Tuesday
20. January 2026 –
kleiner Hörsaal HS 1010 (Keksdose)
Program
On Tuesday, we will be showing student films by filmmakers from Bremen, Göttingen, Berlin, Freiburg, and Amsterdam.
Film 1 – Enfant Terrible
Julie Braconnier, Nele Schwörer, Philipp Thewes (Live on Stage)
Freiburg, 2025 (13 min.)
The film offers a humorous yet critical look at the everyday life of a working-class student. It follows the protagonist Nele through her shared apartment, the cafeteria, seminars, and her part-time job, highlighting the social tensions between her background and her academic environment. The mockumentary combines the team’s own experiences with satirical exaggeration and addresses educational inequality in an accessible way.
Julie Bracconier is currently pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in Media Studies, Philosophy, and Politics at Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, having completed her Abitur at Geschwister-Scholl-Gymnasium Lebach in 2019. She is fluent in English (C1, Cambridge Certificate), with intermediate French (B2) and basic Spanish (A2). Her practical experience include camera operation, website design, and video and audio editing using Adobe Premiere, EasyEdit, and Audacity. She has applied these skills in academic projects and internships, gaining hands-on experience in media production, content creation, and project management.
Nele Schwörer is pursuing a B.A. in Cultural Anthropology with a minor in
Art History at the University of Freiburg. She has professional experience in customer service through her role at Wallgraben Theater and earlier positions in community services and local companies. Her internships in hospitality and education provided insights into diverse work environments, complemented by volunteer engagement as a mentor for elementary school children. Nele is skilled in Microsoft Office and has strong
interpersonal abilities.
Philipp Alois Thewes, born in 2004 in Saarlouis, studies social and cultural anthropology and political science at the University of Freiburg. He gained professional experience as a student assistant at the Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology, in open child and youth work in Freiburg, and in political education at the German Red Cross. An international volunteer service at the German School in Athens as well as activities in trade, associations, university committees, and NGOs round out his profile. Thewes is a native German speaker and has B2/C1-level English skills.
Film 2 – Olof and the Aliens
Leonie Dronkert & Olaf ten Have (Live on Stage)
The Netherlands, 2025 (38:52 min.)
The film “Olof and the Aliens” is an experimental ethnographic film about the creation of O, a collaborative science fiction project based on the ideas of Amsterdam film fan Olof ten Have, who lives with an intellectual disability. The film shows how Olof’s stories about UFOs and aliens come to life as he collaborates with medical anthropologist Leonie and gets closer to his dream of making his own film.
The film combines ethnographic footage with homemade sci-fi and shows how collaboration, creativity, and community can create new opportunities for inclusion.
Leonie Dronkert is a doctoral candidate in medical and visual anthropology. Her research focuses on the political dimensions of diagnostic categories in the healthcare system and how creative collaboration can challenge existing notions of care and classification. Among other things, she has made the films Olof en de Aliens (2025) and O (2023) and published articles on collaborative ethnographic filmmaking.
Olof ten Have is an Amsterdam-based filmmaker with an intellectual disability. Bringing his expertise in alien worldbuilding and experimental observational cinema into his collaboration with Leonie, Olof became the writer, director, co-producer and starring actor of the science-fiction short Oand the protagonist of the experimental ethnographic film Olof en de Aliens.
Film 3 – Caution Colonialism
Elisa Erpenbeck & Mara Müller (Live on Stage)
Göttingen, Witzenhausen, 2025 (28:50 min.)
OvaHerero activist Ningiree Kauvee travels from Namibia to Göttingen to uncover traces of the colonial past. The film follows her as she prepares a performative city tour and visits key historical sites, including the Anthropological Collection at the University of Göttingen and the former colonial school in Witzenhausen. It becomes clear how colonial perpetrators are still honored today, while the victims remain largely unnamed.
Elisa Erpenbeck (they/them) studied cultural anthropology and is currently completing a master’s degree in visual anthropology at the University of Göttingen. “Caution Colonialism” is their first film project. Erpenbeck’s work combines cinematic storytelling with anthropological analysis and focuses on the lasting consequences of colonial history.
Mara Müller (she/her) has a bachelor’s degree in sociology and cultural anthropology/European ethnology and is currently studying visual anthropology at the University of Göttingen. She is particularly interested in ethnographic film as a critical tool for examining social structures. “Caution Colonialism” is also her first film project.
Film 4 – Wen(n) wir verdrängen
Clara Röhrig (Live on Stage)
Bremen, 2024 (21:56 min.)
The film Wen(n) wir verdrängen takes us to Bremen Central Station, a place we often associate with buzzwords such as crime and insecurity. The film shows what remains invisible in these debates. With protagonists Harald Schröder, a former street social worker, and Markus Urban, who has been homeless for five years and is actively involved in activism, the film offers a direct look at life, exclusion, and institutionalized repression in public spaces.
Clara Röhrig studied literature and cultural anthropology in Bonn, Salamanca (Spain) and Bremen. Since 2020, she has been working at the Faculty of Architecture at Bremen University of Applied Sciences, where she has developed an academic focus on urban sociology and public space. Her work is characterized by questions surrounding displacement, social justice, and the critical examination of established norms. She gained her first film experience as part of the artistic-performative film project “Wir sind: Außer uns” by the queer-feminist collective Furien und Furore, which in 2021 created a loud protest about anger in patriarchy in an experimental process. The film “Wen(n) wir verdrängen” is her first film project.
Film 5 – ruins of a childhood memory
Ignacio Rodríguez (joined via zoom)
Chile, 2024 (7 min.)
The film is an autoethnographic journey to the place where director Ignacio Rodríguez spent his childhood in northern Chile, between the Atacama Desert and the Pacific Ocean. The film is a personal attempt to address the question of how we remember times and places that no longer exist, and how we situate our subjective memories within a broader context of national history, local geography, and the ruins of industrial architecture.
Ignacio Rodríguez graduated with a degree in film and dramatic arts. His film school graduation film and debut feature film, “La Chupilca del Diablo,” premiered at Cinélatino Rencontres Cinémas d’Amérique Latine de Toulouse in 2013, where it received the FIPRESCI Prize. In 2015, he co-directed the short film “El Llano de la Paciencia” as part of “Chile Factory,” which had its world premiere at the Director’s Fortnight in Cannes. He currently lives in Berlin and is completing a master’s degree in visual anthropology at the University of Münster, while also developing his second feature film and performing with his band 69 Deluxe.
Film 6 – What about the F word
Nora Diekmann (Live on Stage)
Germany/Italy, 2025 (66 min.)
A group of students from Bremen visited the research group “The F-Word” in Turin, which works on fascist tendencies among young people in Europe. The trip concluded with a joint meeting at a former partisan hideout in the mountains. The film shows how the students deal with current right-wing developments, personal fears, and the question of collective action.
Nora Diekmann, born in Hanover in 1994, studies political science and cultural anthropology at the University of Bremen. The film was made as part of her thesis. Although Diekmann has no professional filmmaking experience, she has been working creatively with cameras and editing since childhood. During a study visit to Guadalajara (Mexico), she made a documentary about the urban meeting place “Parque Revolución.” She has also been involved in theater and film projects with the “Leftvision” collective and in works with artist Mika Bangemann.
