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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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Short Film Reel: The Fading of Shooting Stars
#461
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The Divided City of Mitrovica
The Divided City of Mitrovica
Marko Grba Singh
Mitrovica bears the consequences of the Kosovo war as a lingering echo: The north is inhabited by Serbs, the south by Albanians. How does this division manifest itself in people’s minds?
Contains mentions of
death
Decaer
Juan Camilo González
International Competition Animated Film
Can the evil spirit of a person too close to you be banished by animation, just as one would use fireworks? A marvelously well-thought-out experiment to fight one’s own emotional decay.
Contains mentions of
mental health conditions, murder
Nothing Happens After Your Absence
Nothing Happens After Your Absence
Ibrahim Omar
International Competition Documentary Film
“Cinema is banned here – people prefer football.” Ibrahim has to overcome bureaucracy and resistance in order to show films in his home village in Sudan. Then the war breaks out.
in memory of
Florinda Ciucio
International Competition Documentary Film
A pencil and a few sheets of paper. A hand drawing a version of Gaza that only now exists on the memory of the person drawing it. And as he draws, he says: I remember everything.
Du solltest träumen, dass du fliegst
Du solltest träumen, dass du fliegst
Laura Elisabeth Staab
German Competition Documentary Film
Children’s games, school essays and driving lessons: summery snapshots that circle around each other from the everyday lives of refugees, held together by the hope of returning to normality.
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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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Guten Abend, du Schöne
#411
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Guten Abend, du Schöne
Ina Borrmann
“A little flame that lit up and inspired people to tell different stories about the GDR.” Almost fifty years later, the female protagonists look back once more at the iconic book from 1977.
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Bracingly topical and beautifully fluid, Israeli activist Keren Kraizer’s video diary documents her ambivalence at returning to her home country, where everything is about to explode.
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Zeitgeschichtliches Forum (ZFL)
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Short Film Reel: Stroke of Wings
#451
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Mungarina Ette
Meera Krishnamurthy
International Competition Animated Film
Who has the elephant on their conscience? A Matti tree and a butterfly conduct an investigation together. An ecological whodunit, with climate change as the key suspect.
Sowing, harvesting, watering, stroking, and all of it with devotion. A sensual and poetic love letter to the earth – and a plea for fairer and more sustainable agriculture.
Maros Foto
Alexandros Murböck
German Competition Documentary Film
Children playing on the Panzerweise in Munich, a woman with angels’ wings. Mother and son return to the location of the black-and-white footage to reconstruct history and story alike.
Ortsteil Autobahn
Richard Rothfeld, Luci Schwingen
German Competition Documentary Film
Fokus Ost
Who defines borders and determines which side you are allowed to be on? A cinematic observation along the former Marienborn border checkpoint in Saxony-Anhalt.
Contains mentions of
racism
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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Short Film Reel: Art of Life
#471
Passage Kinos Wintergarten
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Short Film Reel: Art of Life
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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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Prelude and Fugues - The Wood Thrush
#441
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Prelude and Fugues – The Wood Thrush
Prélude et fugues – La grive des bois
Pierre Hébert
International Competition Animated Film
Five animated fugues dedicated to a sound designer friend. Transformed natural sounds and fluttering bundles of scratched lines form this choreography that entices you to listen closely.
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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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Two Mountains Weighing Down My Chest
#432
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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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Zwei Sommer in der Badi
#412
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Zwei Sommer in der Badi
Romana Lanfranconi
Two summers at the public pool: six teenagers between chips, TikTok, friendship and the big questions. While the orange water-slide is being dismantled, their world changes a little, too.
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The Miracle + Private Universe
#472
Passage Kinos Wintergarten
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The Miracle + Private Universe
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Zázrak
Helena Třeštíková
Hommage: Helena Třeštíková
The miracle of birth up close. An intimate miniature as starting point for a 37-year-long study. Třeštíková’s distinctive style is already evident in her very first short film.
Soukromý Vesmír
Helena Třeštíková
Hommage: Helena Třeštíková
A perfectly normal family, captured on camera for 37 years. Through everyday life, the film traces the changes in Czech society – a life spent between Karel Gott and John Lennon.
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When the Sea Was Calm + Letters from the Silenced Country
#452
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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
Letters from the Silenced Country
Listy
Andrei Kutsila
Poland,
Lithuania,
Germany
International Competition Documentary Film
A country in which any type of opposition is persecuted and violently put down. Accounts from Belarus tell of sacrifice, solidarity and the human cost of resistance.
Contains mentions of
death
Contains depictions of
physical violence
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Short Film Reel: International Competition Animated Film 4
#442
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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.
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.
Mungarina Ette
Meera Krishnamurthy
International Competition Animated Film
Who has the elephant on their conscience? A Matti tree and a butterfly conduct an investigation together. An ecological whodunit, with climate change as the key suspect.
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.
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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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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The Snake Charmer
Jonathan Omer Mizrahi
German Competition Documentary Film
Beyond the lush fields, the area of destruction begins. Thai labourer work in the Israeli fields on the border with Gaza. A robot snake evokes a false sense of security.
Contains mentions of
physical violence, war scenes
Contains depictions of
death
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DOK Neuland Musical Activation
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Baby Jackfruit Baby Guava
#421
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Baby Jackfruit Baby Guava
Em bé đồng bóng, em bé ngạo nghễ và em bé đau lòng
Nhat Quang Nong
A gay son, a neurodivergent daughter and their conservative mother. When Quang’s sister gets pregnant out of the blue, the three of them must now attempt to mend broken bonds.
Contains mentions of
mental health conditions
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Holy Wood Dust
Victor Kossakovsky
A tree is cut down just in order to be disposed of later. What does it feel and think? Victor Kossakovsky and renowned botanist Stefano Mancuso take us on a journey into the world of trees.
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Masturbator - The Adventures of Edgar Hilsenrath + Discussion
#463
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The Masturbator – The Adventures of Edgar Hilsenrath
Le Branleur – Les aventures d’Edgar Hilsenrath
François-Xavier Destors
He dared to confront trauma with black humour: Using animation and archive material, this film delves into the radically scandalous world of the writer and Holocaust survivor Edgar Hilsenrath.
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Retrospective: Kino und Kampf 3
#433
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El primer año
Patricio Guzmán
The first year under Allende’s popular government: Chile’s working class celebrates the victory and pitches in. But the right does everything in their power to sabotage the transition to a fairer society.
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Passage Kinos Wintergarten
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Is Heaven Blue? #2
Menno de Nooijer, Paul de Nooijer
Almost fifty years of artistic family collaboration culminate in an exuberant self-homage: The de Noojers celebrate life – and death – as a final joint total work of art.
Mammas hår
Maja Arnekleiv
While Anita Killi is undergoing chemotherapy, Maja and her siblings turn their mother’s hair transformation into a warm-hearted pixilation film – winner of the 2017 Golden Dove.
Stille
Marianne Bundgaard Nielsen
An intimate cut-out animation leafs metaphorically through the family album and reveals the dramas that unfolded behind the staged photos: arguments, alcohol and loneliness.
Contains mentions of
suicide, addiction
Langt, langt borte
Natasha Nikitina, Anita Killi
A young hero sets out for the golden palace. A troll wakes up, geese take flight, fog turns into night. Theodor Kittelsen’s paintings and Norway’s landscapes come to life.
A bird flies over oil-polluted oceans, through burning forests, past dead insects – and becomes human. An activist plea for more empathy with our planet.
The King Who Wanted More Than a Crown
Kongen som ville ha mer enn en krone
Randall Meyers, Anita Killi
The King has vanished! The commander, the chamberlain, the jester and the deputy go in search of a new ruler. A deceptive fable with quirky characters.
Ich habe keine Angst!
Marita Mayer
Playing hide-and-seek in the dark courtyard, Vanja is frightened by the many shadows. He transforms himself into a dangerous tiger and discovers that even the big ones are scared sometimes.
What is left when everything fades away? An old photographer searches his photographs for people and events that disappear into the dark, return, and eventually haunt him.
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Auber 89
Giuseppe Schillaci
International Competition Documentary Film
Aubervilliers, a Parisian working-class suburb, in the 1980s: Fatsah Bouyahmed, then in his teens, recalls the past and revives solidarity-filled life stories from the archive footage.
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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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Short Film Reel: Perfect Trips and Twists
#4C1
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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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Short Film Reel: Dare to Care!
#481
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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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Cold River: I Am in Leipzig
#414
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Cold River: I Am in Leipzig
Lěng Shuǐ Jiāng: Wǒ Zài Lái Bǐ Xī
Haiguang Li
German Competition Documentary Film
Haiguang dreams – of his late grandmother, his hometown of Lěng Shuǐ Jiāng, his art and his job at a wholesale warehouse in Leipzig. But Haiguang doesn’t just dream. He also films.
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Union Town
Barbara Kopple
Every day, millions of parcels are delivered in New York, yet the people behind them remain invisible. Workers at Amazon, UPS and other companies unite to fight for better conditions.
Contains mentions of
death
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