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Hope Is a Word
Maria Galliani Dyrvik
For decades, western oil corporations have been causing devastating environmental damages in Nigeria’s Niger Delta. The local population is fighting for justice – with protests and poetry!
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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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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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Apocalypse Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow and the Day After Tomorrow + Petrolheads
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Apocalypse Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow, and the Day After Tomorrow
Apokalypsa včera, dnes, zítra a pozítří
Anastasiia Bonadyha
Can a state of emergency become the new normal? In the Ukrainian city of Nikopol, Bohdan finds strength and hope in his faith in the midst of the impositions of the ongoing war.
Contains mentions of
war scenes
Petrolheads
Emil Langballe
Martin dreams of a 1994 Honda Civic and a driving license. He sets off on his way with his buddy Casper, the two of them connected by Trabant jokes, special needs and a difficult childhood.
Contains depictions of
drug-use, mental health conditions
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Inside – Outside + Staßfurt – Windhoek
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Passage Kinos Wintergarten
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Inside – Outside + Staßfurt – Windhoek
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Inside – Outside
Lilly Grote, Julia Kunert
Staßfurt, 1990: Hundreds of Namibian children have been growing up here without their families and largely isolated from GDR society. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, they become a political issue.
Staßfurt – Windhoek
Lilly Grote, Julia Kunert
Just before the German reunification, the “GDR children of Namibia” are sent back to their country of origin. Their farewell is overshadowed by the question: Can one’s homeland become foreign?
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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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Preisverleihung "Leipziger Ring" der Stiftung Friedliche Revolution
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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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Kids DOK: Films for All 3+
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The clumsy caterpillar would like to dance with the graceful butterflies, but they make fun of her. Just one of them offers her his hand. An episode from the KiKa series “Lenas Farm”.
A cheerful snow flurry tempts Anna to head outside. As she wanders through the cold, she meets an unexpected playmate. But is he actually real or just a wintry fata morgana?
Wir bauen eine neue Welt, Willi Wiberg
Wir bauen eine neue Welt, Willi Wiberg
Tomas Alfredson
A picture book film from the Alfie Atkins series. Dad goes shopping, but soon afterwards there is total chaos in the living room. Now it’s about tidying up in absolute record time!
Die stille Ecke
David Johnson
A badly-behaved penguin ends up in the naughty chair during dinner. Luckily, he soon has company, as fooling around happens everywhere. A mischievous puppet animation without dialogue.
The cloud fish swims through the loud, hectic underwater world. Is he too small to cope? A story about size not being the measure of everything, painted in blue-green watercolour images.
Piccolo Piccolo
Marta Gennari
When the smallest mouse is laughed at by her older siblings, she decides to set off on her travels. While the ascent is already laborious, going down proves almost harder ...
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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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Silicon Saxony + Die Klasse von 1990
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Silicon Saxony
Leon Meschede
Europe’s largest chip factory is rising in Dresden – precisely where the heart of the GDR’s microelectronics industry once beat. Tracing the past and the afterglow of a utopia.
Die Klasse von 1990
RP Kahl, Sonja Hilberger
An East German student protest of the early 1990s, revisited by former acting students of Rostock’s “Ernst Busch” Academy. A portrait of an era and a lesson in self-empowerment.
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The Orbit of Minor Satellites
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Passage Kinos Wintergarten
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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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Un feu au loin
Marlene Edoyan
Three friends from a village near the Georgian-Armenian border begin to go different paths in life. An airy and sensual coming-of-age meditation in a time of upheaval.
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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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DOK Spotters Abschlusspräsentation
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Presentation of Partnership Awards
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DOK Neuland Musical Activation
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Mein genialer Vater
Tete Hoffmann
German Competition Documentary Film
The writer-father suffers from dementia and is losing his words. The daughter’s camera follows him. He likes to direct himself, she likes to direct him, too. A portrait between hommage and confrontation.
Contains depictions of
mental health conditions
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5x5 Shorts from the East: 25 Short Films from 5 Countries
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Օձի ապուր
Zack Demirtshyan
Growth Project
Matěj Podskalský, Anna Podskalská
One Aloe, One Ficus, One Avocado and Six Dracaenas
Алоє, Фкус, Авокадо і 6 Драцен
Marta Smerechynska
The Song of Flying Leaves
Trchox Terevneri ergy
Armine Anda
*Make a Wish as the City Falls
*Padá město, něco si přej
Eliška Dobnerová
waking up in silence
Mila Zhluktenko, Daniel Asadi Faezi
Nakts Pastaigas
Lizete Upīte
Afternoon
Izabela Plucińska
I Stumble Every Time I Hear from Kyiv
I Stumble Every Time I Hear from Kyiv
Daryna Mamaisur
Ukraine,
Belgium,
Portugal,
Hungary
The director experiences Russia’s attack on her home country from abroad. In visual correspondence with a friend in Kyiv, she searches for a way to express her helplessness and shock.
It’s About Time
Ivo Briedis
Lepší člověk
Eliška Jirásková
Under the Wing of a Night
Under the Wing of a Night
Lesia Diak
Gwizdek
Grzegorz Zariczny
Czarna Dziura
Gor Aroushanyan
Boots on the Ground, Hands in the Soil
Boots on the Ground, Hands in the Soil
Karolina Uskakovych
Zirdziņ, Hallo!
Laila Pakalniņa
The Incredibly Elastic Man
Nieprawdopodobnie elastyczny człowiek
Karolina Specht
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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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Retrospective: Kino und Kampf 6
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Caracas: dos o tres cosas
Caracas: dos o tres cosas
Ugo Ulive
Radio, advertising, Caracas. Their paths cross, yet the people never meet. An experimental collage of social realities in Venezuela in the late 1960s.
Ollas populares
Gerardo Vallejo
Scenes of a public soup kitchen; thin broth is spooned up apathetically. The Argentine national anthem is playing. “Hear the sound of broken chains” – cynicism or revolutionary call?
Yawar Mallku
Jorge Sanjinés
A crime narrated in flashbacks: US development aid workers secretly sterilise indigenous women. A declaration of war against “Yankee imperialism” and Bolivia’s class society.
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Two Mountains Weighing Down My Chest
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Passage Kinos Wintergarten
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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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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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The Masturbator - The Adventures of Edgar Hilsenrath
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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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When the Sea Was Calm + Letters from the Silenced Country
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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: 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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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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Presentation of the Golden and Silver Doves
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