Films by Mila Zhluktenko

2025, 14 min
by Daniel Asadi Faezi, Mila Zhluktenko

In 1970, an entire small town was built in Munich for the Summer Olympics. In addition to the subway station, stadium, indoor swimming pool and housing estate, the largest shopping center in Europe at the time - the Olympia-Einkaufszentrum - was also built. Many migrant workers, so-called guest workers, are employed on the construction site. 2016: Nine people are murdered in a right-wing terrorist attack at the Olympia shopping center. All the victims come from families with migrant backgrounds.

2023, 18 min
by Mila Zhluktenko, Daniel Asadi Faezi

A former military barracks of the Wehrmacht now serves as a refugee camp for people from Ukraine.WAKING UP IN SILENCE accompanies the children on their journey, where their own history meets that of the barracks.  A moment between past and future, war and silence, departure and arrival, which depicts a portrait of German history and its present through the eyes of its young protagonists."We would like to give the prize to a film that offers a tender glimpse into the daily rhythms of a dislocated

Uzbekistan, Germany 2022, 14 min
by Daniel Asadi Faezi, Mila Zhluktenko

A desert landscape, as if from another planet. A few lonely, rusty shipwrecks. Low desert scrub grows around them to hold the sand together during the merciless storms. Aralkum, the Aral Desert, is the bare seabed, the last thing left of the Aral Sea.By weaving together different cinematic textures, the short film ARALKUM re-imagines the dried-up Aral Sea, allowing an old fisherman to set sail one last time.'The shortfilm prize goes to a film that opens a door on a landscape swept by human exces

2019, 24 min
by Mila Zhluktenko

Opera glasses are necessary to watch the stage from the back rows of the auditorium. If you content yourself with the foyer, you only need alert eyes and instinct: not only for the larger-than-life gestures of musical theatre, but also for the small (self) performances in public space. Checking oneself in the mirror, overzealous re-adjustments of one’s facial expression for a selfie, the inimitable coolness of aging cloakroom attendants – all this is part of the spectacle of visibility. (DOK. Le