Film screening
International Short Film Festival Oberhausen

Made in Germany 3

Sun, 21.11.2021
8:00 PM ARTos House

Following the great success of last year’s Oberhausen International Short Film Festival Tour, Artos House in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut are proud to welcome the screening of the programs Award winners 2020 on the 19 November, the International Competition on the 20 November and the Made in Germany 3 on the 21 November 2021 at 20:00, at ARTos House.

In the course of six decades, the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen has developed into one of the most highly acclaimed cultural events worldwide – a place where renowned figures like Agnès Varda, Martin Scorsese, Alexander Kluge and Werner Herzog first showed their films. Oberhausen is the world’s oldest short film festival and in the meantime also enjoys an excellent standing in the art scene, where short films and videos play an increasingly important role today.

This compilation, the third part of our series with the best German short films of the last ten years, deals with the living conditions of migrants in Germany today. In 1984 six Turkish citizens died in Duisburg-Wanheimerort in an arson attack. While the police quickly ruled out a racist background, from today’s point of view there is a lot of circumstantial evidence to prove it. Dunkelfeld goes in search of clues and reopens the case. In the animation Brand, an East German mayor and his family are met with a wave of hatred when he agrees to take in refugees. The essay film ma nouvelle vie européenne reflects on Europe’s invisible borders from the perspective of Abou, a Malian refugee in Germany, making the camera a medium of self-empowerment. In Three Notes, Jeannette Gaussi artistically processes the few remaining photographs of her Afghan childhood. The playful Moruk shows the introverted Hakan and the fun-loving Murat hanging out in the Kreuzberg neighbourhood. They meet daily, smoke pot, dream, philosophize and argue. Tiefenschärfe finally reads in the markings of the places in Nuremberg where the so-called NSU committed three murders. Here the pen becomes the camera and the camera becomes the actor while the film traces the unsettling impact of these attacks on society.

Made in Germany 3

Dunelfeld/Dark Figure
Ole-Kristian Heyer/Patrick Lohse/Marian Mayland, Germany, 2020
Deutsch, German, Turkish with English subs, 16 min.

Brand/Ablaze
Jan Koester/Alexander Lahl, Germany, 2019
German with English subs, 5 min. 30 sek.

ma nouvelle vie européene/ my new european life
Abou Bakar Sidibé/Moritz Siebert, Germany, 2019
French with English subs, 22 min. 30 sek.

Three Notes
Jeannette Gaussi, Germany, 2006
no dialogue, 4 min.

Moruk
Serdal Karaça, Germany, 2009
German with English subs, 22 min. 30 sek.

Tiefenschärfe/Depth of Field
Mareike Bernien/Alex Gerbaulet, Germany, 2017
German with English subs, 14 min. 30 sek.