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Funder FFA – German Federal Film Board

The FFA strengthens German film from development and production through to domestic and international distribution. As Germany’s central national film funding institution, it supports both commercial and artistic films across genres, preserves the country’s film heritage, and promotes film education and film culture. Through grants, loans, scholarships, awards, and programmes such as Next Generation Short Tiger, it also supports emerging film professionals, cultural diversity, and the international visibility of German cinema.

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Les Rites de Passage

14 Min., Experimentalfilm , Kurzfilm

A cloud of ash settles softly upon the currents of a river. Light enters the heart of a tree through a myriad of tiny holes. Monoculture forests succumb to parasites and become fertile ground for forms of life still to come. A film about earthly and mythological passages through becoming and decay.

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Les Rites de Passage

LITTLE LOWER THAN THE ANGELS

13 Min., Experimentalfilm , Kurzfilm

The first chapter of the LAST THINGS trilogy examines the relationship between religion and speciesism, while asking whether anthropocentric systems of belief have any future.

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LITTLE LOWER THAN THE ANGELS

BITING THE DUST

13 Min., Experimentalfilm , Kurzfilm

The 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.

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BITING THE DUST

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”.

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LAKE OF FIRE

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.

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