Art for Life
Films
The Way We Look at Things
The Way We Look at Things
Aline Helmcke
Germany
International Competition Animated Film
Lines that turn into insects, an entire swarm, a landscape – before dissolving once again. Simple elements produce fleeting meaning in this film which celebrates drawing.
Broken Glass
Broken Glass
Kateryna Voznytsia
Ukraine
International Competition Animated Film
The ingredients are sugar, silicon and plastic filaments. While making a zoetrope jelly, the director reflects on the birth of her daughter and her own excessive perfectionism.
Division
Division
James Paul Dallas
USA
International Competition Documentary Film
What may be kept, what can go? From a distance, the director is guided through a deserted flat and library. A parkour through the private, along paths of knowledge and guilty pleasures.
Strahlen
Strahlen
Juliane Ebner
Germany
German Competition Documentary Film
Fokus Ost
Summer 1995 in East Germany. Artists in the country, working, living, loving. A video treasure trove enables a portrait of painter Käthe Ebner to emerge from their midst.
Contains mentions of death
How to Catch a Butterfly
How to Catch a Butterfly
Kiriko Mechanicus
Netherlands
International Competition Documentary Film
Racially motivated femicides. The director writes letters to the perpetrator in prison, blending projection with performance. A self-interrogation about the fetishisation of Asian women.
Contains mentions of murder, racism
Contains depictions of racism
Screenings & Tickets
In the Cinemas
27.10.
#231
CineStar 5
Teil der Kompilation
27.10.2026
CineStar 5
#231
Teil der Kompilation
29.10.
#471
Passage Kinos Wintergarten
Teil der Kompilation
29.10.2026
Passage Kinos Wintergarten
31.10.
#663
Passage Kinos Astoria
Teil der Kompilation
31.10.2026
Passage Kinos Astoria