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Hope Is a Word

DOK Stream 24h
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Hope Is a Word

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Hope Is a Word

Filmstill Hope Is a Word
Hope Is a Word
Maria Galliani Dyrvik
Norway,
Nigeria,
Italy
Positions
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?

#631
CineStar 5
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CineStar 5
#631

Short Film Reel: Neat and Tidy?

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Extinction Story

Filmstill Extinction Story
Extinction Story
Claudia Larcher
Austria
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

Filmstill Nonna Lucia
Nonna Lucia
Marcel Barelli
Switzerland
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

Filmstill The Core
Der Kern
Rebecca Zehr
Germany
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

Filmstill Patronymic
Patronymic
Mariia Ponomarova
Netherlands,
Ukraine
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

Filmstill Nachtcafé
Nachtcafé
Titouan Abraham, María José Celis, Arvin Saeedpour
Germany
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

Filmstill Hello Debus
Hallo Debus
Rosa Gocht
Germany
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

Hauptbahnhof EG

Free entry

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Hauptbahnhof EG

DOK Neuland Presents: Nothing to see here

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Nothing to see here

Filmstill Nothing to see here
Nothing to see here
Celine Daemen, Aron Fels
Netherlands
DOK Neuland
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

Kohlrabizirkus

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Kohlrabizirkus

DOK Neuland: Landslide Exhibition

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Becoming River

Filmstill Becoming River
Becoming River
Adrian Schwartz, Daniel Fetzner, Ephraim Wegner
Germany,
France
DOK Neuland
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

Filmstill Permanence of Decay
Permanence of Decay
Pranav Chaparala
USA
DOK Neuland
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

Filmstill Living in Water
Living in Water
Ana P. Santos
Philippines
DOK Neuland
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

Filmstill The Room of a Thousand Voices
La Habitación de las Mil Voces
Pavel Méndez
Germany
DOK Neuland
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

Filmstill The World Came Flooding In
The World Came Flooding In
Isobel Knowles, Van Sowerwine
Australia
DOK Neuland
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.

We Shall Return

Filmstill We Shall Return
Raj'in
Keren Manor, Faiz Abu Rmeleh
Germany,
Palestine
DOK Neuland
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

Photosensitivity warning

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Inside – Outside + Staßfurt – Windhoek

#671
Passage Kinos Wintergarten
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Inside – Outside + Staßfurt – Windhoek

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Inside – Outside

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Inside – Outside
Lilly Grote, Julia Kunert
GDR
DEFA Matinee
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

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Staßfurt – Windhoek
Lilly Grote, Julia Kunert
GDR
DEFA Matinee
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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Apocalypse Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow and the Day After Tomorrow + Petrolheads

#611
CineStar 2
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CineStar 2
#611

Apocalypse Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow and the Day After Tomorrow + Petrolheads

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Apocalypse Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow, and the Day After Tomorrow

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Apokalypsa včera, dnes, zítra a pozítří
Anastasiia Bonadyha
Czech Republic
Doc Alliance
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

Filmstill Petrolheads
Petrolheads
Emil Langballe
Denmark
Audience Competition
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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Free Zone

#621
CineStar 4
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CineStar 4
#621

Free Zone

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Free Zone

Filmstill Free Zone
Free Zone
Jasmine Alakari
Germany
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

Passage Kinos Filmeck

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Passage Kinos Filmeck

Preisverleihung "Leipziger Ring" der Stiftung Friedliche Revolution

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Free entry

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Magic Atlas

#661
Passage Kinos Astoria
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Passage Kinos Astoria
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Magic Atlas

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Magic Atlas

Filmstill Magic Atlas
Magic Atlas
Xun Sun
Singapore
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