tuesday 13 oct 8 pm werkstattkino
1st part Shorts 1: The B-Side of the Landscape (monday 12 oct 8 pm werkstattkino)
Le Château Rothschild désert (Her Name)
Dunja Bialas & Amelie Hochhäusler DE 2026 | 7 min | DVCam & Mobile phone | French, German | World Premiere
In 1975, Marguerite Duras shot her experimental memoir film India Song at the Château Rothschild near Paris. A year later, she remade it, retaining the original soundtrack and combining it with footage documenting the building’s decline. Fifty years later, we visit the château.– Dunja Bialas & Amelie Hochhäusler
Désert sauvage
LUZI DE, MA 2026
8 min | no dialogue | World Premiere
Nothingness and the desert. Nothingness and the surroundings. Nothingness and the road. Everyone is talking about the heat. The heat of 2026. Consciousness leaves the body and hovers above it. Pleasant and unsettling. Dreamscapes and nothingness. Secluded. Desert. Soothing. Soft. Shadow becomes the greatest treasure. And Siemens wind turbines are scattered across the landscape. Morocco, 2026.
Filmed whilst driving, through the windscreen. I don’t want to tell a story. – LUZI
Der Hund
Noah Mrosczok DE 2026 | 6 min | DVCam | no dialogue | World Premiere
A dog runs through a wood. The pixelated digital camera follows its movements, its path, its pauses and its detours. Filmed with the legendary Sony PD150, nature appears as an otherworldly realm of possibilities, which its animal protagonist explores of its own accord. A journey of discovery. – Noah Mrosczok
Mein Innenhof / Double Entendre
Benedikt Guntentaler DE 2026 | 5 min | DVCam & WebCam | German | World Premiere
Voyeurism and fragmented film images. A static shot of my courtyard, complete with a separate audio track and a digital break that shows: Nothing ever really changes. Only our view of the cinema and the wind in the leaves. For Alfred Hitchcock and Aleksandre Koberidze. – Benedikt Guntentaler
Reise IV
Rainer Knepperges DE 2026 | 3 min | no dialogue | World Premiere
All roads lead to Munich – except the one in the middle! Rainer Kneppere’s fourth REISE once again presents a cinematic journey through cities, parties, everyday oddities and beauties. Cross-fades bridge distances, whilst split screens create a divided cosmos.
Stubenhocker-Rocker
Okin Cznupolowsky DE 2020 |
3 min | German | in memoriam
It’s lockdown. Everyone’s in the city park or at the beach party. Only one person is being sensible and staying at home: the couch potato rocker.
In memoriam Okin Cznupolowsky
This Desirable Device
Mina Simendić DE, SRB 2026 | 17 min | Serbian
Investigations into language and film – or, more precisely, film footage – as a linguistic tool, as well as the power inscribed within it. What does it mean to find oneself caught between countries, languages and their respective lived worlds? What sacrifices can – or must – one make in order to live under new restrictions in the ‘promised land of Germany’? Essayistic explorations of bureaucratic language, wordplay and the filmmaking process as a (im)possibility of speech.
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Myriam Arleth DE 2026
14 min | German
A park in Berlin. Paths that branch off, fragments of narrative threads that, fragmented in both time and space, circle round a void. A constant transformation of the reality of everyday life into something almost ghostly.
Die Zeiten des Nein (Les saisons du non)
Claire Angelini FR 2026 | 16 min I HD I Italian | World Premiere
The famous Italian author Mario Rigoni Stern devoted his literary career to coming to terms with his horrific experiences during the Second World War – he himself had spent his childhood in the countryside along the Italian-Austrian border, a landscape marked by the scars of the First World War (1916–1918). Today, his great-grandson has taken up the mantle of saying ‘no’ to war once again.