Strangers Like Us
Austria 2024 – 22:00 min – Director: Pipi Fröstl & Felix Krisai
Laura and Elias have invited the couple Nina and Patrick to dinner. The stilted politeness soon turns into a series of absurdities for Laura when the two of them take up residence in her house. In the midst of all this, Laura and Elias also seem to become increasingly estranged.
Tadpole
Germany 2024 – 09:13 min – Director: Julia Skala
On September 21, followed by a film talk with Julia Skala.
Ten-year-old Marlene struggles with her changing body. That’s why she avoids showering with the other girls and hides her growing breasts under large sweatshirts. When the other children make fun of a tadpole on a school trip, Marlene decides to set it free.
Silent, almost unnoticed
Germany 2024 – 17:23 min – Director: Patrick Fleischer & Philine Jo Hammon
After a seemingly normal first date, Jan and Marina suddenly have to identify with roles they have never seen themselves in. A haunting film about the complexity and ambivalence of victim and perpetrator attributions, with Gina Stiebitz and Anselm Bresgott (jury member at the Münster Film Festival 2021).
Headland
Great Britain 2024 -13:00 min – Director: Mariana Duarte
On September 21, followed by a film talk with Mariana Duarte.
The nature reserve on the English Channel is a place of wonder and solace, characterised and haunted by violence. A moving story about life on a pebble beach reclaimed from the sea, where the centuries-old tradition of sea rescue meets the latest migration flows, told by the last fisherman from Dungeness.
Fish and Cheese
Germany 2024 -06:48 min – Director: Sina Guntermann
On September 21, followed by a film talk with Sina Guntermann.
A sentimental observation on 16mm that shows the short-lived friendship between two girls. A dreamy look by the first-person narrator at an indomitable girl, Vittoria, whose memories remain like a souvenir even after her departure …
gül
Austria/Turkey 2024 – 28:00 min – Director: Lidija-Rukiye Kumpas
A summer’s day between languages, meals and misunderstandings. Far from home, Gül lives and works with a patchwork family in a Turkish village. While Filiz, the youngest of the family, is killing time, Gül has to leave the village earlier than expected. Meanwhile, the village, seemingly untouched, continues to swing to its own rhythm.
