Shorts Program 6: Bodily Autonomy
Friday 3rd February / 17:00 / City Kino Wedding & Online
Shorts Program 6: Bodily Autonomy
Your body is yours and yours alone. Only...that‘s not always the case, now is it? These shorts engage with the calamitous reality so many people are currently in. Dystopian technocracies, possessed pregnancies, dangerous contraceptives and consent violations are on full display in these chilling shorts.
(Content warning: sexual assault)
La Antesala (The Anteroom) (10:00)
Directed by Elisa Puerto Aubel, Spain, 2022 | German Premiere
A near future in any country. Refugee 28312 and her baby manage to reach a cold and hostile cabin controlled by a machine. The cabin serves as an anteroom to access the raft that can carry the Refugee and her child to the other side. Refugee 28312 has enough Units to pay for the ticket, but the machine decides Refugee 28312 is not suitable to go on board.
Yummy Mummy (14:30)
Directed by Gabriela Staniszewska, UK, 2022 | German Premiere | Available online
Ignored throughout her pregnancy, Lilith senses her identity is being smothered by her burgeoning motherhood. Her anxieties begin to have physical manifestations - and she starts to fall apart - literally.
Marked (13:37)
Directed by Catherine Bonny, Australia, 2022 | German Premiere | Available online
When a contraceptive implant sends twenty-one year old Andrea violently insane, she must find a way to remove it before she does something that she’ll regret for the rest of her life.
Sleep (3:45)
Directed by Alexandra Pechman, US, 2022 | German Premiere | Available online
A woman struggles with her lifelong fear of home invasion.
Lichemoth (12:15)
Directed by Carla Nichamin, US, 2022 | German Premiere | Available online
This horror-romance follows loner photographer, Doll, tasked with a last minute concert shoot of black metal band, Lichemoth. After inhaling a mysterious substance at the show, her resistance to connection is penetrated. Instantly, visions of a strange man start to infiltrate her mind, leading her to a pleasurable reawakening.
Sangue Nero (19:11)
Written and directed by Ophélie Nève, Belgium, 2021 | German Premiere | Available online
16 year old teenager Chiara lives isolated in the middle of the countryside with her mother and her violent step-dad. One night, he abuses her. She experiences both a mental and physical transformation which leads her to a life-saving encounter