A stop-motion and 2D animated short film about damage and how we deal with it, visualized through a fragile space that receives a clumsy visitor. It is an exploration by the creator into material, technique, and learning to open up.
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A film directed from exile: through her brother’s lens, the director seeks to capture the lives of Iran’s nomadic women who weave carpets – a powerful metaphor for feminine creation and resistance. Their collaboration also carries a symbolic weight: patriarchal structures seem to be repeated on the surface, yet in truth it is the woman who leads, decides, and shapes the narrative.
As a nun, Elisabeth‘s faith is unshakeable. But shortly before taking her final vows, a love from her youth reappears, stirring memories of the past and long-buried desires. Now Elisabeth must choose: will she devote her life to the convent, or is love more important after all?
A bizarre dream like a pink bubble of chewing gum. Stumbling onto the stage in curlers and pink silk pyjamas. About self-doubt and the courage to show yourself as you are.
Upon receiving a diagnosis of vaginismus, Lorena begins a kinesiological therapy in which she expresses her insecurities about her body and becomes aware of her fears.
Pliegues de Pausalina is a conceptual journey that traces time through the nostalgia of memory. In the highlands of the towns of southern Mérida, every wrinkle and every crack in the landscape is a fold that harbors the silenced history of Pausalina. This body, a living archive that safeguards family identity, confronts silence in a poetic act that unfolds the layers of a life marked by rurality, revealing the intimate connection between the ancestral body and the territory that endures.
The Atlantic migration route is one of the most dangerous escape routes in the world. It leads from the West African coast—from countries such as Senegal, Gambia, and Mauritania—across the open Atlantic to the Spanish Canary Islands. Despite the great risks, thousands of people venture across the sea every year in simple, often overloaded wooden boats. Many of them disappear without a trace at sea.
Instead of the typical image of the suffering trans man, this experimental documentary focuses on the joy and euphoria that trans men experience in their everyday lives. The short film shows excerpts from the lives of four trans men as they describe and demonstrate their hobbies, personal projects, and gender experiences.
A documentary film about Laura Halding-Hoppenheit, an LGBTIQ* and AIDS activist who became an icon in Stuttgart through her tireless commitment. The film crew accompanies her in her everyday life and provides insights into the places that have shaped her work and her life. These include the town hall and the currently closed 'Kings Club' – an internationally renowned meeting place in the scene for many decades. The team also accompanies Laura to the studio of her husband Peter Jacobi, which adds another dimension to her everyday life alongside her political work.
55 kilograms. That is the upper limit of the weight jockeys are allowed to carry in a race. Most weigh even less than that. They usually only know their horse for a few minutes, but they are expected to lead it to victory and make its owner proud and rich. Every race also means: mortal danger. "It's not a question of whether you fall, but when" – a common saying in the jockey scene, which top jockey Tommaso Scardino knows only too well. The film crew accompanies him as he trains in preparation for the season.
A young man embarks on a terrifying experience that leaves him trapped in a state of paralysis, where a dark presence stalks him and plunges him into an abyss of fear and despair.