Five students who have just completed a course in media studies at the Malta College of Arts Science and Technology’s Institute of Art and Design recently presented six experimental short films at the Berlin International Literature Festival’s Europe Now section. The films dealt with the intertwining of secular daily life and religion.

The young filmmakers were Stephen Vella, Matthew Muscat Drago, Christina Caspers, Gian Luca Mercieca and Claudia Cachia.

After the screening, Cachia, Mercieca and Muscat Drago went on stage to discuss their experience during the films’ production and to answer questions from the audience.

The group was accompanied by institute director Stephen Vella. Veruschka Götz, from the Institute for Printed Media at Mannheim University of Applied Sciences, and Hartmut Wöhlbier, head of the Institute for Interactive Media at the same university, assisted the six filmmakers during the films’ production and their screening in Berlin.

The 11-day festival is one of the biggest annual literature events in Germany, presenting new talents alongside recognised masters of world literature.

Every year it presents over 150 authors and artists, with works including prose, poetry, children’s and youth literature, political discussions, and film adaptations of literature.