Short Film Reel: Perfect Trips and Twists
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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!
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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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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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Cold River: I Am in Leipzig
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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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Detention + Debate with Berlin Critics’ Week
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La Détention
Guillaume Massart
Aspiring prison guards in the classroom. Can there be such a thing as good training for a questionable system? How does a uniform form you? A disturbing dive into a grey area.
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kiss kiss bang bang + A Song Without Home
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kus kus beng beng
Ollie Launspach
International Competition Documentary Film
Ollie is trans and in a relationship with Sterre. Together they experience Ollie’s transition, a time marked by doubt, vulnerability and sticking together. A radically honest dialogue.
Contains mentions of
mental health conditions
Contains depictions of
nudity
A Song Without Home
Rati Tsiteladze
“My life is a prison”, says trans woman Adelina from Georgia. After eleven years of house arrest, she seeks a freer life in Vienna. An intimate, impressionistic long-term portrait.
Contains mentions of
discrimination against LGBTQIA2S+ persons
Contains depictions of
discrimination against LGBTQIA2S+ persons
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Retrospective: Kino und Kampf 4
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Herminda de la Victoria
Douglas Hübner
The police clear land on the outskirts of Santiago that is occupied by homeless families. A girl dies. The settlement stays. It bears her name to this day: Herminda de la Victoria.
A woman from a bourgeois background and the socialist Minister for Economic Affairs talk to each other and at cross-purposes via tape: a snapshot of the deeply divided Chilean society.
Eine Minute Dunkel macht uns nicht blind
Eine Minute Dunkel macht uns nicht blind
Walter Heynowski, Gerhard Scheumann, Peter Hellmich
Two years after the military coup. People gather around the camera in the streets of Santiago. They say they can’t speak here. Everyone is afraid. And yet, Chile begins to speak.
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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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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 Autoharp Crushing on Hot Guys + Nicole Nicole
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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
Nicole Nicole
Lauren Dällenbach
Nicole is 55 and still lives with her mother by Lake Geneva. Within this symbiotic family, the need for greater independence rears its head. A tender tale of connection and emancipation.
Contains depictions of
mental health conditions
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Bára - Diary of a Rockstar
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Bára – Diary of a Rockstar
Bára Basiková
Helena Třeštíková
International Competition Documentary Film
The portrait of a Czech rock icon over a period of 50 years. A true virtuoso of longitudinal observation, Helena Třeštíková shows Bára Basiková’s fast-paced life with all its ups and downs.
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Magic Atlas
Xun Sun
International Competition Animated Film
Working for 10 years, hundreds of animators have created a whole vast empire of history, philosophy and satire. A fictional dictatorship of camera mosquitos and imprisoned sorcerers.
Contains depictions of
physical violence, drug-use, child abuse
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Animation Perspectives: Anton Cla_Franz Impler
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Passage Kinos Wintergarten
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Gum Bubble Buddy
Franz Impler
A little big city rebel strolls casually through the streets. In love with himself, he blows gum bubbles bearing his own face. A quirky animation trick to amaze and amuse.
Valse Muziek: Electricity
Valse Muziek: Electricity
Anton Cla
A giant fluffy head squeezed into a dollhouse is headbanging to the driving, grinding punk riffs of the Belgian band Valse Muziek, grows heavier, and begins to shimmer in vivid colours.
When words fail, colours and shapes may speak: a man with dysphasia sits silently on a chair, his gaze untamed. We move closer and closer until the whirlpool pulls us in too.
Joeri is verliefd (maar...) + Zijn hart ligt op de grond (maar...)
Joeri is verliefd (maar...) + Zijn hart ligt op de grond (maar...)
Anton Cla
Joeri is in love without being loved, a choir teases. The feelings of the boy, a curly-haired redhead in a colourful striped shirt, become a stage for strange dream images.
Breaking the Law
Franz Impler
The playground is empty. Everyone is at home, in lockdown. Except for a pear-shaped 3D figure plodding through the gravelly sand on thin legs, wearing chunky sneakers, towing a balloon.
A devious blue Cheshire cat sets her own mischievous, magical rules of the game, driving a tennis player to despair. The court keeps rotating and turns him into his own opponent.
Out of Bounds
Franz Impler
A journey of self-discovery outside the rules of the game. In a parallel world, a pathetic Roger Federer, rendered in polygon style, stumbles over glitches and rowdy side characters.
Hidden Message
Franz Impler
Strange animal-like creatures poke their heads out of neatly trimmed hedges and chant a bizarre hymn in unison. What a brief anarchic moment on such a lovely, bright day.
An empty room floats weightlessly in the dark. Its three walls glow, displaying highly abstracted movements. Are they projected inventions, or is there a world behind them?
Fiddlehead / Happy Mondays: Tart Tart [excerpt]
Fiddlehead / Happy Mondays: Tart Tart [excerpt]
Anton Cla
Somewhere between fascination and shock we gradually begin to recognise what is moving here. A bodyless, overgrown head sings with an otherworldly voice in a salmon-red universe.
Nothing to Expect
Franz Impler
A neglected plant, a flat coke, being all alone: boredom takes hold, despite online contacts with the outside world. Hope gradually fades. Will the next online order bring salvation?
A man on an e-scooter at the edge of the city. Only the gun slung over his shoulder irritates. The time for sounding the alarm is up. Disaster has already struck.
Contains depictions of
murder, war scenes
A kid sees a falling star and gets to make a wish. But how, considering their friends‘ reminder that the world has more important problems? Everything goes bitterly wrong, brightly coloured.
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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 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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