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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.
An der Saale hellem Strande
19 Min., Dokumentarfilm , Experimentalfilm , KurzfilmThe film deals with the memory of Delfin Guerra and Raúl Garcia Paret, two Cuban contract workers in the GDR who died in Merseburg in 1979. During a visual tour of the city, acoustic fragments from Stasi files, letters and Facebook chats condense into a reflection on forms of remembrance and racist continuities.
ANTIFA – Schulter an Schulter, wo der Staat versagte
93 Min., DokumentarfilmFor the first time, five Antifa activists speak publicly about the origins and practices of a movement that confronted the growing neo-Nazi scene after 1989. During the “baseball bat years”, it was often the only force standing between the far right and its targets.
Antonello Neri In-Provideo
90 Min., Biografie , Dokumentarfilm , MusicA biographical documentary about Antonello Neri, the L'Aquila pianist and composer whose artistic career began in the 1970s. His life and work are reconstructed through archival material, Neri's own recollections and the testimony of numerous companions and collaborators.
Autobahn
85 Min., DokumentarfilmA vast construction project is set to transform Germany's most notorious traffic bottleneck forever. Filmed over eight years, AUTOBAHN observes the people of Bad Oeynhausen as a building site reshapes their lives—a film about Germany, ordinary citizens and the great motorway.
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.
Block E, No. 5
13 Min., Dokumentarfilm , Experimentalfilm , KurzfilmThrough everyday gestures, sound, and spatial memory, the film reflects on displacement, home, and the affective residue of inhabiting places in transition.
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.
Coming off the Real Time, for a While
62 Min., DokumentarfilmA documentary about Swedish farmer Sven Axel, who never left his village yet travelled the globe in thought. At the margins of the day, he reflects on his work with nature, contemplates the limits of the universe, and quietly nurtures the dream of becoming a filmmaker himself.
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 , Experimentalfilm , 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.
