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Short Film Reel

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

Short Film Reel
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Neat and Tidy?
What passes and what stays? While some things are entirely in our hands, we may be firmly in the grip of other relationships. Whether to hold on or let go, the decision is not always easy.

Neat and Tidy?

Films

Extinction Story

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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

Screenings & Tickets

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27.10.
#274
Passage Kinos Wintergarten
Teil der Kompilation
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27.10.2026
Passage Kinos Wintergarten
#274
Teil der Kompilation
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28.10.
#351
CineStar 7
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28.10.2026
CineStar 7
#351
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31.10.
#631
CineStar 5
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31.10.2026
CineStar 5
#631
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