The Orbit of Minor Satellites
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The Orbit of Minor Satellites
The Orbit of Minor Satellites
Chris Sullivan
International Competition Animated Film
Rosemary is the patient and Dr. Richards is her psychiatrist – but who needs who here? A course of therapy that walks a fine line between imaginary worlds and session reality.
Contains mentions of
death
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Kids DOK: Films for All 5+
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Pingu & Bär
Kai Oppermann
Two friends Pingu and Bear push their bike up a gigantic mountain together. Once they’ve arrived at the top, they gather all their courage for the best downhill run of all time.
Camille & Chamäleon
Lucie Nichelmann
Camille and a chameleon afraid of heights love playing hide and seek in the forest. But their high spirits mess things up and they get lost in the undergrowth. Will they find each other?
Hund und Baum
Franka Sachse
The friendship between a dog and a tree narrated backwards and animated with black and white paper. They have experienced a lot together and have even survived a great storm.
Otá Layò
Urânia Munzanzu, Dalton Paula
Brothers Matheus and José live in the Brazilian rainforest and collect stones by the river to make art. The film follows them on their wanderings, showing their deep connection to nature.
Nachtschwärmer
Lena von Döhren
A glowing lantern puts the insects of the jungle under its spell. A young bat wants to rescue them and soon discovers that friendship can also bring light to dark times.
Fuchs und Wildschwein
Michał “Śledziu” Śledziński
It’s autumn and Fox and Wild Boar sent off on a hike, headed for the huge “Tree of Leaves”. Over the course of their adventurous journey, the small fox must pass test after test.
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Short Film Reel: Neat and Tidy?
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Extinction Story
Claudia Larcher
International Competition Animated Film
Consisting of 4500 fragile natural artworks, the grandfather’s bird egg collection is an inheritance that reveals its collector’s 20th century biography: Josef Schreiber from Vorarlberg.
Nonna Lucia
Marcel Barelli
International Competition Animated Film
A house full of possessions. What do they tell us about the person who left them behind? Marcel Barelli combines stop motion and video material to grasp the life of his beloved Nonna.
Contains mentions of
death
Der Kern
Rebecca Zehr
German Competition Documentary Film
A woman falls ill. Normality ends. Standstill. Suddenly everything is too much: everyday life, filmmaking, responsibility. What is the essence of life? A story of searching and returning.
Contains mentions of
mental health conditions
Patronymic
Mariia Ponomarova
International Competition Documentary Film
Her patronymic is missing in her international documents. More than a bureaucratic detail for Mariia: the name connects her to her father and Ukraine. An identity quest by night train.
Contains mentions of
war scenes
Nachtcafé
Titouan Abraham, María José Celis, Arvin Saeedpour
German Competition Documentary Film
Soup for warming up, finding calm in church light, knowledge of the streets of Cologne, spoken into the dark. An alternative city tour from the perspective of those who live on the street.
Contains mentions of
drug-use, mental health conditions
Hallo Debus
Rosa Gocht
German Competition Documentary Film
A father makes requests on the answering machine of his son, who’s so paralysed he’s become a veritable still life. Overwhelmed, helpless; an absurd transformation begins.
Contains mentions of
mental health conditions
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Short Film Reel: darktimes dot com
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Spray and Pray
Veneta Androva
International Competition Animated Film
Never before has it been so easy to spread disinformation in the world. The animated documentary visualises proliferating mushroom websites and the construction of authenticity.
The Evidence of the Termites
La evidencia del comején
Roberto Jaén
International Competition Documentary Film
Utilising a thrillingly polyphonic split screen perspective, this wry, shifting, self-reflexive essay film is a playful attempt to pin down that most slippery of terms: class.
Lato gładkiego asfaltu
Maria Dakszewicz
International Competition Animated Film
Shrieks, laughter, ear-splitting music from the carnival rides – the cacophony of a fairground stops when a discarded transistor radio begins to speak of quieter dreams.
no_mercy_in_Mexico
Oscar Asán
International Competition Animated Film
Pop-cultural set pieces from games and the internet fuel a delirious fascination with the brutal mentality of the drug cartels. But what if the game turns deadly serious?
Contains mentions of
drug-use, death, murder
Contains depictions of
physical violence, torture
They’re Here
Laura Poitras, Rachel Lauren Mueller
International Competition Documentary Film
A dystopian winter in Minneapolis: local inhabitants fight back against the paramilitary attacks being carried out by ICE, whose violence Poitras and Mueller make visible as a horror film.
Contains mentions of
racism, murder
Contains depictions of
physical violence
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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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Moving Sisters
Christos Stefanou
Three sisters, separated from their mother while fleeing, live in a camp in Athens. What does “home” mean between conformity and insecurity? And will the family be reunited?
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DOK Neuland: Memory Postcard workshop
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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.
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Short Film Reel: Bloody Homesickness
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Passage Kinos Wintergarten
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There’s No Place Like Rome
There’s No Place Like Rome
Todor Joe Musev
German Competition Documentary Film
The Bulgarian uncle, in love with antiquity, guards old treasures and ideals of masculinity. Despising the modern age is his #RomanEmpire. The nephew drops by for a visit.
Look, We’re in Europe
Riad Arfin, Manushaqe Ibrahimi
International Competition Documentary Film
Building houses far from home: through their own mobile phone images, Bangladeshi construction workers in Kosovo offer a raw glimpse of life between precarious work and dreams of a better future.
Suka
Jaroslava Jelchová
International Competition Documentary Film
Her womanhood was shaped by strict expectations: the filmmaker searches for belonging in the tension between her rural Slovakian roots, her sexuality and her creative callings.
Glaube Sitte Heimat
Fidel Sievering, Bennet Staack
International Competition Animated Film
Helpless rituals and the smell of time gone stale: an offbeat, honest portrait of a village that used to live from mining and where successful structural change seems unwilling to take hold.
Contains depictions of
drug-use, nudity, physical violence
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Las Noches
Ana Bovino
International Competition Documentary Film
In a velvety nocturnal Buenos Aires, the irrepressible La Pichi tells stories of relationships, family, body issues and class. What’s more empowering than narrating life on your own terms?
Contains depictions of
nudity, explicit sex scenes
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Kurtág töredékek
Dénes Nagy
An expansive, deeply intimate portrait of musical genius György Kurtág, who just turned 100. A man who lives and breathes music, creating entire worlds brimming with emotion.
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Tiyaha
Asmahan Bkerat
International Competition Documentary Film
Despite living in tents on the edge of Amman, everyday life for the Najars, an Afro-Palestinian Bedouin family, is oddly peaceful. But soon the outside world starts to intrude.
Contains mentions of
physical violence, racism, death, war scenes
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Haus der Trinker
Janis Westphal
German Competition Documentary Film
DOK im Knast
A Berlin housing project for homeless men follows a different approach: acceptance, support, dignity instead of forced abstinence. A longitudinal observation of impressive horizontality.
Contains mentions of
addiction, death, mental health conditions, drug-use
Contains depictions of
addiction
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Passage Kinos Wintergarten
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Glassballen
Anita Killi, Hege Krogvig Bergstrand
A baseball as an omen: the leather ball turns into the globe and suddenly lands in a bird’s nest. Originally conceived as an MTV spot, this cut-out animation reminds us of the fragility of earth to this day.
Lävrasiid Äigi
Anita Killi
A blade of grass in the corner of his mouth, Sámi boy Alits enjoys a golden autumn day. An encounter with the daughter of the sun gifts him the art of joik, a chant that magically attracts reindeer.
A border stream runs between Malene’s and Florian’s homes. In their world, it is a kingdom, a place to play and dream, the border virtually invisible – until the war breaks out.
Don’t disturb Dad! Otherwise, the angry man inside him might wake up. The story of a brave boy who breaks the cycle of domestic violence without demonising his father.
Contains mentions of
physical violence, mental health conditions
Mor visste ingenting
Anita Killi
A lonely girl is drowning in dark thoughts, until a house spirit gives her an injured bird so that both of them learn how to fly. A magical and dark film about childhood depression.
Contains depictions of
mental health conditions
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Short Film Reel: International Competition Animated Film 2
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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.
The Autoharp Crushing on Hot Guys
Zamilovaná autoharfa na sexy kluky
Antonie Zavadilová, Lucie Krejčí
International Competition Animated Film
What if there were a magical string instrument that could help people find a partner? At once similar and very different, two friends fantasise about a new conception of the family.
Contains mentions of
mental health conditions
When the Sea Was Calm
Mamuka Tkeshelashvili
International Competition Animated Film
Summer, football, a first infatuation: it’s 1993 in Sukhumi, Georgia, just before everything will change. Touching, poetic memories of carefree days, narrated from exile.
Contains depictions of
war scenes
Nonna Lucia
Marcel Barelli
International Competition Animated Film
A house full of possessions. What do they tell us about the person who left them behind? Marcel Barelli combines stop motion and video material to grasp the life of his beloved Nonna.
Contains mentions of
death
Terminal
Alexandre Siqueira
International Competition Animated Film
A pirate’s son now coughing up blood returns to his mother after years of silence. A suitcase full of secrets, any number of tattoos. A film about unconditional love for an adult child.
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Kino und Kampf: The Talk on the Retrospective
Zeitgeschichtliches Forum (ZFL)
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Kino und Kampf: The Talk on the Retrospective
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Growing Up
Adam Roszkowski
Because Łukasz wants to become a box champion, he moves to a sports boarding school far from home. He meets strong opponents there – and his first love. Will he achieve his decisive breakthrough?
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Xiangzidian Village: The Stage
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Xiangzidian Village: The Stage
Xiangzidian: Wutai
Hu Sanshou
International Competition Documentary Film
Full of quiet beauty and novelistic detail, this longitudinal study of a highway being built in northern China archives the memories of a community as tradition gives way to modernity.
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this, too, will be liquid & Atlas of Disappearance + Discussion with Berlin Critics’ Week
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this, too, will be liquid
this, too, will be liquid
Karolina Malwina Gruschka
International Competition Animated Film
All bodies are made of water – and the water around us keeps rising. A poetic-meditative experiment in black-and-white that blends biography and melting glaciers.
Atlas de la Desaparición
Manuel Correa
The Franco Regime had over 33,000 bodies secretly transferred to Valle de los Caídos. Three families are looking for relatives. Archives, maps and forensics trace a topography of terror.
Contains mentions of
murder, death
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Free Zone
Jasmine Alakari
German Competition Documentary Film
Exarchia, Athens. A place of left utopias and a fiercely contested site of gentrification. For the Iranian activist Abtin, the political struggle becomes a threat to his own freedom.
Contains depictions of
physical violence
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The “Children of God” are notorious for the systematic abuse of thousands of followers – artist Alba Zari confronts painful questions about her family’s past in the sect.
Contains depictions of
mental health conditions
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Passage Kinos Wintergarten
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René
Helena Třeštíková
Hommage: Helena Třeštíková
20 years of a life lived mainly in prisons. A man who starts over again and again, fails, becomes a writer and keeps challenging the director.
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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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Longing for motherhood, a Palestinian woman sets out to smuggle her imprisoned husband’s sperm. Will she achieve her maternal hopes as time and checkpoints close in on her?
Contains mentions of
death, physical violence
Contains depictions of
physical violence, death
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Short Film Reel: International Competition Animated Film 3
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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?
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
Glaube Sitte Heimat
Fidel Sievering, Bennet Staack
International Competition Animated Film
Helpless rituals and the smell of time gone stale: an offbeat, honest portrait of a village that used to live from mining and where successful structural change seems unwilling to take hold.
Contains depictions of
drug-use, nudity, physical violence
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>1,5°C Pyropolitics and the New World
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>1,5°C Pyropolitics and the New World
Lukas Marxt
International Competition Documentary Film
A diffuse orange glow in the dark. Something is burning. First in the distance, then everywhere. An uncommented observation of wildfires and firefighters in L.A. 2025 that speaks volumes.
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Übergang
Peter Badel, Chris Wright
German Competition Documentary Film
MDR Special Screening
Fokus Ost
Thomas Heise died in May 2024, leaving behind an unfinished project. He himself was to be a character in the film. His team carries on. Fragments of a life as lived history.
Contains mentions of
death
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Kindesmutter
Konrad Schlaich
German Competition Documentary Film
Fokus Ost
Anne (36) lives a life of chaos. Her daughter Leonie (14) is also at risk of sliding into drug addiction. Can Anne support her and be a better role model? An involving portrait.
Contains mentions of
addiction, death, drug-use
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Retrospective: Kino und Kampf 2
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A daring endeavour for a few coins. Barefoot children run along the moving train to Buenos Aires, stretching out their hands to the passengers. “Tire dié, tire dié!”
Líber Arce, liberarse
Mario Handler, Mario Jacob, Marcos Banchero
Líber Arce, the name of a student shot dead by the police at a protest, becomes a call for action: Liberarse, to liberate oneself. A silent cry against violence and oppression.
Contains depictions of
physical violence
Lavra Dor
Paulo Rufino, Ana Carolina
Lavrador = peasant, lavra = work, dor = pain. This experimental collage about the situation of Brazilian farmworkers is testament to the equally poetic and political power of cinema.
Un día yo pregunté
Julia de Álvarez
Inside, priests preach, the faithful intercede; outside, misery reigns. A polemic collage about the double standards of the Catholic Church in 1970s Colombia.
La infancia de Marisol
Bernabé Hernández
A 14-year-old Nicaraguan girl recounts an incredible story: from her involvement in the fight against the dictatorship via imprisonment and torture to her departure into a new life.
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physical violence, torture
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I'm Painting a Self-Portrait, but All I See Is My Sister's Face + Blossoming
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I’m Painting a Self-Portrait, but All I See Is My Sister’s Face
Maluję swój autoportret, a wychodzi mi moja siostra
Helena Stańczyk
International Competition Documentary Film
Twins Alicja and Bożena Wahl left their mark on the Warsaw art scene. Populated by hybrid creatures, their drawings allowed them to explore their relationship to each other. A rediscovery!
A teraz wiosna
Kamila Serwicka
International Competition Documentary Film
The women of the family suffer from the father’s alcoholism for years. When he leaves, sensitive questions surface, whilst space is created for a reawakening and a breakthrough long overdue.
Contains mentions of
physical violence, suicide
Contains depictions of
mental health conditions, death, child abuse
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