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Umbra

20 Min., Experimentalfilm , Kurzfilm

A shimmering light, the rustle of the leaves, round spots of light in the shade of a tree. The sun reflects on the water. It is an element and counterpart. Can nature observe itself? A cinematic reflection on the presence and absence of things.

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Umbra

Spin

80 Min., Experimentalfilm

Beginning with a rotational movement, SPIN places mobility and difference, relationality and the absence of answers at the centre of an inquiry poised between theoretical physics and Sufism.

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Spin

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.

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Boy

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

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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SSRC

Der Morgen im Kiefernwald

27 Min., Experimentalfilm , Kurzfilm

DER 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.

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Der Morgen im Kiefernwald

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

Farah

75 Min., Dokumentarfilm

FARAH follows an Afghan teenager raised as a boy under the “Bacha Posh” tradition as she searches for her identity in Germany.

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Farah

Lichter der Straße

86 Min., Dokumentarfilm

Searching for women who live on the move, the filmmaker encounters a travelling craftswoman, a woman living in a van and two Yenish women. Through poetic words and images, she follows their paths—and discovers hidden spaces of transit amid Germany's ordered landscapes.

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Lichter der Straße

Moretones

89 Min., Dokumentarfilm

Animal spirits wander through the night. Bruises appear on people‘s bodies. Echoes of displacement and slavery of Afro-descendants find resonance in the melancholic landscapes of the Mexican Costa Chica.

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Moretones

La Duna

93 Min., Dokumentarfilm

Beginning 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.

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La Duna

Inverse geometry

10 Min., Experimentalfilm , Kurzfilm

Inverse Geometry unfolds a fictional story about the crossing of intimate boundaries. At the centre of its cinematic inquiry is the domestic interior: its furnishings, its objects, and the ways in which they are spatially inscribed within architecture.

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Inverse geometry