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2022

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Alles gehört zu dir

13 Min., Dokumentarfilm , Kurzfilm

Feeling 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.

Alles gehört zu dir

Dunkelblau, wie ich mich fühle

20 Min., Dokumentarfilm , Experimentalfilm , Kurzfilm

Amid 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.

Dunkelblau, wie ich mich fühle

LAKE OF FIRE

11 Min., Experimentalfilm , Kurzfilm

The 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”.

LAKE OF FIRE

Lilītu

25 Min., Experimentalfilm , Kurzfilm

Jón's quiet life is upended when he discovers a body preserved in the glacier's ice—and must decide whether to report the find or keep it hidden.

Lilītu

Nasim

85 Min., Dokumentarfilm

Stranded in Moria, the EU's largest refugee camp, Nasim battles her own fears and the camp's brutal conditions in pursuit of a self-determined life. When Moria burns to the ground in September 2020, every glimmer of hope seems extinguished.

Nasim

Saft

5 Min., Animationsfilm

A gaggle of fleshy, damp creatures gleefully smears itself with viscous juice. Will they learn to share their world with the pesky little crawlers before the juice runs dry?

Saft

SSRC

20 Min., Dokumentarfilm , Experimentalfilm , Kurzfilm

Shot 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.

SSRC