Short Film Programme: "Ghosts of Yesterday"

A tapestry of memory, resilience, and reclamation, this programme weaves together deeply personal visions from women exploring the echoes of the past. From a choreographer in Colombia confronting the shadows of 1990s violence, to a Berlin-based artist imagining a free homeland; from a granddaughter retracing a 1950s Spanish journey, to a lyrical ode to youth in East Harlem, each story carries the imprint of time.

These films traverse landscapes of political upheaval, family history, and personal trauma: a woman grappling with childhood abuse confronts the fragility of body and identity, while another leaves her childhood home under the gaze of a wedding-day donkey. Intimate, poetic, and unflinching, “Ghosts of Yesterday” reveals how the past haunts, shapes, and ultimately liberates.

*All films will be screened in their orginal language with English subtitles.

*The screening will be followed by a Q&A with attending filmmakers.

TICKETS: https://www.kinoheld.de/kino/berlin/moviemento-kino/vorstellung/3297042133

FILMS:

“Origin” (Colombia, Canada) (17min)

“Peace with Myself” (Israel) (3:50min)

“Ocean Bursting Into Tears” (Germany) (2.30min)

“Sweet Boys” (USA) (15min)

“A Child Never Born” (Iran) (14min)

“The Donkey with the Baby on her Back” (UK) (13min)

“An Excess Baggage” (France) (16.20min)

Fine (Israel) ( 4:47min)

Total: 87 min (+ Q&As after the screening)