While the German film industry is certainly proud of its past with big names such as Fritz Lang and Rainer Werner Fassbinder being named as two examples of filmmakers who have earned international success, it also has a troubled present when it comes to funding those projects which actually challenge the way people look at certain issues, both content-wise and aesthetically. When Mongolian-German filmmaker Uisenma Borchu decided to make her first feature and applied for financial support, German cultural institutions would reject her project titled “Don’t Look At Me That Way”, resulting in her making the film with a minimal budget, provided by the University of Television and Film Munich, where she had studied documentary filmmaking. In the end, “Don’t Look At Me That Way” was only awarded with awards such as The Fipresci Film Critics Prize in 2015, but is also a thought-provoking and intelligent feature challenging traditional gender roles...
- 12/21/2020
- by Rouven Linnarz
- AsianMoviePulse
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