Filme
Cosima Frei // Deutschland, Schweiz // 2023 // 17:34 min
interfilm 2023
What to do after a separation, before moving to a new city? Mena strolls around her Berlin hood one last time. Phone shop clerks and florists become conversation partners, offering relationship tips and worldly wisdom.
Claudius Gentinetta // Schweiz // 2022 // 06:00 min
interfilm 2023Comedy, Fantasy, Work
Strapped to the dentist's chair, a patient dreams himself into a fantastic story of the sea and of fishing. Will he be able to escape the pain this way?
Valia Phyllis Zwart // Norwegen // 2022 // 06:15 min
interfilm 2023Childhood, Choreography
It's rarely a great idea to argue in a car, but sometimes you have no choice. Even worse when you end up missing the beautiful landscape – or leaving family members behind.
[CW: violence]
Junyi Xiao // China // 2022 // 08:42 min
interfilm 2023
An animated horror-veggie thriller! An accident introduces Lee to the concept of "tomato trafficking", forcing him to confront his own role. Sounds weird? It is! But tragic and super cool too. Really something special!
Jean-Baptiste Leonetti // Frankreich // 2023 // 28:00 min
interfilm 2023Fiction
Veteran Sylvain steals Nathalie's car – complete with her toddler in a car seat. He decides to drive back, enabling the wealthy, stressed-out CEO mom and raging small-time criminal to enter into conversation.
Nasos Gatzoulis // Dänemark, Griechenland, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika // 2022 // 10:00 min
interfilm 2023Identity, Migration, Thriller
What is it like to grow up with a manipulative, gaslighting, brutal father? Magnus Alexander, a life coach from Copenhagen, speaks openly about the effects of toxic masculinity.
[CW: psychological violence]
Bruno Conti Wuilloud // Schweiz // 2023 // 06:00 min
interfilm 2023Comedy, Environmental, Fantasy, Gay / Lesbians / Trans, Identity, Migration, Mockumentary, Work
Adman Harry wants to lose weight – so he takes up yoga. Alas, he grossly underestimated the effects his new hobby would have: sadly, his newly gained universal human consciousness has downsides as well.
Nora Mandray // Frankreich, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika // 2015 // 08:48 min
interfilm 2023Documentary, Gay / Lesbians / Trans, Human Rights
The female/trans/queer bicycle repair collective "Fender Bender" creates Detroit's first bike-sharing program. Their empowering community grows steadily, two wheels at a time.
[CW: racism, intersectional discrimination]
Benjamin Mwesigwa // Uganda // 2022 // 06:20 min
interfilm 2023Fantasy
How can such big topics as "loss" or "being lost", which involve mental anguish, be depicted appropriately in just under six minutes? "Ttula" is a brief but moving journey.
[CW: suicide]
Jon Dunleavy // // 2023 // 03:00 min
interfilm 2023Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Artist vs. artificial intelligence – who will win and who will lose? An abstract battle.
Melanie Jilg // Deutschland // 2023 // 15:18 min
interfilm 2023Coming of Age, Disability, Identity, Migration
Fear paralyses, fear unsettles, fear wrenches, fear intimidates, fear isolates, since no one notices it. And still, fear can move, it can give way and transform itself. Or, as we know too well, it can remain.
[CW: Suizidgedanken]
Jela Hasler // Schweiz // 2021 // 12:15 min
interfilm 2022 interfilm 2023
A summer day in Zürich. Bathing in the river, at work, on the bus, on the street: everywhere she goes, Eli encounters men who treat her inappropriately.
[CW: sexism, intersectional discrimination]
Ali Loukman // Uganda // 2023 // 05:40 min
interfilm 2023Thriller
Ubuntu and uppercuts: opposites attract. A man thrashes anything that gets in his way, with a single hand. His ex-wife is an Afro-samurai. Tarantino would be pleased.
Raphael Stalder, Leo Graf, Tanja Nuijten // Schweiz // 2022 // 02:42 min
kuki 2023 interfilm 2023Animals, insects, Childhood
A blue whale gone astray: first it leaps from a mountain lake, then it flies away with a hot-air balloon. And then?
Can Tanyol // Deutschland // 2023 // 18:35 min
interfilm 2023Childhood, Coming of Age, Human Rights, Identity, Migration, Politics, Thriller
9-year-old Kenan is to be circumcised according to Muslim tradition. During the circumcision ceremony in Berlin-Kreuzberg, which his father Ibrahim organizes more for his own father than for Kenan, both are confronted with the question: What does it actually mean to be a man? Kenan's grandfather urges him to shoot a gun in the air. While Ibrahim argues with his father, Kenan runs away.
[CW: gun]
Petra Stipetić, Maren Wiese // Deutschland // 2023 // 12:30 min
interfilm 2023Environmental, Fantasy, Human Rights, Mix-Medias, Mockumentary, Politics, Sci-Fi
Red beets as the key to immortality? Centuries later the discoverer of this secret has morphed into a giant moustachioed heart and immortality is spreading like a virus: death is now not only avoidable, it's impossible.
Masego Lynia, Alfie Barker // // 2022 // 12:28 min
interfilm 2023Human Rights, Identity, Migration, Mix-Medias
A mother and her kids flee and take refuge in a swimming pool, where they find a sense of freedom after hours. But that can only work for so long, and soon the family is forced to trust a stranger. Based on a true story.
Ming-Wei Chiang // Polen // 2023 // 17:30 min
interfilm 2023Comedy, Identity, Migration
Selling ice-cream in the morning, working delivery in the evening, playing lover in between: in bustling Łódź, a man loses himself in the gig economy. It's tough to escape the daily grind of rough words and raw streets.
Popo Fan // Deutschland // 2022 // 14:19 min
interfilm 2023Gay / Lesbians / Trans, Identity, Migration
Hegel spoils a hook-up. Philosophy student Ping moved to Germany in the middle of the Covid-19 lockdown. He meets someone online and pays them a visit. An epiphany and an unknown liquid add up to a special evening.
Moritz Siebert // Deutschland, Ghana // 2023 // 17:41 min
interfilm 2023Human Rights, Identity, Migration, Old age
How are past events portrayed? Two buildings on two continents, built almost in the same year by the same family, a palace in Berlin and a fortress in Ghana. This film sheds light on two sides of colonial historiography.
[CW: torture, slavery]
Parwana Haydar // Deutschland // 2023 // 05:35 min
interfilm 2023
A mother is lost in memories of the past, of a life once lived and a daughter that is left to catch up with a world she was never a part of.
Thi Dang An Tran // Deutschland // 2022 // 12:40 min
interfilm 2023Identity, Migration
Duy Em and her father Ba talk about an incident in which he was racially discriminated against. Duy Em asks why he didn't fight back and refuses to accept his resigned attitude. When Ba tells the story of his journey to Germany as a boat people, it becomes clear that his experiences over the last 40 years have had a huge impact on his perception of injustice.
Matea Kovač // Kroatien // 2023 // 06:33 min
interfilm 2023Gay / Lesbians / Trans
The International Competition program takes an explicit turn with this entry: Matea Kovač's animations draw from her memories – of sex with an ex-girlfriend.
Mahnas Sarwari // Deutschland // 2019 // 26:47 min
interfilm 2023
Elaha wants to move out. During the day the young Afghan-German woman argues with her mother about her untidy room, at night she works in a club. Elaha is very quick-witted when it comes to dealing with people who annoy her, especially when she is constantly and everywhere confronted with her heritage Eventually she realizes that growing up involves responsibility, too.
