German Competition 1: Documentary Films

Visually powerful and yet tranquil observation of the work of illegal woodcutters, who live in and off the jungle and yet destroy it bit by bit every day.

A stirring examination of a dress rehearsal of terror: Before the first atom bombs were dropped, their flight characteristics were tested over the Salton Sea in California.

If you want to enter the EU, you will come up against borders. So do those who want to help. A stirring film about the “jungle” between Belarus and Poland which turned into a human trap in the winter of 2021.

The visit to a site sacred to Orthodox Jews takes the secular director to a new world: Is there a place in this religion for a secular, queer woman?