Neurodivergenz feiern
durch Filme.
Program
1. Alle Teilnehmer müssen über 18 Jahre alt sein.​
2.​ Menschen, die sich nicht als neurodivergent bezeichnen, sind ebenfalls willkommen.
3. Keine Toleranz für Beleidigungen, Belästigung und Bigotterie.​
Über das Filmfestival
Sick Girls
What does it mean to have an ADHD diagnosis? Gitti Grüter (Director) takes the audience and five women with ADHD on a journey to the limits of German normality.
Aspie
This is a short Poetry film 'Aspie', by Aine Collins. This poem is created to raise awareness of Autism/Neurodiversity especially in Women.
Mical
Based on an inspiring true story, a 7-year-old intelligent boy struggles to read and write because he is dyslexic. Only one person believes he can fulfil his true potential, his mother. A film by Gordon Lewis.
What It Feels
What it Feels Like was the winner of Best International Documentary award at the Focus on Ability Film Festival Australia, Best Short Documentary St Neots International Film Festival and Best Amateur Film Walthamstow Smartphone Film Festival. A short animated documentary on voice hearing by Steven Fraser.
I'm crying all the time and I don't know why
We ask ourselves why we are crying and try to answer without shame or fear. An animation by Jamie Machul.
Pharma Infinity
In this video artwork, Chanika Svetvilas uses prescription bottles and wire to create an infinity loop sculpture, dancing through a CVS pharmacy to reflect on side effects, treatment, and stigma. Her work explores medical conditions, BigPharma, and care, drawing from her experiences with bipolar disorder and disability justice.
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Chanika Svetvila will be attending the film screening and thanks the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU, C.V. Starr Fund for A/P/A Research” for its support."
Lang lebe der Fischfriedhof (How to Bury a Fish)
Mia, Jan and T* want to build a pond in the garden of their psychiatric day clinic as part of a project. But Luzie, who is prone to violence, threatens to break up the group. A movie by Elsa van Damke
Slope
Living in a village full of slopes can drive you mad. Those who have climbed them in the old-fashioned way are fully aware of that. What they don’t know is that their souls might have stuck around. A movie by María Monreal Otano.
AND(H)ERS
When we think of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder we often think of that one particularly loud classmate, the so-called the so called fidget spinner. For a long time, the image in the media was childlike, but what does the life of adults affected affected and why is the disorder so male-dominated? How are women and men affected differently and what do the everyday conflicts look like? A documentary film by Lennart Kistner-Bahr and Florian Lupberger.
A Bridge to Mundania
For those who the stark reality and pressures of life can feel an insurmountable struggle, happiness and belonging exists in a fantasy world of magic wizards, brave knights, and evil ghouls. A movie by Connor Macrae Love.
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Dix Pix
A short animated documentary that looks at the gay male/trans/non-binary body and why it is common for people to send naked pictures via dating apps. The documentary takes an experimental approach in its visual style and tackles themes of masculinity, queerness, solitude and the body. A movie by Steven Fraser.
OH SH*T!
A short film by Elsa van Damke follows a 27 y/o Maggie on a date at her crush’s apartment. When she suddenly gets her period, she rushes to the bathroom — where she finds herself confronted with a monster that’s been living in her head for far too long.
Coming Out Autistic
A short animated documentary that explores the experience of telling the world that you are autistic when you also identify as LGBTQ+. Queer coming out stories are well documented, but the occurrence of telling friends, family, co-workers and strangers that you are autistic is less explored. A film by Steven Fraser.
Pocky-chan
This video work was created by turning real people into avatars using 3D scanning technology and then incorporating them into the film as a bricolage. The title comes from the nickname of a dog that was kept by the artist's family in their rural hometown in Japan. The dog lived for ten years as a guard dog in a rural household untouched by urbanization. However, due to its inability to bark properly, it couldn’t fulfill its role as a guard dog. Additionally, the dog was never given an official name by the family. The motivation behind my work, as well as my creative process, stems from a particular sensory experience that I can only describe as “nausea.”
Whenever Naoki encounters something abnormal or difficult to accept, they always feel this sensation of nausea. This concept of nausea is not only a personal experience but also something that has been discussed in classical aesthetics and various philosophical discourses. A video work by Naoki Okada.
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Space Girl
In this short film, an autistic girl drifts through life as if wrapped in the silence of a cosmic spacesuit. Floating between worlds, she struggles to connect, with words feeling distant, lost in the vastness of space. Navigating a world that feels alien, yet uniquely her own. A film poetry by Aine Collins.
Spoons (After Carolyn Lazard)
A moving image work based upon Spoons Theory, which uses spoons as a visualisation of the disparity in energy reserves between disabled and abled people. Though a disabled and abled person will start the day with the same number of spoons, an abled person may only need 1 spoon to undertake an activity such as going to the shops, while a disabled person might use 4 spoons. In this way, disabled people deplete their spoons (or energy reserves) far quicker and thus have to be conscious about how they spend their spoons. Spoons theory has translated into a colloquialism within crip communities – “I’m out of spoons” or “I’m going to spend my spoons on you.” A short movie by Jamila Prowse.
The Last Maslow's Day
The factory has closed. The machines have gone elsewhere. The chimney no longer smokes. Yet, every day, a man goes to work. Tirelessly. But in these huge empty workshops, the last day of this model worker arrives. A movie by Laurent Paillot.
Astrogolem
A film about a love triangle set in a fantastical world where science and the supernatural collide. The story follows the brilliant inventor, Nikola Tesla, as he and Alan Turing accidentally release demons into our dimension. The film tells a story of love, sacrifice, and the consequences of playing with powers beyond human understanding. It is a thrilling journey into a world where science and the supernatural coexist, and the choices we make have the power to shape our destiny. An animation film by Thorston Fleisch.
Aufsicht (Supervision)
Visibly invisible, they move between the exhibits in the Pinakothek der Moderne. They are not allowed to sit, they are not allowed to read - they are the guardians of art. They make sure that nobody touches anything, turn off the shrill beeping alarm for the 100th time a day if a visitor has come too close to a painting again, observe who is touched by the art and who, as a family man dragged along, would rather have stayed at home on the sofa after all. Sometimes they even dream themselves far away. A movie by Lion Bischof.
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Note: This film is shown with extended subtitles (SDH) and audio description (AD) for people with visual impairments, provided by Klappe Auf.
Von den Amöben zum Bösen (From Amoebas to Evil)
It's all a story-teller thing: fantasies of the past. Not t h i s history, but stories of the world ... from amoebas to evil.
A fantasy-driven retelling of world history: What were the Big Bang and primordial soup, how were the wheel and the rollator invented? Professor Birgit Hohnen mixes facts, fiction and alphabet soup, questions truths and turns them on their head, stirred and shaken. A movie by Daniela Chmelik and Iskender Kökce.
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Note: This film is shown with extended subtitles (SDH) and audio description (AD) for people with visual impairments, provided by Klappe Auf.
Not the Clowns
After the autistic young actress Cassie fails an audition because she can't show fear, Cassie seeks solace with her autistic younger brother Dave, who is a movie geek. Together with her current boyfriend Levi, they watch the horror movie “Not the Clowns”, which soon shifts the boundaries between dream and reality for Cassie. A movie by Marcel Flock.