Travelling GIEFF

20.11.2026 | 10:00 Uhr

FILMPROGRAMM 10:00 - 13:00 Uhr

10:00 MAKING SPACE

India, 2024, 13.5 min | A film by Nikita Parikh

Alsana lives in a marginalised neighbourhood in Ahmedabad, physically separated from the rest of the city by a landfill and a highway. In a crowded family apartment, her small corner becomes a significant personal refuge. The film explores how identity, autonomy and belonging can take shape even under restrictive conditions.

10:15 AS I WITNESS

USA / Venezuela, 2024, 8.5 min | A film by Pamela Andrea Martinez Barrera

An experimental and multimodal work exploring writing, memory, the body and the experience of witnessing violence. Through writing on skin, testimony and archival sounds, the body becomes a surface where personal experience and wider histories of violence encounter one another.

10:25 WE MIGHT BE ALIKE

Germany / Iran, 2025, 17.5 min | A film by Monirsadat Jazaeri

This intimate documentary follows Roya, an Iranian woman living in exile in Germany, through letters exchanged with her son Mani. Fragmented and non-linear, the film creates a shared space of memory, loss and longing and reflects on motherhood as a relationship continually renegotiated across borders, time and displacement.

10:45 DRAGGING CHAINS

Grenada, 2024, 30 min | A film by Emil Victor Hvidtfeldt

Dragging Chains immerses audiences in Grenada’s Jab Jab tradition during Carnival through oil-covered bodies, the weight and sound of chains, and driving rhythms. What begins as spectacle reveals deeper layers of historical trauma, resistance and resilience rooted in slavery and colonialism.

11:15–11:30 BREAK

11:30 DATING IN THE DARK (51 min)

In a remote village without electricity, young men walk along dark mountain paths in the evening to visit women they hope to court. By firelight, conversations unfold through shy declarations, teasing questions, silences and laughter. The film observes a courtship tradition shaped by darkness, patience and community life.

12:25–13:00 DISCUSSION

A joint conversation around the morning’s films.

20.11.2026 | 15:00 Uhr

DRAGS IN DA´ HOUSE

Brazil, 2024, 67 min | A film by Mihai Andrei Leaha, Paula Bessa Braz, Divina Kaskaria, Satine and Gab Brasil

A collaborative documentary exploring São Paulo’s queer and drag scene. When the COVID-19 pandemic makes conventional fieldwork impossible, video diaries, screen recordings, online performances and self-filming become ways of continuing to work together. The film raises questions about collaboration, representation and shared authorship in ethnographic filmmaking.

20.11.2026 | 17:00 Uhr

A LETTER TO CHINATOWN

Hong Kong / United Kingdom, 2025, 48 min | A film by Alexandra D’Onofrio and Elena Barabantseva

Ten years after their earlier film British Born Chinese, the filmmakers return to Daniel He as he prepares to graduate from Oxford and enter adult life. The film explores growing up between cultures and the ways family histories, responsibilities and transnational connections shape identity, belonging and home.

20.11.2026 | 18:15 Uhr

18:15–19:15 KEYNOTE: Ethnography and Sexuality | Omar Kasmani

19:15 - 20:00 Uhr Nachbarschaftkollektiv Laurentiusplatz.Machen lädt zur Glühwein-Reception an Bord der GRÄTZILLA gleich um die Ecke am Laurentiusplatz.

Neighborhood collective Laurentiusplatz.Machen invites all to Glühwein-Reception on board GRÄTZILLA, just around the corner on Laurentiusplatz.

20.11.2026 | 20:00 Uhr

ANGRY SPIRITS

Mongolia, 2024, 104 min | A film by Iris Pakulla

In Ulaanbaatar, Ainur, a young mother, struggles to support her children and parents while experiencing a growing sense of unease and haunting. The film bridges personal narrative, spiritual worlds and structural questions of poverty, inequality and rapid social change in contemporary Mongolia.

21.11.2026 | 10:00 Uhr

Filmprogramm 10:00 - 12:00 Uhr

10:00 ONLY IF THE BABY CRIES…

India, 2024, 15 min | A film by Shadab Farooq

Set in a village in the Kashmir hills where many inhabitants are deaf, the film follows the birth of Misra Khatoon’s baby. Villagers gather and beat drums, waiting to discover whether the newborn responds to sound. The film explores communication, identity, belonging and uncertainty in a social world where silence is not absence.

10:20 WORK BETWEEN US

Austria, 2024, 29 min | A film by Elaine Goldberg

Care work is rarely visible, is mostly performed by women, and is often underpaid and undervalued. Moving through Austria’s care landscape, the film asks how family carers cope, under what conditions 24-hour carers work, and how inclusion is practised within care institutions.

21.11.2026 | 12:30 Uhr

Filmprogramm 12:30 - 15:00 Uhr

12:30 EA – HOME ON GIVÆR

Norway, 2025, 36 min | A film by Ursula Möll

On Givær in northern Norway, Olaug Olsen cares for sheep and eider ducks, continuing a centuries-old tradition of mutual care between humans and animals. The film explores more-than-human relationships, ecological change, intergenerational knowledge and intangible cultural heritage.

13:10 THRONE OF WOOD

Iran, 2025, 30 min | A film by Sadegh Kazemi

In the village of Avanj, a hundred-year-old woman known as the Chief gathers and stacks firewood even though the village has long been connected to natural gas. Her routine becomes a point of conflict and opens questions about ageing, autonomy, dignity and the meanings attached to everyday practices.

13:40–14:00 BREAK

14:00–15:00 CLOSING DISCUSSION OF THE FILM PROGRAMME

A joint conversation reflecting on the films and the social worlds they invite us to encounter.