Films
INTERFILM Festival
5/11/24 - 10/11/24
5/11/24 - 10/11/24
Films
Evelyn Entwistle // Belgium // 2017 // 02:17 min
Animation
Horses scooting around on the surface of the water … and one that tries to walk on it.
Jakob Werner / Anne Clara Köhler / Theresa Schlipf // Germany // 2017 // 05:30 min
Animation, Documentary
What is it like for rescuers to pick up fleeing refugees in open waters? Clemens Nagel talks about his personal experiences.
Rafał Leszczynski // Poland // 2017 // 14:00 min
Documentary
A person holding their breath needs to fight against their natural instincts for survival.
David Miranda / Alberto Fernández Tiemblo / Belén Kruppa Robelo // Spain // 2018 // 09:00 min
Documentary
The main character of this story has been chosen to receive a one-way trip to Mars. He reflects on his big upcoming adventure before it takes place in ten years.
Lara Zeidan // Lebanon // 2018 // 09:00 min
Live Action
Four young friends at an old amusement park in Beirut get on the Ferris wheel. During a claustrophobic ride they talk until the Ferris wheel stops and a confession is made.
Victor Orozco Ramirez // Germany, Mexico // 2018 // 07:45 min
Animation, Documentary
The narrator philosophizes about the Internet while viewing a number of animated scenes in which people
commit suicide.
Myriam Gharbi // France, Guadeloupe // 2014 // 20:00 min
Live Action
Sabine lives with her aunt in the countryside in Guadalupe. She has no idea that she won't be going to school when she leaves home on this particular day: April 4, 1968.
Yorgos Zois // Greece // 2017 // 11:00 min
Live Action
Left over from countless unfortunate trips overseas is a new continent on which there is no life with the exception of a single worker.
Kristóf Deák // Hungary // 2018 // 19:43 min
Live Action
If machines are going to replace people in their jobs, then they have to resort to creative means in order
to prevent it from happening.
Víctor Ripoll // Spain // 2018 // 01:00 min
Documentary, Experimental
A micro-documentary about Madrid’s city center—and a homage to everyone who gets up early for work.
Emil Friis Ernst / Nilas Røpke Driessen // Denmark // 2018 // 06:00 min
Animation
A robot war veteran gets a job working at an old woman's cat hair salon. Will he manage to leave his bloodthirsty past behind him and behave like a normal person?
Luis Ospina / Carlos Mayolo // Colombia // 1978 // 28:56 min
Live Action
The most famous short film of Colombia is a harsh critique of the “porno-misery,” the tendency of some documentary filmmakers to exploit poverty and misery to gain greater popularity.
Svenja Heinrichs // Germany // 2018 // 21:00 min
Live Action
A young woman robs the owner of a bodega before she goes out partying. She returns to him and his store after the night is over and doesn’t want to leave.
YEN LIANG CHEN // Taiwan // 2017 // 04:00 min
Animation, Experimental
Winning, losing, growing, and changing in the process of a flowing animation of colors and shapes.
Nathalie Crum // Netherlands // 2017 // 15:00 min
Documentary
Andy is 13 years old and the youngest member of his marching band. His goal is to recruit new members at
all costs so the band doesn’t die off.
Raissa Sokurowa // Germany // 2018 // 13:46 min
Live Action
Since Mikail fled Chechnya for Germany, he feels like someone is always following him. He bumps into his boyfriend by chance and suspects that something bad is bound to happen.
Jules Janaud / Fabrice Le Nezet // France // 2017 // 17:36 min
Live Action
Monsters fight with each other in a dystopian world, playing out the revenge of their human breeders.
Ugo Bienvenu // France // 2017 // 03:57 min
Music Video
The love between Dolly and Silvio is discussed in American retro comic style, in which synth-pop and science-fiction blend together.
Ana Moreira // Portugal // 2018 // 17:00 min
Live Action
In an abandoned water park, a girl is doing lonely rounds on her roller skates. There is talk of a robbery on the radio, and soon the loss of hopes and dreams will reach this remote place, as well.
Ángeles Cruz // Mexico // 2018 // 18:30 min
Live Action
How do you deal with a person who really only wants to die?
Frank Ychou // France // 2017 // 07:25 min
Live Action
Nuns can have a dark side, as well. Especially when it comes to who is allowed to eat the larger fish.
Malika Zairi // France, Morocco // 2018 // 11:45 min
Live Action
Fear has gripped the country after the terror attacks in Paris. Assia is worried about her father and expresses her feelings and emotions in a dance performance.
Alexandre Arpentinier / Mathieu Blanchys / Lola Grand / Tristan Lamarca / Thomas Lemaille / Jean-Charles Lusseau // France // 2016 // 04:30 min
Animation
Two astronauts are the first humans to set foot on a planet. They realize that they are not alone.
Luis Ospina / Carlos Mayolo // Colombia // 1975 // 16:49 min
Live Action
A servant takes revenge on the owners of the house and calls attention to the inequality between the different classes of society in Colombia.
Kiana Naghshineh // Germany // 2018 // 04:00 min
Animation
On her way home one night, a woman notices a shadow behind her. We see the ensuing struggle between
her and the violent man from her, his, and our perspective.
Maël Le Mée // France // 2017 // 17:00 min
Live Action
Together with her friends, Aurore, a 16-year-old girl, discovers her own body—using a supernatural finger
as a guide.
Moufida Fedhila // France, Tunisia, Qatar // 2017 // 24:00 min
Live Action
Aya lives with her parents in Tunis. Since the family is poor, she gets help from the local Salafists. But with the help there is also religious pressure, which puts Aya in a difficult situation.
Toni Bestard // Spain // 2018 // 14:45 min
Live Action
Sometimes the most exciting things happen in the background. For example, people fall in love with each other unnoticed by everyone.
Julia Orlik // Poland // 2016 // 03:50 min
Animation
A group of high-society people sits at a banquet table to dine. They teach a new recruit to their ranks how to behave properly.
Christina Willings // Canada // 2018 // 23:24 min
Documentary
Although still children Bex, Fox, Tru, Lili, and Milo know who they are and that they do not conform with the traditional categories of gender. They talk about their lives.
Jossie Malis // Spain, France // 2018 // 14:00 min
Animation
An extraterrestrial distributes smartphones to animals: What could go wrong?
Katharina Kolleczek // Germany // 2018 // 11:30 min
Documentary
A refugee home is slated for construction in Neuperlach. However, the town is evenly divided. How will the people deal with the excruciatingly loud noise?
JORIK DOZY / SIL VAN DER WOERD // Indonesia // 2018 // 05:00 min
Experimental
A deep-sea diving man finds out about the polluted oceans firsthand.
Bradford Young // United States // 2017 // 22:00 min
Documentary, Experimental
What is the African American identity? Everyday scenes taken from the lives of African Americans giving us an idea of their culture and attitudes.
Comfort Arthur // Ghana // 2016 // 04:00 min
Animation
Black Barbie is a Poetry animation that explores the filmmakers experience with skin bleaching products
when growing up.
Nienke Deutz // Belgium, France // 2018 // 09:40 min
Animation
Two best friends spend their last summer together as kids. And then comes puberty and puts the girls’ friendship to the test.
Tereza Kovandova // Czech Republic // 2018 // 07:40 min
Animation
Rapunzel gets impaled, and Cinderella vomits: A few alternative interpretations of famous fairy tales.
Alexey Marfin // // 2014 // 07:00 min
Animation, Live Action
Finally on sale: Genetically modified pets that adapt to their owners.
Ulu Braun // Germany // 2018 // 19:00 min
Experimental
A village supposedly in Africa and inhabited by Germans. Joachim is involved in ritual energy production. We accompany him on his daily rounds. Meanwhile, an archaeological find is made in a mine: a Ferrari.
Bogdan Muresanu // Romania // 2018 // 20:00 min
Live Action
Christmas spirits are dampened when a father finds out that his son sent a letter to Santa Claus wishing that Ceaușescu would die.
Luis Ospina // Colombia // 1973 // 13:12 min
Animation, Documentary
A satirical look at the Feria de Cali, a carnival that takes place between Christmas and New Year.
Brenda Lien // Germany // 2018 // 08:50 min
Experimental, Live Action
ASMR videos for the audience in a comfortable screening room of a movie theater. But then all of a sudden there’s hot wax.
Alexandre Aja // Spain, United States // 2018 // 12:00 min
Live Action
The “Campfire Creepers” series invites viewers to join in as a group of friends gathers around the campfire at Camp Cayote one summer to listen to typical scary stories.
Alexandre Aja // Spain, United States // 2018 // 12:00 min
Live Action
When Sam and her boyfriend steal sweets from an abandoned camp in the woods, they awaken buried to their necks and face to face with The Skull Collector.
Gabriela França // Brazil // 2017 // 06:00 min
Live Action
People eat animals. Captain Roger Bacon will serve your burger with a dance performance and horror trip.
Jacobo Echeverria // Spain // 2009 // 11:00 min
Live Action
Two teenagers wander through suburbian streets of Madrid. In face of the summer slump they flip a coin to decide what to do.
Dag Mork // Norway // 2002 // 08:00 min
Live Action
Marianne left Morton, again. He returns to her in the hope of winning her back, but everything happens
differently than he expected when he decides to go into her old camper.
Valentin Riedl / Frédéric Schuld // Germany // 2018 // 05:00 min
Animation, Documentary
Carlotta has face blindness, which means she is unable to recognize faces, including her own. Instead of looking into the mirror, she paints self-portraits.
Natalia Preston // Spain, Germany // 2017 // 16:00 min
Documentary
Carmen from Venezuela emigrated to Madrid. The former teacher spends her days as street musician in the subway.
Fabián Marcel Salgado Rivadeneira / Anita Becker / Felicia Bergström // Germany // 2018 // 03:15 min
Animation
Life and death in a world made of meat.
Jueyang ZHANG // China // 2017 // 06:00 min
Animation
A cat is found in the middle of the woods one day. The people fall in love with it so much that they build
a city around the cat.
O'Neil Bürgi // Switzerland // 2018 // 06:30 min
Animation
A letter, a broken heart, the sound of the rain. A black cat, a plan.
At Sound & Vision the film will be live sounded by JOSIP DUVNJAK COMBO
David Barlow-Krelina // France, Canada // 2018 // 05:00 min
Animation
Absurdity on the beauty farm: The surgeon with a big smile plastered on his face shows us the transformation of someone’s skin that can be stretched like chewing gum and polished like laminate flooring.
Serghei Chiviriga // Romania // 2017 // 12:13 min
Animation
The owners of a funeral home become skeptical when a customer purchases 12 funeral wreaths.
Luis Fernando Villa Botero // Colombia // 2018 // 23:00 min
Live Action
A village wants to finally open its cemetery. But they have just one problem: no dead bodies.
Dominic-Etienne SIMARD // France, Canada // 2017 // 11:00 min
Animation
Charles is a child with adult size problems. He is the target of bullying at school, and at home he has to take care of his mother. So he flees into a world full of frogs to save himself.
Roberto F. Canuto / Xiaoxi Xu // Spain, China // 2017 // 20:00 min
Live Action
A transgender woman is booed off the stage by the audience of a nightclub while she performs, but she doesn’t want to back down so she confronts her family in a village in China.
Barnabás Tóth // Hungary // 2018 // 16:00 min
Live Action
Two simultaneous interpreters are working at a climate conference. They play tic-tac-toe when they discover who their only listener is.
Max Andersson // Sweden, Germany // 2017 // 04:20 min
Music Video
The Berlin-based band Chuckamuck stumbles around Berlin’s nightlife—accompanied by a mixture of stop-motion dogs and comic drawings.
Delia Hess // Switzerland // 2018 // 08:41 min
Animation
On a small planet the inhabitants perform their surreal actions-singer songwriter Susie Asado gives meaning to this strange scenario.
At Sound & Vision the film will be live sounded by SUSIE ASADO
Denis Poulin / Martine Époque // Canada // 2014 // 11:00 min
Non-Narrative
A dance of tiny particles, shapes transforming and evolving to rhythms from Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring.
María Cristina Pérez / Mauricio Cuervo // Colombia // 2017 // 09:00 min
Animation, Live Action
A deer with an office job takes a coffee break at 4 pm every afternoon. One day melts into the next and the monotonous routine takes hold of him. Even deer aren’t immune to loneliness.
Linda Dombrovszky // Hungary // 2017 // 18:30 min
Live Action
An old man is working with Legos. His retirement comes much too early for him and his life gets out of
hand, because he hasn’t yet completed his mission in life.
Marc Salmon // France // 1997 // 11:50 min
Live Action
A huge cage is in the way of a couple as they travel on a country road. To their added surprise, it also contains a tiger!
Zhi Lang // China // 2018 // 10:00 min
Experimental, Live Action
Ya Jing is invited to interview for a dance troupe that she likes. When her father finds out that she quit her
job to dance, she is forced to train in secrecy.
Otto Banovits // Sweden, Hungary // 2018 // 06:00 min
Experimental, Live Action
This film shows a dramatic incident on the Austrian-Hungarian border using the camera obscura principle.
Vitor Hugo Rocha // Portugal // 2017 // 06:16 min
Animation
There is no end to the secrets and memories hiding behind closed drawers: a marble, a tricycle, and even a puppet show.
Grayson Moore / Aidan Shipley / Jon Riera / Connor Illsley // Canada // 2018 // 15:56 min
Live Action
Two strangers show up at a remote cottage claiming to have spent their childhood summers there. However,
their behavior seems to be driven by something more sinister than nostalgia.
Klaus Morschheuser // Germany // 2002 // 07:00 min
Animation
A stork fights his weariness and the Earth's gravity. As if this weren't enough, a very brazen sparrow lands on his beak and interrogates him.
Juan Pablo Polanco Carranza // Spain // 2018 // 07:00 min
Live Action
A young woman leaves her husband late one night. She makes the acquaintance of a flamenco player and a dancer. But she soon realizes that she is still all alone.
Florinda Frisardi // Germany // 2017 // 04:09 min
Experimental
Seeing the world through a VR headset and raising plants with a dropper.
Alexandra Gerbaulet / Mirko Winkel // Germany // 2018 // 16:30 min
Documentary, Experimental
A deserted apartment and the story of two women who inconspicuously live together with their husbands...
Samuel Auer // Germany // 2018 // 24:00 min
Live Action
Paul spends his evenings at the poker table. He runs into Fatih, a cab driver, who used to be a gambler as well.
Leonhard Hofmann // Germany // 2018 // 13:00 min
Live Action
A boy waits for his mother to pick him up. His new pets do nothing to change the fact that his parents are
separated.
Simon Ball // Germany // 2018 // 08:00 min
Animation, Documentary
People with a specific type of dementia have difficulties recognizing objects. Patients afflicted by this illness talk about living with it.
Francesco Rufini // // 2018 // 11:00 min
Documentary
Passionate dog lovers tell about their lives with dogs, while the fluffy four-legged creatures have their fur brushed and are styled.
Pierre Le Gall / Sarah Malléon // France, Martinique // 2018 // 19:30 min
Live Action
Joseph does not want to accept that his brother wants to leave Martinique and go to France. He imagines how a monster tries to attack his family.
Shunsaku Hayashi // Japan // 2018 // 06:40 min
Animation, Experimental
Digitally animated images overlaid by the metamorphosis of a human to a caterpillar, accompanied by electronic music.
Mirai Mizue // France // 2017 // 04:50 min
Animation
There are no boundaries to your imagination. Dreamland is capable of perpetually redefining itself.
Laurent Firode // France // 2018 // 10:35 min
Live Action
Global warning will be the death of us all. That’s for certain. But it might not be in the way we had expected it.
Yosman Serrano Lindarte // Colombia // 2017 // 20:00 min
Live Action
A boy looks for all sorts of jobs in a small town in order to pay for his sick brother’s medicine. He eventually decides to enter his rooster in fights.
Joan Vives // Spain // 2018 // 19:00 min
Live Action
Amadeo only has one week to live. While he is pursued by his fear of being eaten by bugs after he dies, the
village residents celebrate a party.
Juan Ibáñez // Spain // 2017 // 06:24 min
Animation, Experimental
Footage of the moon landing blends with avant-garde art in this associative animation.
Lucina Gil // Spain // 2007 // 14:00 min
Live Action
Pepe is a mystery: He is happy, even though he has nothing that the research claims to be necessary in the first place.
Nacho Casado // Spain // 2014 // 20:30 min
Live Action
The Vicente Calderón Stadium also served as cementary for the supporters of the football club Atlético Madrid.
// Colombia // 2010 // 07:30 min
Animation, Experimental
Solitude can take on various shapes and faces that appear at the window.
Vladimir Leschiov // Latvia // 2018 // 08:44 min
Animation
An electrician falls off a ladder and lands on the other side of the wall of an insane asylum. A mosquito that
switches on the light at night drives him crazy, and he desperately tries to escape.
Stas Santimov // Ukraine // 2017 // 07:21 min
Music Video
A man sits on a train, in front of him is a masked woman. Suddenly she is gone and the search for her begins.
It is a softly drawn, tender trip into a mystical world.
Pixie Cram // Canada // 2017 // 07:00 min
Animation
The Diefenbunker is a four-story monstrosity of a nuclear fallout shelter that was built in great secrecy in 1959. This stop-motion animation takes its inspiration from objects and rooms in this building and shows the beginnings of a nuclear war.
Emma Hjelm // Sweden // 2017 // 08:00 min
Animation, Documentary
We meet different people—animated silicon figures—who tell us about their fears over a cup of tea.
Kristian Håskjold // Denmark // 2018 // 19:00 min
Live Action
Every evening baker Erik calls the radio show “Joker of the Week” to tell his lame jokes. All contact to his family has long since disappeared, just like his sense of reality.
Alex Schaad // Germany // 2018 // 30:00 min
Live Action
Armin has always been passionate about his job as a miner in Bottrop, where the last coal mine will soon be closed. His loss of prospects gives him an idea that he cannot shake.
Anna Mantzaris // // 2017 // 02:21 min
Animation
Do you ever get the feeling some days that you just want to explode? The characters in this film indulge
themselves, because sometimes enough is enough.
Bernhard Wenger // Austria, Sweden, Germany // 2018 // 24:00 min
Live Action
A young couple from Sweden is on vacation and staying at a luxury hotel in the Alps. But their ways part
quickly after an argument. She disappears without a trace, whereas he has a splendid time with the other hotel guests.
Pablo González // Colombia // 2013 // 22:00 min
Live Action
Alex and Jonathan work at Alfonso’s repair shop. The trio decides to steal from a gang of smugglers. What
they don’t know is that Alex’s brother belongs to the group.
Saman Fani // Iran // 2016 // 03:40 min
Animation, Experimental
Climate change changes the world and all its elements.
Iván Luna // Colombia // 2017 // 17:00 min
Live Action
Fabio and his wife want to prevent their two sons from fighting in the Colombian war at all costs.
Danlei Li / Jia Bao // China // 2018 // 05:00 min
Live Action
A player monitors his avatar to keep from being watched by the eye in the game.
Magnus Aronson-Aminoff // Sweden // 2018 // 00:20 min
Animation
A person’s life is more than just a stumble and a scream, isn’t it?
Nikita Diakur // Germany // 2018 // 02:55 min
Animation, Experimental
Street fair in Marzahn: The overweight puppets are at a rave in the parking lot until the polygons start flying around.
// Germany // 2018 // 01:27 min
Documentary
Liebig 34 is the only anarchist/queer/feminist housing project in Berlin. The owner of the building wants to clear everyone out of the building and transform the apartments into luxury apartments when the lease expires in December. The occupants stage a revolt.
Susanne Quester / Niloc Nitsui // Germany // 2002 // 07:30 min
Documentary
Finow is an independent woodland state whose inhabitants mainly feed on bananas. Revealing an entirely new angle on the subject of child labour.
Luise Fiedler // Germany // 2017 // 07:00 min
Animation
This film tells of true events related to violence and human rights, providing a clearer picture of the extent of the problem by animating these events.
Max Andersson // Sweden, Germany // 2017 // 06:16 min
Animation, Experimental, Live Action
We often overlook the flat dogs that populate the ground when we move through Berlin as normal-sized people.
Jonathan Behr // Germany // 2018 // 09:56 min
Experimental, Live Action
A young woman is looking at her cellphone while she babysits. She panics when a stranger suddenly starts following her on Instagram and posts pictures of her.
Astrid Thorvaldsen / Erik Paulsen // Norway // 2017 // 20:00 min
Live Action
A broken living room table and IKEA as a relationship test.
Mariana Martínez Gómez // Mexico // 2018 // 13:00 min
Live Action
Two photojournalists observe a counter-demonstrator being beaten at a political rally and try to intervene.
ardalan aram // Germany // 2016 // 03:42 min
Experimental, Live Action
Berlin’s Hermannplatz, a man on the piano, and a set of headphones: It’s more than enough to move people and bring them together.
Adam Stern // Canada // 2016 // 16:30 min
Live Action
An astronaut is about to to testdrive an FTL spaceship. “Faster than light” describes more than just the new speed. It also shows how uncertain things are in this dimension.
Anette Sidor // Sweden // 2018 // 14:30 min
Live Action
In her love relationship, Alice fights against the confines of dictated roles for men and women with everything she has. Her friends think she’s going too far.
Sarah Fgaier // Italy, France // 2018 // 20:00 min
Documentary
Filmic fragments from the shores of a timeless Sardinia accompanied by Annie Ernaux’s text “The Years.”
Bodies, shadows, small objects, and landscapes from the past enable archive material to speak to us in a new way.
Anna MANTZARIS // // 2018 // 08:30 min
Animation
Inexplicable things suddenly start to happen after a young woman causes a car crash.
Yi Zhang // China // 2017 // 13:30 min
Live Action
A woman whose husband died in an accident takes a trip to collect the body of her husband.
IAN HUNT DUFFY // Ireland // 2016 // 19:45 min
Live Action
During a traffic jam on a country road, a little girl disappears from one of the gridlocked cars. The desperate father forms a search party and soon everyone becomes a suspect.
Nara NORMANDE // France, Brazil // 2018 // 14:16 min
Animation, Experimental, Live Action
The filmmaker embarks on a personal journey into her past using
sand and fabric animation in order
to revive memories of past friendships.
Juan Manuel Beiro Martínez // Spain // 2004 // 11:30 min
Live Action
Recently arrived to Madrid, Nacho meets Gwendolyne through a lonely hearts advertisement. The eccentric young woman has very odd hobbies and is constantly looking for the love of her life.
Betina Kuntzsch // Germany // 2017 // 14:30 min
Animation, Documentary
“My mother was always a great Halma player.” This is how the story of the life of a filmmaker’s mother starts. It tells us about life during World War II, in East Germany, and in a reunified Germany.
Marites Carino // Canada // 2018 // 15:00 min
Documentary, Experimental
What happens when you take a blind date literally? The people here are blindfolded and can only explore the other person with their hands.
Clotilde Rullaud // France // 2018 // 06:46 min
Experimental
A desert, five women dressed in black, and a mystical choreography.
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Fredrik Andersson // Sweden // 2018 // 03:00 min
Animation
This forest doesn’t put up with foul-smelling cars and their ignorant occupants rumbling through it constantly. It fights back using their own weapons.
Joanna Nelson // Venezuela // 2018 // 15:00 min
Live Action
Roberto cares for his unemployed mother and himself. They run into a conflict when she insists that he buys flour for her birthday cake.
Ernesto Lozano // Colombia // 2017 // 20:00 min
Live Action
The daily routine in a lively barrio of Bogotá is disrupted when a man tries to leap to his death.
Daniel Popat // Germany, Russia // 2017 // 09:40 min
Live Action
Two strangers share a room in a hostel. At some point they realize that they both come from the same town in Russia. Is it coincidence?
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.
Viktor Hertz // Sweden // 2018 // 10:00 min
Live Action
A man wakes up at a clinic specialized in malignant hangovers. The doctor prescribes 600 ml of ice cream and two action comedies, but also shares some news, which doesn't make him feel any better...
Jonathan Chong // Australia // 2017 // 03:25 min
Music Video
Husky and Gideon travel to dreamlike, surrealistic worlds in this embroidermation. Death is approached with positivity here.
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.
Yuval Haker // Israel // 2017 // 04:00 min
Animation
A music video that tells of sex, fear, love and intimacy and how the boundaries between feelings blur.
Andrew Fitzgerald // United States // 2017 // 15:00 min
Live Action
A young woman incurs the wrath of the internet after she inadvertently becomes a viral sensation.
Mahdi Fleifel // United Kingdom, Switzerland, Germany // 2018 // 10:00 min
Documentary
Right after a Palestinian signed an online petition, his life plunges into a spiral of self-doubt and panic.
Elliot Spencer // China, Australia // 2018 // 07:00 min
Documentary
Tibetan children intensively study Buddhist scripture in an isolated village in a high mountain region of Sichuan.
Marta Magnuska // Poland // 2018 // 04:45 min
Animation
This group of people is afraid of a creature that is said to be gruesome. But will this creature ever appear?
Radheya Jegatheva // Australia // 2017 // 07:57 min
Animation
“Welcome to the new age, a digital life, where man is married to wi-fi and wife”: the relationship between
man and technology.
Andres Tenusaar // Estonia // 2018 // 07:40 min
Animation, Experimental
13 feature films from Estonia made between 1964 and 2013 were transformed into an animated, dark short film.
Dimitre Lucho / Katherina Tsirakis // Brazil, Colombia, United States // 2016 // 14:59 min
Experimental, Live Action
Inti, a tormented traveler, searches for his master in the Salar de Uyuni salt flat.
Marie de Maricourt // Switzerland // 2017 // 16:30 min
Live Action
Sarah is twenty years old and still lives with her parents due to a disability. Her sexual fantasies become more and more important until the arrival of a new cleaner, a transsexual woman, messes everything up.
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.
Olivia Kastebring / Julia Gumpert / Ulrika Bandeira // Sweden // 2018 // 17:30 min
Documentary
Their thought-provoking performances deconstruct the relationship between subject and object.
Michele Cinque // Italy // 2017 // 15:00 min
Documentary
A musical journey to Foggia in the south of Italy where African migrant laborers spend hot days between working and waiting at the tomato farms.
Yangxuan ZHOU // China // 2018 // 10:30 min
Live Action
A mother puts her son under pressure to learn to cook instead of painting. He discovers that his sister is also interested in painting
Pablo Munoz Gomez // Belgium, France // 2017 // 14:45 min
Live Action
A father desperately seeks a job so he can buy his son a bag.
Thomas Scohy // France // 2017 // 03:45 min
Live Action
A human starts dating an alien, introduces him to his parents, and asks for his hand in marriage—all on one day.
Basma Farhat // Lebanon // 2017 // 18:50 min
Documentary
Normally Basma doesn’t wear a hijab. But one day she decides she’s ready for a change because she’s curious how her parents will react.
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?
Adam Cosco // United States // 2017 // 16:00 min
Live Action
Kelsey suspects that something is not right with her husband. She believes she has found the perfect solution when an arms dealer rings her doorbell.
Sebastian Lang // Germany // 2017 // 30:00 min
Live Action
No one knows the two Polish women who work on a dairy farm in Brandenburg. They even ignore one another, until they have an encounter that may have only been a dream.
Melinda Szabó-Nyulász // Hungary // 2018 // 04:30 min
Animation, Experimental
With his pianot Josep writes the film Score for the journey of a girl through the wide and untouched forest.At Sound & Vision the film will be live sounded by JOSEP SUQUET
Det Sporadiske Filmkollektivet // Norway // 2018 // 03:00 min
Live Action
A date in the forest sounds like a nice idea, but the branches are against it.
Laëtitia Martinoni // France // 2017 // 09:43 min
Live Action
Alice enjoys it when her room transforms into the chambers of a princess and her prince, who is actually only her senior physician, visits her. This way, her cancer is only but a dream.
Benjamin Nuel // France // 2018 // 08:00 min
Experimental
This film takes us on a journey to Arnold Böcklin’s painting “Isle of the Dead,” showing someone on a boat and the person smuggling her. The VR experience makes it possible to discover first-hand a painting that has inspired numerous filmmakers.
Gerlando Infuso // Belgium // 2018 // 15:00 min
Animation
Icaro wants to propose to his Vanilla in a fancy restaurant on Valentine’s Day. However, the cook messes up
his plans.
jimmy ( cho jim san) cho // Colombia, Argentina // 2017 // 15:00 min
Animation
A whale hunter loses his family. He suddenly transforms into a whale and is forced to reconsider his actions as a human.
Boris Labbé // France // 2018 // 14:30 min
Animation, Experimental
Strange creatures remove the balance in the world order when they arrive on Earth. They set tremendous contradiction in motion: heavenly and demonic circles.
Maya Gering // France // 2018 // 07:20 min
Animation, Documentary
No one ever talks about hair loss in women. It’s a social taboo—something that this filmmaker wants to change.
Javier Chacártegui Horrach // Spain // 2017 // 09:30 min
Live Action
A man in pajamas is seated in a waiting area. He is dead and finds out that he can take the train to heaven. The stupid thing is that the ticket isn’t for free.
Manue Fleytoux // Belgium, France // 2017 // 20:00 min
Live Action
Impulsive Anouk, her stressed-out friend, and her pubescent brother are destined for failure. Is a radical
fresh start the only thing that could help this threesome?
Birutė Sodeikaitė // Poland, Lithuania // 2017 // 08:38 min
Animation
It’s a horrible fate to have a serious illness as a child. A young girl finds a way to accept the situation in this puppetry film.
Renaud Alcalde // France // 2000 // 03:34 min
Experimental, Live Action
It’s time to get out of bed! The worker, still asleep, starts his day. He switches on the machines, rushes about, and has a difficult time keeping up with everything... It’s time to get out of bed!
NATA MORENO // Spain // 2017 // 06:00 min
Live Action
An orchestra during rehearsal. The short-fused conductor thinks that everything sounds atrociously out of tune. The musicians have no other option than to get rid of this jerk.
Natalia Chernysheva // France // 2018 // 03:00 min
Animation
Does anyone have a tiny plot of land in the city for a homeless garden? It politely walks down the streets and doesn’t even let his roots drag behind it.
Claude Leveque // France // 2017 // 07:10 min
Experimental, Live Action
This film shows the complete loss of rationality and reality using Swan Lake, the music of Tchaikovsky, and the legendary lake beneath the Palais Garnier.
Patrick Bouchard // Canada // 2018 // 10:00 min
Animation
This character symbolically decapitates a lifeless body in his struggle with himself. He uses different tools
to extract his fears and memories.
Vergine Keaton // France // 2018 // 13:30 min
Animation, Experimental
Ice melts. The tiger lies lifeless on the ground. The branches in the forest break and lava flows like a river.
clement cogitore // France // 2017 // 05:26 min
Live Action
Krump is a street dance popularized in Los Angeles focusing on energetic dance battles or sessions. This film brings together and juxtaposes urban culture with music by Rameau at the same time.
Lou Rambert Preiss // France, Switzerland // 2017 // 13:55 min
Live Action
Jonathan lives in two worlds and longs to venture out into the real world in the guise of his avatar.
Kristian Andrews // // 2014 // 03:14 min
Animation
A YouTube celebrity tries to cope with his heartsickness through a Let’s Play video.
José Magro // Portugal // 2018 // 02:46 min
Live Action
A woman writes a letter to her childhood sweetheart and revels in memories of unfinished deeds.
Gabriel Tempea // Austria // 2017 // 03:44 min
Documentary, Experimental
Milan Kundera’s work on sexuality is juxtaposed with personal memories. Archive images explore taboo topics from that time providing a portrait of sex and masturbation with a dry sense of humor.
shiro ichige // Japan // 2017 // 03:11 min
Animation
This fast music video with plants and animals looks very different when the experienced Sound & Vision Veterans "Klangschneider" put their fingers in the pie.
At Sound & Vision the film will be live sounded by KLANGSCHNEIDER
Laura Rantanen // Finland // 2018 // 10:30 min
Documentary
A man walks along the autobahn at night, collecting road kill. But why?
Fernando López // Colombia // 2008 // 12:20 min
Experimental
A look at the co-existence of rational being in reality and its other side in a parallel universe.
Kristian Pedersen // Norway // 2018 // 05:20 min
Animation, Experimental
“Little Boy” was the code name of a nuclear bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima. A graphic depiction from several different perspectives.
Isabella Luu / Kerstin Zemp / Bianca Caderas // Switzerland // 2017 // 06:12 min
Animation
Heta’s daily routine is very strict. She cuts red hair, does her exercises, and pumps her breast milk for a young seal. One day, however, she makes a mistake.
Pavel Shepan / Nadira Murray // // 2017 // 15:30 min
Live Action
Two asylum seekers, Samira and Nazim, are arrested and will be deported as quickly as possible.
Elena López Riera // Spain, Switzerland // 2018 // 24:00 min
Documentary
Documentary film about a competition of Spanish pigeon trainers in Valencia.
Iván D. Gaona // Colombia // 2012 // 14:00 min
Live Action
Grandmother Paulina wins a Polaroid camera, and she starts to document her and her husband's life.
Daniel Agdag // Australia // 2017 // 10:00 min
Animation
Surrounded by countless things that people no longer think about, the employee of a lost-and-found office finds better use for all the objects there.
Rémi Anfosso // France, United States // 2017 // 14:00 min
Live Action
It is difficult to make ends meet in Paris. Sometimes you need to resort to dishonest means, for example,
magic tricks.
Inés Sedan // France // 2018 // 05:40 min
Animation
1973, Bukowski reads his thoughtprovoking poem “Love” in San Francisco. And there’s a surprise in store at the end.
Veronica Solomon // Germany // 2018 // 06:06 min
Animation
What roles and styles do we assume and how do we express ourselves in order to impress other people? A metaphor of self-expression through dance.
Alessandro Bavari // Italy // 2015 // 04:57 min
Animation
These plants grow diligently to the beat of a rock song.
Astrid Bussink // Netherlands // 2017 // 15:00 min
Documentary, Experimental
Children also have a lot of things to worry about. Luckily, there are hotlines for children in need of help. But what do you tell a complete stranger?
Carlos Gomez Salamanca // France, Colombia // 2016 // 10:00 min
Animation, Documentary
A construction worker listens to the radio and flicks through the stations. Documentaries about animals and political speeches fade in and out, while the skyscrapers of Bogotá shoot out of the ground.
Alejandro Damiani // Uruguay, Mexico // 2016 // 05:00 min
Animation, Live Action
A mechanical Trump-like robot breaks through the Mexican border wall and issues a declaration of war on his enemies who fell from the sky.
Yves Paradis // Germany // 2018 // 10:20 min
Animation
Two people’s search for life in an artificial world.
Alan Short / Seasmus Malone // Ireland // 2017 // 04:00 min
Animation
It’s not exactly the best situation to be marooned on a deserted island and watched by a shark. But the
character in this film doesn’t give up, even if he fails again and again and again.
Giuseppe Spina / Leonardo Carrano // Italy // 2017 // 19:00 min
Animation, Experimental
The silhouette of a creature appears in a nondescript dark room. A battle between light and darkness, between analog film and animation.
Robin Andelfinger / Ibrahima Seydi // Belgium, France, Senegal // 2017 // 16:30 min
Live Action
Mama Bobo is a widow in her eighties. Day after day she goes to the same bus stop in Dakar. Sitting on the bench she remembers her past life and her husband who died long ago until her routine gets interrupted.
Alejandro Saevich // Mexico // 2017 // 11:40 min
Live Action
The president of Mexico would rather spend his last few days in office relaxing. But there is an international conflict.
Marites Carino // Canada // 2018 // 06:45 min
Experimental
Transformation and the multilayered, complex nature of existence, expressed through origami shapes.
Ben Steer // // 2017 // 06:29 min
Animation
This animation projected with light onto Styrofoam shows a woman with her child fleeing a threatening shadow.
At Sound & Vision the film will be live sounded by KATALOG
Manolis Mavris // Greece // 2017 // 19:00 min
Experimental, Live Action
A man and a woman decide to share a taxi. They don’t know each other. But the cab driver seems to have a different opinion.
Matias Rygh / Mathias Eriksen // Norway // 2017 // 15:47 min
Live Action
Andres believes that it’s no coincidence that animals are attacking humans. He makes a film in which he tells the humans to stand up for themselves.
Simone Andrea Gottschau / Anders Palm Olesen // Denmark // 2017 // 12:00 min
Documentary
More than 7000 people have died in Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs since he was confirmed president of the Philippines. This film looks at the future prospects of workers who dig new graves.
Jonas Riemer // Germany // 2018 // 14:00 min
Animation, Live Action
A A film projectionist suddenly finds himself in the plot of a film and he needs to confront a gangster in a cardboard world.
Juan Camilo González // Colombia, United States // 2009 // 02:20 min
Animation
The life of a pendulum between boredom and pain, lovingly drawn by hand.
Igor Simic // Montenegro, Serbia // 2016 // 07:00 min
Live Action
A military drone thinks back on its wasted existence as a drone flying in peacetime during its last morning in Belgrad.
Samira Badran // Spain // 2017 // 13:00 min
Animation
What does it feel like when you’re on your way to the Palestinian border checkpoint? A torso-less character
explains their point of view.
Giulia Martinelli // Italy // 2016 // 05:40 min
Animation, Documentary
What would Little Red Riding Hood be if she didn’t have a bottle of wine in her basket and the hunter didn’t have a rifle? Flipping the fairy tale on its head.
Reber Dosky // Netherlands // 2017 // 15:11 min
Documentary
Meryem is the leader of a group of women fighting IS in the town of Kobani. This film goes in frighteningly close to show us the daily battle these people face in an environment of bombs and rubble.
Lia Hietala // Sweden // 2017 // 15:00 min
Live Action, Commercial Work
How do you find out if you’re really in love? Cleo turns to her big sister’s girlfriend to find out more...
Borbála Nagy // Germany // 2018 // 12:39 min
Live Action
It’s Alpar’s first day at work on the Hungarian-Serbian border. He is stationed there to prevent refugees from crossing the border, when he is suddenly confronted with the reality of border protection work on an icy day in winter.
Rachel Ellis // Brazil // 2018 // 15:30 min
Documentary
Four very young girls compete for the title of Mini Miss Baby.
Philippe Passon // France, French Guiana // 2017 // 23:00 min
Live Action
Mirelande is a teenager living with her grandmother, sister, and little brother in French Guiana. Although she attends school and has homework, she also takes care of the home and family.
Harry Chadwick // // 2017 // 03:00 min
Live Action
Two girls decide to test an urban legend. If you look in the mirror and no one appears, just call for the Mirror Man. He’ll show up.
Simon Acosta // Colombia // 2016 // 08:00 min
Animation
A police officer is transferred to a small city destroyed by war, where he falls in love with a local woman. The relationship is anything but easy.
Eva Michon // United States // 2017 // 05:25 min
Music Video
As the saying goes, it’s a rollercoaster ride of feelings. In this film, the singer expresses her feelings while
actually riding on a rollercoaster.
// // 2018 // 02:45 min
Music Video
Miya sings, “Stop talking about that boy,” while cavorting with a large group of dancing women.
Truls Krane Meby // Norway // 2018 // 09:50 min
Live Action
The young Syrian refugee Whalid tries to make a phone call to his family from a refugee reception center in Norway. His family has also fled Syria.
Sujin Kim // United States // 2018 // 03:40 min
Animation, Experimental
The person’s movements give the appearance of a struggle of someone trying to break out of a cubical structure. This structure changes in shape and size and is more alive than the human.
At Sound & Vision the film will be live sounded by KICKER DLBS
Zirui Zhang // China // 2017 // 10:00 min
Live Action
A mother finds out that her daughter is homosexual. She cannot believe it and looks for more evidence.
The search leads her to her inner self.
Sophie Linnenbaum // Germany // 2017 // 05:30 min
Live Action
Klaus has a new job. It is the best job in the world. The only problem is when his workday is over.
Aggie Pak Yee Lee // Estonia, Hong Kong SAR of China // 2017 // 04:10 min
Animation
Visiting a museum with your class— how boring! You always have to be quiet and you’re never allowed to
have any fun. A perfect moment to let your imagination run wild.
Charlie Tyrell // Canada // 2017 // 13:40 min
Animation, Documentary
Filmmaker Charlie Tyrell tries to create a picture of his dead father who was always a mystery to him using objects his father left behind.
laureau jeanne / Colombine Majou / Diego Torres / Sixtine Dano / Morgane Mattard // France // 2017 // 01:30 min
Animation
In this animated film, a woman explores her body and enjoys the emotional worlds she dives into.
Zuzana Studena / Ivan Studeny // Czech Republic // 2018 // 01:30 min
Animation, Documentary
A brief journey of one woman’s experiences with abuse: fast, sincere, to the point.
Hannes Schilling // Germany // 2017 // 14:40 min
Live Action
Two homeless people break into a home one night and enjoy the luxurious lifestyle of normal people.
Jon Frickey // Germany, Japan // 2018 // 11:09 min
Animation
The little Jiro suffers from cat fever. The doctor prescribes a session of identity therapy.
Gina Wenzel // Germany // 2018 // 18:44 min
Live Action
Cheyenne is the only girl in a soccer gang. When one day a new boy joins them, her views are challenged.
Guy Shelmerdine // United States // 2017 // 07:00 min
Live Action
It’s time to drift off to dreamland. But first your mom will read you a short bedtime story.
Elie Martins / Oscar Aubry / Tom Goyon / Héloïse Solt // France // 2017 // 05:36 min
Animation
The sizzling hot sun, pop-up tents scattered about, vibrating cellphones falling into the pool. Summer vacation doesn’t always go as planned, but if you stay in a good mood, you can brush it all aside.
Ewa Wikiel // Germany // 2018 // 20:00 min
Live Action
Christmas of 1981 in Poland: 15-year-old Marta spends Christmas Eve by candlelight after martial law is declared—power outage. In the process, light is shed on several things.
Barbara Vekaric // Croatia, Italy // 2017 // 18:00 min
Live Action
Ashamed of her body, Stefani hopes that her fellow pupils don’t find out about her secret. Feeling pressured,
she is driven to prove herself.
Bill Plympton // United States // 2017 // 02:46 min
Animation
Reindeer sporting sunglasses and a cactus instead of a snowman: What will Christmas look like in the future?
Michael Rittmannsberger // Austria // 2017 // 02:10 min
Live Action
Nonoy lives in the Philippines and is convinced that a mysterious monster living in the ocean is killing all the fish.
Jordan Feldman // France // 2003 // 05:41 min
Live Action
Lunchtime in a Japanese restaurant. When Francoise shows up, a special chain reaction among the patrons is set into motion.
Zoltán Horváth // Switzerland // 2002 // 12:48 min
Animation
The humorously tragic story of a mosquito that falls in love with Nosferatu, the Prince of all Vampires.
Vincenz Neuhaus // Germany // 2018 // 08:08 min
Animation
The main character of this story seems to have only one meager problem: His nose is much too long. So the only logical thing to do is to turn the weakness into a weapon.
Samo (Anna Bergmann) / André Hörmann // Germany // 2018 // 15:00 min
Animation, Documentary
Akiko Takakura is one of the last survivors of the nuclear catastrophe in Hiroshima. She looks back at her past and her parents.
Mattia Beraldi // Switzerland // 2017 // 11:00 min
Documentary
Hawk-Eye is a computer system used in sports to detect if a ball is out of play or not. A line judge talks about the limits of objectivity.
Carlos Mayolo / Luis Ospina // Colombia // 1971 // 27:00 min
Documentary
This documentary shows how the Pan American Games affected Cali. It shares the perspective of the people who were prohibited from attending the games.
Edoardo Ferraro // Italy // 2018 // 20:00 min
Live Action
Okike, a refugee from Africa, shows his film to his interviewers at the Italian immigration office.
Ismaël Joffroy Chandoutis // France // 2017 // 21:00 min
Documentary, Experimental
We are surrounded by electromagnetic waves from all directions. Three people whose health suffers from this problem discuss it.
Kilian Vilim // Switzerland // 2017 // 05:29 min
Animation
An elevator operator can only ride the elevator up and down a certain number of times before the boy
goes completely crazy.
Miguel Alejandro Bohórquez // Colombia // 2012 // 12:00 min
Animation
Custano is an old tree that lives with his family on the bank of a river. As their existence is in jeopardy, they all have to move to the city and fight for survival.
Marion Duhaime // Canada // 2017 // 18:05 min
Live Action
Lily-May confesses to her friends and family that she would like to take her own life. As her appointment in the futuristic suicide clinic approaches, she is forced to bid farewell.
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.
Sara Barreto // Colombia // 2017 // 05:10 min
Music Video
The relationship between humans and animals is shown in this experimental animation.
Igor Pejic // France // 2001 // 04:10 min
Live Action
An alien crash-lands on Earth in the middle of a cornfield. It is fascinated by the nature that surrounds it. The next encounter will be with a human!
Roberto Catani // Italy // 2018 // 06:00 min
Animation
A woman and a man embark on a journey of surrealistic thoughts and relive the most beautiful moments
of their love life.
Young-Jun Cho // South Korea // 2014 // 19:00 min
Live Action
Dancer Seo-Yul’s soulmate is the pianist Min-Hyuk. When he dies, she decides to give up her career.
Pol Merchan // Germany // 2018 // 13:08 min
Documentary, Experimental
The portrayal of the punk novelist Kathy Acker is the starting point for a journey to the queer 1990s in this hybrid artistic documentary. The words of the intersex photographer Del LaGrace Volcano recount transformative and self-ordained bodies, souls, and scars.
Gustaf Lindstrom // // 2018 // 05:12 min
Animation
In Plankton we get a glimpse of the ideas and aspirations that float around at the bottom of the food chain. Don’t we all want to become something big one day?
Nils Clauss // South Korea // 2017 // 07:00 min
Documentary
The plastic dolls placed in front of stores as an attraction in South Korea ironically talk about their busy day in robotic voices. A critique of the sexualization of public space.
ANTONELLO MATARAZZO // Italy // 2017 // 02:07 min
Experimental, Live Action
The metamorphosis of 101 dead insects from various places. At Sound & Vision the film will be live sounded by Basar Ünder, turk musician, sound designer, film and game composer.
Filip Blazek // Czech Republic // 2018 // 10:47 min
Animation
Two neighbors in the dollhouse become aware of each other on the holidays.
Laura Poitras / Henrik Moltke // United States // 2016 // 11:00 min
Documentary, Commercial Work
The huge, gray, windowless building at 33 Thomas Street, New York belongs to AT&T, the telecom giant.
We hear in the background instructions from the NSA manual. How does it all fit together?
Khris Burton // Martinique // 2017 // 04:50 min
Music Video
The journey of four mysterious warriors in a forgotten world.
Sven Windszus // Germany // 2017 // 03:00 min
Animation
Digitally animated images overlaid by the metamorphosis of a human to a caterpillar, accompanied by electronic music.
Raphaël Daniel // France // 2017 // 05:20 min
Live Action
A large city is affected by dangerous pollution and the residents are forced to stay inside their homes. But in a remote place, old films breathe life back into people.
Sophia Bösch // Germany, Sweden // 2018 // 30:00 min
Live Action
Linn is 16 and accompanies her father on the hunt. She wants to be part of the group. However, the trip into the wilderness ends up being a test.
Florian Maubach // Germany // 2017 // 08:16 min
Animation
While playing cops-n-robbers with friends, Daniel realizes that he and Carla are actually playing a game of hide-n-seek as he runs off and hides.
Anthony Misiano // Spain, United States // 2018 // 02:35 min
Live Action
An educational film on an extraordinary epidemic disease from 1958.
ROSTO ------ // Netherlands, Belgium, France // 2018 // 14:15 min
Animation
Dreams can be really weird sometimes. Childhood memories swirl around in the head of this character in a surrealistic mix of nonsense in a sunken city.
Chris Ullens // // 2017 // 03:11 min
Music Video
It is easy to love, according to a two-member band that makes music in their sunlit, constantly changing living room.
Jan-Peter Horstmann // Germany // 2017 // 15:30 min
Documentary
A gay porn actor chats about his favorite colleagues in the film business in sign language. His tattooed body is his way of expressing himself, and the porn business is his therapy.
Ilias El Faris // France, Morocco // 2018 // 22:00 min
Live Action
Imad sells pirated copies of DVDs on the streets to earn enough money to buy a sheep for the Festival of Sacrifice. He fails at everything else so he tries to take advantage of his own brother.
Merlin Flügel // Germany // 2018 // 07:30 min
Animation
It is difficult to recognize what the rules are for this ritual of animated characters at the playground. But it captivates our gaze.
Yassmina Karajah // Jordan, Canada // 2017 // 18:30 min
Live Action
Four Arab teenagers in exile in Canada are looking for the local public swimming pool after school. But as easy as this day may seem, something other than the scent of summer is in the air.
Beatrice Schuett // Germany // 2018 // 01:50 min
Documentary, Experimental
A woman dressed as a surveillance camera moves around in Berlin on a tour of discovery, in which she stares at surveillance cameras.
Shuli TAN // China // 2018 // 10:00 min
Live Action
A man has spent his entire life working on a boat, but now its age is showing, and a conflict arises between his longing for the river and the expectations of his family.
Salomon Simhon // Colombia // 2017 // 04:00 min
Music Video
A music video of unfulfilled love.
Claudius Gentinetta // Switzerland // 2018 // 03:40 min
Animation, Experimental
There’s no beauty in the images of one’s self shown in fast track and with caricature style.
Viktória Traub // Hungary // 2017 // 15:30 min
Animation
Matilda is eight years old and her head is full of memories. Images of her family from the past and present begin to blur into a surrealistic, bizarre portrait.
Heikki Ahola // Finland // 2017 // 03:18 min
Live Action
On those very cold days outside, the Steiff stuffed animals heat things up in the skiing center.
Alice Seabright // // 2018 // 13:00 min
Live Action
Ed teaches sex education, a job he normally loves. Only today of all days, it is the last thing he wants to do.
Oscar Byström // Sweden // 2017 // 12:00 min
Live Action
There is a mysterious curfew in Sweden in the mid 90's. Anna, 17 years old, is told by her parents not to leave the house during the evening hours, which she also doesn’t intend to do. But when youth love comes into the picture it gets hard to see right from wrong.
Rocio Alvarez // Belgium // 2017 // 10:00 min
Animation
A poetic journey through the history of human sexuality. From proliferating cells to high performance selfie sex.
Marie Jose St. Pierre / Sander Joon / Tobias Gundorff / Wiep Teeuwisse / Denis Chapon / Philip Piaget / Tynesha Forman // Denmark // 2018 // 07:30 min
Animation
It seems like you could sell anything as the truth in these times of "fake news". This film uses experimental
animation in several different ways to address the topic.
Siqi Song // China // 2018 // 08:00 min
Animation
A man thinks back to his childhood in China in the 1990s and his annoying little sister. How would his life
have been like if things had been different and different decisions had been made?
Philipp Maas / Dominik Stockhausen // Germany // 2015 // 06:00 min
Live Action
A drone detects an uncharted asteroid. When it scans the asteroid’s surface, it receives an unusual signal.
Max Blustin // // 2018 // 03:30 min
Live Action
A waitress overhears a serious conversation between two patrons, and she manages to convince them to see their tragedy through different eyes.
Petar Krumov // Bulgaria // 2017 // 24:00 min
Live Action
Macho comes from a poor family and skips school to work on a construction site. The only ray of hope is his girlfriend Donna.
Paulinho Caruso // Brazil // 2017 // 08:00 min
Live Action
Everything has been normal at Olave’s small farm. Until now, when he is being kidnapped by space goats one night.
Laura Kunov // Denmark // 2016 // 04:46 min
Animation
Colorful organisms cast a spell on a dismal, gray world and its human inhabitants.
Simon Wilches-Castro // Colombia // 2012 // 03:00 min
Animation
A circus show performed in the light of a Colombian traffic light: Before long it turns into a hair-raising freak show.
Auguste Denis / Emmanuelle Duplan / Valentin Machu / Mélanie Riesen // France // 2017 // 06:00 min
Animation
Every day, Ned lives, works, eats and sleeps on his cargo ship. One day, he runs out of food. In order not to starve, he must step out of his comfortable routine.
// France // 2011 // 10:00 min
Animation, Experimental
A woman smokes a cigarette propelling her into a visual and musical journey that entangles her within an implosive intimacy and a volcanic eruption.
Mark Othmer / Bita Steinjan // Germany // 2018 // 09:51 min
Music Video
This man is haunted by two scary forest creatures after he fells a tree one day. It eventually ends up in a
dance duel around the campfire.
Fernando Lopez Cardona // Colombia // 2010 // 03:30 min
Music Video
A music video about people who consistently love the wrong person.
Jing XIE // China // 2018 // 11:00 min
Live Action
A grandmother is afraid of losing her granddaughter through a paternity test.
Olivér Hegyi // Hungary // 2018 // 13:51 min
Animation
A young man embarks on a surrealistic emotional journey after a bitter disappointment.
DUNCAN COWLES // // 2017 // 04:18 min
Documentary, Live Action
Life isn’t always easy for filmmakers who sell stock footage. They live with their mothers, hang around in aquariums, and tape everything that gets in their way.
Dante Zaballa // Germany, Argentina // 2017 // 01:49 min
Music Video
This comic strip animation using acrylics, pastels, and pencil drawings is dedicated to everyone who lives on the street.
Laura Castillo // Colombia // 2017 // 09:43 min
Animation
A young man wanders around Bogotá, where the people are colorless and transparent. He and his wife are the only ones with any color, but they are also at risk of drowning in the hectic lifestyle.
Fatima Matousse // Morocco // 2018 // 14:50 min
Documentary
A daughter tries to understand why her despotical father refuses to interact with her mother and her. An intimate documentary discussing the intrafamiliar conflicts of the filmmaker.
Anca Damian // Romania, France // 2018 // 10:00 min
Animation
The filmmaker paints a witty and absurd, yet loving, collage of the relationship to his mother.
Per Carleson // Sweden // 2002 // 04:00 min
Live Action
What can we accomplish in our lives? What can we teach our children? And last but not least, what time is it?
Aitzol Aramaio // Spain // 2003 // 11:00 min
Live Action
He is a bus driver. Every day he sees a young drug addict. After he doesn’t see the woman in several days, he believes her to be dead. Suddenly, he sees her again.
Jon Dunleavy // // 2018 // 02:35 min
Animation
The “ALT Guide to Character Design” is a subversive introduction in the art of character design as told by an evil-minded artificial intelligence machine.
Dusan Kastelic // Slovenia // 2017 // 12:40 min
Animation
A whole bunch of disgusting creatures live in a box. There is only one that is different from all the rest: escape or adapt?
Damian Alquichire // Colombia // 2017 // 03:42 min
Animation, Experimental
A man walks through the halls of a museum as the paintings on the walls continuously change, just like the country is undergoing constant change.
JAIME ALEKOS // Spain // 2018 // 19:00 min
Documentary
An end to the fleeing: This film takes a look at the lives of refugees in the no man’s land between Serbia and
Hungary in a harrowing and authentic manner.
Zhang JiaZhen // China // 2018 // 05:30 min
Experimental, Live Action
While the husband works in a far-off big city, whereas the women have nothing to do but wait.
ANNA BERGMANN // Germany // 2016 // 09:30 min
Animation
A man is looking for his dream, which is being guarded by a whale. But how can you search an ocean if it has turned into a desert?
Adrián Suárez de Llano // Colombia // 2016 // 01:09 min
Experimental, Live Action
A Charles Bukowski poem interpreted in the style of an advertisement.
Manuela Gray // South Africa // 2017 // 13:45 min
Documentary
The prisons of South Africa are home to gangs whose members bear tattoos of the numbers 26, 27, or 28. A look into prison life with these tattoos and the members of the Numbers gangs.
Sam Baron // // 2018 // 14:45 min
Live Action
A man with a broken heart shoots caution into the wind and goes to an orgy. But unfortunately he is too early.
Paul Driessen // Belgium, Netherlands // 2018 // 13:00 min
Animation, Live Action
Six days have passed, and the world is created. But wait! The sound is missing. Luckily the creator has a large collection of cartoons that contains all kinds of sounds, even if all of them are a little below the belt line.
Hugh Mitton / Kelly Naqi // Portugal // 2018 // 10:37 min
Documentary
Sculptor Emanuel Santos attempts to deal with the harsh criticism and ridicule he received for his bust of
Cristiano Ronaldo—by creating a new statue.
Marharita Tsikhanovich // Czech Republic // 2017 // 04:00 min
Animation
This film describes the momentariness and illusion of freedom in the life of a small man in a melancholic and minimalistic manner.
Ines Reinisch // Germany // 2018 // 14:46 min
Documentary
Nature is everywhere in Mail Head, the northernmost point in Ireland. Three man who work there talk about how their lives are affected by pollution.
Roman Sokolov // Russia // 2017 // 09:00 min
Animation
Who’s responsible for waking up the sun every morning so it can go on its journey throughout the day, resting when it’s evening again?
Ben Brundell // // 2017 // 04:48 min
Live Action
An artist provides a thoroughly honest portrait of her ice cream pictures.
Claudia Cortés Espejo / Lora D'Addazio / REMY Mathilde // Belgium // 2018 // 05:00 min
Animation
Do you know that feeling, when the voice from the voice-over gets stuck in your head? It’s a good indication that you’re stuck in a film.
Aleksandar Radan // Serbia, Germany, United States // 2018 // 06:00 min
Animation, Experimental
Water can reflect everything in a computer-generated game world, in contrast to real water, which is what the programmer wants.
Jens Pecho // Germany // 2018 // 07:18 min
Experimental
Special scenes in films are not always what they seem to be. This film shows three scenes that at first
glance seem spectacular. However, they have fatal consequences
Gonçalo Almeida // Portugal // 2017 // 07:36 min
Live Action
Every Thursday at midnight, the ghosts descend on dogs in their living rooms. And when this owner doesn’t wake up, his four-legged friend decides to go along with the attractive ghost dog.
Juan Sebastian Mesa // Colombia // 2018 // 17:00 min
Live Action
A village needs to be evacuated because of a building project. An elderly couple doesn’t see any reason to continue their life so they bury themselves in their yard.
Christel Pougeoise // France // 2002 // 04:18 min
Animation
Two spiral notebooks come alive and their heartfelt desire is to meet the other. If only it weren't for their creator, who wants to thwart them.
LIA BERTELS // Belgium // 2017 // 05:24 min
Animation
A choreographic film about human possessed by Earth, love and money.
At Sound & Vision the film will be live sounded by SANFT UND KLAR
Lia Tsalta // Greece // 2017 // 17:30 min
Live Action
A group of people in a dystopian future is led through the last forest in existence. Plants? What were they again?
Massimo Cappelli // Italy // 1999 // 18:00 min
Live Action
The guests of a birthday party divulge their intimate side. The bathroom mirror affords us with a view of the personal catastrophes of the party guests.
Chloe Jackson // // 2018 // 03:53 min
Music Video
A psychedelic rollercoaster ride of converging shapes and a camera that is always moving.
Dave Anderson // Spain // 2018 // 02:56 min
Music Video
Sometimes, it doesn’t even help to wear your lucky pants. No matter what, things just go wrong.
Hugo de Faucompret // France // 2017 // 03:11 min
Music Video
A conversation between two friends who used to make music together. They cannot agree on the meaning
of religion. Each has their own definition of it.
Roger Gariépy // Canada // 2018 // 14:57 min
Live Action
Cancer diagnosis with only three months to live. Now what? Well, obviously, it’s time to learn to play the piano!
Ruth Lingford // United States // 2017 // 04:00 min
Animation, Documentary
The American people are held spellbound by Trump. They even dream about him. You can hear bits and pieces about Trump from various people who Trump has pursued in their dreams even.
Rishi Chandna // India // 2017 // 14:00 min
Documentary
This family in India keeps a rooster as a house pet that isn’t exactly warmly accepted by all members of
the family.
Alex Boya // Canada // 2018 // 06:30 min
Animation
A traumatized soldier returns from a war with a turbine for a face. And he feels like something is somehow missing when he ends up in the apartment of his wife.
Timothy Keeling // // 2018 // 06:00 min
Live Action
Puddles in the forest are sometimes a chance to take a deeper look at things and they draw in more than just leaves.
Michael Horwitz // United States, Israel, Palestine // 2017 // 20:00 min
Live Action
An Israeli soldier builds a friendship with a Palestinian child on social media.
Zisen Li // China // 2018 // 09:00 min
Live Action
An old man who is abused by his caregiver and a young man who left home because of conflicts with his
father meet.
Julia Charakter // Germany // 2017 // 11:00 min
Animation, Documentary, Live Action
A woman recounts the terrible things she experienced in an orphanage, where she was physically and emotionally abused by the nuns.
Marcel Barelli // Switzerland // 2018 // 09:58 min
Animation, Documentary
The narrator of this entertaining mixture of styles explains why he has a problem with hunting, and why it’s not easy to defend this stance in a family of hunters.
Daniel Garcia-Pablos // Spain // 2003 // 09:00 min
Live Action
A Cuban athlete, a woman driving a car, and a migrant bump into each other at a traffic light in Madrid one day during the week.
Jan Verdijk / Julia Rombout / Kurt Platvoet // Netherlands // 2017 // 08:45 min
Live Action
Ton and Ineke are sitting down for a meal when a man suddenly falls from the sky and lands in their yard.
Perplexed, the couple tries to deal with the situation, each in their own way.
Swann Arlaud / Tatiana Vialle // France // 2018 // 17:23 min
Live Action
Charles feels uncomfortable in his skin because no one sees him as he imagines himself to be: cool, strong,
political and black.
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.
Christian Ditter // Germany // 1999 // 09:00 min
Live Action
Two children determine the future of a shy couple using their doll.
François Bierry // Belgium // 2018 // 20:00 min
Live Action
The boss has a surprise in store for his new employees: a bus trip to the countryside-and to a nudist colony.
Hugo Rousselin // France, Guadeloupe // 2016 // 19:21 min
Live Action
Isaac is from Guadalupe and is struggling with the death of his brother. One day he goes fishing and a vision transports him to the edge of his subconscious.
Kjersti Helen Rasmussen // Norway // 2017 // 08:00 min
Live Action
The global seed vault at the North Pole receives an unexpected visitor when shooting stars fall onto the Arctic island.
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.
Pavlo Ostrikov // Ukraine // 2017 // 19:00 min
Live Action
Roman lives a lonely life in a provincial town. For the first time since graduating, his former classmate Ljuda returns to his town. No one has heard anything from her in the last twenty years.
Clara Stern // Austria // 2016 // 10:30 min
Live Action
After babysitting, Anna sets off home in the middle of the night. Waiting at the local bus stop proves to be a nerve-wracking experience.
Lotta Schwerk // Germany // 2017 // 13:22 min
Live Action
Zoe, Tomke and Bruno drift from one day to the next, rebelling at turns peacefully and loudly. They search their way, as a threesome, a couple and ultimately alone.
Catalina Matamoros // United States, Colombia // 2016 // 06:00 min
Animation
Immigrants traveling from South America to the U.S. border. Loneliness, danger, and death told through animation.
Heather Phillipson // United Kingdom // 2017 // 07:00 min
Experimental
WHAT’S THE DAMAGE is a burning provocation that reacts to the ongoing crises under the white patriarchy and conveys and reinforces the feelings and gestures of chronic discomfort.
Florent Grattery // France // 2017 // 04:37 min
Music Video
The world can sometimes appear somewhat differently under the influence of foreign substances.
Nicolas Keppens / Matthias Phlips // Belgium // 2017 // 19:08 min
Animation, Live Action
Linda and Troya’s safari turns into real adventure when their driver leaves them behind. They need to figure out how to survive on their own in nature.
Oren Kanski // Australia // 2017 // 03:57 min
Music Video
The dead body of a woman acts as the basis for a colorful artwork of plants, drawings, and magic.
Maria Philips // Netherlands // 2017 // 10:30 min
Live Action
Kiki is drying her fluffy friend with a hairdryer in preparation for the guinea pig world championship when suddenly the power goes out. Maybe the attractive fishmonger from across the way has a solution?
Gilles Jobin // Switzerland // 2016 // 33:00 min
Experimental
Three characters emerge from the matrix, the womb, and explore the farthest reaches of the world.
Marion Pfaus // Germany // 2017 // 03:15 min
Experimental, Live Action
Women can be dictators, too! And that’s when you realize how ridiculous their behavior actually is.
Marion Pfaus // Germany // 2017 // 02:30 min
Documentary, Live Action
Haven’t we always asked ourselves what would it be like if women were garbage collectors?
Marion Pfaus // Germany // 2016 // 01:44 min
Experimental
Celebrating, spitting on the grass: Women have been long able to do what men do at soccer games.
David Tembleque / LUC KNOWLES // Spain // 2018 // 13:00 min
Live Action
Three people who couldn't be more different try their luck in the world of Tinder and Co. Who matches with
whom? And who is not supposed to match at all?
Harry Lighton // United Kingdom // 2017 // 10:00 min
Live Action
A Catholic priest from Cork drives his nephew to prison on the day before Christmas.
Mickey Cohen // Netherlands // 2017 // 04:14 min
Music Video
Superheroes on a strange journey between science-fiction and action.
Stefano Sollima // Italy // 2003 // 09:00 min
Live Action
He carries in his body everything that he needs. He can reach his inner life through the zippers. When
a foreign object ends up in his pockets, a crisis ensues.
