SYNTAX IN SPACE's protagonist, in a split second close to his death, sees his life with his inner eye like a dream. Sitting in the backstage area of the theater in an abandoned city, he watches his own self as a child, in armor, carapace, and visor, walking towards himself. As he sees his face, he gradually surrenders to the encounter with his inner landscape. He begins to walk into the space of this lucid dream, his memories; he sees himself as a young man in the vicinity of a woman. Wandering further into the abandoned city, he comes across his country’s history. Asking himself, „Why do you wake?“ he senses its connection to the present and wakes up to the certainty, „Someone has to wake.“ In SYNTAX IN SPACE disparate worlds and their unique languages coalesce into one, through the power of the spoken as well as the signed word, the power of the language of the body in space, and the power of film. Together they forge the silent enigma of the language of dreams and the contradictory experience of the inner landscape that the protagonist, played by Lutz Förster, wanders in his mind. For over 40 years, Förster performed a solo in sign language in the Company of Pina Bausch, and after leaving it in 2016, he first returns to the arts of signed expression for SYNTAX IN SPACE in an encounter with the deaf dancer Pierre Geagea and the young dancer Alexandra Aidu. Simultaneously, he depicts the protagonists wanderings in the spoken words of Heiner Müller, Franz Kafka, and Fabiane Kemmann. They structure the film in three acts that are set to a soundtrack by Nico van Wersch, composed in layers of music and located near Berlin in the formerly largest Soviet military facility outside the Soviet Union, now abandoned. FESTIVAL Art Visuals & Poetry Film Festival Vienna, April 10, 2026, Factory Künstlerhaus Vienna, 7 p.m. PREMIERE December 4, 2025, Berlin, Brotfrabrik Cinema, 8 p.m., Syntax in Space – Short, Muddi (Sobo Swobodnik) – Main, film discussion with Kemmann, Swobodnik, artists Further dates: From December 4, 2025: Berlin, Tilsiter Lichtspiele, 2:30pm daily December 6, 2025: Berlin, Lichtblick Cinema, 8 p.m., film discussion with Swobodnik, Kemmann December 7, 2025: Berlin, Lichtblick Cinema, 7:15 p.m., film discussion with Swobodnik, Kemmann December 8, 2025: Berlin, Bundesplatz Kino, 6 p.m., film discussion with Kemmann, Breitkreiz, Swobodnik December 9, 2025: Berlin, z-inema, 8 p.m. film discussion with Swobodnik, Breitkreiz, Kemmann December 11, 2025: Berlin, Tilsiter Lichtspiele, 4:10 p.m.
 December 13, 2025: Munich, Werkstattkino, 5:30 p.m. 
December 15, 2025: Berlin, Tilsiter Lichtspiele, 4:10 p.m.