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Two giants that exist here - a German fairy tale confronts us with the right-wing spiritual movement in Germany, which gained a strong following during the COVID-19 pandemic. In symbolic encounters, such as a train ride passing by the Lorelei, underscored by Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries, original audio recordings from the scene of right-wing extremist conspiracy are juxtaposed with the visual aesthetics of German fairy tales. In reference to Grimm's "Hansel and Gretel," the film explores the unsettling transformation from innocent belief in gnomes and fairies into the dangerous realm of belief in a Jewish world conspiracy. The question arises whether the comforting spiritualism is merely a Trojan horse for an anti-Semitic, racist, and misogynistic worldview.

Gianna Scholten is a writer and filmmaker from Switzerland and Germany. She graduated from the German Film and Television Academy Berlin (dffb) in 2020 and continued her studies at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne (khm). During her time at the khm, she dedicated herself to creating film projects and radio plays. Her work has been awarded the Prix Alice Guy Prize of the FID Marseille and the New Signs Award of the Film Fest Lago.