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KUKI Festival
12th-19th November 2023
12th-19th November 2023
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Samy SIDALI // France // 2022 // 18:03 min
Live Action
With music, self-confidence and humour, Latefa and her children Ptissam and Walid choose their new first names to finally become accepted as fully French citizens.
Liam Laurenti // France // 2023 // 03:38 min
Animation, Live Action
During a accompanied driving trip a transgender teenager and his mother get in a confrontation about Gaetan’s childhood photos and what they represent.
Coralie Lavergne // France // 2023 // 18:00 min
Live Action
When Grandpa Siad from Algeria visits his family in France, he does not know how determined his daughter is to hide her roots, even from her own daughter.
Charlotte Muller / Théo Degen // Belgium, Switzerland // 2022 // 24:54 min
Live Action
Teenaged Alice is bored to tears camping with her mom on Lake Geneva. When she meets Zack – in the midst of a sunflower field straight out of a fairy tale – a tender crush begins.
Aude N'GUESSAN FORGET // France // 2022 // 20:08 min
Live Action
The young hairdresser Eden suffers from endometriosis. Though many doctors fail to take her (and her condition) seriously, she fights to regain physical health.
Nicolás Botana / Ilén Juambeltz // Uruguay // 2022 // 19:55 min
Live Action
Growing up in a small town in Uruguay, Micaela and Santiago are ready to take their relatonship to the next level. But privacy is kind of hard to come by.
Seungbae Jeon [he/him] // South Korea // 2023 // 08:35 min
Animation
Battery Mommy has many jobs: She works at the kindergarten inside the bubble machine, the fever thermometer and the fire alarm. When the Christmas tree catches fire, she does everything she can to get the napping children to safety.
Bryn Chainey / Andrew Brand [he/him] // England // 2022 // 09:50 min
Animation
While having trouble with one of her wayward robot bees, the grumpy space farmer stumbles upon a volcano that will change life on Mars forever.
Daniel Sanchez Lopez // Spain, Germany // 2022 // 13:30 min
Live Action
Just as well Lara and Roque have each other as best friends, because growing up in the Spanish countryside can really suck.
Annie-Claude Caron [she/her] / Danick Audet [he/him] // Quebec // 2022 // 12:30 min
Live Action
A dark comedy: Nugget, the family cat, is dead. And mum and dad don't know how to break it to their daughter gently. Then they come up with a brilliant plan - but just who are they trying to protect?
Blanche Dion [she/her] / Céline Blondat / Héloïse Nivart // France // 2022 // 03:00 min
Animation
Even when our loved ones are no longer with us, it feels lovely to remember and celebrate them. And who knows, maybe they feel it too?
Alexander Dietrich / Johannes Flick // Germany // 2023 // 01:54 min
Animation
In a comic and colourful world of cardboard and modelling clay, we experience a fast-paced, nerve-wracking subway ride from the perspective of a girl.
Phillipe Kastner // Czech Republic // 2023 // 08:17 min
Animation
What happens to me when a loved one dies? A boy has to deal with the unexpected death of his dog Dede. Sensitively and poetically, the filmmaker creates an autobiographical work, full of art and hope.
Brett Marty / Josh Izenberg // United States // 2022 // 16:36 min
Documentary
To save the Mojave desert tortoise, biologist Tim Shields wages a clever battle against predatory ravens with innovative ideas and sneaky technical devices.
Nicolás Keller Sarmiento // Argentina // 2023 // 13:00 min
Live Action
Ernesto wants to become a dancer. But is he self-confident enough to defy expectations and clichés? With music, dance and the magical Ruby, we discover the vastness of our own identity.
Anna Karín Lárusdóttir // Iceland // 2022 // 15:00 min
Live Action
Breki is not actually looking for a fight with his sister, but for her validation. But it is only when he is caught up in a whirlwind over his own identity that the bond between the siblings becomes apparent.
Cato Kusters // Belgium // 2022 // 18:06 min
Live Action
When Finn meets Arthur at his dad’s boxing club he finds an unexpected role model and ally to circumnavigate standard ideals of masculinity.
Carrie Stett // United States // 2021 // 12:00 min
Documentary
An underdog team in America’s first all-girls tackle football league. This band of misfits and outcasts compete for the title while tackling their struggles both on and off the field, including gender identity, body image and mental health.
Sebastian Rudolph Jensen / Christer Wahlberg // Sweden // 2023 // 14:30 min
Animation, Documentary
Five eight-year-olds create the fantasy world "Gösta Petter-land". A dreamy forest land with cute chickens everywhere, where you can travel just by closing your eyes. But the dream crumbles as more and more rules take over.
Total Refusal // Austria // 2022 // 20:00 min
Documentary, Experimental
Putting the spotlight on the very characters that usually remain in the background in video games: NPCs. Here, non-player characters and their routines become a metaphor for capitalist work culture.
Jennifer Rainsford // Sweden // 2023 // 14:44 min
Documentary
As a doctor for astronauts, Brigitte Godard explains why astronauts' hearts are the strongest and how best to stay fit in space.
Jasper Caverly // Australia // 2022 // 15:13 min
Live Action
Brig had sexual intercourse without a condom and now faces the tricky challenge of somehow getting the morning-after pill.
Stephen Lopez [he/him] // Philippines // 2023 // 21:38 min
Live Action
Between nuclear reactors and military curfews, 14-year-old Jani lives in a dystopian world oppressively devoid of empathy. Together, she and her slippery new friend Kiefer the talking catfish gear up to strike a surreal blow for freedom.
Genevieve Sulway // Turkey, England, United States // 2022 // 15:00 min
Documentary
Tourists are often unaware of the damage they cause to the beautiful places they holiday in. Kaina Makua is an Indigenous Hawaiian who teaches sustainabilty and is empowering the next generation of Indigenous Hawaiian youth.
Danny Schmidt // India, United States // 2022 // 10:20 min
Documentary
In the Indian region of Janwaar, skating is more than just a hobby: it connects children at the skate park and manages to overcome generations of caste and gender roles.
Hanna Karppinen / Inka Achté // Finland // 2022 // 15:00 min
Documentary
When Jasmin's parents decide to move from Finland to her father's home country, Somalia, she faces the biggest change of her life. What does she miss and what makes her feel surprisingly at home?
Filip Diviak // Czech Republic, Slovakia // 2023 // 07:47 min
Animation
Cows! Edgar's priorities change when a young cow unexpectedly captures his well-ordered heart and turns his home and life joyfully inside-out.
Imanol Ruiz de Lara // Spain // 2022 // 17:56 min
Animation, Live Action
Ío is a satellite of Jupiter and the name of a young woman who can't find a manga that haunts her. During her quest she encounters a cat, an enigmatic girl and a yellow umbrella and the boundaries between perception and reality become blurred.
Julia Ocker // Germany // 2022 // 03:37 min
Animation
The cat is hungry and cooks a delicious soup. But when she realises that the main ingredients are her mouse friends, she promptly decides to change the recipe!
Tiange Xiang // China // 2023 // 14:56 min
Live Action
Tigra’s friends don’t think she is feminine enough, and pressure her to get a boyfriend. After a confusing crush that becomes a friendship, Tigra learns that she can define her idea of being a girl on her own terms.
Meike Fehre [she/her] // Germany // 2022 // 03:58 min
Animation
It's the little green cactus's birthday and Charlie bakes him a cake. But fresh out of the oven, someone has already taken a bite. Which of the forest dwellers could it be? A musical mystery!
Manon Tacconi [she/her] // France // 2023 // 04:40 min
Animation
At a party, Jess witnesses one of her friends getting sexually harassed. The next day at the beach, she carefully tries to talk to Alana about the incident.
[CW: sexualised violence]
Marjolaine Perreten // Belgium, France, Switzerland // 2023 // 29:56 min
Animation
A family of shrews loses their home due to heavy rains. Because winter is approaching, they urgently need to find a new place to live. Luckily they have each other and meet many helping paws along the way.
Emily Worms // France, Switzerland // 2022 // 07:44 min
Animation
Oh to fly through the air just like a bird: For John, this wish finally comes true when he and his budgie Titi leave the nest at home and experience an epic adventure in the little garden.
Florian Dilloo / Sacha Calame / Sacha Calame // France, Reunion // 2021 // 07:06 min
Animation
The orchids in a young woman's garden trigger memories of a traumatic experience she suffered when a barkeeper slipped roofies into her drink in order to rape her.
[CW: knockout drops, sexual violence]
Emma Branderhorst // Netherlands // 2023 // 19:00 min
Live Action
Kees has big plans: she wants to move to France for her university studies. Alas, on the trip there she realises that her mother is not quite ready to say goodbye yet.
Samira Karimi // Iran // 2023 // 10:00 min
Live Action
When two lesbian students are caught by a CCTV camera, consequences suddenly loom as their parents are to be summoned to the school. Undaunted, the two come up with a novel idea.
Malin Ingrid Johansson [she/her] // Sweden // 2023 // 12:51 min
Live Action
Young Madden lives on a farm, where she has to help out a lot. Heading out in secret to attend a party, she makes an unexpected decision.
Luca Meisters // Netherlands // 2023 // 14:56 min
Live Action
Esra finds it hard to accept that her dad will need a wheelchair to get around from now on. While trying to make new friends at a new school, she tells a thoughtless lie. Her pain and anger start to bubble up to the surface.
Hussen Ibraheem // France, Lebanon, Qatar // 2023 // 15:23 min
Live Action
Firas accompanies his father Tayseer and a friend on a bird-hunting jaunt in the Lebanese mountainside. While Tayseer thinks this is a great opportunity to toughen up his young son, Firas has a mind of his own.
Sandulela Asanda // South Africa // 2022 // 08:59 min
Live Action
A video call between Luthando and her best friend, Jodie as they try to navigate the mechanics of self-pleasure and what it means to be a woman.
Peter KIMBALL // United States // 2022 // 10:00 min
Documentary
When Lincoln’s family learns that his younger brother Bennett is deaf, he and his family try their best to get to know him, and what it means to be deaf.
Morgane Frund // Switzerland // 2022 // 19:06 min
Documentary
Editing footage for a project, a female director discovers that bears were not the only protagonists the amateur cameraman has recorded. A discussion about the power of the male gaze ensues.
[CW: sexism, sexualized violence, and voyeurism]
Fitch Jean // Canada // 2022 // 12:00 min
Experimental, Live Action
This love poem captures us through its sounds, words and images and transports us right into a barber shop full of Black community, Black love and Black hair. Poem by Maya "Spoken" Basudde.
Samir Arabzadeh // Sweden, Philippines // 2022 // 14:30 min
Documentary
Who hasn't dreamt of taking a powernap at work? In the Philippines it's no problem at all. Whether sales people, fast food workers or seamsters and seamstresses – everyone dozes off here briefly.
David Fidalgo // Spain // 2022 // 11:00 min
Animation
David leads a happy life with his Sandwich Cat until an alien posesses its body and he is plummeted into a fast-paced, hilarious vortex involving the very existence of humanity.
Ainslie Henderson // Scotland // 2022 // 09:54 min
Animation
The mysterious ritual of three elfin forest dwellers transports us into the heart of the forest for an enchanted battle between darkness and light, creativity and posessiveness.
Arun Fulara // India, United States // 2022 // 19:00 min
Live Action
Before Monu moves to the big city, his best friend Raju is determined to give him a great parting gift: A glimpse of Shera, the leopard who lives near their village.
Lucia Florez // Spain, Peru, United States // 2022 // 15:00 min
Documentary
In one of the most remote places in the Peruvian Amazon, an Indigenous Ashéninka boy must overcome his fears and catch a giant catfish using only a hook to start his journey as an adult.
Aziz Zoromba // Quebec // 2022 // 24:00 min
Live Action
Brothers Simo and Emad are rivals. When Simo secretly goes live on Emad's online-gaming channel and indulges in an ill-advised joke, the game becomes dead serious.
Jessica Laurén // Sweden // 2023 // 09:00 min
Animation
Storms that rage for days, flooded cellars, forest fires on holiday: Even in this darkly humorous animation, climate change has long been a reality, but the only one who seems to be paying any attention is a young girl.
Phillipe Kastner // Czech Republic // 2023 // 01:06 min
Animation
A poodle can't cook and talk on the phone at the same time. Or can it?
Nils Balleydier // France // 2022 // 04:26 min
Animation
Playful sibling rivalry and a flock of watchful birds in the snow. Who is copying who?
Nadine DE BOER / Vincent LEVRERO / Marie BORDESSOULE / Elisa DRIQUE / Solenne MOREAU / Adriana BOUISSIE / Chloé LAUZU // France // 2022 // 06:40 min
Animation
Living in the forest, Temi is a little spider who dreams of catching the Moon with spider silk. How will Temi find a way to get close enough?
Todd Stewart // Canada // 2022 // 08:30 min
Animation, Live Action
Deep in the boreal forest, a mature pine tree and a seedling begin a conversation. As the years pass, they observe the ever-present wind and the many ways it affects them. A quiet story about the cycle of life.
Eivind Landsvik // Norway // 2023 // 11:49 min
Live Action
How important is my appearance? When Oscar and Iben are abandoned by their friends at the beach they unexpectedy realise what they have in common.
Lena von Döhren / Eva Rust // Switzerland // 2023 // 08:30 min
Animation
A small, farting herring gets lost in a tidal pool and makes fantastic new acquaintances with other sea creatures. Together they chase a nasty seagull away.
Raphael Stalder / Leo Graf / Tanja Nuijten // Switzerland // 2022 // 02:42 min
Animation
A blue whale gone astray: first it leaps from a mountain lake, then it flies away with a hot-air balloon. And then?
Bram Algoed / Pieter Gaudesaboos // Belgium // 2023 // 09:27 min
Animation
A huge parcel is being dispatched. We follow it on its long journey around the world and try and guess what might be packed inside the ever-shrinking box.
Zara Demet Altan // Germany // 2021 // 15:50 min
Live Action
Ada, Ben, Ali and their classmates feel unfairly treated at school. When their class jointly sets out to find the dog Kasimira, they form a community of solidarity that is unbeatable together.
Lao Xinying // China, United States // 2023 // 14:54 min
Live Action
Xiaohui lives with his grandfather on a farm in southwest China. When his little calf is to be sold one day, he takes every precaution not to lose his animal friend.
Hao Zhao // France, China // 2023 // 11:30 min
Live Action
Chen Wenhui wants to be a goalie. But why actually? A vibrant reflection on a fateful decision early in life.
Parida Tantiwasadakran [she/her] // Thailand // 2022 // 20:00 min
Live Action
7-year-old Juice has one mission this year: to help Grandma Lovely retain as many memories as possible in order to halt the onset of her early dementia.
Sebastian Valencia Muñoz // Colombia // 2022 // 18:00 min
Live Action
It's 1990 and gang-affiliated William takes his young son Jacobo out for a drive and they enjoy a lovely sunny day together. On the way home the day takes a dark turn and Jacobo’s life is changed forever.
[CW: physical violence, death]
