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
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            28.10.
          
          
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        Passage Kinos Astoria
      
        
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                  28.10.2025
      
          
            Passage Kinos Astoria
      
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            29.10.
          
          
            #382
      
        UT Connewitz
      
        
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                  29.10.2025
      
          
            UT Connewitz
      
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            31.10.
          
          
            #514
      
        CineStar 2
      
        
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                  31.10.2025
      
          
            CineStar 2
      
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