Recommended for ages 14 and up
Cute, fluffy, funny and always centering around us – that is how we like animals. As well as the rest of our environment, we like this sorted and in order. We form landscapes to our liking, cultivate what we like to eat, we domesticate, monitor and try to control nature via technical innovations. Our relationship to nature is determined so much by wishful thinking, that we can no longer distinguish between reality, projections and illusions. Four formally different approaches center around our relationship to environment and provoke us to reflect upon this. (Sarah Adam)
Ziya is fascinated by the little bird she found on the sidewalk. She takes him home, names him Icarus, teaches him tricks and films him. With time passing, she gets more and more emotionally attached to him, till one day the inevitable happens… While scrolling back through the images and films on her phone, Icarus gradually transcends his avian nature. He slowly transforms into an image himself, inviting a delicate reflection on the nature of human-pet-relationships.
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Premiere:
German Premiere
Nominated:
Goldener Key
A mysterious community of animals performs rituals in a church's basements, sheltered from humans. These animals have chosen to live self-sufficiently in this cellar. They each recount their personal stories, alternating between translations of personal experiences, autobiographical narratives from a cat’s perspective, and transcend between documentary storytelling, and complete fiction.
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Very small beings are often behind major events on the planet. HOVERING OVER US observes mosquitoes, the tiny creatures that float around us. The hybrid film dives into a reality where the smallest creatures have become unpredictably significant. Past, present, and the imaginative overlap and create strange visions, where uncanny details start to resemble prophecies, and a human becomes a tiny piece of the big buzzing puzzle.
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Premiere:
German Premiere
Nominated:
Goldener Key
- Director: Hanna Kaihlanen
“In southern California, agriculture is practiced in an extremely intensive manner, even by global standards, despite increasing water scarcity. VALLEY PRIDE conveys impressions of a region that, thanks to the skillful choice of setting, sometimes seems like an unknown planet. Oversized harvesting machines eat their way through fields, poorly paid and mostly (illegal) migrant workers collect the “pride of the valley”. An impressive soundtrack by Jung an Tagen contributes a great deal to this short-film menetekel.” (Bert Rebhandl / sickpackfilm)
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