Film Night

Join us for an exciting evening of films about art! Free to enter as always ❤️

// PROGRAM //

Chanting of the Dunes by Mokhless Al-Hariri

USA 2024

Feature Documentary

Chanting of the Dunes is an 86 minutes award-winning film about Wahbi Al-Hariri-Rifai who was an accomplished international artist, architect, archeologist, and author.  

Chanting of the Dunes takes viewers on a dazzling journey through multiple countries and during momentous world changes that extend from the Levant in the 1920s to the U.S. and China in the 1990s. The film is beautifully illustrated through hundreds of meticulously restored black/white and color archival photographs and original footage.  

Chanting of the Dunes recounts Wahbi’s life through the mixed perspective of his wife, Widad Marachi, who married him at the age of 15. The fascinating storyline is full of unexpected turns and is accompanied by a superb soundtrack.  

According to festival managers, the film exceeds all expectations and represents a new artistic genre. Many have called it “extraordinary, moving, mesmerizing, full of messages…”

SO(U)L by Melissa June, Lilja Rose Michaud, and Emma Bright

USA 2023

Short Experimental

SO(U)L is a multidimensional experimental film that tracks an inward and outward journey of reclamation, loss, and reintegration. SO(U)L articulates a universal journey of coming home to self through embodied movement, light and sound.

Niki‘s Music Shop by Tom Blankenberg

Germany 2024

Short Documentary

“Niki’s Music Shop” – for many years musician Tom Blankenberg has been passing by the shop regularly, and he is fascinated by the fact that absolutely nothing ever changes here.  

The collection of old instruments in the shop window has remained untouched and silent for decades.  

And above all, the shop is always closed.  

When Blankenberg sets out to find out what’s behind it, the shop is suddenly open… maybe the music is coming back.

Cartographic Drift by David Peñaranda

Spain 2024

Short Documentary

Pedro and Raquel are a married couple with a mission: to be part of the legacy of the oldest artisan tradition.

Torii by Martin Gerigk

Germany 2024

Short Experimental

Torii 鳥居 is a short film in the form of an audiovisual composition about the traditional Shinto gates of the same name in Japan. The film uses these gates which symbolically mark the transition from the mundane to the sacred as representatives of a personal synaesthetic and spiritual journey through five levels of consciousness, traveling from existentialism to metaphysics, abstraction, and the Shinto deities called Kami, culminating in a final transition that weaves together these diverse philosophical threads.