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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.
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.
Der Morgen im Kiefernwald
27 Min., Experimentalfilm , KurzfilmDER MORGEN IM KIEFERNWALD approaches a familiar phenomenon of our modern, ageing society: the loss of sight. Alongside the physical process of blindness, the film subtly evokes the geopolitical transformations that accompanied the end of the Cold War.
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 , 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.
Erst Nachts konnten wir traurig sein
8 Min., Dokumentarfilm , KurzfilmIn 1987, many Vietnamese people arrived in Germany as contract workers, hoping to build a new life. Nguyen Thi Le was one of them. On her sixtieth birthday, she looks back on her early years in Germany—a time marked by loneliness, homesickness and hope.
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.
In the middle of all things
10 Min., Experimentalfilm , KurzfilmWhat does the stone inside me stand for?
Kaltes Tal
12 Min., Dokumentarfilm , KurzfilmKALTES TAL explores, through a dialectical lens, our relationship to nature as both a repository of raw materials and a mystical realm of possibility.
