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Capturing Light And Darkness

THU 16:00 | Waschhaus Kesselhaus, Kino 2

Monstro Obscura

South Korea 2025 / Short Film / 17’
Running for
Best Fiction Film
It Might Even Be Real

אולי זה אפילו באמת

Israel 2025 / Animated Film / 7’
Running for
Best Animated Film
Sixty-Seven Milliseconds

Soixante-Sept Millisecondes

France 2025 / Documentary Short / 15’
Running for
Best Documentary Film
Circle of Trust

Von Außen Nach Innen

Germany 2026 / Short Film / 18’
Running for
Best Fiction Film

Double or Nothing

Switzerland 2025 / Animated Film / 10’
Running for
The Bats Have Left The Belfry

Los murciélagos han abandonado el campanario

Spain 2025 / Short Film / 15’
Running for
Best Fiction Film
Main Programme

Capturing Light And Darkness

23. April 16:00 – 18:00 | Waschhaus Kesselhaus, Kino 2

Film is known to be truth in 24 frames per second. The search for this truth leads to distant lands, seeks to deceive or attempts to prove, provokes us to look into the mirror, and makes it clear that reality has many faces.

Monstro Obscura

Monstro Obscura

South Korea 2025 / Short Film / 17’

Seoul, 1996. Wastewater from developed film reels is dumped into the sewers. From this toxic discharge, a monster awakens, carrying the memories of countless movies imprinted on the films. Burdened by a vanished past, the monster wanders the city.

AnimationKim Min Hee
CinematographerJung Han Seo
DirectorHong Seung Gi
EditingHong Seung Gi
MusicKim Won Yeop
ProducerLee Deun Sam
Production DesignerHong Seung Gi
ScreenplayHong Seung Gi
Sound DesignerKim Jae Hwan
אולי זה אפילו באמת
It Might Even Be Real

אולי זה אפילו באמת

Israel 2025 / Animated Film / 7’

Animation is the illusion of motion. People believe in the motion despite seeing still images. This film focuses on the past two years in Israel and the need for illusions in face of reality. Can we get ourselves to believe in the illusion of hope?

AnimationYael Bonne
Omer Dolev
Yoav Maman
CinematographerOmer Dolev
DirectorYael Bonne
MusicNoya Fox
Sound DesignerNoya Fox
Soixante-Sept Millisecondes
Sixty-Seven Milliseconds

Soixante-Sept Millisecondes

France 2025 / Documentary Short / 15’

In search of a bullet that has been captured on surveillance camera footage, the film follows its trajectory and those of its main protagonists. Blending early and modern cinema techniques, this film questions the legitimacy of policing in France.

Director Fleuryfontaine
EditingMarie Loustalot
Jeanne Sarfati
MusicAbul Mogard
ProducerEliott Baillon
Sound DesignerLuc Aureille
Von Außen Nach Innen
Circle of Trust

Von Außen Nach Innen

Germany 2026 / Short Film / 18’

Under the direction of a manipulative director, young actors rehearse a new play. The rehearsal develops into a psychodramatic experiment. The boundaries between reality and play become blurred until the situation spirals out of control.

CinematographerVictor Rubow
DirectorJonatan Maiwald
ProducerTara Radovic
Marcel Schadt
ScreenplayJonatan Maiwald
Sound DesignerValentin Vankann
Sound MixerYouness Hamdoundene
StillVictor Rubow
Double or Nothing

Double or Nothing

Switzerland 2025 / Animated Film / 10’

This film tells the story of a ruthless real estate shark in the booming Tokyo of the 1980s. His passion is illegal gambling in the underworld. An American is on his trail, but his greatest enemy is his own insatiable greed.

AnimationMarco Jörger
Elie Chapuis
Tokay
Jack Zhang
CinematographerMarco Jörger
Director Tokay
Editing Tokay
MusicJakob Eisenbach
ProducerFlorian Brunner
Tina Ohnmacht
Tokay
Production DesignerKonstantin Rosshoff
Screenplay Tokay
Sound DesignerEtienne Kompis
Tokay
Los murciélagos han abandonado el campanario
The Bats Have Left The Belfry

Los murciélagos han abandonado el campanario

Spain 2025 / Short Film / 15’

In an abandoned mansion deep in the forest, a vampire and filmmaker lives with his five disciples. On the night of his birthday, he reveals his last wish: he wants to film the one moment he has never dared to face.

CinematographerJuan Manuel Marín
DirectorManuel Bernal
Alfonso Bernal
EditingPablo Ortega Prieto
Cristian Tormo Navarro
MusicEnrico Barbaro
ProducerAinhoa Cabrera López
Gonzalo Carvajal Montejo
Production DesignerBerta Bellido
ScreenplayLucía Angulo
José Antonio Jiménez
Sound DesignerAngelina Foglio
Marcos García Ferrer