MEMENTO MURI
Italy 2025 – Director: Jonathan Bugiel – Original language: English – Subtitles: English – Length: 32 min.
We are screening this short film alongside AND THEY LIVE IN ROW HOUSES and ICH ATME DIE GANZE ZEIT as part of the DOK.shorts screenings (8. Mai / 9. Mai / 16. Mai)
Bunkers—whether they are piles of rubble from a war that is gradually fading into oblivion, or spruced-up local history museums—the monuments to Germany’s wartime past still stand. A cautious and evocative exploration on the edge of Europe. J.S.
Biography
Jonathan Bugiel grew up in Berlin; his journey took him through Rome and Jerusalem before finally leading him to Bayreuth, where he studied media studies and ethnology. To pursue his film studies, he moved to the Italian Alps, where he graduated from the ZeLIG Film School in Bolzano in 2025.
Filmography
PYGMALIA, IT, 2024, 17 min
STOA, GR, 2024, 9 min
Nominated for the Student Award
The Student Award of DOK.fest München presents outstanding documentary films by students of German-speaking film schools. The films are nominated for the megaherz Student Award, worth 3,000 Euros.
Production: ZeLIG - School for documentary. Producer: Emanuele Vernillo.
