Four documentary films in which “I” is being said: A raising of the own voice, a showing of the own face, literally and figuratively. Revelations and the creation of safe spaces. Because it is cinema, what is personal becomes public at the same time: boundaries shift, transmissions happen. Messages to the self and other strangers. Four ways of relating oneself to the world. (Sebastian Markt)
Simple geometric figures form on screen, trace something complex. Separation and connection, inside and out, action and reaction: often abstract, sometimes terms such as “types” or “appearance” form. Clara writes – and reads from the Off – a letter to Clara. The filmmaker addresses her past self: from the perspective of herself who already experienced what the younger still has to, what she experiences presently, what – as the older knows – will lead her to a better place. A feminist self-empowerment against the grain of time and as a message to those who are not Clara, but, just as Clara herself, with personal yet universal appeal.… >>>
Nominated:
A38-Production Grant Kassel-Halle
- Director: Clara Stella Hüneke
"I think I have to start differently", says the father and starts over. The world isn't always beautiful, says the mother. Marian Mayland interrogates her own childhood, the parents and her siblings: the atomic threat of the late Cold-War, the family business, mental illness in the family, things that remained unsaid. Mayland misses her childhood home in fragmentary shots: surfaces and corners of rooms, carrier of readable and unreadable history. The nearby surface mining offers a drastic image of sedimentation. Here, cinema is not a means of creating a visible order in a family structure, but of making the tangle of entanglements visible in its complexity.… >>>
Nominated:
Goldener Key
Anna lays in the forest naked and talks about the joy being naked brings her ever since her childhood. Anna talks about how the disgust of a school friend's father overwhelmed her. Anna remembers that she was never visible in her school's dance recitals, and she dances. Anna is big and she recapitulates the countless times where the wrongness of her body was mirrored to her. Anna is a hybrid figure, created from the narrations of several women, embodied by a performance artist. The result is a reconstruction of a formative social space of experience, and at the same time a counter-image of shame.… >>>
Premiere:
German Premiere
Nominated:
A38-Production Grant Kassel-Halle
Close-up shots from a friend amidst recapitulating an experience. Being single and being in a relationship, a move across borders, farewells and new beginnings. Portray and daily headlights. Daryna focuses on a threshold between childhood and a life in constellations of solitude and togetherness. When the procedure of relating to yourself has to be reframed to everyone and all who surround you. A snapshot of the attempt to bring order between themselves and the world. Happy, sad, angry. Happy, sad.… >>>
Premiere:
World Premiere
Nominated:
A38-Production Grant Kassel-Halle
- Director: Daryna Mamaisur
