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Hommage: Helena Třeštíková
Filmstill A Marriage Story
A Marriage Story
Helena Třeštíková
Over three decades, Helena Třestíková observes the seemingly ordinary marriage of Ivana and Vaclav. Until we realize that “ordinary” can only exist for the casual observer.
2017
Filmstill A Marriage Story

A Marriage Story

Strnadovi
Helena Třeštíková
Hommage: Helena Třeštíková
Documentary Film
Czech Republic
2017
102 minutes
Czech
Subtitles: 
English
No Premiere
Prague-based filmmaker Helena Třeštíková has been filming marriage stories since the early 1980s, resulting in several long-term documentaries. Ivana and Václav’s everlasting marriage covenant is the subject of observation in this episode, which ranges from the day before the wedding to the present day. Back then, in December 1980, Ivana is 21 years old and Václav 24. Both study architecture and marry “because we like each other. And other things. Things better not talked about.” The first child is born shortly after the wedding. Třeštíková is obviously attracted to certain places she keeps returning to, but mostly to people and the way they try to give their lives meaningful directions. In this “Marriage Story”, we discern an incredible desire for expansion and growth which becomes evident in an accumulation of objects, children and responsibilities – one of the underlying motives of the Strnads’ marriage which gradually unfolds over 35 years together.

Carolin Weidner, DOK Leipzig Catalogue 2017

 

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Director
Helena Třeštíková
Script
Helena Třeštíková
Cinematographer
David Cysař, Vlastimil Hamerník, Jan Malíř, Miroslav Souček, Ervín Sanders, Jiří Chod, Robert Novák, Antonín Kutík
Editor
Jakub Hejna
Producer
Kateřina Černá, Pavel Strnad
Co-Producer
Czech Television
Sound
Richard Müller

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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

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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

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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

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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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Bloody Homesickness
Imagined, beloved, longed for, and sometimes sick to the back teeth of it. A whole spectrum of feelings towards home.


Bloody Homesickness

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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

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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

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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

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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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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!

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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

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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

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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

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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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darktimes dot com
As new policies affect millions of Latin American migrants in the US, what happens to them – and around them?

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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

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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

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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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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?

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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

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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

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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

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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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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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Awaken, My Children

Filmstill Awaken, My Children
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

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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

Filmstill Hi Mom :O
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

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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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Hommage: Helena Třeštíková
Filmstill Private Universe
Private Universe
Helena Třeštíková
A perfectly normal family, captured on camera for 37 years. Through everyday life, the film traces the changes in Czech society – a life spent between Karel Gott and John Lennon.
2012
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Private Universe

Soukromý Vesmír
Helena Třeštíková
Hommage: Helena Třeštíková
Documentary Film
Czech Republic
2012
83 minutes
Czech
Subtitles: 
English
No Premiere
“The future is a relative concept. It’s up to us to imagine it.” How right that well-coiffed television show host is, who toasts a possibly colourful future in black and white – at a time when people first set foot on the moon and tanks invade Prague, both with unforeseeable consequences. For who can really know how people will live in a few decades. When Petr begins a diary in 1974 on the day of his wedding with Jana in Prague, he has no idea how the world and his little family universe will develop – and how they will influence each other. When shortly afterwards Helena Třeštíková begins to follow Jana’s pregnancy with her camera, she has no idea that 37 years later this will become her longest-running long-term documentary so far: “Private Universe”. Petr’s diary entries provide the variable structure of this consistently light-handed family portrait. From the diary perspective, great political upheavals sometimes look like marginal notes, first teeth like major events. The changes in Czech society are traced on a small scale – a life between Karel Gott and John Lennon. The full dimension of the film’s title, however, becomes evident only when son Honza, the rebellious one, gradually turns into the actual protagonist. At the hour of his birth 37 years ago, he had no idea that he was already under the camera’s star. A lucky star? 

Lars Meyer, DOK Leipzig Catalogue 2012
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#472
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Credits DOK Leipzig Logo

Director
Helena Třeštíková
Script
Helena Třeštíková
Cinematographer
Vlastimil Hamerník, Jiří Chod, David Cysař
Editor
Jakub Hejna
Producer
Kateřina Černá, Pavel Strnad
Co-Producer
Czech Television, RWE, Helena Třeštíková
Sound
Lukáš Moudrý

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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
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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 Neisse Film Festival
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Werbebanner Oberhausen Film Festival
Hommage: Helena Třeštíková
Filmstill René
René
Helena Třeštíková
20 years of a life lived mainly in prisons. A man who starts over again and again, fails, becomes a writer and keeps challenging the director.
2008
Filmstill René

René

René
Helena Třeštíková
Hommage: Helena Třeštíková
Documentary Film
Czech Republic
2008
83 minutes
Czech
Subtitles: 
English
No Premiere
In 1989, Helena Třeštíková begins to film the juvenile prisoner René. She follows the rhythm of his life for almost twenty years, a life spent in prisons, interrupted only by brief periods of freedom. Twenty years in which epoch-making upheavals unroll, in which systems, forms of government and regimes change – hinted at by television images that filter into René’s cell. The stagnation and absence of tempo “inside” is juxtaposed with a restless “outside” where René is moving in squares, at stations and in trains – without ever arriving anywhere. The link between inside and outside is the director herself, who becomes the only reliable constant in her protagonist’s life. A contradictory, up-and-down relationship that René reflects on in his letters to Třeštíková. Read out by him, they add another layer to the film in which the filmmaker virtually becomes the second protagonist. René, who with her help goes on to become a successful writer himself, turns out to be an equal, but difficult partner, drastically demanding her attention and questioning the relationship between filmmaker and protagonist again and again. The attempts to make him the co-author of this film are part of the story. A story of overwhelming power that goes right where it hurts.

Helena Třeštíková won the 2008 Golden Dove in Leipzig for “René”.

Grit Lemke, DOK Leipzig Catalogue 2008
Portrait/Biography
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28.10.
#373
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Director
Helena Třeštíková
Script
Helena Třeštíková
Cinematographer
Tadeáš Věrčák, Martin Kubala, Petr Pešek, Stano Slušný, Václav Smolík, Marek Dvořák, Ondřej Belica, Miroslav Souček, Vlastimil Hamerník
Editor
Jakub Hejna
Producer
Helena Třeštíková, Kateřina Černá, Pavel Strnad, Czech Television
Sound
Vladimir Nahodil, Pavel Sádek, Jan Valouch, Václav Hejduk, Miroslav Šimčík, Štěpán Mamula, Daniel Němec, Zbyněk Mikulík, Petr Provazník, Jan Valouch

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Daniel Vadocký
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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

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Heralds of the Monsoon

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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

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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

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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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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.

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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

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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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Hommage: Helena Třeštíková
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The Miracle
Helena Třeštíková
The miracle of birth up close. An intimate miniature as starting point for a 37-year-long study. Třeštíková’s distinctive style is already evident in her very first short film.
1975
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The Miracle

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Helena Třeštíková
Hommage: Helena Třeštíková
Documentary Film
Czechoslovakia
1975
16 minutes
Czech
Subtitles: 
English
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The miracle of birth in close-up. Třeštíková’s first observational documentary marks the starting point of a long-term study that is to last 37 years and culminate in the film “Private Universe”. Her distinctive style is already evident in this intimate miniature – the portrait of a young woman preparing for motherhood emerges in just a few scenes. Třeštíková won the 1975 Golden Dove in Leipzig for “The Miracle”.

Lina Dinkla
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29.10.
#472
Passage Kinos Wintergarten
The Miracle + Private Universe
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Credits DOK Leipzig Logo

Director
Helena Třeštíková
Script
Helena Třeštíková
Cinematographer
Jessica Horváthová
Editor
Vlasta Styblíková
Producer
Krátký Film Praha
Sound
Miroslav Hofrichter
Score
Zdeněk Liška

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