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Zero-G
AUT 2016 I 9 min
Director: Jannis Lenz
Poem: Schwerelos
Poet: Fatima Moumouni
The artform “Le Parkour” is not only about overcoming walls and obstacles in an urban surrounding, but also about the longing for weightlessness in an increasingly dense city.
This is a poem for the government
GBR 2021 I 4 min
Director: Samuel Foster, Nathaniel Bagot-Sealey
Poem: This is a poem for the government
Poet: Samuel Foster
Angry monologue by a schoolgirl aimed at Boris Johnson on the losers in the corona pandemic and the ignorance of the rich. How people whose access to education and art, a computer or even food to eat each day is made harder and how they continue to be disadvantaged. Reduced poetry short on a Spoken Word text between poetry and theatre.
Heartbreak
IRL 2017 I 7 min
Director: Dave Tynan
Poem: Heartbreak
Poet: Emmet Kirwan
The film charts a young woman’s life from her teenage years to motherhood as she raises her son in contemporary Ireland despite the everyday sexism she is confronted with.
BLACK. BRITISH. MUSLIM. OTHER.
GBR 2021 I 4 min
Director: Enas Saeed
Poem: BLACK. BRITISH. MUSLIM. OTHER.
Poet: Enas Saeed
A woman, in a Sudanese wedding gown , arranged by anonymous hands. She steps out of this adornment into different versions of herself. “It’s not for you to make an image out of me.” About a Black Muslim woman’s self-liberation.
Nobody but Myself
USA 2018 I 6 min
Director: Kat Dolan
Poem: Nobody but myself
Poet: Kat Dolan
Spoken Word performer and mental health activist Dolan conjures visceral explosions against the backdrop of the beautiful, wild highlands of North Carolina. She tells of the blessing she finds in acceptance of her depression. It is only in this way, she says, that has found the happiness of being nobody other than herself.
Cycle
DEU 2021 I 3 min
Director: Jonas Schmieta, Eva Matz
Poem: Zyklus
Poet: Eva Matz
Intense live-action film about menstrual cramps, an experience still downplayed by medicine. Clinically accurate and harrowingly poetic in its description of pain, insomnia, vomiting, the hospital.
Hate
GBR 2020 I 12 min
Director: Humza Arshad, Mustapha Kseibati
Poem: Hate
Poet: Humza Arshad
Before things can get better, everything from the streets has to be laid out on the table. This feature film confronts us with plaintalking about knife assaults,
hate-motivated acid attacks, white extremism, Islamophobia, and gang violence.
