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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

Filmstill The Way We Look at Things
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

Filmstill Broken Glass
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

Filmstill Division
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

Filmstill Light
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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27.10.
#231
CineStar 5
Teil der Kompilation
Art for Life
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27.10.2026
CineStar 5
#231
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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
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Art for Life
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31.10.
#663
Passage Kinos Astoria
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Art for Life
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31.10.2026
Passage Kinos Astoria
#663
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DOK Neuland
Filmstill Becoming River
Becoming River
Adrian Schwartz, Daniel Fetzner, Ephraim Wegner
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.
2026
Filmstill Becoming River

Becoming River

Becoming River
Adrian Schwartz, Daniel Fetzner, Ephraim Wegner
DOK Neuland
-
Germany,
France
2026
150 minutes
German
Subtitles: 
German, English
No Premiere
A transmedia documentary based on three years of research on the Murg river, this work takes its shape in a manner inspired by the river itself. Images and sounds flow from one piece to another, forming a documentary that is alive rather than set in time and bound to a single frame. “Becoming River” has many parts, four of which are exhibited here. Two 2-channel video installations (FLUSSORAKEL and STAU/FALL) share the same surfaces and run in a continuous loop. FLUSSKINO is a selection of documentaries, fictions and performances filmed along the river. HYDROSPHÄRE is a sculpture of video monitors that give an insight into the flow of the Murg. SCHWEMMLAND is a sound installation based on live data sent from a probe on the Murg.

By flowing through different media and projects, documenting the river for its nature, people and various identities, the piece becomes an investigation of a body over time, and the diversity by which one may be described.

Dana Melaver

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This work is part of our exhibition

DOK Neuland: Landslide

27/10–1/11/2026 
Free entry

Find seven works at Kohlrabizirkus. 

Tue–Sun | 11:00–18:00
Wed | 12:00–20:00

Taking place at Kohlrabizirkus with one piece situated at the Leipzig Central Station ground-floor and a special performance at Heilandskirche/Westkreuz.

All about the DOK Neuland exhibition

 

Subject to the General Terms & Conditions of DOK Leipzig. Please be advised that due to a limited number of visitors allowed in the venues longer waiting times are to be expected. Thanks in advance for your patience.

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Director
Adrian Schwartz, Daniel Fetzner, Ephraim Wegner
Cinematographer
Simon Schwab, Simon Feller, Pauline Cemeris, Simon Feller, Simon Schwab, Pauline Cemeris
Editor
Janna Häcker
Sound
Sebastian Lindlar
Sound Design
Sebastian Lindlar
Score
Jan Pattscheck, Max Brosamer, Ephraim Wegner

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Adrian Schwartz
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Auf schwarzem Hintergrund zwei rote X, daneben die knallige Grafik eines Frauenkopfs mit blonden Haaren, die auf uns zeigt und der Text "Dein Spezialist für Digitaldruck"
Auf schwarzem Hintergrund zwei rote X, daneben die knallige Grafik eines Frauenkopfs mit blonden Haaren, die auf uns zeigt und der Text "Dein Spezialist für Digitaldruck"
Zwei Hände balancieren einen klebrigen Ball. Dazu: "Leipziger Jazztage 11.–18. Oktober 2025
Zwei Hände balancieren einen klebrigen Ball. Dazu: "Leipziger Jazztage 11.–18. Oktober 2025
Kino der Extraklasse: IMAX and the trojan horse
Kino der Extraklasse: IMAX and the trojan horse
Culturträger, ein Postkarten-Werbe-Verteiler
Culturträger, ein Postkarten-Werbe-Verteiler
Kohlrabizirkus und ein bild der die Skyline der Stadt leipzig
Kohlrabizirkus und ein bild der die Skyline der Stadt leipzig
Motiv der Leipziger Jazztage, zwei lila Hände, die mit Schneebesen trommeln
Motiv der Leipziger Jazztage, zwei lila Hände, die mit Schneebesen trommeln
Gelbes Banner mit drei handys, die die website von "der Freitag" zeigen
Gelbes Banner mit drei handys, die die website von "der Freitag" zeigen
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Text: What IFFF the future of film is female?"
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Werbebanner Oberhausen Film Festival
Short Film Reel
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Bloody Homesickness
Imagined, beloved, longed for, and sometimes sick to the back teeth of it. A whole spectrum of feelings towards home.


Bloody Homesickness

Films

There’s No Place Like Rome

Filmstill There’s No Place Like Rome
There’s No Place Like Rome
Todor Joe Musev
Germany
German Competition Documentary Film
The Bulgarian uncle, in love with antiquity, guards old treasures and ideals of masculinity. Despising the modern age is his #RomanEmpire. The nephew drops by for a visit.
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Look, We’re in Europe

Filmstill Look, We’re in Europe
Look, We’re in Europe
Riad Arfin, Manushaqe Ibrahimi
Kosovo,
Bangladesh,
UK
International Competition Documentary Film
Building houses far from home: through their own mobile phone images, Bangladeshi construction workers in Kosovo offer a raw glimpse of life between precarious work and dreams of a better future.
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B*tch

Filmstill B*tch
Suka
Jaroslava Jelchová
Slovakia
International Competition Documentary Film
Her womanhood was shaped by strict expectations: the filmmaker searches for belonging in the tension between her rural Slovakian roots, her sexuality and her creative callings.
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Glaube Sitte Heimat

Filmstill Glaube Sitte Heimat
Glaube Sitte Heimat
Fidel Sievering, Bennet Staack
Germany
International Competition Animated Film
Helpless rituals and the smell of time gone stale: an offbeat, honest portrait of a village that used to live from mining and where successful structural change seems unwilling to take hold.

Contains depictions of drug-use, nudity, physical violence

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27.10.
#2C1
Cinémathèque in der naTo
Teil der Kompilation
Bloody Homesickness
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27.10.2026
Cinémathèque in der naTo
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28.10.
#371
Passage Kinos Wintergarten
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Bloody Homesickness
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28.10.2026
Passage Kinos Wintergarten
#371
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Bloody Homesickness
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30.10.
#541
CineStar 6
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Bloody Homesickness
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30.10.2026
CineStar 6
#541
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Short Film Reel
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Dare to Care!
Emotional and multifaceted, that’s what friendships should be! When a spark then flies, could a romance possibly top this? Through thick and thin – not just a figure of speech.

Dare to Care!

Films

Growing Wild

Filmstill Growing Wild
Growing Wild
Rob Crosse
Germany,
UK
German Competition Documentary Film
A place of diversity, a safe space for several generations of queer people. Experiences are shared from one flat to the next. Whoever lives here has gone through a lot.

Contains mentions of discrimination against LGBTQIA2S+ persons

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Ein Typ aus Kleinmachnow

Filmstill A Guy from Kleinmachnow
Ein Typ aus Kleinmachnow
Leonard Volkmer
Germany
German Competition Documentary Film
A queer auto-narrative between desire, ecstasy and regret. In the club, by the lake or going home at night – one's own judgement is often faster than the question of how one really feels.

Contains mentions of addiction, drug-use, mental health conditions, explicit sex scenes

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Kitzel

Filmstill Kitzel
Kitzel
Mona Keil
Germany
International Competition Animated Film
Two fluffy creatures play together affectionately, but their frolics soon turn uncomfortable, as cuddling becomes a free-for-all and boundaries are crossed. A film to get under the skin.
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Lice n’ Shine

Filmstill Lice n’ Shine
Lice n’ Shine
Maria Byoma
Uganda
International Competition Animated Film
An amusing, affectionate portrait of the everyday life of teenage girls in the sensitive ecosystem of a boarding school, where an entirely normal morning can quickly give way to chaos.
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Through the Dust of Time

Filmstill Through the Dust of Time
foˋ fong
Wan Chen Lin
Taiwan
International Competition Documentary Film
A Hakka village in southern Taiwan: eighty-year-old Alan spends her calm daily life gardening and with her friend A-Mei. Younger generations are leaving. Who will preserve the traditions?
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Omsorg

Filmstill Omsorg
Omsorg
Em Johrden
Germany
German Competition Documentary Film
A carefree summer’s day is overlayed by a tale of painful sexual experiences. From offscreen, a woman speaks more and more freely, describing her new approach to her own desires.

Contains mentions of sexual violence

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In the Cinemas

27.10.
#271
Passage Kinos Wintergarten
Teil der Kompilation
Dare to Care!
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27.10.2026
Passage Kinos Wintergarten
#271
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Dare to Care!
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29.10.
#481
UT Connewitz
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Dare to Care!
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29.10.2026
UT Connewitz
#481
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01.11.
#7A3
Schaubühne Lindenfels
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01.11.2026
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Short Film Reel
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darktimes dot com
As new policies affect millions of Latin American migrants in the US, what happens to them – and around them?

darktimes dot com

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Spray and Pray

Filmstill Spray 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.
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The Evidence of the Termites

Filmstill 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.
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Summer of Smooth Asphalt

Filmstill 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.
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no_mercy_in_Mexico

Filmstill 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

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They’re Here

Filmstill 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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In the Cinemas

27.10.
#2C2
Cinémathèque in der naTo
Teil der Kompilation
darktimes dot com
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27.10.2026
Cinémathèque in der naTo
#2C2
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darktimes dot com
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28.10.
#331
CineStar 5
Teil der Kompilation
darktimes dot com
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28.10.2026
CineStar 5
#331
Teil der Kompilation
darktimes dot com
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01.11.
#721
CineStar 4
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darktimes dot com
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01.11.2026
CineStar 4
#721
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DOK Neuland
Filmstill Living in Water
Living in Water
Ana P. Santos
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.
2025
Filmstill Living in Water

Living in Water

Living in Water
Ana P. Santos
DOK Neuland
-
Philippines
2025
15 minutes
Filipino,
English
Subtitles: 
None
German premiere
Nearly every day in Isla Tibaguin, Philippines, the streets turn into rivers. Environmental disasters can take many forms, and this immersive documentary follows a slow-motion climate crisis that is daily and constant. In Isla Tibaguin, the water rises everywhere and it takes hours to subside, leaving residents wading in water. Cooking, cleaning, trying to study, all in water. The film follows Riri and Angie as they navigate life with and within floodwater, emphasising the significance of community in the face of climate instability and uncertainty.

The use of the immersive medium allows audiences to face this particular climate disaster first-hand, and to feel the anxiety which ensues. Within the virtual reality headset, viewers experience a mediated feeling of being within floodwater, in a manner which two-dimensional media cannot replicate. By employing the intimacy of VR, the film makes a slow and more invisible catastrophe feel like the emergency that it actually is.

Dana Melaver

Contains depictions of mental health conditions

Screenings & Tickets DOK Leipzig Logo

This work is part of our exhibition

DOK Neuland: Landslide

27/10–1/11/2026 
Free entry

Find seven works at Kohlrabizirkus. 

Tue–Sun | 11:00–18:00
Wed | 12:00–20:00

Taking place at Kohlrabizirkus with one piece situated at the Leipzig Central Station ground-floor and a special performance at Heilandskirche/Westkreuz.

All about the DOK Neuland exhibition

 

Subject to the General Terms & Conditions of DOK Leipzig. Please be advised that due to a limited number of visitors allowed in the venues longer waiting times are to be expected. Thanks in advance for your patience.

Credits DOK Leipzig Logo

Director
Ana P. Santos
Cinematographer
Richard Shahryar Smith
Producer
Alice Wroe , Beth Frondoso

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Main Contact
Ana P. Santos
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Auf schwarzem Hintergrund zwei rote X, daneben die knallige Grafik eines Frauenkopfs mit blonden Haaren, die auf uns zeigt und der Text "Dein Spezialist für Digitaldruck"
Auf schwarzem Hintergrund zwei rote X, daneben die knallige Grafik eines Frauenkopfs mit blonden Haaren, die auf uns zeigt und der Text "Dein Spezialist für Digitaldruck"
Zwei Hände balancieren einen klebrigen Ball. Dazu: "Leipziger Jazztage 11.–18. Oktober 2025
Zwei Hände balancieren einen klebrigen Ball. Dazu: "Leipziger Jazztage 11.–18. Oktober 2025
Kino der Extraklasse: IMAX and the trojan horse
Kino der Extraklasse: IMAX and the trojan horse
Culturträger, ein Postkarten-Werbe-Verteiler
Culturträger, ein Postkarten-Werbe-Verteiler
Kohlrabizirkus und ein bild der die Skyline der Stadt leipzig
Kohlrabizirkus und ein bild der die Skyline der Stadt leipzig
Motiv der Leipziger Jazztage, zwei lila Hände, die mit Schneebesen trommeln
Motiv der Leipziger Jazztage, zwei lila Hände, die mit Schneebesen trommeln
Gelbes Banner mit drei handys, die die website von "der Freitag" zeigen
Gelbes Banner mit drei handys, die die website von "der Freitag" zeigen
Werbebanner von The Spot
Werbebanner von The Spot
Werbebanner für das 39. Filmfestival Dresden
Werbebanner für das 39. Filmfestival Dresden
Text: What IFFF the future of film is female?"
Text: What IFFF the future of film is female?"
Werbebanner Neisse Film Festival
Werbebanner Neisse Film Festival
Werbebanner Oberhausen Film Festival
Werbebanner Oberhausen Film Festival
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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

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.
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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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27.10.
#274
Passage Kinos Wintergarten
Teil der Kompilation
Neat and Tidy?
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27.10.2026
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#274
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28.10.
#351
CineStar 7
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28.10.2026
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#351
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31.10.
#631
CineStar 5
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DOK Neuland
Filmstill Nothing to see here
Nothing to see here
Celine Daemen, Aron Fels
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.
2025
Filmstill Nothing to see here

Nothing to see here

Nothing to see here
Celine Daemen, Aron Fels
DOK Neuland
-
Netherlands
2025
7 minutes
English
Subtitles: 
None
German premiere
As though on automatic, passersby walk the same path; one day indistinguishable from the other. Until a surprise encounter ruptures this everyday. There is a secret world in the central train station, one eerily similar to our own, but just off enough to destabilise reality. In this unassuming monolith there is a gateway to another world, or rather a story that takes place overlaid unto a glitch of reality. Viewers will encounter their own bodies disrupted, and peak into a strange encounter. And then, in the end, it will loop and start again.

In a unique approach to immersion, the piece not only toys with our own feeling of body and the shape of reality, but as well with the body and shape of virtual reality. By extending virtual immersion into the shape of a reflecting sculpture (rather than a headset), the work opens the door to portals of many shapes and sizes. Keep an eye out for the not-so-familiar and slide into the unexpected.

Dana Melaver

Screenings & Tickets DOK Leipzig Logo

This work is part of our exhibition

DOK Neuland: Landslide

27/10–1/11/2026 
Free entry

Find seven works at Kohlrabizirkus. 

Tue–Sun | 11:00–18:00
Wed | 12:00–20:00

Taking place at Kohlrabizirkus with one piece situated at the Leipzig Central Station ground-floor and a special performance at Heilandskirche/Westkreuz.

All about the DOK Neuland exhibition

 

Subject to the General Terms & Conditions of DOK Leipzig. Please be advised that due to a limited number of visitors allowed in the venues longer waiting times are to be expected. Thanks in advance for your patience.

Credits DOK Leipzig Logo

Director
Celine Daemen, Aron Fels
Script
Stefanie Kolk, Stefanie Kolk
Sound
Aurélie Nyirabikali Lierman, Wouter Snoei, Aurélie Nyirabikali Lierman
Sound Design
Wouter Snoei

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Main Contact
Giulia Cristofoli
Banner from DaFilms.com: "Into Documentaries? So are We"
Banner from DaFilms.com: "Into Documentaries? So are We"
Auf schwarzem Hintergrund zwei rote X, daneben die knallige Grafik eines Frauenkopfs mit blonden Haaren, die auf uns zeigt und der Text "Dein Spezialist für Digitaldruck"
Auf schwarzem Hintergrund zwei rote X, daneben die knallige Grafik eines Frauenkopfs mit blonden Haaren, die auf uns zeigt und der Text "Dein Spezialist für Digitaldruck"
Zwei Hände balancieren einen klebrigen Ball. Dazu: "Leipziger Jazztage 11.–18. Oktober 2025
Zwei Hände balancieren einen klebrigen Ball. Dazu: "Leipziger Jazztage 11.–18. Oktober 2025
Kino der Extraklasse: IMAX and the trojan horse
Kino der Extraklasse: IMAX and the trojan horse
Culturträger, ein Postkarten-Werbe-Verteiler
Culturträger, ein Postkarten-Werbe-Verteiler
Kohlrabizirkus und ein bild der die Skyline der Stadt leipzig
Kohlrabizirkus und ein bild der die Skyline der Stadt leipzig
Motiv der Leipziger Jazztage, zwei lila Hände, die mit Schneebesen trommeln
Motiv der Leipziger Jazztage, zwei lila Hände, die mit Schneebesen trommeln
Gelbes Banner mit drei handys, die die website von "der Freitag" zeigen
Gelbes Banner mit drei handys, die die website von "der Freitag" zeigen
Werbebanner von The Spot
Werbebanner von The Spot
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Perfect Trips and Twists
One person’s freedom is another person’s doom, the path between them can be slow and arduous. And yet we keep reinventing ourselves, and so every ending is also a beginning.

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Films

Awaken, My Children

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Awaken, My Children
Christopher Galinos
Estonia,
South Africa
International Competition Animated Film
From through the thick smoke, the creation monster speaks to us, more animal than god. It regrets its biggest mistake of all: creating civilisation. Just what have we done?
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Leave This Room Buried

Filmstill Leave This Room Buried
Ovu sobu ostavite zakopanu
Iva Kraljević
Croatia
International Competition Documentary Film
What is the dominant mood of our era? Shifting seamlessly between pristine 16mm, archive footage and home movies, this essay seeks to tap into the zeitgeist: fearful, nostalgic, untamed.
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Hi Mom :O

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Hi Mom :O
Peer Langenheim
Germany,
Switzerland
German Competition Documentary Film
The director’s footage and that of his mother flow together. Full of doll faces and flowers, her film archive throws up questions. She says, “Film your own reality!” Sounds great, but how?
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Melk

Filmstill Melk
Melk
Filip Anthonissen
Belgium
International Competition Animated Film
Charel is the odd man out in the village community. In an attempt to gain recognition, he naively prowls through biblical history – and fails. Masterfully animated, absurd folk horror.

Contains depictions of violence against animals, murder, physical violence

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Tutaro

Filmstill Tutaro
Tutaro
Anne Isensee
Germany
International Competition Animated Film
Hungry for life, an egg yolk dives headlong into the world and gets lost in restless ecstasy. A captivating and uncompromising choreography in turbulent colours and shapes.

Photosensitivity warning

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27.10.
#251
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29.10.
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Cinémathèque in der naTo
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31.10.
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DOK Neuland
Filmstill Permanence of Decay
Permanence of Decay
Pranav Chaparala
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?
2026
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Permanence of Decay

Permanence of Decay
Pranav Chaparala
DOK Neuland
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USA
2026
15 minutes
Subtitles: 
None
European premiere
The only permanence in life is the absolute promise of decay. Decomposition is just change, and everything in this world, digital images included, are not exempt from demise. Yet it is their mortality that makes pictures all the more precious, and this work aims to highlight the beauty therein. Deterioration is inevitable, and in this work its pace lies in the hands of visitors.

Using photographs from the public domain, the work also calls into question the digital archive. Is the archive a space of permanence or is it merely a state of slow decay? The images are ones of public significance but of no sentimental value to the audience. Therefore the act of decaying images has no personal bearing. This relationship might change, though, once visitors upload their own photographs and become witnesses to their decomposition...

Dana Melaver

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This work is part of our exhibition

DOK Neuland: Landslide

27/10–1/11/2026 
Free entry

Find seven works at Kohlrabizirkus. 

Tue–Sun | 11:00–18:00
Wed | 12:00–20:00

Taking place at Kohlrabizirkus with one piece situated at the Leipzig Central Station ground-floor and a special performance at Heilandskirche/Westkreuz.

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Subject to the General Terms & Conditions of DOK Leipzig. Please be advised that due to a limited number of visitors allowed in the venues longer waiting times are to be expected. Thanks in advance for your patience.

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Director
Pranav Chaparala
Producer
Pranav Chaparala

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Auf schwarzem Hintergrund zwei rote X, daneben die knallige Grafik eines Frauenkopfs mit blonden Haaren, die auf uns zeigt und der Text "Dein Spezialist für Digitaldruck"
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Zwei Hände balancieren einen klebrigen Ball. Dazu: "Leipziger Jazztage 11.–18. Oktober 2025
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Kohlrabizirkus und ein bild der die Skyline der Stadt leipzig
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Motiv der Leipziger Jazztage, zwei lila Hände, die mit Schneebesen trommeln
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Stroke of Wings
What do places, objects, and plants remember? What have the insects seen – and what can they tell us about the past?



Stroke of Wings

Films

Heralds of the Monsoon

Filmstill Heralds of the Monsoon
Mungarina Ette
Meera Krishnamurthy
India
International Competition Animated Film
Who has the elephant on their conscience? A Matti tree and a butterfly conduct an investigation together. An ecological whodunit, with climate change as the key suspect.
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Errabonda

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Errabonda
Emma Harris
Italy,
Denmark
Doc Alliance
Sowing, harvesting, watering, stroking, and all of it with devotion. A sensual and poetic love letter to the earth – and a plea for fairer and more sustainable agriculture.
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Maros Foto

Filmstill Maro’s Photo
Maros Foto
Alexandros Murböck
Germany
German Competition Documentary Film
Children playing on the Panzerweise in Munich, a woman with angels’ wings. Mother and son return to the location of the black-and-white footage to reconstruct history and story alike.
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Ortsteil Autobahn

Filmstill Neighborhood Autobahn
Ortsteil Autobahn
Richard Rothfeld, Luci Schwingen
Germany
German Competition Documentary Film
Fokus Ost
Who defines borders and determines which side you are allowed to be on? A cinematic observation along the former Marienborn border checkpoint in Saxony-Anhalt.

Contains mentions of racism

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Terminal

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Terminal
Alexandre Siqueira
Portugal,
France,
Spain
International Competition Animated Film
A pirate’s son now coughing up blood returns to his mother after years of silence. A suitcase full of secrets, any number of tattoos. A film about unconditional love for an adult child.
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27.10.
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29.10.
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30.10.
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Schaubühne Lindenfels
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The Fading of Shooting Stars
Gunpowder and hails of bombs drive people away like ghosts. What’s left is the memory of a place, a test, an event. And while a donkey pees in the desert, the flowers in a torn city bloom again.

The Fading of Shooting Stars

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The Divided City of Mitrovica

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The Divided City of Mitrovica
Marko Grba Singh
Serbia,
Kosovo
Doc Alliance
Mitrovica bears the consequences of the Kosovo war as a lingering echo: The north is inhabited by Serbs, the south by Albanians. How does this division manifest itself in people’s minds?

Contains mentions of death

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Decay

Filmstill Decay
Decaer
Juan Camilo González
Colombia
International Competition Animated Film
Can the evil spirit of a person too close to you be banished by animation, just as one would use fireworks? A marvelously well-thought-out experiment to fight one’s own emotional decay.

Contains mentions of mental health conditions, murder

Photosensitivity warning

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Nothing Happens After Your Absence

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Nothing Happens After Your Absence
Ibrahim Omar
Sudan
International Competition Documentary Film
“Cinema is banned here – people prefer football.” Ibrahim has to overcome bureaucracy and resistance in order to show films in his home village in Sudan. Then the war breaks out.
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in memory of

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in memory of
Florinda Ciucio
Belgium
International Competition Documentary Film
A pencil and a few sheets of paper. A hand drawing a version of Gaza that only now exists on the memory of the person drawing it. And as he draws, he says: I remember everything.
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Du solltest träumen, dass du fliegst

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Du solltest träumen, dass du fliegst
Laura Elisabeth Staab
Germany,
Austria
German Competition Documentary Film
Children’s games, school essays and driving lessons: summery snapshots that circle around each other from the everyday lives of refugees, held together by the hope of returning to normality.
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28.10.
#374
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CineStar 6
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