Politics and Policies

Programme I: Politics and Policies (120 min.)

In Tirana | Germany | 6 min. | by Roberto Anjari-Rossi

Olga is a Russian girl working as a prostitute in Germany, but one day - as she wishes - she´ll head towards Tirana for a better life…

Bingo | The Netherlands | 28 min. | by Timur Ismailov

Three companions in distress - a Moldavian gypsy, a Russian and a Chechen - working for a shady Turkish labour subcontractor in Holland and helping each other to survive.

Cutecutecute | Austria | 2 min. | by Clemens Kogler

Cute little critters tell about things which are normally sort of a taboo in society.

Nashi | The Netherlands | 26 min.| by Daya Canen

“Nashi” means “Our ones” and is the name of an elitist Youth movement created by Vladimir Putin. The film shows these “chosen ones” at a summer camp, destined to become managers and politicians for Russia as a global leader of the 21st century.

The red gold | Italy | 12 min.| by Cesare Fragnelli

Erika, who fled Romania some years earlier, lives her life as an ordinary housewife in Apulia. But her past life was not the life of an ordinary housewife.

I don´t feel like dancing | Germany | 7 min.| by Evi Goldbrunner and Joachim Dollhopf

Somewhere in a war zone: three German soldiers ask a local girl in a club, if she would like to dance with them. The soldiers cannot deal with her refusal.

Sores und Sîrîn | Germany | 24 min.| by Katrin Gebbe

Having fled from the Iraqi war, Sores and Sîrîn found a new home in Germany with their foster mother. But the sibling´s lives are in danger of being broken apart once again.

Ghosts | Finland | 15min.| by Jan Ijäs

Morgan Devereaux, an asylum seeker, is dancing on the roof of a former paper envelope factory turned home for refugees. He doesn´t know how long he has been there. His life has come to a standstill: “I’m not dead, I just exist.”