Shorts Program: Insistent Existence

Heimweh
Allegra Schneider, Maria Ulrich, Patrick Schaefers, Germany, 2025, 8 min. German with English subtitles

System Error
Allegra Schneider, Germany, 2026, 8min. German with English subtitles

The Exhibition
Dáša Raimanová, Béla Váradi, Hungary, UK, Norway, 2026, 23 min. Hungarian, English with English subtitles

I Am What I Am
Allegra Schneider, Anne Klopfer, Renata Horváthová, Kathrin Krahl, and Maria Ulrich, Germany, 2026, 35 min. German with English subtitles

Who we Were
Charles Newland, UK, 2026, 11 min. English

A selection of shorts tracing how politics shapes the everyday lives of Roma people across generations and countries. The stories are told through borders and forced displacement, LGBTQI+ bodies and their visibility in public spaces, memory and the question of where Romani stories are allowed to be archived. Moving between personal experience and collective history, the films confront the structures that determine who belongs, who is remembered, and who gets to represent stories of various Roma protagonists. Together, they approach cinema as a political space in itself: a place to reclaim Roma histories, contest imposed narratives, and insist on the right to speak from one's own position.