Cannes Contenders: Germany

Deutsche Telekom - The Choir Against Hate Speech

Ideas that create emotional impact are the ideas that change the world. For each person. I get goosebumps, every time I listen to this beautiful arrangement of John Farnham’s song You’re The Voice.

Would you believe that the majority of hate comments online are made by only 5% of the users? We are 95% to act against it.

Penny - The Rift

This socio-critical, powerful storytelling film stages in an impressive way the divisions that are running through society today. After three years of crisis (one after another) and social isolation, we need to interact with each other again. The Christmas film does not fear to stage all the different conflicts in one apartment block (e.g. post pandemic depression,racism)  and the message is crystal clear: Let’s talk and listen to each other again.

Deutsche Bahn - Escape: FUCK / PAIN / HELL

Escape: Fuck/Pain/Hell from Deutsche Bahn is a brilliant and to-the-point showcase of the struggle we all face in our everyday work life. Over the past years our whole behaviour changed completely. And we became, let’s face it, lazy. 

Why travel to meet in person, when we can have a full day packed with online meetings instead? I can definitely personally relate to this.

Dot Inc. - The Dot Pad

Did you know that we have 285 million blind & visually impaired people worldwide? 

They can not learn complex topics by tactical books or YouTube tutorials (these tutorials definitely were a game changer for me). The dot pad, a smart tactile graphics display actually can change this, by the use of AI analysis.

EKN - Designed in Bangladesh. Made in Europe. 

Designed in Bangladesh. Made in Europe. Yes, you read correctly. 

This project makes you radically rethink how fashion brands work with the Global South, by putting the creativity of the designers in the Global South in the focus, instead of the typical biases of unethical supply chain practices and pollution, that have been the defining characteristics of this industry for the past decades.