A boy arrives at the beach and decides to record an audio message for his friend. He talks about his fear, his loneliness, and this strange desire to disappear for a while. As the sea moves, he tries to understand how far this pain will go.
A short film that explores the concept of “gender ideology” as invoked by global political and cultural leaders. It opens with provocative quotes from figures such as Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Viktor Orbán, and others — e.g., “They are planting a time bomb in our national structure.”
An alien student enrolled in an exchange program comes to Earth to experience a real life human school. However, upon arrival they are quick to be othered by the terrible, horrifying beasts known as middle schoolers. An unsuccessful attempt at fitting in later, they are approached by a lone boy that knows exactly how it feels to fall outside of the norm.
Bakobi just wanted to sleep, but she is awakened by a loud noise. A vacuum cleaner monster appears and she tries to escape. After an exciting chase, she is lured back into the house by the smell of her favorite food. Her meal makes her forget all about the scary vacuum cleaner, so she can finally fall asleep and dream again.
Ren wakes up from a hysterical fit, holding a prescription for something that is supposed to alleviate PMS. She sets off to pick up her medication. When she takes it, she realizes that she may have been prescribed something ineffective. Angry and disappointed, she loses her temper and collapses, whereupon the pill machine spits out another random prescription.
Maryam, an Iranian woman, is accompanied by a film crew for a documentary about her everyday life. However, during filming, it becomes increasingly clear that the biased image the director wants to portray of Maryam in his documentary may not correspond at all to how Maryam sees herself and her situation, or how she wants to be seen.
Frankfurt's railway station district is a place full of contrasts: visible, raw, loud. Right in the middle of it all is "YokYok," a late-night shop that is more than just a retail space. Here, Nazim and his boys have been selling drinks, cigarettes, and all kinds of small items for years. But if you stay a little longer, you quickly realize that it's not just goods stacked between the shelves, but also stories.
Someone lies in bed staring at the ceiling—at a framed picture of a horse that proclaims with stoic confidence: "You can do anything." Becoming an adult for the first time. Is this what it feels like? The room remains motionless, the voice-over unfolds a stream of thoughts. Fragmented observations and reflections on life, dreams, and resistance. The daily struggle for survival in a fragile world between longing and powerlessness, stagnation and movement.
No technology has caused as much of a stir in recent years as artificial intelligence. However, understanding what AI is depends on the perspective of the observer. A short film attempts to describe a realistic perspective on this phenomenon. Therefore, the film's presentation refers to the actual form of AI: individual lines of code.
What happens when humanity fails to learn from its mistakes? Fairytale images, symbols, and transformations speak to show the past as a living resonance chamber. "Once upon a time" becomes a touchstone for the present. Fairy tales with motifs of loss, transformation, and rescue form a cultural echo that extends beyond childhood. At the center is a dialogue with photographer Gerty Deutsch. Based on her images, Catrine Val developed a new, cinematic-poetic language in which singing becomes the ultimate form of expression—where words no longer suffice.
The War in Kassel and Chongqing - Explorations from the protagonist's perspective. She travels through the last words and remnants of the war to Chongqing and Kassel, two cities 7,900 kilometers apart. Although she lived there for a long time, she never experienced the war herself. As someone who grew up in a world heavily influenced by electronic media, images nevertheless give her an idea of the pain and depth. Images make the extent of the war visible and allow the horrors to be felt even beyond actual experience.
"What kind of times are these, when talking about trees is almost a crime? Because it implies silence about so many misdeeds!" Bertolt Brecht from the poem "To Those Born After," written in exile in Denmark between 1934 and 1938. A poetry film.
In her essayistic documentary film, Katrin Esser stages the story of her mother, who suffers from Alzheimer's disease. The course of the illness is told from two perspectives: that of the Polish caregiver Violetta and that of the daughter. They take turns recounting their experiences, the limits of care, excessive demands, working conditions, exploitation within the system, and death. The only filming location is the apartment, which alternates between living space, museum, and crime scene. Esser's staging reveals layers of memory and shows that remembering and forgetting are very individual processes.
In a mosaic of games, films, and media, the protagonist's perspective, a fragmented state of mind, merges, and the boundaries between reality and dreams dissolve. 1g of quetiapine, both a remedy and a means of forgetting, dampens the heart and shatters identity. The film collage reflects on the medicalization of mental suffering and the loneliness that lies in synthetic calm. Through chaotic layers of media, it shows how the self is not healed, but rather rendered illegible and suspended in a borderline state between sedation and despair.
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