SECTION: Homeland | Domownja | Domizna

31FFC Sektions Button Heimat

Sorbian, regional and international filmmaking, all brought together in one place. Current feature films and documentaries as well as archive treasures and rediscoveries reflect, in a variety of ways, on the meaning of home. Films from Upper and Lower Lusatia speak of Sorbian worlds. Lusatia was and remains: serbski! At the same time, we also encounter stories from elsewhere that resonate just as powerfully here as they do in the places where they originally took place.

Curation & texts: Daniel Kubik

THE TUNDRA WITHIN ME

Sara Margrethe Oskal
NO / 2023 / 95 min

Visual artist Lena returns temporarily to her Sami hometown with her son. There she wants to do research for an art project about female herd managers, encountering both rejection and support. As she grows closer to herd manager Mahtte, the two must ...

EIN WORT ZU NEUKÖLLN

Kleine Werkschau Roman Pernack: EIN WORT ZU NEUKÖLLN

Roman Pernack, Christian Ottow
DE / 2006 / 13 min

Asked to say a few words about Neukölln, Roman Pernack and Chrisitan Ottow capture the views of those who live there.

IM KIEZ

Kleine Werkschau Roman Pernack: IM KIEZ

Roman Pernack
GE / 2018 / 30 min

On a cinematic journey through the Wrangelkiez neighborhood in a single day, we encounter Berlin originals, whom Roman Pernack lovingly portrays in their everyday lives. A different kind of Heimatfilm.

VAKUUM – IM SOG DER REVOLUTION

Kleine Werkschau Roman Pernack: VAKUUM – IM SOG DER REVOLUTION

Roman Pernack, Thomas Rotsching, Misha Bours
DE / 2011 / 12 min

During a stay in Egypt, Roman Pernack observes the revolutionary unrest on the streets and captures it with his camera. Contemporary history up close.

EINE GESTE, EIN HAUCH, EIN KOSMOS – DER KOMPONIST JURO MĚTŠK JADNA GESTA, JADEN DYCH, JADEN KOSMOS – KOMPONIST JURO MĚTŠK

Kleine Werkschau Roman Pernack: JADNA GESTA, JADEN DYCH, JADEN KOSMOS – KOMPONIST JURO MĚTŠK

Roman Pernack, Martin Zawadzki
DE / 2018 / 30 min

A sensitive portrait of the Sorbian composer Juro Mětšk (1954–2022).

ZNICOWAŚ - To Destroy

ŁUŽYCA SHORTS I: ZNICOWAŚ - To Destroy

Luka Golinski
DE / 2025 / 2 min

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

BEYOND A CURRENT STATE

ŁUŽYCA SHORTS I: BEYOND A CURRENT STATE

Helena Daniel
DE / 2024 / 8 min

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.

SONNENKÖNIGIN

ŁUŽYCA SHORTS I: SONNENKÖNIGIN

Oskar Koller
DE / 2025 / 30 min

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 ...

MITTAGSKIND

ŁUŽYCA SHORTS I: MITTAGSKIND

Miriam Bergmann
DE / 2025 / 50 min

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?

REISE IM FORSCHUNGSRAUMSCHIFF „GAGARIN 69“ FOLGE 4: EXPEDITION ZUM NEESBECK

ŁUŽYCA SHORTS II: REISE IM FORSCHUNGSRAUMSCHIFF „GAGARIN 69“ FOLGE 4: EXPEDITION ZUM NEESBECK

Konrad Leue
DE / 2023 / 8 min

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.

Excerpts from URLAUB IN WEISSWASSER

ŁUŽYCA SHORTS II: Auszüge aus URLAUB IN WEISSWASSER

Fabian Widukind Penzkofer
DE / 2023 / 7 min

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 ...

JAGDPARTIE

ŁUŽYCA SHORTS II: JAGDPARTIE

Ibrahim Shaddad
DE / 1964 / 43 min

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.

SPÄTER WIRD’S MAL

35 Jahre Deutsche Einheit: SPÄTER WIRD’S MAL

Peter Dommaschk
DE / 1999 / 66 min

Actor Jan-Josef Liefers, illustrator Lona Rietschel, and toolmaker Horst Baer talk about their experiences in the GDR, the path to German reunification, and the aftermath.

ENERGIE VON UNTEN - COTTBUS IM WENDEJAHR 1989

35 Jahre Deutsche Einheit: ENERGIE VON UNTEN - COTTBUS IM WENDEJAHR 1989

Dagmar Lembke, Theresa Majerowitsch
DE / 2014 / 30 min

Contemporary witnesses such as Cornelia Jahr, Christoph Polster, and Sabine Bürger-Wüst report on how the environmental movement gave rise to a reform movement in Cottbus. Language: German

SORBISCHE VOLKSVERSAMMLUNG

35 Jahre Deutsche Einheit: SERBSKA NARODNA ZHROMADŹIZNA

DE / 1989/90 / 5:44 min

On November 11, 1989, the Serbska narodna zhromadźizna, the Sorbian People's Assembly, was founded in Bautzen. It called for dialogue and demanded fundamental change from the Domowina. Mato Šołta documented the activities and meetings with a ...

DAS NOMADISCHE GEN

Kai-Uwe Kohlschmidt
DE / 2025 / 116 min

Over 10,000 years ago, humans settled down. Is there still something like a nomadic gene in us? After numerous expeditions to parts of the world far from Europe, this question arises for the artist group Mangan25. Among other places, they followed in ...