Barbara Morgenstern und die Liebe zur Sache
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Barbara Morgenstern und die Liebe zur Sache
Barbara Morgenstern und die Liebe zur Sache
Sabine Herpich
German Competition Documentary Film
The pioneer of electronic living-room pop works on her new album. Step by step, the intimate experiment goes public. Music becomes a shared safe space.
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Motion is the art that binds the changing characters of this AR-project, which are drawn by exhibition visitors. An artwork created by all, always fluctuating.
See the Sphinx, Ancient Rome and the Eiffel Tower all in one day. This 360° film plays with scaling and engages with our ideas of world-building and virtual reality as a medium.
Animated in unique style, this VR-experience introduces Mr. Saul, an aging man who works in a brothel and is hiding a big secret. Follow his musically illustrated journey to self acceptance.
Contains mentions of
discrimination against LGBTQIA2S+ persons
Murmuration
Patricia Bergeron
The animated film dives into a poetic underwater world as it follows a teenager on his journey to Europe. He is accompanied by the stories of those who could not finish their journey.
Contains mentions of
death
Reconstruction Home
Antonia Nestler
A broken Syrian home, torn down by war, put back together through AR and the recollections of its former inhabitants. A reflection on the sense of home and the loss of it.
Contains mentions of
war scenes
Glitchbodies
Rebecca Merlic
What is inclusive representation in the virtual world? This game presents 59 protagonists from across the globe and gender spectrum in dreamy and surreal landscapes.
Contains depictions of
nudity
Tales of a Nomadic City
Med Lemine Rajel, Christian Vium
A multimedia dive into Nouakchott, Mauritania: an ever-changing city. This collaborative project is made of a 360° film as well as archival and vernacular media, bringing the city to life.
Nothing Can Ever Be the Same
Nothing Can Ever Be the Same
Brendan Dawes, Gary Hustwit
A collaboration between artists and machine, this continuously-running generative film is based on the visual archive and music of Brian Eno, as well as new interviews.
Jiè zǐ
Yihan Mei, Jiahong Wu
An abstract world, drawn in digital ink, inspired by Taoist philosophy. This interactive experience allows the visitor to fly, swim and soar as something other – and maybe more – than human.
Oto’s Planet
Gwenael François
Luxembourg,
Canada,
France
Oto’s life in solitary peace is upended by the arrival of a territorial spaceman. A cheerful story about our own planet, laced with black humor.
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Im Prinzip Familie
Daniel Abma
German Competition Documentary Film
DOK im Knast
School Screening
Touching insights into the daily workings of the youth welfare system. Five boys in a rural residential group who long for a home. And the people who try to give it to them.
Contains mentions of
child abuse, mental health conditions, racism
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Spielerinnen
Aysun Bademsoy
German Competition Documentary Film
After thirty years, Bademsoy returns to the former players of the first Turkish girls’ football team in Berlin. Many questions are still open, including the old ones about being German.
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Ta druhá
Marie-Magdalena Kochová
Panorama: Central and Eastern Europe
Family obligations, her autistic sister’s needs and her own dream of studying psychology – 18-year-old Johanna must find the courage to take a life-changing decision
Contains depictions of
mental health conditions
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Once upon a Time in a Forest
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Once upon a Time in a Forest
Havumetsän lapset
Virpi Suutari
Forest activist Ida takes on the giants of the Finnish forest industry and her own family’s prejudices. A modern fairytale with a harsh awakening in reality.
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The Meeting of Creative Minds 2
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Passage Kinos Wintergarten
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The Meeting of Creative Minds 2
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The Balloon
Satinder Singh
A girl, a passion: everything that flies high. The swing, the balloon. But then she falls into the clutches of a bird dealer. The only way out is through the window.
Berbaoc
Irati Fernández, José Belmonte, Izibene Oñederra Aramendi, Mercedes Sánchez-Agustino, Gustavo Díez
We encounter strange figures in the verse-like segments of this animated experiment. Text fragments from an interview distorted by static noise get tangled up in Xabier Erkizia’s music.
La tumba del marinero
Vuk Jevremović, Juan Camilo González, Cecilia Traslaviña, Isabel Herguera, José Belmonte, Carlos Santa, Richard Reeves, Kemei Cheng, Liming Wang, Koldo Almandoz
Spain,
Colombia,
China,
Oman,
USA,
Singapore
A shipwreck, the fog bells of a lighthouse, the changing tides. A film as the result of an inter-oceanic workshop: an intuitive narrative, generated by a collective act of creation.
He Who Cheats Doesn’t Win
Quien engaña no gana
Partha Pratim Das, Rajiv Eipe, Kapil Pandit, Kaustub Ray, Prashant Sartape, Nidhi Sundaram, Lucky Vakharia, Monisha Kaul
A music video, realised as a sand animation: a twitching vortex of light breaks through the shimmering darkness. Two hands catch it and turn into a figure whose path we follow.
Cartas de la selva
collective
Germany,
Colombia,
China,
India,
Mexico
The letters of former FARC guerrilleros from Colombia supply the basis of these personal memories. – A touching film with an impressive joy of visual experimentation.
Diaries of Confinement – Part One
Diaries of Confinement – Part One
Katrin Hauser, Lenia Friedrich, Arjun Patel, Milan Haupt, Dexin Yin, Quingqi Ren, Tianyi Zhang, Diego Herguera, Raquel Gálvez Soto, Toni Planas Portas, César García Villafaina, Inés Gonzáles, Candela Carroceda, Agata Tracevič, Justinas Erminas, Eva Rodz, Žilvinas Baranauskas, Margarita Valionytė
Germany,
Switzerland,
China,
India,
Mexico,
Colombia
Students of seven international universities discuss their forced isolation during lockdown online – and grow closer through this joint film project.
Sultana’s Mehendi
Isabel Herguera
Sadhya wants to become a teacher and is willing to study hard for this. But the money that her parents earn to feed their family of seven is too tight.
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Birthday Cakes from China
Shēng rì dàn gāo gōng zhù nǐ fú shòu yǔ tiān qí
Shengjia Zhang
International Competition Documentary Film
Why do we love to celebrate birthdays with cakes? A witty exploration of a specific culinary cultural history, with surprising parallels to fast food and propaganda.
Totemo mijikai
Koji Yamamura
International Competition Animated Film
The last syllable on the lips of a dying man is “da”. Koji Yamamura translates a short story by author Hideo Furukawa into a thrilling and highly dynamic film.
What Goes Up
Samar Al Summary
International Competition Documentary Film
A Saudi artist is trampolining at a military airfield in Arizona. She would have to lift off to get home. A struggle not just with gravity, but with the patriarchy.
My Therapist Said, I Am Full of Sadness
My Therapist Said, I Am Full of Sadness
Monica Tedja
International Competition Documentary Film
Monica scours archive material for answers to the question of how queer life in Berlin and the wish to be accepted by their Christian-Indonesian parents can be reconciled.
Himmel wie Seide. Voller Orangen
Himmel wie Seide. Voller Orangen
Betina Kuntzsch
German Competition Documentary Film
This cheerful animated collage recalls the first Interflug flight to Majorca in spring 1990. The sea may shine ever so blue, the GDR travellers remain mere onlookers in this holiday paradise.
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Truth or Dare
Maja Classen
German Competition Documentary Film
Sex-positive encounters, post-lockdown. A group of people explore their non-binary lust, find out where their boundaries are, with no erotic zone taken for granted. Care & curiosity, right now.
Contains depictions of
nudity, explicit sex scenes
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International Competition Animated Film 3
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Hun Tun
Magdalena Hejzlarová
International Competition Animated Film
An encounter with the King of Chaos: Hun Tun drives you on, Hun Tun gives you the strength for countless hours of overtime and all-nighters – and in return robs you of your sleep and changes you.
You Are the Truck and I Am the Deer
You Are the Truck and I Am the Deer
Max Ferguson
International Competition Animated Film
Rough poetry in images, words and sounds. Full of emotional power, this film uses photography, painting, collage and video to negotiate the tipping point between physical desire and emotional injury.
Lines
Martin Schmidt
International Competition Animated Film
Two colour surfaces battle, taking up more and more space in their contest to outdo each other, causing breathlessness. An abstract and yet physically tangible cinematic event – large and loud.
Linnud läinud
Anu-Laura Tuttelberg
International Competition Animated Film
A tiny girl made of delicate porcelain observes the onset of winter, which freezes the natural paradise where she lives and everything in it. Nobody escapes its frosty grip.
Pur și simplu divin
Mélody Boulissière, Bogdan Stamatin
International Competition Animated Film
Opening Film
A tragic, decades-long love story between a soldier and a young woman – told through historical photos from the estate of a Romanian photographer.
Contains mentions of
war scenes
The Role
Paolo Chianta
International Competition Animated Film
Two filmmakers – brother and sister – hire a chef to play their father. The boundaries between the film and the reality of the single father’s life become increasingly blurred.
Dolores
Cecilia Andalón Delgadillo
International Competition Animated Film
When Dolores falls into a deep hole while playing in a cornfield, the boundaries between this world and the next blur. A magical and dark puppet animation oscillating between reality and dream.
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Hurikán + Olivia & the Clouds
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Hurikán
Jan Saska
Czech Republic,
Slovakia,
France,
Bosnia & Herzegovina
International Competition Animated Film
A Prague food stall has run out of beer. Regular Hurikán takes matters into his own hands. An epic parkour in the drowsy but steep side streets of the city begins.
Contains depictions of
physical violence, drug-use
Olivia & las nubes
Tomás Pichardo Espaillat
International Competition Animated Film
A film about the complexity of human relationships and overlapping love stories – narrated in a variety of ways: stop motion technique, cartoon animation and experimental film.
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La Jetée, the Fifth Shot
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Le cinquième plan de La Jetée
Dominique Cabrera
International Competition Documentary Film
Cabrera’s cousin discovers himself in Chris Marker’s “La Jetée”: a photo of him and his parents on the observation deck of Orly airport. They had arrived there from Algeria in 1962.
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Passage Kinos Wintergarten
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Linnud läinud
Anu-Laura Tuttelberg
International Competition Animated Film
A tiny girl made of delicate porcelain observes the onset of winter, which freezes the natural paradise where she lives and everything in it. Nobody escapes its frosty grip.
We Had Fun Yesterday
Marion Guillard
International Competition Documentary Film
In this autobiographical essay, Guillard interweaves her experiences as a wildlife filmmaker and her relationship to her own body and her femininity. A surprising and plausible link.
Tales from the Source
Léonard Pongo
International Competition Documentary Film
Artist Léonard Pongo has been exploring the landscapes of the Democratic Republic of Congo for ten years. For him, the country with its art, traditions and philosophy is not a resource, but a source.
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Wishing on a Star
Peter Kerekes
Italy,
Slovakia,
Czech Republic,
Austria,
Croatia
Those who confide their secret desires to astrologer Luciana and seek advice are unerringly sent to a place for a new beginning. Entertaining dramas and the big questions in life.
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animation@DOK Leipzig – Spotting, sampling, reconnecting
Zeitgeschichtliches Forum
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animation@DOK Leipzig – Spotting, sampling, reconnecting
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Heimat ist ein Raum aus Zeit
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Heimat ist ein Raum aus Zeit
Heimat ist ein Raum aus Zeit
Thomas Heise
Heise’s last film deals with his family’s archive and brings contradictions from more than 100 years of German history into focus. A monumental arrangement of fragments.
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A primary school on the outskirts of Paris. With persistence and dedication, the children are encouraged to be responsible and empathetic. Successful pedagogy at eye level.
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Tracing Light
Thomas Riedelsheimer
German Competition Documentary Film
Opening Film
Without light, there would be no cinema – and no life. Searching for the origin of images, this film delves into two worlds that explore the magic of light: physics and art.
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Bakeneko Anzu-chan
Yôko Kuno, Nobuhiro Yamashita
International Competition Animated Film
Left alone by her father, eleven-year-old Karin makes friends with a talking monster cat. This launches a wild and fantastic tour de force through fabulous and hellish worlds.
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A Year of Endless Days
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Godina prođe, dan nikako
Renata Lučić
Panorama: Central and Eastern Europe
An sensitive study of family, loneliness, friendship and love, set against the background of the mass exodus of women from the rural area along the Croatian-Bosnian border.
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Život k sežrání
Kristina Dufková
Ben has just entered puberty and suddenly his weight is a problem – for him and everybody else. Despite his love of eating and cooking he takes drastic measures.
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After the death of her grandparents, the director finds an expression for her grief in surreal rock and landscape formations. An associative, free-floating tour of inspection.
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The Brown Dog + Luciano
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The Brown Dog
Nadia Hallgren, Jamie-James Medina
International Competition Animated Film
A cold winter’s night. Armoured in coolness, Nobody makes his lonely security guard rounds in the square, engrossed in his meandering reflections of life – melancholy of the streets.
Luciano
Manuel Besedovsky
International Competition Documentary Film
Luciano lives in an impoverished neighbourhood in Argentina: everyday life with mother and sister, job hunting, hormone injections. A sensitive film about gender, origins and getting on with life.
Contains mentions of
discrimination against LGBTQIA2S+ persons
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Third Ways in a Divided World 3
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Passage Kinos Wintergarten
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Third Ways in a Divided World 3
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One night, the filmmaker roams through Novi Sad, picks up homeless people and takes them home. A self-experimentation with a camera, somewhere between social reportage and activism.
Eine Sache, die sich versteht (15x)
Eine Sache, die sich versteht (15x)
Harun Farocki, Hartmut Bitomsky
An educational film about the Marxist vocabulary of commodity and labour, wages and labour power, exchange and use value - demonstrated with political stance and aesthetic actions.
Refren
Krzysztof Kieślowski
Even in death, you can’t get rid of bureaucracy! In the day-to-day business of a Warsaw funeral parlour, mourning is mired in paperwork, routine and triviality.
Nail polish, a general, a mule. John Smith recites from a text by the linguist Herbert H. Clark. The words evoke appropriate images, but mean something different.
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Siegfried Kracauer Award Ceremony: Top of the Tops
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Lichter der Straße
Anna Friedrich
German Competition Documentary Film
School Screening
What does it mean to lead a nomadic life in Germany today? This film explores the potentials of a vagabond existence in a world of settlement permits and garden fences.
Contains mentions of
racism
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The Garden Cadences
Dane Komljen
What will become of the Mollies’ trailer site? It is the last summer for the queer-feminist model of life at Berlin’s Ostkreuz before the site is due to be cleared.
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A Year in the Life of the Country
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A Year in the Life of the Country
Rok z życia kraju
Tomasz Wolski
Panorama: Central and Eastern Europe
The exclusive found footage from the early eighties shows a Poland groaning under martial law. At the same time, it shows a Poland where Solidarność is about to emerge.
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Moria Six
Jennifer Mallmann
German Competition Documentary Film
Six youths were sentenced for the fire at Camp Moria on Lesbos in 2020. A look back exposes the questionable proceedings of the judiciary and the EU’s political stance on refugees.
Contains mentions of
physical violence, racism
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