Two Mountains Weighing Down My Chest
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Two Mountains Weighing Down My Chest
Two Mountains Weighing Down My Chest
Viv Li
Viv fluctuates between her life as an artist in Berlin’s queer subculture and her Maoist-influenced family in Beijing. A candid search for identity with a healthy dose of playfulness.
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Kids DOK: Films for All 3+
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The clumsy caterpillar would like to dance with the graceful butterflies, but they make fun of her. Just one of them offers her his hand. An episode from the KiKa series “Lenas Farm”.
A cheerful snow flurry tempts Anna to head outside. As she wanders through the cold, she meets an unexpected playmate. But is he actually real or just a wintry fata morgana?
Wir bauen eine neue Welt, Willi Wiberg
Wir bauen eine neue Welt, Willi Wiberg
Tomas Alfredson
A picture book film from the Alfie Atkins series. Dad goes shopping, but soon afterwards there is total chaos in the living room. Now it’s about tidying up in absolute record time!
Die stille Ecke
David Johnson
A badly-behaved penguin ends up in the naughty chair during dinner. Luckily, he soon has company, as fooling around happens everywhere. A mischievous puppet animation without dialogue.
The cloud fish swims through the loud, hectic underwater world. Is he too small to cope? A story about size not being the measure of everything, painted in blue-green watercolour images.
Piccolo Piccolo
Marta Gennari
When the smallest mouse is laughed at by her older siblings, she decides to set off on her travels. While the ascent is already laborious, going down proves almost harder ...
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Short Film Reel: Art of Life
#231
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The Way We Look at Things
The Way We Look at Things
Aline Helmcke
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
Kateryna Voznytsia
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
James Paul Dallas
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
Juliane Ebner
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
Kiriko Mechanicus
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
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DOK Neuland Presents: Nothing to see here
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Nothing to see here
Celine Daemen, Aron Fels
There is a secret world in the central train station, one eerily like our own and ever so slightly off. An excursion into the unexpected that calls reality into question.
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DOK Neuland: Landslide Exhibition
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Becoming River
Adrian Schwartz, Daniel Fetzner, Ephraim Wegner
Three years of extensively documented research on the Murg river, northern Black Forest. The project expresses the results across screens, projections, sound, and live data interpretations.
Permanence of Decay
Pranav Chaparala
Everything in this world must come to an end and objects, digital included, are not exempt from demise. But is it not in their mortality that images become all the more precious?
Living in Water
Ana P. Santos
Cooking, reading, sleeping, all thigh deep in water. An immersive reportage on daily life in Isla Tibaguin, Philippines, where flooding has become routine in the last years.
Contains depictions of
mental health conditions
The Room of a Thousand Voices
La Habitación de las Mil Voces
Pavel Méndez
A room that unfolds as a Cuban household – and as a portal across time and generations. In the darkness, between virtual and physical reality, memories awaken and imagination runs wild.
The World Came Flooding In
The World Came Flooding In
Isobel Knowles, Van Sowerwine
A miniature world filled with lost objects, recreating spaces of people affected by the 2022 floods in eastern Australia. A beautiful and deeply moving piece crafted with care.
Raj'in
Keren Manor, Faiz Abu Rmeleh
A disturbing documentation of forced displacement in the West Bank, centered on first-person accounts of Palestinians under constant pressure by Israeli forces and settlers.
Contains mentions of
physical violence, violence against animals
Contains depictions of
physical violence, violence against animals
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Garten der Hoffnung
Dieter Schumann
In a pre-fab estate in Schwerin, people from five countries come together through gardening. Fighting loneliness, prejudice, poverty, and displacement. A small miracle of a film.
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16-year-old Krzysztof was last seen on a bridge over Poland‘s Vistula River. After he goes missing, his father plunges into a relentless search in the water. A study of unresolved grief.
Contains mentions of
violence against animals, mental health conditions, suicide
Contains depictions of
death, mental health conditions, violence against animals
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Short Film Reel: Dare to Care!
#271
Passage Kinos Wintergarten
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Short Film Reel: Dare to Care!
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Growing Wild
Rob Crosse
German Competition Documentary Film
A place of diversity, a safe space for several generations of queer people. Experiences are shared from one flat to the next. Whoever lives here has gone through a lot.
Contains mentions of
discrimination against LGBTQIA2S+ persons
Ein Typ aus Kleinmachnow
Leonard Volkmer
German Competition Documentary Film
A queer auto-narrative between desire, ecstasy and regret. In the club, by the lake or going home at night – one's own judgement is often faster than the question of how one really feels.
Contains mentions of
addiction, drug-use, mental health conditions, explicit sex scenes
Kitzel
Mona Keil
International Competition Animated Film
Two fluffy creatures play together affectionately, but their frolics soon turn uncomfortable, as cuddling becomes a free-for-all and boundaries are crossed. A film to get under the skin.
Lice n’ Shine
Maria Byoma
International Competition Animated Film
An amusing, affectionate portrait of the everyday life of teenage girls in the sensitive ecosystem of a boarding school, where an entirely normal morning can quickly give way to chaos.
foˋ fong
Wan Chen Lin
International Competition Documentary Film
A Hakka village in southern Taiwan: eighty-year-old Alan spends her calm daily life gardening and with her friend A-Mei. Younger generations are leaving. Who will preserve the traditions?
Omsorg
Em Johrden
German Competition Documentary Film
A carefree summer’s day is overlayed by a tale of painful sexual experiences. From offscreen, a woman speaks more and more freely, describing her new approach to her own desires.
Contains mentions of
sexual violence
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Short Film Reel: Perfect Trips and Twists
#251
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Awaken, My Children
Christopher Galinos
International Competition Animated Film
From through the thick smoke, the creation monster speaks to us, more animal than god. It regrets its biggest mistake of all: creating civilisation. Just what have we done?
Ovu sobu ostavite zakopanu
Iva Kraljević
International Competition Documentary Film
What is the dominant mood of our era? Shifting seamlessly between pristine 16mm, archive footage and home movies, this essay seeks to tap into the zeitgeist: fearful, nostalgic, untamed.
Hi Mom :O
Peer Langenheim
German Competition Documentary Film
The director’s footage and that of his mother flow together. Full of doll faces and flowers, her film archive throws up questions. She says, “Film your own reality!” Sounds great, but how?
Melk
Filip Anthonissen
International Competition Animated Film
Charel is the odd man out in the village community. In an attempt to gain recognition, he naively prowls through biblical history – and fails. Masterfully animated, absurd folk horror.
Contains depictions of
violence against animals, murder, physical violence
Tutaro
Anne Isensee
International Competition Animated Film
Hungry for life, an egg yolk dives headlong into the world and gets lost in restless ecstasy. A captivating and uncompromising choreography in turbulent colours and shapes.
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Tricontinental, Letter to Open in Case Of + Discussion
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Tricontinental, Letter to Open in Case Of
Tricontinentale, lettre à ouvrir au cas où
Laura Cazador
In the 1960s, film critic and activist Michèle Firk fought for the anti-imperialist revolution in Africa, Asia and Latin America. A tribute to her short, radical life.
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