Recommended for ages 14 and up
Making images of the world and adding images to others is one of the basic movements of cinema. Therein lies its possibility to make complex relationships visible and palpable. Between us and that which surrounds us, for example. The program assembles five films questioning the habitability of our planet: of opportunities to move in it, of the powers making it inhabitable, of power and resistance, of the traces we leave, when we navigate it, of the attempts to appropriate it and of the moments in which it becomes too small. (Sebastian Markt)
A traffic training area in Dortmund’s north. Appearance scooter from the right. Youths pose by the mini-traffic island one-by-one, talk to the camera about the meaning that participation in individualized traffic, which they are currently practicing, has to them. Freedom of movement, small desires and responsibilities: “Here, it is no society,” says one of the boys and means the secured space of the training area. But in Dean Fischer’s group portrait vignette, society becomes readable: a horizon of expectation in transition to adult life.
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Nominated:
A38-Production Grant Kassel-Halle
Leaves moving in the wind, a distant glare onto a smoking factory chimney, make-shift housing of a protest camp, the grotesque monster of a huge mining machine devouring the soil and the inhospitable moon-scape it leaves behind; an abandoned village. With a calm view, Lucas Dülligen focuses on the open pit mining around Lützerath and creates with a quiet montage an archaeological miniature of the relationship between society and nature: Landscape and utilization, exploitation and resistance, human and inhuman time calculation.
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Premiere:
World Premiere
Nominated:
Goldener Key
Handstands on the table tennis plate, skating between the blocks: a group of young people in a Viennese social housing complex make the place their own. Lotte Schreiber makes a film, not about, but with the young people. The film picks up from the snapshot and delves into the history of the settlement, war hospital, civil war site, last residence of Jews before deportation. And gives the word back to the young people, who reflect together on what it can mean for them to be at home here.
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Premiere:
Nominated:
A38-Production Grant Kassel-Halle
- Director: Lotte Schreiber
In Cuban slang, “perdularia” is a word that is not easy to translate, perhaps it could be understood as a feminine form of “good-for-nothing”. The girls in a school class call each other that. There is something melancholy in the images, and time and again there is talk of those who are no longer here. Manu Zilveti observes the girls, listens to their conversations and finds images that express something physical: of relationships to a specific place and to each other. An image emerges of a farewell to one phase of life and the beginning of something else.
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Premiere:
World Premiere
Nominated:
A38-Production Grant Kassel-Halle
