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Funder Kulturstiftung des Freistates Sachsen

The Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony strengthens artistic diversity, new forms of expression, and cross-border collaboration. Based in Dresden, the non-profit foundation has supported projects in visual art, literature, music, theatre, dance, film, new media, cultural heritage, and monument preservation since 1993. It supports emerging artists, awards scholarships in Germany and abroad as well as prizes such as the Saxon Initiative Award for Art and Culture, and works closely with cultural institutions and artists.

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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

Buck Fever

6 Min., Experimentalfilm , Kurzfilm

BUCK 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.

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Buck Fever

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

Habitat

79 Min., Dokumentarfilm

Along the shores of Germany's largest artificial lake, HABITAT enters the worlds of former miners, women observing nature and asylum seekers from different backgrounds.

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Habitat

Sandgirl

84 Min., Dokumentarfilm

An award-winning and beautifully animated journey into the creative world of Veronika Raila. As a child her IQ tested as zero – she now creates as a poet and cross-platform artist.

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Sandgirl

Starting with Fragments

80 Min., Dokumentarfilm

Tamer Alawam risked his life to capture images of the war in Syria and move the West to intervene. But how does German society respond to images such as these?

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Starting with Fragments

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