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BITING THE DUST
13 Min., Experimentalfilm , KurzfilmThe second chapter of the LAST THINGS trilogy examines Christian ideas of the afterlife, asking which living beings are admitted to heaven—and which are shut out.
Boy
30 Min., Dokumentarfilm , Kurzfilm»BOY« narrates through pictures of urban environments and close observations the lives of a girl which is raised as a boy in Afghanistan and a young afghan singer, who now lives in London but wore boys clothes to be more free in afghan society.
Buck Fever
6 Min., Experimentalfilm , KurzfilmBUCK FEVER assembles a collage of amateur footage in which hunters capture the tension before an animal is shot and the release that follows, proudly posing for the camera beside their kill.
Habitat
79 Min., DokumentarfilmAlong the shores of Germany's largest artificial lake, HABITAT enters the worlds of former miners, women observing nature and asylum seekers from different backgrounds.
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.
La Duna
93 Min., DokumentarfilmBeginning with the rumour that Silvio Berlusconi stole a sand dune from Sardinia's southern coast, LA DUNA circles a single question: who owns the land? A collection of strange, fairytale-like, absurd and true stories unfolds around power, property and resistance.
LAKE OF FIRE
11 Min., Experimentalfilm , KurzfilmThe third chapter of the LAST THINGS trilogy explores the fear of death, its close association with hell in Christian belief, and the way this worldview further inflames visions of a climate-driven “hell on Earth”.
LITTLE LOWER THAN THE ANGELS
13 Min., Experimentalfilm , KurzfilmThe first chapter of the LAST THINGS trilogy examines the relationship between religion and speciesism, while asking whether anthropocentric systems of belief have any future.
Motherland
4 Min., Kurzfilm , MusicMOTHERLAND returns to the persistent question of belonging between two cultures, as artist ANOTHER NGUYEN searches for reconciliation with herself and her roots.
MY BBY 8L3W
3 Min., Experimentalfilm , KurzfilmMY BBY 8L3W explores the phenomenon of women proudly presenting their dogs and cats on YouTube, declaring their love for their furry companions with exuberant enthusiasm.
RISE UP - Haunted bei nigthmares, looking for dreamers
89 Min., DokumentarfilmAcross four continents and four decades, RISE UP revisits political upheavals as a fiery plea against the growing sense of political powerlessness in an age of deepening crises.
SSRC
20 Min., Dokumentarfilm , Experimentalfilm , KurzfilmShot in the suburbs of South Los Angeles, Yalda Afsah's short film SSRC focuses on the relationship between trained pigeons and their keepers, exploring mutual dependence and care, domestication and dominance—and ultimately the agency of human and non-human beings.
