Filme

The Application

Antonia Lindner // Deutschland // 2023 // 09:00 min

When bureaucracy becomes madness: B. enters the immigration office and runs from room to room, floor to floor, only to start over again from the beginning. Kafkaesque, no? For some the situation is even more desperate.

Duncan Cowles // // 2022 // 07:55 min

Comedy, Environmental

Drawing a connection between "desire lines" and climate crisis. A clever idea wrapped in gallows humour. How much responsibility lies with the individual?

The Temptation of the Coconut Clock

Oliver Schmid // Deutschland // 2022 // 06:27 min

Animals, insects, Comedy, Environmental

Megalomania in the jungle. Two monkeys want more. Lust for the largest coconut drives them higher and higher up into the tree.

Drive

Levi Stoops // Belgien // 2023 // 14:59 min

Jeremy and Aurora are drifting aimlessly at sea and fighting to survive amid a fair amount of blood and gore. Both are gravely impacted by the experience – though in different ways.

You Are So Wonderful

Leandro Goddinho, Paulo Menezes // Deutschland, Brasilien // 2023 // 17:00 min

Comedy, Gay / Lesbians / Trans, Human Rights, Identity, Migration, Politics, Work

While thousands take to the streets against high rents in Berlin, the young Brazilian Edu is kicked out of his apartment. Between a lack of health insurance, racism and homophobia, he tries desperately to hold his life together.
[CW: blood]

Sharing

Natalia Sara Skorupa // Polen // 2021 // 14:00 min

Documentary

Christmas in Poland with the family. Among other people, the filmmaker asks her aunt, her dad and her grandma how they feel about queer folk.
[CW: Queerphobia]

Said Mohsen Hossaini // Afghanistan // 2022 // 05:10 min

Her mother died the day she was born. Her father was always at war. She was eleven years old when her father forced her to marry an old man.

Laura Stewart // Kanada // 2022 // 03:11 min

Is eating carrots really that good for your vision? When a girl eats the orange veggies, an eye grows from her arm, bursting with energy. And it has even more in store for her…

Brett Marty, Josh Izenberg // Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika // 2022 // 16:36 min

Animals, insects, Environmental, Habitat, Western

To save the Mojave desert tortoise, biologist Tim Shields wages a clever battle against predatory ravens with innovative ideas and sneaky technical devices.

Lucija Mrzljak, Morten Tšinakov // Kroatien, Estland // 2022 // 15:58 min

A burial takes place in the rain. People cry. A woman has too much wine, fries up some goldfish – and then the whole flat catches fire. A dark, quirky animated film about a headstrong woman thrown for a loop by a death.
[CW: Death]

蛋

Lu Hu // China // 2022 // 16:15 min

Animals, insects, Mix-Medias, Mockumentary

A close-up view of a rooster. Hens in the yard. A cock posing before a waterfall. Eggs on conveyor belts. Hens in paintings. The poetry of egg-laying, in 16 transfixing minutes.

Being That Boy Again

Jan Koester, Lisa Violetta Gaß // Deutschland // 2022 // 07:30 min

Childhood, Coming of Age, Human Rights

"My mother started drinking when I was eight." This is a story of lost trust, toxic relationships and the seeming impossibility of interpersonal connection to others.
[CW: psychological violence, abuse in the family]

As If Mother Cried That Night

Hoda Taheri // Deutschland // 2023 // 19:00 min

Human Rights, Identity, Migration, Politics

Desperate in their attempts to gain asylum in Germany, an Iranian couple sets off down a drastic path: maybe they will be able to stay if the wife has a child with a white German man. Is the price they pay for this too high?

Benjamin Kramme // Deutschland // 2023 // 12:24 min

Human Rights

What to do when your daughter has bad pneumonia? Stay true to the nationalist ideology of your community and keep singing songs – or take little Sieglinde to the hospital? Freyja makes a far-reaching decision.
[CW: physical and psychological violence, blood]

Federico Turani // Polen, Saudi-Arabien // 2023 // 05:58 min

Frank Dommy is a superman. Smart, rich, spoiled by success. Yep, Frank leads the perfect life. Or not, after all? The answer awaits in Bubble Tea Land.

Jeremy Oury // Frankreich // 2023 // 05:00 min

"Exo-Cortex 2.0" is an invitation to feel free, guided by a voice that plunges us into a dreamlike and hypnotic introspection. This immersive work proposes a dreamlike journey to the spectators through a poetic and enchanting composition of space.

Lilian Maximillian Nabaggala // Uganda // 2022 // 07:26 min

Choreography, Identity, Migration

A mirror in the landscape. Light skin as an ideal beauty standard. The psychological consequences. "Who am I?" A question whose answer fades.
[CW: skin-tone trauma]

Neon Phantom

Leonardo Martinelli // Brasilien // 2021 // 20:00 min

Gay / Lesbians / Trans, Human Rights, Musical, Work

In a Brazilian megacity, João delivers things 24/7, from food to medicine to shoes. Singing and dancing with other cyclists, he voices criticism towards his job.
[CW: racism]

Michael Dudok de Wit, Arjan Wilschut // Niederlande // 2000 // 09:00 min

A father bids his daughter farewell and leaves. But as time passes the deep-seated vacuum left by his departure only grows inside her.

Above the Clouds

Vivien Hárshegyi // Ungarn // 2022 // 13:32 min

Comedy, Coming of Age

For fear of getting hurt, a girl rebuffs the love of her youth. Inside, she gazes into the future: What will first love be like? Between rejection and butterflies in her stomach, her emotions are going haywire.

Elephant-Bird

Amir Masoud Soheili // Afghanistan, Iran // 2018 // 15:00 min

Comedy, Historical

The last wish of an old Afghan man is to give his "elephant-bird" (turkey) to his grandchild.
[CW: violence, death]

Flowers from the Other Patio

Jorge Cadena // Kolumbien, Schweiz // 2022 // 15:20 min

Gay / Lesbians / Trans, Human Rights, Thriller

A portrait of queer activists in Northern Colombia: in extravagant performative actions, they call out the disastrous exploitation practiced by the country's largest coalmine. The outfits rate a solid 10/10.
[CW: queerphobia, physical violence]

Adriaan Lokman // Niederlande, Frankreich // 2019 // 15:30 min

Floating like leaves in the air, we experience the most important element that surrounds us. Brushstrokes of air in all its subtle, gentle and powerful manifestations paint our fragile existence in the most unpredictable, stormy way.

Wilfredo Casas // Deutschland // 2023 // 07:03 min

On his way home from a grinding day at the office, a stranger on a train platform warns Thomas in sign language that someone will soon try to trick him into handing over sensitive work-related data. Conspiracy or truth?

Zénó Mira // Ungarn // 2023 // 07:48 min

Animals, insects, Historical

An aristocratic garden party, a baroque castle in an idyllic setting, fine dining, an exuberant atmosphere. But steel cages are arrayed here too, containing animals brought for a specific purpose: so-called fox tossing.
[CW: violence against animals]