With 23 hand-picked films, the German Competition presents a red-hot selection of current national short film. 🔥 More urgent than ever, five programs show very personal views on major universal and social issues - from human and inhuman behaviour, remembering and forgetting to road trips through time and space.
A RECONNAISSANCE, Stefan Kruse, Germany/Denmark, 2025
A Thousand Waves Away, Helena Wittmann, Germany, 2025
A War I've Never Seen, Fariba Buchheim, Germany, 2023
The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for Mabel Dove, Nnenna Onuoha, Ghana/Germany, 2024
Augen auf, Augen zu. (EYES WIDE, EYES SHUT), Leonie Minor, Germany, 2024
Butterfly Kiss, Zohar Dvir, Germany, 2024
Ciao Ciao Guo, Ying Chen, Taiwan/Germany, 2024
Cómo ser Pehuén Pedre (How to be Pehuén Pedre), Federico Luis, Argentina/Germany, 2024
Die ganze Nacht (The Whole Night), Alejo Franzetti, Germany/Argentina/Burkina Faso, 2025
Die Stimme des Ingenieurs (The Engineer's Voice), André Siegers, Germany, 2024
Eigentlich wollte ich nicht lange bleiben (Actually, I didn't want to stay long), Andreas Grützner, Germany, 2025
Gelin, Ah Gelin, Can Ünlü, Germany, 2025
Hühnergarderobe (Chicken Wardrobe), Simon Dickel, Germany, 2025
Ich hätte lieber einen anderen Film gemacht (I would have liked to make a different film), Suse Itzel, Germany, 2024
Invisible Countdown, Amir Ovadia Steklov, Germany, 2024
Mother's Letter, Sylvia Schedelbauer, Germany, 2025
One Hundred Years Later, Christoph Girardet, Germany, 2025
PREKID VATRE (CEASEFIRE), Jakob Krese, Germany/Italy/Slowenia, 2025
Les Rites de Passage (Les Rites de Passage), Florian G.M. Fischer & Johannes Krell, Germany, 2024
rückblickend betrachtet (in retrospect), Daniel Asadi Faezi & Mila Zhlutenko, Germany, 2025
The Garden Had Not Disappeared, Helena Aljona Kyn, Germany, 2025
The Wolf, Naama Heiman, Germany, 2024
Whether Here or There, Amir Naumann, Germany, 2024
Film selection by Francesca Bertin, Lars Frehse, Leonie Kellein, David Kleingers & Nadine Mayer.
Filmstill: The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for Mabel Dove, Nnenna Onuoha
