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Lurji motsvi
Elene Mikaberidze
Georgia,
France,
Belgium,
Qatar
A family are struggling with their blueberry harvest in the mountains of Georgia. At the same time, current crisis spots bring back memories of the Russo-Georgian War – and worries about their own children’s future.
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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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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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German Competition Documentary Film 1
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Bedsores
Fritz Polzer
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
Franziska von Stenglin
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.
In den Wohnungen meiner Mutter sind viele Türen
In den Wohnungen meiner Mutter sind viele Türen
David Kind
German Competition Documentary Film
Family photos. A woman’s face is scratched out or overpainted. Fragmentary descriptions of the mother’s sudden outbursts are added. Approaching the trauma of an experience of violence.
Contains mentions of
physical violence, mental health conditions, suicide, child abuse
Pain That Comes in Waves
Irem Schwarz
German Competition Documentary Film
Pregnancy – loaded with media clichés and optimisation measures. Each deviation from the “normal course” is suppressed. And what happens when things turn out differently?
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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Miralles
Maria Mauti
International Competition Documentary Film
The Catalan architect Miralles died far too young. His filmic portrait is airy and dense, abrupt and flowing, unconditionally stubborn, itself reminiscent of a Miralles design.
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Objects Are Closer Than They Appear
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Passage Kinos Wintergarten
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What We Ask of a Statue Is That It Doesn’t Move
Afto pou zitame apo ena agalma ine na min kinite
Daphné Hérétakis
International Competition Documentary Film
An Athens filmmaker wants to understand the paradox of contemporary Greece: Fossilised monuments to past glory here – the stagnation of the present day there.
Hauspausen
Biko Erki, Stefan Koutzev, Nathalie Bailoukova
German Competition Documentary Film
As Johannes Kloosterhuis meticulously paints his miniature houses with a paintbrush and stencil, the reclusive artist muses on different forms of dwelling and being.
Gut Ding will Weile haben
Gut Ding will Weile haben
Jens Franke
German Competition Documentary Film
Do you think of what a memorial is meant to remind you of? An enlightening tour of Leipzig, “City of Heroes” of the Peaceful Revolution, and the grey areas of a contemporary culture of remembrance.
Haunted House
Ayden Lamb
International Competition Animated Film
The dark confines of a flat, light still burning in the kitchen. Ghostlike apparitions mingle with old video recordings. This was the home of a loved one who lived in two worlds.
Contains mentions of
death
Where the Jasmine Always Blooms
Where the Jasmine Always Blooms
Husein Bastouni
International Competition Animated Film
A Palestinian neighbourhood in southern Damascus. The memory of a lost home is patched together from pictures of a life between the debris of war, constant threats, youth and jasmine.
Contains depictions of
war scenes
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L’oubli tue deux fois
Pierre Michel Jean
France,
Haiti,
Dominican Republic
International Competition Documentary Film
The 1937 “Parsley Massacre” in the border region between Haiti and the Dominican Republic has traumatised the islanders. An attempt to come to terms with it by artistic means.
Contains mentions of
physical violence
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The Meeting of Creative Minds 3
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El sueño de la Sultana
Isabel Herguera
Inspired by a feminist science fiction story, the Spaniard Inés embarks on a journey of discovery through India. She is looking for Ladyland, the utopian land of women.
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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.
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German Competition Documentary Film 2
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Accidental Animals
Leila Fatima Keita, Felix Klee
German Competition Documentary Film
Animals caught by chance by Google Maps car cameras disrupt the claim of capturing the world accurately. Their appearance in the image creates – involuntarily – funny situations.
Gut Ding will Weile haben
Gut Ding will Weile haben
Jens Franke
German Competition Documentary Film
Do you think of what a memorial is meant to remind you of? An enlightening tour of Leipzig, “City of Heroes” of the Peaceful Revolution, and the grey areas of a contemporary culture of remembrance.
Die Stimme des Ingenieurs
Die Stimme des Ingenieurs
André Siegers
German Competition Documentary Film
A man records words to preserve his voice. He finds it increasingly difficult to articulate. A film about voice and identity – and about
what exists between the words.
Hauspausen
Biko Erki, Stefan Koutzev, Nathalie Bailoukova
German Competition Documentary Film
As Johannes Kloosterhuis meticulously paints his miniature houses with a paintbrush and stencil, the reclusive artist muses on different forms of dwelling and being.
Der König von Spanien
Leonard Volkmer
German Competition Documentary Film
A young man seems to get lost between his family home, Berlin darkrooms and a shared flat in Madrid. The clinical psychiatry reports are juxtaposed with heart-wrenching diary entries.
Contains mentions of
mental health conditions, drug-use
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Valentina and the MUOStri
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Valentina and the MUOSters
Valentina e i MUOStri
Francesca Scalisi
International Competition Documentary Film
A US Navy satellite communication system on Sicily. Valentina lives here with her parents but wants to become more independent. A tender story of emancipation at a site of global politics.
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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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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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Ibuka, Justice + Things of a Lifetime, Intimate Archeological Exercises
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Passage Kinos Wintergarten
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Ibuka, Justice
Justice Rutikara
International Competition Animated Film
Rwanda, 1994: Like hundreds of thousands of Tutsis, the Rutikara family is persecuted by Huti militias. They are rescued by chance – because a soldier was moved by their baby as they fled.
Contains depictions of
war scenes, death
Things of a Lifetime, Intimate Archeological Exercises
Les choses d’une vie, exercices d’archéologie intime
Céline Ségalini
International Competition Documentary Film
Céline arranges objects in the house of her deceased grandmother. It is an attempt to understand her better – her relationship to her own identity and France’s colonial history.
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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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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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Just Above the Surface of the Earth (For a Coming Extinction)
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Just Above the Surface of the Earth
Just Above the Surface of the Earth
Marianna Milhorat
Conservationist on the trail of the sixth great mass extinction. An experimental portrait that tells of frogs, starfish and bats – and ultimately of us humans.
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The spy who came in from Mittenwalde: Berthold Barluschke, employed by both the East and West German secret service, arms dealer, family man and professional impostor in a psychogram about identity and morals.
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W zawieszeniu
Alina Maksimenko
Ukraine, February 2022. The filmmaker flees to her parents’ house on the outskirts of Kyiv, where they live in an unbearable and inherently self-destructive limbo.
Contains mentions of
war scenes
Contains depictions of
war scenes
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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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Third Ways in a Divided World 4
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Passage Kinos Wintergarten
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Für die Palästinenser
Edna Politi
1974, Palestinian reality in Israel and the West Bank, economic and political oppression – documented by an Israeli who wants to make a convincing appeal: the urgent need for dialogue.
Marwan Salamah was delegated by the Palestine Liberation Organization to study in Babelsberg. As a one-man team, he realised this portrait of a young educator in a PLO orphanage in Tunis.
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Among the Palms the Bomb, Or: Looking for Reflections in the Toxic Field of Plenty
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Among the Palms the Bomb, Or: Looking for Reflections in the Toxic Field of Plenty
Among the Palms the Bomb, Or: Looking for Reflections in the Toxic Field of Plenty
Lukas Marxt, Vanja Smiljanić
The Salton Sea, a former nuclear testing ground on the brink of ecological collapse. The few people who still live here are campaigning to protect the abandoned area.
Contains mentions of
war scenes
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The Car That Came Back from the Sea + Pelikan Blue
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The Car That Came Back from the Sea
Samochód, który wrócił z morza
Jadwiga Kowalska
International Competition Animated Film
Poland, 1981. There is hardly any food, no fuel, only limited freedom. Six friends squeeze into an old car and set out for the Baltic Coast – and perhaps beyond.
Kék Pelikan
László Csáki
International Competition Animated Film
Home-made freedom of travel. The Iron Curtain has fallen. Three friends in Hungary forge train tickets to see Western Europe at last. A private pleasure soon turns into business.
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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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Morichales
Chris Gude
International Competition Documentary Film
A fictitious explorer reports on gold-mining and its commercialization in Venezuela. Paradoxically, the gold diggers live off nature – and destroy it at the same time.
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wo/men
Kristine Nrecaj, Birthe Templin
Panorama: Central and Eastern Europe
A portrait of six Albanian “Burrneshas”, women in the social roles of men, who have been going against the grain of the country’s patriarchal structures with wit and courage for decades.
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Spinning Dreams and Beats
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Nineteenth-Century Stroboscopic Discs (1831–1882)
Disques stroboscopiques du dix-neuvième siècle (1831–1882)
Dominique Willoughby
Ghastly grimaces, acrobatics, fountains of colour – the precursors of cinema needed only a few animation images to amaze. A parade of reanimated historical wonder discs.
The Mystical Shogun Kunitoki Strobe Light
The Mystical Shogun Kunitoki Strobe Light
Sami Sänpäkkilä
A record with multicoloured dots turns in the strobe light. A hypnotising rain of confetti to the beat of psychedelic organ Krautrock from Finland.
Hungry Ghost
Guido Devadder
The Phenakistiscope in three dimensions: A sculpture that shows the ghostly march of silently screaming people through a landscape of arms and legs in short animation loops.
Myriads of dots orbit the kaleidoscopic centre to the sweeping sound of a sitar. A breathtaking piece of visual music, realised by means of early computer animation.
Rectangular shapes in brilliant colours proliferate in a black void. The pioneer of computer animation uses 2D programming language to simulate strange fantastic galaxies.
Max Cooper: Cardano Circles
Max Cooper: Cardano Circles
Mario Carrillo
Stunningly beautiful – and science-based, too: Cooper’s euphoric electronica track and its visualisation in the exhilaration of a geometrical principle that originated in 1570.
Thrum IX
Will Bishop-Stephens
Accompanied by a vibrant guitar, the animation and noise machine “Thrum IX” enchants with snail shells and poppy capsules growing and shrinking on bicycle spokes.
Zyprazol
Dan Hayhurst, Reuben Sutherland
“Zyprazol” is medicine, a psychedelic drug. Graphic elements and broken beats zip wildly past our eyes and ears. A music video made by Sculpture.
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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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