Nursery Rhymes. (Holy) Water
Innovative Cinema Short, AT/IT 2025, DCP, 4 min, eOFProgram: Innovatives Kino Programm 5
An empty stage, a blue wall, an improvised photo studio. Three Black girls in white dresses play clapping games and recite rhymes that sound like incantations. A short reflection on the long history of European colonialism.
Director: Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński
Script: Text und Dramaturgie: Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński
Cast: Joy Alphonsus, Chioma Okoh, Henrie Dennis, Obinne Wiebach-Dennis, Joyce Lang, Smarula Lang
Camera: Lydia Nsiah
Editor: Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński, Lydia Nsiah
Location Sound: Bassano Bonelli Bassano
Additional Credits: Tonkomposition und Tonmischung: Bassano Bonelli Bassano; Tonassistenz: Elisabeth Mtasa; Licht: Nick Prokesch; Set Design: Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński; Title Design: Guilherme Maggessi; Farben: Lydia Nsiah
Producers: Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński, Liesa Kovacs
World Sales: sixpackfilm
Distribution in Austria: sixpackfilm
Funded by: Kunstmeran / Merano Arte None
World Premiere: Berlinale Forum Expanded 2026
Austrian Premiere: Diagonale '26
Production format: analog - 16mm
Script: Text und Dramaturgie: Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński
Cast: Joy Alphonsus, Chioma Okoh, Henrie Dennis, Obinne Wiebach-Dennis, Joyce Lang, Smarula Lang
Camera: Lydia Nsiah
Editor: Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński, Lydia Nsiah
Location Sound: Bassano Bonelli Bassano
Additional Credits: Tonkomposition und Tonmischung: Bassano Bonelli Bassano; Tonassistenz: Elisabeth Mtasa; Licht: Nick Prokesch; Set Design: Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński; Title Design: Guilherme Maggessi; Farben: Lydia Nsiah
Producers: Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński, Liesa Kovacs
World Sales: sixpackfilm
Distribution in Austria: sixpackfilm
Funded by: Kunstmeran / Merano Arte None
World Premiere: Berlinale Forum Expanded 2026
Austrian Premiere: Diagonale '26
Production format: analog - 16mm
