Sharp Nails, Sharp Tongues

Digital frustration, analogue ghosts, creative crises, rifts, rewritten history, reversed gender roles, empowerment. A feminist short film programme that faces the absurdities and challenges of life with humour and insight.
Ansitzen
Franca Pape
A person enters the waiting room. A doctor’s appointment? Sounds and voices gradually become audible from off-screen; anti-abortion protesters are […]
Obey, obey
Akira Kawasaki
»From this year, fringes may cover the eyebrows, as long as they don’t reach the eyes.« Rules like this – […]
Life Is Like That and not Otherwise
Lenia Friedrich
»When I get old, will I be this lonely too?« What starts with finding the first grey hairs in the […]
Kontrewers
Zuza Banasińska
In a Polish folk tale, the spirit of a possessed girl has been trapped inside a stone for centuries. Now, […]
Abortion Party
Julia Mellen
A hypnotic, breathless, and neurotic monologue. It all starts with an abortion party, organised by the then 20-year-old director to […]
Loss of Altitude
Hoàng Quỳnh Nguyễn
A couple living in a dystopian future set in the present day. Decisions need to be made. Increasing levels of […]
Die Zauberflöte
Hansol Kim
The »Queen of the Night« aria from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s opera The Magic Flute forms the basis for a linguistic reworking […]
Hope Road
Susann Maria Hempel
In a multi-layered voiceover monologue, Hempel reflects on her personal artistic crisis within the context of catastrophic social developments. How […]
Lieber Hans
Claudia Richarz
Two poignant minutes are enough to remind us of the inhumanity and cruelty of war. In 1943, Maria writes a […]
How to be a Ghost in Bangkok?
Jing Zhao
A trip through Thailand with her boyfriend is not happening; he has vanished. Jing Zhao transforms a painful experience into […]
Warnings to the Distant Future
Juliane Jaschnow, Stefanie Schroeder
A monstrous legacy passed down from generation to generation. The search for the East-West German nuclear waste repository turns into […]
Love Your Nails!
Narges Kalhor
Rewriting history with AI. Historical material is repurposed and serves up a newly interpreted narrative that redefines our present and […]
From Kita – Horizontaler Gentransfer
Melissa Chee
Horizontal Gene Transfer (HGT) describes the exchange of genetic material between organisms outside of traditional inheritance from parents to offspring […]
How to Make a Mud Cake
Helena Uambembe
The title refers to the popular cooking shows on social media. Helena Uambembe explains how to make a mud cake […]