KURZFILM IM VEEDEL

In the organizer's words:

Short film in the Veedel: "Made in Cologne!"

We start with music videos, feature films, documentaries and a skater dance video: young German short films all made in Cologne. In the feature film Piecht, Johanna's vacation with her mother in idyllic Piecht is anything but relaxing. Pura Vida Ibiza takes us to the Poller Wiesen on a summer afternoon. Ritchie's youth has faded like the tattoos on his arm. Why is Ritchie trying to make friends with a group of young people celebrating Nelly's 18th birthday? In the documentary Kassieren, the three filmmakers Lea Sprenger, Franca Pape and Amelie Vierbuchen set out in search of archive material about the Kalk chemical plant in Cologne. Who decides which stories are kept or thrown away? With quick cuts, the film tells of the search, of throwing things away, of gaps and mistakes and of one's own inability.

Curated by Birgit Hauska, Simon Rupieper

The films in the program:

Giu - Come dance with me (DE, VeyVeyFilms, 2016, 3')
Giu started skating less than two years ago and has developed into one of the most elegant dancers on a longboard we have ever seen.

Cashing in (DE, Lea Sprenger, Franca Pape, Amelie Vierbuchen, documentary, 2023, 9')
Three directors are preparing a film about the chemical factory in Cologne's Kalk district, on the site of which a shopping mall now stands. They self-deprecatingly address their research and search for sources, their capitulation to the resistance of the material.

Pura Vida Ibiza (DE, Jens Schillmöller, feature film, 2024, 15')
Ritchie, a young man in his mid-forties, meets a group of young people around 18-year-old Nelly. The meeting of two generations leads to misunderstandings. And then there's the matter of his tattoo.

Typhoon - Ray Lozano (DE, Parissa Charghi, music video, 2023, 1')
Pairing Mode means connecting with each other. With everything that is and everything that is not.

Piecht (DE, Luka Lara Steffen, feature film, 2023, 30')
Johanna's vacation in idyllic Piecht is anything but relaxing. While Johanna's mother dreams of the ecological alternative, a real nightmare begins for Johanna. She bravely investigates the events, but encounters brutal resistance.

Heart - Golf (DE, Nikolai Meierjohann, Muskivideo, 2020, 4')
Nothing is as easy as being loud. Total empathy instead of division, which only produces division again. Open your heart, let the pain out.

Afterwards there will be an audience discussion about the films. Moderation: Birgit Hauska