Selections from the world’s most innovative and provocative productions by public broadcasters appear at venues around Washington during Best of INPUT. INPUT, the International Public Television Conference, is an annual producers’ screening and discussion showcase. Held in cities around the world since 1978, the conference reviews submissions from over sixty countries. A number of the international jury-selected finalists from the May 2011 conference in Seoul will be screened and discussed. Full schedule and updates: www.centerforsocialmedia.org All programs are free but reservations may be required for certain screenings (see individual listings) Partners: Goethe-Institut, La Maison Française, Silverdocs/American Film Institute, Embassy of Brazil, the Hill Center at the Old Naval Hospital, American University’s Center for Social Media, WHUT/Howard University Television, Women in Film and Video, in cooperation with INPUT, and the International Public Television Screening Conference Tuesday, January 31, 6:30 pm Goethe-Institut Unusual Programming from Germany and Switzerland 20x Brandenburg – Warriors without Enemies (Krieger ohne Feind) One episode of twenty Germany, 15’, television piece, director: Burhan Qurbani Part of a project to mark the twentieth anniversary of the eastern German state of Brandenburg. This episode is a “play with reality” - young right-wing extremists in a rural setting are supposed to take part in a social rehabilitation program and learn to sing together. Their teacher is from Cameroon. Either Broder. On Safari in Germany (Entweder Broder) Germany, 30’, television-specific episode, writer/directors: Joachim Schröder & Tobias Streck Henryk M. Broder and Hamed Abdel Samad travelled across Germany with their specially customized colorful Volvo. They spoke with “aryans,” vegetarians, fundamentalists, socialists, friends of peace, and war profiteers. They covered a distance of 30,000 km on their safari in Germany, with Jesus, Mohammed, and Moses on board and a fox terrier named Wilma in the back seat. Low Cost (Claude Jutra) Switzerland, 60’, fiction, director: Lionel Baier Shot entirely using a mobile phone, this fiction film’s main character has known the date of his death since he was nine years old. As it approaches, he spends his final moments with those dear to him. A fiction film about the value of human life in an age where everything is at a “discount.” RSVP to 202-289-1200 ext. 169 or rsvp@washington.goethe.org Wednesday, February 1, 6:30 pm Goethe-Institut Presented by the Embassy of Brazil Home Key / Chave da Casa Brazil, 60 min., documentary, Directors: Paschoal Samora, Stela Grisotti The documentary follows the last 48 hours of a group of Palestinians in the refugee camp of Al-Rweished, on the border between Jordan and Iraq, before leaving for Brazil. They leave behind family, friends and a past full of memories. Nine months later, the film follows five of them in different points of Brazil, showing their adaptation issues, their fears for family safety, for the ones that were left behind in the Middle East, the country, the uncertainties and hopes for a new future. RSVP to 202-289-1200 ext. 170 or rsvp@washington.goethe.org Thursday, February 2, 7 pm The Hill Center at the Old Naval Hospital, 921 Pennsylvania Avenue, SE The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers USA, 81’, documentary, directors: Judith Ehrlich & Rick Goldsmith In 1971, Daniel Ellsberg, a leading Vietnam War strategist, concludes that America’s role in the war is based on decades of lies. He leaks 7,000 pages of top-secret documents to the New York Times, a daring act of conscience that leads directly to Watergate, President Nixon’s resignation, and the end of the Vietnam War. Ellsberg and a who’s-who of Vietnam-era movers and shakers give a riveting account of those world-changing events in this production. Friday, February 3, 8 pm WHUT Broadcast Event Nora USA, 35, dance documentary, directors: Alla Kovgan & David Hinton Shot in Southern Africa, Nora is based on childhood memories of the self-exiled dancer Nora Chipaumire, who was born in Zimbabwe in 1965. Using performance and dance, she brings her history to life in a swiftly-moving poem of sound and image. www.whut.org www.movementrevolutionafrica.com/nora/ The next INPUT Conference will be held May 7-11, 2012 in Sydney, Australia, hosted by Australian public broadcasters, ABC-TV and SBS. More information at: www.inputsydney.com