Inheritance of Violence
Films
Blinded by the Lights
Blinded by the Lights
Francis Yushau Brown
Ghana
International Competition Animated Film
The shackles of slavery thrown off, but still in chains – can the citizens ever break free from their corrupt, power-hungry ruler?
Café Kuba
Café Kuba
David Shongo
DR Congo,
Belgium
International Competition Documentary Film
Kinshasa by night, after the violent excesses of February 2025, documented from the safety of a mobile coffee stall. The performative exploration of a damaged, fragile city.
Photosensitivity warning
Fear Nothing
Fear fokol
Tuva Björk
Sweden
Doc Alliance Award
A both dark and unintentionally funny journey into the world of South African security services, a country where there are more private security guards than police and army combined.
Contains mentions of physical violence
Contains depictions of racism
Ancestor
Dédé
Yasmine Djedje-Fisher-Azoume
UK
International Competition Animated Film
With her vibrant film, inspired by traditional wooden sculptures, the director takes us back to her female ancestors and guardians of the Bété people on the Ivory Coast.
Offenes Spiel
Offenes Spiel
Justus Hanfland, Rasoul Mohammadi Koussehabad
Germany
German Competition Documentary Film
Amir fled from Afghanistan to Germany. He is a chess player. Luck plays a role in life, but not in chess, he says. A cinematic game of chess in three phases.
Sixty-Seven Milliseconds
Soixante-sept millisecondes
fleuryfontaine
France
Doc Alliance Award
A surveillance camera records a bullet’s trajectory. The reconstruction of an incident. Police violence is called into question on the basis of 67 milliseconds.
Contains mentions of physical violence
Screenings & Tickets
In the Cinemas
28.10.
#263
Passage Kinos Astoria
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28.10.2025
Passage Kinos Astoria
#263
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29.10.
#382
UT Connewitz
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29.10.2025
UT Connewitz
#382
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31.10.
#514
CineStar 2
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31.10.2025
CineStar 2
#514
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