Nicole Nicole
Nicole Nicole
Contains depictions of mental health conditions
Nicole NicoleDOK Stream 24h
DOK Stream 24h
Nicole Nicole
Nicole Nicole
Lauren Dällenbach
Switzerland,
France
Audience Competition
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.
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Bára - Diary of a Rockstar#731
CineStar 5
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CineStar 5
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Bára - Diary of a RockstarBára – Diary of a Rockstar
Bára Basiková
Helena Třeštíková
Czech Republic
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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DOK Neuland Presents: Nothing to see hereHauptbahnhof EG
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Hauptbahnhof EG
DOK Neuland Presents: Nothing to see hereFree entry Free entry 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 ExhibitionKohlrabizirkus
Free entry
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Kohlrabizirkus
DOK Neuland: Landslide ExhibitionFree entry Free entry 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
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 WaterLiving 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
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
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
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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Matinee Saxon State Archive: Leipzig, Fur and Silhouettes#771
Passage Kinos Wintergarten
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Passage Kinos Wintergarten
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Matinee Saxon State Archive: Leipzig, Fur and SilhouettesMein Leipzig – lobt das keiner mehr?
Mein Leipzig – lobt das keiner mehr?
Manfred Seifert
GDR
Matinee Saxon State Archive
A nod to Goethe’s “Leipzig to me is dear”. Baker and filmmaker Seifert uses the much-quoted praise of Leipzig as the title for a lovingly satirical look at his hometown in the early 1980s.
Kreislauf
Kreislauf
Manfred Seifert
GDR
Matinee Saxon State Archive
You reap what you sow. This silhouette film demonstrates the disastrous consequences of thoughtless waste disposal – when recycling is seen as a one-way street rather than a cycle.
Haken
Haken
Manfred Seifert
GDR
Matinee Saxon State Archive
Who is actually in charge of teaching and implementing safety at work? Veiled in silhouette technique, the film reveals more than one might want to report on the subject.
Lederwarenfertiger – Ein Beruf für Dich [excerpt]
Lederwarenfertiger – Ein Beruf für Dich [Ausschnitt]
Heinz Lehmbäcker, Klaus Binzinger, Doris Kamprath, Eva Rümmler, Siegfried Hoffmann, Klaus Drese-Holstein, Wolfgang Otto, Gudrun Bornemann, Helga Peters, Rainer Burmeister
GDR
Matinee Saxon State Archive
Information films about various professional training programmes were often offered to facilitate career choices. This glossy production promotes a line of work that was not so glamorous in reality.
VEB Edelpelz Schkeuditz [excerpt]
VEB Edelpelz Schkeuditz [Ausschnitt]
Thomas Schäfer
GDR
Matinee Saxon State Archive
An unvarnished look at a fur processing facility in 1989. Without words, accompanied only by music, the camera captures working conditions that previously remained hidden.
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10 bis 20 Halden + Onkel Thuận#711
CineStar 2
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CineStar 2
#711
10 bis 20 Halden + Onkel Thuận10 bis 20 Halden
10 bis 20 Halden
Emerson Culurgioni
Germany
Fokus Ost
The land is gone, but the slag heaps remain. A reflective exploration of soil and resources, labour and destruction, home and loss in an East German mining landscape.
Onkel Thuận
Onkel Thuận
Minh Anh Nguyễn
Germany
Fokus Ost
The parents came to the GDR as contract workers and now run a restaurant in North Rhine-Westphalia. Their daughters ask questions about self-determination, belonging, and happiness.
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Short Film Reel: darktimes dot com#721
CineStar 4
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CineStar 4
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Short Film Reel: darktimes dot comSpray and Pray
Spray and Pray
Veneta Androva
Bulgaria,
Germany
International Competition Animated Film
Never before has it been so easy to spread disinformation in the world. The animated documentary visualises proliferating mushroom websites and the construction of authenticity.
The Evidence of the Termites
La evidencia del comején
Roberto Jaén
Costa Rica
International Competition Documentary Film
Utilising a thrillingly polyphonic split screen perspective, this wry, shifting, self-reflexive essay film is a playful attempt to pin down that most slippery of terms: class.
Summer of Smooth Asphalt
Lato gładkiego asfaltu
Maria Dakszewicz
Poland
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.
no_mercy_in_Mexico
no_mercy_in_Mexico
Oscar Asán
Mexico
International Competition Animated Film
Pop-cultural set pieces from games and the internet fuel a delirious fascination with the brutal mentality of the drug cartels. But what if the game turns deadly serious?
Contains mentions of drug-use, death, murder Contains depictions of physical violence, torture They’re Here
They’re Here
Laura Poitras, Rachel Lauren Mueller
USA
International Competition Documentary Film
A dystopian winter in Minneapolis: local inhabitants fight back against the paramilitary attacks being carried out by ICE, whose violence Poitras and Mueller make visible as a horror film.
Contains mentions of racism, murder Contains depictions of physical violence |
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Cold River: I Am in Leipzig#761
Passage Kinos Astoria
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Passage Kinos Astoria
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Cold River: I Am in LeipzigCold River: I Am in Leipzig
Lěng Shuǐ Jiāng: Wǒ Zài Lái Bǐ Xī
Haiguang Li
China,
Germany
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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