This film is an exploration of an intercultural relationship, taking place in the universe of a computer screen. I meander through the screen and the internet to learn new things about my long-time Skype Russian teacher, Varya, who I have never met in real life. I explore her neighbourhood through the gaze of Google Maps, yet I wonder what other gazes and perspectives exist in this universe, and I mourn what I cannot see. I seek to unlock more of these ways of seeing via language acquisition, but deeply embedded ideas that have critically shaped me still hold me back.… >>>
Abdel, an asylum seeker and Eric, a burial officer, have to work together. Two worlds are meeting.… >>>
A video portrait of Ace Mahbaz, whose mother tongue is sign language. Within the video Ace talks about his use of sign language as actor and performer and demonstrates its creative implementations. “It's like killing four birds with one arrow“, describes Ace about the possibility of integrating several types of content simultaneously into one single expression in sign language. While alluding to the unique expressiveness of sign language, questions about the impossibilities and deficits of spoken language become raised. Should the concept of language be limited to spoken word or should it be expanded to other forms of expression not included in the norm?… >>>
Nominated:
A38-Production Grant Kassel-Halle
- Director: Elisa Jule Braun
An automated voice of a tour guide and a hotel representative’s, Kanya, leads her foreign guest, Alex, through a beach town in the east of Thailand called Bangsaen. Since Kanya’s presentation is overtly aestheticized and strictly regimented, Alex decides to explore the town by himself, fantasizing to get out of the frame.… >>>
Nominated:
Goldener Key
- Director: Tulapop Saenjaroen
