»Dogs of Love« (60′) investigates the intimate connection between two people. Starting with a real-life love story, two lovers run in opposite directions through time and space, through pasts and futures populated with real and imagined stories of Queer togetherness. Footsteps echo as we dive deep into togetherness, loneliness, crisis, and intimacy. Can we ever really leave someone we have been in love with?

On their route, the Amazons proclaim the New Time in three rituals. A time when we are more than human; empathic, transformative, new beings, monsters, the alien. This ceremonial procession shows the new visibility and self-evidence with which we are all ready for transformation. We are the future and we bring you the revolution.

A T T E N T I O N : Unfortunately the event has to be cancelled due to illness!

Fermentation is the transformation of food by microorganisms such as bacteria, molds or yeasts. These microorganisms transform sugars into other substances. They turn white cabbage into sauerkraut, carrots and radishes into pickles, apple juice into vinegar and milk into yogurt. In an – only seemingly – chaotic process, something is transformed and made edible and durable. A magical process. In a cozy evening, vorschlag:hammer and a group of interested people will pickle sauerkraut and other vegetables together in a VHS atmosphere in the Ballhaus Ost. You’ll chop cabbage and vegetables, knead the cabbage, and put it in jars. Maybe there will be some input on sauerkraut. Maybe there are some inputs on lactobacteria or yeasts. Maybe there are inputs on messy processes. In any case, there is eating and drinking together.

And then it takes time. The evening seeps into the memories. The microorganisms do what they do. After six weeks, the time has come and the participants can open their jars. And perhaps the memory of the time spent together will be awakened: What has stuck? Which flavors resonate? Which phrases have taken on a new flavor? What now has a sour aftertaste?

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46’, dt./engl. with dt./engl. ST 

Through the careful yet distanced observation of his autistic brother, visual artist and director Tobias Yves Zintel tells of the intrusion of the radically different and the non-semanticizable into the protective space of the family. Together with the psychiatrist and author Przemek Zybowski, he analyzes the spectrum that opens up between the poles of “healthy” and “sick”. In the biographical detail, the relationship of a “sick” brother to his family, the social figure of the autist becomes visible as an allegory for the proclamation of the unspeakable in the current public discourse.

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40’, no spoken Language

The Movie is Layton Lachman and Samuel Hertz‘s contribution to rhythms, textures and ways of being-with, together. Even as apocalypses bloom around us, they dance non-stop and launch into a doom-metal concert, howling the approach to the end of the world — a collective grieving and celebration in the face of oncoming doom. They invite us to see, feel, and hear the slow changes of an ending world, and yet propose a non-fatalistic way of attending to each other with care, imagining alternatives to the end-of-days scenario.

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37’, dt. with engl. ST

DE, 2021

The Film tells of a disease surrounded by the aura of mystery: epilepsy. Sacred, prophetic, sinful, unruly, possessed by demons. A primal human fear, materialized in a disease that threatens peace. It is this uncontrollable that our society seeks again and again to cope with by pushing it away or even disqualifying it as a way of life. In Fallsucht, Lara Scherpinski examines her body as an archive of family and cultural history, as a reservoir of myths and social debates about normality and otherness. She searches for the aesthetic representability of an inner state that oscillates between ecstasy and pain, between visibility and invisibility, and banishes her to a social isolation.

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The theater collective Henrike Iglesias from Berlin creates and directs a theater performance about feminist and queer pornography and sexualities. Behind the scenes they face the challenges of collective work and the liberation of their own sexualities.

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100’ dt./ engl./ bulg. with engl. ST 

DE, 2021

An adult daughter searches for her deceased father, searches for stories – and the patriarchy in herself. She stages a dream-like journey with theater, music and film, during which strange and humorous, blurry and distressing moments ask for father traces in the daughter’s existence. In this game of forgetting, holding on and letting go, she encounters questions: about her own female socialized self, about origin, social class, ideas of achievement, beauty, love, sexuality and emotional education. What belongs to her, what to her father, what to both, what to time? And is she really alone?

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73’, dt./pol. with dt./pol. ST

DE/PL, 2021

Six life stories of women in Poland and Germany that turned out differently than hoped: »Arbeiterinnen« tells the story of the experience of social decline related to the loss of work across three generations. For over a year werkgruppe2 conducted interviews with women from working-class families in the industrial regions of Lower Silesia and the Ruhr. The film is a touching and intimate portrait of women in Poland and Germany who are among the socially excluded and poses the urgent question of mutual solidarity.

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