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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.
Lusito Ignacio // Philippines // 2021 // 13:00 min
Experimental
An artist expresses his personal experience of three months of lockdown. Incapable of getting any distance from the stressful events, his relationship to art changes.
Tian Baumly // Germany // 2022 // 05:05 min
Experimental
The offer sounds wonderful: be whatever you want to be. "%" is an experimental meditation on consuming and consumerism in an exhibition room with large display windows.
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.
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.
Fanni Szilágyi // Hungary // 2017 // 12:00 min
Live Action
Julcsi is nearly thirty. She has spent her cosy, grey weekdays with Zoli for years. Paralyzed by despair, she is waiting for something to happen with her. One night she finds herself in the body of Lionel Messi. The next day a hidden power appears in her.
Max Kerkhoff // Germany, Myanmar // 2021 // 13:00 min
Documentary
Members of a road work crew toil away. In a country torn by civil war, their co-operation is one of many steps on the path to peace and democracy.
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.
Gerhard Funk // Germany // 2022 // 09:00 min
Animation, Experimental
A typical day in the life of a child: conquests before breakfast, promising planes in the sky and a clueless goat in front of the house. Then suddenly it all falls apart.
Boyoung Kim // Denmark, South Korea // 2021 // 14:40 min
Animation, Documentary
In a world where you can rent everything you need from huge vending machines, a girl dreams of being a guitarist – alas, fate has other plans for her.
Sohaib Bouaiss // Netherlands // 2020 // 08:00 min
Animation, Experimental
Guided by sleep disorders which have consistently plagued him since youth, a filmmaker who grew up in diverse cultures documents the search for his identity in an abstract fashion.
Polina Piddubna // Ukraine, Germany // 2022 // 02:37 min
Animation, Experimental
In a colorfully drawn world of thoughts, the protagonist explores the rules and peculiarities of a city that is new to her, lively and sometimes absurd.
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.
Michael Brynntrup // Germany // 1993 // 05:30 min
Experimental
Safe sex in the 70ies.
Bigger than life in 35mm.
All you can eat in 5 minutes.
NOTICE: This film has been prepared and is intended solely for viewing by a special and limited audience, namely adults who request and desire sexually explicit material for their information, education and entertainment in the privacy of their own homes. This film may not be sold to any persons except consenting adults who agree to view the film in private and further agree not to exhibit or transfer the film to minors or to any person who does not wish to view this material.
Alliah Fafin // Canada // 2021 // 17:00 min
Live Action
A mysterious narrator tells the tale of Amani, a boy fond of dancing, who must one day confront another reality rolling in from behind the mountains.
Maria Estela Paiso // Philippines // 2021 // 14:00 min
Animation, Live Action
The world is about to end. Maya is forced to go home to the province of Zambales. There, she confronts her childhood house that makes her feel incredible terror, as frogs rain down outside.
Ary Zara // Portugal // 2022 // 19:38 min
Live Action
Larissa, a trans woman, and Cláudio, a cis man, meet on the streets of Lisbon. Two individuals from two different realities – together they process and dance away their differences in a gentle journey through the night, filled with light and hope for better days.
Jessica Wright / Morgann Runacre-Temple // England // 2021 // 14:04 min
Live Action
When legendary ballerina Marie Taglioni, the first woman to dance on her tiptoes, went into retirement, her ballet slippers were bought by a fan, cooked at a lavish dinner party and served to guests.
Lachlan Pendragon // Australia // 2021 // 11:18 min
Animation
A young call-centre employee uncovers the flaws in his stop-motion universe with the help of a mysterious talking ostrich.
Lotfi Achour // Tunisia, France // 2021 // 13:13 min
Animation, Documentary, Experimental
Under Ben Ali's dictatorial rule, a man is kidnapped, tortured and killed, his body vanishing without a trace. Thirty years later, his mother seeks answers regarding the location of his remains.
Tue Sanggaard // Denmark // 2019 // 06:10 min
Animation
Everyday train rides can sometimes prove stressful, bringing beastly animal instincts to the surface.
Jessica Dürwald / Gitte Hellwig // Germany // 2020 // 04:00 min
Animation, Experimental
What does the daily routine of a Berlin celebrity look like? In this funny music video, the self-proclaimed star, Antoine the swan, shows you.
Yoriko MIZUSHIRI // France, Japan // 2021 // 05:47 min
Animation
Living things, artificial things, geometric shapes and lines. When these different elements collide, a new direction is born.
Alexander Gratzer // Austria // 2019 // 06:50 min
Animation
Philosophical dialogues between humans and animals on the important things in life: freedom, existence, applesauce.
Urte Sabutyte // Lithuania // 2020 // 14:00 min
Live Action
Aleksandra, a young prosecutor, is pursuing a case of human trafficking. During questioning, she encounters an old friend who is considered a suspect in the matter.
Mila Zhluktenko / Daniel Asadi Faezi // Germany, Uzbekistan // 2022 // 13:40 min
Documentary
The Aral See is gradually vanishing, leaving in its stead an unreal desert landscape. In a cinematic kaleidoscope, an old fisherman, musing, turns his mind to the sea a final time, to say goodbye for good to the dying body of water.
Axel Danielson / Maximilien Van Aertryck // Sweden // 2021 // 12:52 min
Documentary
"So, at the end of the day, when you go home after clocking out, if you feel like you're getting ripped off, well you're absolutely right."
Chloé Mazlo // France // 2019 // 06:00 min
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Druze princess, chanteuse, actress, wife and spy. Asmahan’s life was thrilling, while her death was premature and shrouded in mystery.
Adam SILLARD / Gabrielle SELNET / Chloé FARR // France // 2021 // 07:44 min
Animation
Jerome has just arrived in paradise, an incredibly colorful, crazy and diverse world full of surprises. There he is looking for his wife Maryline; will he manage to find her in this place of superlatives?
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.
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.
Cengiz Akaygün // Germany // 2021 // 13:00 min
Live Action
In the Syrian city of Afrin, an extremely pious woman wants to test her two daughters' religious knowledge. But Aysha rebels, refusing to take on the role her mother seeks to force on her. A conflict erupts between the two.
Émilie Pigeard / Urška Djukić // Slovenia, France // 2021 // 13:00 min
Animation, Documentary
Four older women reflect on their young years and how different relationships between men and women were back then. Their memories of their intimate lives illustrate the position of Slovenian women in the first half of the 20th century.
Keith Deligero // Philippines // 2020 // 20:00 min
Live Action
Hipsters from the future travel back in time to assassinate a dictator. Welcome to Babylon. Thank you, come again.
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.
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.
Milen Vitanov / Vera Trajanova // Bulgaria, Germany // 2016 // 08:30 min
Animation
An unexpected and mystical adventure awaits a Romany girl and Bulgarian boy on New Year’s Eve.
Margrethe Danielsen // Norway, France // 2021 // 10:33 min
Animation
An eager little bear is waiting for his birthday guests to arrive. Slowly he realizes that he has been rejected. But his determination to celebrate his birthday is still strong, and, free as a bird, his hunt for company begins.
Rudolf Fitzgerald Leonard // Germany // 2022 // 16:16 min
Live Action
An incident occurs during a water therapy session meant to sooth Leon's chronic cramps, one that will come to radically impact all aspects of his life over time.
Guillaume Fournier / Samuel Matteau / Yannick Nolin // Quebec, United States, Canada // 2022 // 11:18 min
Documentary
It's 2019, and spring flooding in Mississippi is reaching record highs. In Louisiana, the residents of Pierre-Part prepare for the worst. Invoking faith and resilience are the only weapons left when faced with such uncertainty.
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.
Agnes Skonare Karlsson // Sweden // 2021 // 14:29 min
Live Action
During an exceptionally hot summer in Sweden, a Thai migrant worker has to navigate the forest and his increasingly quarrelsome relationship with his older brother, in order to find the blueberries needed to afford passage home.
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!
Ivar Aase // Norway // 2021 // 09:00 min
Experimental, Live Action
Anna runs into her ex-boyfriend on a little pedestrian bridge. Between hurried passers-by, she attempts to explain to him what he did to her. Alas, it's her word against his.
Amir Ovadia Steklov // Germany // 2022 // 15:26 min
Animation, Documentary
Since his early childhood, Amir has struggled to fit into a binary culture and feels invisible in the LGBTQIA community. Why is it so goddamn hard for everyone to get along without constant attributions and classifications?
Dirk Verschure // Netherlands, Germany // 2021 // 07:18 min
Animation, Performance
When a mysterious diesease sweeps through the bird population, practically everything goes to hell. Planes crash, cities burn and the TV stops broadcasting.
NEOZOON // Germany // 2021 // 13:30 min
Experimental
Who gets to go to heaven and who doesn't? Your pet doesn't, that's for sure. Or does it?
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.
Simon Maria Kubiena // Austria, Germany // 2022 // 16:30 min
Live Action
In a chaotic world, caught between dominant colleagues, an unapproachable father and a demanding girlfriend, a young man seeks closeness and affection.
Adrian Jaffé // Germany // 2022 // 03:14 min
Animation
All blocks move to the rhythm until one steps out of line. This metaphorical piece shows how traditional masculinity restricts personal development while growing up.
Sylvain BES // France // 2021 // 07:30 min
Live Action
A man is seated on the seafloor, bound. An encounter with a woman seems to inspire hope, yet the shackles of the past are strong.
Vytautas Kazlauskas // Lithuania // 2021 // 08:33 min
Animation
A whale can't tell the difference between a plastic bag and proper whale food. It eats both. The journey of a whale family, whose life is astonishingly similar to our own.
Sakari Suuronen / Jussi Sandhu // Finland // 2022 // 03:00 min
Experimental, Live Action
Mirja and Timo are finally going on vacation. Classical music and the Crash Test Dummies accompany them on their trip.
Sarah Belhadi / Alice Hugueny // France // 2022 // 02:32 min
Animation, Documentary
A young woman tells the story of her first date, featuring too much alcohol and various faux pas.
Yulia Ruditskaya // Belarus // 2011 // 05:30 min
Animation
From the creation of the world until 1991: the first animated film covering Belarusian history.
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.
Juan Diego Aguirre Gómez // Colombia // 2022 // 15:58 min
Live Action
Jairo is a 50-year-old gay sex worker employed in a Columbian club. He can't imagine a life outside his familiar underworld existence of illegality and lust. Unfortunately, his patroness implies that his time there is running out.
Léo Deschênes // France // 2021 // 16:00 min
Live Action
Sébastien suddenly finds his life as a butcher on the line when a new law banning the sale of meat forces him to close shop. Resolving to continue his work, he sets out to open a new business in a neighbouring country.
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.
Jasmin Tenucci // Iceland, Brazil // 2021 // 16:17 min
Live Action
While wildfires rage in the Amazon basin hundreds of kilometres away, young nurse Lucia begins to doubt her pregnancy. A favour for her ill grandmother takes her to a church, and to a charismatic young female minister.
Thanos Psichogios // Greece, Germany // 2022 // 19:55 min
Live Action
A big house, a pool and many rooms. A cold place, where father and daughter can easily keep their ways apart, when they should actually find back to each other. Both have red eyes. But why?
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.
John Luke Miraflor // Philippines // 2021 // 15:33 min
Live Action
Angela is haunted by the uncanny image of a young girl. While she attempts to cope with the eerie occurrences, her family tries to find its way through a pandemic and poverty.
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.
Max Grau // Germany // 2015 // 25:00 min
Documentary, Experimental
Was my step-father a true hippy, even though he wore white high-top sneakers? And what fascinates us today about the oldies, which our parents already thought were lame back when they themselves were still teenagers?
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?!
Mark Albiston // New Zealand // 2021 // 15:00 min
Live Action
Before Matt's mother wants to sell his late father's Datsun, he decides to take the car on an eventful last tour of their native New Zealand with his best friend and little brother.
Lena von Döhren // Switzerland // 2020 // 04:30 min
Animation
A curious little bird makes friends with a busy bee and the funny adventure begins. All under the watchful gaze of a sneaky fox.
Justus Hanfland // Germany // 2021 // 11:56 min
Live Action
A highway at night. A rest stop. Two individuals cross paths. They nod to one another. The same thing happens at the next rest stop. Coincidence?
Paco Ruiz // Spain // 2022 // 10:07 min
Live Action
It's River's first appointment in the Gender Identity Disorder Unit. A psychiatric test is supposed to determine whether treatment can commence. River knows the answers and yet there is one detail that jeopardises the plan.
Anssi Kasitonni // Finland // 2021 // 04:00 min
Experimental, Live Action
The illusion breaks down when the viewer can see the strings.
Adrien Lhommedieu // France // 2021 // 10:00 min
Experimental, Live Action
A young boy is fascinated by ballet but afraid to admit it – until he crosses the path of a professional ballet dancer.
Jan Bujnowski // Poland // 2022 // 18:57 min
Live Action
According to research conducted by the Institute for Public Opinion Research (OBOP) throughout the 1990s, approximately 95% of Poles identified as believers. In the same period, the unemployment rate reached record highs. In times of crisis, when people turned to spirituality, seemingly impossible events became possible...
Susann Maria Hempel // Germany // 2022 // 11:05 min
Documentary, Experimental
Archives are handy when it comes to reconstructing human history, but trash is often equally helpful. Here, more precisely, we examine the contents of animal stomachs. Sadly, turtles can't tell the difference between plastic bags and jellyfish.
Nazgol Emami // Germany // 2017 // 10:33 min
Animation, Live Action
With a whole heap of imagination and a magnifying glass, a girl manages to transform her new home into a magical world. If only there wasn’t that annoying ringing of the doorbell! Who could it be?
Antonin Niclass // England // 2021 // 08:40 min
Animation
It's 2 o'clock in the morning at a gloomy bus station in the middle of nowhere: the wastebaskets are overflowing with trash, the cold neon light shines down upon the tired, lonely souls waiting for the next bus. Time for the resident pigeons to bring a little magic to this depressing spot.
Jeremy Oury // France // 2020 // 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.
Victor Nyåker // Sweden // 2022 // 15:50 min
Live Action
Sonja and Per, a woman and man in their forties, meet up for the first time in real life in a municipal gymnasium, with the intention of creating a space of trust between themselves. A "room" where they can safely explore sides of themselves that they suppress in their everyday lives.
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.
patrick bazin // France // 2022 // 03:03 min
Experimental, Live Action
Ugly plastic chairs are omnipresent. In the name of all that is beautiful, someone has to do something about the situation.
Dor Fadlon // Israel // 2010 // 14:00 min
Eva, an aspiring actress, plays in a violent scene. It is only on the cab ride home that she realizes that she is still tangled up in the story and that maybe it was just too much. Once reaching her apartment she tries to get on with her life but to no avail.
Sonny Calvento // Philippines // 2020 // 15:47 min
Live Action
Vangie is about to lose her job. But in her desperate attempt to convince her boss not to sack her, she uncovers the ultimate jaw-dropping secret to achieving balance in life.
Leonardo Martinelli // Brazil // 2021 // 20:00 min
Live Action
João is a delivery man who dreams of having a motorcycle. He was told that everything would be like a musical.
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...
Brenda Lien // Germany // 2021 // 20:00 min
Experimental, Live Action
Maxi, a musician and producer, wrestles with herself when her creative process comes to a standstill due to internal and external pressure to perform.
Eshed, Tomer // Germany // 2011 // 06:00 min
Animation
The story of the world's only heterosexual Flamingo and his desperate search for love.
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.
Igor Kovalyov // Ukraine // 2000 // 11:00 min
Animation
The explorer Nansen travels to the North Pole, where danger, adventure and a woman await him.
Romina Küper // Germany // 2021 // 10:28 min
Live Action
25-year-old Hannah, a philosophy student, has a problem: she's going round in circles. To escape a sort of inner emptiness, she meets up with men. A film about female identity and desire.
Mikhalchuk Maria // Belarus // 2020 // 02:10 min
Music Video, Commercial Work
The faces of strong, brave and caring women standing on the front lines in the struggle against violence. Together they symbolise Belarusian freedom, faith and honesty.
Kiri Dalena // Philippines // 2017 // 23:00 min
Documentary, Experimental
Descriptions of the decades-long struggle of the Maoist New People's Army, the military arm of the Philippine Marxist-Leninist front which was forced into the underground.
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.
Alon Sahar // Israel // 2013 // 12:00 min
Three soldiers are following orders as they have to reconstruct a suicide of a now deceased soldier: Yosef the MP interrogates, Buzi the company commander testifies, and a young unseen soldier shoots.
(LA)HORDE Ballet National de Marseille // France, United States // 2022 // 08:12 min
Experimental, Live Action
Electronic-music artist Rone, avant-garde dance collective (La)Horde and filmmaker Spike Jonze team up to bring the fine art museum at Marseille's Palais Longchamp to new life at night, in the scope of a ghostly choreography.
Pauline Cremer / Jakob Werner / Thea Sparmeier // Germany // 2021 // 05:19 min
Animation, Documentary
Franka has hair on her legs, her arms, her stomach – like lots of other women. Depilation hurts! And doesn't feel right… Is there no alternative?
Leyla Coll-O'Reilly // Scotland // 2022 // 16:38 min
Live Action
Groom portrays a young school dropout named Hannah, who is working a trial shift at a beauty salon, in a story about coercive relationships, consent, puberty and sexual desire.
Pavel Mozhar // Germany, Belarus // 2021 // 26:00 min
Documentary
An experimental arrangement, rendered on film, taking the form of a manual, which employs re-enactment (based on eyewitness accounts) in a striking manner to render palpable the machinations of Lukashenko's perfidious system of repression and power.
Michael Brynntrup // Germany // 1984 // 18:00 min
Experimental
The original is in motion.
The identity is being denied.
On the very first take I wanted to pose naked in front of the camera. But I guess I didn't have the guts. - By the way, I took that shot by self-timer.
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.
Da-young YOON // South Korea // 2022 // 14:33 min
Live Action
Su-wan takes her girlfriend Yun-a along to a family birthday party. Since no one in her family knows that she is lesbian yet, she sneaks a kiss from Yun-a in what she believes to be an unobserved moment. Alas, as bad luck would have it, someone catches them in the act, and suddenly the whole celebration is at stake.
Julia de Paz // Spain // 2021 // 23:19 min
Live Action
Actually, Carmela would rather celebrate her twelfth birthday with friends, but she's supposed to meet up with her father instead. Gradually, the viewer grasps why she may be anxious about the encounter.
Evgenia Arbugaeva / Maxim Arbugaev / Maxim Chakilev // United Kingdom, Russia // 2022 // 25:00 min
Documentary
For the tenth year in a row, a marine biologist goes to a small wooden hut in the middle of the vastness of the Russian Arctic to observe a recurring natural spectacle. However, global warming causes him to make alarming observations.
SAMUEL PEETERS // Belgium // 2016 // 14:12 min
Documentary
These living rooms are ruled by canaries, prejudice and populism.
Griet Goelen / Louise Van Assche // Belgium // 2021 // 16:37 min
Documentary
Feisty Emily, a talented 8-year-old cheerleader from rural Texas, is facing one of the most important tests of her yet-young life.
Amandine Meyer // France // 2022 // 05:25 min
Animation
The evolution of an artist. Memories from childhood to the present day, key moments which have influenced her creative practice and personal development.
Felix Klee // Germany // 2021 // 14:39 min
Documentary, Experimental
You can't bring back a dead horse, but there are ways to set foot again in a place once lost. An experimental essay on reconstructing memory.
Osi Wald / Noa Berman-Herzberg // Israel // 2021 // 17:22 min
Animation
In the scope of a drawing class, an unusual friendship begins between Jennifer, German and Black, and Noa, an Israeli. For 22 years, they believe they can ignore historical and political realities, until reality finally catches up with them.
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.
Marleen Valin / Alma Buddecke // Germany // 2019 // 07:40 min
Live Action
Is there a more significant relationship than the one between a girl and her vulva?
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.
Petersen Vargas // Philippines // 2020 // 11:47 min
Live Action
A teenager follows a group of call boys, in the belief that one of them could be the person he agreed to meet up with. Alas, one after another, they suddenly turn up dead on the side of the street.
Leonhard Müllner / Michael Stumpf / Robin Klengel // Austria // 2020 // 21:06 min
Animation, Documentary
Going AWOL in an online first-person shooter environment. Can you even do that? Exploring the idea within a game conceived as a recruitment tool, the film reflects on the connection between war and play, as well as discipline and disobedience.
Maissa Lihedheb // Germany // 2022 // 18:00 min
Live Action
A date takes an unexpected turn in this meditation on race, politics, and history in Germany.
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.
Robert Seidel // Germany // 2021 // 05:05 min
Animation, Experimental
Projections of abstract drawings by Robert Seidel encounter the powerful choreography of queer performer Tsuki, to be woven together into a transformative whole.
Sameh Alaa // France, Egypt // 2020 // 15:00 min
Live Action
A young man has not seen his girlfriend for about two months. Therefore, he dresses in his mother’s niqab and makes his way to see her again. Against all obstacles.
Jonatan Etzler // Sweden // 2015 // 03:15 min
Live Action
A stranger in a crowded streetcar is unpleasantly familiar with Anna’s private life.
Tobias Rud // Denmark, Canada // 2021 // 09:20 min
Animation
A woman desperately tries to deal with her partner's unusual desires.
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.
Risto-Pekka Blom // Finland // 2022 // 06:00 min
Experimental
Behold: textbook examples of humanity. Then a can rolls over the crosswalk.
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.
Jeremy Oury // France // 2019 // 08:00 min
Animation
A sequence of continually self-reconfiguring geometric forms triggers a deep dive into an abstract time-space arrangement.
Eliane Esther Bots // Netherlands // 2021 // 22:15 min
Documentary
The stories of three interpreters involved in the International Criminal Court's work focussing on former Yugoslavia. Day in and day out, they translate the shocking statements of witnesses, victims and perpetrators.
Andrew Norman Wilson // United States // 2020 // 11:00 min
Experimental
The one-and-only true story behind Phil Collins' 1981 megahit.
DUNCAN COWLES // Scotland // 0 // 10:15 min
Documentary, Experimental
Triggered by his grandfather's death, a filmmaker processes his feelings of loss, by concentrating on something much, much smaller.
Alexander Gratzer // Austria, Hungary // 2022 // 08:09 min
Animation
Every season, a young mole visits his blind grandfather, who lives deep underground in a comfortably decorated burrow. As the two grow older, their relationship becomes more intense and important questions arise.
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!
Anne Isensee // Germany // 2022 // 07:05 min
Animation, Experimental
Animated cinema for the ears centring on an audio descriptor named Simone, who can't particularly relate to the film in question.
Robert-Jonathan Koeyers // Netherlands // 2022 // 15:00 min
Animation
The fragmented portrait of a moment that would significantly change the lives of everyone present; told from the memories of the young girl Imani and the police officer David.
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.
Nesar Zarifi // France, Germany, Afghanistan // 2022 // 12:56 min
Live Action
Concealed passengers on an illegal bus, two Afghan teenagers attempt to cross into Iran, where they intend to start a new life. Alas, first they must make it past a checkpoint.
Markéta Kubátová Smolíková // Czech Republic // 2019 // 08:53 min
Animation
Alien creatures populate the barren landscape of a seemingly unknown planet and get straight to work digging a pit.
Carlo Francisco Manatad // Philippines // 2017 // 13:00 min
Live Action
An employee at a gas station uses her last day on the job to do a few silly things.
Khavn de la Cruz // Philippines // 2018 // 04:00 min
Experimental
Exploring the historical fictional character Juan Tamad ("Lazy Juan"), the film tells a surreal story set between the end of the Spanish colonial regime and the beginning of the American one that would replace it.
Márk Beleznai // Hungary // 2022 // 17:17 min
Live Action
24-year-old Ádám is a weed dealer who lives in the flat of his recently deceased grandmother. His quiet, dead-end life changes when his younger half-brother suddenly appears, expressing a desire to move in temporarily.
Tone Ottilie Frederiksen // Denmark // 2021 // 30:00 min
Live Action
When Liv falls in love with Anna, she faces a big hurdle. She suffers from OCD and sees only germs, mould and maggots everywhere: How can she express her affection to Anna when every kiss and every touch seems unbearable for her?
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?
Evgenia Gostrer // Germany // 2021 // 17:35 min
Animation, Documentary
A young woman thinks back on her Jewish-Russian parents' arrival in Germany. They start a conversation. What were her parents seeking? What does the young woman wish to find, for herself?
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.
Gilb Baldoza // Philippines // 2020 // 20:00 min
Live Action
Gay and unemployed, Girly lives below the poverty line with mom. Scarred by a life full of violence, Girly tries to gain control over the situation.
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.
David Lodge // England // 1999 // 13:12 min
Animation, Experimental, Live Action
The countess emerges from a magical box and vanishes into it again following several peculiar happenings. Inspired by the early portraits of photographer Mayer Freres, David Lodge creates a surreal nightmare drawing on the tricks of early cinema.
Noémi Gruner // Belgium, France // 2016 // 10:00 min
Animation
Erika takes a job on the Costa Dorada hoping it will enable her to help her parents, who have been hit by the economic crisis in Spain. In the meantime, Madrid is preparing for one of the most important demonstrations by the "Indignados", which Erika desperately wanted to attend.
Matias Carlier // Switzerland // 2021 // 20:00 min
Live Action
For Aleister and Joana, it's goodbye for now. They spend their last evening together, skateboarding through the city at night in search of themselves and a shared perspective.
Simona Mulazzani / Gianluigi Toccafondo // Italy // 1991 // 02:00 min
Animation
A two-minute-long animated swirl of images and movements, based on the dance routines of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.
SABRINA FRANCO / Alejandra Gómez de la torre // Peru // 2021 // 06:00 min
Animation, Documentary
Rita is a curious teenager – she creates worlds and loses herself in them. A vibrant melody draws her attention. A journey of self-exploration that will end in Rita’s first orgasm.
NEOZOON // Germany // 2022 // 12:00 min
Experimental
A work dealing with the religious bubble within YouTube's social network, examining the fear of death and hell as a space of eternal damnation.
Kis Hajni // Hungary // 2018 // 27:16 min
Live Action
Anikó, 61, is about to leave Hungary to move in with her daughter's family in the UK. This is her final day before departing from everything she used to have.
Olivier Labonté LeMoyne // Canada // 2022 // 03:50 min
Live Action
The chaotic final minutes of a drug gang. Death is everywhere. The big crook plays his last sonata.
Marjolaine Perreten // Belgium, France, Switzerland // 2019 // 07:00 min
Animation
On your mark, get set, go! The animals of the forest are preparing for an exciting race on the last sunny day of autumn.
Páris Cannes // Belgium // 2019 // 20:00 min
Live Action
Two twin brothers from Brazil flee to Europe to escape the homophobia seething in their native country under an ascendent Jair Bolsonaro. While one brother possesses an official residency permit in Brussels, the other must live like a ghost as an illegal immigrant in Berlin.
Mehdi Pierret // Belgium // 2021 // 15:38 min
Live Action
A contemporary art gallery organises an opening featuring several artistic performances. The cleaning lady, Ilidia, is unable to grasp the meaning behind all this and gets irritated by some of the visitors. This evening will end badly...
Anssi Kasitonni // Finland // 2022 // 12:00 min
Experimental, Live Action
An ex-saboteur gets back in the game and every trick will be exposed! A short action film about the joint adventure of indie filmmaking – with all the special effects.
Kezia Zurbrügg // Switzerland // 2020 // 18:33 min
Documentary
The setting: Dover, on 31 January 2020. A man goes out to walk his dog, a lorry drives past, Great Britain leaves the EU at 11 pm. A film about the difficulty of perceiving political processes and their significance when one is preoccupied with everyday life.
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.
Maxim Bujnicki // Poland // 2022 // 08:18 min
Live Action
Sergej and Olesja work together in a factory. He is Belarusian, she is Ukrainian. A date between the two becomes a sort of revenge for all the suffering the war has inflicted.
Michael Brynntrup // Germany // 1991 // 07:00 min
Experimental
You know very well, that nowadays many countries produce films in their own language ... (original with subtitles).
German for foreigners, asylum seekers and other outsiders.
Survival course with subtitles and undertones.
Fabian Tischer // Germany // 2009 // 01:20 min
Experimental
Berlin's iconic symbol, the Television Tower, in a daring production. It lifts off!
Sita Valenzuela / Yvonne Salazar // Philippines // 2021 // 14:48 min
Animation, Documentary
A blend of animation and documentary film relates the myth of a country that has been plunged into darkness by a snake, from the Marcos era to the current Duterte regime.
Tali Shalom Ezer // Israel // 2006 // 19:00 min
A woman in her forties shares an apartment with her mother. This suffocating relationship doesn´t allow her to grow up and become a whole person. A flirt with another woman forces her, for the first time, to face her mother and her life.
Silvia Staderoli // France // 2022 // 15:00 min
Live Action
In the wild maquis, Lola, 15, is letting a boy kiss her. When desire turns into violence, Lola rebels.
Markus Wulf // Germany, United States // 2022 // 08:30 min
Animation
When a gust of wind carries a crown to Louis, he appoints himself the first king of the sheep. The unexpected power quickly goes to his head and is fortunately over again with the next breeze.
Oliver Harrison // England // 1999 // 03:00 min
Animation
A snow queen sings about the virtues of true love, surrounded by animated miniatures. Shot entirely on film… with some scenes re-exposed up to twenty times!
Diana Cam Van Nguyen // Slovakia, Czech Republic // 2021 // 12:42 min
Animation, Documentary
A young woman reflects on her relationship with her father and how it might have been different had she been his son.
Cristóbal León Dooner / Joaquín Cociña / Niles Atallah // Chile // 2007 // 03:50 min
Animation
Lucía remembers the summer she fell in love with Luis.
Chris Lavis & Maciek Szczerbowski // Canada // 2007 // 17:20 min
Animation
Madame Tutli-Putli gets on the night train. As evening falls, she realizes that she's trapped in a metaphysical adventure with no way out.
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.
Lola Lefèvre // France // 2021 // 07:09 min
Animation
Gwen just turned 11. As she discovers her sexuality, she catches her dog laughing.
Daria Yurkevich // France, Belarus // 2014 // 15:00 min
Live Action
Grandma Sima is worried about her alcoholic son's future. Alas, as bad luck would have it, the village's main vodka producer lives right next door. Manya, a white goat, is her only consolation.
Andrew Lee // Philippines, United States // 2021 // 21:00 min
Live Action
To impress his father, a son buys a child who can drink and smoke. However, the experiment doesn't go as planned.
Jaime Habac Jr. // Philippines // 2016 // 10:31 min
Live Action
When the whole family confronts her 14-year-old daughter over a suspected pregnancy, a 50-year-old woman gives birth to her twentieth child.
Karla Riebartsch / Lion Durst // Germany // 2022 // 06:56 min
Animation, Live Action
A stray dog gets to know young protestor María. Together they become radicalised, until María is taken to jail and the dog is forced to remain behind on its own.
Anne Isensee // Germany // 2017 // 01:46 min
Animation
How do I accomplish my life’s great goal? With the mega-trick of course!
Ida-Maria Olva // Finland // 2021 // 22:38 min
Live Action
In the midst of an especially hot summer, Eedi decides to quit university and become a beekeeper. Mother Anne helps out – though she's not worried about the future, even the tiniest of bees scares her silly.
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.
Miko Livelo / Mihk Vergara // Philippines // 2021 // 20:00 min
Documentary, Live Action
When a documentary film team reports about the Philippine Giant Monster Defense Institute's Mighty Robo V program, it is forced to realise that it may have hired the wrong people for the job.
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.
Niki Lindroth von Bahr // Sweden // 2017 // 13:00 min
Animation
A gritty musical, set at a market square next to an expressway. The shop employees drive away their doldrums and fears by putting on song-and-dance performances. Here, the apocalypse represents a tempting sort of liberation.
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.
Seemab Gul // Pakistan // 2021 // 19:55 min
Live Action
Zara, a schoolgirl in Karachi (Pakistan), shares a sensual dance video with her virtual boyfriend, who uses it to blackmail her. Caught between his manipulative behaviour and the desire to experience love on her own terms, Zara searches for the strength to reject the confines of a patriarchal society.
Ali Sohail Jaura // Pakistan // 2022 // 17:38 min
Live Action
Abdul Aziz Ansari sets out to look for his son, only to find that it's not just his son who is missing – the entire city is missing its long-lost peace.
Michael Brynntrup // Germany // 1985 // 08:00 min
Experimental
My apartment has a nice lay-out.
There are a lot of paintings on the walls.
I have a big carpet, too.
Antoine Chapon // France // 2020 // 18:40 min
Animation, Documentary
A developer of digital training tools for the military once designed video game scenarios intended to prepare soldiers for culture shock and heal trauma, until he himself went to war, radically altering his relationship to games and life in general.
Paulina Ziolkowska // Poland // 2018 // 04:45 min
Animation
Everyone gets sick of everyone. But things become really bad when you get sick of yourself.
Nicolas Bouchez // Belgium, Hungary, Portugal // 2022 // 16:20 min
Documentary
An invisible lunar eclipse is approaching in a Portuguese student dormitory town. An observational comedy about the joy of watching, set in a place where there is seemingly nothing to see.
Olga Lucovnicova // Belgium // 2021 // 20:00 min
Documentary
Ripe cherries, black-and-white photos and a summer house filled with memories of the seemingly care-free childhoods of multiple generations. Intimate images tell of an idyllic world from another era, until the story turns to Uncle Tudor.
Jasmijn Kooijman // Sweden // 2021 // 13:39 min
Live Action
Lente revisits her grandmother Siri, who lives alone on the Swedish island of Öland, after a long time away and immerses herself in a weightless, nostalgic world of caring and shared memories.
Florence Kosky // England // 2021 // 07:34 min
Live Action
In an absurd therapy session, Alice is confronted with her painful memory of a sexual assault and society's disrespectful treatment of it.
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.
Gideon van der Stelt // Netherlands // 2021 // 21:00 min
Animation, Live Action
In cyberpunk style, the city of New Babylon, an assemblage of rotating rings, mirrors the individualistic lifestyle of its lonely inhabitants.
Marleen Valien // Germany // 2022 // 16:30 min
Live Action
Lucy likes Anton and Anton likes Lucy. On their first date, Anton tells Lucy about his HIV, forcing her to realise that she is pretty ill-informed about the illness.
Georgi Biziuk // Belarus // 2020 // 04:50 min
Music Video
Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets to protest unlawfulness and violence. The film team was among them – their documentation enables us to take part in the events.
Steph Hope // Norway, United States // 2021 // 04:54 min
Animation, Live Action
There's a lot going on in Amy's life at the moment. Sleeping is not at all easy under such circumstances. Her thoughts revolve alternately around sheep, embarrassing kitchen conversations and muscular dancers.
Gabrielle Demers // Quebec, Canada // 2022 // 15:59 min
Live Action
Victor goes for a walk around the neighbourhood to get away from the Friday evening disco session in a home for autistic adults. In the process, he gets to know Jessy, a young prostitute, who whisks him away to another world for a single wild night.
Michael Brynntrup // Germany // 1999 // 04:00 min
Experimental
WALK / DON’T WALK / WALK. The rhythm of the nineties.
A music stroll along Christopher Street.
Filipe Melo // Portugal // 2021 // 22:00 min
Live Action
As so many nights before, Vítor Lobo, the "lone wolf", starts his late-night radio talk-show right on time, and proceeds to take calls from his listeners. Only, there's a special call in store for him this night.
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.
Michael Brynntrup // Germany // 1987 // 07:00 min
Experimental
Photo, film, and TV images from September 22nd, 1981.
Corner of Potsdamer Strasse and Bülowstrasse.
(This film is dedicated to Klaus-Jürgen Rattay).
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.
Lina Kalcheva // England // 2021 // 13:20 min
Animation
An individual creature in a world that otherwise consists exclusively of couples fused into a single entity, Ren sets off on a journey to find his other half. But what does it mean to be whole?
Deniz Tortum / Kathryn Hamilton // Netherlands, United States // 2021 // 12:00 min
Animation, Documentary
We archive everything, as if ecological collapse could be averted by some sort of digital Noah's ark. But can we upload ourselves and our planet and really save everything with the aid of digitally archived 3D models?
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.
Éva Darabos // Hungary // 2020 // 09:00 min
Animation
A woman learns that she has to move from the residential block she lives in. After receiving the news, she is overwhelmed with emotion. Her teardrop grows into a concrete monolith. When the drop hits the ground, a surreal panorama of the residential block unfolds.
Samir Karahoda // Kosovo, Albania // 2021 // 14:40 min
Documentary, Live Action
In post-war-era Kosovo, two players lug their ping-pong table from one obscure place to the next, in an effort to keep more than just their beloved sport alive.
Arjanmar Rebeta // Philippines // 2018 // 16:30 min
Live Action
A man is talking to his girlfriend on Skype. The conversation starts out normally, but it eventually turns into a pervasive look into another life.
Borbála Nagy // Hungary, Germany // 2020 // 27:00 min
Live Action
In the midst of the chaos caused by a visit from the Prime Minister to a school in Hungary, one of the schoolgirls hesitantly prepares her little rebellion.
Elizabeth Chatelain // United States // 2021 // 13:56 min
Live Action
Children see the world with different eyes. But what happens when their way of looking at things changes? An unsuccessful goose hunt adds a new perspective to a little girl’s view of her father and her life.
Amélie Bonnin // France // 2021 // 24:53 min
Live Action
Julien left his hometown to build a new life for himself in Paris and leave his past behind. Alas, one day the successful writer and expectant father has no other choice but to return and face his memories.
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.
Line Klungseth Johansen / Vegard Dahle // Norway // 2022 // 19:38 min
Live Action
John lives with his boyfriend Benjamin in a flooded apartment building. As the water continues to rise, John begins to suspect that Benjamin intends to leave him. However, instead of confronting the problem, John distracts himself with tending to his vegetable garden.
Gilles Cuvelier // France // 2022 // 13:56 min
Animation
Poetic testimony of a family crossing time and space to the rhythm of the uncontrollable crises of the youngest child.
Maya Klar // Germany // 2019 // 24:00 min
In a luxurious furniture store in the small town of Weimar, human beings are trying out Bauhaus chairs. In-between customers, signs of life re-emerge from the past.
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.
Steffen Köhn // Germany // 2021 // 16:28 min
Experimental, Live Action
The employees of various delivery services become connected globally via an online pizza delivery simulator. Using the chat function, they share their experiences and secretly plan a boycott.
Balder Westein // Netherlands // 2013 // 02:00 min
Animation
On this stormy Halloween night, nothing goes as planned.
Dejan Petrović // Serbia // 2021 // 19:21 min
Documentary
The Penal Correctional Facility is one of three prisons in Europe that has incorporated dog training into efforts to rehabilitate inmates. This parallel look at man and dog reflects on the relativity behind any authority that secures our obedience by meting out punishments and rewards.
Joanny Causse // France, United States // 2021 // 14:47 min
Live Action
While monitoring late-night calls at an AI companionship service, lonely customer support agent Leah impersonates an artificial dream girl to chat with the regular caller for whom she's developed feelings.
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.
Nata Metlukh // Ukraine, United States // 2022 // 05:00 min
Animation
In the wildly colourful world of graphic design, fonts are the ultimate stars. Bold makes everything thicker, cursive tilts everything to the right. Their mission: to build a garden.
Dean Colin Marcial // Philippines, United States // 2019 // 16:00 min
Live Action
Young Martin died during the political unrest in the period around the second EDSA revolution and the removal of corrupt president Estrada from office in 2001. Here, he speaks of his life before his passing.
Antoine Antabi // France, Germany, Qatar // 2022 // 09:35 min
Animation
Midyan is running from war. Eventually, his hunger becomes so intense that he begins to eat his last worldly possessions.
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.
Hagar Faibish // Germany // 2022 // 06:44 min
Animation
A character withdraws from a dystopian world outside, before progressively becoming one with the virtual world of their television.
Myo Aung // Myanmar, Taiwan // 2021 // 10:05 min
Live Action
It is an auspicious day for 12-year-old Hung Hsia‘s family, as she will soon be wed to a successful Chinese man in an arranged marriage. The ceremony takes an absurd turn when the groom is unable to attend.
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.
Spencer Susser // England, United States // 2021 // 04:20 min
Animation
Ralph is a normal rabbit living a normal rabbit existence. In conversation with the Humane Society International for a documentary film production about his life, Ralph speaks about his "occupation" as a "tester" of cosmetic products. Featuring Taika Waititi as Ralph.
Mona Keil // Germany // 2022 // 04:55 min
Animation, Experimental
Meaty creatures must learn to share their juicy world with pesky little bugs, before they run dry.
Martin Smatana // Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland // 2019 // 13:10 min
Animation
A little boy likes to visit his grandpa and go kite-flying with him. But as the seasons change, grandpa seems to change too.
Lara Perren / Anna Lena Spring // Switzerland // 2021 // 04:19 min
Animation
Ava enters the sauna for the first time. She is overwhelmed by the nudity, her thoughts and the physical sensations. The other guests go about their routines. With the rising heat Ava starts to relax. Finally, she melts away and dissolves into complete ecstasy.
Yuval Shani // Israel // 2009 // 23:00 min
Segal´s life of confined existence is about to change when unforeseen opportunity knocks.
Emil Dam Seidel // Denmark, Sweden // 2022 // 07:35 min
Experimental
Caught in a room, the protagonist, Clarice, unfolds a vision of her own identity through a mirror interrogator.
Carlos Segundo // France, Brazil // 2021 // 15:00 min
Live Action
Brazil is preparing to send its first manned mission into space. Members of a family living near the space centre observe the launch and dream of new possibilities for their own lives.
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.
Florent Hill // France // 2018 // 04:14 min
Live Action
The whole family is annoyed by Grandma's soup-slurping. Fortunately her grandson is hugely inventive.
Manuela Vladić Maštruko // Croatia // 2018 // 07:38 min
Animation
What happens when you mix yellow and blue? Snails experiment with the magical fun of mixing colours.
Lana Barić // Croatia // 2022 // 14:41 min
Live Action
Željka is a 40-year-old woman, living a quiet life in an isolated village. An unexpected visit takes her back to the past, shaking up her daily routine.
Leon Schwitter // Switzerland // 2021 // 13:29 min
Live Action
On a hot summer day, four groups sweat it out, failing to notice that they're up to their necks in water.
Chanrado Sok / Kongkea Vann // Cambodia // 2021 // 20:00 min
Live Action
Vibol and his brother Kea sell noodles from a motorized cart every night on the streets of Phnom Penh. They often face troublesome threats from gangsters and thieves, even though these very people are their only customers. As the city grows around them, they reflect on their unstable income and imagine a different future.
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.
Al Medwedsky // Belarus // 2020 // 03:06 min
Music Video
Sož is an electro-post-punk band from Gomel. Dedicated to all those that have been persecuted for their positions, and all those who were repressed in the year 2020.
Alireza Kazemipour // Iran // 2021 // 14:53 min
Live Action
A woman with a shaved head and a long-haired man meet at the Tehran Morality Police station. Their cars have been confiscated due to their improper Hijab, now they are torn between the politics of their chosen hair styles and trying to resolve the problem as quickly as possible.
Xavier Seron // Belgium // 2020 // 20:00 min
Live Action
Flo has to travel to Marrakesh for work, leaving Tom to take care of Sam, her 5-year-old son. Flo left him a to-do list that he's supposed to work through while she's gone. Alas, of course something goes wrong.
Jan Soldat // Austria, Germany // 2022 // 08:30 min
Experimental
Countless times the man has been strung up, stabbed, pulverised, or plummeted from high-rises – now Jan Soldat has created a composition featuring Udo Kier dying his way through cinema history.
Diana Ali Chire // United States // 2021 // 04:04 min
Experimental, Live Action
Inspired by the lives of forgotten Black female muses depicted in the masterpieces of the 18th and 19th centuries, historical paintings and voices decrying exclusion are blended into a tableau vivant. An ode to the Black woman and her voice.
Lydia Matata // Kenya // 2021 // 19:54 min
Live Action
Once again a young woman in a wheelchair must stand up against those who try to deny the fact that she is a sexually active woman and want to keep her from participating in important rituals.
Jens Rosemann // Germany // 2021 // 03:33 min
Animation
Today is the day: Sven is going to jump off the high dive. Although… maybe tomorrow would be better? Or next week? Sven climbs the tower. It can't be that hard, right?
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.
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...
Erich Rettstadt // Taiwan, United States // 2021 // 09:31 min
Live Action
10-year-old Jojo dreams of dancing and drag, and doesn’t have anyone to share this with, until the day that the magical Tank Fairy enters his life in a cloud of empowering glitter.
Mehrdad Hassani // Iran // 2021 // 16:57 min
Live Action
9-year-old Shahrokh is ostracised by family and friends, just for painting his nails. Alas, instead of conforming to their expectations, he rebels, outing himself in front of the inhabitants of his village.
Saulius Baradinskas // Lithuania // 2021 // 18:00 min
Live Action
Nikita finds escape from his unbearable and frustrating everyday life in music and dancing to techno. Completely contrary to his mother's ideas, his greatest wish is to move to Berlin.
Nikki Schuster // Austria, Germany, Iran // 2020 // 06:22 min
Animation, Experimental
Carlo Oppermann // Germany // 2022 // 06:09 min
Live Action
Metropolis, sprawling city. Grime, the smell of urine and smashed glass. I'm happy here, in fact I feel right at home. All thanks to the diligence and dedication of the AfUA, the Authority for Urban Authenticity.
Jon Olarte // Philippines // 2017 // 03:00 min
Non-Narrative
This experimental documentary brings us Philippine street artists accompanied by the words of Mulong Sandoval’s poem "Ang Mga Kriminal".
Vedran Rupic // Sweden // 2021 // 13:46 min
Live Action
Stefan is lonely, and possessed by a blinding ambition to make friends. One day he stumbles upon a diamond in the woods. Unable to reach it, the solution presents itself in the form of an even smaller man.
Carlo Valenzona / Arvin Belarmino // Philippines // 2021 // 14:25 min
Live Action
In the midst of the city slums, Adeng, a tricycle driver, faces a dilemma after crossing paths with an abused mother and child, leading him to make tough decisions that could drastically change his life.
Jonathan Hodgson // England // 1999 // 05:38 min
Animation
Children are not allowed to visit the bad man's house. Based on a poem by Charles Bukowski.
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.
Jonathan Laskar // Switzerland // 2022 // 08:38 min
Animation
A passionate instrument collector and seller receives a magic record from a stranger that makes it possible to play long-forgotten memories.
Daniela Stephan // Lebanon, England // 2022 // 17:29 min
Live Action
Twentysomething Mounia is searching for her cat on the streets of Beirut with her best friend Ghady. It's been a month since the explosion at the port – Mounia realises that the wreckage in the city symbolises her own life, and escape is now her only hope.
Joanna Vasquez Arong // Philippines // 2020 // 18:30 min
Documentary, Experimental
In 2013, Typhoon Yolanda ravaged the Philippines, leaving a trail of destruction in its wake. Accompanied by grainy black-and-white images of the wreckage, the film recalls the catastrophe, the injustices that soon occurred due to corruption and the solidarity among the have-nots.
Michael Brynntrup // Germany // 1983 // 09:00 min
Experimental
Between an overgrown West Berlin graveyard and a desolate stretch of land under communist rule, there is a supposedly dead no-man's land. Around noon, the main character arrives at this inevitable place.
Sean Lionadh // Scotland // 2022 // 16:00 min
Live Action
After a night of intoxication, a hungover and hysterical Nick wakes up next to his boyfriend Charlie and must conceal him from his own homophobic family.
Erwan Alépée // France // 2017 // 02:45 min
Live Action
Alexander calls a number he knows really well.
Carlos Baena // United States // 2021 // 08:50 min
Live Action
A woman's tram trip becomes a rapid descent into the horrors of her subconscious. A visual experience carried by sound.
Amartei Armar // France, Ghana // 2022 // 15:35 min
Live Action
In einer kleinen ghanaischen Küstenstadt am Rande einer riesigen Mülldeponie kämpfen Sowah und Okai mit dem Verlust ihres ältesten Bruders. Verfolgt von seinem Tod, glaubt Okai, dass der Bruder noch immer da draußen auf dem Meer ist.
Jela Hasler // Switzerland // 2021 // 12:15 min
Live Action
Summertime in Zürich. Cooling off in the river only brings temporary relief: with all the constant burdens, Eli's day is one big frustrating attempt to escape the confinement and aggressions of the city. Until she too releases her anger.
Marie Paccou // France // 1998 // 04:28 min
Animation
One day, a man entered the protagonist's belly. It was a shock when he left it again. Later, many other men climbed into her belly, but they were either too fat, too thin, too big or too little.
Nina Bisiarina // France, Switzerland // 2019 // 06:48 min
Animation
A curious lynx leaves its forest to explore the snowy metropolis.
Javier Marco Rico // Spain // 2018 // 10:00 min
Live Action
Far out at sea, a cell phone floating inside an air-tight bag starts to ring. Seamen take it on board and talk with a mother.
Jorn Leeuwerink // Netherlands // 2022 // 08:17 min
Animation
How long will an entire village be able to draw energy from just one source? The animal inhabitants have to realize that the pig's nose might not be the best way to get electricity after all.
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.
Michael Brynntrup // Germany // 1986 // 11:00 min
Experimental
The biblical prohibition of images word for word. God's life story in the form of a trailer: from zero B.C. to the Second Coming of Christ - coming soon.
Emma Branderhorst // Netherlands // 2021 // 15:41 min
Live Action
Juggling finances are a part of everyday life for Ruby and her mother. While she’s good at keeping this secret from her school friends, it get harder to hide when she needs sanitary products.
Emiel Sandtke // Belgium, Netherlands // 2016 // 18:20 min
Live Action
Nadir and Kian’s friendship is put to the test when Nadir’s family is deported.
Sofía Ayala // Germany // 2022 // 14:53 min
Live Action
A daugther and son are carrying their father's corpse southwards, across the border. In spite of the risk the journey entails, they have set out to bury him in the place they once called home.
GAUTHIER AMMEUX / ALEXANDRE DUMEZ / VALENTINE BAILLON / BENJAMIN CHAUMENY / LEA FINUCCI / MARINA ROGER // France // 2017 // 07:30 min
Animation
A tiger and its pursuer end up in a space station, where they meet an astronaut and his goldfish. It quickly becomes apparent that weightlessness turns everything upside down.
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.
Dania Bdeir // France, Lebanon // 2021 // 15:42 min
Live Action
Warsha follows Mohammad, a Syrian migrant working as a crane operator in Beirut. One morning he volunteers to take on one of the tallest and notoriously most dangerous cranes. Away from everyone's eyes, he is able to live out his secret passion and find freedom.
Moritz Geiser // Germany // 2022 // 22:00 min
Live Action
Quirky teacher Helen and notorious problem pupil Mia have one thing in common: they detest the social roles which have been assigned to them by the institutional context of school. A conflict takes shape, and soon escalates.
Katia Sophia Ditzler // Germany // 2022 // 03:00 min
Animation, Experimental
Paper dolls and tableaus. A reference to the siege of Leningrad, colours of the suffragettes, the glorification of Aileen Wuorno and magnificent landscapes in combination with Nazi uniforms. A performative poetry film about that which no one cares to admit they witnessed.
Katarzyna Warzecha // Poland // 2020 // 10:00 min
Animation
After his mother's death, Adam discovers his parents' love letters – a romantic adventure recorded on paper, set in the 20th century, as the world was divided into two halves and the war between Iran and Iraq marked the beginning of tragic conflicts in the Middle East.
Arseniy Aleinik // Czech Republic // 2020 // 07:19 min
Experimental, Live Action
A conversation between two young people following the violent protests of August 2020. One of them was present as a woman was critically injured.
Lauriane MONTPERT / Mélina MANDON / Marianne BERGEONNEAU / Elvira TAUSSAC // France // 2021 // 06:00 min
Animation
Wellness, massage, sauna. Individuals float sensually in the waters of a thermal bath. In their midst: a wedding ring slips off a finger.
Isaac King // Canada // 2020 // 11:11 min
Animation
A dead tree goes viral, attracting wildlife, a nature lover, and a crowd of online followers.
Amanda Forbis / Wendy Tilby // Canada // 1999 // 09:40 min
Animation
After witnessing the accidental death of a stranger, Ruby seeks affirmation in the city around her, and finds it in surprising places.
Erika Grace Strada // Denmark // 2021 // 03:41 min
Animation
A surreal world on another planet. Humanoid creatures battle against a huge monster.
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.
Katarina Jazbec // Netherlands // 2021 // 20:00 min
Documentary
An encounter with tattooed dockworkers at Rotterdam's enormous port. A poetic portrait of labourers, set amid containers and freight cranes.
Katie Byford // England // 2021 // 03:57 min
Live Action
Syd goes to an OB/GYN appointment, though she's been struggling with PTSD symptoms following a recent incident of sexual assault.
Derek Ugochukwu // Ireland // 2022 // 10:58 min
Live Action
When an ominous mould appears in their room, two refugee brothers seeking asylum are faced with a dark entity lurking within their residence for asylum seekers.
Tal Oved // Israel // 2015 // 13:00 min
Jewish Ziva rooms in prison with Amal, a young Palestinian woman, and decides to test their friendship.
Jonatan SCHWENK // Germany // 2022 // 04:25 min
Animation
Small, shimmering animals in heat. A two-legged forest dweller encounters the lustful group. He and his companions snack on the little creatures and soon a feast begins.
Eva Matz / Jonas Schmieta // Germany // 2021 // 03:22 min
Experimental
We need to talk about blood. Since the beginning of her period, she has been plagued by severe pain, cramps and loss of conciousness. She is locked up and dominated by her pain, from which she tries to free herself.
Vova Jodov // Belarus // 2020 // 04:10 min
Music Video
A music video featuring a computer game aesthetic that reflects on the events of the protests in August 2020. The clip was rated "politically extreme" in Belarus in 2021.
Carolina Poliakowa / Anna Crook // Belarus // 2017 // 03:07 min
Music Video
Politics and Soviet leaders treated in pop-art style. A call to preserve the curious gaze of the inner child and to guide it through the years and circumstances of political regimes.
Anastasia Babenko // Ukraine // 2021 // 17:44 min
Live Action
Just 20-years-old, young parents Lena and Vitya are still almost children themselves. While they attempt to wake their baby for feeding time, here in the protected atmosphere of a maternity hospital room, they have no choice but to grow up in a hurry.
Sviatlana Kazlouskaya / Kiryl Halitski // Belarus // 2019 // 21:00 min
Live Action
He spoke to her on the beach. She wanted to be left in peace and walked away. He followed her and made her day hellish. It could have played out differently though.
Veronika Bolotina // Germany, England, Belarus // 2021 // 13:00 min
Documentary, Live Action
A short film takes matters even further, to the court hearing of the highest authority and a highest being. The judges are the angels who are now judging those working for the regime and working as judges during their lifetime. The film is both frightening and comical, and in its essence politically neutral.
