The German Competition is here! Featuring 25 outstanding short films from here and now. Ranging between the political and the personal, between the experimental and the documentary – with forms as diverse as the artists behind them.
Bad Luck, Jan Eilhardt, Germany, 2025
Birth / بحلم بسفينة, Salma Salem, Egypt, Germany, 2026
Bleifrei 95 (Unleaded 95), Emma Hütt, Tina Emy Muffler, Austria, Germany, 2025
Ciel Cassé (Torn Sky), Jozefien Van der Aelst, Germany, 2025
COLD CALL, Stefanie Schroeder, Germany, 2025
Commissioned Confession, Assaf Gruber, Germany, 2026
Denkst du auch, was ich denk, Couseng?, Couseng, Lotta Becker, Germany, 2025
Die Narben meiner Mutter (My Mother´s Scars), Tete Hoffmann, Germany, 2025
Du sagst, dass du auf der Party bleibst, weil es dir Spaß macht (You Say That You're Staying at the Party Because You're Having Fun), Siri Hammarén, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, 2026
Gramática práctica Italiana (Practical Italian Grammar), Daniel Cortés, Colombia, Cuba, Germany, 2025
Imitation Machines, Alex Bartsch, Germany, 2025
Mannheim, Gregory Nachmanovitch, Germany, USA, United Kingdom, 2026
Não Há Magia (There Is No Magic), Lucas Milhomem, Germany, Brasil, 2025
POLLY POCKET, Mariola Brillowska, Germany, 2025
S'Tuntschi vo Juf (Tale of a Sad Man), Jon Grandpierre, Germany, Switzerland, 2026
Sleeping Beauty, West Oladun, Germany, 2026
SLET 1988, Marta Popivoda, Germany, 2025
Super Afghan Gym, Shahrbanoo Sadat, Germany, 2026
The Impossibility of Showing What Should Never Have Happened, Silke Schönfeld, Germany, 2025
The Muscles Are Tense, Mahshid Mahboubifar, Germany, Iran, 2026
This Suffocating Now, Vika Kirchenbauer, Germany, 2026
Unordnung und Sicherheit, Dora Cohnen, Germany, 2025
Warnungen an die ferne Zukunft (Warnings to the Distant Future), Juliane Jaschnow, Stefanie Schroeder, Germany, 2025
Zwangsouting (Forced Outing), Jan Soldat, Germany, 2025
浑浊 (Muddy Waters), Zhichao Zhu, Germany, People's Republic of China, 2026
Film selection: Francesca Bertin, Lars Frehse, Leonie Kellein, David Kleingers and Nadine Mayer.
Filmstill: Super Afghan Gym, Sharbanoo Sadat
