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History’s recursivity was one motif binding this year’s showcase, exploring pressing issues such as war and its long-term effects, the Cold War and GDR history, decolonization, migration and refugees, climate change, gender, coming of age, education, and aging and death. According to folklore, the women overcome by these seizure-like movements, or taranta, are responding to the bite of tarantulas; yet over the centuries, these convulsions came to be understood as a form of socially sanctioned expurgation of anxieties, frustrations, and possibly of trauma. Hovering over the enlarged still at an editing/viewing table in a dimly lit room, the two cousins speculate over the visible evidence, also digging up family photos in which Bertrand’s parents are similarly positioned with their backs to the camera and comparing body shapes, facial profiles, and hair. Included were Baruschke, a portrait of a spy who worked for the secret services of both East and West Germany, and Iron Age, which tracks the fates of young people in the formerly vital industrial city of Eisenhüttenstadt, and the only two films produced with the state production company DEFA, Volkspolizei (1985) and Imbiß Spezial (1990).