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The dream of owning your own home, perhaps with a garden: who can still afford that? Or the city apartment for the family without compromises. Living normally – why is that no longer possible for many people?
Witnesses recount how they experienced the bombing raid on Freiburg, a city in southern Germany, on November 27, 1944. At the time, they were still children. They also provide insights into how these experiences and the wartime period shaped their lives and how they view today’s world through the lens of those events.
I am the hero, I’ll remain, See only me, push you away, Embrace destruction, face the pain, Transforming swiftly in my own domain! Blind to my path, antisocial in my reign.
The tropical hall of the Düsseldorf zoo is altered by the encounter between a woman and the crocodile keeper. While observing and being observed by crocodiles, they talk about family memories with reptiles in Colombia, ghosts and the zoo's history.
The oppressive heat and their own bodies don’t make it too easy for Hans and Reinhard on their blind date.
This phonotrope animation is the outcome of a two-week workshop in which first-year students of Visual Communications at the Kunsthochschule Kassel participated. They visited the animation class with the aim of creating a short film that explored the theme of ‘revolution’ through their individual perspectives and ideas.
In Kohlberger’s second film that could be considered narrative driven, the artist fashions a dystopian fiction from the remnants of cinema’s past. Drawing on excerpts from obscure sci-fi films, The Electric Kiss imagines a world not unlike our own, in which people plug their brains into a kind of neuro-network that connects the whole of human consciousness. As cyberpunk imagery draped in VHS textures alternates with passages of prismatic visual noise (achieved, in trademark style, by feeding footage through self trained machine learning algorithms), a quasi-plot emerges: a man in a VR headset, literally and figuratively lost in space, subjects himself to a mysterious procedure to alleviate the ill effects of this new technology on the mind.
With the video installation "Sans histoire" the artist Maya Schweizer won this year's DAGESH Art Prize, which is jointly awarded by the Jewish Museum Berlin (JMB) and Dagesh. Jewish Art in Context. In her presentation, the artist deals with the Jewish Museum Berlin as a place of ritualized memory. She puts the question posed by the Kunst preis What now? From dystopias to utopias an open Without history. With the video installation Sans histoire , the artist Maya Schweizer won this year's Dagesh Art Prize, awarded jointly by the Jewish Museum Berlin (JMB) and "Dagesh - Jewish Art in Context". In her presentation, the artist deals with the Jewish Museum Berlin as a place of ritualized remembrance. It responds to the question “What now? From dystopias to utopias” an open “without history”.
A young Indian filmmaker, who has been living in Europe for a long time, returns to his native land to tell fragments of the history of his family and of India, until the next national elections. He finds himself on a journey through the country, meeting his friends and family as well as local inhabitants. A humanist "home"-movie imbued with melancholy.
Stones are witnesses of time, carried from the landscape into the architecture of a new world.
As the COVID-19 pandemic shutters Hamburg's legendary St. Pauli red-light district, residents fight back with solidarity and music while grappling with the question: Who is stronger—St. Pauli or the virus?
Taking the form of language exercises, Sous le soleil exactement is a tribute to the city symphonies of Berlin - a city whose inhabitants, streets and movements inspire the traveler's observations. Noa Blanche Beschorner returns to her native Germany and, through editing, creates a dialogue between spaces - sometimes populated, then deserted. A meditative film, where time and space set the tone.
A couple comes home from an event and gets into trouble because of an unexpected phone call.
Are Jewish people in Germany allowed to take a critical view of the war in Gaza? Or do they feel obliged to show solidarity with Israel? Amir wonders how he is perceived here as a peace-loving Jew. Infrared images offer the aesthetics of reversal. The invisible becomes visible, the visible alien. Noise-cancelling headphones momentarily silence the outside in favour of the inside.
A 3 minute Shortfilm playing with the expressionistic themes of the German Poem “D-Zug” by Gottfried Benn.
As children, they spent their summer vacations playing on building sites in what was then Yugoslavia; today, the dreams their parents realized there are now in their hands. The houses bear witness to the planned but repeatedly postponed return from Germany - as a made family and with the whole family. Left in the shell, carefully furnished or now threatened by decay, they are mostly uninhabited. The film is dedicated to these rooms in quiet shots; the five protagonists relate to them.
An Iranian woman who has just forcibly moved to Berlin after being targeted in her home in Tehran by security forces, is homesick for a country that no longer exists. As she moves through Berlin, she is confronted on her phone with images from Iran, where the death of Mahsa Amini as a result of police violence in 2022 sparked the “Woman Life Freedom” movement.
A female director makes a movie that turns out to be too close to home.
When The Great Erasure interrupts her reading of Dove’s story, The Black Girl goes in search of the author. After the Feminist Bookseller and Africanist Professor do not help her, she turns to The Revisionists, in whose cyberarchive she is able to locate Dove and the two spend an afternoon together. Told in the style of a ciné-roman, the film is an homage to Shaw and Dove’s “Adventure” novellas.
In Poeler Luft, Toni returns to her childhood home for a holiday: the Baltic Sea island of Poel. Thereby she is confronted with her past, which was characterised by racism.
Ritchie's youth has faded like the tattoos on his arm. When he tries to make friends with a group of young people one summer afternoon, it inevitably leads to misunderstandings. Only gradually does it become clear what Ritchie really wants.
2017 - I am travelling to Russia with a German tour group. I take the diary of Wehrmacht soldier Buff, killed in action in 1942 when he tried to give first aid to a Russian soldier, as my travel reading. Our itinerary intersects with places where he fought. I grew up in Russia. My grandmother toiled in Stalin's camps. 2022 - the conflict that Russia's attack on Ukraine triggered in me runs through the film. The journey to Russia was characterised by encounters between people whose parents' or grandparents' had common experiences - those of the Second World War. In brief moments of rapprochement, many questions remain unanswered - especially about the purpose of war.
Mona is a 22 year old trans girl from a small village in France. She puts needles attached to peacock feathers in her skin, under bright lights, late at night. She bleeds, half naked, in front of small crowds of people. Sometimes they faint whilst watching her. Why would she do this? How did she learn to do it? And why would someone want to watch?
The interrogation of a murder suspect by the police officer goes in the wrong direction and reveals deep secrets.
A young man needs to face his childhood trauma to hunt down the monster that killed his mother.
In an expansive desert, a unique cinematic experience comes to life on dome screens, each narrating a dystopian architectural story. Explore "High Rise Cult," where fragile skyscrapers float on balloons, "The Doomed City," inspired by Nicholas Roerich, and "Phygital Limbo," a digital world powered by human emotions. This immersive film seamlessly blurs the lines between architectural imagination and reality.
A close mother-daughter relationship is put to test by the extreme right-wing rise in Brazil. As the distance between them grows into an abyss, the mother decides to try to bring them together, but not by using words... using a camera.
The panda mascot Manju loses his job at the indoor playground "Frank's Fun House" as well as his purpose in life. Aimless and lonely, he wanders through dreary cityscapes and meets people who treat him with prejudice. Disillusioned and disappointed, he ends up back at "Frank's Fun House", but the "fun" comes to an end.
Artists Tolia Astakhishvili and James Richards’s collaboration cultivates a sense of ruin and renovation, an architectural ouroboros in which previously created work yields new use. In this digitally composed space, volume is collapsed, vertiginously upending our visual perception. The camera-eye floats unsteadily within it, as the soundtrack weaves together heterogeneous materials, further propelling and disorienting us through their world.
Ashnikko in a monster truck and a squad of develish beasts ride towards the sunset to battle the angelic overlord robots.
Inspired by US comedian and musician Bo Burnham, German YouTuber Lukas Weinandy attempts to stay sane and happy by writing, filming and performing a one-man comedy special.
The Afro-German actor Helen Wendt takes the audience on a journey along her family history between the GDR, Mozambique and West Berlin, while exploring how her identity and personal independence is embedded in the social context of Germany. In a hybrid approach, the film simultaneously follows members of independence movements in Mozambique, South Sudan, Great Britain, Catalonia and Bavaria, asking what it means for people to fight for their freedom. What does independence truly mean and how do colonialism and racism, the causes of many independence movements, define the world to this day?
The relationship between the human body and the perception of space in the field of today's use of technology is questioned by showing parts of the ancient Qi Gong dragon form.
The characters of this animation are little creatures looking like people without faces, clothes or emotions. They swim between strange islands and discover new lands lighting their way with drifting eyeballs.
A girl is left by her mother at a rehabilitation centre housed in a repurposed church. What begins as deadpan institutional farce slowly reveals something far more sinister lurking beneath the surface.
“Amarandos”, the flower whose colour lasts eternal, is a messy vase of memory, dealing with transitions to other realms, while in the incomprehensible process of mourning , making worlds out of loss and time. It is a celebration,that attempts through the story of my Pontiac grandmother and her gradual fade out of her physical body due to Alzheimer illness, to weave through our songs and dances, the spaces we make to meet each other. Through this experimental short documentary, cultural and intimate narratives bring up collective questions around vulnerability, resilience and survival ,affectionate strategies. Can dancing and singing our sorrow, create spells to disrupt the normative linear narrative of memory and channel ancenstral story tellings of empowerment and togetherness to now?
Fluorescent critters groove through a coastal world, led by a superior choir. Their carefree crawl, however, is increasingly disturbed by the rising seas.
With pictures by James Ensor and Alexander Kluge. The opera The Mute Girl of Portici tells the story of a young mute woman in Naples who is seduced by a prince. The prince abandons her and marries a princess. The mute woman has to watch and cannot protest. This opera by Auber is the only one in which no soprano sings. At its premiere in Brussels in 1831, the audience was so outraged by the girl who suffers and cannot express it, that they marched to the Palace of Justice and triggered the Belgian Revolution—one of the few liberal revolutions.
The story of people who refused to participate in the ongoing Russian-Ukrainian war due to their beliefs.
Lyonel Feininger's work is as individual and unmistakable as he is himself. As a classical modernist artist, he is difficult to categorize. He lived and worked in Germany for a long time. He began his career as a caricaturist, later became known as a painter and headed the printing workshops at the Bauhaus. His work cannot be classified as cubism or expressionism. The film visits places that inspired him, such as Paris, the villages around Weimar and, above all, the Baltic coast - many of which are reflected in Feininger's work and make the development of his oeuvre comprehensible.
And I measure deals with human-centered scientific experiments, exploring the concept of measurement when applied to ourselves. Our body parts, cleaned, fixed, connected, become an inexhaustible source of data. But why do we measure? What do we feel when we measure?
Short film by Florian Ecker.
Lilli, a young woman with a disability, has been living with her parents until now. She is facing a big change: moving into a supported living community.
Relatives of soldiers killed in Russia’s war against Ukraine are entitled to compensation — insurance payments, regional grants, and so-called “presidential” benefits. Altogether, the sum amounts to around 14 million rubles, divided among the closest family members. This film tells the stories of three women — Oksana Nazarenko from Karachay-Cherkessia, Natalia Makarova from St. Petersburg, and Anastasia Yudina from the Leningrad region. They are taking the fathers of their sons to court over the payouts, arguing that these men did not raise the children and were absent from their lives after divorce. For us, this is not a film about money, but about the psychology of many Russian families — where the figure of an absent father was replaced by cadet “brotherhood,” and poverty was compensated by the dream of a military career for a child.
The film puts the viewer in a state of mind that reflects what it might be like to receive a terrible diagnosis. Who am I if an important part of me can no longer be lived?
The weather is becoming increasingly extreme, and the damage it causes ever more massive. The reason for these changes: Climate change is causing air temperatures to rise. For every degree of warming, the atmosphere can absorb seven percent more water vapor. As a result, precipitation and thunderstorms are becoming more frequent and intense, and hailstones are becoming ever larger. The consequences are fatal. Extreme precipitation, hail, storms, and thunderstorms destroy cars, roofs, crops, and livelihoods. In Germany alone, the German Insurers' Association has calculated total damages of €5.7 billion for 2023.
The overall theme of "Vernacular Dreamscapes" is nature as a zone of the unknown and uncanny, an alien and alienated territory, a deserted zone. This is counteracted by the appearance of dreamlike and absurd phenomena and inscrutable cavernous architecture. A stringent plot is never revealed, reality remains vague. The zone is inhabited by places, dreams, voices and supernatural creatures and artifacts; drug-induced experiences are creating a psychedelic time-stretching experience. We’re reminded of so-called "Involuntary Parks“, forbidden areas made uninhabitable by human-made disasters. A primitive AI creates a world where Dhalgren meets The Never Ending Story in Stalker/Ballard territory.
