The Festival

From 22 to 26 April 2026, the 55th edition of the Sehsüchte International Student Film Festival, one of Europe’s largest festivals for young filmmakers will take place in Potsdam.

What’s Left?

Motto

In the 55th edition of Sehsüchte, we want to direct our view into the past, present, and future under the motto What’s left?. What’s left? wants to know what remains — of our ideals, our home, our hopes and fears, and of a world we want to believe in. With What’s left?, we want to challenge the pessimism implied by the question: We want to recognize the potential for change, and develop future perspectives not in spite of, but because of the challenges of the present.What’s left? means taking responsibility, allowing ourselves to say goodbye, and finding the courage for new opportunities and collective visions —to achieve constructiveness beyond resignation.

What’s left? What’s left to hope for? What’s left to do?

Artistic and cinematic explorations, workshops, and discussion formats want to invite filmmakers and audiences alike to face the complexity of this world. Between upheaval and awakening, tradition and rebellion, grief and hope: in its 55th edition, Sehsüchte wants to create spaces in which filmmakers and audiences can encounter political and personal crises in order to find out what does remain.