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KUKI Festival
2 - 9 November 2025
2 - 9 November 2025
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Greg Francis // United Kingdom // 2023 // 16:18 min
Live Action
Andrew has lost his father and now has to cope with his own grief, that of his mum, and exam stress at school. He finds refuge in the family's collection of reggae, ska, and dub records.
Ella Knorz // Germany // 2024 // 17:03 min
Experimental, Live Action
Graduation, summer with friends, just 18 and: an unwanted pregnancy. Between parties and outdoor swimming pools, Lea‘s focus hones in on navigating Germany‘s abortion bureaucracy. And time is ticking.
[Content Note: Abortion]
Maria Steinmetz // Germany // 2025 // 07:23 min
Animation
A family of goats searches for a safe place to build their cosy new home. On their travels they encounter a wide variety of trees who reveal their individual qualities. Under which kind of tree will the goats finally settle?
Shali Reddy / Alexandre Marzin / Antonin Guerci / Anna Despinoy / Hugo Danet / Eloïse Alluyn // France // 2024 // 07:35 min
Animation
A girl has dinner with her conservative family and tries to fit in. But suddenly, little acrobatic creatures bubble out of her mouth; there is no denying something so brightly colourful.
Adam Hegazy // France // 2024 // 12:46 min
Live Action
Sylla spends the Parisian summer with friends, soccer, and his bird. But when his mother can no longer pay the rent, he realises that these could be the last days in his familiar neighbourhood.
Anna Kadykova // Sri Lanka // 2025 // 04:07 min
Animation
Did you know that from the top of a pineapple you can grow a new pineapple - and so on, forever? Funny animal friends show us how, and one important part of their instructions is dancing! Who knew? A bright and funky reflection on the infinity of nature.
Zak Slattery // Quebec // 2025 // 12:54 min
Live Action
Three friends embark on a journey back to their hometown while Sasha, recovering from his gender-affirming surgery, dreams of swimming shirtless at his childhood beach.
Gustavo de Carvalho // Brazil // 2024 // 21:49 min
Live Action
In Brazil’s rural countryside, two sisters and their new stepfather are forced to spend an evening in the emergency room of a hospital, facing complex encounters with strangers— while they struggle with their own family dynamics.
[Content Note: Blood]
Judith Ordonneau // Switzerland // 2024 // 04:00 min
Animation, Live Action
Large parts of our oceans remain unexplored, but those who only hold fascination for stars and space just might overlook the undiscovered wonders right under their noses!
Matías Rojas Valencia // Chile, Brazil, Colombia // 2025 // 17:10 min
Documentary
13-year-old Bárbara flees Venezuela for Chile. On the dangerous route across the Altiplano plateau, she struggles against cold and exhaustion – carried by the hope of never giving up.
Alina Rizwan // Pakistan // 2023 // 10:47 min
Documentary
Rain can be helpful, it brings drinking water, makes the grass green and ensures a good harvest, but when it causes flooding it brings destruction too. Children from a flood-devastated neighbourhood in Sindh, Pakistan, talk about their experiences with the transformative power of water, with hopeful resilience.
Tohé Commaret // France // 2025 // 12:49 min
Experimental, Live Action
Laura endures her narcissistic boyfriend’s rants with silent anger. She feels abandoned by the world and searches for something to hold onto between the dreary blocks of flats – while the music plays elsewhere.
[Content Note: Abuse]
Anja Resman // Slovenia, Croatia // 2024 // 09:50 min
Animation
The curious eyes of a child notice many things; sometimes more than the world around them would like. Beautifully crafted puppet animation about feeling different and a young person's perception of the adult world.
Haley Stemmons // United States // 2024 // 05:11 min
Animation, Experimental
A few teenage friends take a short cut on their bikes while heading home from school. But what happens if you take the wrong path? You might suddenly find yourself face to face with a poetic frog and deep revelations.
Callie Keels Ju / Alia Wilhelm // United States, United Kingdom // 2024 // 12:57 min
Live Action
1983 in Manhattan. Born to a Turkish father and an absent Korean mother, Moon is struggling to find her place in the world. While her idol David Bowie plays a concert a few blocks a way, Moon helps her dad run a 24/7 grocery store and dreams of being a gorgeous shape-shifting popstar like Bowie too.
Esther Brechlin / Johannes Weiland // Germany // 2024 // 05:23 min
Animation
In the middle of the night, a family sets off in their car to drive to Italy for their vacation. A boy bets his father a huge ice cream that he can stay awake the whole trip; but where did all these sheep suddenly come from?
Ayaka Kawasaki // Japan // 2024 // 12:25 min
Animation
Mr Mole has never left the safe cosiness of his burrow and always found the idea of life above ground to be a bit too intimidating. Luckily, chance entices him to venture outside and we get to accompany him on his journey of new friendships, treats and adventures awaiting him.
Are Austnes / Yaprak Morali // Norway, Sweden // 2024 // 12:00 min
Animation
One morning, while on their way to the Christmas market to sell candies, Brenda‘s foster-granny falls and breaks her leg. Now, Christmas has to be cancelled and the young girl must to be sent away until the old lady recovers. Brenda refuses to accept this and does all she can to save Christmas and her only family!
Simon Dickel // Germany // 2024 // 05:23 min
Documentary
What's the story behind these chickens wearing shirts and pants? A woman takes in rescued and sickly laying hens and lovingly cares for the featherless creatures: to keep them warm, she sews clothes for them.
Tallulah Farquhar // Belgium // 2024 // 17:16 min
Live Action
Cleo escapes from her dreary school into a fun, colourful, and glittery fantasy world. When she realises she's not alone there, she finds particularly dramatic and creative ways to win Romy over.
Alina Milkina // Netherlands // 2024 // 02:15 min
Animation
Urban pigeons are often seen as pests, chased away and their nests removed. When a group of pigeons hears that the mayor promises housing for everyone, they decide to submit a petition at the town hall!
Lisa Ott // United Kingdom // 2024 // 08:10 min
Animation
When a singing fox steals Sam's beloved dress one night, a revelation begins for both of them. Between drag and gender identity, they musically explore their similarities and differences.
AJ Jefferies // United Kingdom // 2025 // 04:45 min
Animation
It was just another lovely day at the park until some silly people insisted on feeding the ducks some bread. A playfully monstrous lesson in environmentalism.
Meike Fehre // Germany // 2024 // 07:15 min
Animation
A musical about a real poop-star, accompanied by a choir of cheerful gut bacteria. Farting has never been so poetic!
Irati Landa // Colombia // 2025 // 13:32 min
Animation, Live Action
A girl should never hide her laugh! That’s what Kera teaches young Kari by retelling an indigenous legend that helps her find her inner strength and set the power of her laughter free!
Adrian Jaffe // Germany // 2025 // 03:18 min
Animation
Freshly hatched and gently awakened, three baby birds face the big task of flying for the first time. The sky turns into a whirlwind of improvisation as each bird finds creative ways to get into the air by twirling, hovering or simply hoping for the best!
Fran Moreno Blanco / Santi Pujol Amat // Spain // 2025 // 18:42 min
Live Action
Longing and guilt overwhelm Eric when he runs away from the juvenile shelter to visit his mother. Bursting into a birthday party, he finds a family life that has continued without him.
Nixon Singa // France // 2024 // 20:00 min
Live Action
Gioia tries to fit in at school as much as possible, but in the afternoons she devotes herself to her passion: Afro dance. In doing so, she navigates between safe spaces and cultural appropriation and increasingly finds a truer sense of self.
Bonnie Dempsey // Ireland // 2025 // 14:40 min
Live Action
Between the digital world of computer games and country life at her grandmother's house, Naomi would always choose the console. But a fun alien encounter could really turn everything upside down!
Belal Albader // Saudi Arabia // 2024 // 10:04 min
Live Action
Saad is madly in love. At least, that's how it feels when he sees Dania for the first time after school. He plans to give her his favourite gum, but the arrival of an unexpected third person causes confusion.
Christina YR Lim // United States // 2024 // 18:00 min
Live Action
It must have been wonderful to be Mozart, the violin prodigy, right? In 1995, a girl in Seoul dreams of just that, but family problems that had been hidden from her until then threaten to disrupt her carefree life.
Andrea Dorfman // Canada // 2024 // 16:56 min
Animation
One day a girl is happy with her hairy legs, and the next she is suddenly supposed to shave them off. She doesn't want to. Does that make her a feminist, a hippie, or a rugby player? The filmmaker’s own perspective from when she was a young teen, in a small yet life-changing act of rebellion on the road to womanhood and feminism.
Snigdha Kapoor // India, United States // 2024 // 15:50 min
Live Action
Radha's gender identity is questioned by close and not-so-close family members. A ritual is to be performed to exorcise a supposed curse, but Radha has the final say!
Domini Marshall // Australia // 2025 // 15:56 min
Live Action
With period pains, it's not exactly easy to party hard at a house party, but a chance encounter awakens something exciting in Daisy, just when her friend Lila needs her most.
Romane Pilote Lamontagne // Quebec // 2025 // 09:08 min
Documentary
Intertwining imagery from the filmmaker’s own daily life with the memories of Lisa (Yelyzaveta), an 18-year-old Ukrainian who lived in Montreal for a few months. Two strangers, so far yet so close. In the film, they are united.
[Content Note: War, Flight]
Brennan Bova // Canada // 2024 // 03:28 min
Animation
A lonely duck feels a bit lost and overwhelmed by everyday interactions, until it connects with another crew of quirky ducks. The fun begins as each feels free enough to express themselves however they like. About the joy and strength in finding community.
Ezra Verbist // Belgium // 2025 // 16:20 min
Documentary
Jools loves dancing and longs for community, but feels uncomfortable when she is being watched. A new acquaintance encourages her and she learns that there is no wrong way to move.
Qulan Li // China // 2024 // 11:32 min
Live Action
After a wild water fight, a young girl learns about a fountain on the roof of a fancy skyscraper. She longs to wear a pair of new rubber sandals for the occasion, but does she really need them to have fun?
Mari Miyazawa // Japan // 2024 // 05:00 min
Animation, Live Action
An egg in distress is quickly helped by all the other friendly food characters in this magical, resourceful kitchen, but the peas have a request that proves to be more difficult: they wish they could fly! What clever methods will the community come up with?
Marie Falys // Belgium // 2025 // 03:58 min
Live Action
In the silence of an empty skatepark, two siblings find a magically musical way to bide their time.
Luber Yesid Zúñiga Ordóñez // Colombia // 2024 // 15:01 min
Live Action
Pablo loves his hen Pascualina. But when she is kidnapped by the seemingly mean shopkeeper, his friends hatch a plan to get her back together.
Gabrielle Selnet // France // 2023 // 04:10 min
Animation
Thrown out of her mother's place. Barefoot Gab tries to find a flat in the chaotic Parisian streets, and perhaps just some sort of greater hold on life as well.
[Content Note: Sexual assault]
Madalena Valencia // France // 2024 // 20:00 min
Live Action
Christiana has recently arrived in a class for foreign pupils; Amir will soon join a regular class at the same school. Their paths cross where language is learned, between French society and that of its new arrivals. Both are trying to find their place.
Collectif 18 enfants // Belgium // 2024 // 10:05 min
Animation
Be careful what you wish for! When a magical, wish-fulfilling portal appears in a forest, its inhabitants quickly lose control. Will they be able to restore and maintain natural harmony?
Mieszko Chomka // Poland // 2025 // 15:00 min
Documentary
A playfully questioning video diary that the filmmaker uses to hold on to things that are happening and changing but also to capture the exact moment of soul-searching coming of age before a new phase begins. How to make a film, what is creativity, where will I study, will we still be together? Friends, the city at night, the summer house with the girlfriend, partying, rapping and consulting parents.
Khozy Rizal // Indonesia // 2024 // 17:00 min
Live Action
Doddy is 14 and wants to become a filmmaker so he and his friends recreate and shoot his favourite zombie movie scene. If only they didn‘t have to secretly use the camcorder belonging to Doddy’s moody older brother Anji.
Alfredo Soderguit // France, Chile, Uruguay // 2024 // 10:00 min
Animation
A capybara family has to hide from a hunter and seeks shelter in a chicken coop. Not all of the chickens are happy about this, but an unexpected friendship could be the solution.
Edward Gómez // Colombia // 2024 // 15:00 min
Live Action
Thrill-seekers: in Columbia's poorer neighbourhoods, growing up can be a game of life or death. Malicia and Chinga get their kicks in the fast-paced downhill lanes of their hood.
[Content Note: Death or dying]
Alexandre Peralta // Spain // 2025 // 07:07 min
Documentary
A volcanic eruption has left Marta and Aisha's home devastated. But the two girls refuse to be discouraged; they play among the rubble and reflect on their memories.
Idriss Nabil // Netherlands // 2024 // 19:46 min
Live Action
Coco and Dalou's friendship is put to the test as they search for a replacement father. But they know one thing for sure: he needs to be brave and funny, and most importantly, he needs to have a moustache.
Rok Predin // Slovenia // 2024 // 10:30 min
Animation
After a long day of fun and games, all the village children fall exhausted into bed. But where are their slippers the next morning? Barefoot, they set off into the forest to search for them.
Ché Scott-Heron Newton // United Kingdom // 2025 // 14:52 min
Documentary
Years of home video, reflecting on the complexities of growing up and how opportunity and circumstance shape our futures in ways we don’t always fully grasp at the time. Intimate and deeply personal, the film explores boyhood, friendship, belonging and the lingering question of what might have been.
Jaime Ng // Germany, Singapore // 2024 // 06:36 min
Animation
A girl longs for puberty and big boobs, but gets tiny ones instead. Between criticism and ridicule, both external and internal, the path to self-love is not always straightforward. If only our boobs could talk!
Simon Ellis // United Kingdom // 2025 // 14:05 min
Documentary
A boy lovingly explains our solar system to his two-year-old sister. And the two of them clearly know much more about it than many an internet troll spreading half-baked knowledge.
Abeille Tard // Quebec // 2025 // 19:23 min
Live Action
Pippa lives in a supervised group home for young mothers, as she works to prove her ability to fulfil her parental role to the authorities. One night, breaking curfew, Pippa leaves the shelter with her baby.
Zinia Scorier / Marie Royer // Belgium // 2024 // 12:07 min
Animation
Food is political! A group of French activists is experienced in dumpster-diving, using waste bins and a communal garden to create good food for everyone. Even things that are too spoiled to be eaten are cleverly replanted to grow again. So why is this practice illegal in so many countries?
Vinh Nguyen / Robin Szymczak / Laurent Rohrbasser // Switzerland // 2024 // 01:40 min
Animation, Live Action
A failed trick shot sends a ping-pong ball careening off on an unforeseen little adventure.
Liesbeth De Mey // Belgium // 2024 // 15:40 min
Documentary
Sana is 14 and has two passions: boxing and baking. Between gruelling matches and long days at a trade school to become a professional pastry chef, she often finds it challenging to juggle the two. But skill and persistence are vital ingredients for both!
Sameh Alaa // France // 2025 // 10:24 min
Animation
A hilarious reflection on life's stages and letting go, as told through too much hair and a lack thereof. Hairstyles can be utterly personal, and yet they are often imposed upon us by external factors: whether by society, our parents or by our own bodies.
Leah Meinhof // Germany // 2024 // 15:15 min
Documentary
Mira sometimes feels invisible at home because her dear brother Leo's serious illness takes up a lot of space in everyday family life. Between helping out at home and going to school, Mira also has a strong desire to be seen.
Evalds Lacis // Latvia // 2025 // 08:00 min
Animation
A large, lovely mushroom in the forest is a feast for collectors and foxes, but it is also home to a family of flies. They have a variety of clever tricks at hand to camouflage their home.
Julia Granillo Tostado // Belgium, Mexico, Finland, Portugal // 2024 // 05:47 min
Animation
Touching, growing, caring, dancing. Seedlings climbing around fingertips, birds morphing into humans. But the tender touches slowly fade as the shadows grow and the women start to disappear. A poetic retelling of a 17th century tale of witchcraft in our 21st century. A story about women, witches, gender violence, about women’s strength and resistance.
[Content Note: Kidnapping and abduction, Murder, Oppression, Sexism and misogyny]
Rand Beiruty // France, Jordan // 2024 // 12:20 min
Animation, Documentary
At a crowded airport, Ahlam, a 14-year old mother, is running away from Baghdad, the only place she's ever known. As she fights the shadows lurking around her, she reflects on her journey to reclaim her life.
Claudia Arribas // Spain // 2024 // 08:50 min
Documentary, Live Action
Two friends get ready for a party with lots of glitter and colorful outfits. Rita doesn't let on that they haven't really been invited, and Celia doesn't fancy going anyway. So how will they spend the evening?
Christy Chan // United States // 2025 // 09:10 min
Live Action
In the scorching heat along an American highway, a gas station becomes the scene of racist hostility towards a Chinese mother and her young daughter. Through loud and stoic resistance and a little Hello Kitty currency, they don’t settle for less than what they came for.
Rui Ting Ji // Quebec // 2025 // 10:36 min
Animation, Live Action
After their parents' separation, mother and daughter sit together in the removal van. At first, the journey goes smoothly, but then they have to drive through a storm – both in terms of the weather and their mixed emotions.
Adrian von der Borch // Germany // 2024 // 23:10 min
Live Action
Eighteen-year-old Luna lives on the streets with her boyfriend Marius. They both are addicts and are prepared to do a lot to get their fix. But when Luna realizes that she is pregnant, it is not only their relationship that is at stake.
[Content Note: Addiction]
Christopher Rutledge / Magnus Igland Møller // Denmark, United States // 2025 // 03:52 min
Animation
Flying isn't exactly pleasant when you're terrified of it. Turbulence makes it even worse. And why is everyone talking about aerodynamics now? A hilarious take on a hugely unpopular situation.
Iulia Turicianu // Romania // 2025 // 05:28 min
Animation
The prehistoric adventures of an amphibious creature who ends up curled in the arms of a usual predator while they shelter from a terrible storm. Inspired by real fossils found in South Africa in the 1970s.
Mickey Lai // Malaysia // 2024 // 19:10 min
Live Action
Set in a Malaysian National Service Camp, a Chinese female trainee is commanded to lead her multiracial female comrades to wash the stained sanitary pads in the middle of the night, because one of them is allegedly possessed by a ghost.
[Content Note: Blood, Sexism and misogyny, Racism and racial slurs, Psychological Violence]
Frank Sun // United States // 2024 // 12:16 min
Live Action
Two immigrant teenagers, Lin and Walid, sneak into Lin’s mother’s Chinese restaurant to pirate DVDs they can sell at school. But when Lin’s high school crush, Amber, unexpectedly walks in, the afternoon veers from a harmless hustle into a moral dilemma.
Aisha Adepoju // Belgium // 2025 // 15:06 min
Documentary
Three friends spend their last summer together before going to different schools. Their love of wheelie bikes connects them; together, they ride toward the future with renewed strength.
Shruti Parekh // United States, India // 2024 // 19:16 min
Live Action
American teen Neelu feels like a fish out of water amidst preparations for her sister’s wedding in Delhi until she forges a brief and unexpected connection with Zeyb, a quiet sari store clerk who moonlights as an internet drag queen.
[Content Note: Homophobia and heterosexism]
