INTERFILM 41 International Short Film Festival Berlin
4 - 9 November 2025

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FOCUS 03 In the Embrace of Deep Time

Five Indigenous filmmakers from North America explore time as kinship on a land where ancestors and coming generations intertwine with the present. Image, sound, movement and narrative break open linear temporality, revealing portals between worlds. Past, present and future join in a timeless dance. The films depict a vibrant Indigenous futurism that invites us to enter into the cyclic fullness of time – into an animate cosmos that makes awe, hope and profundity palpable and invites us to linger in this fullness of time.

Curated by: Jason Ryle
All films will be shown in their original language with English subtitles.

06.11.25, 20:30h, ACUDkino

09.11.25, 18:00h, Zeiss-Großplanetarium Kino

In the Embrace of Deep Time
In the Embrace of Deep Time

Curatorial Statement by Jason Ryle

I have long been fascinated by how time can be experienced in myriad ways and, in particular, how Indigenous cultures on Turtle Island (North America) conceptualise and engage with the concept of time and space. In this programme we glimpse time as kin – a flowing tapestry where the land, ancestors, and visions of what comes are never out of reach. The filmmakers gather moments that ... READ MORE

4 films
Eyes Twirl Rounds

Eyes Twirl Rounds

Eyes Twirl Rounds

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.

F1ghting Looks Different 2 Me Now

F1ghting Looks Different 2 Me Now

F1ghting Looks Different 2 Me Now

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]

ʔEʔanx

ʔEʔanx

The Cave

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]

Three Thousand

Three Thousand

Three Thousand

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.