Rundgang der KHM 2025: Filme von Studierenden (Filmprogramm 9)

From Thursday to Sunday, the film program at Rundgang 2025 will present a total of 44 films by students of the Academy of Media Arts Cologne (KHM) that have been produced over the past twelve months as part of their studies. Feature films, documentaries, animations, experimental films and hybrid forms of cinematic storytelling will be shown in 13 program blocks in the auditorium of the KHM and in the Filmforum at Museum Ludwig.

Saturday,July 19, 4 p.m.
Aula der KHM, Filzengraben 2, 50676 Cologne
Moderation: Prof. Marcel Kolvenbach

Nachbarschaftsgrüße "Erwin", 2025, 1 min.
Social Spot by Finn Ole Weigt (director and screenplay), Victor Gütay (visual design)
Pensioner Erwin, who lives alone, has been hearing strange noises in his apartment for days: banging, crashing, rumbling. In his loneliness, Erwin tries to make sense of it all. And does absolutely nothing. Every four minutes, a woman experiences violence from her partner or ex-partner.

Neighborhood greetings "Fernando", 2025, 1 min.
Social Spot by Sophia Wilke (director and screenplay), Victor Gütay (cinematography)
Fernando, an aspiring writer, hears strange noises coming from his neighbors' apartment. But instead of calling for help, he uses the background noise for literary outpourings about the romanticization of violence in love relationships.

Neighborhood greetings "Christiana", 2025, 1 min.
Social Spot by Manuela Amarante Puerta (director and writer), Victor Gütay (cinematographer)
When Christiana discovers mysterious shadows and strange signals in her neighbor's window, her investigative zeal is awakened. But what if what she sees is not what she thinks?

Traces of Grafeneck, 2024, 89 min.
Documentary film by Nora Mazurek (director, screenwriter and cinematographer), Yvonne Lachmann (director and screenwriter)
In 1940, 10,654 people who were deemed "unworthy of life" by the Nazis were murdered in a gas chamber in Grafeneck within a year. In its play "Hierbleiben... Spuren nach Grafeneck", the inclusive ensemble of the Theater Reutlingen "Die Tonne" (The Tonne) deals with the National Socialist past of the town, which is only 35 kilometers away from Reutlingen, and the film accompanies the creation and performance of the play and provides insights into the different lives and views of the performers.

After the screening, the directors, authors and image designers will talk to the audience about the process of making their films and introduce their film teams.