#4 Short & Sweet


(BALi, KulturBahnhof Kassel)

Eighteen works confront the absurdities and challenges of life. With wit and insight, they question clichés and invite us to look at things differently. (Jessica Manstetten, Linn Löffler)

The Magic Flute

A self-portrait of an Asian living in Germany. Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute), with rewritten lyrics in the style of a German tongue twister, “Zungenbrecher”.

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  • Duration: 4 Min.
  • Premiere: World Premiere
  • Nominated: Goldener Hercules
    • Director: Hansol Kim

    FMT 8

    On the highest point of the small East German town of Artern stands a FMT 8 radio mast. Called “The Tall Harald”, after the town’s first post-reunification mayor. Both were Western imports.

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    • Duration: 3 Min.
    • Director: Antje Seeger

    JAH! (YES!)

    Should we push ourselves into a box or shall we dare to be wrong?… >>>

    • Duration: 3 Min.
    • Director: Madli Lääne

    Water Is My Eye

    Inevitably, a fluid form penetrates an empty room.

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    • Duration: 6 Min.
  • Premiere: World Premiere
    • Director: Bernd Oppl

    Occhio

    An eye is healed.

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    • Duration: 6 Min.
    • Director: Giulia Falciani

    When Doves Try

    A male pigeon courts a female.

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    • Duration: 3 Min.
    • Director: Thalia de Jong

    The Wedding Photo

    A couple tries to take the perfect wedding photo.

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    • Duration: 3 Min.
    • Director: Edlin Jap

    To Sit on Watch

    An associatively edited film about waiting, about abortion and abortion opponents, about shame and about filmmaking.

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    • Duration: 6 Min.
    • Director: Franca Pape

    misdirected impulse

    A sequence of pictures of picturesque tree and shrub constellations comes to an abrupt end.

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    • Duration: 3 Min.
  • Premiere: World Premiere
    • Director: Eginhartz Kanter

    Taking the Piss

    True tales from the public bathroom.

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    • Duration: 4 Min.
  • Premiere: Europe Premiere
    • Director: Tavis Putnam, Christina Dovolis

    Chicken Wardrobe

    Anne designs clothes for chickens in need.

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    • Duration: 5 Min.
    • Director: Simon Dickel

    In Clouds

    One day in 45 was different from the others...

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    • Duration: 1 Min.
    • Director: Dagie Brundert

    Dream In Dream

    A dream within a dream within a dream.

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    • Duration: 4 Min.
    • Director: Christine Gensheimer

    Puls zu Puls

    Endure tension, endure intimacy.

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    • Duration: 3 Min.
  • Premiere: German Premiere
    • Director: Friedl vom Gröller