MovieXperience

Experience selected short films on topics related to sustainability – with silent disco headphones, a cosy atmosphere and a multi-screen setup on a continuous loop. Come by, sit back and be inspired!

An offer from the Green Office at TU Braunschweig. The Green Office is the office for education for sustainable development at TU Braunschweig. It is jointly run by university staff and students and is committed to strengthening and embedding sustainability in higher education.

Shortfilms about ecological sustainibility

Germany 2009 - Documentary - Colour - 13'11 min. - Language: English - Subtitles: German - Director: Gina Abatemarco

Kivalina is an Inuit community on the tip of a small island in the far west of Alaska. The 377 inhabitants of Kivalina are not known for their craftsmanship or their ancient culture, but for being the first American climate refugees. MY SUPER SEA WALL documents their struggle to save their homes from the sea with a 3 million dollar wall of sandbags.

Switzerland 2013 - Feature film - Colour - 7'45 min. - Language: Without dialogue - Director: Simon Weber

Ten-year-old Finn is out for a Sunday walk in the woods with his parents. He is more interested in his computer game than nature, much to the annoyance of his father, who snatches the console from him. Frustrated, Finn sits on the wooden jetty by the forest lake and stares bored into the murky water. Suddenly he hears a strange noise. Unsettled yet curious, he tries to find out what is up with the strange sound. Is there an adventure in store for this Sunday after all? Thus begins for Finn - and the audience - a mystical journey of discovery through nature and its hidden possibilities.

Switzerland 2007 - Experimental film - colour - 6'09 min. - language: German - subtitles: none - director: Daniel Zimmermann

The Lauberhorn race, the longest downhill ski run in the world, is moved to the summer. 10,000 wooden slats describe the ideal line that has always been striven for but never reached in winter. You become a racer: the commentator accompanies you on the breakneck journey to the new course record.

Short films on economic sustainability

Finland 2009 - documentary, experimental film - colour - 14'30 min. - language: no dialogue - director: Hannes Vartiainen, Pekka Veikkolainen

An experimental documentary about the demise of the old coal factory on the island of Hanasaari in Helsinki and the irrevocable change of the cityscape. The film is based on half a million photos from the last two years of the factory.

Germany 2019 - Feature film, Animated film - Colour - 4'27 min. - Language: English - Director: Pascal Schelbi

THE BEAUTY is a poetic journey through a fascinating underwater world in which plastic and nature become one. For a breath, our worries and feelings of guilt dissolve between eerily beautiful coral reefs and the mysterious depths of the ocean.

Germany 2020 - Animated film - colour - 4'45 min. - Language: no dialogue - Director: Gottfried Mentor

A city goes mad. Stuttgart is fighting the traffic chaos with its very own means and far-reaching consequences. Perhaps other cities will soon follow suit.

Shortfilms on social sustainability

Netherlands 2020 - Documentary - Colour - 6'42 min. - Language: German, Dutch - Subtitles: None - Director: Lara Aerts

Why is it so important whether you are a boy or a girl? When Long explains what it feels like to be intersex.

Germany 2023 - Feature film - Colour - 4'05 min. - Language: English - Subtitles: none - Director: Isaac Martínez

BLACK YOUTH tells the story of young BIPoC coming of age in a Western world characterised by white heteronormative people and structures. A coming of age that is characterised by racism, sadness, anger, hatred, the resulting violence, exclusion and the confrontation with one's own identity.

Germany 2019 - Animated film, Documentary - Colour - 5'15 min. - Language: German - Subtitles: none - Director: Jan Koester, Alexander Lahl

When the mayor of a village in Saxony-Anhalt speaks out in favour of taking in refugees, a wave of hatred crashes over him and his family.

Norway 2023 - Animated film, documentary, youth film - colour - 10'50 min.

Poet Hanna Asefaw grew up with her Eritrean family in a council flat in Oslo in the late 90s. Through a spoken word performance, she captures her childhood universe in miniature form and reflects on community, diversity and belonging - and the political indifference that has torn everything apart.