The Few Up right

Direction and Animation: Florian Rommel

Text: Max Weichert

2:09 min

An abstract processing on the text “The Few Upright” by Maik Weichert, which takes a view on resistance in different political environments, throughout history – with a strong focus on the German resistance group by the time of World War 2: “Die weiße Rose”

The Faraway Land of my Skin

Animation & Text: Mahla Mosah

06:42 min

“The Faraway Land of My Skin” is a poetic meditation on identity, memory, and the body, both as a place of belonging and estrangement. The film follows a wandering consciousness—disembodied, borderless, yet deeply affected by its absence of skin. It moves through fragmented landscapes, drifting between time and space, in search of its skin. It explores the tension between freedom and entrapment, between the desire to escape and the yearning to belong.

Print artist and assistant was Saba Najafpour.

 

The Bringer of Light

Animation: Nagham Alagha

Text: Countee Cullen

03:40 min

A small stone navigates her way through what she believes to be true love, only for her to be faced with the reality of it. The film is based on the poem “If You Should Go” by Countee Cullen, as well as a real life story.

Open Tour

Animation: Kitman Yeung

05:05 min

It starts with two eyes in china. The family finds their ways to communicate across long distances. Then the eyes re-allocate from the sea. Memories are drawn between smells, restaurants, and traffic rhythms. Landscapes are tossed into jumbled regurgitations, as the chinese city I recall is in a constant cycle of deconstructed reconstructions. Poetry by the chinese poet, Yang Lian, the drifted eyes accompany this tour.

The Pulse of an Echo

Animation: Ashkan Goodarzi

Text: Venoos Abz

05:22 min

Set against the growing protests in modern Tehran, “The Pulse of an Echo” follows a young bank teller trapped by strict rules and social pressure. She watches helplessly as an uncovered protester is arrested—and feels her hope slip away.
Then, in a final burst of shared courage, she breaks free from despair and, in one powerful moment, transforms into a bird—taking flight as a symbol of freedom for all women.

The Hanuman Chalisa

Animation: Vincent Martin Morcinek

03:47 min

The Hanuman Chalisa is a devotional hymn praising Lord Hanuman, believed to inspire strength, confidence, and wisdom. This video uses collage animation to express the emotional impact on someone unfamiliar with ancient Indian culture. Geethika Dhavaleswarapu’s recitation is paired with nature imagery, Mughal miniatures, modern paintings, and illustrations, showing a journey from inner struggle to personal empowerment.

Zungenwerk

Animation: Lisa Kampf, Alexander Schar

Text: based on a Text by Hans Magnus Enzensberger

02:52 min

Strange, faltering chant, whispering, humming, gasping, stammering – the most agile of all muscles: the tongue.
Words travel from one body to another; the bone factories transform them – what emerges is the shared product of sender and receiver.
In the process, some can hone their words, omit things, and suggest meanings, while others only hear what they want to hear – and thus, shared responsibility becomes no responsibility at all.
The film is based on the poem “Zungenwerk” by Hans Magnus Enzensberger and shows how what is said cuts to the bone.