In the organizer's words:

• 64 min
• FSK: not specified

Short film day around the shortest day of the year

Five stories focus on protagonists who actively free themselves from personal lethargy, creative blockade, social and political injustice and social imbalance.

The attack
Pia Frankenberg | Germany 1984 | 9'00
Feature film | Language: German
A woman randomly slaps a man in a bar. The small act of anarchy turns into a major act of liberation.

Her newspapers
Harun Farocki | Germany 1967 | 17'00
Experimental film | Language: German
The film was made in the context of the student campaigns to expropriate the Springer corporation. A student commune prepares its agitation work. What can we do? Lenin's question introduces the final part: the praise of the fighting collectives. The image composition quotes Godard's film La Chinoise, which was released in 1968; the dialog is based on Brecht's Lehrstücke.

Simple
Claudia von Alemann | Germany 1966 | 5'00
Experimental film | Language: German
Claudia von Alemann's first film at the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Ulm deals with the relationship between space, movement and gender. Doors open and close in the hallway of an apartment, used plates in the kitchen, a pencil is sharpened, a beer bottle and a tin of sardines are opened, an egg rolls across the table: everything is in its place or not. In the end, the repeated attempt to pull a thread through the eye of a needle fails.

No.1 - From reports of the guard and patrol services
Helke Sander | Germany 1985 | 11'00
Feature film | Without dialog
A young mother climbs a construction crane with her two children and threatens to jump down if she is not offered an affordable apartment by the evening. The film is based on a true story.

Clamp open, clamp closed
Hellmuth Costard | Germany 1966 | 22'00
Experimental film | Language: German
Hamburg 1966: Young Ole Braum wants to leave the country after the 1965 federal elections. Hitchhiking and thanks to the young Jaguar driver Mercedes, he barely makes it to the Lüneburg Heath.Director Hellmuth Costard combines elements of the nouvelle vague and genre cinema to create an intelligent and casual road movie that breaks with the audience's expectations.