What is the movie about?

Nicholas Abrahams: It’s about how interesting and inventive people are and it’s also about things like music that do change the world. Also I just wanted to make a film which showed fans in a positive light, rather than looking down on them as mindless consumers who will buy an endless stream of a product by a band.
Jeremy Deller: It’s a film about Depeche Mode fans around the world and the influence of the band worldwide

What do you find fascinating about ›fans‹?

NA: We are (hopefully) all fans. The band would be nothing without the devotees, but all the media coverage is always about the bands. These people, ›the fans‹ are pretty creative in their own rights, making t-shirts, banners, music etc.
JD: I agree.

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Jim Libiran would have loved to personally present his music feature film, set in the HipHop sub-culture of the Philipines, to the Hamburg audience, giving background details, informing about his new project as well as discussing with the audience.

Unfortunately, due to financial reasons, Jim Libiran could not come to Hamburg for the festival. (Remember: UNERHÖRT! is a small non-commercial festival, operated by a team of volunteers and dependent on donations and sponsorship money.)

Thus, Jim Libiran wrote an open letter to the UNERHÖRT! team and audience: a touching document which we want to publish:

To the staff and programmers of UNERHÖRT! 2009, and to you kind audience of today's screening of TRIBU, my deepest gratitude.

I write to you today (3:00 pm, 27th November, Manila time), faced with two challenges: One is a shocking online report about the killing of 57 people in Maguindanao province in the south (where 27 journalists were killed and women were shot in the genitals). The other, a short questionnaire from a college student here asking me this: "If independent cinema gets very little audience, hence NO EFFECT, why do you keep on making films?". A mass killing and an innocent question, both as shocking and as intimidating as the other.


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