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Let’s Leave This Place

FRI 19:30 | Film University

Alternate Earth

Germany, Iceland 2024 / Documentary Short / 4’
Running for
Best Fiction Film
Outstanding Artistic Achievement in a Fiction Film

Shut Up And Suffer

Germany 2024 / Short Film / 19’
Running for
Best Fiction Film
Outstanding Artistic Achievement in a Fiction Film
Lion's Wrinkle and Crow's Feet

Ride du lion et pattes d'oie

Belgium 2024 / Documentary Short / 25’
Running for
Best Documentary Film
Outstanding Artistic Achievement in a Documentary Film
Walud

ولود

Germany, Syria 2024 / Short Film / 27’
Running for
Best Engaged Film
Main Programme

Let’s Leave This Place

25. April 19:30 – 21:30 | Film University

These stories of resistance tell of the relentless search for a better life. Different life situations are put to the test with radical questions, new life plans and courageous revolts.

Alternate Earth

Alternate Earth

Germany, Iceland 2024 / Documentary Short / 4’

What if Earth could no longer be our home? What if we had to search for a new habitat? And what if we found this unknown place?

CinematographerHanno Mertin
DirectorHanno Mertin
EditingImanuel Thiele
MusicMoritz Peter
ScreenplayDarlien Schürmann
Sound DesignerMoritz Peter
StillHanno Mertin
Shut Up And Suffer

Shut Up And Suffer

Germany 2024 / Short Film / 19’

When two aliens enter a gynaecology practice on earth for an abortion, they have to go through an increasingly tricky parcours. A provocative satire on German abortion policy.

Art DirectorMartha Inés Brenner
CameraAndreas Blind
CastKirsten Block
Lara Feith
Alexandra Sagurna
DirectorEmma Bading
EditingKatharina Jung
MusicBertolt Pohl
ProducerLisa Marie Bardoux
Bianca Beer
Mey Woelke
ScreenplayEmma Bading
Sound DesignerHannes Berchtold
Max Schieder
StillAndreas Blind
Ride du lion et pattes d'oie
Lion’s Wrinkle and Crow’s Feet

Ride du lion et pattes d’oie

Belgium 2024 / Documentary Short / 25’

What does it feel like to grow older as a woman? The search for answers leads through recurring self-doubt, dancing beauty products and a rebellion against hypnotic beauty promises.

CinematographerFarges Bérénice
DirectorJuliette Léonard
StillJuliette Léonard
ولود
Walud

ولود

Germany, Syria 2024 / Short Film / 27’

Amuna lives alongside an ISIS fighter in the Syrian countryside. When he brings home a young second wife, Amuna makes a fateful decision.

CinematographerHenri Nunn
DirectorDaood Alabdulaa
Louise Zenker
ProducerJoyce Abou-Zeid
Liam Wölfer
StillHenri Nunn