Current Line-up

Maria Mayland

Germany // 2025 // 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Anne-Christin Plate

Germany // 2016 // 11:05 min

Animation, Documentary // Portrait

Without sex, none of us would be here. So why is it so difficult to talk about sex? And what do people with disabilities have to say about it? Sexability attempts to answer these questions, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

Emine Demir

Germany // 2024 // 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 [...]

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 [...]

Tom Reimer, Lennart Langanki

Germany // // 07:30 min

Animation // 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 [...]