Christina Stuhlberger

Hit Him on the Head with a Hard, Heavy Hammer departs from the handwritten memoir of the filmmaker’s father and his experience of displacement during wartime. Referring to the notion Thomas Hardy termed ‘The Self-Unseeing’ in his eponymous 1901 poem, the film returns to childhood and the matters that harden us: upbringing, social status, education, labour, and familial bonds. The memoir weaves into the film as both a contemplation on mortality and an illustration of fading memory, reflecting on how we pen our pasts and how they can be re-told.

Two Filipino women in Germany, their two daughters, the recording of their stories. The document of a word, its collection and circulation between families and languages.

Kastom Kopiraet documents the fantastic journey of a tribal art object from the Louvre in Paris to his homeland of Vanuatu in the South Pacific. Once arrived, Lengnangulong encounters the spirited villager Tarsissia, and together they explore notions of exoticism and the desire for authenticity in a globalised world.

A teenager growing up on an old farm in the countryside of southern Germany, on the border with Austria, is cared for by his father and grandmother. Like everywhere else, the inhabitants of Bavaria are experiencing the changes precipitated by globalisation: unprecedented abundance, political radicalisation and the arrival of refugees.