Sparingly and in powerful images, CHINA LAKE depicts the everyday lives of four stranded people in the Nevada desert and their attempts to realise something like an interesting life between lethargy and humour.
Founded in 1952 in Mannheim as „Culture and Documentary Film Week“ and becoming the „International Film Wekk Mannheim in 1961, the International Film Festival Mannheim-Heidelberg got its current shape in 1994. Since 1963 Evangelical and Catholic juries award their prizes, being united to an Ecumenical Jury in 1995.
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