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Section: Competition of European Documentary Films for Young Audience

Cabinets of Wonder (2021) 10

If childhood were a place, where would it be? Children take us on a trip into their inner landscapes. On their journey, they deal with topics such as friendship, belonging, love and the fear of not succeeding at school in an inspiring and intriguing way. In our search for the essence and mystery of childhood, we found children who deeply touched us: Wisdom, a German boy with Cameroonian heritage; Joline, a girl who never wants to grow up; Elias, who has been diagnosed with autism; and Roya, who fled from Iran to Germany five years ago. They wrote and performed their own music, contributed their pictorial ideas, drawings and stories as the initial position for the dramaturgy and image composition for the film. Though all are very different, they have one thing in common: they do not fit into the framework of our function-driven society.