Spiralling

Film study is an engagement with differing expectations, one's own and others', real and imagined – ultimately an emancipation process. The starting point for the programme "Spiralling" was the question of how this engagement is reflected in recent DFFB films, how student films take an aesthetic position on a training whose promise of professionalisation can also become an obstacle to originality and joy in experimentation. Films by Florinda Frisardi, Faraz Fesharaki/Moritz Friese and Ewelina Rosińska, made between 2017 and 2025 at different stages of their studies, are preceded by an early film by Raoul Peck, which finds the pivot of its critique in language. The artistic spectrum of these films is broad – a breadth that opens up as long as films are made with the courage to question formal or ideological expectations.