Thu 31.10.
20:00

Moria Six

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CineStar 6
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Moria Six

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Moria Six

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Moria Six
Jennifer Mallmann
Germany
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

20:30

The Landscape and the Fury

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CineStar 7
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The Landscape and the Fury

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The Landscape and the Fury

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Landschaft und Wahn
Nicole Vögele
Switzerland
Doc Alliance Award
On the Bosnian-Croatian border, many mines from the war have not been cleared yet, traumas are still virulent. This is where the paths of migrants and locals cross.

Contains mentions of racism, war scenes

20:30

Sabbath Queen

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Passage Kinos Astoria
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Sabbath Queen

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Sabbath Queen

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Sabbath Queen
Sandi DuBowski
USA
Audience Competition
“Only transgression will bring salvation!” Amichat Lau is a rabbi, drag queen, father and revolutionary. The long-term portrait of a man to whom his faith is as important as his freedom.
20:30

Memory Hotel

#493
Regina Palast 4
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Memory Hotel

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Memory Hotel

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Memory Hotel
Heinrich Sabl
Germany,
France
International Competition Animated Film
1945. The Red Army are moving into Germany. A child, a Soviet soldier, a Nazi officer and a Hitler Youth have been stuck in a hotel ever since, which binds them together for years in bizarre ways.

Contains depictions of physical violence, murder

21:00

Naima

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Cinestar 2
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Naima

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Naima

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Naima
Anna Thommen
Switzerland
Audience Competition
As a migrant, Naima must begin her life again from scratch when she moves from Venezuela to Switzerland. The 46-year-old must start from the bottom here. A film about human strength.
21:00

Ever Since I Knew Myself

#434
CineStar 5
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Ever Since I Knew Myself

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Ever Since I Knew Myself

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Rats tavi makhsovs
Maka Gogaladze
Georgia
Panorama: Central and Eastern Europe
The director argues with her mother about her strict upbringing, which was marked by power and discipline, and questions the educational system in modern Georgia as such.
21:00

Gudrun Krebitz_Moïa Jobin-Paré

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Passage Kinos Wintergarten
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Gudrun Krebitz_Moïa Jobin-Paré

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Tricky Women 2018

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Tricky Women 2018
Moïa Jobin-Paré
Canada,
Austria
Animation Perspectives
A film projection shows a woman sitting by the water. In “her back” is the shadow of a female figure who conjures radiant golden clouds of dots and balls of lines into the frame with her hands.

I Know You

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I Know You
Gudrun Krebitz
Austria,
Germany
Animation Perspectives
Someone probes their own fear in a childlike voice and sketchy images. There are certain pieces of evidence, like the shovel and that black thing that grabs the soul like a spider.

No Objects

Filmstill No Objects
Sans objets
Moïa Jobin-Paré
Canada
Animation Perspectives
Hands grasp emptiness or for bundles of lines. Their everyday movements are turned into a ghostlike play of gestures, because the devices they operate are erased from the frames.

Achill

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Achill
Gudrun Krebitz
Austria,
Germany
Animation Perspectives
A woman in love ventures out of her cocoon to go out into the mundane world of “dead language.” Two universes meet in raw, intimate drawings, shimmering stones and overpainted video sequences.

4min15 in the Developer

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4min15 au révélateur
Moïa Jobin-Paré
Canada
Animation Perspectives
With pantomime gestures a woman moves her hands across the surfaces of a geometrical urban architecture, animating the wasteland with a glowing spray of sparks produced by drawing scratches on photographs.

EXOMOON

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EXOMOON
Gudrun Krebitz
UK,
Austria
Animation Perspectives
The longing for something to finally happen is fulfilled by a kiss. Not the romantic kind, however, but a monstrous one, a kiss the world will talk about.

Remous

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Remous
Moïa Jobin-Paré
Canada
Animation Perspectives
The film embraces the undulations of Jacques Hétu’s erratic composition, twists perspectives and makes individual notes shimmer as brief reflections of light on the surfaces of darkness.

The Magical Dimension

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The Magical Dimension
Gudrun Krebitz
Germany,
Austria
Animation Perspectives
She opens her arms wide: Crossing from an unbearable reality to the world of magic sometimes takes only the snap of a finger, sometimes several press-ups.

Families’ Albums

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Albums de familles
Moïa Jobin-Paré
Canada
Animation Perspectives
The photo albums of other families hold special secrets. The arms and hands of unknown grandparents, aunts and friends perform a ghostly pantomime.
21:00

Dark Waters

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Cinémathèque in der Nato
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Dark Waters

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Duck Broth

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Rosół z kaczki
Maria Dakszewicz
Poland
International Competition Animated Film
Tunnel vision, dark circles under the eyes and breathlessness – a hangover in the bathtub. The conversation with the small rubber duck turns into a darkly poetic lament about last night’s filth.

Bedsores

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Bedsores
Fritz Polzer
Germany
German Competition Documentary Film
Thinking about thwarted migration, exploitative systems, the threadbare glamour of mass tourism in lockdown. Cruise ships lie in the harbour, film footage fades.

Baħar biss

Filmstill Just Sea
Baħar biss
Franziska von Stenglin
Malta,
Germany
German Competition Documentary Film
Punta, a moustachioed Maltese, weaves a traditional fish trap. As always, waves crash on the rocks, but the times when you could earn a living by fishing here are long gone.

Afterlives

Filmstill Afterlives
Tunggang langgang
Timoteus Anggawan Kusno
Indonesia
International Competition Documentary Film
From ritual dance performances on the Indonesian island of Java, to colonialist film images, to an intervention at the Amsterdam Rijksmuseum: T.A. Kusno settles the score with colonialism.

The Wild-Tempered Clavier

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The Wild-Tempered Clavier
Anna Samo
Germany
International Competition Animated Film
A story inspired by Bach’s timeless music, narrated on the editing table and painted on six rolls of toilet paper. A multicoloured and at the same time profound pleasure.

Contradiction of Emptiness

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Contradiction of Emptiness
Irina Rubina
Germany
International Competition Animated Film
Dark spots eat their way into graphically idealised images of home. With unsparing objectivity, Rubina describes why Russian can no longer be the language of security for her.

Contains mentions of sexual violence, war scenes, murder

Fluid Lagos

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Fluid Lagos
Justine Chima Unanka, Kamnelechukwu Obasi, Kenneth “Laboomz” Donatus, Lateefah Mayaki, Morola Odufuwa, Nora Mandray, Peace Olatunji “Dopay”, Ramon Shitta, Uwana Anthony “Churchy”, Wami Aluko
Nigeria
International Competition Documentary Film
The Fluid Lagos Collective explores what water means to them and the city: through the eyes of a boatman, his passenger and through bodies made of water – sometimes sluggish, sometimes flowing.

Photosensitivity warning