Our relationships are expressed in the connection we foster with each other. The sum of all of these connections forms the society we live in. It’s not necessarily about people, though. We can bond with places, things, and phenomena. The films of this program seek and establish connections. Still, sometimes they’re lost or they transform into something originally unintended. Occasionally, in this jumble grotesque relationships form. Some are highly dangerous and all somehow represent the society we live in. What follows is individual and collective sympathy. (Thorsten Wagner)
Martin lives in Argentina and is interested in the German branches in his family tree. He located Werner, a distant relative living in Hamburg. Werner even invites him to visit. But due to an adverse circumstance, Werner cannot receive him personally. So, Martin has to reside in his host’s house alone. He begins to venture around the for him foreign area of Blankenese. And he reveals some curiosities regarding the life of his absent host. What started as a travel diary thus turns into a detective story dedicated to Werner's past.… >>>
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Europe Premiere
Naya is a young wolf wearing a GPS-bracelet for scientific research. Because she is prone to leave her pack soon, her travels are going to be tracked. It begins in eastern Germany and leads to Belgium. There, she is the first of her kind to visit in over a hundred years, hence making her a sensation. The people crave pictures and stories about her. Will she perhaps even find a partner, have kids and settle down in the region?… >>>
Nominated:
A38-Production Grant Kassel-Halle
- Director: Sebastian Mulder
A person tells of her weird coexistence with her neighbor. It's a segregated community preparing for the end of the world. Apparently, they were once connected more closely than they now seem to be. The differences due to of which the connection was terminated seem delicate yet grave.… >>>
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Europe Premiere
An algorithm talks about LonerWolf58. It's the username a member of the Incel-community uses as he roams the internet. “Incels” are a destructive subculture in which young men fraternize on online platforms, united in phantasies of male dominance and their hate for women. LonerWolf58 posted videos that have been flagged due to their violent and terrorist contents. It is now the algorithm's task to delete both the content and the user. But the videos have gained such popularity among the community that they keep being shared and multiplied. This increases the difficulty of the algorithm's task.… >>>
In the aftermath of an obscure long-distance relationship, places are being visited that once were relevant connectors and are now re-discovered as part of a personal journey. The overlap between intimacy and distance creates an experimental exploration of timid attachment patterns in which projection dissolves into clarity.… >>>
