Rosa Hannah Ziegler
Germany
2014 / 0:15:45

An emotional and strongly subjective movie about the question of what “happiness” is. At 19, Yasmin is in search of her own happiness and trying to understand her life, as well as the difficult relationship with her mother, a former heroin addict.

Patrick Buhr
Germany
2015 / 0:12:00

"You are here, because you are boring. Let the audio-visual experience sink into your subconscious in order to become more exciting and fashionable." The journey leads through streets, clothing stores, forests and strange abstract worlds.

Isabella Gressner
Germany
2015 / 0:04:45

In our post-privacy world the river is a peripheral place for escaping desires in the digitized cities. To disappear is getting more and more difficult, since we multiply ourselves all the time. We are in a schizophrenic situation, we are observer and are observed at the same time. Where is the inside, where the outside? So we remain visible as resistant parallel runners in an dystopian environment, captured in an infinite loop.

Julia Finkernagel
Germany
2015 / 0:15:15

Strong-willed development aid worker Karla comes to Afghanistan in order to build a well. The villagers only treat her with reserve and the well is sabotaged by strangers repeatedly. The only person who could have the key to the causer is the Afghan girl Rona, but she remains silent. Her hard-bitten boss Reinhardt is no help either and when she learns that the Minister is coming to inaugurate the well the pressure rises. Next, red water trickles from the well. When Karla finally finds out who really is in charge of the attacks she realizes that her western notion of what is good for people is evaluated totally different in another culture. A story about willing yet failing to help.

Mona Kakanj
Germany
2014 / 0:04:30

Elephant is an experimental short film, focuses on perception. A young woman is swinging between two walls in an open space. Next she fights with herself in a box ring. The sceneries all happen in a dim light atmosphere. After a while, flashes of light, reveal the plot and actions are being unveiled.

Ewa Wikiel
Germany
2015 / 0:13:00

A night in a small polish village. Eight year old Kornel can't fall asleep. For the first time in his life he's confronted with a death in his family. At dawn he leaves the house to see if the world outside still exists and where the line between life and death is.