This year’s Focus is carrying out a thought experiment. If everything in the world is connected in one living network and humans are not the centre of everything – what would it be like if we tried to adopt more-than-human perspectives? What stories can be told about this?

Highlighting and practising equality in artistic attitudes is inspiring film-makers to adopt new approaches in their art and we have brought together some exciting examples in our programme. What do we see when we look at others? How do ›the others‹ look back? The focus programme becomes a filmic plea for co-existence. Films include documentaries about Donna Harraway, who has inspired people all over the world with her life-affirming cyborg and trans-species feminism, and cultural ecologist David Abram, who invites us to develop relationships with animals and the world around us in Becoming Animal (directed by Emma Davie and Peter Mettler).
Three documentary features and 13 short documentary & experimental films can be seen in the programme, as well as a Super 8 online performance by Dagie Brundert. And in Dortmund we present – in real life – the FestivalSchauFenster.

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