Short film evening with Anticolonial CineClub, Integrationsrat and BIPOC Referat

Between memory and migration, there lies a space - not empty, but filled with echoes. Three filmmakers, return to childhood spaces that are no longer quite the same. Who can claim ownership over remembered places? The very act of remembering transforms them. These visual stories, crafted by students from lands we call India, Iran, and Chile, refuse the simple linearity of a documentary and fiction. Through autoethnography, they turn the anthropological gaze back upon itself, asking: Who is looking? Who is being looked at? In returning to childhood spaces, these filmmakers perform an act of double vision - seeing with today's eyes what yesterday's eyes once saw differently. This is not mere nostalgia, but an interrogation of belonging itself. The decolonization of memory requires more than just new stories - it demands new ways of storytelling. When they film these spaces, they create them anew, neither fully past nor present, neither entirely personal nor wholly collective, in the gap between what is shown and what cannot be shown. They remind us that every act of remembering is also an act of creation, and every return home is also a departure. This is anthropology that dares to speak in the first person while questioning what that "I" might mean. The camera becomes not just a recording device but a tool for excavating layers of identity sedimented by migration, displacement, and the complex geometries of belonging.