Competition 1 Living, dying and all the rest of it

An elderly couple has their very own way to deal with death…

When you can’t remember anything, have an empty gaze and forgot how to talk – you are a zombie, aren’t you?

“You’re starting on foot, landing on your feet, lying on your belly with your head straight ahead like a bird, with a clear view downwards – you’ll only get that with dragons…” Ulf Kern talks about flying.

Two brothers survive in a campervan on the outskirts of a deserted street. One of them is selfless, the other a highly gifted deaf-mute.

The highlander Donald betakes to the Scottish lowlands and provides for lots of excitement. He wears a kilt instead of pants. Even the sheep are puzzled and ask him what happened to his pants. Beautiful Peggy is not bothered at all: she likes the dashing man and invites him to dance.

Georg and his daughter Rachel travel to Zurich, where she is planning physician-assisted suicide. As her last hours are elapsing, he sees his last chances fading to make her change her mind.

Dancing uses the human inability to communicate with other cultures as a means of expression of the own speechlessness, torn between control and despair. Black and White, Yin and Yang, Wilderness and Brittleness. A mutual unquestioning nature.

In the ghettos of Warsaw 1942. Samek, an-8-year-old boy, cheeky and full of live, peeks through a hole in the Ghetto Wall and sees a carrot on the other side of the sidewalk. With help of a piece of wire he tries to get the carrot to his side, not knowing that closely positioned SS-men are watching his every move closely.

On 21st July 1969 the whole world watched live as the first human walked on the moon. But in reality, everything was a little different: The moon landing was pre-shot one week previously – in an aircraft hangar in Area 51.

A prisoner receives the message that his old father needs help farming his crops. In his desperate situation he suddenly has the idea to use the guards to plough the crops of his father…