Next Generation Short Tiger
The short film program NEXT GENERATION SHORT TIGER was created by German Films in 1998 with the aim to introduce young talents from Germany to international audiences. Selected from film school submissions by an independent jury, the films go on an international festival tour. Discover this year’s selection at Sehsüchte 2025!

Late Summer 91
Spätsommer 91
Found footage. When the salt ran out at a birthday party in the late summer of 1991.
Cinematographer | Kollektiv Krautfeld |
Director | Olaf Held |
Editing | Olaf Held |
Producer | Olaf Held |
Screenplay | Olaf Held |
Still | Olaf Held |

Monument
There is a wall of silence between Maksim and his father. A year and a half after his escape from queerphobic Russia, he tries to tear down that wall with a phone call.
Cinematographer | Vitaly Zaytsev |
Director | Maksim Avdeev |
Editing | Maksim Avdeev |
Amir Naumann | |
Music | Teo Tao |
Producer | Maksim Avdeev |
Ksenia Gapchenko | |
Screenplay | Maksim Avdeev |
Still | Maksim Avdeev |

Balconies
Balkone
We enter the everyday life of the residents of a house via their balconies. About community and living together with differences.
Director | Xenia Smirnov |
Music | Matija Strniša |
Screenplay | Xenia Smirnov |
Still | monströös |

Future is Panorama
While at work, Siham receives a call from her daughter, who is hiding in a bar during a terrorist attack. Desperately, the mother tries to get help before it’s too late.
Cast | Lynne Azzam |
Amal Omran | |
Cinematographer | Jacob Kohl |
Director | Muschirf Shekh Zeyn |
Editing | Muschirf Shekh Zeyn |
Producer | Seren Sahin |
Screenplay | Seren Sahin |
Muschirf Shekh Zeyn | |
Still | Jacob Kohl |

RECORDARI
Under Pinochet’s dictatorship, the film follows Camila and Paula as their colorful childhood is stolen from them. With a magical touch and deep emotion, Carolina Cruz crafts an ode to freedom, life, and the art of puppet animation.
Cinematographer | Eli Börnike |
Jana Pape | |
Director | Carolina Cruz |
Editing | Martin Herold |
Producer | Paul Lux von Mikulicz |
Nicolai C.J. Otteni | |
Screenplay | Carolina Cruz |
Still | Carolina Cruz, Filmuniversität Babelsberg |

PEAR GARDEN
Six-year-old Lili visits her grandmother, who no longer has any breasts after a mastectomy. At night, Lili sees the shadow of her grandmother with breasts. Lili follows the shadow…
Director | Shadab Shayegan |
Editing | Revan Sarikaya |
Music | Revan Liakakis |
Producer | Shadab Shayegan |
Screenplay | Shadab Shayegan |
Still | Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg |

Last Call Blue
Two airport employees. Milo checks x-rays, Ona works on the tarmac. They meet up during the break. Milo plays the accordion. Throughout the night they look for ways to express their mutual affection.
Cast | Jos Nyreen |
Zero Pilnik | |
Cinematographer | Julien Mayer |
Director | Tillmann Betz |
Editing | Lydia Leerstelle |
Producer | Lisa-Marie Lutz |
Screenplay | Tillmann Betz |
Still | DFFB, Julien Mayer |

Tako Tsubo
Mr. Ham decides to have his heart removed to free himself from his complicated emotions. The doctor assures him that, in this day and age, this procedure presents no problem.
Cinematographer | Eva Pedroza |
Director | Eva Pedroza |
Fanny Sorgo | |
Editing | Eva Pedroza |
Music | Mary Ocher |
Producer | Eva Pedroza |
Fanny Sorgo | |
Maria Trigo Teixeira | |
Screenplay | Fanny Sorgo |
Voice | Len Jakobsen |
Anne Kulbatzki | |
Benjamin Martin | |
Still | pedroza&sorgo, sixpackfilm |

Obey, Obey
In most middle and high schools in Japan, strict rules dictate how students can wear their hair and clothes. This film visually explores what some of these rules can look like.
Cinematographer | Maayane Bouhnik |
Director | Akira Kawasaki |
Producer | Akira Kawasaki |
Still | DFFB/Maayane Bouhnik |

Silent Night
An international tourist group takes a day trip to Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank to visit religious sites. But some things here are different than they seem at first glance.
Cinematographer | Philipp Schaeffer |
Director | Philipp Schaeffer |
Jonathan Schaller | |
Editing | Jouri David Hoepfner |
Jonathan Schaller | |
Producer | Philipp Schaeffer |
Jonathan Schaller | |
Still | Philipp Schaeffer |

Do Something
A comedy about a brave blood cell that just wants you to finally drink a glass of water!
Animation | Louis Hartmann |
Paul Kley | |
Marius Lübke | |
Iris Maier | |
Anh Tú Nguyen | |
Sofija Zivkovic | |
Cast | Ilya Barrett |
Rosa Paylar | |
Director | Sofija Zivkovic |
Film School | Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg |
Music | Jurij Espenschied |
Producer | Cosi Gerrish |
Sound Designer | Florian Heidecker |
Still | Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg |