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Films 2026

Sinkflug

Where do we actually go when everyone wants their country back? Mimi is uncertain, but her partner Eli accompanies her into the unknown anyway. A film about collective guilt and what remains between two people when an entire country looks away.

Genre

Short Fiction

Duration

11 min

Country

Germany

Roxana - a climate story

In the Peruvian Amazon, many Indigenous communities still live without reliable access to electricity or the internet. At the same time, large fossil fuel projects cut through the region. In Alto Mishagua, this contradiction sets the backdrop for the story of Roxana. When Roxana returns during the pandemic, her home feels more isolated than ever, and the warnings of the elders grow more urgent: their forest is changing, the rains are shifting, and life is becoming more uncertain. Together with other young people, she begins to imagine a different future built on clean and independent energy.

Genre

Documentary

Duration

9 min

Country

Germany

Distress Call

Two Italian operators working for "Watch The Med Alarm Phone" receive an emergency phone call from the central Mediterranean Sea. For about eleven minutes the operators remain in contact with a man in danger and struggle to save the lives of one hundred migrants sinking on a rubber boat. The situation on board gets worse: the migrants fall into the water, the boat sinks and the communication is interrupted. The destiny of the people on board remains a mystery. Maybe a ship will arrive to save them, maybe someone will die, maybe everyone will die.

Genre

Fiction

Duration

20 min

Country

Italy

Like Friend, Like Deer

Like Friend, Like Deer tells the story of a wildlife ranger in a critical situation who kills an illegal hunter during a confrontation. This short film explores the deep connection and hidden similarities between humans, animals, and the environment they share.

Genre

Animation

Duration

13 min

Country

Iran

Systemfehler

Driven by an exercise bike, single mother Tabita tries to keep her care-work machine running.

Genre

Fiction

Duration

3 min

Country

Germany

Understanding Nothing

The film documents the attempt to understand nothingness. Supported by interviews from the fields of philosophy, physics, and spirituality, various aspects of nothingness are illuminated. A meditative train journey takes us through different visual worlds. Barren landscapes invite us to enjoy the silence.

Genre

Documentary

Duration

24 min

Country

Germany

Moon Unit

Moonie is a teenager growing up in East Germany with her bipolar mother, whose life swings between intense energy and deep despair. While Moonie dreams of escaping to somewhere far away, she is caught between caring for her mother, hiding the chaos at home, and trying to live her own teenage life. When the chance to spend a year abroad appears, the fragile relationship between mother and daughter begins to unravel.

Genre

Fiction

Duration

20 min

Country

Germany

The Hare

The film explores the intertwined fates of the hare and the poet being hunted.

Genre

Animation

Duration

10 min

Country

USA

Was bleibt ?

Dosi has been living with Alzheimer's disease since 2020. Despite her increasing memory loss, one wish remains for the 91-year-old: she wants to visit Nonnenhorn on Lake Constance one last time, where she spent two years during the war. Together with her granddaughter Carla, she travels from the retirement home in Berlin to the place of her memories. "What Remains?" documents the many facets of Alzheimer’s while also highlighting the close bond between two women of different generations. Dosi’s humor and stubbornness are just as present as her forgetfulness and the sadness that comes with it. As they navigate this emotional journey together—with all its ups and downs—the question arises: what remains when memory fades?

Genre

Documentary

Duration

30 min

Country

Germany

Lichenlike

A story of lichens, inertia, and fusion.

Genre

Animation

Duration

8 min

Country

Slovenia

Abhang

Garbage is piling up in the landfills. A layer of soil is supposed to make it disappear. Moss and shrubs creep over the trash of civilisation. And what is happening today with the contaminated inheritance lying in Swiss forests and fields? A search for clues on the heap of the dump.

Genre

Documentary

Duration

16 min

Country

Switzerland

Home

Samir, a young student from Hamburg Germany, receives a deportation warning. His residence permit is about to expire and his application for an extension has been denied. From one day to another Samir's life turns upside down but once he manages to tell his friends, it turns out that they are not willing to let him go.

Genre

Fiction

Duration

18 min

Country

Germany

über uns

Felix and Pia, in their late twenties, spend a few days at Felix’s grandparents' vacation home. What starts off as a lighthearted getaway quickly turns tense, and an unspoken distance grows between them, one they both feel. When they finally open up about their feelings and future together, no easy answers emerge. The following evening, they find themselves at a nostalgic bowling alley, where a quirky older bowler shares a story from his life, offering them a new perspective on themselves.

Genre

Fiction

Duration

20 min

Country

Germany

Das Lachen meiner Mutter

Twenty years ago, Elli lost her mother to suicide. To protect Elli, who was four years old at the time, they didn't really talk to her about it. Even years later, she hardly knows anything about her own mother. Now Elli has decided to broach the subject and get to know the woman she is supposed to be so similar to. She moves back to the apartment where the accident happened. The stories told by her father and by friends fill in the gaps in her memory. But how does all of this affect those involved, as well as Elli herself?

Genre

Documentary

Duration

29 min

Country

Germany

The Graduate

A prom, an evening full of exuberance and joy, when suddenly something terrible happens.

Genre

Fiction

Duration

12 min

Country

Germany

Maláka

The unequal, half-Greek brothers Giorgos and Alex embark on a journey to find the hidden gold of their estranged father. But does the gold truly exist? Are the brothers really Greek? These questions remain open to debate.

Genre

Fiction

Duration

23 min

Country

Germany

Assimilation

Bai Ye works in Shanghai, her boss, Liu Xun, sexually harasses her and Bai angrily chooses to quit her job. When her cousin Xu Lijin learns of the conflict, she kindly intercedes on Bai's behalf, but her self-initiated mediation makes Bai feel betrayed from her family. Taking the opportunity of going back to her hometown to celebrate her grandfather's birthday, Bai Ye decides to go home for a while to take a break. However, she discovers that there are actually dark tides between her family members who are supposed to be close to each other. She realises, with a sense of loss, that home may not be a safe haven.

Genre

Fiction

Duration

26 min

Country

UK

Spiegelberg - Ein deutsches Dorf

A small village deep in the Swabian Forest. The last village store is about to close. Between nostalgia and decline, idyll and bleakness, five people share their perspective on society and a place that, in many ways, reflects a time that no longer exists. A documentary that captures the spirit of life in the microcosm of a German village.

Genre

Documentary

Duration

30 min

Country

Germany

Wish You Were Ear

In a world where ex-partners must swap a chosen body part after each break-up, every relationship leaves a visible mark. Disfigured and longing for wholeness, the protagonist encounters someone wearing their former ear — and begins a journey toward self-acceptance. A reflection on how relationships reshape us, inside and out.

Genre

Animation

Duration

10 min

Country

Hungary

Krampus

On a secluded farm in Lower Bavaria, Xaver struggles with guilt and fear during the icy winter. Nourished by the myths of his childhood and the faith of the local people, he searches for justice and a way out of the guilt that haunts him. As the shadows of his past thicken on Krampus Night, he faces a momentous decision.

Genre

Fiction

Duration

30 min

Country

Germany

Something About The Eyes

Something in the Eyes follows a population of jackals living in Yarkon Park, an urban space at the heart of Israel’s largest metropolitan area. Through two opposing human approaches: Irit, a nature activist who sees the jackals as neighbors to live alongside, and Dr. Nuriel Shuv, the city’s chief veterinarian who seeks to manage and reduce the population out of concern for public safety, the film examines human responsibility toward wildlife in the city. It explores coexistence, fear, compassion, and the shifting boundary between nature and urban life

Genre

Documentary

Duration

18 min

Country

Israel

Táxismemoria

Animated documentary based on archival audio recordings of women’s testimonies recounting their experiences of imprisonment in the Soviet forced labor camp system (GULAG). The film was created as the practical component of a master's thesis.

Genre

Animation

Duration

11 min

Country

Germany

The Tempest

Amid isolation and the promise of an unexpected change, two lives marked by loneliness cross paths, revealing affection, healing, and belonging.

Genre

Fiction

Duration

25 min

Country

Brazil

Still February

A wolf-like figure awakens in a world threatened by fire and decay. She senses that everything around her is disappearing, without understanding why — almost blind, unable to see the obvious. But then it begins to see the truth: huge, destructive feet trample through the world, setting everything on fire, dragging the past and the future alike into darkness. In the end, there is only one thing left for it to do: save itself.

Genre

Animation

Duration

12 min

Country

Germany

Actually, I didn't want to stay long

How has the treatment of people in psychiatric institutions changed from the 1970s to the present day? Who are the people who live in such an institution and what is the experience of a young man who starts working there in the 1970s? Confronted with a traumatic discovery in his family biography, a reflection begins.

Genre

Documentary

Duration

23 min

Country

Germany

Mann Muss gehen

Further information coming soon

Genre

To be announced

Duration

To be announced

Country

Germany

Blob and the Wolf

When Blob dozes off during his shift as a prison guard, she accidentally sets chaos in motion—allowing the big bad Wolf to escape from the Jail of Guilt. Now burdened with blame, poor Blob is sent on a surreal quest to recapture the fugitive. Stumbling through a fever-drenched landscape of regret and delirium, Blob must face distorted visions and inner demons. Will she catch the Wolf — or lose herself in this nightmare?

Genre

Fiction

Duration

13 min

Country

Germany

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