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The theme of the 53rd edition of the Sehsüchte Festival is under:standing. For us, this means showcasing curious and courageous works, as well as making the real desires, fears, and creativity of the next generation of filmmakers visible. As the main program team, we are responsible for the competition sections of feature film, documentary, and animation, and we review the largest portion of submissions. Firstly, as a seven-member team, from last October to February, we reviewed and screened in pairs over 1080 submissions. Secondly, we gathered together for the group screening, where we collectively viewed and discussed the pre-selected films during the semester break in February. 46 hours of feature films, nearly 25 hours of documentaries, and almost 4 hours of animation films — so over 75 hours of film material screened in three weeks.

Sehsüchte reinvents itself every year and continues to develop. After all, the film festival is reorganised every year. This time, we wanted to address one aspect of the festival’s curatorial work in particular to ensure that this idea is not just an assumption.

“With students, I always hope that they are courageous” – Interviews with jury members During the jury weekend at the end of March, our renowned jury of experts from the international film industry selected the winning films on site at the Film University. We asked the jury members Bianca Gleissinger (documentary), Hassan Akkouch (Schreibsüchte) and…

Elena Beradelli designed this year’s Sehsüchte. Her statement on the significance of the idea behind it

Back in 2000, Susanne Eichner directed the Sehsüchte Festival herself as a student – 23 years later, she is a professor at the Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF and holds the teaching responsibility for the 52nd edition of the international student film festival. In this interview we talk about the new Sehsüchte era, the perspective of the teaching chair and which food truck Sanne will be on at the festival…

After five successful festival days we can look back hungover, tired but above all proud…

And the Award goes to … ?! This evening the award ceremony will take place and the winning films will be announced. Can’t be there? We got you covered! Watch the award ceremony live.

With over 80 events, it can be hard to decide what not to miss at Sehsüchte, Europe’s largest international student film festival. Here we give you a guide…

This year, for the first time, there is a diversity management team in the Sehsüchte team. Cansin and Danae know the work at our festival from previous years in other departments. But this year, Sehsüchte needed to be discovered from a different perspective. Danae gives us an insight into her work at the festival…

From April 20 – 24, 2022, 53 students will transform the Film University into an international festival location with an extensive film program, workshops, panels and concerts. They are coordinated by Sara, Moritz and Philipp.