CN: Thematization of torture and extreme violence
Globalization means movement, acceleration until stagnation. Stories reach us from the road, personal and impersonal, linked to the places and non-places of their creation. From the forced-laborer mines on the japanese island Sado, we emerge and submerge again in the southwest of the US. There a trafficking survivor testifies. Between Germany and Korea sounds the echoless choir of expats and remainers. Eventually we have to face the question, what remains when even your own city becomes foreign? Which ways are lost, which are still to discover? (Theresa George, Jessica Manstetten)
Since the seventh century AD, Sado has been called the "island of exile". Unwelcomed people by the shogunate such as homeless, artists and politicians were exiled, some of them even put to forced labour in the mines. Their spirits, trapped in the depths of the earth, will never see the sky again.
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Premiere:
German Premiere
Nominated:
A38-Production Grant Kassel-Halle
In breathtaking words, Germán López Rosales from Mexico talks about his experience during a human-smuggling operation from the Mexican border town Laredo to San Antonio, Texas. Locked up inside a tractor-trailer, eight out of 39 immigrants died that day next to Germán because of extreme heat and lack of water. Two others died later in the hospital. Distant wide angle shots of the deserted Texan landscapes, suburbs and highways create a strong contrast to Germán's intimate testimony.
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Premiere:
German Premiere
- Director: Bernhard Hetzenauer, Bernhard Hetzenauer
The work alludes to the use of the word “wave” in German media, such as “migrant tsunami” and “migrant wave”, used to intimidate the public. The film suggests the flow of migration as a natural part of human existence by comparing it to the movement and circulation of waves that have always been everywhere.
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Premiere:
Europe Premiere
- Director: Kodac Ko, Johannes Malfatti
During a virtual walk on Google StreetView, the artist questions the dissonance between the way the city is depicted on these maps and it's actual appearance today, compared to her own personal changes over time. A walk that will not take place, that can no longer take place. Everything that could have happened, in a reality that no longer exists.
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Nominated:
A38-Production Grant Kassel-Halle