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INTERFILM Festival
4 - 9 November 2025
4 - 9 November 2025
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Hussein Ibrahim // France, Lebanon, Argentina, Germany // 2025 // 10:04 min
Experimental, Live Action
A downpour, a taxi, a ride through forgotten pasts and lost futures and a decision: which of these do we want to keep?
Basil da Cunha // Portugal, Switzerland // 2023 // 24:00 min
Live Action
Following a police raid in a poor part of Lisbon, a young girl searches for her missing brother. At the same time, a recently released ex-convict attempts to start a new life.
[Content Note: Oppression, Racism and racial slurs, Classism]
Clément Courcier // France // 2024 // 16:19 min
Live Action
A woman at a window. A glowing object races through the night. Time stands still – suddenly she is swept away on an immersive journey through the cosmos, as space and light become one at staggering speeds.
Ella Knorz // Germany // 2024 // 17:03 min
Experimental, Live Action
Graduation, summer with friends, just 18 and: an unwanted pregnancy. Between parties and outdoor swimming pools, Lea‘s focus hones in on navigating Germany‘s abortion bureaucracy. And time is ticking.
[Content Note: Abortion]
Chélanie Beaudin-Quintin // Quebec // 2025 // 13:55 min
Live Action
Protest as dance: people are facing conflicts – in movements, in the system, within themselves. Solidarity is born from pain, resilience from chaos. A portrait of contemporary struggles around the world, powerful and without pathos.
[Content Note: Physical Violence]
Vincent René-Lortie // Quebec // 2024 // 16:42 min
Live Action
After work, an office employee encounters the enigmatic gaze of a chimpanzee – a mute rendezvous that leads him to an irreversible decision: all while dancing!
Theingi Win Tin // Myanmar, United Kingdom // 2025 // 16:00 min
Documentary
Aging, loneliness and illness are taking a heavy toll on transwoman Ko Nge. Fortunately, her beauty salon remains a safe haven for her and the next generation of trans sex workers.
Mahasen Nasser-Eldin // Palestine // 2019 // 20:00 min
Documentary
300 Palestinian women march through Jerusalem – silent, loud, determined. A protest against injustice, a moment that creates movement and hope.
Jumana Manna // Norway, Palestine // 2013 // 12:00 min
Live Action, Experimental
Palestine, 1942. Alfred Roch hosts his last masquerade. An archival photo becomes a film: a bohemian affair, tinged with melancholy and a hint of uncertain future.
Jonghoon Lee // South Korea // 2024 // 04:35 min
Animation, Live Action
Early morning. An architect picks cherry tomatoes from a window planter for his lunchbox – green energy flows from the vines, his companion in the fight to overcome the climate crisis.
Razan AlSalah // Canada, Lebanon, Palestine // 2023 // 40:00 min
Experimental, Documentary
Twice, Amine loses his land, employment and the place he calls home. Oil, labour, exile – they're all connected. History and resistance often go hand in hand.
Katja Stirnemann // Switzerland // 2024 // 14:20 min
Documentary
Gender codes within the world of sports are subject to deconstruction. Personal archives meet found footage and questions take the place of solutions. A film about sexism, self-determination and the unresolved struggles of today.
[Content Note: Sexism and misogyny]
Leila Fatima Keita / Felix Klee // Germany // 2024 // 10:20 min
Experimental, Documentary
Animals cross paths with Google Street View cars. Spiders, dogs and pigs appear – sometimes blurry, sometimes clearly visible. The film examines unexpected encounters between animal and algorithm, digitality and nature.
Zhamilya Sakhari // Germany, Kazakhstan // 2025 // 20:00 min
Documentary
Kazakh drag queen Ali finds freedom on stage and liberation within the queer community. Will Ali's mother stand by their side too, as love, doubt and social pressures collide?
[Content Note: Homophobia and heterosexism, Transphobia and trans misogyny, Oppression]
Jansone Kate // Estonia // 2025 // 05:16 min
Animation, Experimental
A young girl meets a killer whale while swimming laps at the pool – the encounter awakens something in her, but unfortunately nothing in this world is forever.
[Content Note: Animal cruelty or animal death]
Cansu Baydar // Turkey // 2024 // 20:00 min
Live Action
Hanna and her brother Nader flee the war in Syria for Istanbul, where she learns nail design and dreams of Europe. When she meets İbo, she is torn between her own identity and the needs of her young brother.
[Content Note: Hateful language direct at religious groups (e.g., Islamophobia, anti-Semitism), Racism and racial slurs]
João Salaviza // Portugal // 2017 // 19:00 min
Live Action, Documentary
A pioneer of Cape Verdean Creole rap, Karlon was born in a slum on the edge of Lisbon. Now, he flees, withdraws. The nights pass, oppressively hot. Then, a whispering emerges from the sugar cane – he never stopped singing.
[Content Note: Classism]
Maria Trigo Teixeira // Portugal, Germany // 2024 // 11:30 min
Animation
In the belief that her aging mother is no longer able to live alone, a woman moves back into her parents' home. While she gets used to her new life, her mother seems to be drifting off into another world.
[Content Note: Mental illness]
Alexandre Sousa // Portugal, Hungary // 2025 // 12:42 min
Animation
After another night of insomnia, a man comes across a strange community living in his building and discovers the elaborate illusion they have created.
Ingrid Heiderscheidt // Belgium // 2024 // 26:30 min
Live Action
Claudine is looking for love. At 45, she's desperately single, a master of ceremonies at a crematorium and a majorette with the Pekettes.
[Content Note: Death or dying]
Brussels Short Film Festival - Audience Award
Kote Chlaidze // Georgia // 2025 // 09:50 min
Russian dissident Anastasia Zinovkina sought refuge in Georgia after being persecuted in her home country. She participated in demonstrations against the war in Ukraine. During the pro-European protests, she was distributing coffee and tea before being kidnapped by masked policemen. According to her, she was a victim of sexual abuse during detention. Together with her boyfriend, she was sentenced to nine years in prison on charges of drug possession.
Luiza Calagian / Rosa Caldeira // Brazil, Cuba, Haiti // 2025 // 18:04 min
Live Action
A Haitian biologist in Cuba, Nadia studies the local fauna, until deep water intervenes. The Cuban forest speaks in new languages and brings Haiti closer in an unexpected way.
Melita Sandrin // Slovenia // 2024 // 02:49 min
Animation
Meta falls asleep while meeting up for coffee. Damjan plays a trick on her: a spider lands in her mug. Panic and morphing visions set in, until calm finally returns. Then a butterfly lands.
Gustavo de Carvalho // Brazil // 2024 // 21:49 min
Live Action
In Brazil’s rural countryside, two sisters and their new stepfather are forced to spend an evening in the emergency room of a hospital, facing complex encounters with strangers— while they struggle with their own family dynamics.
[Content Note: Blood]
Suzan Pitt // United States // 1979 // 18:00 min
Animation
A surrealistic journey through dreams, in which cult midnight mysticism meets eco-erotic feminist criticism. The animation alternates between scenes of domestic routines, erotic images and commentaries on consumption and control.
[Content Note: Sexually explicit, Nudity]
Matías Rojas Valencia // Chile, Brazil, Colombia // 2025 // 17:10 min
Documentary
13-year-old Bárbara flees Venezuela for Chile. On the dangerous route across the Altiplano plateau, she struggles against cold and exhaustion – carried by the hope of never giving up.
Sylwia Szkiladz // Belgium // 2024 // 17:33 min
Animation
Agatha, a 9-year-old girl, is traveling alone on a bus to a faraway country. In search of a dropped pencil, she stumbles upon an animalistic world and discovers the vulnerability of lonely adults.
Olivia Accardo // United States // 2024 // 05:33 min
Live Action
A boat sale in a parking lot suddenly erupts into dental drama: Marina requests help with pulling a tooth – as the two parties become entangled in an absurdly explosive encounter
[Content Note: Blood, Physical Violence]
Sol Friedman // Canada // 2015 // 08:55 min
Animation, Documentary
Razie is turning 90. After living a long life according to Jewish tradition, she’s going to try bacon for the first time.
Das Kollektiv / Jan Eilhardt // Germany // 2025 // 17:36 min
Live Action
Queer, Chechnyan, Kurdish, four trisomy 21 stars: a dance collective whose upcoming premiere is now in jeopardy due to a sprained foot. Time is running out! Will they make it before it's too late?
[Content Note: Transphobia and trans misogyny]
Gustavo Hernández de Anda // Mexico // 2025 // 16:13 min
Live Action
Moses discovers K-Pop and abandons his routine. Absurd dance moves, pure joy, self-acceptance. A film about fun, freedom and the magical benefits of dancing like there's no one watching.
Tolomush Zhanybekov // France, Kyrgyzstan // 2025 // 11:51 min
Live Action
Bek lives with his uncle in Bishkek, Kirghizstan. Between school and work at the market, he leads a solitary life. After being humiliated during a school trip, he returns home, overwhelmed by an uncontrollable emotion.
[Content Note: Animal cruelty or animal death]
Tohé Commaret // France // 2025 // 12:49 min
Experimental, Live Action
Laura endures her narcissistic boyfriend’s rants with silent anger. She feels abandoned by the world and searches for something to hold onto between the dreary blocks of flats – while the music plays elsewhere.
[Content Note: Abuse]
Nevena Desivojević // Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Portugal // 2024 // 14:00 min
Live Action
Two sisters re-encounter one another amid departures, absences, and returns – in places that seem to hold hardly any space.
[Content Note: Death or dying]
Ali Yahya // Iraq // 2025 // 16:17 min
Documentary
Quiet Ibrahim lives in the swamplands of Southern Iraq, amid rivers, reeds and animals. As his world teeters on the brink of collapse, the well-being of his only companion, a buffalo, becomes threatened as well.
Tahir Ben Mahamat Zene / Bentley Brown // Chad // 2025 // 05:41 min
Experimental, Documentary
In the midst of a historic drought in Chad's Southern Saharan sandscape, a man pausing at a well thinks of his lost cattle and considers how he might go about creating a new life for himself.
Haley Stemmons // United States // 2024 // 05:11 min
Animation, Experimental
A few teenage friends take a short cut on their bikes while heading home from school. But what happens if you take the wrong path? You might suddenly find yourself face to face with a poetic frog and deep revelations.
Marion Chuniaud-Lacau // France, Quebec // 2025 // 11:46 min
Animation, Documentary
Azalia uses her body to communicate. Dance becomes language, liberty and means of expression. Animation and documentary sequences show how she transcends supposed limitations, embodies resistance and inspires others to discover their true selves.
Atefeh Kheirabadi / Mehrad Sepahnia // Germany, Iran // 2025 // 19:47 min
Experimental, Documentary
During protests in Iran, security forces shoot demonstrators in the eyes. In their montage, two filmmakers in exile show the power of images and gazes.
[Content Note: War, Physical Violence, Oppression]
Nans Laborde-Jourdàa // France // 2023 // 16:51 min
Live Action
Fran is in his hometown to rest and visit his mother. Following the jerky rhythm of Bolero, this journey along the paths of memory and desire will lead him and the whole village to a joyfully chaotic climax.
[Content Note: Abuse]
Basilio Maritano / Omoregie Osakpolor // Germany, Nigeria // 2024 // 11:42 min
Experimental, Live Action
Contravening local traditions, a mother manages to revive her drowned child. Alas, this fleeting reprieve comes at a high price when a dark spirit possesses the girl. Will love save the day or become the greatest curse?
[Content Note: Death or dying]
Alicia Moncholí // Spain // 2024 // 17:00 min
Documentary
Following the death of his estranged father, the filmmaker returns to the family house for the first time in eight years. The house becomes a space where memories and fractured relationships lie exposed.
Yingjie Zhou // Japan // 2024 // 02:26 min
Animation
Tinnitus becomes cicadas, a heavy head turns into a shot put, and the mattress’s pressure feels inescapable. The restless struggle of sleeplessness begins.
Marta Reis Andrade // Portugal, France // 2025 // 13:02 min
Animation
A dog was abandoned in its own home at the time when a grandfather began to experience his widowhood. His granddaughter Marta is returning from London, a place where she felt lonelier than ever.
[Content Note: Animal cruelty or animal death]
Edu Hirschfeld / Kevin Castellano // Spain // 2024 // 15:00 min
Live Action
During a tournament semi-final, the captains of two football teams become entangled in a heated argument – revealing a secret buried deep in the locker rooms of the first division.
[Content Note: Physical Violence]
Wendy Giraldo / Catalina Del Mar Rendon // Colombia // 2024 // 23:00 min
Animation
Accompanied by glowing animal mothers, we wander through the mangroves, rivers and misty mountains of Columbia. In the planetarium, their paths become constellations. Beings of light that show how fragile life on earth is.
Studio Brute Beesten // Netherlands // 2025 // 05:11 min
Animation
Sam, a grumpy raccoon, is sharing a cell with Bob, a sweet but dim manatee. Sam hatches an escape plan. During their jailbreak, the two find more than freedom.
Jingyuan Luo // Germany // 2025 // 09:20 min
Animation, Documentary
An adult child attempts to understand the death of their mother, a "suicide jumper". A trauma, made invisible by the state that caused it. In grieving, the flower of remembrance blossoms.
[Content Note: Suicide, Death or dying, Psychological Violence, Oppression]
Yumi Joung // South Korea // 2024 // 06:50 min
Animation
The girl draws a circle on the ground. Passers-by step into it, one by one. Soon the circle is full of people, struggling to stay within.
M+m (Marc Weis / Martin De Mattia) // Germany // 2023 // 07:19 min
Experimental, Promotional Work
Amid windowless club-bunker spaces, human-sized insects play their games. Hallucinatory techno moments meet palpable danger and explosive liberation.
Samuel Suffren // France, Haiti // 2025 // 15:10 min
Live Action
In Haiti, Marianne and Edouard are waiting for a call from the USA, where their beloved son has gone to pursue the American dream.
[Content Note: Animal cruelty or animal death]
Prin Rodriguez // Peru // 2024 // 13:06 min
Experimental, Documentary
On an equal footing, voices enter into dialogue with nature. They speak of sustenance, emotional bonds and of how there is no future without a past.
Gregor Bozic // Slovenia, United Kingdom // 2025 // 15:00 min
Documentary, Live Action
In a not-too-distant future ravaged by climate crisis, a team of scientists analyses archival footage of farmers from the past, in an attempt to understand their connection to the land.
Natalia León // France // 2024 // 14:00 min
Animation
Olivia returns to her hometown in Mexico from abroad in the hope of reconnecting with her past. Alas, the violence she witnessed as a child has not abated, rekindling memories that are impossible to reconcile with.
[Content Note: Death or dying, Kidnapping and abduction, Murder, Sexism and misogyny]
Laura Torres Codina // Spain // 2024 // 17:10 min
Documentary
In the barren Argentinian province of Salta, Alejandro Soriano's existence is a tale of ancestors, land and family. In everyday life and poetry, he searches for ways to connect tradition and future.
Alice Kunz / Janina Müller / Lena Metzger / Liina Luomajoki // Switzerland // 2024 // 05:16 min
Animation, Live Action
Mika sits down on the toilet. She is shocked to discover that there is something slimy in her underpants. In search of answers, she then embarks on a journey into her vagina.
Lucía G. Romero // Spain // 2024 // 18:09 min
Live Action
On one of their night-time excursions to Cáritas to pick up food stamps, Jessica and Alma, two sisters traumatised by brutal domestic upheaval, begin to relate to one another through love instead of violence.
ALCINE - Festival de Cine de Alcalà de Henares - Audience Award
Felicia Bergström // Germany // 2024 // 06:06 min
Animation
Giggling, Bunny hops over hills of pink cotton and attempts to bewitch us. A cycle of playful tenderness and violent destruction begins.
[Content Note: Abuse, Body Horror, Mental illness, Self-harm, Psychological Violence]
Donato Sansone // France, Italy // 2024 // 03:18 min
Animation, Live Action
Human beings have become walking war machines, an unstoppable destructive force towards everything around them. Is there still hope for the future or are we stuck in an endless nightmare?
[Content Note: War, Physical Violence, Blood, Death or dying]
Benjamin Hindrichs // Spain, Germany // 2024 // 14:33 min
Documentary
80-year-old indigenous healer Lucila turns on the radio in the morning, gazes at the Brazilian rainforest and wonders: What will happen when we die – the rainforest and I?
Mario Bergmann // Germany // 2024 // 16:34 min
Live Action
All cyclists are beautiful: Can is actually doing everything right, he's straightforward and honest – until he suddenly finds himself caught in the crossfire on the streets of Neukölln. The charge: theft.
[Content Note: Racism and racial slurs]
Bibie Deboosere // Belgium // 2021 // 13:00 min
Live Action
A man plays himself – or a version of himself. Minimalistic, light, a melodrama that lovingly embraces the strangeness in human beings.
[Content Note: Mental illness]
Yasmine Djedje-Fisher-Azoume // United Kingdom // 2024 // 03:08 min
Animation, Experimental
An animated exploration of the female Bété ancestors and cosmology native to Ivory Coast. Charcoal and copperplate engraving techniques awaken indigenous technology, myths and divine female figures in a stunning non-linear narrative.
Leonard Mann // Germany // 2024 // 21:58 min
Documentary
Michael and Billy have lived together for 40 years. One is human, the other a spectacled caiman with a metre-long tail and a taste for chicken. Side by side, they process grief, cope with tiny apartments and take comfort in their oddly ordinary friendship in Eastern Germany.
Suresh Eriyat // India // 2025 // 07:03 min
Animation
Deccani wool is a testament to tradition and the sacred bond between humans, animals and nature – neglected and nearly forgotten today in the shadow of industrialisation.
Hakhyun Kim // South Korea // 2024 // 03:17 min
Animation, Live Action
A bright red desk and a blue pencil. Skulls, cups and a modular synthesizer. When you sit at the desk, they appear: fluffy, purple-bodied creatures known as "desk bugs."
[Content Note: Flicker]
Alexandre Singh / Natalie Musteata // France, United States // 2024 // 36:00 min
Live Action
Angine, an unhappy shopaholic, encounters an ingenuous saleswoman inside a department store. In spite of a ban on kissing, the two get closer – stirring a co-worker's jealousy.
Clermont Ferrand International Short Film Festival - Audience Award
Isa Schieche // Austria // 2023 // 15:00 min
Live Action
A rethinking of male and female roles: activism, radicalism, power games. The Robbers lays out our narrow-minded notions of gender, shakes them up and subjects them to intense scrutiny.
[Content Note: Nudity, Physical Violence]
Jocelyn Charles // France // 2025 // 15:00 min
Animation
During a train ride, Ariel and Paul pass time sketching their deepest fears, until Gilda, a mysterious passenger, shows up and gets involved. Her relationship with fear seems far less innocent than their playful drawings.
[Content Note: Fears (especially claustrophobia)]
Gerardo Del Razo // Mexico // 2024 // 16:00 min
Live Action
In the peripheral zones of Mexico City, the collection of protection money is an everyday occurrence. Alas, when a merchant doesn't pay, hired killers show up to deliver an ultimatum.
[Content Note: Oppression, Murder, Psychological Violence]
Petra Pavetić Kranjčec // Croatia // 2019 // 00:07 min
Animation
Alina Sokhna M'Baye // Senegal, Germany // 2025 // 14:03 min
Documentary
DUNIAART – composed of the Wolof word Dunia (earth) and the French wordart (art) – captures Senegal’s cultural scene in all its vibrancy, creativity, and collective political engagement.
Rose Bond // United States // 2024 // 13:00 min
Animation
A poetic experiment starting out from an Emily Dickinson poem and blending animation, sound and singing that explores longing, power and destruction outside of familiar norms while touching post-pandemic hearts.
Vaile Export // Austria // 1986 // 12:00 min
Live Action
In a not-too-distant future, humans sell their skin to advertisers. Through satire and playful sequences, the film examines beauty, commerce and social power structures.
[Content Note: Sexually explicit]
Flóra Anna Buda // Hungary // 2019 // 10:00 min
Animation
A system error causes the universe to fall apart. Three women from parallel worlds encounter one another and steer their way through a series of surreal events that reshape their reality and relationships.
[Content Note: Nudity, Sexually explicit, Flicker]
Xandra Popescu // Germany // 2025 // 15:00 min
Live Action
Following a mysterious disaster, the few humans left find themselves unable to reproduce. All hope lies in the hands of five female researchers who have developed the technology to create human life outside the body.
Lana Čolič // Bosnia and Herzegovina // 2024 // 00:07 min
Animation
Nanobah Becker // United States // 2025 // 15:00 min
Non-Narrative, Performance, Experimental
Laura Ortman roams through snow and light, dancing in between glittering fractals and fuchsia icicles. Music, movement, mountains – everything swirls, everything confounds.
Fox Maxy // United States // 2022 // 17:00 min
Experimental
A family feud, land, memories and red paint – the meaning of home is reassessed through video games, pop music and reflection. Earth, heart and memory intimately entangled.
[Content Note: Swears or curses]
Rony Efrat // France // 2024 // 17:50 min
Experimental, Live Action
Rony discovers striking parallels between Google's LaMDA language model and her own mind. Curious about the parallels in the original dialogues, she begins to examine how life, relationships and society mirror her own identity.
Matt Dennison // Canada // 2017 // 04:32 min
Music Video
Sit down, bro: In this Kendrick Lamar parody, Canadian downhill pro Micayla Gatto and her crew show who the real queens of the bike park are.
Sofia Leão // Brazil // 2025 // 12:00 min
Documentary, Live Action
A woman places a chair on the sidewalk in Rio and watches as the neighbourhood "unfolds" before her eyes – like a movie scene. Workers, tourists, dogs and street life combine to form a Copacabana portrait, through clever editing and montage.
Marius Lübke / Amy Bruchner // Germany // 2024 // 02:17 min
Animation
Things are hopping in the middle of the ocean. Party time, till Blubb-Blubb and Dizzy get kicked out. Blubb-Blubb lures a monster with a string of lights and rides it while Dizzy cheers.
Veera Lamminpää // Finland // 2024 // 09:30 min
Animation
The supermarket will be closing soon. The last customers are waiting their turn at the fish counter. The agonizing suspense offers the fish an opportunity to reflect – and sing a little song.
Tampere International Film Festival - Audience Award
Jelena Milunović // Serbia, Croatia, Germany // 2025 // 07:01 min
Animation
A father drifts through life like a balloon. Gradually grasping his isolation and struggle with mental illness, his daughter searches for a way to bring him back down to solid ground.
[Content Note: Mental illness]
Claire Barnett // United States // 2024 // 13:23 min
Live Action
On the eve of her 26th birthday, Lainey is confronted with a question that hits deep: "What is your darkest fantasy?" A home video depicts desires, fears and an intense love.
Matúš Vizár // Slovakia, Czech Republic // 2024 // 15:00 min
Animation
When a mission to rescue chickens from a factory farm goes awry, four activists escape into the wilderness, where they experience borderline situations and learn first-hand that nature is not a safe place for animals.
[Content Note: Animal cruelty or animal death]
Emilia Zieser // Germany // 2024 // 04:58 min
Animation
After a fruit fly crash-lands in her roommate's eye, the protagonist sets off on a journey through her companion's brain to remove the intruder.
Hsueh Wen-Shuo // Taiwan // 2024 // 16:00 min
Live Action
A defunct factory in Taiwan: A-Bang, scarred by life, patrols, takes photographs and maintains order – especially when migrant women confide their small requests to him.
[Content Note: Flicker]
Gwenola Heck // Germany // 2025 // 04:08 min
Animation, Experimental
Gaïa is a planet conceived as a body with a growing population. As resources become scarce, the inhabitants attempt to fertilise its egg cell – in search of new life.
[Content Note: Abortion]
TIANMING ZHOU // United States, China // 2024 // 13:48 min
Experimental, Documentary
In 2023, the government of Jiujiang launched a project to clean up Gan Tang Lake. Within a brief period of time, this ancient body of water, over two millennia old, had been drained. Nearby, a young man awakes.
David Doutel / Vasco Sá // Portugal, Lithuania // 2022 // 14:08 min
Animation
A Garrano horse is forced to pull a heavy load under a blazing sun. Young boy Joel helps his father gather junk in the woods, for recycling. He discovers a man who is about to set a forest on fire.
[Content Note: Physical Violence, Animal cruelty or animal death]
Vazhiko Chachkhiani // Georgia // 2025 // 03:40 min
Giorgi Akhobadze, a 43-year-old anesthesiologist-rheumatologist, was abruptly arrested on drug charges. He had been actively providing medical advice to demonstrators. While he was in pre-trial detention, his mother died due to a lack of medical care. After nine months in prison, Akhobadze was found innocent and released, revealing that dozens of police officers had given false testimony regarding the drug charges.
Levan Shubashvili // Georgia // 2025 // 06:06 min
Gorgadze, a student and well-known football fan, was accused of plotting organized violence and preparing explosives. No clear evidence was presented during the court hearing. Despite this, the judge sentenced him to two years in prison.
Keti Machavariani // Georgia // 2025 // 04:00 min
Giorgi Mindadze, a 21-year-old medical student, was arrested on December 1st in the Mtskheta municipality while visiting his cousin’s house with his mother. The prosecution presented a photograph showing him holding pyrotechnics, and a police officer’s testimony claiming that the pyrotechnics thrown by Mindadze caused him injury. According to the lawyer, there is no corroborating evidence - including in the interrogation protocol—that the pyrotechnics hit the officer or even about the direction of the firing. Additionally, the investigator provided incorrect information to the court about the location of the arrest.
Jan Koester / Claire Paq // France, Germany // 2023 // 00:07 min
Animation
Bassel Shehadeh // Syria // 2010 // 03:52 min
Live Action
A boy recounts how he survived the war in Lebanon in 2006 - extremely up-close and intimate, and marked by youthful curiosity amidst the rubble and the struggles of everyday life.
[Content Note: War]
Fırat Yücel // Netherlands, Turkey // 2025 // 18:00 min
Experimental, Documentary
On their screens, activists follow news from Palestine and the Middle East – amid the frenetic nature of digital existence and modern colonial violence, the ability to find peace of mind is rapidly fading.
[Content Note: War, Oppression]
Shayma' Awawdeh // // 2025 // 22:00 min
Documentary
Aisha, a Palestinian girl, lives in Hebron. With her camera, she documents her family's resistance in a city where oppression is a central part of everyday life.
Tamar Baruch // United States // 2024 // 22:00 min
Documentary
Zehava, a transwoman from Palestine, flees violence and discrimination. In Israel, she is refused asylum – imprisonment, homelessness and the search for a little bit of security await.
[Content Note: Sexual assault, Transphobia and trans misogyny, Physical Violence, Psychological Violence]
Wei-Fan Wang // Taiwan, United Kingdom // 2024 // 05:37 min
Animation
He’s practiced these words for 20 years now, but maybe being candid isn’t the best idea. He’s starting his countdown again, another 20 years. It might be the right time by then.
Leoluna Robert-Tourneur // Belgium, France // 2021 // 06:06 min
Animation
In the midst of a dark forest, two figures meet. Attraction, repulsion, explosion. Bitter, flamboyant, intoxicating – a love story between spark and shadow.
[Content Note: Sexually explicit, Nudity]
Alma Buddecke / Marleen Valin // Germany // 2019 // 07:40 min
Live Action
Sitting in a fast-food restaurant, Hannah details her love-hate relationship with her vulva – from skin irritation after shaving to the playful discovery of her own orgasm.
Jake Morris / Alex Darby // United Kingdom // 2024 // 12:57 min
Documentary
At 80, Libby Houston still scales the cliffs of Avon Gorge to study rare plants. There is only a single specimen left of Houston’s Whitebeam, her unique discovery.
Bojan Zavišin // Serbia // 2024 // 00:07 min
Animation
Gentoku Yamada // Japan // 2024 // 07:58 min
Live Action
A human farm is suddenly shut down. The caretaker is tasked with closing down the plant and dismissing the remaining workers. Desperately, he attempts to complete his final assignment.
Ariel Victor Arthanto // Germany // 2024 // 13:15 min
Animation, Live Action
Artist and proud flower-person Sam is on the verge of a transformative blossoming when it comes to their identity. Sam's mother wrestles with a decision on their last day together in the flower spa.
Martha McGuirk // United Kingdom // 2025 // 06:24 min
Live Action
Priya hates Helen – in class, in the cafeteria, at the pool. Most of all she hates the feelings Helen awakens within her. A film on the confounding tide of lesbian desire.
François Vautier // France // 2017 // 06:20 min
Experimental
Arthur C. Clarke speaks, disintegrates into pixels and invites us to dive into his digital vision of the future. A journey through ideas, predictions and the early digital dreams of the man behind 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Pablo Larcuen // United States // 2025 // 08:00 min
Live Action
A wife and mother who feels trapped in a life of service to her family accidentally discovers the power to walk through walls.
Hanna Järgenstedt // Sweden // 2024 // 06:27 min
Animation, Experimental
Crushing on a DJ, Hanna heads out to his gig, but misses her train, leading to an unwanted road trip. Will the flirt go anywhere? Or does she still have some unresolved questions about love, coolness and men in general?
Leela Varghese // Australia // 2025 // 13:03 min
Live Action
When a flirting attempt backfires, Lali finds herself offered a pity date by bartender (and empathetic bystander) Ana. What starts off as an awkward encounter evolves into a genuine connection between two women of colour.
[Content Note: Racism and racial slurs]
João Gonzalez // Portugal, France, United Kingdom // 2022 // 14:00 min
Animation
Every day, a father and son parachute down from their chilly house, vertiginously attached to a cliff, to reach the village far down below on the ground and sell the ice they produce on a daily basis.
[Content Note: Death or dying, Suicide]
Petra Pavetić Kranjčec // Croatia // 2019 // 00:07 min
Animation
Anita Kwiatkowska-Naqvi / Piotr Matysiak // Poland // 2023 // 18:00 min
Animation
Jan takes risks on a daily basis, but a single moment forces him to confront his limits: the entangled complexity of his world reflects fears, courage and the question of his true identity.
Elisabeth Werchosin // Germany // 2024 // 11:59 min
Live Action
A young actress with a migration background wanders around former East Berlin in a bear costume: a birthday becomes a surreal journey tinged by pain, homesickness and humour.
[Content Note: Classism, Blood, Xenophobia]
George Varsimashvili // Georgia // 2025 // 04:23 min
Insaf, who comes from an Azerbaijani village and does not speak Georgian, joined a massive demonstration in Tbilisi and was arrested on charges of plotting violence with students from Tbilisi State University - people he had never met before. The only evidence presented was video footage showing Insaf throwing an object toward policemen. Despite the fact that no one was injured and no property was damaged, he was sentenced to two years in prison. As a result, the entire Azerbaijani community in his village now lives in fear.
Elene Naveriani // Georgia // 2025 // 05:45 min
Irakli Qerashvili, a 30-year-old plastic surgeon and voluntary blood donor, provided medical assistance to injured demonstrators during pro-European protests. He was charged with participating in group violence. The only evidence against him is a single photograph extracted from general protest footage, used to identify him. According to his lawyer, this only proves that Qerashvili was present at the protest. Nonetheless, the judge found him guilty of participation in violence and sentenced him to two years in prison.
Vladislav Ivanov // Bulgaria // 2022 // 00:07 min
Animation
Romane Pilote Lamontagne // Quebec // 2025 // 09:08 min
Documentary
Intertwining imagery from the filmmaker’s own daily life with the memories of Lisa (Yelyzaveta), an 18-year-old Ukrainian who lived in Montreal for a few months. Two strangers, so far yet so close. In the film, they are united.
[Content Note: War, Flight]
Julie Cerná // Czech Republic // 2025 // 10:26 min
Animation
Stone of Destiny explores the beauty of finding your own path, even when it’s fraught with uncertainty.
[Content Note: Mental illness]
Aline Höchli // Switzerland // 2025 // 09:41 min
Animation
Eager to create a monumental work of art, a shaman remains blissfully unaware that she is painting her murals inside the mouth of a vain weather presenter.
[Content Note: Nudity]
Yidan Xu / Dean Wei // China // 2024 // 20:00 min
Live Action
A high-school boy and girl need the help of one of their parents after a night-time mishap. The boy's mom must decide if her parental role is paramount, as a typical teen crisis becomes an existential drama.
[Content Note: Pregnancy Loss]
Quenton Miller // Netherlands // 2025 // 11:11 min
Experimental, Documentary
Still around, Koki, a parrot, reminisces about life with Tito, Hollywood and dictators. Archival photos and memories from the cage flesh out a funny, weird life story that makes us question how history chooses its heroes – and witnesses.
Thorn de Vries // Netherlands // 2024 // 06:24 min
Live Action
Rage against the machine: In a neighbourhood overtaken by gentrification, old contrasts with new. When a yuppie man can't unlock his electric bike, something snaps. Can he let go of his carefully crafted image?
Magaly Ugarte de Pablo // Mexico // 2024 // 17:45 min
Live Action
Valeria works in a flower shop, where fantastic creatures spark her erotic curiosity. Fear and desire drive her into a process of metamorphosis rich in self-discovery.
Mauricio Calderon Rico // Mexico // 2025 // 17:47 min
Live Action
After he is injured, Alma cares for her son Chucho. Over this time, their relationship becomes closer – alas, at the same time it becomes painfully clear that much remains unspoken between mother and son.
Gabrielle Selnet // France // 2023 // 04:10 min
Animation
Thrown out of her mother's place. Barefoot Gab tries to find a flat in the chaotic Parisian streets, and perhaps just some sort of greater hold on life as well.
[Content Note: Sexual assault]
Joaquín León // Spain // 2025 // 14:40 min
Live Action
Álvaro is a teenager who feels out of place in life. When he suddenly sheds tears of blood at a village procession for the Virgin Mary, the villagers declare it a miracle, and begin to offer him large sums of money.
[Content Note: Blood, Blasphemy]
Angello Faccini Rueda // Colombia, Mexico, United States // 2024 // 15:28 min
Documentary
When a member of his community disappears, a boy seeks solace in Indigenous traditions, healing rituals and the wisdom of his grandfather.
Sharon Hakim // France // 2025 // 24:00 min
Live Action
Lust for life: Yasma discovers cycling as joyful liberation from the tight social corset of religion and convention.
Anne Rietmeijer // Netherlands, Germany // 2025 // 10:10 min
Animation
A musical note with a fear of commitment tries to find true love anyway.
Sonia Terrab // France, Morocco // 2024 // 16:00 min
Live Action
Naima is raising her son Ahmed on her own. When the state decides to rehouse them, Ahmed has to change schools. Alas, only Ahmed's father is permitted to sign the required paperwork – but he disappeared years ago.
[Content Note: Oppression]
Mieszko Chomka // Poland // 2025 // 15:00 min
Documentary
A playfully questioning video diary that the filmmaker uses to hold on to things that are happening and changing but also to capture the exact moment of soul-searching coming of age before a new phase begins. How to make a film, what is creativity, where will I study, will we still be together? Friends, the city at night, the summer house with the girlfriend, partying, rapping and consulting parents.
Satomi Asakura // Japan // 2024 // 06:40 min
Animation, Experimental
Exploring the boundaries between reality and dreams by boarding a train and witnessing the illusions of light emerging in a state of slumber. Images of the past, the movement of light, repeating fragments of everyday life and memories.
Juan Vicente Manrique // Mexico, Venezuela // 2024 // 16:47 min
Documentary
Two firefighters in the Venezuelan Andes film a donkey "acting" like the president. Later, the satirical video lands them in prison. The donkey? Its fate remains an enigma. Humour and absurdity meet political reality in a small town.
Sudarshan Sawant // India // 2024 // 08:43 min
Documentary
Mumbai in the midst of modernisation. A bridge is crowding out the Koli, a proud sea people, threatening their stories and rituals. Tradition and the sea give way, but the legend of the ferrywoman Sundari remains.
YUJIN ZHUANG // Taiwan // 2025 // 06:25 min
Animation
The way home from work proceeds from busy city streets to an abandoned industrial zone. Thick fog prods us to reflect on life, death and reverence for nature.
Michael Hauwert // Netherlands // 2024 // 06:53 min
Animation
How do second-generation migrants see their country of origin, the Netherlands? Anecdotes and conversations cause the interviewees to doubt whether they are even permitted to cultivate a sense of home and belonging.
[Content Note: Racism and racial slurs]
Trésor Tshibangu Tshamala / Frank Mukunday / Tétshim (Trésor Tshibangu Tshamala) // Belgium, Congo // 2019 // 09:00 min
Animation, Experimental
Steel, stone, rust – and a green cloud pushing its way through a Congolese mining town. Workers perform backbreaking labour, the machine grinds on – and profit flows, though to somewhere else, as it's always been.
[Content Note: Oppression]
M+M (Marc Weis / Martin De Mattia) // Germany // 2019 // 06:09 min
Experimental, Live Action
A female praying mantis lives a life of isolation in a middle-class flat. She discovers a special aroma – and ends up on a path straddling tender curiosity and a merciless end.
Edward Gómez // Colombia // 2024 // 15:00 min
Live Action
Thrill-seekers: in Columbia's poorer neighbourhoods, growing up can be a game of life or death. Malicia and Chinga get their kicks in the fast-paced downhill lanes of their hood.
[Content Note: Death or dying]
Rebecca Blöcher // Germany // 2024 // 24:00 min
Animation, Documentary
A mother chooses an unconventional life: in palaces, under bridges and over ten years in a small car. When it falls apart, mother and daughter find their way to one another.
[Content Note: Mental illness]
Sandro Katamashvili // Georgia // 2025 // 05:05 min
Mate Devidze, a 20-year-old rock musician, was detained during a demonstration and accused of assaulting three police officers with a stick-like object. The prosecution's video evidence shows Devidze wielding a stick and making contact with officers, but the sequence of events and the nature of the contact are disputed.
Nicolas Brault // Canada // 2024 // 06:28 min
Animation, Experimental
Family photos become fleeting memories – destroyed by water. Blurred faces, decaying scenes. All are silent witnesses to a fragile past.
Lucy Gamades // United States // 2024 // 19:28 min
Live Action
Two strangers wait for a solar eclipse amid a crowd of eclectic Texans.
Bassel Shehadeh // Syria // 2012 // 14:35 min
Documentary
Christmas under the bombs. People hold on tight to faith and joy – even when the sky is burning. Bassel's camera captures this paradoxical mix of fear and stubborn joie de vivre.
[Content Note: War]
Jan Kounen // France // 2018 // 32:00 min
Documentary
Powerful images of Greenland's lonely polar world blend with crunching layers of ice and compositions by music-maker Molécule.
Patricia Beckmann Wells // United States // 2024 // 05:15 min
Animation, Live Action
Toledo in the 1970s. Pez, the daughter of an immigrant family, learns what it means to be assertive while fighting for survival in a world full of persecution and danger.
Evie Snax / Manon Praline // Germany, United States // 2024 // 08:40 min
Experimental, Documentary
Six years after her bottom surgery, Manon Praline gives an account of her gender transition, full of pride, artistic honesty and vulnerability – and celebrating her courage and self-love.
[Content Note: Sexually explicit, Nudity]
Marius Hebert // Belgium // 2024 // 06:37 min
Animation
Hélène loves nature, a snail named Paul and a rose. Spurred on by the synthetic world, she gradually transforms into a snail herself.
sidka vera // Argentina // 2025 // 13:19 min
Documentary
Sidka goes out on the town, experiencing nightlife as a filmmaker in transition, a foray that culminates in the discovery of a surprising safe haven: the horror drag scene of Buenos Aires.
Boris Hadžija / Hoda Taheri // Germany, Iran // 2024 // 15:00 min
Live Action
Hoda, who fled her native Iran, now lives in Germany with her boyfriend Hadi. An unexpected pregnancy causes her to examine society's heteronormative and patriarchal expectations.
[Content Note: Nudity, Homophobia and heterosexism, Sexually explicit]
Naomi Noir // Netherlands // 2024 // 09:06 min
Animation, Experimental
Mary can't catch a break. Juggling motherhood and being a full-time carer for her disabled son has her up to her ears in red tape, barely keeping afloat. A surreal situation is looming.
[Content Note: Mental illness]
Ché Scott-Heron Newton // United Kingdom // 2025 // 14:52 min
Documentary
Years of home video, reflecting on the complexities of growing up and how opportunity and circumstance shape our futures in ways we don’t always fully grasp at the time. Intimate and deeply personal, the film explores boyhood, friendship, belonging and the lingering question of what might have been.
Sara Priorelli // Hungary // 2024 // 05:56 min
Animation
A woman cares devotedly for her obese dog, until her partner shows up and disrupts the cozy atmosphere at home.
Bartosz Stankiewicz // Poland // 2024 // 30:00 min
Live Action
Robert has a relationship with a sex robot and runs a bakery with his mother. When their oven breaks down, his toxic father comes by to repair it – a development that soon puts Robert's love to the test.
[Content Note: Sexism and misogyny]
Short Waves International Short Film Festival Poznan - Audience Award
Salome Jashi // Georgia // 2025 // 05:55 min
Mzia Amaghlobeli, a prominent journalist, was imprisoned for slapping a policeman - who had abused her in the first place. After a sequence of humiliating events, sometimes equivalent to torture, the regime demanded that she ask for mercy in exchange for her freedom. Mzia refused and was sentenced to two years in prison. She is currently nominated for the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought.
Aucéane Roux // Quebec // 2024 // 16:37 min
Documentary
In Sainte-Marie, Québec, a devastated couple is forced to watch as their destroyed house is demolished, a consequence of the cataclysmic spring floods of 2019.
Kevin Aubert // France, Senegal // 2025 // 27:58 min
Live Action
In Senegal, two sisters discuss arranged marriage. The younger one would like to be able to sleep forever. The next morning, as she fails to rise, panic erupts, while she herself finally seems to have found peace.
[Content Note: Death or dying, Physical Violence]
Jaime Ng // Germany, Singapore // 2024 // 06:36 min
Animation
A girl longs for puberty and big boobs, but gets tiny ones instead. Between criticism and ridicule, both external and internal, the path to self-love is not always straightforward. If only our boobs could talk!
Denise Fernandes // Portugal, Switzerland // 2020 // 19:00 min
Live Action
After a 14-year absence, Salomé returns to Cape Verde to see her dying brother. During a stopover at Lisbon airport, a cleaning lady recognizes her as "Mila", a childhood friend, and invites her back to her home.
Reza Rasouli // Austria // 2025 // 19:50 min
Live Action
Near the Austrian border, three friends from Tehran are dropped off by their smuggler. They spend the night in the Slovakian forest, waiting for the next truck, and face a dilemma that leads them to a point of no return.
[Content Note: Flight]
Roshanak Roshan // France // 2024 // 20:00 min
Animation
Shirin's bread memories blend her personal story with the history of Iran – a sensual stroll through time, Teheran and reminiscences.
Marcelo Matos de Oliveira / Wallace Nogueira // Brazil // 2024 // 17:36 min
Live Action
Cássio and Otto are in love with one another, but the challenge of losing their sight also puts their relationship to the test.
[Content Note: Nudity]
Akira Kawasaki // Germany // 2025 // 03:56 min
Animation, Documentary
An ironic tutorial for everyone meticulously seeking to master the look of obedient Japanese schoolchildren.
[Content Note: Oppression]
Alicia K. Harris // Canada // 2024 // 08:50 min
Live Action
A Black ballerina, under pressure to conform to whiteness, is supposed to rehearse her routine – but instead finds power in ancestors and the present, without a trace of dialogue.
Li Lok Yan Cola / Lai Hiu Ching Nicole / Chun Ka Lun Alan // Hong Kong SAR of China // 2022 // 03:00 min
Animation
Sham Shui Po in Hong Kong: more than just a bargain hunter's paradise. A trip through street markets, old buildings and traditional signs – in a detail-rich urban labyrinth steeped in history.
Soroush Alizadeh / Ali Sedaghat // Iran // 2025 // 18:30 min
Live Action
A young woman recalls early memories of moving in with her then-flatmate while moving out of her house.
Celine Berger // Germany // 2025 // 10:10 min
Experimental, Documentary
A short film reinterprets vintage 16mm instructional films from the German Federal Employment Agency, transforming bureaucratic film material into a personal reflection on work and life in general.
Maksim Avdeev // Germany // 2024 // 14:45 min
Documentary
For the first time in a long while, queer migrant Maksim calls their father. In spite of fond childhood memories, their conflicting convictions and realities collide.
[Content Note: Homophobia and heterosexism, Oppression]
Margarita Ivanova // Morocco // 2025 // 15:00 min
Experimental, Live Action
In Fès, ten men dream of Cheikhats. Colours, dance, theatricality and little winks – Pandora plays with gender roles and depicts feminine alter-egos full of energy, beauty and humour.
Anna-Maria Dutoit // Germany, Quebec // 2025 // 16:30 min
Experimental, Documentary
In Montreal, the rivers have disappeared. Hunting for them, we follow old maps and distant murmurs.
Alexandra Ramires / Laura Gonçalves // Portugal, France // 2024 // 11:30 min
Documentary, Animation
On the coasts of the Algarve, one can find the peculiar "percebes", a type of gooseneck barnacle. From harvest to table, an intimate look at their life cycle provides insight into their existence and ours with them.
Curtas Vila do Conde International Film Festival - Audience Award
Andrea Suwito // Belgium, Indonesia, Hungary, Portugal // 2024 // 10:52 min
Documentary
A mother's efforts to teach her daughter the intricacies of her Indonesian mother tongue re-open old wounds: during a stroll in vibrant Budapest, their fragile conversation reveals things the mother has long kept to herself.
Giulia Mancassola // Italy // 2024 // 16:58 min
Documentary
In the Albanian town of Kuçovë, amid oil ruins and decay, three stories of youth tell of loneliness, femininity and rebellion – raw, surreal and vulnerable.
Frédéric Doazan // France // 2023 // 05:28 min
Animation
A gigantic woodpecker declares war on the city. Angrily it attacks, fracturing skyscrapers and revealing a patch of blue sky.
Caroline Monnet // Quebec // 2025 // 10:00 min
Experimental, Documentary
Indigenous women of various generations integrate traditional and contemporary dance in an audio-visual whirlwind that straddles the border between film and performance.
[Content Note: Flicker]
Kim YIP TONG // France, Mauritius // 2024 // 13:35 min
Animation, Documentary
On 25 July 2020, the freighter MV Wakashio ran aground on a reef off the eastern coast of Mauritius. Twelve days later, oil began to leak from the hull – the largest ecological disaster in the history of the region.
Abeille Tard // Quebec // 2025 // 19:23 min
Live Action
Pippa lives in a supervised group home for young mothers, as she works to prove her ability to fulfil her parental role to the authorities. One night, breaking curfew, Pippa leaves the shelter with her baby.
Natalia del Mar-Kasik // Austria // 2023 // 02:00 min
Live Action
Duels, cowboy hats, jeans – that's it. The classic Western mise-en-scène topples when bodies, gazes and gestures violate the rules. What happens when female shooters occupy the spots typically reserved for male gunslingers?
Ana Hušman // Croatia // 2006 // 10:00 min
Animation, Documentary, Experimental
Market shoppers use all of their senses when trying to ascertain the origin of produce. A Croatian markets portrait in a humorous image and sound collage.
Zinia Scorier / Marie Royer // Belgium // 2024 // 12:07 min
Animation
Food is political! A group of French activists is experienced in dumpster-diving, using waste bins and a communal garden to create good food for everyone. Even things that are too spoiled to be eaten are cleverly replanted to grow again. So why is this practice illegal in so many countries?
Jon Frickey // Germany // 2025 // 15:08 min
Animation
When it always starts over again, it must be forever – that's what the moth says. A poetic film about the eternal character of vector graphics and the ephemeral nature of human existence.
Vinh Nguyen / Robin Szymczak / Laurent Rohrbasser // Switzerland // 2024 // 01:40 min
Animation, Live Action
A failed trick shot sends a ping-pong ball careening off on an unforeseen little adventure.
Nathan De Paz Habib // Italy, Cuba // 2024 // 15:00 min
Live Action
Samuel returns to his hometown to find his father significantly changed. He doesn't know what to say, his dad remains distant, the old tension increases. They start cooking lunch, until his little brother intercedes.
Blissful Beatscape // United States // 2024 // 15:20 min
Music Video
Artificial intelligence meets the sound of the '70s. Colours and forms blend into a kaleidoscopic experience in a playful exploration of the aesthetics of psychedelic images.
Dimitri Mihajlovic / Miguel Lima // Portugal // 2023 // 09:00 min
Animation
A woman collects the puzzle pieces of her fleeting memories of childhood in order to uncover the story of her grandfather's house – and what lies behind it.
[Content Note: Mental illness, War, Psychological Violence]
Cris Lyra // Brazil // 2019 // 27:00 min
Documentary
In the run-up to New Year's Eve, a group of young queer friends head for a secluded beach to celebrate. Music, laughter, bodies and memories belong to them and them alone. Here, they can find freedom – in the sand and in the moment.
[Content Note: Fears (especially claustrophobia), Nudity]
Job, Joris & Marieke // Netherlands // 2024 // 02:35 min
Animation
When every global citizen is required to have their CO2 emissions tracked, it makes little impact…that is, until they discover the consequences of reaching their designated QUOTA.
[Content Note: Blood]
Anne Breymann // Germany // 2025 // 04:14 min
Animation
Two creatures encounter one another on a tree. They come closer, opening themselves and offering one another a glimpse deep inside, all the way down to their roots.
Kaitlyn Mikayla // United States // 2025 // 14:27 min
Live Action
A motocross racer spends what seems like an average race weekend with her father. But as the weekend unfolds, she’s faced with her identity, her deafness and what it means to be a girl.
Tomek Ducki // Poland, France // 2025 // 08:30 min
Animation
Life can be crap sometimes. For a remarkable flock of flightless birds, droppings are the foundation of life itself. Until one day a mysterious object washes up on shore.
François Vautier // France // 2020 // 08:45 min
Animation, Live Action
An enormous tetrahedron drifts through endless space. Soon, it falls apart, piece by piece. An enigmatic signal that decodes itself anew with every change of form and lets geometry tell its tale.
Christian Spurling / Delphine Coudray // Ireland // 2025 // 06:13 min
Animation
A bored warehouse worker's quest for an enduring legacy as an animator takes a comic turn when she signs up for an environmentally friendly funeral.
Felix Scherrer // Switzerland // 2024 // 20:00 min
Experimental, Documentary
A summer stroll through Zurich ends in a police control. On the first of May, rubber bullets are fired. Prison ruins become parks, old buildings recede and new ones take their place.
Annika Mayer // Germany // 2024 // 18:45 min
Documentary, Commercial Work
A family in the 1960s captured on Super8 film, juxtaposed with stories of a violent husband recounted fifty years later. A film about the invisibility of domestic violence.
[Content Note: Abuse, Physical Violence, Psychological Violence]
INTERFILM International Short Film Festival Berlin - Audience Award
Maria Dakszewicz // Poland // 2024 // 04:39 min
Animation
Exhausted from the night's adventures, a man takes a bath and enters into dialogue with a rubber duck. Together, they roam through the events of the previous evening.
Hao Zhou // Germany, United States // 2025 // 22:59 min
Documentary
Caught in a struggle for love, legacy and belief, a family in South-Western China seeks to rid their queer heir of an unwelcome entity.
[Content Note: Homophobia and heterosexism]
Victor Orozco Ramirez // Germany, Mexico // 2025 // 07:55 min
Experimental, Documentary
The Saarland: forests straight out of a Bob Ross painting – exotic and beautiful. Alas, behind the trees lurk bunkers, beasts and the scars of war. An essay on nature and violence.
[Content Note: War]
Rein Maychaelson // Indonesia // 2025 // 19:00 min
Live Action
Born with the ability to remove his body parts, throughout his life a man shares them with people he loves. Only his torso remains. His mother sets off on a painful quest to recover the rest of his body.
[Content Note: Sexual assault, Death or dying, Body Horror]
Maissa Lihedheb // Tunisia, Germany, United States // 2025 // 12:12 min
Live Action
Tunisian director Samra discovers the ideal male lead for her cinematic love story. Alas, the lines between fiction and reality become blurred: where does the script end and where do genuine feelings begin?
Clari Ribeiro // Brazil // 2024 // 21:48 min
Live Action
Rio, 2054: a witch assembles a group of queer individuals with special abilities in order to confront a violent organisation. Together, they navigate their way through conflicts, alliances and challenges.
[Content Note: Transphobia and trans misogyny, Psychological Violence]
Clari Ribeiro // Brazil // 2025 // 22:00 min
Rio, 2054: a witch assembles a group of queer and trans individuals with special abilities in order to confront a violent organisation. Together, they navigate their way through conflicts, alliances and city-wide challenges.
Julia Granillo Tostado // Belgium, Mexico, Finland, Portugal // 2024 // 05:47 min
Animation
Touching, growing, caring, dancing. Seedlings climbing around fingertips, birds morphing into humans. But the tender touches slowly fade as the shadows grow and the women start to disappear. A poetic retelling of a 17th century tale of witchcraft in our 21st century. A story about women, witches, gender violence, about women’s strength and resistance.
[Content Note: Kidnapping and abduction, Murder, Oppression, Sexism and misogyny]
Bassel Shehadeh // Syria // 2012 // 24:28 min
Documentary
The streets of Syria as a stage for rebellion. Bassel films the first wave of the revolution, where hope, protest and joy collide – between barricades and drums, vivid and unflinching.
[Content Note: War]
Adam Sébire // Greenland, Norway // 2025 // 15:10 min
Documentary
The sea ice in the Arctic could potentially disappear by 2050. The traditions of Greenland's Inuits are already changing. We are witnesses to Sikoqqinngisaannassooq – a future without sea ice.
Cecilie Flyger Hansen // Denmark, Sweden // 2024 // 19:12 min
Experimental, Documentary
A theatre ensemble rehearses Snow White – with dogs in the lead roles. Adopting the canine perspective, our attention is drawn to the power dynamics between human and animal.
fleuryfontaine // France // 2025 // 15:00 min
Animation, Documentary
18 images per second, a surveillance camera, a shot, a bullet. Sixty-seven Milliseconds reveals the role of images in the struggle for justice and against police violence.
[Content Note: Physical Violence, Oppression]
Cauleen Smith // United States // 2018 // 22:00 min
Experimental
A group of women travel through the desertscape of Joshua Tree, exploring art, rituals and the sculptures spawned by nature, while they make connections and dream up alternative ways of life.
Diego Herrero / Javier Prieto de Paula // Spain // 2024 // 20:00 min
Live Action
Rose is a trans teenager. Though they long to, they've never expressed their gender identity, due to their precarious immigration status perhaps, but mainly for fear of losing their baby girl inside?
[Content Note: Classism]
Masuma Makhamadalieva // Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan // 2024 // 10:10 min
Experimental
A poetic view of Uzbekistan: tradition, dance, and culture shine, yet beneath lie hidden struggles and traumas. The author’s journey traces the search for belonging in an imperfect homeland.
Collectif Faire-part // Belgium, Congo // 2023 // 10:00 min
Experimental, Documentary
Marie Paule Mugeni prepares her speech: for the day a colonial statue of Leopold II will be taken down in Belgium. Though still standing as she readies her address, it is 2020 and the voices in the streets are getting louder and louder.
[Content Note: Oppression]
Antoine Freuchet / Juliette Schminke // Germany // 2025 // 04:00 min
Animation
"Dit is' Berlin": Three parallel stories depict the everyday insanity of the German capital, between motion and gridlock, the ticking clock and money trouble.
[Content Note: Flicker]
Mai Vu // England // 2022 // 09:19 min
Animation, Live Action
When Linh's father, on a visit from Vietnam, prepares traditional dishes, she is confronted with a feeling of alienation from her roots – and with the space they have been allotted in her new life.
Soyeon Kim // South Korea, United States // 2025 // 05:16 min
Animation
A snake navigates through noise and separation. Instinct, struggle, and small, hard-won insights shape every step in an uncertain world.
STARS Collective / Mojisola Adebayo // Germany, United Kingdom // 2025 // 07:00 min
Animation, Live Action
Nommo are extra-terrestrial Afro-hermaphroditic anthro-amphibian migrants. Who travel through space and time. An Afro-futuristic space odyssey replete with poetry and dance.
Omar E. Ospina Giraldo // Colombia // 2025 // 16:41 min
Live Action
Pirimín receives a water gun as a gift. That night, he hears his family recall his discontent when similar weapons forced them to abandon their settlements. Now Pirimín doesn't know what to do with the toy.
Tomi Katz / Nonoka Matsuo // Japan, Germany // 2025 // 10:20 min
Experimental, Live Action
Time slips by quietly, days merge. As an immigrant, one encounters immovable bureaucracy, frustration grows—this silence, this pause, I call “Tacet”.
Adrian von der Borch // Germany // 2024 // 23:10 min
Live Action
Eighteen-year-old Luna lives on the streets with her boyfriend Marius. They both are addicts and are prepared to do a lot to get their fix. But when Luna realizes that she is pregnant, it is not only their relationship that is at stake.
[Content Note: Addiction]
Anna Dziapshipa // Georgia // 2025 // 04:33 min
Katamadze is a leader and activist from the Turkish ethnic Georgian community, who has lived in Georgia since 2012. Known as the “Batumi Flag-Bearer” for always carrying the Georgian flag during protest rallies, the 57-year-old has long fought for Georgian citizenship, but has been repeatedly denied. Authorities cited immigration law as the reason for his detention, stating that Katamadze had no legal right to reside in Georgia. He was later deported to Turkey, where he is being persecuted for his alleged ties to the Gulen movement.
Nnenna Onuoha // Germany // 2024 // 15:00 min
Experimental, Live Action
The Black Girl searches for author Mabel Dove, after her story was interrupted by The Great Erasure. With the aid of archivists, she finds Dove and spends an afternoon in a cine-Romanesque homage film à la George Bernard Shaw.
Sivets Alina // Czech Republic // 2018 // 00:07 min
Animation
Theo Panagopoulos // United Kingdom // 2024 // 17:01 min
Documentary
Palestinian wildflowers in a Scottish archive. A film about memory, violence and the power of images – silent, gentle, pensive.
Silvia Dal Dosso // Italy, Germany // 2024 // 11:39 min
Experimental, Documentary
AI, deepfakes, dead celebrities and memes populate a chaotic world. Archival material, narrative and synthetic voices depict a society mediated by technology, pop culture and illusions of reality.
Nicolas Gebbe // Germany // 2025 // 03:00 min
Animation, Experimental
Two retro-gaming special agents go on a nearly impossible mission to retrieve a CD-ROM from a space station orbiting the earth.
Gutman Alena // Georgia // 2018 // 00:07 min
Animation
Pernell Marsden // Australia // 2023 // 06:56 min
Live Action
Two best friends embark on a high-stakes game of imagination, which takes an unforeseeable turn and threatens to jeopardise their relationship.
Wiep Teeuwisse // Netherlands // 2024 // 02:31 min
Animation
Garbage is piling up on a city street corner. An old mattress begins to speak sadly, recounting why it was discarded – until a newspaper, picked up by the wind, begins to dance in the spotlight of a streetlamp.
Christoffer Rizvanovic Stenbakken // Greenland, Denmark // 2025 // 19:41 min
Live Action
When Kaali, a young autistic boy, discovers that his dog has been stolen, he goes on an intensive search for the thief. On the way, he must face more than just his fears concerning the dog's fate.
Keifer Nyron Taylor // United Kingdom // 2024 // 22:23 min
Live Action
A South London odyssey following Tobias, who sells counterfeit tobacco to fund his mother's return to Jamaica. The city reveals spectres of his community's history and an uncertain future.
Christoph Horch // Germany // 2025 // 06:33 min
Animation
A man and woman living in a cold and distant relationship discover that they suffer from the same strange ailment.
[Content Note: Body Horror, Physical Violence]
Adi Gelbart // Germany // 2025 // 04:40 min
Animation
The Monolith sees all – for instance singing stop-motion bunnies making music. How could it not be weeping?
Nicolas Gourault // France // 2025 // 20:00 min
Documentary
How does a machine learn to understand the world? Eyewitness testimony and screenshots reveal how micro-labourers from the Global South train AIs for the North.
asinnajaq // Canada // 2017 // 14:00 min
Documentary
The Inuk artist asinnajaq combines archival images, animation and light into an iridescent cosmos, where past, present and future join in a dance. Hope rendered visible, gleaming, so close.
Regina Pessoa // Portugal, Canada, France // 2019 // 13:00 min
Animation
From Regina’s memories, a tribute to her uncle Thomas, a humble man with a simple and anonymous life. An acknowledgment that one does not have to "be somebody” to become exceptional in this lifetime.
[Content Note: Mental illness]
Wanjeri Gakuru // Kenya // 2024 // 20:00 min
Live Action
On the eve of her 25th birthday, resolved to finally lose her virginity, Waks embarks on a thrilling escapade to the city. To enjoy this gift to herself, she must first confront the scars of religious trauma and shame.
Holga Rosen // Germany // 2025 // 03:02 min
Animation, Live Action
A Ghostborg is sent through a portal to sabotage the secret operation "Trash" and kill agents Parker and O'Brien. Can the two fend off the attack and protect their mission?
[Content Note: Body Horror, Physical Violence, Blood, Murder]
Timoteus Anggawan Kusno // Indonesia // 2024 // 20:00 min
Documentary
A Javanese wargame takes us from an abandoned sugar refinery to the Rijksmuseum and traces the afterlife of a Dutch general's colonial portrait frames.
Baz Sells // United Kingdom // 2025 // 08:51 min
Animation
Eden and Dula are two Black boys on a journey of self-acceptance. Their love for each other, and their refusal to hide it, land them in a paradise free from shame and judgement.
[Content Note: Racism and racial slurs, Nudity]
Dario Boger / Dario Marti / Sina Lerf // Switzerland // 2024 // 05:26 min
Animation
Robin sits at the reception desk of a hostel, playing online chess to the monotonous lobby music. The calm doesn't last as various guests gather and cause chaos. Things spiral out of hand – then a horse appears.
Pedro Hasrouny // Portugal // 2024 // 15:30 min
Live Action
Teresa, a single mother, spends a day at the beach with son Benji and her sister Marga. Meant to be fun, the outing takes a stressful turn, as Marga brags non-stop about her own son's achievements while criticising Benji.
Eric Bitencourt // Germany, Brazil // 2025 // 11:58 min
Live Action
Two friends share the same body in virtual reality as they travel across their country of origin, revive old memories and re-open long forgotten wounds.
[Content Note: Transphobia and trans misogyny, Death or dying, Sexism and misogyny]
Selin Besili // Switzerland // 2024 // 20:00 min
Documentary
Hêlîn, Selin, Firat and Serhat carry their living room into public space: carpet, sofa, çay. With anger, resistance, energy and love, a new story and identity emerge.
Jörn Staeger // Germany // 2025 // 08:22 min
Experimental
Summer, sun, catching some rays? Our blazing, life-enabling neighbour in the sky gives us many things: vitamin D, skin cancer, drought, heat and artful, whimsical impressions.
Malgorzata Rybak // Poland // 2023 // 02:00 min
Animation
Finally, you arrive at your favourite spot for snorkelling – alas, suddenly everything goes terribly awry. A short story in three acts.
Luca Toth // Hungary // 2024 // 04:30 min
Animation
She is all that: A super empath, a justice warrior and your favourite confidence queen… but then again maybe just a sausage.
[Content Note: Nudity]
Claudia Estrada // Spain // 2024 // 08:15 min
Documentary
A teenage girl holds the first ever vigil for pigs in front of a slaughterhouse – in a country that kills 53 million pigs on a yearly basis. Her view changes drastically.
[Content Note: Animal cruelty or animal death]
Diogo Salgado // Portugal, Belgium, France // 2024 // 19:49 min
Live Action
Pedro travels for the first time in a van transporting a group of workers to France. For the others, it's a routine work trip, but for Pedro each kilometre is a step closer to the seductive wonder of the colossal Alps.
Elisa Ward // Germany // 2024 // 14:49 min
Documentary
She fled Gaza for Germany: at the window, Wafaa sings against hopelessness, against the fear of deportation, against others' silence.
[Content Note: War, Oppression, Death or dying, Psychological Violence, Flight]
Mickey Lai // Malaysia // 2024 // 19:10 min
Live Action
Set in a Malaysian National Service Camp, a Chinese female trainee is commanded to lead her multiracial female comrades to wash the stained sanitary pads in the middle of the night, because one of them is allegedly possessed by a ghost.
[Content Note: Blood, Sexism and misogyny, Racism and racial slurs, Psychological Violence]
Whammy Alcazaren // Philippines // 2024 // 19:47 min
Live Action
In the midst of a world destroyed by climate change, two students, Jelson and Ipe, search for a way to survive – and discover the enormous power of laughter and love.
Samir Syriani // Lebanon // 2025 // 16:45 min
Live Action
A Lebanese couple spends a sleepless night in fear of an Israeli airstrike that could shatter their glass walls. With their children nearby, they face an impossible choice between staying or fleeing for their lives.
[Content Note: Fears (especially claustrophobia), War]
Husein Bastouni // Germany // 2024 // 09:20 min
Animation, Documentary
A child must leave their ravaged home, while their heart and dreams remain behind. Memories of a place full of love, life, destruction, and a future that is now uncertain.
[Content Note: War, Flight, Oppression]
Žiga Ciber // Ireland, Slovenia // 2025 // 09:53 min
Documentary
In the village of Anhovo on the Soča River, there lies an old asbestos factory that has managed to outlive wars, regimes and borders. It provided employment and stole life. Even today it continues to exhale smoke.
Arshia Shakiba // Quebec // 2024 // 19:30 min
Documentary
Makeshift oil production facilities and post-apocalyptic landscapes in war-scarred Northern Syria: against this backdrop, Mohammad must manoeuvre his way through rough working conditions and local power structures.
Jonah Wögerbauer // Germany // 2024 // 15:06 min
Documentary
In the company of other cochlear implant wearers, activist Xenia navigates between the worlds of the hearing and the deaf. Together they pose questions related to belonging and dependence.
[Content Note: Ableism]
Ira Hetaraka // New Zealand // 2024 // 14:59 min
Live Action
A young Māori girl in the care of a conservative English couple savours her mother's weekly visitations, as a custody battle driven by racial bias will ultimately decide their fate.
[Content Note: Racism and racial slurs]
Ben Smith // United States // 2025 // 04:26 min
Animation
Two statues fall in love during an earthquake – the boundaries between religion, physics and desire become blurred. The silent interplay of movement, destruction and new life shows how love can arise without words.
[Content Note: Sexually explicit, Blasphemy]
Viv Li // Belgium, Germany, China // 2025 // 14:28 min
Live Action
In a dystopian future, borders have been permanently closed. A replica of Hannover becomes a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for Yu to experience a long-lost Western city.
Bassel Shehadeh // United States // 2011 // 06:43 min
Experimental
A poetic dive into Palestine's collective memory. Inspired by Mahmoud Darwish, Bassel explores how trauma is preserved and memories are stacked against forgetting.
Şirin Bahar Demirel // Netherlands, Turkey // 2023 // 14:50 min
Experimental, Documentary
When hands become veritable sites of remembering, they accumulate, transfer and reveal memories that were never included in socially acceptable family albums.
[Content Note: Abuse, Physical Violence, Psychological Violence]
Go Short - International Short Film Festival Nijmegen - Audience Award
Shruti Parekh // United States, India // 2024 // 19:16 min
Live Action
American teen Neelu feels like a fish out of water amidst preparations for her sister’s wedding in Delhi until she forges a brief and unexpected connection with Zeyb, a quiet sari store clerk who moonlights as an internet drag queen.
[Content Note: Homophobia and heterosexism]
Tiku Kobiashvili // Georgia // 2025 // 05:04 min
As the founder of the student movement "Daphioni," Tsetskhladze played a leading role in demonstrations and became a central figure in student protests. Following his detention, police searched Tsetskhladze’s apartment without allowing his lawyer to be present - a clear violation of Georgian law. This is particularly significant because Tsetskhladze claims the items listed in the search report do not belong to him. The prosecution argues that he was an organizer of extremist groups. Their primary evidence is a video in which he discusses building barricades and defensive tactics. This footage, originally shared by Daphioni itself, has been reinterpreted by authorities as incitement to violence.
Helen Haig-Brown // Canada // 2009 // 12:00 min
Live Action
A bear hunter stumbles into a portal. The boundaries between reality and spirit world become blurred. The first science-fiction tale told in the Indigenous Tsilhqot’in language. Old and new in one breath.
[Content Note: Nudity]
Abdelrahman Dnewar / Saad Dnewar // France, Egypt, Germany // 2025 // 14:57 min
Animation
The shared story of identical twin brothers Omar and Wesam unfolds in two perspectives – from coalescing in their mother's womb to painful loss.
[Content Note: Death or dying]
Max Hattler // Germany, Hong Kong SAR of China // 2023 // 07:00 min
Documentary
A phenomenal view of Hong Kong's cityscape from the 36th floor of a high-rise apartment building. Stereoscopic experiments playing with proximity and distance make the skyline feel like a map brought to life.
