Ethnokino Festival: Resilient

90 Minuten

Short Films 2

A Family Portrait

Genre: Documentary, Short
Director: Shubham Sharma
Country: Germany, India
Year: 2022
Length: 4 minutes
Version: English
An auto-ethnographic film that explores the sensory relationship between distance and memory and what role they play in an immigrant's experience of migration. After finding a family portrait on my phone one evening in Germany, I felt a longing for my hometown. I wanted to make a film about it. But how can you talk about your family portrait without talking about the reality they inhabit? They're the sum of the people and environment they come from.

I’ve Kept You for Myself

Genre: Documentary, Short
Director: Derin Emre
Producers F?rat Sezgin, Deniz Tortum
Country: Turkey, Canada
Year: 2022
Length: 19 min
Version: English
I've Kept You to Myself is a personal essay film by a former TV addict and his reckoning with the decaying value of knowledge. An archival self-portrait, it explores how a relationship with the bizarre, fragmented Turkish television of the 90s made him a reluctant YouTube star-to-be in Los Angeles, continually coming back to the question: What if, I am nothing more than the media I consume?

For Your Safety, Be Aware of the Space Between

Genre: Documentary, Short
Director: Aymane Hayyane Filali
Country: Switzerland
Year: 2023
Length: 13 min
Version: Swiss German with English Subtitles
For your safety is a short film exploring different kinds of limits, and spaces in between. Five cases caught between blurry realities are documented in the environment of Almerìa. Imitating the robotic voice of the train, a safety notice is produced for each case. In the end, one wonders what is most important to be aware of for “your safety”.

Today with Sugar Tomorrow I Don’t Know

Genre: Documentary, Short
Director: Annaka Minsch, Léon Melchior Hüsler
Country: Switzerland
Year: 2022
Length: 17 min
Version: Swiss German with English Subtitles
One house, ten patients, forty employees and death. In the Hospice of Central Switzerland, exceptional situations meet everyday life, spirituality meets rationality and individualism meets institutional mechanisms. The film gently encounters an uncomplicated and intimate approach to dying.