My Internship with Supergirl

Mein Praktikum bei Supergirl

Germany 2024, 7:51 min.

Filmmakers: Penélope Fesche, Minna Fulge, Niklas Goewe, Marcia Panesar, Anna Christin Schubert, Janosch Steinhauser, Oscar Steinhauser, Bela Wiemann, Alicia Wiltz
Producer / School: Klaus Weller / Jugendfilm e.V.
Genre: Fiction
Age Category: 13-17 years
Language: German

A student is required to do an internship for school and ends up not with Superman, but with Supergirl. There, he learns that strength has nothing to do with physical power. In the end, he stands up to his school bullies with integrity, instead of violence.
Text: Leon Moses Fasthuber

This comedic drama was created collectively by a team of 9 filmmakers during a Jugendfilm e. V. workshop in Hamburg. My Internship with Supergirl is their first film.
Content Notes: Bullying
 

Chimera

Quimera

Chile 2024, 11:21 min.

Filmmaker(s): Gael Jara, Martín André
Sound & Music: Carlo Sánchez
Genre: Animation, Documentary, Experimental
Age Category: 23-27 years
Language: Spanish

As Chile issues its first non-binary ID, a non-binary person attempts to navigate the bureaucratic process and their own shifting memories. Chimera is an experimental documentary that weaves personal history, identity, and institutional absurdity into a poetic reflection on recognition, belonging, and selfhood.
Text: Lara Pichler

Gael Jara (they/them, *1998) and Martín André (he/they, *2000) are Chilean filmmakers. Chimera was created as a student project at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and is their first experimental documentary short film.

Content Notes: Motion sickness, disturbing sounds, discrimination

Fragments

Fragmente

Romania 2025, 1:15 min.

Filmmaker: Iris Rotărescu
Sound Design: Patricia Soroș, Paula Benu
School: Colegiul Tehnic de Arhitectură şi Lucrări Publice I.N.Socolescu
Genre: Animation
Age Category: 13-17 years
Language: No dialogue

An artist sits down at their desk to work. Where do they get the material for their creation? From their own body, which gradually disintegrates as the work takes shape. Exploring the laying bare of the creative process very literally, Fragments playfully uses the genre of body horror in traditional animation.
Text: Valentine Tusa

Iris Rotărescu (*2007) is a design student, artist, and animator currently based in Bucharest. She likes to explore old-school methods in her animation works.

Content Note(s): Blood, bare muscles and ligaments

arguments lead nowhere, if peace is neglected

Estonia 2025, 03:12 min.

Filmmaker: Henrik Vahter
Camera: Caspar Ervath, Martin Gross (FPV), Märt Luigujõe, Jan-Markus Maasepp, Henrik Vahter
Sound & Music: Timur Anurov / vvscleepy, Edgar-Adrian Bojev / exora, Henrik Vahter
Genre: Documentary-Fiction, Experimental, Music Video
Age Category: 18-22 years
Language: No dialogue

Men with pixelated faces rushing through run-down neighborhoods, apartment buildings towering over them, an empty swing in winter. This fast paced, aggressive montage encapsulates the feelings of anger and frustration of a generation faced with an uncertain future. The experimental montage was shot all across Europe, but the unifying grey filter and a harsh breakbeat soundtrack tie it all together.
Text: Vincent Rabas-Kolominsky

Henrik Vahter (*2003) is a filmmaker and musician from Tallinn, Estonia, who has already published multiple short films, songs and photographs.
Content Note: Strobo/flashing images, Violence

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