36th International Short Film Festival Berlin 2020
11 November - 13 December 2020

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Once upon a time, we were used to crowds at the train station, now emptiness has grown familiar. Elsewhere, trees are felled to make room for outlets that sell cheap clothes from China. The grind of settling into unfamiliar surroundings (sometimes even in places we’ve long called home) and the overwhelming effect of constant change have been ascendant leitmotifs in recent years, indeed they have already been a part of our everyday experience for some time now. However, all that characterises modern life (and is even treated as a given at times) has in fact existed for less than 200 years, and is thus anything but immutable.

23.11.20, 00:00h, online: interfilm.de/sooner (Nov 23 - 29)

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7 films
Doma Kak Doma

Doma Kak Doma

Home is Home

Eefje Suijkerbuijk // Netherlands, Ukraine // 2019 // 15:46 min

Documentary

The forest is being replaced by a shopping mall, the station is becoming a lonely place, since the trains hardly run anymore. The city becomes a still life full of tender emotions of belonging in a country in which space and identity are highly contested fields.

Revolykus

Revolykus

Victor Orozco Ramirez // Germany, Mexico // 2020 // 12:12 min

Animation, Documentary

Some years ago, the filmmaker emigrated to Germany. Now he lives in a little old house that is supposed to protect him from wind, rain and cold – but instead it is disintegrating in his hands.

En Rang Par Deux

En Rang Par Deux

Elisabetta Bosco / Margherita Giusti / Viola Mancini // Italy // 2020 // 07:00 min

Animation, Documentary

Thanks to their music, friends Aliou and Afif were not only able to overcome the language barrier and communicate upon their arrival in Italy – it also helped them to integrate themselves in their adopted homeland.

1 a.m. in Hong Kong

1 a.m. in Hong Kong

Yiling Zhang // Hong Kong SAR of China // 2020 // 13:30 min

Documentary

Who sees the city when it sleeps, and what sorts of thoughts fill its inhabitants’ heads?

Ural

Ural

Alla Churikova // Germany // 2019 // 14:30 min

Animation, Documentary

The director spent her happy childhood on a tiny Soviet military base in the Ural region. Only decades later did she learn about the terrible nuclear testing in which her father was also involved.

Kdo se se mnou zatočí

Kdo se se mnou zatočí

Forget Me Not

Adela Křižovenská // Czech Republic // 2019 // 06:54 min

Animation, Documentary

The Czech state’s approach to caring for children from difficult family backgrounds still bears the mark of the old Communist regime to this day. A report on a childhood in institutional care and a call for reform.

Mein rumänisches Tagebuch

Mein rumänisches Tagebuch

My Romanian Diary

Carmen Lidia Vidu // Romania, France, Germany // 2019 // 18:53 min

Animation, Documentary

Honestly and unflinchingly, Daniela Török tells her life story, one characterised by sexual abuse, the Romanian revolution and the fear of impermanence.