New season, more films about courage to inspire and educate us! Join us at the Wein Salon for a free screening of these astonishing works that required immense dedication to create. Each film features either English dialogue or subtitles. Some film teams may even participate in Q&A sessions afterward!PROGRAMME
My Name is Wiete by Joel van As
Germany 2024
Short Documentary
"My Name is Wiete" is a short documentary about Wiete Zepperitz. Wiete is a Berlin-based drummer and punk rock fanatic who lives with AMC (Arthrogryposis Multiplex Congenita). The film shows how her lifelong confrontation with her physical disability, her love for punk rock, and her social environment have shaped her strong identity.
The Shade of My Beauty: Breaking The Skin Barriers by Angelo Napoleon, Jessica Ellsworth, Jesus Munoz, Jostin Manuel Jeong Caraballo, Kashay Cheek, Lenz Anderson Jean Baptiste, Lorwiseka Jean Pierre, and Thte Htar Swe Zin
USA
Short Documentary
The Shade of My Beauty: Breaking The Skin Barriers explores the painfully rooted issue of colorism within Black and Latino communities and exposes how white supremacy seeps into generations and affects their livelihood. This film hopes to educate its audience on this issue and break the barriers of colorism.
Metamorphosis by Agnija Šeiko, Marius Paplauskas, and Haus Linsenhoff
Lithuania 2024
Experimental Short
Through a fusion of fashion design and contemporary dance, an experimental film explores the metamorphosis of women who have escaped sex trafficking. The garments and choreography development illustrates women's fight for the bodily autonomy.
I See in Story’s by Madmo Cem Adam Springer
Germany
Short Documentary
Is about Idress an Rwnadan Filmmaker from and based in Kigali it’s about his fight against depression and his passion for filmmaking as well as his creative workflow in his craft.
Bubble Boy by Cameron Carr
UK 2024
Short Animation
A non-verbal autistic boy with a deep desire to communicate creates a world through drawing. Based on a true story.
Wild Birds Fly by Maria Dinitz
Germany 2023
Short Animation Documentary
Set in 1995 Berlin, this short documentary follows Frank, a 15-year-old punk who runs away from home. Initially finding a sense of rebellion on the streets, Frank is soon confronted with the harsh realities of street life—substance abuse, loss, and survival. This is a raw, intimate portrait of a young boy’s struggle for identity in a world that offers both liberation and danger.
Echoes from Borderland by Lara Miléna Brose
Germany
Feature Documentary
August 2021. The world watches as the Taliban take over power in Afghanistan and hundreds of thousands flee their oppressive rule. Many Afghan refugees end up in Bosnia & Hercegowina, a non-EU state, where their search for a safe and dignified life comes to an abrupt end at the European border.
After a nerve-racking escape from their hometown Herat in Afghanistan, Nahid (15) and her family find themselves in the limbo of Bosnia’s borderlands. In her new and unfamiliar surroundings, the voice messages from friends back home offer Nahid some degree of comfort, but there is no time for nostalgia and no room for looking back. Nahid is fully focused on one goal: to get her family away from the misery of the refugee camp and into the European Union. Many of the attempts to cross the border, which everyone in the camp just refers to as going to "the game", end with illegal pushbacks. As time passes and going to the game almost becomes routine, the voice messages from back home more and more begin to sound like distant echoes from a life left behind.
In these circumstances, Nahid meets Ferida (67), a Bosnian widow who lives close to the border and lost her husband in the Yugoslav Wars. As time passes, Nahid discovers that the cycle of war and loss connects her to the Bosnian borderlands in unexpected ways and the two women begin to recognize the echoes of their own losses in each other's experiences.
Event Venue
Wein Salon and Vegan Deli, 59 Schreiner straße,Berlin, Germany
