Short film programs

Elham Ehsas // Afghanistan, United Kingdom // 2023 // 12:49 min

Live Action // Drama

In Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, a woman walks into a chadari store in Kabul to buy her first full-body veil and face an uncertain future

Bernhard Wenger, Rupert Höller // Austria // 2015 // 03:00 min

Live Action // Drama

Look away or intervene? When a Black man is victim of racial abuse in a packed bus, there is only one passenger who won’t ignore the situation like everyone else.

Anne Isensee // Germany // 2019 // 02:00 min

Animation // Comedy, Musical, Poetry

„I Want“ wants loud colours, rainbow music and a cheeky poem. You can't always get what you want, but this film can.

Susanne Quester // Germany // 2002 // 07:05 min

Live Action // Comedy

"Finow" is an independent woodland state whose inhabitants mainly feed on bananas. A two-fisted social reportage about child labour.

Leon Schwitter // Switzerland // 2021 // 13:29 min

Live Action // satire

The air-conditioning breaks down in the carriage, Bluetooth speakers compete by the river and a demonstration in the city centre paralyses the trams. As the ice melts and tempers flare, no one [...]

Renaldho Pelle // England // 2020 // 07:43 min

Animation // Coming of Age, Drama

Rioting spreads as social inequality causes tempers in a struggling community to flare, but the oppressive environment takes on a life of its own as the shadows of the housing estate close in. [...]

Michael Frei // Switzerland // 2019 // 09:00 min

Animation // satire

How do we define ourselves when we are all equal? Who is steering the crowd? What if it is heading in the wrong direction? Where does the individual end and the group begin? What is done by [...]

Luka Popadić // Switzerland, Serbia and Montenegro // 2021 // 17:00 min

Live Action // Drama

Nato bombing of Serbia in 1999. James, a young journalist on his first deployment abroad, is faced with the absurd reality of news production and is forced to choose between his career and his [...]

Elias Weinberger, Ferdinand Ehrhardt // Germany // 2020 // 06:22 min

A teenager is confronted with a fresh right-wing extremist graffiti in the S-Bahn and a grimace of her homeland and a grimace of her homeland that she had previously repressed.

Jonas Riemer // Germany // 2020 // 10:57 min

Animation, Documentary // Portrait

Where does the fear of foreign cultures and the desire for isolation really come from? The animated documentary THE ONE WHO CROSSED THE SEA tells the story of a GDR refugee who joins the new [...]