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INTERFILM Festival
5/11/24 - 10/11/24
5/11/24 - 10/11/24
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Jen Kounen // France // 2018 // 30:00 min
Documentary
Powerful images of the lonely polar world of Greenland mix with crunching layers of ice and compositions of the musician Molécule.
Imge Özbilge / Sine Özbilge // Belgium // 2019 // 09:50 min
Animation, Experimental
What do you get when you mix memes, social media and 90s aesthetics with a pinch of sex? This colourful trip through the wild world of online dating. Hello World!
Boris Seewald // Germany // 2017 // 03:22 min
Experimental
The clatter of a Trabbi rounding the “Goldelse”, the “beep-beep-beep” of the S-Bahn train door or the crackling of currywurst frying up in Kreuzberg – Berlin’s noises and sounds are inimitably unique! Really?
Moïse Togo // France // 2020 // 14:12 min
Documentary, Experimental
Albinism is a genetic anomaly which affects the pigmentation of the skin. On the African continent, these individuals are often victims of discrimination, mutilation and ritualised assaults.
Daniel Nocke // Germany // 2010 // 03:30 min
Animation
For twelve years, she has ignored hostility and mockery and stood up for her relationship. And then he just up and leaves. How beastly!
Jörg Courtial // Germany // 2020 // 11:00 min
Documentary
Thanks to archival images from the Apollo 17 mission, viewers can experience the final moon landing from a previously unseen perspective.
Nuno Rocha // Portugal // 2009 // 06:00 min
Live Action
A night watchman plays basketball all night, perfecting his game. While the young cleaner on night duty is unable to keep up with him, he doesn't give up that easily.
Hélène Baillot / Raphaël Botiveau // France // 2021 // 18:00 min
Documentary
Affordable snow boots circulate between France and Italy, sometimes on the feet of those trying to secretly cross the border, sometimes in the hands of those who wish to show their solidarity with the border-crossers. Their path leads through a mountainous region, where the protagonists meet and expose one another to the hardships of winter.
Nicolas Deveaux // France // 2013 // 05:30 min
Animation, Live Action
Who said giraffes couldn't master high diving?And gracefully, too!
Nicolas Deveaux // France // 2008 // 02:28 min
Animation
Acrobatic arts of an elephant on a trampoline.
Júlia Halász / Anna Rubi // Hungary // 2017 // 13:00 min
Live Action
When an empire collapses, the oppression disappears, but also the security of the previously existing structures. Everything is unstable, and, at the same time, anything becomes possible.
Etgar Keret // Poland // 2021 // 06:22 min
Animation
In a long-term relationship, sometimes you get the feeling that you are no longer an individual, but instead part of a superorganism. It is difficult to distinguish between your own decisions and those of your partner.
Job Roggeveen / Joris Oprins / Marieke Blaauw // Netherlands // 2018 // 02:43 min
Animation
A deliciously dark comedy about a husband and wife whose different ideas of gender conformity lead to an unexpected confrontation.
Péter Lichter / Bori Máté // Hungary // 2019 // 08:00 min
Experimental
How is horror generated in cinema? Old footage is fragmented and played back in an abstract and creative way, creating an inexorable pull towards unfathomable abysses.
Petra Szőcs // Hungary // 2014 // 14:00 min
Live Action
Three kids re-enact the trial and execution of Nicolae Ceaușescu. When one child tells another that the she doesn't have a mother, her world comes crashing down.
Noémi Varga // Hungary // 2017 // 15:00 min
Documentary, Experimental
An experimental documentary and chronicle about the life of a grandmother in communist Hungary, which serves as a reminder of times past and how socialism colonized the soul of an entire generation.
Nadja Andrasev // Hungary // 2017 // 09:00 min
Animation
Two women in a housing complex. One devotes herself to the plants in her apartment, and to herself. The other is devoted to her beloved kitties. Both are caught up in life's entanglements.
Marc Héricher // France // 2021 // 10:00 min
Animation
An unhoused man stands in the middle of a market square, before collapsing of physical exhaustion. Journalists take a sudden interest in the man, leading to a grotesque and absurd media frenzy.
Joanna Quinn // Canada, England // 2021 // 16:25 min
Animation
Beryl is annoyed and depressed. For years, the worker has been recording the everyday obsessions of her eccentric family in drawings. But what about her own desires and talents? There must be a way to find an idea for the future, by examining the past.
Andres Aguilar / Luis Uson // Spain, Peru, Ecuador // 2017 // 06:15 min
Animation
Groompy flees into a colourfully animated dream world. His own world is clearly more grumpy, but he is less and less able to distinguish between the two.
Suzannah Mirghani // Qatar, Sudan // 2020 // 20:00 min
Live Action
In a Sudanese cotton village, 15-year-old Nafisa has a crush on Babiker. Alas, her parents have arranged for her to marry Nadir, a young Sudanese businessman who lives abroad. Nafisa's grandmother Al-Sit, the town's powerful matriarch, has her own plans for Nafisa's future. But can Nafisa decide for herself?
Jimmy Olsson // Sweden // 2020 // 23:27 min
Live Action
Victoria sits in a wheelchair, while Ida works as her assistant. Like Ida, she would like to feel closeness and love. The two decide to create a Tinder profile for her, for Victoria would finally like to feel alive.
Béla Baptiste // Austria // 2021 // 10:00 min
Live Action
In our world, we take drugs to find relief and peace beyond the hectic pace and chaos of modern life. In "Angst", it's exactly the opposite.
Tue Sanggaard // Denmark // 2019 // 06:10 min
Animation
Everyday train rides can sometimes prove stressful, bringing beastly animal instincts to the surface.
Benő Baranyi // Hungary // 2020 // 19:07 min
Live Action
In a rural hospital in Hungary, medical student Levente discovers the case of a woman from a Sinti-Roma community who has apparently been sterilised by the head doctor without her consent.
Fatimah Tobing Rony // Indonesia // 2020 // 05:59 min
Animation
The story of a 13-year-old girl who loses her family, home and native language. In 1893, she comes to Paris to work as a servant and model for French painter Paul Gauguin.
Marek Náprstek // Czech Republic // 2020 // 12:35 min
Animation
An animation about life and death in an ant hill. An adolescent ant worker wants more from her life than she is given by fate.
Rong Xiaoting // China // 2020 // 02:00 min
Animation
External pressure leads to an unavoidable maelstrom of fear that takes great effort to defuse. We can find balance in our hearts by reflecting on ourselves and our standpoint in the universe. SCAU University Guangzhou - Guangzhou
Dorka Vermes // Hungary // 2018 // 14:57 min
Live Action
Juli and Réka have resolved to take their relationship to the next level. They've invited Juli's mother to dinner, to share the news with her. Alas, that won't be easy, as Mari has always been critical of her daughter.
Alexander Gratzer // Austria // 2019 // 06:50 min
Animation
Philosophical dialogues between humans and animals on the important things in life: freedom, existence, applesauce.
Jonna Kina // Finland, France // 2017 // 05:17 min
Experimental
Where do the background sounds in films come from? We give you a look behind the scenes.
Mauro Carraro // Switzerland // 2015 // 05:30 min
Animation, Live Action
The figure of a cellist rises slowly from the water, conjuring the sunrise with a melody. An all-encompassing choreography begins, at its end, a new day.
Stephane Kaas // Netherlands // 2010 // 04:00 min
Live Action
An everyday audio guide suddenly develops a life of its own.
Julia Taudevin / Niamh McKeown // Scotland // 2020 // 06:23 min
Live Action
Auntie Empire tells stories from the era of British colonialism. Alas, unfortunately the grand lady is gradually bleeding out in the process. Apparently, the good old days really are gone forever.
Rupert Höller / Bernhard Wenger // Austria // 2015 // 06:00 min
Live Action
Look away or intervene? When a black man is victim of unfounded, racial abuse in a packed bus, there is only one passenger who won’t ignore the situation like everyone else.
Maria Åkesson // Sweden // 2021 // 04:45 min
Animation
Agnes and Ellen fall in love and spend the next 50 years together. One day, Ellen suddenly dies, and the relationship comes to an end. Now, Agnes makes a resolution.
Weijia Zhou // China // 2020 // 14:47 min
Live Action
A girl, Xi An, admires her neighbour Xiao Mi. When the two get to know one another, the former realises that the latter is stuck in an unhappy marriage. Now Xi An tries to find a way out for her new friend. Nanjing University of the Arts - Nanjing
Jan Kounen // Luxembourg, France // 2019 // 18:00 min
Animation
For over 1000 years, ayahuasca has been used as a ceremonial drug in the Amazon region. A trip into the spiritual depths of a shamanistic ritual.
Rikke Alma Krogshave Planeta // Denmark // 2018 // 05:00 min
Animation
Alex, a young woman bored with modern life, is lured by Bacchus into a colorful and mysterious world to explore her deepest desires.
David Dell' Edera // Hungary // 2016 // 06:18 min
Animation
On a hot summer day someone in the neighborhood begins screaming. No one knows why exactly, but everyone else joins in.
Zamarin Wahdat // Germany, United States // 2020 // 13:29 min
Live Action
Faruk juggles his obligations as a single dad, by looking after his daughter while working in his first job in a new country. A confrontation with hidden racism puts the relationship between father and daughter to the test.
Caroline Schwarz // Germany // 2021 // 04:30 min
Live Action
A banana island inhabitant notices that people are approaching his living space with a boat. Panicked at the thought of dealing with strangers, he begins to eat his banana island.
Gottfried Mentor // Germany // 2020 // 04:45 min
Animation, Experimental
A city is driven mad. Stuttgart defends itself against traffic chaos with tough, unconventional measures. Other cities could follow its lead.
Erik Warolin // Sweden // 2018 // 08:00 min
Live Action
When Jonna is told by her boss to be more friendly to the diner’s customers, a polite conversation with the only guest quickly escalates.
Gil Alkabetz // Germany, Israel // 2020 // 04:18 min
Animation, Music Video
It's harder to believe that things will be alright and much easier to believe they'll be bad: a song in 3/4 time which uses animation to express a feeling of worry and uncertainty about the future.
Hugo Martin // France // 2021 // 10:50 min
Documentary, Experimental
For 200 years, paper was manufactured in Bessé-sur-Braye. 600 employees lost their jobs here when the factory closed in 2019, leaving them abandoned residents of an abandoned town.
Hugo Covarrubias // Chile // 2021 // 15:54 min
Animation
It's 1975, and Ingrid works for the Chilean intelligence service. Her relationship to her dog, her body, her fears and frustrations reveal a sinister rupture in her mind, and the breakdown of an entire nation.
Pauline Flory // Germany // 2016 // 05:56 min
Animation
The woman in this animated short knows better than most that the best place of all is at the bar. Cheers!
Salomé Martinez // Belgium // 2018 // 03:16 min
Animation, Live Action
A woman is assaulted by a group of men. She gets revenge – with the aid of her grandmother, continuing an established family tradition.
Ashgan El-Hamus // Netherlands // 2020 // 15:32 min
Live Action
A young mother Joy and her 8-year-old daughter Skye live in a trailer park on the outskirts of the city. Joy’s easy-going parenting style will be tested when Skye tries to be just as mature as her mother.
Shao Qing // China // 2020 // 12:37 min
Experimental
A heist of a different sort, told from the perspective of the loot: a mysterious black bag.
Theresa Weidmann // Germany // 2020 // 16:27 min
Live Action
A journey through the night. Trapped in her world, a girl is at risk of being swallowed by the darkness. Between ecstasy, leave-taking and the fear of loneliness, she searches for acceptance and the world's last bit of light.
Lisa Blädtke // Germany // 2021 // 04:15 min
Experimental, Music Video
The taboo regarding menstruation is examined in an ironic, sarcastic manner, as the female filmmaker plays with cartoonish props, while questioning established advertising aesthetics.
Patrick Gauthier // Canada // 2019 // 06:00 min
Live Action
Ginette stands behind the tasting counter of a small grocery store. Woe unto anyone who refuses her delicious little samples.
Ákos K. Kovács // Hungary // 2021 // 20:00 min
Live Action
Yugoslavia, 1991. Far away from the war zones, Branka gets a job in the maternity ward of a state-run hospital. She notices that something is not right: the new-borns are disappearing from the clinic.
// Myanmar // 2021 // 05:00 min
Documentary
Collective work by 11 filmmakers and 49 illustrators from Myanmar and 3 further filmmakers from Finland and Germany. The film took shape during the mass demonstrations in Myanmar in the first month following the military coup.
Thu Kyaw Kaung Myat // Myanmar // 2020 // 11:00 min
Live Action
Two sons of a Karen woman who was raped reunite with their father, a former Air Force officer.
Elena Felici // Denmark // 2021 // 05:50 min
Animation
During a bus ride, a man harasses a young woman in the back row of seats. Although this is plain for all to see, none of the other passengers intervenes.
Liu Xinping // China // 0 // 04:13 min
Animation
Grandmother loves to tell the story of the people who are reborn as butterflies after their deaths. Until she herself dies and her granddaughter hopes to see a butterfly. Shanghai Normal University - Shanghai
Jamille van Wijngaarden // Netherlands // 2017 // 02:15 min
Animation
When a little bird suddenly drops dead in it’s cage, all eyes are on the cat.
Lars Damoiseaux / Frederik Palmaers // Netherlands // 2012 // 02:11 min
Animation
A praying mantis is eaten by a frog. The frog is eaten by a stork that is in turn eaten by a crocodile. The crocodile ends as a pair of boots and the wearer of the boots is killed in an accident when he takes a motor ride and a praying mantis flies in his face. A small story with a lot of fatal endings.
Gabrielle Stemmer // France // 2019 // 21:23 min
Documentary
On YouTube, one can find hundreds of videos in which women clean and tidy their homes. What initially appears amusing and satirical, gradually reveals itself to be a deep hole of loneliness, compensation and the attempt to create stability, at least on film, for one's self and other like minds.
Hugo Arcier // France // 2020 // 09:04 min
Animation, Experimental
Using motion-capture technology, Hugo Arcier sheds the solid bodies of three dancers performing on stage at Palais Garnier, in order to make only the intertwined movements of the atoms visible. The result is a hypnotising dance in the futuristic backstage space of the Paris Opera.
Jorge Yudice // Spain // 2018 // 04:48 min
Live Action
A mother follows her son's livestream on YouTube. He answers personal questions from his followers.
Xiaowen Wang // China, United States // 2021 // 14:43 min
Live Action, Non-Narrative
Xiaozao was supposed to move in with her grandparents to get some peace and quiet. But old wounds resurface and her new acquaintance with a classmate adds to the emotional turmoil.
Julien Goudichaux // France // 2020 // 24:00 min
Documentary
March 2020, a global pandemic hits humanity. In an empty and silent Paris, there remain urban ghosts, Sarah, Nelson and Katia, who have no other choice but to be locked out. These people forgotten by the health crisis ask: how to continue to survive in a world at a standstill?
Nick Simpson // Australia // 2021 // 02:56 min
Animation
If clubbers are a congregation, this is their anthem. An ode to the communal act of letting-go.
Noah Erni // Switzerland // 2020 // 04:48 min
Animation
A farmer leads an idyllic life in the Swiss Alps, until one of his goats gives birth to a goatling that doesn't look like it is supposed to. But it is ideal for creating a new product.
Coraline Zorea // Israel // 2020 // 16:30 min
Experimental, Live Action
Dvora is a 17-year-old girl who refuses to step back from her job raising fish in a kibbutz, although she promised that she would return to school. Her last day at work intensifies her fear of life beyond the water.
Hessam Hamidi // Iran // 2020 // 15:00 min
Live Action
A day in Teheran. In the bustle of the market, a boy stays afloat by making money with chickens in a creative way.
Lucía Forner Segarra // Spain // 2020 // 18:44 min
Live Action
After Diana is attacked one night, she believes that something has to change and resolves to fight for her rights. From now on she calls herself Dana, which means something like "she that administers justice". Her trauma enables her to defend herself against her rapists.
Marcel Barelli // Switzerland // 2021 // 05:00 min
Animation
A colourful and amusing report on how common same-sex relationships are in the animal world. Some animals can even change their gender at will and as often as they like - how cool is that?!
Otto Banovits // Sweden, Hungary // 2018 // 06:00 min
Experimental, Live Action
This film shows a dramatic incident on the Austrian-Hungarian border using the camera obscura principle.
Leia Peron / Antoine Perrier-Cornet / Romain Euvrard / Maxime Recuyer / David Bruyere / Robin Andre-Bourguignon // France // 2020 // 05:41 min
Animation
Esis finds a lifeless robot in an alley one day. She repairs it and tests its abilities, but will her experiment turn out well?
Zhong Yuanxin // China // 2021 // 02:00 min
Animation
Useless things aren't useless because they are really useless. Seen from another angle, we can rediscover their value. SCAU University Guangzhou - Guangzhou
Henrik Johansson // Sweden // 2021 // 06:55 min
Live Action
Police officer Mikaela and her colleague Robert are giving a presentation about their profession in front of a school class. Robert demonstrates his authority by illustrating an assault. Alas, he takes things too far.
Jonas Riemer // Austria, Germany // 2020 // 09:31 min
Animation, Documentary, Experimental
A man escapes East Germany for the West in a folding boat via the Baltic. However, his newly gained freedom quickly turns into a lack of orientation, until he finds support and a new home in a nascent nationalist movement.
Anne Isensee // Germany // 2020 // 04:37 min
Animation
While tidying up, a character finds a poem by Bertolt Brecht and now has to act in accordance with the text. But how, when the mechanisms of repression are so powerful?
Malte Stein // Germany // 2021 // 04:32 min
Animation
Pursued by a little creature, a man is driven to the edge of insanity.
Ethosheia Hylton // England // 2020 // 15:00 min
Live Action
While preparing for a job interview in the banking world, Dọlápọ̀ is told by her mentor to hide her afro under a wig and adopt a supposedly simpler-sounding name.
Johnny Burns / Pier van Tijn // England, Scotland // 2021 // 12:45 min
Live Action
When Don is struck by lightning not one but several times, he begins to worry that his calm, ordered life might never be the same again. It's hard to say what's more unpleasant: the repeated lightning strikes or the concerned attention of the other inhabitants in his town.
Nader Farahwaschy // Germany, Iran // 2021 // 13:40 min
Live Action
The story of two estranged brothers who are both struggling with significant issues in their lives. They set off on a journey through the deserted landscape of Eastern Iran, where they must decide whether or not to help a refugee cross the Irani-Afghan border.
Simon Steinhorst / Hannah Stragholz // Germany // 2020 // 16:00 min
Animation
A huge cruise ship drifts through a dissolving world. At first, the passengers seem impassive, but, as the end approaches, panic starts to break out.
Clara Zoe von Arnim // Germany // 2020 // 13:47 min
Live Action
Three Vietnamese-German teenagers are hunting for a motorcycle-driving "ghostrider", who speeds down Berlin's autobahn at night. They drift around on their mission, as the trip takes unexpected turns.
Gábor Ulrich // Hungary // 2020 // 03:30 min
Animation, Experimental
Sounds blur into memories and dreams. It is unclear whether or not they are real. Fluctuating mental images and the emergence of pulsing dark emotions hint at a horrible secret.
Barbara Rupik // Poland // 2019 // 09:00 min
Animation
A human-like being seeks his life in the world and embarks on a journey through a postmortem land.
Betina Kuntzsch // Germany // 2021 // 06:00 min
Documentary
1,344 apartments were built in Thälmannpark from1983-86. In July 1984, the first tenants moved in.
Héctor Herce // Spain // 2021 // 15:00 min
Live Action
Alex and Felix spend the whole hot summer dreaming of fast cars and awaiting the return of Marga, the love of their lives.
Pablo Hernando // Spain // 2020 // 15:53 min
Live Action
A collection of stories about people experiencing fleeting visions of the future after an unexplainable cosmic occurrence.
Tom Kouris / Hani Dombe // France, Israel // 2020 // 15:00 min
Animation
Elina has emigrated from Russia and has found a cool community of new friends in Israel. All is well until the day she suddenly develops her grandmother's mysterious gift.
Jeremy Oury // France // 0 // 05:30 min
Animation
In contrast to the eerie atmosphere of the opening film IMMERSIVE, this hypnotic journey offers an energetic flight of exploration through a colourful, retro-futurist universe.
Alexander Gratzer // Austria // 2016 // 05:21 min
Animation
Waiter? Hello, waiter? Where’s the waiter? A customer sits in a café and waits, but no one comes.
Jack Goessens // Scotland // 2021 // 10:55 min
Documentary, Experimental
Jack tells the story of his gender reassignment and how it changed his perception of the world. The effects on his social surroundings are most remarkable, depending on which gender identity is seen or presumed.
Charlotte Pouyaud // France // 2021 // 04:35 min
Experimental, Live Action
The story of two bandits who have committed horse theft and wander amidst abandoned plains and dusky forests, until their own crime catches up with them.
Jan Soldat // Austria, Germany // 2021 // 19:22 min
Documentary
Felix regularly injects mephedrone and a little G. He speaks about his experiences with drugs, sex and love, while the filmmaker looks on.
Nüll García // Spain // 2020 // 14:00 min
Live Action
A renowned male photographer explores the vulnerability of women for an exhibition series. His female model however, finds emancipation.
Alexander Rönnberg // Sweden // 2016 // 03:30 min
Live Action
An evening alone at home, junk food and a selfie. Oops! This picture shows a bit more than intended...
Eshed, Tomer // Germany // 2011 // 06:00 min
Animation
The story of the world's only heterosexual Flamingo and his desperate search for love.
Josefin Malmén / David Strindberg // Sweden // 2020 // 04:20 min
Experimental, Live Action
Are we ever good enough for ourselves? A surreal comedy that slips into the skin of a bodybuilder with an ambivalent self-image and explores the fine line between self-love and self-hate.
Joana Vogdt // Germany // 2020 // 17:00 min
Live Action
The border between East and West Germany runs right through Schaalsee lake. The attempt to solidify the dividing line shows just how fluid it is.
Betina Kuntzsch // Germany // 2021 // 04:53 min
Documentary
Growing up and everyday life in Prenzlauer Berg 1965-1989.
Louis Morton // Denmark, United States // 2018 // 04:00 min
Animation, Live Action
On a remote island in the future, people are training for an important mission. Take a look at the mechanics of this training facility and the creatures within.
Béla Baptiste // Austria // 2018 // 06:18 min
Live Action
Multiple interwoven plots play out simultaneously. Would you rather watch an emerging artist’s exhibition opening, or perhaps the thieves that are breaking into her place in the same moment?
Farhad Pakdel // Canada // 2019 // 11:05 min
Live Action
An intelligent city pursues and analyses a woman. The system interprets and records what she does. But can it really create a representative picture of her in this manner?
Luna Jordan / Frida Lindenau // Germany // 2020 // 03:30 min
Live Action
Authentic and experimental, "Furor" explores the subject of rage and questions societal assumptions about what it means to be a woman.
Florian Babikian / Vincent Bayoux / Victor Caire / Théophile Dufresne / Gabriel Grapperon / Lucas Navarro // France // 2016 // 06:50 min
Animation
A group of frogs spreads out over an abandoned site with plenty of leftover food from a recent garden party. And there’s even music.
Betina Kuntzsch // Germany // 2021 // 06:51 min
Documentary
On 28th July 1984, the three gasometers were demolished – despite citizens’ protests and concepts for the industrial monuments’ future use.
Shengbang Chen / Lijuan Ye // China // 2021 // 03:30 min
Animation
Times have changed and a caricaturist's work no longer gets the same recognition. When he tries to change his style, he is pursued by a rabbit killer – the protagonist of his own comic. China Academy of Arts Hangzhou - Hangzhou
Joe Cappa // United States // 2020 // 10:45 min
Animation
A midnight film featuring a series of hallucinatory and surreal images.
Joost Lieuwma / Daan Velsink // Netherlands // 2016 // 02:50 min
Live Action
In a typical fifties diner a gangly teenager tries to rock'n'roll with the prettiest girl on the dancefloor, but is opposed by an importunate cool dude and a stammering jukebox.
György Mór Kárpáti // Hungary // 2016 // 09:00 min
Live Action
On the way back from a university trip, everyone is in a festive mood, except for one young woman. She is a victim of sexualised violence, and a trip organiser is trying to convince her not to go public with her experience.
Molly Manning Walker // England // 2020 // 13:15 min
Live Action
After experiencing a sexual assault, Amy is left speechless and helpless. Caught between bureaucratic incompetence and unpleasant questions from the police, she has to find a way to process what has happened in order to save what is most precious to her.
Natascha Zink // Germany // 2020 // 14:36 min
Live Action
Zoe and her friends have formed a group in order to make sure women get home safely at night. But sometimes the problem is closer than you might expect.
Edmunds Jansons // Latvia // 2021 // 06:00 min
Animation
No matter the season, no matter the weather, the honour guard fulfils its task with discipline, watching over the monument of the state. Its loyalty seems to know no bounds.
Betina Kuntzsch // Germany // 2021 // 04:17 min
Documentary
Almost all GDR school pupils from year 1 to 7 belonged to the pioneer organisation “Ernst Thälmann”. They wore a blue neckerchief. As from 1973, the Thälmann pioneers (classes 4 to 7) were given a red neckerchief.
Alfie Barker // England // 2021 // 10:21 min
Documentary
A flyer informs the inhabitants of a British community that their houses are to be torn down to make way for a real estate development project. In shock, they explain what the loss means to them.
Jalal Maghout // Germany, Syria // 2020 // 13:14 min
Animation
In war-torn Damascus, a lonely man increasingly loses himself in fantasies of escape and inner dialogues with his dog.
Miaoyan Wang // China // 2021 // 16:00 min
Live Action
With her family, Jiang Ran experiences the effects of the one-child-only policy that reigned in China until 2015. A second child means financial worries, which also impact Jiang Ran and her dreams of a life of her own with personal interests. Sichuan Film and Television University - Chengdu
Zhannat Alshanova // Kazakhstan // 2020 // 15:00 min
Live Action
Indira, a university tutor, would like to leave the country for the sake of her career. When she finds a chance to push back against existing social biases, it becomes clear to her that she doesn't want to leave the country after all.
Sabine Redlich // Germany // 2021 // 01:18 min
Animation, Live Action
Imagine a set of ovaries as a game of pinball. Super short, ultra colourful and a tad ironic, here's a perfectly reasonable explanation for menstrual pain.
Ewa Smyk // England // 2021 // 09:58 min
Animation
Full of enthusiasm, a young artist wants to start a new life in the big city. Alas, her memories keep taking her back to her rural roots. A chicken joins her in her reveries.
Paing Aung // Germany, Myanmar // 2021 // 13:50 min
Documentary
As a student in the late 1980s, Tin Tun Hlaing joined the struggle against the military dictatorship. He was arrested and imprisoned for ten years. Now middle-aged, he is still haunted by his incarceration.
Simon Duong van Huyen / Joël Durand / Thibault Leclercq / Valentin Lucas / Andrei Sitari // France // 2018 // 08:00 min
Animation
Through the eyes of a macaque mother, a group of snow monkeys has to face the strict rules which govern their community.
T.J. Yoshizaki // United States // 2018 // 07:12 min
Live Action
In the crime capital of the world, Los Angeles Police officer Morgan was having an just another "regular" bad day in the line of duty. Or not.
Marcel Tigchelaar // Netherlands // 2017 // 02:15 min
Animation
For some people it’s just a drink, but for others it’s a very exciting experience.
Andrea Dorfman // Canada // 2020 // 04:55 min
Animation
We've all had to learn to stay home alone in recent years. Here's a little guide on how not to lose your mind in the process.
Niklas Pollmann // Austria, Germany, England // 2021 // 14:30 min
Experimental, Live Action
A journey marked by the sound of the sea, the sun and motorway tunnels gives birth to a film about loneliness.
Florian Brauch / Matthieu Pujol / Kim Tailhades / Yohan Thireau / Romain Thirion // France // 2017 // 06:20 min
Animation
The fish have to adapt if the ocean is filled with garbage, even if it means that you have a bottle cap for a head.
Jonatan Etzler // Sweden // 2015 // 03:15 min
Live Action
A stranger in a crowded streetcar is unpleasantly familiar with Anna’s private life.
Betina Kuntzsch // Germany // 2021 // 03:34 min
Documentary
On 15th April 1986 – to mark Ernst Thälmann’s 100th birthday – the memorial is unveiled and the housing estate inaugurated.
Anne Isensee // Germany // 2019 // 02:00 min
Animation
“You can’t always get what you want...” sang the Rolling Stones once upon a time, though they consistently proved the opposite. A young woman wants a whole lot too. Being heard would be pretty nice for starters.
Domas Petronis / Vytautas Plukas // Lithuania // 2020 // 14:00 min
Live Action
A robot is created in a lab. Like a new-born, the machine analyses its surroundings with its senses and the limited knowledge it possesses. What does it mean to be alive?
Elise Auffray // France // 2014 // 02:30 min
Animation, Live Action
How does left-over food turn into soil? This stop-motion animation shows us the process in quick motion.
Betina Kuntzsch // Germany // 2021 // 02:51 min
Documentary
A lyrical interlude, poem by Kathrin Schmidt 2021.
Jeremy Oury // France // 0 // 08:00 min
Animation
A sequence of continually self-reconfiguring geometric forms triggers a deep dive into an abstract time-space arrangement.
Anthony Valon // France // 2020 // 06:00 min
Experimental
A human shadow lies motionless on the floor of a factory. A monolithic mirror reflects its silhouette and the sombre surroundings. The person attempts to tame the machine, but their body is soon swallowed up by the immensity.
Enock Carvalho / Matheus Farias // Brazil // 2020 // 19:50 min
Live Action
In Brazil, where a trans-person is murdered every three days, Marilene searches for her daughter Roberta. While time slips away, she discovers a light that gives her hope.
Joost van den Bosch / Erik Verkerk // Netherlands // 2020 // 02:20 min
Animation
It's not always easy to keep your home looking tidy and clean - even if you have eight arms!
Betina Kuntzsch // Germany // 2021 // 06:00 min
Documentary
A possible biography of Irma Thälmann constructed from archive material – including, among other things, reports from the “Thälmannkuriere” and quotations from her book, “Erinnerungen an meinen Vater” (Memories of My Father) 1919-2000.
Gísli Darri Halldórsson // Iceland // 2020 // 08:35 min
Animation
One day in an apartment block. Six individuals spend their time in different ways. A comedy, quiet yet melodically animated, featuring dramatic undertones.
Abdenoure Ziane // France // 2020 // 18:00 min
Live Action
The fasting month of Ramadan falls at the height of summer this year. Rudy tries to help his friend Kader to get through it, but it is not that easy.
Donato Sansone // France // 2016 // 04:11 min
Animation
From Angela Merkel to the Simpsons—animated images from the print news create new contexts.
Bára Anna Stejskalová // Czech Republic // 2020 // 11:06 min
Animation
A caterpillar living inside a dog's corpse searches for a soulmate in the ugly world of a garbage dump. The desire for friendship brings it perilously close to death. Only love can help the little creature take flight.
Virpi Suutari // Finland // 2021 // 26:00 min
Documentary
Images collected on a journey through Finland form a panorama of the country. The story tells of bourgeois anarchy and the longing for human connection.
Shiva Sadegh Asadi // Iran // 2020 // 10:48 min
Animation, Live Action
A shy, reserved boy would like more than anything to be a part of the school theatre group. Alas, he is repeatedly rebuffed. The only role offered to him is that of a crab.
Simon Ostermann // Germany // 2018 // 01:21 min
Live Action
Children are constantly exposed to danger. Wouldn’t it just be easier to give them guns, too?
Pola Beck // Germany // 2017 // 09:15 min
Live Action
When a store detective catches a young mother shoplifting all he wants is to get this normal part of his everyday work life filed away and over with. But soon he finds it’s not so easy to unravel himself from this story.
Sasha Rainbow // England, Ghana // 2019 // 19:06 min
Documentary
What does the everyday life of children in very different circumstances look like? This documentary shows the life of the two Ghanaian boys Kofi and Lartey in their home - a village on the edge of a vast dump for electronic waste.
Betina Kuntzsch // Germany // 2021 // 04:44 min
Documentary
The Municipal Gas Authority IV provided Prenzlauer Berg with power from 1900 – 1981.
Jannis Alexander Kiefer // Germany // 2020 // 14:00 min
Live Action
Two craftspeople, Uli and Didi, are working on a swastika in their workshop, somewhere between rural paradise and village dreariness, wondering about the strange newcomers in the village.
Emily Ufken / Alexander Conrads // Germany // 2021 // 05:00 min
Animation
In a psychiatric clinic, a young man describes his path to gambling addiction, with slot machines. The animated short documentary film provides an intimate look at a frequently ignored illness and its effects.
Betina Kuntzsch // Germany // 2021 // 05:17 min
Documentary
The Thälmann memorial was erected in 1986 – three years before the fall of the Wall. A history of its genesis, with alternatives 1983 – 20.
project home / Christopher Martin // Japan, United States // 2019 // 07:23 min
Live Action
How can one maintain an optimistic outlook in light of the dominant forces in society? Using dynamic and expressive movements, Kota shows us the resilience of an imaginative mind.
Yves Gellie // France // 2019 // 28:00 min
Documentary, Experimental
At the intersection between art and science, we encounter individuals and their artificial counterpart, a robot. Cognitive dissonance creates a mysterious relational space between the artificially created autonomy of the machine and the socially constructed human.
Lukas von Berg // Germany // 2017 // 04:30 min
Animation
This fruit fly just isn’t ready to accept death, and his lament becomes a monumental hymn.
Edson da Conceicao // Netherlands // 2020 // 11:52 min
Live Action
For the last fare of his night shift, taxi driver Oussama meets Joyce. The two experience a memorable encounter on the drive through the city of Rotterdam. Is it ever too late to realise one's dreams?
Anissa Daoud // Tunisia, France // 2020 // 15:29 min
Live Action
Imed, a young father, is alone for a few days with his 5-year-old son while his wife is away on business. Now, it is time for him to face his greatest fear.
Marijana Verhoef // Germany // 2020 // 17:38 min
Live Action
A man appears in an empty field, seemingly soulless, and without the ability to speak. The widow made him materialise with her mind, so that he might help her out on the farm. Over time, the man develops a quiet longing to be loved.
Adrien Jeannot // France // 2020 // 16:00 min
Live Action
A man sets off on a quest to confirm whether he is the last of his species. On his journey, he's pursued by a zombie, who also seems to be the last of his kind.
Lucio Arese // Italy // 2021 // 03:48 min
Animation, Experimental
Statues from ancient Greek and Roman history, graceful and beautiful - until they are finally shattered and fall into an infinite number of individual parts.
Kelsi Phung / Fabien Corre // France // 2018 // 04:20 min
Animation
In a simplistic animation, a boy slowly leaves his gender role, but looks in vain for support from his busy mother.
Konstantin Selin // Russia // 2021 // 14:48 min
Documentary
The Navalny case and revelations regarding Putin's palace move thousands of individuals in St. Petersburg to protest against the government. Also among them: a 40-year-old taxi driver who has taken to the streets for the first time.
Adrian Figueroa // Germany, Turkey // 2019 // 15:51 min
Documentary, Experimental
Letters from Turkish philanthropist and public intellectual Osman Kavala document his imprisonment in a timeline, accompanied by slow-motion images of the surroundings and civil society.
Fabian Tischer // Germany // 2009 // 01:20 min
Experimental
Berlin's iconic symbol, the Television Tower, in a daring production. It lifts off!
Elize du Toit // England // 2021 // 20:00 min
Live Action
Lilias and young Maud are hiking through the Highlands, as the conversation turns to a jealous neighbour they know. An accusation of witchcraft leads to Lilias' arrest and interrogation, threatening her friend's life.
Eric Patrick // United States // 2020 // 07:21 min
Animation, Documentary
Hamid Naficy’s fifty years of drawings of prominent scholars, philosophers and theorists form a unique index of the evolution of cultural theory over the last decades. In this portrait, Naficy intimately recounts this evolution through his drawings.
Kate McMullen // France // 2020 // 13:00 min
Live Action
As the Iron Curtain divides his little German village into two halves, Peter the bull is separated from his 36 cows. Based on a true story, narrated by Christoph Waltz.
Maaike Klein / Olivia Powell / Jingwei Deng / Gabrielle Mcguinness // China, England, United States // 2020 // 12:30 min
Experimental
With the help of the AI generator GPT-2, stories are written collectively. This experimental script collaboration aims to indicate new creative paths and disrupt the oft dystopian bias we have against artificial intelligence.
Ismaël Joffroy Chandoutis // France // 2020 // 16:00 min
Animation, Documentary
An amnesiac survivor of the attack at Brussels' Maalbeek metro station on 22 March 2016,
Sabine is looking for the missing image of an over-mediatised event of which she has no memory.
Sarah Stirk // England // 2020 // 06:40 min
Documentary, Experimental
A direct experience of the mechanical world of industrial egg production.
Collectif Illogic // France // 2019 // 01:33 min
Animation
Deep in a forest, a gathering of wild animals begins a nocturnal opera, conducted by a squirrel.
Emil Brulin / Hampus Hallberg // Sweden // 2020 // 13:00 min
Live Action
Johan is the newly appointed chairman of the gender equality group at the theater. In his first meeting with the actor ensemble, he acknowledges his racist and sexist prejudices in order to create a starting point for discussion in the group. It starts a chain reaction that cannot be stopped.
Selma Cervantes // Mexico // 2021 // 14:46 min
Live Action
After winning a difficult soccer match, Miranda takes a shared taxi home at night. There she is confronted by the everyday violence outside the field.
Nilas Røpke Driessen // Denmark // 2020 // 05:56 min
Animation
A head lies horizontally in the water, like a peninsula. A little rowboat docks alongside the head: a person climbs out and builds a house, to live henceforth in this strange place.
Claude Cloutier // Canada, Quebec // 2020 // 06:22 min
Animation
A fable that uses surrealism and metaphor to show where the perpetual wish for one-upmanship and disempowerment leads.
Anne Isensee // Germany // 2017 // 01:46 min
Animation
How do I accomplish my life’s great goal? With the mega-trick of course!
Sophia Bösch / Sophie Linnenbaum // Germany // 2016 // 04:00 min
Live Action
There’s not a day that goes by without new refugees reaching Germany. And voices full of hate and fear rise with their numbers.
Calvin Antoine Blandin (CAB) // France // 2021 // 12:50 min
Animation
On an abandoned industrial site, an old man sets off on a lonely, mystical journey. His search for the truth leads him deep inside a factory to find the core of the problem.
Daniel Moshel // Austria // 2016 // 04:59 min
Animation, Live Action
The most aesthetically disruptive, sexually charged and generally crazed flash mob ever.
Nazli Doale / Jade Baillargeault / Dimitri James / Quang Daniel La / Morgane Lau / Mélanie Pango / Manon Pringault // France // 2018 // 04:33 min
Animation
A mouse story à la Lord of the Rings: Mouse of the Rings.
Áron Ferenczik // Hungary // 2013 // 09:00 min
Live Action
This is Budapest and its beautiful spots: the Parliament, the Buda Castle, The Hero’s Square, the places you should not miss! But all of it is irrelevant compared to the really important question: Why are the seats so far from one another in the local train stations.
Hugo Caby / Zoé Devise / Antoine Dupriez / Lucas Lermytte // France // 2020 // 08:17 min
Animation, Live Action
Two polar bears are driven into exile due to global warming. On their journey, they encounter brown bears with whom they try to coexist.
Natassa Xydi // Greece // 2016 // 16:00 min
Live Action
Summer in Athens, and Elsa’s family isn’t the only one renting their apartment to tourists. At their “spare apartment” there’s little space for the young lady’s dreams.
Andreas Öhman // Sweden // 2009 // 14:03 min
Live Action
The story about a strong friendship between two teenagers who try to express their true feelings for each another.
Yongxin Wang // Germany // 2021 // 05:05 min
Animation
A girl who would like to live alone receives a visit: a cat knocks on her door. From this moment on, something changes.
Kevin Biele // Germany // 2021 // 17:01 min
Live Action
Two employees of the immigration office pay Mona an unannounced visit to check on the marital relationship between her and her husband Parviz. After Mona has to face the officials alone and the mood begins to falter, Parviz appears.
. Suki // France // 2021 // 06:15 min
Animation
Amidst the deafening noise of chainsaws, gleefully humming loggers cut down trees, for use as fashion show decorations. A contemporary cartoon satire in the form of a burlesque action-musical tragicomedy.
Hippolyte Leibovici // Belgium // 2019 // 20:00 min
Documentary
Portrait of a Brussels drag queen family of four generations at a dressing room party. While faces are covered with layers of makeup and alcohol, jokes are told, innermost feelings are revealed and difficult topics are discussed.
Tobi Trebeljahr / Carol Ratajczak // Germany // 2020 // 06:51 min
Animation, Experimental
The self-isolated protagonist observes a far-off star in a world full of backpack tourists. In the midst of a surreal desert, he must finally face the connection between cat, backpackers and star.
Aggie Pak Yee Lee // Estonia, Hong Kong SAR of China // 2017 // 04:10 min
Animation
Visiting a museum with your class— how boring! You always have to be quiet and you’re never allowed to
have any fun. A perfect moment to let your imagination run wild.
Felix Klee // Germany // 2021 // 04:32 min
Animation, Experimental
An artificial intelligence escapes to the bottom of the sea as a mountain lion. A poetic short film written by an AI language model, sound-tracked by a musical neural network and visualised by a video game engine.
Daria Kasperek // Poland // 2019 // 14:22 min
Experimental, Live Action
At the edge of town we can reach places we do not ordinarily visit. At the edge of town there is a forest. To reach its source, you have to cross the darkest places.
Paulina Ziolkowska // Poland // 2018 // 04:45 min
Animation
Everyone gets sick of everyone. But things become really bad when you get sick of yourself.
Markus Virpiö // Finland // 2021 // 12:30 min
Live Action
Eveliina inherits an old telescope from her grandfather. It doesn't seem to be an ordinary one, in fact it allows her to peer into the future. Can she influence things to come too?
Jerry Carlsson // Sweden // 2020 // 14:40 min
Live Action
On the night train, Oskar and Ahmad spend what might be the most exciting night of their lives.
Sonja Rohleder // Germany // 2019 // 04:20 min
Animation
At night, a brightly colored bird sets out to find a companion. Alas, the objects of his desire have other plans.
Abraham Adeyemi // United Kingdom // 2019 // 11:01 min
Live Action
At a divergent point in their lives, two lifelong friends - Ivanno Jeremiah and Parys Jordon- meet at their favorite South London fried chicken shop.
Luís Costa // Portugal // 2020 // 15:00 min
Live Action
In a village where space and time are running out, a child lives in the vortex of flickering death.
Otalia Caussé / Antoine Marchand / Geoffroy Collin / Robin Merle / Louise Grardel / Fabien Meyran // France // 2019 // 05:20 min
Animation
In Lisbon, a german married couple is about to get aboard the legendary n°28 tramway, but how should you ract when the brakes let go and embark you on a vertiginous race... with a baby on board.
Elias Weinberger / Ferdinand Ehrhardt // Germany // 2020 // 06:22 min
Animation, Experimental
"But running away is a lousy idea." A teenage girl finds the courage to stand up against the right-wing ideology that is increasingly prevalent in her home region.
Elsa van Damke // Germany // 2020 // 07:41 min
Live Action
27-year-old Maggie is on a date in her crush's apartment. When she suddenly gets her period, she finds herself confronted in the bathroom not only with a blood spot, but with a monster in her head as well.
Katarzyna Miechowicz // Poland // 2020 // 07:00 min
Animation
Absurd adventures of three individuals living in the same little seaside village. Their idyllic existence is interrupted after mysterious events occur, causing fear in town. Everything seems to be controlled by a faceless man.
Simone Giampaolo // Switzerland // 2020 // 06:00 min
Animation, Promotional Work
Twenty animators have come together to illustrate a truly remarkable speech. Not merely remarkable because it was given by a twelve-year-old girl at the United Nations 30 years ago, but because it remains absolutely relevant.
Paul Bush // Denmark, England // 2020 // 07:00 min
Animation
An animation made of plastic collected from beaches, roadsides, attics and junk shops. An affectionate farewell to the versatile material that has conquered our planet to a horrifying extent.
Carme Gomila // Spain // 2021 // 12:00 min
Animation, Documentary
Abuse at the hands of crooked local politics, racist capitalism and global extractivism of the South by the North – based on local alliances and migration policy. Women speak about the protest against seasonal labour.
Eshed, Tomer // Germany // 2008 // 05:00 min
Animation
Everything we always wanted to know about the mating habits of the water shrew.
Eshed, Tomer // Germany // 2016 // 03:32 min
Animation
Chameleons have no natural enemies. What they do have are quick tongues and big appetites.
Digna van der Put // Netherlands // 2015 // 04:14 min
Animation
Six fanfare flute players explore the landscape of the uniform. A journey that does not go unscathed.
Szilárd Bernáth // Hungary // 2020 // 22:00 min
Live Action
In Eastern Hungary, the inhabitants of the poorest Roma communities are held in a permanent spiral of debt by others' lust for profit. Young parents Feri and Gina try another strategy to get help from local boss Simon.
Guillem Miró // Spain // 2018 // 04:00 min
Animation
What happens if there is so much plastic waste floating in the oceans that the fish disappear? An ironic vision of the future.
Christoph Lauenstein // Germany // 2021 // 08:42 min
Animation
In a land without light, the appearance of a strange glowing object stirs up the peaceful coexistence of its inhabitants. Selfishness and greed find their way into the dark world. This surreal work of puppet animation tells an unconventional parable about envy and resentment.
Jan-David Bolt // Switzerland // 2021 // 06:24 min
Live Action
What is this snail doing on the concrete ground of a business district? While every minute counts in the surrounding skyscrapers, hands shake other hands and contracts are signed, the eager businessman has to deal with these little molluscs who possess zero sense of time.
Miia Tervo // Finland // 2015 // 08:56 min
Live Action
With a pained expression, Saara observes her father’s obvious attempts to win her over—until she fathoms the true affection underlying his actions.
Adan Aliaga // Spain // 2020 // 18:00 min
Live Action
Lola earns her living by walking Marisa's dog – she has befriended the ill older woman. Alas, when the connection between the two is severed, Lola's unstable existence begins to crumble.
Toby Auberg // England // 2019 // 03:23 min
Animation
An animation that attempts to organise human constructs. A vertical living and working space which traces the evolution from raw survival to the alienation of late capitalism.
Debi Cornwall // United States // 2021 // 10:35 min
Experimental, Live Action
Drawn from over 200 Hollywood films, excerpts from traffic stops and real statements from survivors of such a traumatic experience are woven together to create an other-worldly story about fictionalised accounts of real state violence and how we consume them.
Adrien Fournier // France // 2021 // 01:19 min
Animation
Pizzaman, the superhero, delivers in 30 minutes or your money back. And he really gives his best, but Digital Code Man manages to hold him up at the house door.
Gunhild Enger // Norway // 2020 // 15:00 min
Live Action
A gaming company develops a video game about the EU for children. The kids play a national bird that has to build a nest and breed beyond borders, but they can only fly where they have a visa. We accompany two game designers in their attempt to make the Schengen Area tangible for young people.
Rebecca Murray // England // 2020 // 05:24 min
Documentary
In this unfiltered documentary film, Marie-Astrid Mence relates her uncomfortable passage from adolescence to ballerina-hood and her struggles in an industry that can't see beyond her skin colour.
Aleksi Salmenperä // Finland // 2020 // 11:17 min
Live Action
A night club bouncer is disgusted by all the violence and repression towards the disadvantaged on the street. So, he sews himself a costume and resolves to help.
Balder Westein // Netherlands // 2013 // 02:00 min
Animation
On this stormy Halloween night, nothing goes as planned.
Line Klungseth Johansen / Christian Lo // Norway // 2020 // 11:00 min
Live Action
Once upon a time there was a boy ... who suddenly started sneezing floating popcorn. A bankrupt investor sees his chance to make a profit.
Alexandra Májová // Czech Republic // 2020 // 05:02 min
Animation
A man and a washing machine become intimately connected. A visit from the plumber is enough to trigger a crisis in their relationship.
Florent Gouelou // France // 2020 // 10:47 min
Live Action
A drag show in a Paris bar. The audience only has eyes for the queen of the evening, Cookie Kunty. But Baptiste, her boyfriend, is seeing her for perhaps the last time from his place in the crowd.
Sophie Le Hire // France, Senegal // 2019 // 06:40 min
Animation, Documentary, Experimental
Road workers’ monotonous movements morph through rhythmic krumping into a symbol of the daily struggle for survival in Dakar, a city that devours the bodies of those that exhaust themselves within.
Aline Romero // Spain // 2019 // 05:41 min
Animation
A curious cat uncovers the mystery of an old gramophone in a spooky haunted house.
Petter Holmsen // Norway // 2016 // 12:01 min
Live Action
Quiet on the set! An extra and a caterer try to get to know each other without using words.
Wang Pengwei // China, United States // 2020 // 14:58 min
Live Action
While his parents argue on Independence Day eve, a boy passes the time by throwing cap bombs at a beetle. When his parents get wrapped up in some trouble, he saves their life.
Ben Brand // Netherlands // 2019 // 09:14 min
Live Action
When a man dies in a traffic accident and gets into a conversation with God, he gets an answer to the biggest question of life.
Bruno Moreschi / Gabriel Pereira // Brazil // 2019 // 14:32 min
Documentary, Experimental
Seven artificial intelligences scan a museum collection. How do AIs interpret images and art? But more intriguingly perhaps: who feeds them with the necessary information upon which their interpretations are based?
Francy Fabritz // Germany // 2019 // 08:00 min
Live Action
Two women are kidnapping a dubious right-wing politician by elegantly stealing his car. What seems like a supposedly harmless ride at first glance turns into a plan of revenge.
Brutti/Debrouwer/Harel (La)Horde // France // 2020 // 04:33 min
Music Video
An ecstatic, wild dance begins with the audience and continues to build momentum until the group of dancers finally becomes one.
Anna Podskalská // Czech Republic // 2021 // 13:43 min
Animation, Live Action
The village dance has begun, skirts are whirling and feet are stomping in rhythm. Róza is gifted a pair of red shoes. With her new footwear, Róza starts to dance with great passion.
Emma Miranda Moore // England // 2020 // 12:48 min
Live Action
Charlie dreams of being a big man, strong enough to defend himself against his older brother. He befriends Lisa. The two have a special bond and make one another stronger.
Marlies van der Wel // Netherlands // 2016 // 02:20 min
Animation, Live Action
When SABAKU's best friend Buffalo passes away, he needs to find himself a new friend. He tries connecting with different species, but soon finds out that isn't as easy as it seems. SABAKU is in for a bumpy ride, but he won't rest until he succeeds.
Michael Fetter Nathansky // Germany // 2021 // 10:00 min
Experimental, Live Action
A fictitious dance film that relates how the dead are conveyed to the hereafter. Spanish flamenco dance is performed in an old East German ship lift, generating an atmosphere of awakening, between movement and quietude, farewell and eternity.
Verena Wagner // Germany // 2020 // 21:28 min
Documentary
A night shift in a glass factory in the middle of the German-Czech borderland. The seasoned crew works the glowing hot glass with gusto.
Jack Salvadori // England // 2020 // 06:36 min
Experimental, Live Action
The power of habit is enormous. So, to church we go, where the experience has been adapted to the new safety standards of the Covid era, without foregoing time-honoured rituals.
Yvonne Kroese / Patty Stenger // Netherlands // 2020 // 08:22 min
Animation, Experimental
When no one sees you, you seem to disappear. It's only when you fall that you seem to belong – but only for a moment. A child in search of recognition from its mother.
Katarina Rešek // Slovenia // 2020 // 23:00 min
Live Action
Sina, Mihrije and Jasna have set their own rules to cope in their male-dominated and misogynistic neighbourhood.
Leon Vidmar // Slovenia // 2016 // 05:51 min
Animation
As Lovro sits in the bathtub, memories of his grandfather and the fishing trips they once took together begin to swell up.
Daniele Nozzi / Giovanni Boscolo // Italy // 2020 // 10:29 min
Live Action
Since Marisa retired, her life has changed profoundly: she feels useless, abandoned, aimless. A meeting with a secret organisation reveals the truth behind one of human history's deepest mysteries: road traffic.
Elsa Perry // France // 2021 // 03:30 min
Animation, Experimental
An animated film based on a 1995 performance by dancer and choreographer William Forsythe, reconstructed shot-by-shot from photos and drawings.
Theo Montoya // Argentina, Colombia // 2020 // 15:00 min
Documentary
Camilo Najar was known on the Medellín queer scene as “Son of Sodom”. At the age of 21 he died of a heroin overdose. Montoya explores the no-future mentality of his generation in a freewheeling, punk style.
Filip Diviak // Czech Republic, Belarus // 2020 // 14:32 min
Animation, Live Action
You can't make trees dance! Or can you? When a musician is driven out of kingdom because of his appearance, he moves into a mysterious forest. There his music begins to develop a very special magic.
Milan Baulard / Quentin Nory / Laurie Estampes / Flore Dupont / Ismaïl Berrahma / Hugo Potin // France // 2019 // 06:47 min
Animation
The nearing winter covers a lake with a thick layer of ice, cutting off a Heron from its only food source. Now the bird needs to improvise. In order to recreate the atmosphere of the ice landscape, "Duvnjak & Franqué" work their way deep into it with a piano and four hands.
Victor Velasco // United States // 2019 // 04:33 min
Live Action
A business man is headed to work one Monday morning. A young man addresses him. The latter has a greater influence on his behaviour than he initially cares to admit.
Siniša Galić // Serbia // 2017 // 15:45 min
Live Action
When the priest Mihailo and the imam Hamdia finally meet again on a bus 20 years after the war, neither seems capable of finding the right words.
Sebastien Petretti // Belgium // 2017 // 05:34 min
Live Action
This is the story of two young guys without any trouble who just want to « screw » without being disturbed.« State of Emergency motherfucker» is a surrealistic comedy that depicts a society where police violence and invasion of privacy are daily routine, normal, tedious.
Špela Čadež // Slovenia, France, Germany // 2021 // 09:30 min
Animation
The steak is marinated, the rosemary cut, the pan hot. Every second counts when searing meat. Alas, with every passing minute, darker clouds threaten to ruin Franc's mood, because Liza's colleagues have chosen to give her a surprise birthday party, making her late for dinner.
Can Merdan Dogan // Germany, Turkey // 2021 // 17:49 min
Live Action
Hasan is a taxi driver working the night shift. On the early-morning drive home, he sees a woman passing in high heels. Fascinated by her appearance, he does something that leads to disaster in a world where the boundaries of masculinity are clearly drawn.
Lwin Mi Mi // Myanmar // 2016 // 15:00 min
Documentary
A lovingly filmed portrait of the filmmaker’s parents, who eke out a living making "jaggery" sweets from toddy palm syrup in Myanmar’s central arid zone.
Ilias el Faris Dupuis // France, Morocco // 2019 // 09:00 min
Live Action
On the beach of Casablanca, two teenagers' desire for one another grows under the watchful eyes of patrolling policemen. The lifeguard saves a ball from the waves. An argument with a salesperson provides distraction. The moment couldn't be better for a kiss.
Marko Djeska // Croatia, Portugal // 2020 // 13:19 min
Animation, Documentary
During her male-to-female transition, Matia struggles with rejection and recognition, of her identity, her sexuality and her relationship to herself and other genders.
Sosi Chamoun // Sweden // 2018 // 05:00 min
Live Action
A woman goes into a shop to buy sanitary pads. She notices an employee following her as she makes her way around the aisles. A film about prejudice and feeling someone’s accusing looks on the back of your neck.
Reka Bucsi // Hungary // 2014 // 09:30 min
Animation
An abstract observation and visual depiction of the interaction between humans and nature, elephant and paintbrush, brain and rasp.
Hajni Kis // Hungary // 2016 // 16:53 min
Live Action
Elsie is a cleaning lady at a school where she falls in love with one of the young female students. Throwing caution to the wind, Elsie lets her feelings run free.
Katalin Moldovai // Hungary // 2016 // 15:00 min
Live Action
A woman undergoes treatment at a spa centre – she looks to the future with great hope, while continuously running up against rejection by her husband.
Levente Kölcsey // Hungary // 2020 // 12:00 min
Live Action, Music Video
Zoli is about to be taken out of school by his parents so he can work for the family. But the boy is not ready to accept that his future should be determined by others.
Milos Tomic // Slovenia // 2021 // 06:40 min
Animation
A boy persistently seeks his father's attention in a desperate way that proves annoying, confronting him with dad's creative chaos and the obsessive fascination with photography.
Olivér Hegyi // Hungary // 2018 // 13:51 min
Animation
A young man embarks on a surrealistic emotional journey after a bitter disappointment.
Magnus Igland Møller / Mette Tange / Peter Smith // Denmark // 2020 // 06:59 min
Animation
Imagine there was a God who created the world with a computer game...
Edo Vader // Myanmar // 2017 // 12:00 min
Animation
Ko Bo Maung plans to hold his son's ordination to the priesthood after the rice harvest. But government authorities and businessmen seize his land without compensation. Suddenly, Bo Maung and his son find themselves homeless.
Marlies Smeenge // Netherlands // 2020 // 14:55 min
Documentary
At the International Butler Academy in Limburg, individuals from around the world learn what it takes to be a butler. The pressure is as high as the expectations of the perfectionist trainers.
Aye Nilar Kyaw // Germany, Myanmar // 2020 // 16:24 min
Live Action
The young Shan woman Mo Kham arrives in Yangon to work at Daw Ngwe’s shop. She is hoping for a fresh start but the trauma of war isn’t so easy to put behind her.
Garry Stewart // Australia // 2019 // 16:11 min
Experimental
The stage work "The Beginning of the Nature" from the Australian Dance Theatre is set in the landscape of Southern Australia. The piece examines and interprets the morphology, biological rhythm and behaviour of animals.
Renaldho Pelle // England // 2020 // 07:43 min
Animation
Social injustice leads to unrest, which causes things to get heated in a struggling community. The oppressive surroundings develop a life of their own, while the shadows of the housing complex draw ever closer.
Pablo Curto / Fernando Souza // Spain // 2021 // 14:57 min
Documentary
Ryuki lost everything two years ago. Like many other people with no place to go, he ends up in Tokyo's notorious red-light district. He begins to work in an extortionist host club where women come to look for a new boyfriend.
Michelle and Uri Kranot // Denmark, France, Canada // 2021 // 14:04 min
Animation
Inspired by a 1922 poem from Carl Sandburg, this animated film treats themes of recognition and the sometimes-unpleasant intimacy of being human.
Alsen Rau // Germany // 2020 // 04:56 min
Animation
The machine is a monkey that sees figures that probably only live inside its head.
Jon Bell // Australia // 2020 // 15:00 min
Live Action
A psychological horror film shows a family returing home with their new-born baby. In the night, they are repeatedly haunted by a ghost. They manage to escape, but then an accident occurs.
Frances Adair Mckenzie // Canada // 2020 // 05:00 min
Experimental
An homage to the natural struggle for survival of all beings, presented through a series of genetic love stories.
Tiange Xiang // China // 2021 // 18:20 min
Documentary, Live Action
In her school days, Bin was sexually harassed by her dance teacher. Now she has to dance in a show for the spring festival and relives her trauma. Her plea for help falls on deaf ears, so she is forced to take matters into her own hands. The Central Academy of Drama - Beijing
Lyana Patrick // Canada // 2020 // 02:08 min
Animation, Documentary
This animated documentary film tells a family's story of solidarity and survival in the Lejac Indian Residential School.
Yuzhuo Wang // China // 2021 // 16:53 min
Live Action
Luo Nan, a girl in the seventh grade, goes to a little corner store every day. One day, she takes a piece of newspaper with a blue note, where it says that her sick mother and the store owner are having an affair. She takes a stand for her mother's life and shows how brave and special her love for her mother is. Communication University of China - Beijing
Leonie Minor // Germany // 2021 // 07:27 min
Animation, Live Action
A woman hangs between chairs. She tries to get up and get things moving – but her chairs are either too comfortable or they don't want to let her go, which messes everything up.
Jing An Hung // Taiwan // 2019 // 19:00 min
Live Action
In the village of Dalinpu, the air pollution is serious, which is why the inhabitants are about to be resettled by force. Ayu and his father are at odds about where to go from here, whether to cling to the old or make a fresh start.
Valéry Carnoy // Belgium, France // 2021 // 19:00 min
Live Action
Nathan is thirteen. Egged on by his new friend Malik, he prepares for a strange initiation ritual to join a teenage gang.
Erwan Alépée // France // 2017 // 02:45 min
Live Action
Alexander calls a number he knows really well.
Jessica Wright / Morgann Runacre-Temple // Scotland // 2019 // 04:31 min
Experimental
An abstract dining hall is the backdrop for this film from the Scottish Ballet. Jessica Wright and Morgann Runacre-Temple teamed up to choreograph and stage Anna Meredith's "Nautilus", featuring 26 dancers.
Naledi Jackson // Canada, United States // 2020 // 07:04 min
Live Action
Dante, a pianist, unknowingly accepts a last-minute wedding gig on a plantation. While tuning the piano, he encounters the unexpected, as fragments of the past are brought to light.
Elena Wiener // Germany // 2020 // 09:58 min
Animation, Live Action
What if your body eats you up, when the struggle against yourself overshadows your everyday life, your relationships and your freedom? A film about the fight against an auto-immune disease and inner demons.
Ivan Orlenko // Ukraine, France // 2019 // 19:27 min
Live Action
A boy tries to find out what happened in the old local synagogue. Obsessed, he is chasing something he never saw and does not pay any attention to what is happening around him. Inspired by Franz Kafkas unfinished novel.
Jonas Taul // Estonia // 2021 // 14:46 min
Animation
There exists a most exquisite man, or at least the world that surrounds him, labels and sees him as such. He has fantastic abilities, incomprehensible talent, he could even be called a genius, yet something within him is restless.
Sander Joon // Estonia // 2015 // 06:11 min
Animation
An addicted biker runs out of cigarettes. He joins a race to get more, but has to take help from some peculiar people in the audience to stay in the competition.
Jeremie Becquer // Denmark // 2018 // 06:00 min
Animation
A poetry writing rat is arrested by the mouse police officers without any reason. The rat is “different” for the mice and is therefore treated with contempt.
Odveig Klyve // Norway // 2021 // 04:30 min
Documentary
What's big, grey, noisy, makes a mess and blocks the view of an entire waterfront town? Without giving anything away: It's not a whale.
Nicolas Gourault // France // 2021 // 17:00 min
Documentary
A fatal accident between a self-driving car and a pedestrian is the impetus for an examination of the role of human personnel in the training of driverless automobiles. Eyewitness statements from vehicle drivers take us through a night shift, in which the landscape blends with the data from the automobile's sensors.
Peter Dietrich // Germany // 2006 // 01:09 min
Live Action
Soccer is our life, we play everywhere, we score and we achieve the unexpected.
Betina Kuntzsch // Germany // 2021 // 01:37 min
Documentary
Anna Katalin Lovrity // Hungary // 2016 // 09:00 min
Animation
Somewhere on an island in the ocean a young tigress lives in harmony with herself and nature. When her blooming femininity is noticed by an older tiger male, the young tigress becomes more and more frightened by his advances.
Elisabeth Jakobi // Germany // 2020 // 02:20 min
Animation
A seemingly endless cycle of forward motion that becomes increasingly desperate. A woman tries to keep up with the pace of life, but loses her balance in the process.
Lucas Camps // Netherlands // 2021 // 07:54 min
Live Action
When a cinema audience starts to make fun of the film up on screen, events inside the theatre take an unexpected turn.
Carlos Salgado // Spain // 2021 // 08:00 min
Animation
In a distant galaxy, a space explorer collects a plant that he wants to bring back home unharmed. But on his return journey, his determination is put to the test.
Erika Grace Strada // Denmark // 2021 // 03:41 min
Animation
A surreal world on another planet. Humanoid creatures battle against a huge monster.
Benjamin Hujawa // Germany // 2019 // 03:00 min
Live Action
A family discussion on Christmas can only be brought to an end by extreme measures.
Henriette Rietz // Germany // 2020 // 04:36 min
Animation
The innocent gaze of a new-born really can inspire hope. Alas, maternity leave has turned out to be tricky: hormones and sleep deprivation lead to overload, anxiety and pain.
Marc Reisbig // Norway // 2016 // 04:02 min
Live Action
This director has a genuinely hard time with his stars. He tells us about his troubles here.
Sarra El Abed // Canada // 2020 // 19:04 min
Documentary
Tunis, November 2019. A group of women has assembled in a hair salon on the eve of the presidential election. The beauty shop is transformed into a public space that mirrors the inner unrest of the country at large.
Carlos Gómez Salamanca // France, Colombia // 2021 // 10:00 min
Animation, Documentary, Experimental
The story of a working-class husband and wife who are forced to adapt to industrial capitalism in Latin America as they suffer from its social and ecological effects.
Qiannan Fang / Yingying Pan // China // 2020 // 09:00 min
Animation
An animated fable relating the legend of a special bird that only sings once in its life and spends its entire existence looking for a thorn tree where it can complete this great song. Communication University of Zhejiang - Hangzhou
