Bandido
Mohamad El-Hadidi I 2023 I 19 min
After fleeing from Cairo to Berlin to escape police prosecution, photojournalist Alaa meets Lia at a party. A mutual attraction ignites, except Alaa doesn’t know who Lia really is.
Durban International Film Festival, Aflam Marseille, Alfilm Berlin
Unica
Blaise Kirschner | 2022 | 33 min
UNICA weaves together references to post-apocalyptic games, drawings, and dreams. The latent presence of an unnamed catastrophe is repeatedly evoked by the protagonists, an artist and a performer, who move between an atelier, a motion-capture studio and a forested hill on the outskirts of Berlin made from the debris of Second World War ruins.
BFI Southbank, Schirn Kunsthalle, Fluentum Collection
She Said No
Sondos Shabayek | 2021 | 10 min
On the streets of Neukölln, Sara and Tarek are waiting in line to view a flat. Sara just came from the gynecologist and breaks the news to Tarek that she just had an abortion.
FEST - New Directors / New Films, Arab Film Festival San Francisco, Bamberger Kurzfilmtage, Aflam Marseille
OHRWURM
Connor Gaston | Germany, Canada | 2020 | 13´ min
A former Stasi informant has hidden herself away in her apartment after the fall of the Berlin Wall. When her son shows up with a present for her birthday, the fear of reprisals starts to run high.
International Short Film Festival Berlin, Vancouver Island Short Film Festival