Filme von Studierenden (Programm 4)

“Garden of Edie”
Miri Klischat (Director & Screenplay), Lisa Bülow (Cinematography)
Documentary, 2026, 20 min.
When little Edie grows up, she wants to become a writer. Twenty years later, Edie Montana—who was raised Catholic—writes a letter to her younger self and tells her how she fulfilled her dream by working as a sex worker alongside her activist art, in order to have enough time to write. But to do so, she first had to free herself from the dark voices in her head.

“Acupuncture”
Weihao Han (Concept & Direction)
Animation, 2026, 7 min.
In a lost forest, a person driven by a specific goal but unable to act is constantly brought closer to that goal through acupuncture, while at the same time seemingly being driven to the brink of self-destruction.

“Beneath the Night”
Maximilian Karakatsanis (Director & Screenplay), Jeff Schaul (Cinematography)
Feature Film, 2026, 14 min.
A subway driver with colorful hair suddenly appears on the local transit authority’s advertising posters. The visible and the hidden blur together.

“Offenes Spiel”
Justus Hanfland and Rasoul Mohammadi Koussehabad (Directors & Screenplay)
Documentary, 2025, 7 min.
Amir fled from Afghanistan to Germany. He is a chess player. Luck plays a role in life, but not in chess, he says. A cinematic chess match in three phases.

“Vang:Mận – Wine:Plum”
Tran Ai Nhi Nguyen (Director & Screenplay)
Feature film, 2026, 28 min.
The Spirit of Wine: Plum explores the theme of human love, following Trung, who, after breaking up with his lover, waits outside her apartment for 40 minutes every day, hoping that fate will bring them back together. But fate takes many forms.