Spielberg - A german village (Germany) by Adrian Sagolla

A small village deep in the Swabian Forest. The last village store is about to close. Between nostalgia and decline, idyll and bleakness, five people share their perspective on society and a place that, in many ways, reflects a time that no longer exists. A documentary that captures the spirit of life in the microcosm of a german village.

Running time: 00:29:49

Voice Notes on Death (Germany) by Romy Persaud Drennan, Harry Crampton

A film about mortality. We asked friends and family about their relationship with death, a topic we had not openly discussed with them before. A collection of voice notes are woven together with Super 8 footage. Filmed over the course of one month during winter in Berlin.

Running time: 00:19:55

Nathalie, Nathalie (Germany) by Matias Dumas

Nathalie is an alumna of the puppetry program at HfS Ernst Busch in Berlin. Years after graduating, she revisits a puppet she created during her final year: a self-portrait. She brings it back to life in an attempt to face what she’s been going through these past few months.

Running time: 00:06:30

This week doesn't really exist (Germany, Poland) by Piotr Goldstein, Olga Łojewska, Maksymilian Awuah

Every day thousands of people in Polish regions bordering Germany wake up in the middle of the night and travel 2-3 wours each way to work in one of the many warehouses in Brandenburg or the giga-factory producing electric cars in Grünheide, close to the Polish border. This short, polyphonic film relates the experience of such cross-border commuters. Through a simple circular narrative that mirrors time dilation, repetitive highway landscapes, and passing hours, the film visualises the embodied experience of everyday circular migration.

Running time: 00:04:33

Blessed Are Those Who Grieve (Germany) by Zora Arose Ritz, Evgenia Chetvertkova, Kayu Yeung

Blessed Are Those Who Grieve is a collective experimental short / essay film—a fragment of a surreal inner landscape. Two performers torment themselves with immense sorrow in sand and slime, while a narrator from Hong Kong, speaking in a dreamlike monologue, attempts to rename a trauma that has been forced into forgetting.

Running time: 00:14:20

Unscarred (Belgium) by Théo Roland

This is the story of the evolving relationship between a mother and her son. The mother is bipolar and has violent outbursts. After years, the mother becomes stable, and they decide to make a film together, playing themselves in it. This move symbolizes the end of their chaotic journey.

Running time: 00:21:35