An unsuspecting rabbit scampers through the land of childhood. It’s the host animal of a powerful magic goblin who teaches the little ones virtues like greed, envy and avarice.
A distant idyll featuring well-behaved children at play: a prettily illustrated and well-labelled world. An unsuspecting rabbit scampers there which may be cute but can also be tortured and slaughtered. And when a goblin who can turn insects into flashing diamonds springs from the dead body, one would have to be a stupid child indeed not to smell a business opportunity. Good children! Bad children!
Ralph Eue
Credits
Director
Run Wrake
Script
Run Wrake
Editor
Rich White
Producer
Run Wrake
Score
Howie B, Craig Richards
Animation
Run Wrake, Martin Morris, Murray John, Barnaby Hewlett
A thrilling and yet complex examination of “Extinction Rebellion” that doesn’t gloss over the group’s internal controversies about political strategies.
“Extinction Rebellion” (XR), known for creative civil disobedience, blockades and performances, want to put pressure on politics to finally adopt effective measures against the climate crisis. The greater the attention, the greater the effect, that’s their hope. But will this equation work? And how can such a heterogenous movement take joint decisions? “Rebellion” follows the development of the first XR group in Great Britain from up close, showing both euphoric moments and heated debates. After all, the issue is whether change is possible without questioning power structures – in society, but also within their own ranks.
Luc-Carolin Ziemann
Credits
Director
Maia Kenworthy, Elena Sánchez Bellot
Cinematographer
Amy Newstead, Maia Kenworthy, Elena Sánchez Bellot, Tom Swindell
A mirror sculpture at St. Paul’s Cathedral in London: There seems to be nothing there. Or is there? The limits of our imagination become the true narrative.
Nothing meets everything in a digital moment of limbo. We find ourselves in the middle of a mirror sculpture at St. Paul’s Cathedral in London. There seems to be nothing there, but we are repeatedly asked to see more. The limits of our imagination and orientation become the true narrative. We could escape it at any time. But what would we be missing then?
Two filmmakers – brother and sister – hire a chef to play their father. The boundaries between the film and the reality of the single father’s life become increasingly blurred.
Lines scrawled on white paper with a ballpoint pen. Everything looks like a hastily drawn scribble – a sketch of ideas rather than a finished film, possibly only a quick storyboard. The jerkily connected images show a food stall somewhere in the middle of nowhere. Something extraordinary happens here: Two filmmakers – brother and sister – hire the chef as the leading actor of their project. They are planning a biopic about their father. The fast-food expert is not only the spitting image of the famous man, he is just like him! The casting could not be more apt, the film business newcomer lets them convince him. But the task turns out to be difficult. Though the cook does everything to do justice to this demanding role, he seems less and less suited for the job every day. Completely engrossed in the preparations for the part, he becomes increasingly distant from his own children. The boundaries between the film and the single father’s real life begin to blur. Is it possible that shooting has already begun?