KUKI .16 Young Short Film Festival Berlin
12 - 19 November 2023

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TS 03 What's Up? English Language Program 14+

Working hard or sleeping soundly, fighting on the pitch or exploring in our childhood bedrooms, we overcome challenges and find ourselves, strengthened by our communities and our best friends. This programme is a cinematic journey around the globe and across the English language, which is as diverse as its speakers and these moving stories.

Originalfassung mit englischen Untertiteln

13.11.23, 10:00h, City Kino Wedding

15.11.23, 12:30h, Filmtheater am Friedrichshain Kino 1

What's Up? Sprachprogramm Englisch ab 14
What's Up? Sprachprogramm Englisch ab 14

What's up? English Language Program 14+ Program trailer

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5 films
Mirror Mirror

Mirror Mirror

Sandulela Asanda // South Africa // 2022 // 08:59 min

Live Action

A video call between Luthando and her best friend, Jodie as they try to navigate the mechanics of self-pleasure and what it means to be a woman.

Hardly Working

Hardly Working

Total Refusal // Austria // 2022 // 20:00 min

Documentary, Experimental

Putting the spotlight on the very characters that usually remain in the background in video games: NPCs. Here, non-player characters and their routines become a metaphor for capitalist work culture.

First Down

First Down

Carrie Stett // United States // 2021 // 12:00 min

Documentary

An underdog team in America’s first all-girls tackle football league. This band of misfits and outcasts compete for the title while tackling their struggles both on and off the field, including gender identity, body image and mental health.

HEDGEHOG

HEDGEHOG

Jasper Caverly // Australia // 2022 // 15:13 min

Live Action

Brig had sexual intercourse without a condom and now faces the tricky challenge of somehow getting the morning-after pill.

Powernapper's Paradise

Powernapper's Paradise

Samir Arabzadeh // Sweden, Philippines // 2022 // 14:30 min

Documentary

Who hasn't dreamt of taking a powernap at work? In the Philippines it's no problem at all. Whether sales people, fast food workers or seamsters and seamstresses – everyone dozes off here briefly.