Thank you very much for your prompt message and response! For that alone, you deserve to keep the registration fee. Your response is the most honorable I've yet experienced from a film festival. For that reason alone I will recommend you everywhere.

Regarding the length of my film, you are certainly right and then again you are not. I could shorten the movie slightly, for example to 80 minutes. But that would be like sending Martha to the screen without legs. There have already been a few festivals that wanted to show my three-hour slow documentary. However, I hadn't allowed it because, crazy as I am, I still think I have a small chance at important festivals, some of which require world premieres. You think nobody would show a three-hour documentary? Why not? Three- or four-hour feature films are also shown. Do documentaries have to be fundamentally worse or more boring than feature films? I don't think so. The Berlinale showed a 14-hour documentary this year. Perhaps my slow documentary is not too long, but still too short? With this not entirely serious statement, I would like to take my leave with the utmost respect for you and your work. I will never forget your reply.

Kind regards from Frank Sputh