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KUKI Festival
3/11/24 - 10/11/24
3/11/24 - 10/11/24
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Roel van Beek // England // 2021 // 09:25 min
Animation
When Ronin accidentally drops her groceries, a small pudding forms. The townspeople ignore it, but days later the ever-growing pudding threatens to swallow the whole town.
Polina Piddubna // Ukraine, Germany // 2022 // 02:37 min
Animation, Experimental
In a colorfully drawn world of thoughts, the protagonist explores the rules and peculiarities of a city that is new to her, lively and sometimes absurd.
Adam SILLARD / Gabrielle SELNET / Chloé FARR // France // 2021 // 07:44 min
Animation
Jerome has just arrived in paradise, an incredibly colorful, crazy and diverse world full of surprises. There he is looking for his wife Maryline; will he manage to find her in this place of superlatives?
Marcel Barelli // Switzerland // 2022 // 05:45 min
Animation
In a playful animation we are introduced to the most dangerous predator of our time: The Car-saurus Rex.
Nikita Diakur // France, Germany // 2022 // 12:15 min
Animation, Experimental
How does an artificial intelligence learn a backflip? Not unlike a real human: with a lot of practice and thousands of failed attempts! Nikita demonstrates this with his avatar in a lively 3D world.
Iiti Yli-Harja // Finland // 2022 // 14:53 min
Animation, Documentary
For Fatu, it feels as exciting as a trip to the moon: he's going out in public with makeup on for the very first time!
Mark Albiston // New Zealand // 2021 // 15:00 min
Live Action
Before Matt's mother wants to sell his late father's Datsun, he decides to take the car on an eventful last tour of their native New Zealand with his best friend and little brother.
John Croezen // Netherlands // 2021 // 05:46 min
Animation
A spectacular race with spectacular birds and their spectacular flying machines! Who will make it first past the finishing line?
Damaris Zielke // Germany // 2022 // 07:02 min
Animation
When Greta‘s granny isn‘t sleeping all day, all she wants to do is look at boring old photographs. This time, during her afternoon nap, Greta thinks up a fun new game.
Maria Steinmetz // Germany // 2022 // 05:30 min
Animation
In search of something drinkable, Pieks, the mosquito has a fun time creating chaos at an office.
Hod Adler / Ronni Shalev / Alon Sharabi // Israel // 2020 // 03:07 min
Animation, Documentary
Interviews with children and adults highlight the absurdity of misunderstandings between the generations in a playfully experimental animation.
Camilo Cortés // Colombia // 2021 // 11:00 min
Live Action
Chima sees the endless beauty of the marsh every day. While jobs are scarce in the area, she is able to make a little money reselling golf balls from the swamp.
Matisse Gonzalez // Mexico // 2020 // 11:17 min
Animation
Astronauts Adam and Steve are on a lengthy space mission to save the Earth. However, the increasing loneliness in space makes the two go a bit crazy and the freaky incidents take their course.
Brenda Lien // Germany // 2021 // 20:00 min
Experimental, Live Action
Maxi, a musician and producer, wrestles with herself when her creative process comes to a standstill due to internal and external pressure to perform.
Samantha Knowles // United States // 2021 // 06:45 min
Documentary
Jay Jay Patton was only 12 when she designed an app to help kids stay in contact with their imprisoned parents. Now she and her dad founded "Unlock Academy" to empower the black diaspora through technology, coding and software.
Emily Reekers / Eugene Arts // Netherlands // 2021 // 13:30 min
Live Action
During the days of Lockdown, when Hannah‘s dad stays in bed all day and seems to lack the inspiration to finish composing a piece of music he started, Hannah thinks up a brilliant plan involving the neighbourhood.
Evgenia Arbugaeva / Maxim Arbugaev / Maxim Chakilev // United Kingdom, Russia // 2022 // 25:00 min
Documentary
For the tenth year in a row, a marine biologist goes to a small wooden hut in the middle of the vastness of the Russian Arctic to observe a recurring natural spectacle. However, global warming causes him to make alarming observations.
Miriam Goeze // Germany // 2021 // 12:28 min
Live Action
Hayat lives with her father in a refugee shelter. She loves having fun with her friends and gets annoyed with her father, who always wants his peace. One day Hayat dares to do more than just sneak out through the window.
Marita Mayer // Norway, Germany // 2022 // 07:00 min
Animation
Vanja is a tiger and afraid of nothing! But during a game of hide-and-seek, he gets a bit scared when he has to climb the dark staircase and enter the shadowy courtyard.
Ursula Ulmi // Papua New Guinea, Switzerland, United States // 2022 // 10:00 min
Animation
An exciting legend from Papua New Guinea about how the beautifully patterned reef fish came to have their many bright colors.
Enya Mülfarth / Leo Spannagel // Germany // 2022 // 14:54 min
Documentary
From high school graduation to full-time activism - Clara Duvigneau (@claxra) is spokesperson for the Fridays for Future movement. A look behind the scenes at how she strives to find a balance between activism and private life. Moving forward, against the powerlessness that can come from the climate crisis, toward political change.
Robert-Jonathan Koeyers // Netherlands // 2022 // 15:00 min
Animation
The fragmented portrait of a moment that would significantly change the lives of everyone present; told from the memories of the young girl Imani and the police officer David.
Mirjam Marks // Netherlands // 2020 // 15:00 min
Documentary
Julieta loves the sea off the coast of her native Curaçao, as well as its wildlife and nature. Together with other volunteers, she rescues turtles whose natural habitat is becoming increasingly polluted by plastic waste.
Tone Ottilie Frederiksen // Denmark // 2021 // 30:00 min
Live Action
When Liv falls in love with Anna, she faces a big hurdle. She suffers from OCD and sees only germs, mould and maggots everywhere: How can she express her affection to Anna when every kiss and every touch seems unbearable for her?
Lionel Poutiaire Somé // Germany // 2021 // 09:36 min
Live Action
Silga and Raogo live with their father on the land and help him with all the daily chores. One day the priest comes with exciting news about the local school.
Matias Carlier // Switzerland // 2021 // 20:00 min
Live Action
For Aleister and Joana, it's goodbye for now. They spend their last evening together, skateboarding through the city at night in search of themselves and a shared perspective.
Leo Campasso / Carlos Balseiro / Antonio Balseiro // Argentina // 2022 // 06:36 min
Animation, Live Action
February 2010. On a remote Chilean island in the Pacific Ocean called Juan Fernandez, everyone slept in town. But a 12-year-old girl felt a tremor and warned of imminent danger.
Marion Clauzel // France // 2022 // 13:00 min
Live Action
On a summer holiday with his family, four-year-old Auguste makes some great discoveries about the black hen in their yard.
Marina Rosset // Switzerland // 2022 // 08:50 min
Animation
To cheer up their queen, all the foxes rummage through the town’s rubbish at night, retrieving romantic love letters that were never sent. Clever as foxes are, they ultimately find a way to please both queen and humans.
Christine Doyon // Canada // 2022 // 16:57 min
Live Action
Margot loves her younger sister Lou more than anything. But at first she doesn't know how to react when her popular classmates laugh about Lou's mental disability.
Ana Chubinidze // Georgia, France // 2021 // 08:30 min
Animation
Franzy cooks the best soup, but the most important ingredient only grows on another planet populated by cheeky, hungry creatures. But sharing is much more fun anyway!
Violette Delvoye / Chloé Alliez // Belgium, France // 2021 // 10:55 min
Animation
An almost normal house party; drinks, music and flirting, but in all the confusion Maya comes to feel insecure about what her heart really wants.
Nursen Çetin Köreken // Turkey // 2022 // 14:04 min
Live Action
Leyla desperately needs a new laptop for school. When she hears about a weightlifting competition to win one, she starts training with her own resources on her family's farm.
Markus Wulf // Germany, United States // 2022 // 08:30 min
Animation
When a gust of wind carries a crown to Louis, he appoints himself the first king of the sheep. The unexpected power quickly goes to his head and is fortunately over again with the next breeze.
Diana Cam Van Nguyen // Slovakia, Czech Republic // 2021 // 12:42 min
Animation, Documentary
A young woman reflects on her relationship with her father and how it might have been different had she been his son.
Britt Raes // Belgium, France, Netherlands // 2022 // 13:00 min
Animation
A large rock lands in the middle of a small village after a storm and disrupts the regular daily routine of all the inhabitants. Only Luce, with her stubborn and loving nature, knows how to help the village.
Emily May Jampel // United States // 2022 // 08:24 min
Live Action
Maggie and Slane are connected by much more than just the coincidence of each having dinner with their families at the same restaurant: both their family histories, traditions, and expectations, as well as their search for identity and love.
Miguel Guindos // Spain // 2022 // 12:00 min
Live Action
Lupita's best friend Estrella signed her up for a dance battle, even though she is so painfully shy. She believes in her, and wants her to dare to shine.
Regis Fortino // France // 2022 // 19:59 min
Live Action
A balmy afternoon on the coast of Marseille; Mehdi joins his friends and has to prove himself on the diving board in front of them as well as a group of girls.
Daniel Eduardo / Gabriel Duarte // Brazil // 2021 // 13:11 min
Live Action
Freedom is not defined by a big house with a pool, thinks 9-year-old Antonio. And viewed from the favelas, the city with its many police officers looks like a big prison anyway.
Katja Fedulova // Germany // 2020 // 24:21 min
Animation, Documentary
Maxim is 11 years old and lives in Russia. Although he lost both of his legs as a young child, Maxim is a passionate skateboarder and works hard at learning new tricks. Maybe he'll make it to the Paralympic Games one day.
Christian Schneider // Germany // 2022 // 06:11 min
Documentary
Children from Körnerkiez, Neukölln tell us how their neighbourhood got its name and show us around.
Géza M. Tóth // Hungary // 2020 // 02:12 min
Animation
How exciting can a story be that is told only with matches? Here we see a gripping soccer match!
Jasmijn Kooijman // Sweden // 2021 // 13:39 min
Live Action
Lente revisits her grandmother Siri, who lives alone on the Swedish island of Öland, after a long time away and immerses herself in a weightless, nostalgic world of caring and shared memories.
Florence Kosky // England // 2021 // 07:34 min
Live Action
In an absurd therapy session, Alice is confronted with her painful memory of a sexual assault and society's disrespectful treatment of it.
Katja Fedulova // Germany // 2022 // 24:32 min
Documentary
11-year-old Pavel loves to paint - preferably animals. He donates the money he earns from commissioned paintings of pets to animal shelters. Beside that, he is involved in animal welfare in many different ways.
Anna Azevedo // Brazil // 2021 // 17:17 min
Documentary
Summertime in Rio de Janeiro: While the nearby beaches are only accessible to the wealthy, a group of children from one of Rio's most dangerous favela's find other ways to entertain themselves and cool off.
Myo Aung // Myanmar, Taiwan // 2021 // 10:05 min
Live Action
It is an auspicious day for 12-year-old Hung Hsia‘s family, as she will soon be wed to a successful Chinese man in an arranged marriage. The ceremony takes an absurd turn when the groom is unable to attend.
Sanna de Vries // Netherlands // 2021 // 04:04 min
Animation
When the whole environment is full of mirrors, it's easy to see supposed imperfections. Sometimes it takes a little distance to find your way back to yourself.
Erich Rettstadt // Taiwan, United States // 2021 // 09:31 min
Live Action
10-year-old Jojo dreams of dancing and drag, and doesn’t have anyone to share this with, until the day that the magical Tank Fairy enters his life in a cloud of empowering glitter.
Saulius Baradinskas // Lithuania // 2021 // 18:00 min
Live Action
Nikita finds escape from his unbearable and frustrating everyday life in music and dancing to techno. Completely contrary to his mother's ideas, his greatest wish is to move to Berlin.
Ruby Black / Julia Henauer / Cleo Parker / Lily Goodwin // England // 2020 // 01:00 min
Animation
Welcome to the shortest and greatest circus spectacle in the world. Watch and be amazed yourself!
Gary Hamaguchi // Australia // 2021 // 10:14 min
Live Action
Lisa and Jimmy go on an adventurous hunt for the mysterious buried crystals. However, when they find them, they realize that the lost treasure is something completely different from what they both expected.
Jonathan Laskar // Switzerland // 2022 // 08:38 min
Animation
A passionate instrument collector and seller receives a magic record from a stranger that makes it possible to play long-forgotten memories.
Tig Terera // Australia // 2021 // 18:00 min
Live Action
After being kicked out of his home, Tinashé moves in with his best friend Victor. The two are at the same point in life; searching for themselves and their place in the big Australian city.
Juan Medina // Mexico // 2021 // 12:40 min
Animation
Young Martín was sent by his father to work in a mine. But already on his first day there he has to make frightening discoveries.
Ju-hyung PARK // South Korea // 2021 // 04:56 min
Animation
The Korean student Soo talks about her everyday life, which is full of ups and downs, yet steadily progresses in its very own rhythms.
Klaus Morschheuser // Germany // 2021 // 06:40 min
Animation, Live Action
Wanting to drive out for a picnic, Trude and her flatmate, Tier get stuck in traffic. While waiting, they observe a truck transporting pigs and Tier wants to find out why they seem unhappy.
Bea De Silva // Spain // 2022 // 12:28 min
Live Action
Tula is a cleaner in a Spanish girls' school. But when the director's daughter comes to her with a big problem, she tries everything to help her.
Jorn Leeuwerink // Netherlands // 2022 // 08:17 min
Animation
How long will an entire village be able to draw energy from just one source? The animal inhabitants have to realize that the pig's nose might not be the best way to get electricity after all.
Pauline Heidmets / Rao Heidmets // Estonia // 2021 // 15:34 min
Animation
Tommy‘s active curiosity often leads to lots of trouble. Luckily his sister is equally talented at fixing things. But on the family trip to this whacky zoo, they outshine everyone in mastering the chaos.
Emma Branderhorst // Netherlands // 2021 // 15:41 min
Live Action
Juggling finances are a part of everyday life for Ruby and her mother. While she’s good at keeping this secret from her school friends, it get harder to hide when she needs sanitary products.
Tajo Hurrle // Germany // 2021 // 17:48 min
Documentary, Live Action
Leo spends the autumn vacations with their big sister and cousin Emil on their grandmother's country farm. When something happens to Leo that the grandmother considers 'great news', Leo is plunged into an identity crisis.
Rowan Ings // Scotland // 2021 // 09:41 min
Documentary
An atmospheric portrait of growing up and working on the land in England, as told by 13-year-old Conor. The film explores daily rhythms of nature and labour, and Conor's very clear plans for the future.
Surya Shahi // Nepal // 2022 // 15:32 min
Live Action
12-year-old Bhyal is a blacksmith, belongs to the lowest caste in his Nepalese mountain village and is therefore considered untouchable. He is bullied at school for this and only his friend Laba dares to break through the social barriers.
Lucie Sunková // Czech Republic, Slovakia // 2022 // 13:19 min
Animation
Suzie and her parents cycle to their little garden outside the city. While wandering around the other allotments, Suzie follows a mysterious black dog through a hole in a fence into an enchanted garden.
Jan-Willem Bult / Annemarie Mooren // Netherlands // 2020 // 05:30 min
Documentary
Raise anchor and head out into the wild waters: Siblings Nora (5) and Fedor (3) take an exciting boat trip together on the canal behind their house.
Eva Matz / Jonas Schmieta // Germany // 2021 // 03:22 min
Experimental
We need to talk about blood. Since the beginning of her period, she has been plagued by severe pain, cramps and loss of conciousness. She is locked up and dominated by her pain, from which she tries to free herself.
