Filme

Yann Nguema // Frankreich // 2022 // 08:03 min

Abstract forms and cryptic signs accompany the viewers on this immersive journey, conceived for projection in the dome and in the cinema alike.

Recordings of a Weather Camera

Bernhard Wenger // Österreich, Deutschland // 2023 // 18:28 min

The picturesque Austrian Alps: a ski-area weather camera captures the majestic mountainscape – and interpersonal conversations on the side. Is there is no refuge from male intrusiveness, even on the remotest of peaks?
[CW: Sexism and sexual violence]

Ian Killick // Großbritannien // 2021 // 10:55 min

Comedy, Horror

Grim humour with a retro aesthetic: a couple wakes to infant screams. What is this racket and how do you turn it off? Parenthood from another (less flattering) angle, with Beethoven drowning out the cries of a new-born.

Basri & Salma in a Never-Ending Comedy

Khozy Rizal // Indonesien // 2023 // 15:00 min

Comedy

With grandma nearby, an uncle mimes at the dinner table: coming inside his wife. An odong-odong at the fair, and the fireworks of coitus. Basri and Salma don't meet their family's expectations, but they still have loads of fun.
[CW: physical violence]

Popo Fan // Deutschland // 2019 // 17:00 min

Comedy, Gay / Lesbians / Trans, Identity, Migration, Politics

BEER! BEER! is an anti-romantic comedy set in the early morning after a wild party in Berlin. While Tao, a Chinese, and Sebastian, a white German, get closer and closer, Tao realizes that Sebastian is very superficial and he loses interest. At least he still lets him carry home a mattress he finds on the street.

Five

Ayla Çekin Satijn // Niederlande // 2021 // 07:00 min

Gay / Lesbians / Trans, Identity, Migration

It's always awesome at family events when the first thing anyone asks you – early 20s, not hetero – is whether you have a boyfriend. Asli shuts down fast, until she realises she might need to examine her own prejudices.

Make or Break

Mike Plitt, Falk Schuster // Deutschland // 2022 // 08:06 min

Animals, insects, Environmental

Alex tells of his childhood in the GDR: how he was taken from his mother after she criticised the regime, his attempts to escape from children's homes and subsequent efforts to break him in a reformatory, using violence.
[CW: violence, sexual violence]

Isaac Martinez // Deutschland // 2023 // 04:03 min

Childhood, Coming of Age, Human Rights, Identity, Migration, Politics, Video Art

The poetic, subjective narrative in "Black Youth" treats the discriminating hurdles that Black men must overcome in becoming adults. Surrounded by oppressive whiteness, as far as the eye can see, yet not without power.

Alexander Rönnberg // Schweden // 2016 // 03:00 min

Light some candles and lock yourself in a bathroom. We all know the legend … but do we dare say her name three times?

Pavel Andonov // Finnland, Großbritannien // 2022 // 21:00 min

Fiction

Leena is faced with a heartbreaking commitment after spending a beautiful day with her terminally ill husband Boris in their summer cottage.
[CW: suicide]

Blood and Soil

Deniz Eroğlu // Deutschland // 2019 // 10:03 min

The title of the film refers to the nationalist slogan "blood and soil," a racist ideal of a national body linked to a territory of settlement. In this work, it takes on a new meaning, referring to the narrator's birthplace and the blood that is spilled in the story.
[CW: racism, physical violence]

Anna Fernandez De Paco // Bosnien und Herzegowina, Spanien // 2022 // 15:00 min

In the mountains overlooking Sarajevo, Boja toils away amid houses destroyed by the war. Her brother gives her orders. Smoking a pipe, the goat herder enjoys the stolen moments her life affords.

Borscht with Pretzel

Anna Ring // Deutschland // 2022 // 08:13 min

Historical, Identity, Migration

Anna Ring interviews her mom, who came to Germany from the former USSR in 1991 as a "Jewish quota refugee". She speaks about this rarely explored aspect of migration, bigoted treatment and her wishes for the future.

Wrestling

Grímur Hákonarson // Island // 2007 // 20:00 min

A love story about two homosexual wrestlers living in rural Iceland. They have to keep their relationship secret, and meet while practising wrestling, the national sport of Iceland.

Neighbour Abdi

Douwe Dijkstra // Niederlande // 2022 // 29:00 min

Human Rights, Identity, Migration

How can you overcome a violent past? Somali-born Abdi reenacts his life, marked by war and criminality, with the help of his neighbour and filmmaker Douwe. Through playful reconstructions in a special effects studio, they embark on a candid and investigative journey through a painful history.
[CW: war, flight, violence, blood]

Jamie O'Rourke // Irland // 2023 // 15:00 min

Human Rights, Thriller

This one is intense! A typical morning on a (somewhat creepy) farm. A cow is about to calve. If only the farmer's super bloody accident didn't intervene. And then there's his daughter's worrying behaviour –
[CW: physical and psychological violence, death]

Tom C J BROWN // Frankreich, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika // 2022 // 20:00 min

Gay / Lesbians / Trans

Christopher embarks on a transatlantic voyage as a passenger on a cargo ship. His hopes of finding out what lures so many men to sea sets him on a journey into solitude, fantasy and obsession.

Julie GROUX, Romain SEISSON, Taye CIMON, Sandra LEYDIER, Pierre COËZ, Manuarii MOREL // Frankreich // 2022 // 05:08 min

Animals, insects, Comedy, Environmental

Somewhere out on the open sea, a flamingo alights on an aircraft carrier – blocking the landing strip and grounding the waiting fighter jets. A soldier shoos it away, but it'll be back – next time with reinforcements.

Abdul Hamid Mandgar // Afghanistan // 2020 // 06:55 min

Narges is a girl with a passion for dancing. Whenever she dances, her brother beats her, until he realizes that she is dancing for their mother.
[CW: Gewalt, Sexismus]

Henriette Rietz // Deutschland // 2023 // 04:39 min

Childhood, Video Art

Stock footage of "happy" families conjures canned warmth, while the inner monologues of overworked mothers intone off-screen. Tremendous meme fodder – if it weren't so serious.
[CW: self harm, depression]

Victoria Aleksanyan // Niederlande, Armenien, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika // 2022 // 12:09 min

Anoush fled Armenia and her violent husband years ago – now, facing deportation, she has to return. A compelling film about the inhumanity of forced repatriation.
[CW: physical and psychological violence]

Thomas Baerten, Wim Geudens // Niederlande, Großbritannien // 2014 // 15:00 min

The brothers ‘De Smet’ are helping each other to make their lives as singles as enjoyable as possible. When a new woman moves into a house in their street, their synergy turns out to be a house of cards.

Mohammad Nasir // Afghanistan // 2018 // 03:50 min

A Portrait into the complexities of war and its effects on Afghanistan's ethnic groups and its civilisation.

Rolf Hellat // Guinea, Elfenbeinküste, Senegal, Schweiz // 2023 // 14:16 min

Choreography, Environmental, Fantasy, Habitat, Human Rights, Identity, Migration, Music video, Video Art

This powerful psychedelic montage about nature, life, death and spirituality is the result of cultural exchange between people from Senegal, Guinea, Switzerland and Côte d'Ivoire.

Sean Wainsteim // Kanada // 2023 // 14:00 min

Childhood, Coming of Age, Fantasy, Horror, Human Rights, Identity, Migration, Mix-Medias, Old age, Thriller, Comedy

From off-screen, Sean Wainsteim comments on his own film, a tale of the trauma his grandfather and countless others endured during the Holocaust, reflecting on his personal creative process. Extraordinary storytelling.
[CW: Holocaust]