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13 Min., Dokumentarfilm , Experimentalfilm , KurzfilmA ghost-train ride through the former industrial region of Halle/Bitterfeld, a place trying to shed its reputation. Just beneath the newly polished surface, the recent past remains deposited. The subjective camera of the filmmakers, born in “Dark Germany,” stumbles in search of the right distance.
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Alles gehört zu dir
13 Min., Dokumentarfilm , KurzfilmFeeling different—or feeling that she does not belong—is nothing new to Yen Nguyen: be whiter, have more German friends. From her new life in Oslo, 900 kilometres from her family, she journeys back to her roots, confronting questions of self-acceptance, identity and family.
An der Saale hellem Strande
19 Min., Dokumentarfilm , Experimentalfilm , KurzfilmThe film deals with the memory of Delfin Guerra and Raúl Garcia Paret, two Cuban contract workers in the GDR who died in Merseburg in 1979. During a visual tour of the city, acoustic fragments from Stasi files, letters and Facebook chats condense into a reflection on forms of remembrance and racist continuities.
ANTIFA – Schulter an Schulter, wo der Staat versagte
93 Min., DokumentarfilmFor the first time, five Antifa activists speak publicly about the origins and practices of a movement that confronted the growing neo-Nazi scene after 1989. During the “baseball bat years”, it was often the only force standing between the far right and its targets.
Autobahn
85 Min., DokumentarfilmA vast construction project is set to transform Germany's most notorious traffic bottleneck forever. Filmed over eight years, AUTOBAHN observes the people of Bad Oeynhausen as a building site reshapes their lives—a film about Germany, ordinary citizens and the great motorway.
Deine schöne Hölle
117 Min., SpielfilmAlicia, a narcissist with borderline tendencies, and Yann, drawn to emotional dependency, fall into a toxic relationship that turns him into her co-dependent. Unable to break free even as the affair wears him down, Yann watches it gradually consume his life.
The Effect of Cannonry on Thunderclouds
30 Min., Dokumentarfilm , Experimentalfilm , KurzfilmIn 2016, Germany recorded more potential tornados than ever before. At the same time, weather tropes flooded screens and feeds: shit storms, data floods, refugee waves. The film reads images as documents, fictions and instruments of control — where fear, manipulation and prediction begin to merge.
Dunkelblau, wie ich mich fühle
20 Min., Dokumentarfilm , Experimentalfilm , KurzfilmAmid the concrete tower blocks, fifteen-year-old Gerda Müller confronts her loneliness alongside filmmaker Lan Mi Lê. Moving through a tangle of emotions, she explores questions of identity, family and friendship—and answers the dark blue of her life with song, performance and TikTok videos.
Fronteras Visibles
16 Min., Dokumentarfilm , Experimentalfilm , KurzfilmDuring an artist residency in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, Christian Diaz Orejarena questions the role of Western artists as cultural producers in economically marginalised contexts. Taking the form of a video diary, the film reflects on the circumstances in which the music video “Fronteras Visibles” was made.
Hamburger Gitter
78 Min., DokumentarfilmBurning cars, twenty governments and 31,000 police officers leave a city traumatised. Years after the G20 summit, police still pursue hundreds of suspects by every available means, politicians demand severe sentences, the courts comply, and the few critical voices fade beneath a general clamour for law and order.
In the middle of all things
10 Min., Experimentalfilm , KurzfilmWhat does the stone inside me stand for?
La Boxe
28 Min., Dokumentarfilm , KurzfilmIn LA BOXE, bodies speak in place of words: a cinematic balancing act between force and grace that makes the quiet poetry of boxing palpable anew—raw, precise and free of narrative intervention.
