How To Cook Your Life

Doris Dörrie
Germany
2007

When you wash the rice, wash the rice, when you cut the carrots, cut the carrots, when you stir the soup, stir the soup.

93", Betacam SP
Color, English – German with English subtitles

about the film

How to Cook Your Life is a cheerful documentary about the art of cooking and the art of gently cooking your life without burning it, putting too much salt or over-doing it. "When you're cooking you're not just cooking, not just working on food, you are also working on yourself, on other people" proclaims Edward Espe Brown, a chef and Zen Master who teaches cooking classes at Buddhist centers around the world. A wise, lively and funny teacher (he often dons a “Born again Buddhist” t-shirt), Espe Brown’s comments on life, cooking and zen are never self-important. In fact, most sound like simple recipes from the kitchen. "Rest in the immediate as though it was infinity," he says with a chuckle and reminds us that cooking with your hundred percent attention goes against the grain of this culture's emphasis on multitasking. Enjoy this year’s What the Bleep do we Know?!.

about the director

Doris Dörrie was born in 1955 in Hanover, Germany. After studying acting, philosophy and psychology in the USA, she studied at the Academy of Television & Film in Munich, where she is an instructor today. She has served as jury at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival. In addition to directing, she is a celebrated writer with best selling novels such as Was machen wir jetzt and Das blaue Kleid. In 1989, with her husband Helge Weindler and Thomas Muller, they built their production company (Kobra Produktions GmbH). Manner..., Bin Ich Schön? and Mitten in Herz are a couple of her award winning films.

awards

2007 Berlin Film Festival
Warsaw Film Festival

screenings

February 17 Sunday, 7:30 PM AFM Fitaş Beyoğlu 1

February 19 Tuesday, 1:00 PM AFM Fitaş Beyoğlu 1

February 24 Sunday, 3:30 PM AFM Fitaş Beyoğlu 1

February 29 Friday, 7:30 PM AFM CEPA Ankara 4

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