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Nach einem erfolgreichen Festivaljahr 2011 kommt DAY IS DONE von Thomas Imbach in die Schweizer Kinos.

http://www.cineman.ch/movie/2011/DayIsDone/cinema.html

Okofilm gewinnt mit DAY IS DONE den Zürcher Filmpreis. Zum vierten mal in seiner Karriere wird Thomas Imbach damit der wichtigste Filmpreis des Kantons Zürich verliehen.

After a successful Premiere at Jerusalem Film Festival Okofilm is looking forward to the Australian Premiere of DAY IS DONE by Thomas Imbach at the Melbourne International Film Festival (TeleScope). The screenings are scheduled for 30.07.2011 and 05.08.2011. For more information click here.

Okofilm is happy to announce that the Millennium Award Jury selected Thomas Imbach's Day is Done for an Honorable Mention at the Planete Doc Festival Warsaw 2011.

Okofilm Productions DAY IS DONE by Thomas Imbach in competition at the 8th Planete Doc Festival in Warsaw.

06.05.2011 21:00, Kinoteka 4 with Thomas Imbach
07.05.2011 21:30, Kinoteka 4 with Thomas Imbach
15.03.2011 19:30, Kinoteka 4

Click here for the direct link to the festival.

Together with Thomas Imbach's new film Day Is Done which premiered at this years Berlinale, the Argentinian festival dedicated a retrospective to the Swiss director Thomas Imbach.

"Thomas Imbach likes taking risks. With each new film project, he moves into uncharted territory and consciously seeks a complex cinematographic challenge. How else could one explain his idea of making a film out of unspectacular day-to-day office activities in a Swiss financial institution (Well Done, 1994)? Or staging the mysterious murder/ suicide drama of Petra Kelly and Gert Bastian as a suggestive 90 minutes of sudden death (Happiness Is a Warm Gun, 2001)? Asked about his motivation for making specific films, Imbach once replied that he never planned his film topics in advance. “They always came to me in a flash. It‘s like being in love; you can‘t really explain why.”"

Selection of Thomas Imbach Films shown at Bafici 2011

I Was a Swiss Banker
Lenz
Well Done
Happiness Is a Warm Gun

A smokestack stubbornly pierces the sky. Trains rumble by down below. Lights come on in the buildings as night falls. There is a man behind the camera, looking for an image -- of himself? Of the world? Of society? By day and night, in rain and snow, he stands filming at the window of his studio. Periodically we hear people leaving messages on his answering machine. They talk about the weather while on vacation and congratulate him on his birthday. His father dies, a child is born, the young family begins to fall apart. Time passes. Slowly the cityscape morphs into the inner landscape of the man behind the camera.

12.02.11 09:30 CinemaxX6 (Pressevorführung) EN
14.02.11 18:45 Delphi-Filmpalast EN
15.02.11 13:45 CineStar 8 EN
16.02.11 22:15 Cubix 9 EN
19.02.11 19:30 CinemaxX4 EN

http://www.berlinale.de

MU•BI [mōō'bē] - adjective, verb, noun.
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you watch, discover, and discuss
auteur cinema
2. A city in Nigeria.

Das Fräulein: http://mubi.com/films/30974
Lenz: http://mubi.com/films/32131
Happiness Is a Warm Gun: http://mubi.com/films/32130

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From April 24 to 26, Anthology Film Archives in New York is showing a retrospective of six feature films by Thomas Imbach. He and Okofilm Director/Producer Andrea Staka will be attending the screenings for Q&As, so for those of you who live or happen to be in New York, we hope to see you at the screenings! Read more