Documentary | European Premiere | 2024 | Australia | 82 min | English | Directed by Wendy Champagne
This screening will take place at Colosseum Filmtheater Berlin.
This event includes bonus short film screening of The Yesmads by Carl West.
In May 1973, 10,000 artists, activists, hippies and visionaries converged on Nimbin for 10 days that changed a generation. Amid bliss, drugs and drama, the Aquarius Festival sparked a movement and a blueprint for sustainable change. Using rare footage, Aquarius explores its creation, aftermath and enduring legacy, establishment versus alternative, community versus individual and the radical wisdom still shaping lives today.
Director’s Bio
Wendy Champagne creates films and stories that are off-beat, personal, and unafraid, exploring hidden lives and the threads that connect us all. Beginning as a freelance correspondent in Southeast Asia, she became a published author, screenwriter, and award-winning documentary filmmaker while raising her first child in Nepal. Her films; Aquarius, Women of the Earth, Taxi, Love Under Cuban Skies, and Bas, span themes of exile, justice, redemption, spirituality, and social change. Wendy’s fiction and non-fiction have appeared in publications and TV series worldwide.
AU | 2024 | 9 min | Documentary | German Premiere | EN Subtitles | Director: Carl West
A reflection on solitude, community and freedom from some of those who have chosen to say "Yes!" to the Nomad life.
Director’s Bio
A self-taught filmmaker with roots in the music industry, Carl West made his directorial debut with The Yesmads, a self-shot documentary selected for All Shorts 2025 at the Academy Award and BAFTA-qualifying Flickerfest. With a deeply intuitive style, Carl is drawn to capturing unexpected beauty, and believes that everyone holds a story worth telling. Growing ever more comfortable behind the camera and in the director’s chair, he brings a poetic eye shaped by years of visual storytelling in music. Inspired by auteurs like Almodóvar, Cuarón, Noe and Dolan, he has plans to expand into directing feature length documentaries and narrative feature films