Current Line-up

Monira Kamal

Germany // 2026 // 04:40 min

Animation

Traudl, an elderly lady, lives in her lovingly furnished apartment. When she finds an injured blackbird in her garden, she doesn't hesitate to take the bird in and nurse it back to health. As [...]

Gregor Bartsch

Germany // 2026 // 30:00 min

Documentary

Easter Monday in Potsdam, Germany: A former socialist computer centre stands in the way of the replica of a baroque Prussian military church. The dissimilar buildings claim the same building [...]

Arne Bunk, Tanja Bächlein

Germany // 2026 // 30:00 min

Documentary

The Memory of the Archive explores the German Literature Archive in Marbach as a space for reflection between the past and the future. Based on its architecture – glass, steel, concrete, [...]

Bárbara Wagner, Benjamin de Burca

Germany // 2026 // 20:00 min

Documentary

Future of Yesterday (2026) invites viewers into the rehearsal rooms, skate parks, and venues of the Rhine-Main region. Marking fifty years of punk history, the film traces a sonic [...]

Pavel Mozhar

Germany // 2026 // 14:16 min

Documentary

An abandoned former GDR production facility. Dust-covered job applications from 2004 to 2008 are piled up in the basement of an administrative building. Alongside the standard phrases of a [...]

Nazgol Kashani

Germany // 2026 // 14:00 min

Animation, Documentary // Drama

A lively family gathering for full-body hair removal is stormed by Islamic revolutionary guards. They are looking for video tapes of banned Hollywood movies.

Sasha Svirksy

Germany // 2026 // 11:57 min

Animation // Art Film

However permanent and stable any order may seem, it may eventually crumble when reality outside of the system creeps in, growing like organic matter through the boundaries that the order has [...]

Anne-Christin Plate

Germany // 2026 // 11:05 min

Animation, Documentary // Portrait

Disabled people who desire, who are enlightened, who feel comfortable in their own skin, who experiment, who have sex—hard to imagine?  Sexability shows the perception of sensuality and lust [...]

Tom Reimer, Lennart Langanki

Germany // 2026 // 07:30 min

Animation // Drama, Music Movie

Zau loves music and nature. However, he encounters a world in which his values are worthless and allows himself to be drawn into it. Will Zau be broken by it? Based on Goethe's [...]

Petra Stipetić, Karolin Twiddy

Germany // 2026 // 06:37 min

Animation // Coming of Age, Drama

In 'Strangers With Hats,' Noe, a fungal spore, embarks on a magical journey of self-discovery, guided by mushrooms that serve as helpers. As Noe overcomes their self-doubt, they not only [...]

Viv Li

Germany, Belgium, China // 2025 // 15:00 min

Live Action // Drama

In a dystopian future where borders between countries are indefinitely closed, a replica of Hannover becomes the only way to experience Western culture. Citizen Yu roams through this nostalgic [...]

Maria Mayland

Germany // 2026 // 26:35 min

Documentary // Poetry

The gaze of the mundane, where does it direct our eye? To where it's colorful. To where the light breaks its way into the home. Towards the sky beyond the window. Towards the plants and the [...]

Antje Heyn

Germany // 2025 // 04:44 min

Animation // Fantasy, Poetry

An oversized, cheeky rat has moved in with our protagonist. She whistles along with the radio, sits in the fridge, splashes in the tub, and is simply everywhere – loud, pesky, full of life. [...]

Marta Popivoda

Germany, France, Serbia // 2025 // 20:00 min

Documentary // Performance

In SLET 1988, dancer Sonja Vukićević (73) moves through the utopian architecture of socialist modernism—her aging body is an archive of the last mass performance in Yugoslavia. Her gestures [...]

Jörn Staeger

Germany // 2025 // 08:22 min

Art Film, Poetry

This project attempts a poetic approach to the everyday and at the same time magical phenomenon of the sun. The short duration of the film coincides with the eternally recurring presence of [...]

Aida Alimadadi

Germany // 2024 // 24:00 min

Drama

Haunted by his wife’s forced disappearance in Syria, Bassam struggles to build a new life for himself and their daughter in Germany. Lena’s ghostly presence lingers, weaving through his dreams [...]

Franziska Schönenberger

Germany // 2025 // 13:00 min

Portrait

Maya feels at home with her family, but her appearance constantly raises questions. Strangers ask why her skin is brown while her family's is white. When a supermarket employee fails to [...]

Emine Demir

Germany // 2025 // 22:45 min

Live Action // Coming of Age

On a hot summer's day in Berlin-Neukölln, Şirin drives her red Citroen AX to her childhood friend Banu to pick up her aunt Bihar. Queer women play basketball, sit in front of a convenience [...]

Hannes Lang

Germany // 2025 // 31:22 min

Documentary

“The Cloud Factory” is an cinematic exploration of the sky above the Rhenish coal mining region, where emission-enriched air masses ascend into the atmosphere to transform the climate. What [...]

Dani Gal

Germany // 2023 // 26:00 min

Live Action // Drama, Installation

Dani Gal’s new short film deals with the racial phobias resulting from the colonial imaginary and their transmission through music. His film reenacts a case study from Martinican psychiatrist [...]

Rebecca Blöcher

Germany // 2024 // 24:00 min

Animation, Documentary // Drama, Portrait

My mother led a very unorthodox life, living in palaces and under bridges. Her independence was most important for her, which in the end became her undoing. She decided to live in her tiny car [...]

Pavel Mozhar

Germany // 2024 // 30:00 min

Documentary

Using the streets of his Berlin neighborhood as a backdrop, a filmmaker born in Belarus investigates the systematic nature of Russian and Belarusian war crimes in Ukraine and explores his own [...]

Irem Schwarz

Germany // 2024 // 18:30 min

Documentary, Experimental Film

The universe, the supermarket. Signs in the sky, culture in delusion. The roles are clear, but the play doesn’t work. This is not my voice speaking. These are not my images.  My baby grows in [...]

Susanne Komorek, Robert Schulzmann

Germany // 2024 // 05:30 min

Documentary, Experimental Film // Performance, Dance Film

Refugees and displaced persons from almost all over the world find refuge in Berlin. Their stories are often told – in public discourse too often about them and seldom by themselves. We are [...]

Annika Birgel

Germany // 2024 // 15:20 min

Live Action // Coming of Age, Drama

On a remote German island, the inhabitants of a village come together to celebrate a traditional eve-of-wedding party. As the shards of the crockery smashed by the guests pile up, ten-year-old [...]

Bernhard Strobel

Germany // 2024 // 19:55 min

Live Action // Coming of Age, Drama

Torn between the desire to protect his little brother in a violent world and the longing for the utopia of a queer community, HECTOR (23) embarks on a journey between reality and fantasy to [...]

Veronica Solomon

Germany // 2024 // 04:32 min

Animation, Children Film // Comedy, Poetry

For little children the world is full of mystery and unknown and they need the help of a wise companion to navigate the challenges of every-day life. Or maybe it’s their awe and wonder at [...]