competition 4
(in)voluntary

The light is red. You feel really cooped in. Puberty knocks on the door. That’s how life goes. What are you going to do? Do you arrange yourself in a small world, dare a riot, make tracks? Whether or not you make a decision: Something is going to happen.

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Zero m²

film still Zero m²
Fiction, France,
direction
Matthieu Landour

You would sign nearly anything for a cheap apartment in the center of Paris. Even if that makes the walls come closer.

Freifuss

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Experimental, Germany,
direction
Daniel Pfeiffer

The voluntary decision to quit shoes for six months, may have some unsuspected limitations, realises Zeit columnist Harald Martenstein.

90 Grad Nord

film still 90 Grad Nord
Fiction, Germany,
direction
Detsky Graffam

Already as children we got told: “Don’t cross the street when the light is red!” But what happens when the green man just doesn’t appear?

Lost Drones

film still Lost Drones
Fiction, Germany,
direction
Andreas Gruner, Florian Bielefeldt

On the eve of technologic singularity the documentation by Die Fortunisten focuses on the possibility to reach a more human interaction between man and his exoprosthesis ‘drone’.

Alienation

film still Alienation
Animation, Germany,
direction
Laura Lehmus

No matter who you are or where you come from: You can’t avoid puberty. "Alienation” is based on interviews with teenagers. Just the pictures are a bit alienated.

Hausarrest

film still Hausarrest
Fiction, Switzerland,
direction
Matthias Sahli

The wonders of technology can even show the good sides of an ankle bracelet. But what they can’t do is to read between the lines.