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LaFiNa – Strange Encounters

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Welcome to the Film All-Nighter and to encounters of a special Kind: with the next self, the promising PAC 9000, a lonely female astronaut, shamanic rituals, a childhood underneath the city, a spy and descendant of Astrid Lindgren, your own hiking boots, your former self. We lay to rest and we accuse. We sing protest songs. We show resistance, full of joy and full of pleasure!

Furthermore, Dortmund goes Black artists will be our guests: artist Adéọlá Ọlágúnjú presents her film Pilgrimage. Singer-Songwriter Joël-João Nguele performs a couple of songs from his recently published first EP Jojo’s Life Experience.

Tickets also at the box office: 10 € regular, 8 € reduced fee. Reduction for: Schoolchildren, students, trainees and graduates of voluntary military service and federal voluntary services; Seniors from 65 years of age; Holders of the »Cologne or Dortmund Pass«

Rejoice Resist

Elisha Smith-Leverock

UK / US
2021
Short film
5’
OF

Rejoice Resist is a film that celebrates and shows Black joy and Black pleasure as the ultimate form of resistance. […]

PAC 9000

Minu Park

DE
2020
Short film
7’
OF

»Are we smart consumers or just slaves to technology? […] This film is about a woman living in a world […]

I Like Tomorrow

Nancy Andrews, Jennifer Reeder

US
2021
Short film
11’
OF

I Like Tomorrow is a sci-fi comedy musical that combines live action and animation. This short hybrid film is set […]

The Fourfold

Alisi Telengut

CA / DE
2020
Animation film
7’
OmeU

Based on the ancient animistic beliefsand shamanic rituals in Mongolia and Siberia, The Fourfold is an exploration of the indigenous […]

IT / FR
2020
Short film
9’
OmeU

The difficult livelihoods of small farmers from the Alfina plateau in Italy is the starting point for this unique homage. […]

In Her Boots

Kathrin Steinbacher

GB / AT
2019
Animation film
6’
dt. OmeU

Hedi doesn’t seem to be what you’d call the average grandma. She’s quite happy breakfasting with her granddaughter with nothing […]

Es wird Schuhe regnen

Mariola Brillowska

DE
2021
Short film
18’

It was a Sunday when it happened. The volcano erupted. Mañana Brzozadrzewska was busy cooking her radiation-contaminated shoe soles when […]

& das gegenteil von glück

Lütfiye Güzel

DE
2020
Poetry Clip
10’
OF

A cinematic walkabout. Glances up at the sky. The pigeons. Dirty and groggy. The footsteps. Slow and reluctant. The dreams. […]

One

Anouk de Clercq

BE / NO
2020
Short film
7’
OFe

One is a film, a performance, a 21st century protest song, a pledge, a commitment,  a solemn undertaking, a summoning […]

Presence

Aleksandra Kołodziejczyk, Karl Wratschko

AT
2020
Silent film
6’
OW

In most cities, women are greatly under-represented in the urban landscape – a far cry from gender parity. In Vienna, […]

Political Romance

Michelle Keserwany, Noelle Keserwany, Dania Bdeir

LB / FR
2020
Music video
5’
OmeU

»On August 4th, 2020, the Lebanese political class of a failing state destroyed its own capital and killed its own […]

Pilgrimage

Adéọlá Ọlágúnjú

DE
2018
Installation
4’
OFe

Life is a journey is a conventional metaphor that derives its vitality from the fact that it closely fits the […]

Yksi Kaksi Kolme

Dagie Brundert

DE
2020
Short film
3’
OF

»The last time I travelled the world, I couldn’t leave for a long time because the portals were too flat. […]