screening should be quite an adventure. I know a minimal amount of German after studying it in high school. I really never got past counting to ten however and all that conjugation stuff threw me for a loop.