Film 1 – Enfant Terrible

Julie Braconnier, Nele Schwörer, Philipp Thewes
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.
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 3 – Caution Colonialism

Elisa Erpenbeck, Mara Müller
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 5 – ruins of a childhood memory

Ignacio Rodríguez
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.