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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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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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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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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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