ŁUŽYCA SHORTS II

Using the simplest of means, this educational film takes us to one of the driest and most desolate places in the entire universe—the fictional celestial body Neesbeck. An extraordinary mockumentary.

The artist Fabian Widukind Penzkofer and his embroideries entitled “Das Personal” (The Staff) have made their way to Lusatia. The excerpt from the audio diary, accompanied by snapshots from Weißwasser and the surrounding area, recounts chance encounters with the locals.

In Ibrahim Shaddad's graduation film from Babelsberg, the Spreewald forest becomes the setting for a Western: a black man is on the run from his unnamed pursuers. But even his refuge proves to be his undoing.