A film by Kazuhiro Soda. In Japanese with German sub­tit­les. [Credits] [Tickets & Termine] [Trailer] Steep steps lead up to the Gokogu Shinto shri­ne in Ushimado. The local child­ren play on them and the older resi­dents attend to their upkeep, even plan­ting mint on eit­her side. Kazuhiro Soda pres­ents the­se steps as a site of […]

A film by Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor. In Arabic, Hebrew and English with German sub­tit­les. [Credits] [Tickets & Termine] [Trailer] Basel Adra, a young Palestinian acti­vist from Masafer Yatta on the West Bank, has been fight­ing the mass expul­si­on of his com­mu­ni­ty by Israel’s occu­pa­ti­on sin­ce child­hood. He docu­ments the slow-motion […]

A film by Nora Fingscheidt. In English with German sub­tit­les. [Credits] [Tickets & Termine] [Trailer] After an absence of more than ten years, Rona returns to her home on the remo­te Orkney Islands in Scotland. As she redis­co­vers the uni­que, wild land­scape in which she grew up, her child­hood memo­ries ming­le with tho­se from her […]

A film by Guan Hu. In Mandarin with German sub­tit­les. [Credits] [Tickets & Termine] [Trailer] On the edge of the Gobi desert in Northwest China, Lang returns to his home­town after being released from jail. While working for the local dog pat­rol team to clear the town of stray dogs befo­re the Olympic Games, he […]