ŁUŽYCA SHORTS I

The promotion of Sorbian culture is increasingly encountering political resistance. A Sorbian person speaks out.

The Upper Sorbian teenagers Annalena, Emma, and Hannah, as well as the Lower Sorbian artist Hella Stoletzki, talk about what being Sorbian means to them.

In this film, shot in Drachhausen/Hochoza in southern Brandenburg, film students from Potsdam reinterpret Schiller's play DIE JUNGFRAU VON ORLEANS (The Maid of Orleans) and set it in Lower Lusatia. Johanna, the harvest queen, campaigns for the expansion of a solar park. She is celebrated by many for this, but some are hostile towards her. After the cock plucking/łapanje kokota, a scandal erupts ...

A paddle trip through the Spreewald turns into a nightmare for a mother when her daughter disappears. Only those who respect the midday break can escape the spell of the legendary Mittagsfrau. But who still takes breaks in the age of smartphones?