Films

• "D|DK" D, CI, ED: Karsten Wiesel, DE 2017, 12'

  The film consists of 9,000 pictures, which animate a 67-kilometre run along the German-Danish border. After long, bloody conflicts, the territory is now peaceful place. The border was established during a referendum in 1920. Seeking the best form of border through the use of a democratic process is unique on a global scale.

  

  

  

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  Authors:

  • Karsten Wiesel
• "Emergency Turned Upside-Down" D, ED: Oliver Ressler, AN: Studio Orlinder Krinkel, AT 2016, 16’13”

  “Emergency Turned Upside-Down” was shaped by the “summer of migration” of 2015, when the Schengen system was suspended for several weeks and wealthy European states temporarily opened their borders to refugees. The film is a bold animation where the viewer's focus is rewarded with a spectacle of graphic possibilities, a chain of surprising connotations, and a universal message. Reflections upon a potentially imagined borderless world raises an incredibly important question about the possibility of pulling away from the reality we know, where the rhythm is established by boundaries. 

  

  

  

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  Authors:

  • Oliver Ressler '17
• "Józio, chodź do domu" D: Marcin Chłopaś, CI: Maja Nowak, Miłosz Mickiewicz, ED: Michał Chojnacki, Marcin Chłopaś, PL 2016, 30’

  Societies are good at punishing “others” – claimed to be different because of some, usually absurd, reasons. A Jew in Poland can feel and in fact be an alien. The same Jew in Israel can become an alien, when noticed not to have been circumcised. “Jozio, come home” is the story of a child of Holocaust survivors who is abandoned many times – by both Poles and Jews. He travels home – to the Polish town of Wałbrzych – for the first time in 54 years, only to discover that he has no home, he belongs nowhere. The soundtrack for the movie was composed by Mikołaj Trzaska.

  

  

  

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  Authors:

  • Marcin Chłopaś
• "Pięknie nam się układa" D, CI: Maciej Jankowski, ED: Agata Cierniak, PL 2016, 27’30”

  Kasia, a 19-year-old Ukrainian girl, lives with her two-year-older boyfriend Emil, a truck driver from Poland. One day he decides to quit his job and, together with Kasia, start earning money by selling their intimate life on the Internet. They both make money on a website which offers the viewers live sex. Emil is having doubts when it comes to telling his father about this controversial line of work. Maciej Jankowski created a very bold documentary about young people who are looking for their place in life. 

  

  

  

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  Authors:

  • Maciej Jankowski
• "stranding" D, CI, ED: Nina Schipoff , CH 2016, 4’36”

  Greece, the Ionion Sea; abandoned to the mood of the sea, you are drifting towards the shore of the uninhabited island of Zeus. Nina Schipoff's film features beautiful, realistic shots of see depths that make the viewer feel as if they're in the ocean themselves. Without the use of words, “stranding” makes one deeply reflect upon the two worlds – one of water and one of land. How can we establish a border between them?

  

  

  

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  Authors:

  • Nina Schipoff
• "Zamejen" D: Leo Černic, CI: Rok Kajzer Nagode, ED: Jakob Hreščak, AN: Leo Černic, Martin Emeršič, SI 2016, 20'21"

  „I am bordered, you are bordered, we are all bordered. It sounds like a children's song. But it is not. Ciao, I am Leo, nice to meet you!” This incredibly interesting and creative Slovenian documentary directed by Leo Černic talks about the crossing of boundaries and barriers which limit and enslave us.

  

  

  

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  Authors:

  • Leo Černic