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Young Eyes 2024

An Octopus Destroyed the Moon

Heidrun Holzfeind
A school in Berlin that offers subjects like horticulture and animal care. The film portrays a group of young people between lessons, childhood and adulthood.
Filmstill An Octopus Destroyed the Moon
Filmstill An Octopus Destroyed the Moon

An Octopus Destroyed the Moon

Ein Oktopus hat den Mond zerstört
Heidrun Holzfeind
Young Eyes 2024
Documentary Film
Austria,
Germany
2024
90 minutes
German
Subtitles: 
English
Can school be exciting and even fun? The integrative pre-vocational August Sander school in Berlin-Friedrichshain at least seems the perfect place for this. The noise of the cars of the big city can be heard from the distance, birds are singing on the lush green grounds. Lessons here include horticulture, agriculture and animal care. And when you watch the students weed garden plots and feed rabbits, things look extremely enviable at first glance. But of course, even in this paradisiacal place there are conflicts, annoying teachers and the anxious question: What comes after graduation?
This documentary follows the school life of a group of pupils with different learning disorders and other impairments over one school year. At its focus are young people who are on the way from training to work, from childhood to adulthood, and struggle to find their place in the narrow regulatory system of school and in society.
Lina Dinkla

Credits DOK Leipzig Logo

Director
Heidrun Holzfeind
Cinematographer
Heidrun Holzfeind
Editor
Heidrun Holzfeind
Producer
Heidrun Holzfeind
World Sales
Gerald Weber
Nominated for: Young Eyes Film Award
Filmstill EXOMOON

EXOMOON

EXOMOON
Gudrun Krebitz
Animation Perspectives 2024
Animated Film
UK,
Austria
2015
7 minutes
English
Subtitles: 
None
The longing for something to finally happen is fulfilled by a kiss. Not the romantic kind, however, but a monstrous one, a kiss the world will talk about. Thus Dodi plods vigilantly through everyday life and parties, in a cloud of other people’s voices. “EXOMOON” follows her confident path: like a kaleidoscope with creative fractures.
André Eckardt

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Director
Gudrun Krebitz
Sound Design
Marian Mentrup