Displaced
War from different angles: a teenager who had to flee as a young girl. A young woman who lives in a peaceful country while her famliy is surrounded by war. A mersionary, who committs those crimes that traumatize not only the victims. A daugther who tells the story of her father and the battles for freedom he fought in vain and the family which is still in the land he had to leave behind. Grandchildren who can still feel the wounds of their grandparents, the phantom pain that cannot be localized. War leaves it's marks in different ways.
The Girl, Whose Shadow is Reflected in the Moon
Walaa is 16. She is from Syria, escaped the war and now lives in a refugee camp in Jordan. This is her diary, which she began in a 6-week video-workshop. She wants to show the world what she thinks, how she feels and how she sees the world.
- Jordanien
- 00:05:00
- Director: Walaa Al Alawi
- Production: Laura Doggett
- Photography: Walaa Al Alawi
- Editing: Walaa Al Alawi & Laura Doggett
- Music: Jameel Al Sakran
- Sound: n/a
- Languages: ar
- Subtitles: en
- Year: 2015
- Europe Premiere
War in Peace
A woman between Orient and Occident, between dream and reality, between escape and confrontation, between the war in Syria and peace in Germany. A film about the trauma of watching. Told through three very different animations.
- Deutschland
- 00:11:30
- Director: Luise Omar
- Production: Ingmar Böschen
- Photography: Animation!
- Editing: Luise Omar
- Music: Barcelona Gipsy Klezmer Orchestra,
Genre´s Klangbüro - Sound: Teis Syvsig
- Languages: de
- Subtitles: en
- Year: 2015
- Website
Le Boudin
"None of the people who were asked about me had seen me." LE BOUDIN documents the encounter of the young Elias Geißler with the testimony of Nuno Fialho who at the age of 16 found himself in the French Foreign Legion. "I didn’t enlist. They enlisted me."
- Portugal, Deutschland
- 00:16:30
- Director: Salomé Lamas
- Production: Salomé Lamas
- Photography: Salomé Lamas, Mónica Lima
- Editing: Salomé Lamas
- Music: oo
- Sound: Carlos Godinho, Bruno Moreira
- Languages: pt,de
- Subtitles: en
- Year: 2014
- Website
- Golden Key
- German Premiere
Orange Jam
The progressive approaches to writing the history of society instead of the history of individuals, are being suppressed once by the media society. The same in the Tunisian Spring, where it foregrounds single hero-stories, regardless of the real influence on the incidents. The vegetable seller set fire to himself on December 17, 2010. Later doubts about the suicide and political motivation came up. Confiture d'orange is a video essay that connects that incident to my own (bitter) history: My more than 80-year-old father with Tunisian origins, formerly a socialist activist, travelled back to his home country three years after Ben Ali's downfall. Back in Tunisia, my father, Abdelhac, didn't find the freedom he once fought for. Salafists had destroyed the mausoleum where my family is buried, one day before his arrival. Only the orange trees were still intact. Abdelhac picked several kilos and took them with him back to Morges, in Switzerland, where he cooked four big pots of marmelade for each of his four children. Whether it conserves bitter or sweet memories, is up to the viewer.
- Schweiz
- 00:07:50
- Director: Mounia Steimer
- Production: Mounia Steimer
- Photography: Mounia Steimer
- Editing: Mounia Steimer
- Music: Mounia Steimer
- Sound: Mounia Steimer
- Languages: fr
- Subtitles: en
- Year: 2014
- World Premiere
We Can't Come from Nothing
The film concentrates on the influence of family histories on contemporary personal life. How are events which took place during previous generations influential today? How to deal with family history when every trace is lost or if is kept secret? The viewer meets seven characters who share their individual and personal story, together they show how history results in a diversity of narratives and experiences. The film focusses on a particular part of the Jewish / Polish history.
- Polen, Niederlande
- 00:30:51
- Director: Eliane Esther Bots
- Production: E.E.Bots
- Photography: Eliane Esther Bots
- Editing: Eliane Esther Bots
- Music: Eliane Esther Bots
- Sound: Matthijs Tuijn
- Languages: pl
- Subtitles: en
- Year: 2014
- Golden Key
- German Premiere