THE 9TH BERLIN INTERNATIONAL DIRECTORS LOUNGE [DL9] February, 7-17th 2012

[DL9], THE 9th BERLIN INTERNATIONAL DIRECTORS LOUNGE, the annual festival for contemporary media and film, is heading at you, faster than a bullet and with more power to knock you off your feet. Flights of fancy without (more than occasional) flights from sanity – just what the doctor ordered, antidote and overdose rolled into one. Films have come in from all over the globe... and making the cut are circa 300 cinematic excursions from 52 countries representing all six inhabited continents, trussed up into the neatest of packages waiting for their fuses to be lit for the explosion. Further snaking around it all are photo shows, DJ's, VJ's, live music, performance art and a whole lot more. These eleven days dare you to miss them.

An extra attraction to the goings-on is the impressive number of German, European and World Premieres, and special guests from far-flung lands making their way in to enlarge upon their works. Films served up fresh, up close and personal.

The Naherholung Sternchen, in-spot with cult appeal, will once again provide the stage for this melding of flickering visions and formidable visionaries... just behind the near-legendary Kino International near Alexanderplatz, eleven days waiting to shake your world. A truly one-off Berliner film-and-more experience. No sides drawn up – filmmaker and film-goer thrown together. No red carpet, but a yellow brick road into Wonder City.

Nine years can't be wrong. Believing is indeed seeing.

THE 9th BERLIN INTERNATIONAL DIRECTORS LOUNGE, the festival for contemporary media and film.

Naherholung Sternchen, (behind the Kino International/Rathaus Mitte)
U Schillingstrasse | Berolinastr. 7, 10178 Berlin

Daily from 6pm

OPENING RECEPTION, Feb. 7, 8pm
THE GROOVY DADA LOUNGE REVISTED, Feb. 8
FESTIWELT PARTY @ DL9, Feb. 13
INTERFILM PARTY @DL9, Feb. 15

...more on our website:
www.directorslounge.net

the complete DL9 festival programme:
http://berlinlounge.tumblr.com/

DIRECTORS LOUNGE organizes screenings of short, experimental works of many different genres. We invite artists, curators, critics to specific discussions and lectures. Special screenings feature highlights of experimental cinema, explore new trends in video-art and emphasize the role of independent filmmaking in culturspecific enviroments.

• Directors Lounge, A.Werner, Petersburger Platz 2, 10249 Berlin
• contact:dl@directorslunge.net
• fon: +49 30 427 805 69

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