International Short and Medium-Length Competition
A decolonial fable, this fantastic essay takes a unique look at peacock colonies in Berlin and hippopotamuses in Colombia to reflect on the roles of the powerful and on freedom.
ABOUT HAPPY HIPPOS AND SAD PEACOCKS
- Johannes Förster, Elkin Calderón Guevara
- 2024
- Germany, Colombia
- s.t. French or English
- 29 min
Audio work
Combining auto-ethnography and testimonies gathered in a reconstructed shelter, Anna Kravets creates an admirable emotional (and sonic) encyclopedia of wartime life.
AN EMOTIONAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF WAR
- Anna Kravets
- 2023
- Ukraine, Romania, Belgium, Germany
- 46 min
International Short and Medium-Length Competition
detours while speaking of monsters explores the mystical Lake Van in Turkey, intertwining Armenian and Kurdish folklore with the filmmaker’s personal journey to reveal the hidden wounds of history and family.
DETOURS WHILE SPEAKING OF MONSTERS
- Deniz Simsek
- 2024
- Germany, Turkey
- s.t. English
- 19 min
International Feature Competition
As we’re gently guided by the filmmaker's voice, Lapilli explores the profound absence left by grief in rocky landscapes and churning waters.
International Feature Competition
Through a variety of processes and techniques creating an eclectic collage effect, Alexandra Guela tells us the story of her family and her people, the Aromanians.
MAIA - PORTRAIT AVEC MAINS
- Alexandra Gulea
- 2024
- Romania, Germany, France
- s.t. English
- 91 min
International Feature Competition
The last resident of a mesmerizingly beautiful village nestled in a Cabo Verde valley, 76-year-old Quirino is forced to leave the only place he has ever known.
OMI NOBU, L'HOMME NOUVEAU
- Carlos Yuri Ceuninck
- 2023
- Cape Verde, Belgium, Sudan, Germany
- s.t. French or English
- 64 min
Opening film
In a hybrid between activist documentary and science-fiction fable, an android from a future where humanity no longer exists takes an unconventional look at the present.
PREPARATIONS FOR A MIRACLE
- Tobias Nölle
- 2024
- Switzerland, Germany
- s.t. French and English
- 88 min
New Visions Competition
In Kinshasa, a region is plunged into darkness due to the theft of electrical cables. The film takes us into the heart of an impenetrable night and a population in search of light.
RISING UP AT NIGHT
- Nelson Makengo
- 2024
- Congo, Belgium, Germany, Burkina Faso
- s.t. French or English
- 96 min
National Short and Medium-Length Competition
Divided into four language exercises, this meditative work of surprising narrative originality creates fleeting urban poetry exposing the details of a presence in motion.
SOUS LE SOLEIL EXACTEMENT
- Noa Blanche Beschorner
- 2024
- Canada (Quebec), Germany
- s.t. English
- 15 min
International Feature Competition
In a revealing documentary approach, this story, told with the protagonists playing themselves, reconstructs their uprooting in the face of the insensitivity of climate change.
THE WOLVES ALWAYS COME AT NIGHT
- Gabrielle Brady
- 2024
- Mongolia, Australia, Germany
- s.t. English
- 96 min