Die Welt sieht zurück describes a shift: it is not only us who are looking — our gaze is also being returned. Images, witnessing, bodies, and forms of individual and collective expression create modes of perception in which the world responds and answers back. The gaze itself becomes unstable rather than remaining fixed. The program presents short films spanning experimental film, dance film, documentary, and artistic moving-image practices.
The works speak of protest and everyday life, cultures of remembrance and institutional power, experiences and voices shaped by Black, feminist, Indigenous, diasporic, and decolonial perspectives. Resistance and histories become tangible here without allowing themselves to be fixed into a single narrative.
As a historical site, the Klosterruine, together with the installation and its layered meanings, forms a space of resonance in which the films encounter one another and enter into relation with both the audience and the site itself. At the center lies the question of how we look — and what that process does to us. What remains, what changes? Who looks, who speaks, and who becomes visible? The short film program makes perceptible that what we see continues to resonate — in our perception and in the ways we read the world.
The film program is curated by Canan Turan.
Ruine der Franziskaner Klosterkirche
Klosterstraße 73a,
10179 Berlin