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

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DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION

DOC 02 On Visibilities and Violence

On Visibilities and Violence examines the power of images: their creation, their potential – but also their destructive influence. How do films (and above all we as individuals) come to terms with concrete and structural violence? How does the act of showing become a source of empowerment, or a gaze become a weapon, a camera a tool, to counteract oppressive structures, to fight back against their status quo, to create counternarratives? How can violence be depicted at all – without reproducing it and making visible that which actually eludes any form of visibility?

All films will be shown in their original language with English subtitles.

06.11.25, 18:00h, Zeiss-Großplanetarium Kino

07.11.25, 20:30h, ACUDkino

On Visibilities and Violence
5 films
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Territory

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.

Soixante-sept millisecondes

Soixante-sept millisecondes

Sixty-Seven Milliseconds

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]

haza al bayt lana

haza al bayt lana

This Home Is Ours

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.

Blind, ins Auge

Blind, ins Auge

Blind, Into the Eye

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]

happiness

happiness

happiness

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]