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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Short Film Reel: Bloody Homesickness
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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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