to times of the Cold War. There were strange alliances at the end of the sixties, when West German filmmakers as "Jimi Hendrix at Altamont" konspirativ to Leipzig brought. The pragmatism with which Claas Danielsen for a few years, but the festival also as a meeting point position, first met some of the head. But not only the steadily increasing audience figures, but also the industry representatives give him right. It seems to me the festival, whose guest I since the mid-90s bin, a wonderful system in which serious films from all over the world, filmmakers, guests, audience and organizers six days intensively over the world and communicate with each other representation. This system works so well because the festival is manageable.The history of seeing films evolves, halfchance, as in a good conversation. I was comfortable with the Canadian filmmaker Darryl Miller and came into the conversation because we both of which suffered so badly to be tightened. His jogging pants were dirty, because he is on the verge of a Czech film festival had been hijacked; I had made inattention to the way he was dressed. So we came into the conversation, and I was then in his film "Dark One." This is a difficult psychedelic film on the level of technology. It is about the morphine addicted poet Dan Bilohar, with his mother, who was in Auschwitz, and it is about the reality shock of the story of the mother, the hallucinatory Künstlichkeiten interrupt. Everything is infected by Miller's own drug history; Exhausting,