The short film reels bring together short films from the competitions in cross-section programmes.
Contains mentions of death
Contains mentions of murder, racism
Contains depictions of racism
Contains depictions of drug-use, nudity, physical violence
Contains mentions of discrimination against LGBTQIA2S+ persons
Contains mentions of addiction, drug-use, mental health conditions, explicit sex scenes
Contains mentions of sexual violence
Contains mentions of drug-use, death, murder
Contains depictions of physical violence, torture
Contains mentions of racism, murder
Contains depictions of physical violence
„A little flame that lit up and inspired people to tell different stories about the GDR.” This is how a protagonist describes the 1977 book “Guten Morgen, du Schöne” (Good morning, beautiful) by the writer Maxie Wander, a collection of records in which a wide variety of women talk about themselves. One of the most successful books in the GDR and one of the most influential in German literary history: It affected generations of women (and men!) and encouraged them to question their own lives – ample reason for the director to let a few of the women look back on the book and their lives today. It is about equal rights and emancipation, life plans and rebellion, dreams and failure, love and sexuality, mothers and fathers, men and women, happiness and loneliness, death and, above all, the hunger for life. With respect and great tenderness, Susanne Schüle films faces and bodies on which time has left its mark. Age and beauty, fragility and strength. On the visual level, the stories are subtly commented on by amateur footage: bodies marching in step to the ideologies, Hitler salutes and mass rallies. Again and again contrasted with naked bodies, the wild and non-conformist life beyond the dictatorships. War, peeling potatoes, kisses, children. This is how it was. This is how it is. In the end, the monologues of the past lead up to a contemporary dialogue between the sexes and generations. A flame.
Grit Lemke
Free entry
Free entry
Contains mentions of death
Contains mentions of mental health conditions
Contains mentions of war scenes
Contains mentions of drug-use, mental health conditions
Contains mentions of mental health conditions
Contains depictions of violence against animals, murder, physical violence
Photosensitivity warning
Contains mentions of racism
Contains mentions of death
Contains mentions of mental health conditions, murder
Photosensitivity warning
