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Short Film Reel

The short film reels bring together short films from the competitions in cross-section programmes.

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Art for Life
How do we live in times that are growing darker? These films find inspiration in creative acts of resistance and the freedom to see life differently.



Art for Life

Films

The Way We Look at Things

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The Way We Look at Things
Aline Helmcke
Germany
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.
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Broken Glass

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Broken Glass
Kateryna Voznytsia
Ukraine
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.
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Division

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Division
James Paul Dallas
USA
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.
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Strahlen

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Strahlen
Juliane Ebner
Germany
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

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How to Catch a Butterfly

Filmstill How to Catch a Butterfly
How to Catch a Butterfly
Kiriko Mechanicus
Netherlands
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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Screenings & Tickets

In the Cinemas

27.10.
#231
CineStar 5
Teil der Kompilation
Art for Life
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27.10.2026
CineStar 5
#231
Teil der Kompilation
Art for Life
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29.10.
#471
Passage Kinos Wintergarten
Teil der Kompilation
Art for Life
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29.10.2026
Passage Kinos Wintergarten
#471
Teil der Kompilation
Art for Life
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31.10.
#663
Passage Kinos Astoria
Teil der Kompilation
Art for Life
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31.10.2026
Passage Kinos Astoria
#663
Teil der Kompilation
Art for Life
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