IEVA
A test is set up to see how a dog and a humanoid robot would respond to each other. Perhaps a less intelligent life form would be not as critical about what being alive means?
Benztown
A town is driven mad. The city of Stuttgart fights back with heavy action against its traffic chaos, with far reaching consequences. Other cities might follow the signal.
NHA MILA
After 14 years away from her homeland, Salomé is forced to return to Cape Verde to see her dying brother. It her on a spiritual journey, whose destination unfurls a painful bond with her homeland.
Cause of Death
Women’s bodies are always at risk. Through archival film footage, animation and spoken word poetry, structural violence against women is exposed.
You Are Always 20
A director gets hold of an old feature film from 2001, that he and his best friend made when they were 19. When he watches it he remembers his youth and understands why their friendship was lost.
Rocks and Crows
Lucas is playing in the yard of his building with his plastic pistol. But his game takes another turn when he starts playing with crows.
Nights and Days in July
During the light summer nights a woman finds herself alone in the city. She tries to get in contact with others over the phone and get out of her trapped boredom.
Dustin
In an abandoned warehouse, a crowd is dancing as one to fast techno music. Among them is Dustin, a young transgender. As the night draws on, collective hysteria morphs into sweet melancholy, and euphoria into yearning for tenderness.
Not Until Now
The connection to the land, to the source of the local communities and agricultural economies, becomes increasingly abstract and increasingly characterized by a lack of awareness. What does this lack of awareness do to our perception of the forest?
The Ballet of Service
At the International Butler Academy in Limburg, people from all over the world are trained to become a butler for the elite. Under a lot of pressure, they learn the old ways of butlering.
Inflorescence
Autumn again on planet Earth. A couple of rose petals in eternal solidarity enduring the great trouble of a heavy thunderstorm. A romantic conceptualism bedtime fable of resistance and redundancy, or the awkward ambivalence of truth, dream, life and love.
Reconstruction
A short dance film reconstructs a night in the 80’s when the director was 17 and the rules of the world were somewhat different.
