Filme

I Want

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

“You can’t always get what you want...” sang the Rolling Stones once upon a time, though they consistently proved the opposite. A young woman wants a whole lot too. Being heard would be pretty nice for starters.

Domas Petronis, Vytautas Plukas // Litauen // 2020 // 14:00 min

A robot is created in a lab. Like a new-born, the machine analyses its surroundings with its senses and the limited knowledge it possesses. What does it mean to be alive?

illustration : composting

Elise Auffray // Frankreich // 2014 // 02:30 min

How does left-over food turn into soil? This stop-motion animation shows us the process in quick motion.

Betina Kuntzsch // Deutschland // 2021 // 02:51 min

Identity, Migration, Politics, Video Art

A lyrical interlude, poem by Kathrin Schmidt 2021.

Anthony Valon // Frankreich // 2020 // 06:00 min

Choreography, Mix-Medias, Video Art

A human shadow lies motionless on the floor of a factory. A monolithic mirror reflects its silhouette and the sombre surroundings. The person attempts to tame the machine, but their body is soon swallowed up by the immensity.

Unliveable

Enock Carvalho, Matheus Farias // Brasilien // 2020 // 19:50 min

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

In Brazil, where a trans-person is murdered every three days, Marilene searches for her daughter Roberta. While time slips away, she discovers a light that gives her hope.

Ink

Erik Verkerk, Joost van den Bosch // Niederlande // 2020 // 02:20 min

Animals, insects, Comedy

It's not always easy to keep your home looking tidy and clean - even if you have eight arms!

Yann Chapotel // Frankreich // 2020 // 05:45 min

Habitat, Video Art

Irma's Teddy

Betina Kuntzsch // Deutschland // 2021 // 06:00 min

Childhood, Identity, Migration, Politics, Video Art

A possible biography of Irma Thälmann constructed from archive material – including, among other things, reports from the “Thälmannkuriere” and quotations from her book, “Erinnerungen an meinen Vater” (Memories of My Father) 1919-2000.

Yes People

Gísli Darri Halldórsson // Island // 2020 // 08:35 min

Comedy

One day in an apartment block. Six individuals spend their time in different ways. A comedy, quiet yet melodically animated, featuring dramatic undertones.

Summer Fasting

Abdenoure Ziane // Frankreich // 2020 // 18:00 min

Childhood, Comedy, Identity, Migration

The fasting month of Ramadan falls at the height of summer this year. Rudy tries to help his friend Kader to get through it, but it is not that easy.

// Frankreich // 2016 // 04:11 min

From Angela Merkel to the Simpsons—animated images from the print news create new contexts.

Love is Just a Death Away

Bára Anna Stejskalová // Tschechische Republik // 2020 // 11:06 min

Animals, insects, Fantasy

A caterpillar living inside a dog's corpse searches for a soulmate in the ugly world of a garbage dump. The desire for friendship brings it perilously close to death. Only love can help the little creature take flight.

Virpi Suutari // Finnland // 2021 // 26:00 min

Images collected on a journey through Finland form a panorama of the country. The story tells of bourgeois anarchy and the longing for human connection.

Shiva Sadegh Asadi // Iran // 2020 // 10:48 min

Childhood, Human Rights

A shy, reserved boy would like more than anything to be a part of the school theatre group. Alas, he is repeatedly rebuffed. The only role offered to him is that of a crab.

Simon Ostermann // Deutschland // 2018 // 01:21 min

Children are constantly exposed to danger. Wouldn’t it just be easier to give them guns, too?

Pola Beck // Deutschland // 2017 // 09:15 min

When a store detective catches a young mother shoplifting all he wants is to get this normal part of his everyday work life filed away and over with. But soon he finds it’s not so easy to unravel himself from this story.

Sasha Rainbow // Ghana // 2019 // 19:06 min

What does the everyday life of children in very different circumstances look like? This documentary shows the life of the two Ghanaian boys Kofi and Lartey in their home - a village on the edge of a vast dump for electronic waste.

Betina Kuntzsch // Deutschland // 2021 // 04:44 min

Identity, Migration, Politics, Video Art

The Municipal Gas Authority IV provided Prenzlauer Berg with power from 1900 – 1981.

Good German Work

Jannis Alexander Kiefer // Deutschland // 2020 // 14:00 min

Comedy, Human Rights, Politics, Work

Two craftspeople, Uli and Didi, are working on a swastika in their workshop, somewhere between rural paradise and village dreariness, wondering about the strange newcomers in the village.

King

Emily Ufken, Alexander Conrads // Deutschland // 2021 // 05:00 min

Disability, Human Rights

In a psychiatric clinic, a young man describes his path to gambling addiction, with slot machines. The animated short documentary film provides an intimate look at a frequently ignored illness and its effects.

Betina Kuntzsch // Deutschland // 2021 // 05:17 min

Identity, Migration, Politics, Video Art

The Thälmann memorial was erected in 1986 – three years before the fall of the Wall. A history of its genesis, with alternatives 1983 – 20.

project home, Christopher Martin // Japan, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika // 2019 // 07:23 min

Childhood, Choreography, Comedy, Coming of Age, Musical, Western

How can one maintain an optimistic outlook in light of the dominant forces in society? Using dynamic and expressive movements, Kota shows us the resilience of an imaginative mind.

Year of the robot

Yves Gellie // Frankreich // 2019 // 28:00 min

Video Art

At the intersection between art and science, we encounter individuals and their artificial counterpart, a robot. Cognitive dissonance creates a mysterious relational space between the artificially created autonomy of the machine and the socially constructed human.

Lukas von Berg // Deutschland // 2017 // 04:30 min

This fruit fly just isn’t ready to accept death, and his lament becomes a monumental hymn.