German-Iranian artist and filmmaker Yalda Afsah (*1983 in Berlin, lives in Berlin) continually explores the extent to which space becomes a construction through cinematic means in her artistic practice. This formal feature is reflected in terms of content and concept in Afsah’s recent works on various cross-species relationships that reveal an ambivalence between care and control, physical strength and broken will, instinct and manipulation. Starting from the documentary, Afsah’s films portray and fictionalize their protagonists in equal measure.