A flight over the desert leads us to a highway, splitting the landscape. In its center, a bright, dazzling yellow line. Following this line, we find machines that roam across the veins and arteries of Los Angeles. Tirelessly, they paint, and repaint the line, in an endless roundabout. We encounter the men who work the machines and reflect on their particular role in society, contributing to the fascinating fabric of a gigantic city spreading over the world.… >>>
A park in the summer. Every day a woman comes with her children to call for her husband. She can not see her husband but she can hear him. She told her children that the father was on vacation. But why does Mama keep calling him? A wall separates the mother and her children from the father. If she's in the park, she'll be fine for an hour or two, she says.… >>>
Nominated:
Goldener Key
- Director: Katharina Bintz
In the fall of 2005, three teenagers say their good-byes to their father. Two days later, he is executed by the State of Texas. Ronald Howard Sr. had seen his children Tikeira, JaBoria and Ronald Jr. grow up from behind bullet-proof glass. As an 18-year-old, he had been convicted after fatally shooting a police officer. Ten years after the execution of the death sentence, NO FUCKING ICE CREAM explores what traces the father's death has left in the lives of his children, now young adults. All three are determined to take their fate into their own hands – but they keep suffering setbacks that seem predetermined by their traumatic family history. NO FUCKING ICECREAM is a tender film about loss and pain, about gangs and drugs, about love and guilt, hope, and vicious circles. And it is, last but not least, a film about systemic racism in America today.… >>>
Nominated:
Goldener Key
- Director: Agnes Lisa Wegner
