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31FFC Sektions Button Heimat

Sorbian, regional and international filmmaking, all brought together in one place. Current feature films and documentaries as well as archive treasures and rediscoveries reflect, in a variety of ways, on the meaning of home. Films from Upper and Lower Lusatia speak of Sorbian worlds. Lusatia was and remains: serbski! At the same time, we also encounter stories from elsewhere that resonate just as powerfully here as they do in the places where they originally took place.

LET THE RIVER FLOW

Ellos Eatnu - La Elva Leve

Ole Giæver
NO/SÁPMI/SE/FI / 2023 / 124 min

In 1979, Ester takes a job as a teacher in her home town of Alta in northern Norway. Like many Sámi at the time, she is ashamed of her origins. In Norway, the indigenous people are considered dirty, there is pressure to conform, and the language is ...

Serbska utopija

Erik Schiesko
DE / 2023 / 29 min

Future in Sorbian. What do Sorbian utopias look like? Musings about tomorrow in the now, conceived by members of the Sorbian-German film network Łužycafilm, created as part of Łužycamagazin, the Sorbian program of RBB, in an ethnofuturistic guise.

VOM SUCHEN UND FINDEN

PYTAŚ A NAMAKAŚ

Luka Golinski/ Mira Dubian
DE / 2023 / 22 min

The first Lower Sorbian coming out film. Somewhere in the Spreewald, Karl and Lenka struggle with the same questions. Why do they feel so 'left out' here, how much village can they stand? In the end, Karl finally wants to be accepted as Klara and ...

VON ZUHAUSE

WOTDOMA

Katja Hrjehor
DE (Sorb) / 2023 / 20 min

What do you lose and what do you gain when you move away from Lusatia as a Sorbian? Talks in Berlin, Hamburg and Leipzig. LANGE NACHT DER KURZEN LAUSITZER/ DŁUJKA NOC KROTKICH ŁUŽYSKICH FILMOW/ DOŁHA NÓC KRÓTKICH ŁUŽISKICH FILMOW Block I

SHADOWS

Barbara Wallbraun + Menschenrechtszentrum Cottbus e. V. + Media To Be e. V. (Regie/Projektleitung)
DE / 2023 / 6 min

As part of a workshop, children and young people from Cottbus and the surrounding area dealt with the stories of young people who were recruited by the Stasi as ´Informal Collaborators`. LANGE NACHT DER KURZEN LAUSITZER/ DŁUJKA NOC KROTKICH ...

Baden gehen

اذهب للسباحة

Matthias Heine & Clemens Schiesko
DE / 2023 / 30 min

Tragicomedy at the bathing lake. A group of refugees goes swimming. A few Germans on the beach don't like it. Others just watch. LANGE NACHT DER KURZEN LAUSITZER/ DŁUJKA NOC KROTKICH ŁUŽYSKICH FILMOW/ DOŁHA NÓC KRÓTKICH ŁUŽISKICH FILMOW Block I

BALL&WEG

Dirk Lienig, Jessica Udhard (Projektleitung)
DE / 2023 / 5 min

The participants of the film camp on the topic of "conspiracy narratives" made their own conspiracy theory and turned it into a film. LANGE NACHT DER KURZEN LAUSITZER/ DŁUJKA NOC KROTKICH ŁUŽYSKICH FILMOW/ DOŁHA NÓC KRÓTKICH ŁUŽISKICH FILMOW Block I

ŁUŽICA/YCA – SERBAM DOMIZNA

žaba
DE / 2022 / 17 min

Akcija!-Award Winner 2022 LANGE NACHT DER KURZEN LAUSITZER/ DŁUJKA NOC KROTKICH ŁUŽYSKICH FILMOW/ DOŁHA NÓC KRÓTKICH ŁUŽISKICH FILMOW Block I

UNDERDOG IM DOCK 28

Angela Schuster, Ina Züchner (Projektleitung)
DE / 2023 / 21 min

Dock 28, a left-wing youth club in Hoyerswerda, became a legend in the 1990s. A search for traces. LANGE NACHT DER KURZEN LAUSITZER/ DŁUJKA NOC KROTKICH ŁUŽYSKICH FILMOW/ DOŁHA NÓC KRÓTKICH ŁUŽISKICH FILMOW Block II

ZEIT

Oliver Bartl, Fabian Bartl
DE / 2023 / 17 min

Daniel has a problem: time is running out and he can't keep up. LANGE NACHT DER KURZEN LAUSITZER/ DŁUJKA NOC KROTKICH ŁUŽYSKICH FILMOW/ DOŁHA NÓC KRÓTKICH ŁUŽISKICH FILMOW Block II

MARTIN

Miriam Bergmann
DE / 2023 / 6 min

Katrin Bauer is shocked when a policeman shows up at her door - looking for a traffic offender. She would never betray her son Martin... But what secret does the energetic pensioner really have to hide? LANGE NACHT DER KURZEN LAUSITZER/ DŁUJKA NOC ...

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