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Fiction Film
The Fiction Film section shows the stories that move aspiring filmmakers from the most diverse corners of the world. Films of all lengths address current trends in the film world, tell highly personal stories or question the medium. The awards for Best Fiction Film (awarded to the director) and Outstanding Artistic Achievement in a Fiction Film (awarded to Cinematography, Montage, Original Film Music, Screenplay, Acting, Scenography, Sound Design or Special Effects) will be presented.
دو زندگی سپیده (The Two Lives of Sepideh)
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Deeply disappointed by her mother, Sepideh concentrates even more on her own daughter Hana. Can pain persist across generations, even if Alzheimer’s leaves memory in a haze?
Language: Persian (English Subtitles)
Director | Soha Niasti |
Screenplay | Soha Niasti |
Producer | Soha Niasti |
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گواه (Witness)
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A young woman faces a life-changing decision in Iran: What moral position will she take – for her father or her mother?
Language: Farsi (English Subtitles)
Director | Aida Tebianian |
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浪花像是一朵云 (Like Wave Like Cloud)
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On a surfing trip, secret lovers Luxi and Tong come to the realization of an inevitable separation. For one last time their feelings rekindle.
Language: Chinese (English Subtitles)
Director | Yulin Yang |
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계란 (Eggs)
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Eggs from the father’s farm are a constant source of conflict with his daughter and the cause of his granddaughter’s health problems. But what is the reason for this?
Language: Korean (English Subtitles)
Director | Shinyoo Kang |
Producer | Seunghye Lee |
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A Monster Called Love
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In an absurd tale, protagonist O. encounters love, personified. Perhaps they know why she vomited a butterfly?
Language: English
Director | Sophia Lara Nimue Schweizer |
Screenplay | Sophia Lara Nimue Schweizer |
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AMWIRE (ORR)
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Have you drawn a number? A bus driver finds himself in an endless spiral between life and death and repeatedly ends up in the Office of Rebirth and Reincarnation.
Language: German (English Subtitles)
Director | Jakob Vyzina |
Screenplay | Vyzina Jakob |
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Anastasia
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After losing his mother, 10-year-old Antoine is confronted with different types of grief and has to deal with his own feelings and memories.
Language: English, French (English Subtitles)
Director | Timur Aslaev |
Screenplay | Timur Aslaev |
Producer | Guillaume Chabot |
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Anastatica
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In a world where the dead walk lifelessly towards the sea, Helena has to decide whether she can finally let go of her daughter.
Language: Spanish (English Subtitles)
Director | David Alesina |
Screenplay | David Alesina |
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Ash Wednesday
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Dem\u00E9tria is waiting for her daughter Cora in the favela. But a brutal police raid is underway at the school. Will Cora ever come home?
Language: Portuguese
Director | João Pedro Prado |
Bárbara Santos | |
Screenplay | Bia Krieger |
João Pedro Prado | |
Bárbara Santos | |
Producer | Vincent Edusei |
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Autopsía
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Day after day, a man captures his neighbor in photographs with his camera without her knowledge. One day, however, she looks directly into his lens.
Language: French (English Subtitles)
Director | Amaury Fontaine Bouma |
Screenplay | Amaury Fontaine Bouma |
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Być Kimś (Be Somebody)
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Elektriker Wiktor entdeckt, dass seine neue Wohnung einst dem Ex-Präsidenten Lech Walesa gehörte. Inspiriert oder verunsichert ihn das?
Language: Polish (English Subtitles)
Director | MICHAL TOCZEK |
Screenplay | Michal Toczek |
Producer | Agata Golanska |
Karolina Przeklasa | |
Agata Terpial |
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Bye Bye, Bowser
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Inspired by construction worker Laugo across the street, punk singer Luna writes a song. From apprentice to skilled worker and finally Luna’s boyfriend?
Language: German (English Subtitles)
Director | Jasmin Baumgartner |
Screenplay | Lorenz Uhl |
Producer | Dominic Spitaler |
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Choupan (The Shepherd)
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Right before showtime, the main actor drops out, but luckily Maysam knows the words by heart. However, he is not allowed to play the shepherd.
Language: Persian (English Subtitles)
Director | Mehrshad Ranjbar |
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Das Wunder von Hans und Rümana (The Marvel of Hans and Rümana)
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Hans and R\u00FCmana don’t fit into society, but they do fit together. At a summer party, they witness a tragedy. A surreal drama that denounces social conventions.
Language: German (English Subtitles)
Director | Zaid Ghasib |
Producer | Sophia Fischer |
Zaid Ghasib |
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El trono (The Throne)
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Shit! Here is Spain’s head of government visiting a public toilet, only to watch helplessly what his campaigners hide behind their masks.
Language: Spanish (English Subtitles)
Director | Lucía Jiménez |
Screenplay | Lucía Jiménez |
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Farther Than Distance
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Iti finds it difficult to get to know her fellow students and make friends at university. One day she finds courage to go to a party.
Language: English, Hindi (English Subtitles)
Director | Taruna Khatri |
Screenplay | Taruna Khatri |
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Give
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An ode to love. In poetic fragments, a composer remembers a lost affair with a singer, while music and lyricism explore their love and problems.
Language: English, German (English Subtitles)
Director | Kenya Gillespie |
Screenplay | Kenya Gillespie |
Producer | Maggie M. Bailey |
Edna Diaz | |
Kenya Gillespie | |
Arturo R. Jiménez |
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Govah (Witness)
A young woman faces a life-changing decision in Iran: What moral position will she take – for her father or her mother?
Language: Farsi (English Subtitles)
Director | Aida Tebianian |
Producer | Kazem Daneshi |
I Remembered That I Have Free Will
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Raya rides the dating carousel, but no match lasts. One day she has had enough and breaks the social norms. Dating hustle and feminism with Barbie vibes.
Language: English (English Subtitles)
Director | Miriam Lena Haspel |
Screenplay | Miriam Lena Haspel |
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I am not here
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Routine is everything! An experimental look out of the mirror shows a man’s evening routine, until he looks out of the window and experiences a shock.
Language: Without Dialogue
Director | Anastasia Ratomskaya |
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Idrissa Abara
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One day, an injured scrap metal collector finds a mask that reminds him of his homeland. As his health gets worse, he turns to his roots.
Language: Spanish (English Subtitles)
Director | Jordi Rullan Bisbal |
Screenplay | Jordi Rullan Bisbal |
Producer | Jordi Rullan Bisbal |
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Kafana Na Balkanu (Balkan, Baby)
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What does it mean to be a \”good migrant\”? Martina questions her beliefs when she meets Dunja, a young woman who does not hide her identity and origins.
Language: German, Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian (English Subtitles)
Director | Boris Gavrilovic |
Producer | Kirsten Wehr |
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Lange nicht gesehen (Long time no see)
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Silvia returns to work after a long illness and finds out she is no longer in the system. Her return to the team turns out to be more difficult than expected.
Language: German, English (English Subtitles)
Director | Kevin Biele |
Screenplay | Kevin Biele |
Lisa Polster | |
Producer | Philip J. Malewicz |
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Los comensales (Dinner guest)
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Miguel braces himself for another Christmas dinner full of teasing. Now he is also supposed to take over the family business. Will he back down?
Language: Spanish (English Subtitles)
Director | MJ Fuentes |
Screenplay | Saúl Hernández Bau |
Nadia Lobato Díaz-Pinés |
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Malwa Khushan
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When a new girl arrives at the school of sisters Malwa and Kushan in rural India, one of them develops unexpected feelings.
Language: Hindi (English Subtitles)
Director | Sourav Yadav |
Preeti Kanungo | |
Screenplay | Preeti Kanungo |
Producer | Neeraj Churi |
Saagar Gupta | |
Sridhar Rangayan |
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Moddergat (Mudhole)
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In 2039, a man is faced with the decision to sacrifice himself for the sake of climate protection. But does this make a difference?
Language: Dutch, English
Director | Job Antoni Schellekens |
Screenplay | Job Antoni Schellekens |
Producer | Elisabeth Köller |
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Selma
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When pregnant Selma attends a party with her best friend, she gradually realizes that the days of being a teenager are over.
Language: French (English Subtitles)
Director | Jeanne Clerbaux |
Tiffany Deleuze | |
Producer | Baptiste Rousseau |
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Sensibelchen (Baby Brother)
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Benni is constantly being teased by his big brother Pascal. But when he shows weakness on New Year’s Eve, Benni’s time for revenge has come.
Language: German (English Subtitles)
Director | Berthold Wahjudi |
Screenplay | Berthold Wahjudi |
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Seventeen
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Seventeen, pregnant and on her way out of California, Jasmines plans are interrupted by her young mother, who tries to persuade her to have an abortion.
Language: Chinese, English (English Subtitles)
Director | Geqi Li |
Screenplay | Geqi Li |
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Son Pardos (Grey at night)
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As an outsider, a wolf observes the people in the forests of Barcelona during their tender moments. But after a blood moon, the gates to humanity are open to him.
Language: Spanish, Catalan (English Subtitles)
Director | Carlos Llaó |
Screenplay | Carlos Llaó |
Producer | Potrina Cònsul |
Iris Irish |
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Sparare alle Angurie (Shooting Watermelons)
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During a hot summer in Sardinia, Federico tries to be seen by his father, for whom he is not man enough. But the two are more alike than they thought.
Language: Italian, English (English Subtitles)
Director | Antonio Donato |
Screenplay | Paolo Carbone |
Antonio Donato |
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Syncope (SYNCOPE)
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Whim is one of the few chosen dancers in the performance Syncope. The physically intense rehearsals turn out to be a fight for their survival.”
Language: English
Director | Linus Von Stumberg |
Screenplay | Linus Von Stumberg |
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The Hand that Feeds
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Having moved in with her too-nice mother-in-law, Irina is plagued by weird visions. About the demanded gratitude of refugees and the art of the averted gaze.
Language: German, Romanian (English Subtitles)
Director | Helen Hideko |
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The Steak
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Within minutes, enemy soldiers storm a mother’s home while her steak is still sizzling in the pan.
Language: Without Dialogue
Director | Kiarash Dadgar |
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Titaninnen
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The noble sisters Ika and Lu marry two Prussian princes so that they will never be separated, but their separation is imminent.
Language: German (English Subtitles)
Director | Jannik Weiße |
Producer | Malin Krüger |
Annika Mommsen |
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Umbral (Threshold)
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When a harmless scuffle between two friends at school gets out of hand, a conflict suddenly arises that calls their whole friendship into question.
Language: Spanish (English Subtitles)
Director | Helena Cantera |
Screenplay | Helena Cantera |
Producer | Gerónimo Gómez |
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Ventil (Valve)
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Mike and Toni hit the petrol station at night on their cross bikes. Will Mike find the right outlet to express his feelings and save his broken relationship?
Language: German (English Subtitles)
Director | Leve Kühl |
Producer | Hannah Buhr |
Katharina Mumper | |
Tito Uysal |
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Å Øve (Practice)
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Climate activist Trine is invited to an audition in Oslo, 1500 km away and she’s travelling without a plane. Can she count on the help of others?
Language: Norwegian (English Subtitles)
Director | Laurens Pérol |
Screenplay | Laurens Pérol |
Producer | Merete Korsberg |
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Documentary Film
From a snapshot to a portrait of an interesting personality to the exposing reportage, everything that is gripping and innovative can be found in our Documentary Film section. Films of all lengths deal with historical and current developments, tell of touching fates and bigger contexts. In this section the awards Best Documentary Film (awarded to the director) and Outstanding Artistic Achievement in a Documentary Film (awarded to cinematography, montage, original film music, book or sound design) are presented.
“WORDS”
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A catchy tune that transcends national and social boundaries and tells of the associations and stories of this 80s song in a collage-like film.
Language: German, English, French (English Subtitles)
Director | Hannah Jandl |
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Amor Ice (Ice love)
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Drugs and love. An addictive combo on which Katy and two other women reflect in the “Banjo California” they visited back then.
Language: Spanish (English Subtitles)
Director | Katy Araiza |
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Fata Morgana
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Documentary about the miserable living conditions of foreign guest workers who spend endless hours in trucks to deliver the sand needed for the World Cup in Qatar.
Language: Arabic, English (English Subtitles)
Director | Alabdulaa Daood |
Producer | Louise Zenker |
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For the Time Being
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Michelle is certain that her husband is falsely imprisoned. Then a new piece of evidence comes to light. Portrait of a broken justice system.
Language: English
Director | Nele Dehnenkamp |
Producer | Nele Dehnenkamp |
Christine Duttlinger |
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Frank Meyer
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Between raw breakfast eggs and harley rides to the gym, former bodybuilder Frank begins to reflect on his relationship to his own masculinity.
Language: German
Director | Riccardo Dejan Jurkovic |
Leonhard Hofmann | |
Producer | Hofmann Leonhard |
Jurkovic Riccardo Dejan |
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Life, C’est la vie (This is life)
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Life in the city is a puzzle of experiences. Driven by joy and sorrow, people are in search of meaning. But – Cash Rules Everything Around the City!
Language: Chinese (English Subtitles)
Director | Ki Yuk Lam |
Artist | Lam Ki Yuk |
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Morir antes de morir (To Die Before Dying)
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Bullfighting is alive and well in Spain and a new generation is being brought up with this tradition. But who bears the consequences?
Language: Spanish (English Subtitles)
Director | Jesús Lacorte |
Screenplay | Jesús Lacorte |
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Ocean Bursting Into Tears
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A visual poem about the artist and activist Anahita and her vision of a free Iran. Between oppressed rights and Jin, Jiyan, Azadî.
Language: English
Director | Katrin Sikora |
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Remember, broken crayons colour too
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Refugee and trans woman Shannet is haunted by memories of assaults. Her friends are there to catch her and become her chosen family.
Language: English, Creole
Director | Shannet Clemmings |
Urša Kastelic |
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She Sells Shellfish
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A maritime trip to the Welsh coast. A collage about the delightful fisherwomen of Swansea Market with archive footage and Super 8 material.
Language: English (English Subtitles)
Director | Lily Tiger Tonkin Wells |
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Sisters
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Sisters shows the perspectives of two young girls from Sierra Leone who are forced into prostitution in order to make ends meet for their families.
Language: English (English Subtitles)
Director | Prince Karteh |
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Waking Up in Silence
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They play, ride bikes and draw messages to Putin on the curb with chalk: Ukrainian children caught between normality and a state of emergency in exile.
Language: Ukrainian, Russian (English Subtitles)
Director | Mila Zhlutenko |
Daniel Asadi Faezi | |
Screenplay | Daniel Asadi Faezi |
Mila Zhlutenko |
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Wo die wilden Bienen wohnen (Where The Wild Bees Are)
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Various wild bees live solitary and peaceful in their nesting places, until mischief in the form of the farmed honey bee buzzes into their habitat.
Language: Without Dialogue
Director | Pascal Kohler |
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Wounds
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Three women in the Carpathians mourn their fallen sons and husbands with the help of solidarity, nature and memories.
Language: Ukrainian (English Subtitles)
Director | Lesia Diak |
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Zuhause ist dort, wo die Sternfrüchte sauer sind (Home is where the star fruits taste sour)
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During his visit to his grandparents in Vietnam, Huy explores distance and closeness on various levels: Home, emotions and generations.
Language: German, Vietnamese (English Subtitles)
Director | Huy Nguyen Hoang |
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getty abortions
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This desktop essay explores images that accompany reports about abortion. Whether it’s Teen Bravo or a regional paper – why isn’t anyone looking at the camera?
Language: German (English Subtitles)
Director | Franzis Kabisch |
Screenplay | Franzis Kabisch |
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À votre service (At your service)
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Two mothers work as cleaners in private households to provide a better future for their children.
Language: French, Spanish, Portuguese (English Subtitles)
Director | Ludmila Bergeon |
Producer | Bénédicte LESCALIER |
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Genre Film
Whether sci-fi, western, horror, thriller, fantasy or even a classic romantic comedy – this section features films that push the boundaries of their genre conventions, rethink them and thus breathe fresh life into them. Sehsüchte offers lush genre cinema for hungry popcorn lovers! The Sehsüchte audience decides on the award Best Genre Film.
Covert
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What happens when a security, a red diamond and a burglar are all in the same room? The object of desire will be fought over relentlessly.
Language: Without Dialogue
Director | Bervyn Chua |
Artist | Xin Jie Hoo |
Ernest Koh | |
LuQi Li |
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El trono (The Throne)
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Shit! Here is Spain’s head of government visiting a public toilet, only to watch helplessly what his campaigners hide behind their masks.
Language: Spanish (English Subtitles)
Director | Lucía Jiménez |
Screenplay | Lucía Jiménez |
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Los comensales (Dinner guest)
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Miguel braces himself for another Christmas dinner full of teasing. Now he is also supposed to take over the family business. Will he back down?
Language: Spanish (English Subtitles)
Director | MJ Fuentes |
Screenplay | Saúl Hernández Bau |
Nadia Lobato Díaz-Pinés |
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Opto Optics
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A man is out shopping when he unexpectedly becomes a witness and his world descends into surrealism. A psychedelic trip that goes far beyond the store.
Language: Without Dialogue
Director | Pearl Seemann |
Screenplay | Pearl Seemann |
Producer | Filmuniversität Babelsberg Konrad Wolf |
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Syncope
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Whim is one of the few chosen dancers in the performance Syncope. The physically intense rehearsals turn out to be a fight for their survival.
Language: English
Director | Linus Von Stumberg |
Screenplay | Linus Von Stumberg |
Screenings:
Titaninnen
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The noble sisters Ika and Lu marry two Prussian princes so that they will never be separated, but their separation is imminent.
Language: German (English Subtitles)
Director | Jannik Weiße |
Producer | Malin Krüger |
Annika Mommsen |
Screenings:
Ventil (Valve)
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Mike and Toni hit the petrol station at night on their cross bikes. Will Mike find the right outlet to express his feelings and save his broken relationship?
Language: German (English Subtitles)
Director | Leve Kühl |
Producer | Hannah Buhr |
Katharina Mumper | |
Tito Uysal |
Screenings:
Animated Film
From stop motion to animation to CGI, Sehsüchte is also dedicated to the most inspiring animated works. In this section, the Best Animated Film award is presented.
午後的迷茫 (Confusion of the Afternoon)
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On a boring afternoon at school, a fleeting touch between two boys leads to a dreamy crush and confusing feelings.
Language: Without Dialogue
Director | Yung-Chieh Lee |
Screenplay | Yung-Chieh Lee |
Producer | Chiao-Fang Lin |
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피크닉 (PICNIC)
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A dreamy emulator worldbuilding with VHS vibes and RGB color games that tells the experimental story of a rabbit’s hero’s journey.
Language: Korean (English Subtitles)
Director | Kawon Lee |
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Au 8ème Jour (On the 8th Day)
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In a textile world, we bear witness to its man-made destruction. All it takes is a single day. A 3D animated appeal.
Language: Without Dialogue
Director | Agathe Sénéchal |
Alicia Massez | |
Elise Debruyne | |
Flavie Carin | |
Théo Duhautois |
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Covert
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What happens when a security, a red diamond and a burglar are all in the same room? The object of desire will be fought over relentlessly.
Language: Without Dialogue
Director | Bervyn Chua |
Artist | Xin Jie Hoo |
Ernest Koh | |
LuQi Li |
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Dodo
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Dodo’s father is different. When he disappears one day, Dodo hides away with his mother. But at some point she has to face growing up…
Language: Without Dialogue
Director | Yi Luo |
Producer | Jiayan Chen |
Yi Luo |
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Ik Ben Hier (I Am Here)
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The fear of oblivion can be overwhelming: What do we leave behind once we are gone? Just a single hair or an entire legacy?
Language: Without Dialogue
Director | Cheyenne Goudswaard |
Producer | MIVC St. Joost School of Art & Design |
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Lilli + Camille
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This Stop-motion film explores the loss of loved ones and how the rebirth of the plant world can help.
Language: Without Dialogue
Director | Iris Birke |
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Opto Optics
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A man is out shopping when he unexpectedly becomes a witness and his world descends into surrealism. A psychedelic trip that goes far beyond the store.
Language: Without Dialogue
Director | Pearl Seemann |
Screenplay | Pearl Seemann |
Producer | Filmuniversität Babelsberg Konrad Wolf |
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Pamiętnik Z Węgla (A Coal Diary)
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A former coal-fired power plant worker is confronted by his activist daughter and told that new ways must be found.
Language: Polish (English Subtitles)
Director | Adrianna Wieczorek |
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Raja
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Raja collapses under the unbearable weight of darkness and ends up in a wondrous limbo. She discovers something she had long since given up on.
Language: German (English Subtitles)
Director | Franziska Von Holst |
Louisa Maria Würden | |
Screenplay | Franziska Von Holst |
Louisa Maria Würden |
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Suburban Horror
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Pursued by a killer clown, a person races through suburbia, where American social norms manifest themselves in horrifying ways. Will they succeed in escaping?
Language: English
Director | Judy Zhao |
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The Creators
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Why is the world the way it is? A funny insight into the secret of those who have shaped and created life on earth.
Language: Without Dialogue
Director | Madeleine Homan |
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The Nectar Instead
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In a stop-motion studio, a fly finds itself in a hopeless situation and realizes that it has wasted its life.
Language: English (English Subtitles)
Director | Yoo Lee |
Producer | Yoo Lee |
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Future
In this section we show children from the age of 6 and young people from the age of 12 exciting, unconventional and sight-seeing short and feature-length films in a wide variety of forms. The winning films are decided solely by a children’s jury. The Best Kids Film aprize isawarded in this section.
Bird Drone
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A lonely seagull is looking for a new friend. But instead of another seagull, she finds a human-controlled drone.
Language: Without Dialogue
Director | Radheya Jegatheva |
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Chiquita
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Briana is 12 years old when she begins to develop insecurities about her appearance and her personality. Through conversations with her sister, she learns to deal with it.
Language: Spanish (English Subtitles)
Director | Ibet Luna |
Screenplay | Ibet Luna |
Lady Purizaga | |
Producer | Maria Grazia Paz |
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Eins zu Eins (One on One)
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Enrico and Laurin play football, eat kebabs and talk about their dreams – in sign language. A portrait of a friendship that sometimes remains hidden from hearing people.
Language: German
Director | Saskia Kessler |
Producer | Jakob Wahl |
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From The Top
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A former musician is on his way to sell her drum kit. But then she realizes that her passion for music has not yet been extinguished.
Language: Without Dialogue
Director | Rich Farris |
Screenplay | Francesca Lin |
Jack Maraghy | |
Producer | Martina Buendia Silva |
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Kleingeld (Pocket Change)
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Indy wants to bring sweets to school for her birthday, but her family doesn’t have enough money. To keep up appearances she decides to arrange it herself.
Language: Dutch (English Subtitles)
Director | Daniël Bakker |
Producer | June Carmiggelt |
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Landflucht
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A cow and a rooster bored and tired of their lives as farm animals, flee to a wild forest in order to start a new exciting life as free wild animals.
Language: Without Dialogue
Director | Anna Dokuchaeva |
Sine Juhl | |
Producer | Anna Dokuchaeva |
Sine Juhl |
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NO LIMITS
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Surfing is everything for Ben, who is blind. His goal is to partake in the paralympics of 2028, with the help of modern technology.
Language: German (English Subtitles)
Director | Kilian Glassner |
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O que me parta un rayo (May lightning strike me down)
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When their raindance seems to work, two girls decide to make a fellow student disappear with the help of their newfound magical powers.
Language: Spanish (English Subtitles)
Director | Karen Joaquín |
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Out of Order
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Four friends find a gripping machine that fulfills wishes. When strange things start to happen, they realize that the mystical machine can also be dangerous.
Language: English (English Subtitles)
Director | Ellen Chee |
Producer | Jess Koh |
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Schattenspiel (Shadowplay)
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A little girl home alone and hides from monster shadows, that she tries to fight with light.
Language: German (English Subtitles)
Director | Silvia Loose |
Paula Wodniok | |
Mayra Ebensen |
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Scrubby
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Scrubby is a little fluffy creature who lives in his mother’s thick fur. But when she starts to lose her fur, he has to help her.
Language: German
Director | Paul Vollet |
Producer | Paulina Larson |
Johannes Lübke |
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Slime On!
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A lonely snail discovers a fellow snail on the other side of the road and sets off on a path with obstacles
Language: Without Dialogue
Director | Long Huy Dao |
Ana Scheele | |
Sophie Litvinenko | |
Artist | Jenny Friedrich |
Felix Sommerburger | |
Producer | Long Dao |
Sophie Litvinenko | |
Ana Scheele |
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Spatzenhirn
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Little sparrows have a spy organization where they plan the best way to steal food from humans.
Language: Without Dialogue
Director | Arun Leander |
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Tahlequah the Whale: A Dance of Grief
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After the sudden death of her calf, the orca mother Tahlequah carries her daughter’s body hundreds of kilometers across the ocean. A visceral story about loss and love.
Language: English (English Subtitles)
Director | Daniel Kreizberg |
Screenplay | Daniel Kreizberg |
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Wüstentier (Desert Critter)
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A desert critter casts the annoying shadow of a palm tree. At the North Pole, it tries to get rid of it. A story about identity and friendship.
Language: German (English Subtitles)
Director | Lina Walde |
Producer | Ines Christine Geißer |
Lina Walde |
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360°
The virtual reality section 360° explores the possibilities of visual storytelling in virtual space. The audience thus experiences a new cinematic environment that is not limited to the big screen. Immersive storytelling creates potential for new stories and poses challenges for filmmakers, making it particularly interesting for young filmmakers. That is why we are awarding the prize for Best 360°-Film in this section.
A Vocal Landscape
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Two people talk about their childhood memories and dreams over a glass of wine. We travel to the imaginative and spherical places of their thoughts. But are they actually talking about the same thing or rather misunderstanding each other?
Language: English
Director | Omid Zarei |
Anne Jeppesen | |
Producer | Anne Jeppesen |
Omid Zarei |
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CAVES
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In this animated short film, you can travel back in time and enter a cave from the stone age. Let yourself be surrounded by the sounds of a mystical choir and participate in a ritual with cavemen.
Language: Without Dialogue
Director | Alex Raúl |
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Drive Away
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This animated short film impressively tells the story of a young woman’s escape from Ukraine. Sitting in a small car, between uncertainty and waiting, crossing borders and in constant exchange with her father, we experience the oppressive experience of war.
Language: English (English Subtitles)
Director | Mascha Ermakova |
Luise Palloks |
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Flow
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“Flow” immerses us in the world of wind in a turbulent and playful manner. Filigree and at the same time abstract, we accompany the sound of wind in seemingly ordinary situations. The experience invites us to explore various facets – from calming stillness to stormy ecstasy – with all our senses.
Language: Without Dialogue
Director | Adriaan Lokman |
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Let Nature Heal
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Who will we have been? What footprint do we leave on our environment every day? A narrative of a dystopian and unembellished future of a nature shaped by man’s destructive relationship. Between forest fires, flooding and littering, it paints an overwhelming picture of our fragile relationship with the environment, revealing the urgent questions of our present.
Language: English
Director | Jacco Kooistra |
Artist | Van De Venis Biniyam |
Reijners Britt | |
Igor Jongenelis |
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Yankho: A Malawian VR Film
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A mother in Malawi proudly talks about her daughter Yankho. In order to escape poverty in her village, she is to study medicine and embark on a new path. We accompany Yankho’s mother as she goes about her daily life of marital and maternal duties.
Language: English
Director | Praises Padambo |
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Retrospective
The Retrospective is Sehsüchte‘s look into student film history. The programme not only brings older films from the archives back to light, but also updates their meanings and aesthetic experience.
Der weiße Mantel (The white coat)
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Winfried Glatzeder in his first film role, right after the start of his study at the Film University. As a young man in a white coat he finds himself dealing with the pitfalls of everyday life.
Language: Without Dialogue
Director | Alfredo Calvimontes |
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Joca
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This documentary takes us to the directors homecountry, Portugal. In poetic pictures he encaptures the life on the countryside.
Language: Portuguese
Director | Carlos M. Vincente Faria |
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Kunstmaler
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An imaginative stop motion film full of creative surprises from the early years of the Film University, shows the variety in the university’s archive.
Language: Without Dialogue
Director | Ingrid Gericke |
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Till Eulenspiegel
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The highly praised portrayal of the historic jester by Winfried Glatzeder counts as one of the masterpieces of DEFA Film. We show the restored edition.
Language: German
Director | Rainer Simon |
Screenplay | Rainer Simon |
Jürgen Klauß | |
Producer | Martin Sonnabend |
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Schreibsüchte
The screenplay is more than the mere preliminary stage of a finished film, but an artistic work in its own right. In this section it takes centre stage. Innovative stories, brought into form through precise narrative craft, have a chance to win the Best Screenplay award. The nominated, previously unfilmed screenplays will be presented to the festival audience in the staged reading “Kopfkino”. But authors who have not yet finished a book also have the opportunity to present their ideas. In the Pitch, students can convince the jury with their idea and receive the prize for the Best Pitch.
Kopfkino
10 Jahre (10 Years)
In the Federal Republic of Germany in the 80s and 90s, a couple from the left-wing scene are wrongly sentenced to 10 years in prison for a bomb attack and membership of the Red Army Faction. As a result, they lose their son, who grows up with his new family while his mother tries to maintain contact.
Language: German
Screenplay | Florian Dedek |
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Ameisen fressen keinen Halva (Ants do not eat halva)
The coming-of-age drama tells the story of two friends who, after the suicide of their best friend, not only have to come to terms with her sudden death, but also have to decide which of them will take care of the child left behind.
Language: German
Screenplay | Judith Rose Gyabaah |
Events:
Der Geigenkasten
Little Motele survives an SS attack on his Jewish family during the Second World War and escapes. He goes on the run alone, with only his violin in his luggage.
Language: German
Screenplay | Andreas Kessler |
Fabien Virayie |
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Die Fremden (Rückkehr nach Riesa)
Literature student Sascha finds it difficult to adapt to the enlightened student scene in Vienna. He constantly tries to suppress his Saxon homeland, but it keeps catching up with him. On top of this comes a not really welcome visit from his father, which doesn’t make things any easier.
Language: German
Screenplay | Emre Cakir |
Events:
Trapped
Six people have an accident in a refrigerated truck while fleeing Iran and have to learn to stick together – a fight for survival full of madness, nightmares, fantasy and hope. In the process
Language: German
Screenplay | Florens Huhn |
Events:
Pitch
Camouflage
An episodic story about Vitaly (20), who fled from the burdensome post-Soviet structures in Ukraine to Germany in 2019. In his new home, he faces an identity crisis: when are you German and when are you a traitor? This comes to a head with Russia’s war of aggression.
Director | Mykyta Gibalenko |
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Denn das ist meine Welt
Hedwig Porschütz plans her escape from Germany during National Socialism. As an actually apolitical person, she earns her money with prostitution on the black market in order to emigrate to America. In order to earn some extra money, she gets involved in a business to protect Jewish women, whom she increasingly hides with her. A story about everyday feminist life in Nazi Germany.
Director | Georg Agardi |
Events:
Milchjunge
Single mother Anja struggles to put her rebellious son Niklas on the right path on the right path as he struggles with drugs, the law and the challenges of growing up. Their relationship is put to the test when Niklas is involved in a fatal accident.
Director | Jonathan Von Büren |
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P’s Grenze
Border guard P lives nearby and guards the border to the zone. When she picks up the boy Omid, who has crossed the border and makes an uncontrollable, supernatural and dangerous noise when triggered. P takes him in and explores her own supernatural hearing. He learns her language, they become closer and P has to choose between hate, sadness and the the here and now.
Director | Armin Mobasseri |
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Wake the Witches
In the idyllic small town of Thuringia, a hidden power awakens in five friends power in five friends whose world comes apart at the seams when when the new candidate wins the mayoral election with his wins the mayoral election.
Director | Marie Anhut |
Pia Mozet |
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Focus: Sound
Focus: Sound puts the audible in the spotlight of the cinematic experience. Showcasing the artistic work of extraordinary, technically innovative, and captivating sounds in film. In this section the Best Sound & Music award is presented.
Almost a woman
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Sofia has been moved from foster care to a juvenile detention center in Denmark. While sneeking out with her roommate, she experiences the differend facets of becoming a young adult.
Language: English, Italian, Norwegian (English Subtitles)
Director | Lotta Becker |
Screenplay | Niklas Gyberg Ivarsson |
Producer | Emelie Alsaker Synnes |
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Beyond the Showers
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“Never shower, always stink!” is the credo of the Dirty Girls, including Pam. On a forest rescue expedition, however, her foot odour becomes unbearable. Or does it?
Language: German (English Subtitles)
Director | Florian Rudolph |
Producer | Henry F. Bock |
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Carry On (Carry on)
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Of memories and letting go: There’s a fine line between reality, memories and longing, no matter if you want to remember or forget.
Language: English
Director | Camille Van Duin |
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Dämmerstatus (Intertrack)
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After an assault, 15-year-old Marlon falls into a vegetative state and wanders in an awake mind while his body stays paralyzed. Trapped in his emotionally charged world of thoughts, he seeks a way back to reality.
Language: German (English Subtitles)
Director | Lea Ganzek |
Screenplay | Lea Ganzek |
Eva Hörmann |
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Easily Distracted
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A young man is on vacation with his girlfriend on a Baltic island. Soon, he finds himself in irritating situations that fill him first with curiosity and later with panic. He starts to doubt the reliability of his perception.
Language: German, English (English Subtitles)
Director | Annika Gebhard |
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Eisspin, der sehr Schreckliche (Eisspin, the oh so terrible)
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Eisspin makes a contract with the starving cat Echo. She will receive the most delicious food if she sacrifices herself for the alchemist. Is the terrible one really that terrible?
Language: German (English Subtitles)
Director | Adrian Doll |
Producer | Lukas Koll |
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Everybody Leaves in the End
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Freja lives in a youth detention centre. To reunite her family, she would do anything. She desperately wants to lead her loved ones out of the dark by taking them back home to the northern lights.
Language: German, Swedish (English Subtitles)
Director | Simon Schneckenburger |
Screenplay | Simon Schneckenburger |
Producer | Leon Döhner |
Julian Haisch |
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Gelbes Rechteck (Yellow Rectangle)
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A rectangle between Kassel’s train tracks is transformed into a stage in whose warm cones of light everyone finds a place. A place to be heard freely.
Language: English, German (English Subtitles)
Director | Janis Schmidt |
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Hooked On Illusions
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At night, a lonely old man fishes the moon reflection and dives into colorful, but nightmarish dreams that confront him with his fears and his past.
Language: Without Dialogue
Director | Laura Isabel Schneider |
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Inertia
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Many years ago, Ben promised his sister Marie that he would fly to the invisible comet with her. Shortly afterwards she disappeared in the mist without a trace. Now the moment has come to leave the past behind.
Language: German (English Subtitles)
Director | Thomas Marciano |
Screenplay | Maximilian Gurschler |
Thomas Marciano | |
Producer | Bayer Florian |
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Mechanical Resonance
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Rhythmic gymnastics transforms the body into a mechanical instrument.
Language: Chinese (English Subtitles)
Director | Juejun Chen |
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Risse (Cracks)
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A has gathered her emotional baggage, which takes the form of piles of garbage. A seeks trust in B, the new person in her life, but tries to keep B from being overwhelmed.
Language: Without Dialogue
Director | Agnes Pauer |
Artist | Patrick Bimazubute |
Henriette Nagel | |
Screenplay | Agnes Pauer |
Producer | Lissy Giglberger |
Jakob Wahl |
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Rotating Romance
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Logan’s favorite day is laundry day. In the warm basement, he can listen to the calming sounds of his friends which make him forget his worries. But this time, things take an unexpected turn that could change him forever.
Language: German (English Subtitles)
Director | Pablo Sahin |
Screenplay | Pablo Sahin |
Producer | Christoph Mohr |
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Tell Me Something Nice
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How good can you genuinely be? A privileged couple leave Greece by ferry and are confronted with the reality of refugees
Language: German, Greek, English (English Subtitles)
Director | Amina Rosa Krami |
Nola Anwar | |
Producer | Leon Harms |
Davydenko Yelyzaveta |
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The Current
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A little rabbit becomes a metaphor for how a dysfunctional perfectionist with low self-esteem can experience criticism of her creative work.
Language: English (English Subtitles)
Director | Julia Alena Schneider |
Artist | Nico Sperling |
Kathrin Strauß | |
Screenplay | Dang An Tran |
Producer | Julia Alena Schneider |
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Wandeln Zwischen Licht Und Schatten (Wandering Between Light And Shadows)
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Nightwalker wanders restlessly through the shadows to find the door to his key. Slowly, the dimensions of time and space dissolve and he has to face his own deep fears.
Language: German (English Subtitles)
Director | Julius Gatzke |
Moritz Doetsch |
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When I bleed
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Blood, shame and cramps: In the midst of nature, Resa begins the search for acceptance and reconciliation with her own body image.
Language: German (English Subtitles)
Director | Miri Klischat |
Screenplay | Miri Klischat |
Producer | Felix Georg |
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Wrinkles of her Smile
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When she was 12, Suzans only and best friend suddenly quit the friendship. Throughout her life, her friend kept reappearing in her dreams, where they would reconcile. A translation of memories and emotions.
Language: Dutch (English Subtitles)
Director | Suzan Eck |
Screenplay | Suzan Van Eck |
Producer | Suzan Van Eck |
Screenings:
Sehsüchte Special
With the Sehsüchte Specials, we direct our attention to various regions and the big questions of our time. The works are characterized by intimate perspectives, e.g. from Israel and Palestine as well as Afghanistan. They offer impulses for reflection, reveal invisible social defects and question whose gaze makes it onto screen.
Blinks of Afghanistan
Colorless
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Narges is a girl with a passion for dancing. Whenever she dances, her brother beats her, until he realizes that she is dancing for their mother.
Language: Without Dialogue
Director | Abdul hamid Mandgar |
Screenings:
Death to freedom
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An animation about the complexity of war: money, power and violence impact different ethnic groups in Afghanistan.
Language: Without Dialogue
Director | Mohammad Nasir Hashimi |
Screenings:
Filmorgh (Elephantbird)
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A minibus drives over the mountains to Kabul. In it is an old man with the last wish to give his grandchild an elephantbird (turkey). But the realization is more difficult than expected.
Language: Dari (English Subtitles)
Director | Amir Masoud Soheili |
Producer | Rohani Sayed Jalal |
Screenings:
Hills and Mountains
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In a hybrid docu-fiction, an Afghan woman dives into her experiences that have pushed her to the margins of her society.
Language: Dari (English Subtitles)
Director | Salar Pashtoonyar |
Screenings:
Labour
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On the run. The contractions of Darya are getting stronger and stronger. The only one who could help her is the doctor Rahman. But Darya’s husband won’t allow a man to touch his wife.
Language: Dari (English Subtitles)
Director | Aria Azizi |
Screenplay | Aria Azizi |
Producer | Aria Azizi |
Niklas Seehausen |
Screenings:
The Red Bicycle
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In rural Afghanistan, Farzana runs away from her abusive marriage. Meanwhile, in the city, Mahal is arrested for a “moral crime”. A red bicycle opens two windows into the world of two Afghan women.
Language: Dari (English Subtitles)
Director | Fazila Amiri |
Screenplay | Fazila Amiri |
Producer | Salar Pashtoonyar |
Screenings:
Why are you sad Mother?
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A mother is lost in memories of the past, of a life once lived and a daughter is left to catch up with a world she was never a part of.
Language: Dari (English Subtitles)
Director | Parwana Haydar |
Artist | Samira Teimori |
Shayestah Wahdat | |
Screenplay | Parwanar Haydar |
Screenings:
YELLOW
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In Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, a woman walks into a chadari store in Kabul to buy her first full-body veil and face an uncertain future.
Language: Dari (English Subtitles)
Director | Elham Ehsas |
Screenings:
changing:tides
صوتك بس (Your Voice Only)
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A young Sudanese guest worker is bound to a horse farm in Saudi Arabia. His smartphone is his most valuable device, as it’s the only connection to his family.
Language: Arabic (English Subtitles)
Director | Rana Matar |
Screenings:
Blue, Woman, Dress
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The photo of a woman in an accident affected generations in South Korea. A respectful essay that questions male gaze, reception and reproduction in the media.
Language: Korean (English Subtitles)
Director | Jinhyun Kim |
Screenings:
I See Them Bloom
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Two sisters from Ukraine flee from the war to Munich. Together, but emotionally very distant from each other, they try to adapt to their new life.
Language: English, German, Ukrainian, Russian (English Subtitles)
Director | Mykyta Gibalenko |
Screenplay | Mykyta Gibalenko |
Lybaschenko Laura | |
Osman Sharyhan | |
Producer | Jennifer Drake |
Liam Wölfer |
Screenings:
cine:east
차원의 껍질 (Peel the dimensions)
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An experimental animation that rhythmically intertwines different dimensions and plays with form and color.
Language: Without Dialogue
Director | Jaehyeon Kim |
Screenings:
Dear Daughter
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A woman from Myanmar recounts her abduction into a forced marriage in China and the torn of her forced role as a mother.
Language: Burmese (English Subtitles)
Director | Hsu Pan Naing |
Screenings:
Hablo dėsnis (Hubble’s Law)
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When Feliksas, who is mute, is unable to request the necessary aid after a serious accident at work, doubts arise about his ability to work.
Language: Without Dialogue
Director | Arnas Balciunas |
Screenplay | Arnas Balciunas |
Producer | Morta Verbickaite |
Screenings:
Ostschlager ist tot. Lang lebe der Ostschlager! (East German Schlager is dead. Long live the East German Schlager!)
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Pack the ‘Schlager Süßtafel’ and surf through time with Siegfried ‘Siggi’ Trzoß on East German radio frequences.
Language: German (English Subtitles)
Director | Nik Azad |
Producer | Peter M. Wacker |
Screenings:
When the MIGs fly
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War as absolute proof of masculinity. Two friends talk about a potential military service draft and how they would deal with it.
Language: Romanian (English Subtitles)
Director | Philip Gaicean |
Screenings:
Voices from Israel & Palestine
يوم وفاة أبي (The Day My Father Dies)
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Salah, an acting student in Paris, returns home to Haifa to work on a play eulogizing his still-living father. During his stay, however, Salah slowly comes to realize that his father is not the hero he thought he was.
Language: Arabic, Hebrew (English Subtitles)
Director | Nayef Hammoud |
Screenings:
Hatatzpitanit (Lookout)
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Timmy holds an lookout post in the military. As a diversion, she immerses herself into fantasy. But when violent reality of the border area sets in, her world is shattered.
Language: Hebrew (English Subtitles)
Director | Noa Gusakov |
Screenings:
Oslo
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Ziad, a Palestinian day laborer, is denied entry into Israel for work that day. Not wanting to return home empty handed after promising his daughter meat for dinner, he needs to get creative. A poetic and tragic reflection on the everyday struggle of Palestinian breadwinners.
Language: Arabic (English Subtitles)
Director | Shady Srour |
Screenings:
The Gun
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Shaya (30) is literally attached at the hip to his handgun. As a result of the need to renew his firearms license, Shaya embarks on a journey of clarification regarding his fears and their effects, in the hope of unchaining himself from them.
Language: Hebrew (English Subtitles)
Director | Shaya Chesner |
Screenplay | Shaya Chesner |
Screenings:
people:watching
147 night of Scheherazade
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In a fashion-fairytale full of love, lust and glitter, it’s hard to resist the seduction. Be careful, otherwise you’ll lose yourself in your own reflection.
Language: Without Dialogue
Director | Aiganysh Toichubekova |
Producer | Aiganysh Toichubekova |
Screenings:
Cuide Como Quem Luta (Care Like Those Who Fight)
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Three activists, three squattings: In the midst of increasing homelessness, destitute people in São Paulo are trying to fight for a livelihood.
Language: Portuguese, English (English Subtitles)
Director | Laurenz Garbo |
Screenings:
Durch die Bank (Bench Tales)
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Ten benches, ten stories. In the fast-paced city of Berlin, various people give us an insight into their realities, joys, sorrows and memories.
Language: German, English (English Subtitles)
Director | Amélie Janda |
Noémi Brachvogel | |
Lotta Philipsson | |
Armel Powilleit | |
Ariane Wagner | |
Raphael Schanz | |
Juliane Wend | |
Producer | Noémi Brachvogel |
Amélie Janda |
Screenings:
Haus am Hang (Halfway House)
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In the Black Forest, young offenders are supposed to resocialize through hierarchy and work. When a newcomer arrives at the home, Jurek develops conflicting feelings.
Language: German (English Subtitles)
Director | Konstantin Münzel |
Screenplay | Luis Martinson |
Producer | Bianca Beer |
Helena Zeppenfeldt |
Screenings:
Exhibition
In addition to the festival’s film programme, the exhibition will present media art that uses modern technologies in a creative way and is dedicated to innovative forms of narration. This includes, for example, topics such as XR, artificial intelligence, projection mapping, sensor- or web-based systems.
AVDATA
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A 4-minute experience visualizing and sonifying data with a raw aesthetic, featuring 2D and 3D visuals paired with generative sounds, all driven by specific data sources.
Artist | Gero Mátyás |
Márton Gasparik | |
Péter Leidl | |
Producer | Cristina Pop-Tiron |
Events:
Aba O Aqu
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A radio play: A seeker. A sea monster. A mysterious lighthouse with the answers to life. The journey begins.
Artist | Masoomeh Agahi |
Richard Kretschmar |
Events:
At the Third Circulation
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A media image reporting a plane crash caused fragmented memories. To bring historical sound to the present, the performance improvises with storage devices.
Artist | Joreng-Hyemin Jung |
Jinhyun Kim |
Events:
Bastard
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What is war? Is it inhuman or engraved in human nature? While we struggle to understand what is happening, new memorials rise on the ruins of past violence
Artist | David Kind |
Events:
Beetle Rhapsody
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Between nature and artificial light, beetles explore a new neighborhood – ours, a world of scale.
Artist | Laura Ritzke |
Florian Rudolph | |
Jonas Erler | |
Pascal Kohler |
Events:
Beyond?
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Lack of brain activity in declared dead patients challenges the idea of the brain as the sole source of consciousness. Doctors, scientists and people with NDEs share their insights.
Artist | Yango González |
Lena Radivoj |
Events:
Cromascape
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Cromascape delves into surrealism, inspired by dreamscapes, abstract art, and avant-garde filmmaking; evoking synesthesia, where colors, shapes, and movements intertwine.
Artist | Sanda Janosi Buslig |
Producer | Cristina Pop-Tiron |
Events:
Die Montage der Welt
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“The Montage of the World” deals with the recombination of all the sensory impressions that we constantly absorb and sometimes unconsciously transform into new ideas.
Artist | Cosmo Bandilla |
Events:
EPHYBYTES
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Set against the backdrop of a ‘server room’ aesthetic, it invites visitors into a world where technology and the natural environment resemble a living and self-sustaining system.
Artist | Codrin Podoleanu |
Katja Schreiber | |
Andreea Mircea | |
Marta Pang | |
Lisa Passing | |
Adi Aviram | |
Aliosa Dakic | |
Elena Vasilkova |
Events:
Fractions
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“Fractions” is an audiovisual artwork that invites viewers to question their relationship with water through surreal animation complemented by the musical sound design.
Artist | Nora Beyer |
Anne Fie Salverda |
Events:
HAVANNA NIGHTS
A sneak in the atmospheric work of Havana nights. The work is a research of a political aesthetic reflection to a cinematic view away from narrative storytelling.
Artist | Sarah Franke |
Events:
HYPHAE
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Exploring interconnectivity: image, sound, humanity, nature, digital and analog – the autoreactive visuals depict network communication, enabling a holistic experience of connectivity.
Artist | The Exa Collective: Xrtner, Namas And Depart |
Events:
Hyperobject::01
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hyperobject::01 explores technology as a hyperobject – a vast and complex phenomenon that exceeds our understanding.
Artist | Enrico Dorigatti |
Events:
I Am a Gentle Movement of Air
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…im Gewöhnlichen erkenne ich das Besondere.
Artist | Andreea-Cristina NINANIÑA |
Sory Ibrahim Rara |
Events:
ITEMs
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Created as digital sculpting and drawing inspiration from the encodings of symbols, ITEMs explores the concept of collectibles and their functional purposes in gaming culture.
Artist | Celina Eggers |
Events:
Immagini di un ricordo, Bilder einer Erinnerung
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As the daughter of Italian migrant workers, my mother told me about her childhood experiences in a foreign country. Thanks to an AI, her memories were brought to life.
Artist | Daria Wörmann |
Events:
Kontrol Voltaj: Noise
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Kontrol Voltaj is exploring concepts of abstract storytelling, structured noise and sound’s relationship with reactive visuals: this time emphasizing audiovisual NOISE.
Artist | Andreea-Cristina NINANIÑA |
Events:
Kunst im Wandel
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The co-creation of AI & humans brings a digital dimension, inviting to a dreamlike contemplation during its transformative fusion of classical art and modern technology.
Artist | The Exa Collective: Xrtner, Namas |
Events:
MEANING
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A million billion times too deep to be heard, depending on your point of view…
Artist | Mauricio Brito |
Events:
Mechanical Resonance
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Her childhood training, still visible in her body’s posture, revives old memories. Watching online dance tutorials, she discovers why she once resisted and eventually quit dancing.
Artist | Juejun Chen |
Events:
Modern Bodies
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The face on the frame is a modern body, forced by technology and trapped on the face of the display.
Artist | Katsuki Nogami |
Events:
Mundana V
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“Mundana V” visualizes booming clarinet notes and invites you to a meditative state in which differences in harmonies and sound quality can be perceived.
Events:
Museo Mara Mao
Old TVs and faded plastic toys littered the sandy ground. Pigeons flew between the palm trees. The unknown landscape bore the sign “Museo Mara Mao,” held by an odd character.
Artist | Fionn George |
Events:
Neró
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Above water, we experience familiar sounds, rhythmic breathing and controlled movements. These differences inspire us to discover fascination in the everyday.
Artist | Lina Zacher |
Events:
Quantum Realm
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This installation merges technology and narration to show the vision of the future, where environmental and social issues are resolved, creating a sustainable paradise.
Artist | Constantin Jonas Ruchay |
Events:
Radiant Zoetrope
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This audio-visual interplay of music and shapes taps into the human ability for pattern recognition, transforming the staccato mosaics into a zoetrope of light and geometry.
Artist | Codrin Podoleanu |
Adrian Ludwig |
Events:
Radio Cow
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‘Radio Cow’ is an ongoing, unreleased short film project that explores the connection between human vision and the notion of a talking landscape.
Artist | Frederik Franke |
Anastasiia Belousova |
Events:
Rekonstruktionen
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“Reconstruction home” is an interactive exploration of the memories of people who have lost their homes. Memories were captured in drawings that can now be experienced.
Artist | Antonia Nestler |
Luca Paganelli | |
Andreea Mircea |
Events:
Running out of patience
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Gleaned footage of cities and nature is combined with voices of diverse people talking about contradictions of our time and personal or social challenges that require patience.
Artist | Yango González |
Sophie Rothbarth |
Events:
Sguaz
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It is a meditative artwork created with the aim to symbolize the linkage and creative flow established between the artist and other entities.
Artist | Linda Conforto |
Events:
Spannung
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A person goes from being an individual to being part of the crowd, and ends up being killed for strange ideas.
Artist | Dariya Susak |
Pavel Pakhomov | |
Nina Frolova |
Events:
Speaking nearby: Shaking Skies & Trembling Earth
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speaking nearby: shaking skies and trembling earth stages a post-humanist discussion among five non-human characters along the island of Taiwan.
Artist | Thea Josepha Konatsu |
Events:
Synesthesia
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Synesthesia is a collection of unaware interactors as musical notes in a digital symphony. People on a street, cars passing by – elements that translate our visual material into sound.
Artist | Márton Gasparik |
Péter Leidl | |
Producer | Cristina Pop-Tiron |
Events:
Temporal Displacement
The media art collective „Latenter Raum“ presents a playful combination of feedback systems, algorithmic video generation & modular audio synthesis.
Artist | Latenter Raum |
Events:
Untitled.pr
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The (un)creative process of finding a project leads to (un)productivity.
Artist | Saskia Hundt |
Events:
VOLUMES
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Unique traits of water are visualized using 16 parameters in 3D models, depicting features of lakes, enhanced with hydrophone sounds for an immersive experience.
Artist | Pauline Pyras |
Events:
Visiting Friends
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An eight-channel audio installation about the act of visiting friends, created with field recordings and granular synthesis.
Artist | Frederik Franke |
Events:
What’s your favourite dinosaur?
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During this live performance cryptic characters on a screen are turned into electronic rhythms and infinite video loops through custom programming languages.
Artist | Johannes Hassenstein |
Events:
Youth Within
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In a dim room, a child stands near three closed windows. As he gets closer, the windows fly open, showing off wild, colorful scenes straight out of youth imagination…
Artist | Laura Seucan |
Ciprian Nechita | |
Producer | Cristina Pop-Tiron |
Events:
in meiner haut ohne schwerkraft
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Bodies on an alien planet. Who is looking at whom? They have no face. The skin stretches over the objects, glistening here and there. Do you remember what you see?
Artist | Natalie Kinscher |
Events:
Showcase
Every year we offer films from the Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF as well as from an international partner university of the Filmuniversität the opportunity to present their most exciting or successful films in a showcase. The programme will be presented out of competition.
Institut Supérieur de l’Image et du Son / Studio-École
Apparences (Appearances)
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Kayala discovers that her husband is involved in acts of terrorism. Denounce your own husband or keep quiet for your family? About family ties, national imperatives and morality.
Language: French (English Subtitles)
Director | Batien NIGNAN |
Producer | Frédéric Kabore |
Screenings:
Le Serment de Boukary (The Oath of Boukary)
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End of the 19th century: Minata and Boukary want to get married after the harvest season. But when white men approach the village, he has to go into battle and she fears for him.
Language: French (English Subtitles)
Director | Sagou BANOU |
Producer | Frederic Kabore |
Screenings:
Rogm-Sebre (Birth certificate)
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Illiterate Alima gives birth to her daughter in the IDP camp. When she learns about the relevance of birth certificates, the collective search for identity begins.
Language: French (English Subtitles)
Director | Arlette Jessica VALIA |
Producer | Frédéric Kabore |
Screenings:
Souk
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Life in the camp for internally displaced people between tent accommodation and shared resources. In the middle of it is Binta, who wishes she could see her father again.
Language: French (English Subtitles)
Director | Wendkoagnda Gaston BONKOUNGOU |
Producer | Frédéric Kabore |
Screenings:
Triomphe (Triumph)
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Lamissa faces impending arranged marriage proposals. Despite her brilliance at school, her father announces potential suitors. The women join forces to confront the elders.
Language: French (English Subtitles)
Director | Aziz SOMTORE |
Screenings:
Where’s the daylight
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Between the shadows of society and fleeting reflections of himself, Zak is trapped in his house. He wanders around in search of hope to discover his inner light.
Language: Without Dialogue
Director | Wendkoagnda Gaston BONKOUNGOU |
Screenings:
Filmuniversität Babelsberg
Antarai
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The little creature in the cocoon knows almost nothing about the world yet, but already dreams of it. The first melody escapes from it in the dream, even before rain and light wake it up. The lightness of the still untouched voice invites to focus on the positive in one’s own memory, to pause thereby.
Language: German (English Subtitles)
Director | Angelina Urbanczyk |
Anna Makarova |
Screenings:
Bissfest (Firm bite)
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In a Berlin star restaurant, we accompany the young cook Nora for an evening. Between slices of cucumber, fish and countless receipts, the interplay of concentration and tension takes its course.
Language: German (English Subtitles)
Director | Yannick Rietsch |
Screenings:
Du kannst jetzt Alles Loslassen (You Can Let Go of Everything Now)
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Andrea discovers that her daughter is watching porn and fears that she is possessed by evil forces. But is that truly the core issue inside of their relationship?
Language: German (English Subtitles)
Director | Natalie Katharina Fischer |
Screenplay | Natalie Katharina Fischer |
Yves Guillaume |
Screenings:
Ein Bett für Drei oder Die Außergewöhnliche und Überraschende Komplexität von Schlafzimmermöbeln (A Bed for Three or The Extraordinary and Surprising Complexity of Bedroom Furniture)
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Fred, Timo and Jona finally want to move in together. And to live together, you need a bed. But no one expected what happens when three people want to sleep in one. A queer comedy about bedroom furniture and the question of when we actually became bougie.
Language: German (English Subtitles)
Director | Jan-Peter Horstmann |
Screenplay | Jan-Peter Horstmann |
Mano Kapazoglou |
Screenings:
Freie Nächte (Free Nights)
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David and his brother have drifted apart and their relationship is full of conflict. A late-night car journey takes them on a rollercoaster of emotions. Can they reconnect before the night is over?
Language: German (English Subtitles)
Director | Oliver Adam Kusio |
Screenplay | Saskia Benter Ortega |
Screenings:
Nicht Du (Not You)
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I recently saw someone that looked like you. I realized quickly that he was not you – but he moved like you. Ran his hands through his hair like you. And had the same backpack in the same shabby state. So I decided to follow your not-you for a while.
Language: German (English Subtitles)
Director | Emilia Zieser |
Lara Torp | |
Screenplay | Lara Torp |
Screenings:
Verrücktes Blut (Crazy Blood)
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Berlin-Kreuzberg. Kenan’s big day has arrived: The nine-year-old is to be circumcised, following the millennia-old Muslim tradition. But before that, there is a party! Kenan and his father Ibrahim are confronted with archaic traditions and the question: What does it actually mean to be a man?
Language: Turkish, German (English Subtitles)
Director | Can Tanyol |
Screenplay | Bahar Bektas |
Can Tanyol |
Screenings:
Event Programme
In addition to the films, the event programme provides a range of networking opportunities and makes sure that your Sehsüchte experience will be unforgettable. Live music, parties, interesting workshops, masterclasses and panels as well as a festive opening and award ceremony ensure a unique time during the festival. The event programme can be found in the programme overview.