We should carve our names into the black soil. Before this too is taken from us. Quickly. We don't have much time left.
About the intimate boundaries of relationships, the collective struggle to remain visible and the protected retreat of our dreams – this program celebrates queerness and at the same time shows how fragile the existences and securities of queer places and lives actually are. We must not forget to dream before the ground is pulled out from under our feet. (Matti Ullrich)
That afternoon, 23-year-old Naomi decides to visit an open-cast lignite mine that has a special meaning for her. Cat accompanies Naomi there. On the way to the mine, they negotiate what their relationship to each other and to nature as an endangered habitat means. They experience a togetherness that softens the seemingly hard boundaries between friendship and romantic love.
In AUF DER KIPPE, Veronika Sophie Hauger and Johanna Marie Scheler work with a FLINTA*s-only team to uncover and change discriminatory power structures on the film set. (FLINTA* is a German acronym that stands for women, lesbians, intersex, non-binary, trans and agender people. The asterisk represents all non-binary gender identities.)
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- Director: Johanna Marie Scheler, Veronika Sophie Hauger
In the Colombian Caribbean, a group of queer activists practice a militancy that challenges heteropatriarchal norms while engaging in other causes to collectively fight against the various social injustices that plague the region. When the management of the country’s largest coal mine announces a press conference to promote the development of mining, the group prepares to carry out a denunciatory, performative action... and resolutely queer.… >>>
Poignant and touching slices of Leila’s life, a charming 64-year-old transgender who is permanently navigating and negotiating her place in an antagonistic world, just before the Taliban retake control of Afghanistan.… >>>
