Andrea Schramm

37° reports on typical life situations in our society from an unusual perspective: the camera accompanies a group or individual people, usually in a particularly exposed social situation. The reportage often outlines a turning point or a decision-making phase in the biography under review.

On the first day of the Corona lockdown, the director‘s father is picked up by an ambulance. He dies shortly thereafter. Mother and daughter mourn in the parental apartment, isolated on 49 square meters — and connected to the outside world only by telephone. With painful intimacy, these phone calls exemplify the loneliness of the mourners in pandemic times. Photographic images of the desolate apartment are marked by an intense geometric strictness, which, in spite of the confinement, also creates a certain distance to the inevitable. “27 STEPS“ thus leaves room for interpretation and deals with a universal question: How does isolation affect us when we are dependent on solace and help? This is a very personal film which puts a magnifying glass on the circumstances that we are all experiencing right now.

A Jewish girl and an SS officer are protagonists of the computer game developed by the young game designer Yaar. The story is said to be based on the experiences of his grandmother in the Krakow ghetto. What begins as a journey into the past quickly becomes a search for one's own identity. FINALLY TACHELES is an intensive examination of the consequences of National Socialism and shows people on their very personal way of dealing with history.