Film Archive

Kids DOK 2020
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Autumn Winds, Spring Winds and Two Doves
Sadegh Javadi Nikjeh
A boy sets out on an arduous journey to his friend. A dove and a horse help him reach his destination. Based on an Iranian children’s book.
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Autumn Winds, Spring Winds and Two Doves

Badhaye paeezi, badhaye bahari va do kabootar
Sadegh Javadi Nikjeh
Kids DOK 2020
Animated Film
Iran
2020
8 minutes
without dialogue
Subtitles: 
None

A poetic journey based on an Iranian children’s book. A boy and a girl are far apart and miss each other. He wants to go to her by ship, but the autumn storm upsets everything. The dove doesn’t wait until spring and helps the boy and girl find each other. The horse also tries to reunite the two.

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Director
Sadegh Javadi Nikjeh
Producer
Mohammadreza Karimisaremi
Zwei tätowierte Hände mit dunkel lackierten Fingernägeln tippen auf einer Computertastatur.

Exit

Documentary Film
Germany,
Norway,
Sweden
2018
80 minutes
Subtitles: 
English

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Producer
Eirin Gjørv
Director
Karen Winther
Music
Michel Wenzer
Cinematographer
Peter Ask
Editor
Robert Stengård
Script
Karen Winther
Sound
Yvonne Stenberg, Gisle Tveito
When Karen Winther comes across a few old boxes during a move she finds herself confronted with her past. On top are some swastika stickers, next to a tape labelled “Blitz” and “Hits”, and a lot of stuff decorated with the imperial eagle. Twenty years ago she joined a right-wing extremist organisation in Norway, looking for adventure and like-minded people. “It’s embarrassing to look at,” she comments in the voice over.

“Exit” is her film, her story, and yet the plot soon points in other directions, refuses to be constrained by its own structure. Winther travels to the US to meet women who also used to move in right-wing extremist circles. She sits in the car with a former left-wing extremist activist, talking about a formative encounter many years ago. She meets Ingo Hasselbach, “The Führer of Berlin”, whose career in the East German neo-Nazi scene is the subject of Winfried Bonengel’s film “Führer Ex”. And she meets a former jihadist who served a sentence in a Paris prison. In addition to surprisingly similar motivations and experiences, what they all have in common are the difficulties caused by their “Exits” – feelings of guilt, but also threats from still active members.

Carolin Weidner


Awarded with the Goethe-Institut Documentary Film Prize, the Young Eyes Film Award and the Gedanken-Aufschluss Prize from the Jury of juvenile and yound adult prisoners of JSA Regis-Breitingen

Extended Reality: DOK Neuland 2021
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Infomorph
Arash Akbari
We are guided through a speculative posthumanist scenario revolving around the relationship between humans, machines and nature. An AI helps with the transition into the digital.
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Infomorph

Infomorph
Arash Akbari
Extended Reality 2021
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Iran,
Netherlands
2021
10 minutes
English

We meet an artificial intelligence designed to ease our transition into the digital. Life in the analogue world is no longer possible, not even necessary. The VR experience guides us through a speculative scenario that illuminates the relationship between humans, machines and nature in posthumanism. Texts, images and sounds were created by means of AI and algorithms.

Lars Rummel

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VR Developer
Arash Akbari
Interactive Design
Arash Akbari
Creative Technologist
Arash Akbari
Coding
Arash Akbari
Sound
Farzaneh Nouri
Score
Farzaneh Nouri
Director
Arash Akbari
Kids DOK 2022
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Playground
Samaneh Fazlollah Asadi
The days in hospital are boring; the girl lies listlessly in bed, staring out of the window for hours. But one day she gets a very special present.
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Playground

Zamine bazi
Samaneh Fazlollah Asadi
Kids DOK 2022
Animated Film
Iran
2022
8 minutes
without dialogue
Subtitles: 
None

The days in the hospital are boring, the monotony only interrupted by parents’ visits. Listlessly, the girl lies in bed, staring out of the window for hours. But one day she gets a very special present. She slowly recovers and her injuries heal … This story, animated in soft, bright colours, shows that faith can help us get better.

Lina Dinkla

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Director
Samaneh Fazlollah Asadi
Script
Samaneh Fazlollah Asadi
Cinematographer
Samaneh Fazlollah Asadi
Editor
Samaneh Fazlollah Asadi
Producer
Fatemeh Mohseni
Sound
Hootan Poorzaki
Score
Mehdi Ghashghaei
Animation
Samaneh Fazlollah Asadi
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The Fourth Wall

Divare chaharom
Mahboobeh Kalaee
International Competition Short Film 2021
Animated Film
Iran
2021
10 minutes
Persian (Farsi)
Subtitles: 
English

A stuttering boy transforms an Iranian kitchen into a fantastic cosmos. The father’s body becomes a refrigerator, the mother's belly a washing machine whose spin cycle gives birth to a screaming baby. Even birds on tiles and detergents have a surprising life of their own. This exuberant animation, dotted with real-life elements – fried eggs, broken plates, chess pieces – develops a subtle wit, ironizing ingrained family patterns.

Anke Leweke

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Director
Mahboobeh Kalaee
Script
Mahboobeh Kalaee
Cinematographer
Mahboobeh Kalaee
Editor
Mahboobeh Kalaee
Producer
Mahboobeh Kalaee
Sound
Hossein Ghoorchian
Score
Hossein Ghoorchian
Animation
Mahboobeh Kalaee
Narrator
Taha Asadi
Winner of: Mephisto 97.6 Audience Award