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junges dokfest: System Bypass


(KulturBahnhof Kassel)

Welcome Class

People with different cultural backgrounds are sitting together in a classroom and are listening to their own dialogs. We are in a high school in Berlin Lichtenberg in a so-called “welcome class”. The ultimate goal of these classes is to acquire language skills and develop a basis for integration. Teachers and students talk about their experiences and impressions. How can this different knowledge get into a productive exchange? Who learns from whom and how? The model “welcome class” is both offer of integration and rules. It oscillates between the idea of adaptation and the promotion of contact between young refugees and Germans.… >>>

  • Duration: 19 Min.
  • Director: Constanze Fischbeck

Mülltaucher

Someone is looking for food in a dark backyard in the trash. A garbage diver. 11 million tons of food are trashed every year in Germany – a large part of which is still edible! The film accompanies two young men on their mission to fight against the waste of food.… >>>

  • Duration: 10 Min.
  • Director: Marie Schädlich

Shadow Light

A young woman looking for the night of her life. She lets herself drift. Maybe she can break her daily routine, cross borders and live in the moment. Like a nightwalker she heads for bars and clubs. A party night becomes a symbol for the yearning for love and truthfulness, for the unknown. The lights of the night cast dark shadows and reveal innermost desires and fears.… >>>

  • Duration: 7 Min.
  • Director: Alain Guillebeau

Wall Calls

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.… >>>

  • Duration: 9 Min.
  • Nominated: Goldener Key
    • Director: Katharina Bintz

    Above All Things

    Over the rooftops of the city, the view from a crane cabin. We see how everything on the ground goes its usual course. We hear a conversation from two young men. The crane operator and the filmmaker. A conversation about "God and the world". In this tiny cabin of the crane, two worlds collide. With much curiosity and amazement, a verbal exchange of blows arises, in which both shed feathers but never lose the respect for "the other".… >>>

    • Duration: 13 Min.
    • Director: Florian Schurz