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.
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Films
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.