Hosted by Kobani International Film Festival
Fri, 5 Sept 2025, 00:00 → Sun, 7 Sept 2025, 23:59
Local time · Europe/Berlin
Schauburg Filmpalast
Horster Straße 6, 45897 Gelsenkirchen, Gelsenkirchen, Germany
Inside an almost abstract visual space, the human body becomes a silent territory suspended between light and darkness. Shadows move across the skin like fragments of memory, fear, and desire, while the body itself turns into a visual language attempting to express what words cannot. Rather than relying on traditional storytelling, the film constructs its experience through visual rhythm, movement, texture, and composition, creating a meditative atmosphere closer to a cinematic poem than a conventional narrative film. Every frame functions like a moving painting in which skin becomes a surface for visual expression and light transforms into a dramatic element revealing emotional fragility and inner isolation. As the image slowly dissolves into darkness, the film leaves behind a haunting visual resonance that exceeds its short duration. Directed by Yu Yiming / Zhang Yihan. China. 2025. 03:27. Part of the official selection of the 6th Kobani International Film Festival, 2025, in the short film section. It won Best Cinematography. The 6th Kobani International Film Festival ran from 5 to 7 September 2025 and never published which film screened on which day or at what time, so this listing uses the festival's opening day and leaves the start time blank.