Gezeigt werden drei Kurzfilme von Studierenden internationaler Filmschulen, die sich mit sozialen Fragen rund um Heimat und Zugehörigkeit beschäftigen: UNDER ONE ROOF, HOME SWEET HOME, THE FABRIC.
Alle studentischen Filmschaffenden werden zum Filmgespräch im Anschluss anwesend sein. Die Veranstaltung findet im Rahmen des Freiburger Filmforum – Festival of Transcultural Cinema im Kommunalen Kino, Urachstraße 40 statt. Die Filme werden im Original mit englischem Untertitel gezeigt.
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UNDER ONE ROOF
Yu Wang, China / France, 2022, 20 min
Three rooms in a narrow labyrinthine apartment next to Marseille St Charles train station that belong to a Chinese family: Yuan, her brother Bin and their father. The two siblings work irregular hours in Marseille. In the limited resting times between their strenuous work, the two siblings contemplate about staying in Marseille and their longing to return to China. In the enclosed spaces of their small apartment, Yuan and Bin imagine another life through the digital. Is “not so bad” all you can ask for as a migrant living a foreign country?
HOME SWEET HOME
Humad Nisar / Pakistan, Germany / 2022 / 41 min
The topic of “home” goes beyond the four walls of the household. For queer people, it is often a complex enigma. In an effort to decolonise narrative filmmaking, director Humad Nisar used participatory filmmaking methods and collaborated with various queer participants in Pakistan and the diaspora. The result is an unusual, experimental collage that tries to grasp the complex enigma of what “home” means for Pakistani Queer people. How do they navigate through intimacy and belonging in order to create a feeling of ‘home’ in a country where one’s existence is being illegalized?
THE FABRIC
Iman Behrouzi, Germany, 2021, 13 min
Two sets of circumstances bound 367 students to their 25-storey university dorm rooms in Germany. The first being the lockdown from the worldwide COVID crisis. And the second, the renovations of their dorm rooms that the lockdown had brought to an unfinished abrupt halt. From the outside, their building might well be abandoned, except for a piece of fabric covering it to contain debris in place. From the inside, Iranian filmmaker Iman Behrouzi, as one of the 367, explores the different ways this piece of fabric with a little gap here, a little fold there, and a little lifting from the wind in another part, gives the students tiny glimpses into the world outside. What does a slice of a view mean when one has been cut off from the outside world?
