German Competition Documentary Film 3

The artist and choreographer uses oral history and bodies to make visible how deeply the Dutch colonization of South East Asia is engraved in the collective memory.

Very few images, a short tale, a brief giggle, a song sung together. A miniature in which self-harm and Catholicism are stitched together.

Between minesweeper and family photos, the filmmaker faces the grief over the grandfather with radical honesty. A rough yet deeply tender work of remembrance.

Moving snapshots of people taken along a river in Kyoto develop a captivating rhythm one is only too willing to give in to. People play, sing, and take walks.