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A Brixton Tale

2021
UK
from 16 years

The YouTuber and prospective filmmaker Leah never leaves the house without a camera. While filming on the street, she meets Benji and it sparks between the two. He’s going to be the star of her documentaries, she wants more and more glaring shots. Her exaggerated pursuit of success puts both of them at risk.

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5 min
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Aaaah !

2022
France
from 16 years

Aaaah! is a cry of pain, surprise, fear, joy, songs, grumbling, laughter, anger… Aaaah! is the expression with which children, these primary and innocent beings, experience life in a community.

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16 min
Short Film
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Acts in Parts

2023
Spain, Italy
from 16 years

Martaʼs cancer makes a strong comeback. Tired of her luck, she decides to give up. Thatʼs when three stories, filled with the most unexpected humor, will come to help her rewrite her destiny.

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90 min
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Ademoka's Education

2022
France, Kazakhstan
from 15 years

Ademoka, a literature enthusiast, likes to draw comics. Her family immigrated illegally to Kazakhstan and urges the 15-year-old to find a husband quickly. But she would rather study and write. The neglected teacher Ahab seems to be her only hope.

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89 min
Children´s Film
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Adventures in the Land of Asha

2023
Canada
from 8 years

Nine-year-old Jules, who suffers from a rare skin disease, moves to the countryside with his family. In the forest he meets the indigenous girl Asha. The two children become friends and set off together on a quest to find Ashaʼs parents and a cure for Julesʼ disease.

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107 min
Youth Film
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Alam

2022
Palestinian National Authority, Tunisia, France, Saudi Arabia, Qatar
from 15 years

In an Israeli town, Tamer and his friends lead a tranquil life. They observe the countryʼs political tensions from a safe distance until the committed Maysaa joins them. Together they plan a risky protest action against the Israeli government.

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91 min
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Alfons Jitterbit 2 - Class Trip Chaos!

2022
Germany
from 10 years

The class trip starts for Alfons Jitterbit totally embarrassing. Not only that the unlucky boy oversleeps and shows up in his pyjama bottoms, moreover the suitcase contains only his mother's clothes. And he wanted to impress the nice Leonie on this very trip.

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82 min
Youth Film
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Aliens Abducted My Parents and Now I Feel Kinda Left out

2022
USA
from 13 years

Itsy just wishes to move to New York after graduation and become a journalist. To make the move possible, she gets close to her classmate Calvin, who is convinced that his parents were abducted by aliens. Everything threatens to fall apart when he learns of Itsyʼs intentions. 

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103 min
Panorama
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Almost Like Everyone Else

2023
Russia
from 13 years

Dima has been in a wheelchair since a childhood accident. Despite his fulfilled life, he cannot shake the feeling that he is only "almost" like everyone else. When his friend Aisen comes to visit, he wants to show Dima the "real" adult life. Dima hopes that this will help him come clean with himself.

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89 min
Children´s Film
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Arnold Cautious and the Happiness Stone

2023
Finland, Latvia
from 7 years

Julius is about to start school, but he doesnʼt really want to. After all, his sister is a real model pupil. His parents are always fighting. So he escapes in his vampire comics and is amazed when one day he meets a real vampire.

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77 min
Children´s Film
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Auntie Rita's Party

2022
Netherlands
from 7 years

Aunt Ritaʼs shrill and cheerful parties are legendary. So Lulu and her best friend Théo are overjoyed when they finally receive an invitation to Aunt Ritaʼs big dance competition. They set off immediately, but the journey comes with some difficulties

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90 min
Panorama
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Azur and Asmar

2006
France, Belgium, Spain, Italy
from 8 years

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Even if the child friends Azur and Asmar grow up separately in different countries, Azur and Asmar dream of freeing the fairy of the Djinns. When they grow up, they set out to search for her, each for their own, but soon their paths cross again. Now they have become rivals in the fight for the liberation of the fairy.

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85 min
Junior Film
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Baghdad Messi

2022
Belgium, Netherlands, Iraq
from 14 years

When Hamoudi loses a leg in a street fight, the boyʼs dream of one day being able to play football as well as Messi is shattered. But thatʼs not all: his fatherʼs dangerous job forces the family to leave their home in Baghdad.

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5 min
Short Film
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Balcony Cacophony

2022
Netherlands
from 16 years

When a rich lady with a passion for topiary must swap her mansion with lush gardens for a tiny council flat, she finds it difficult to cope with her new neighbour and his strange hobbies.

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16 min
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Be yourself, enough!

2022
Norway
from 11 years

When Solveig helps her crush with a prank video, she involuntarily gets caught in a lie. As she struggles to clear her name, she realises the power of social pressure on the internet. 

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102 min
Junior Film
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Big Dreams

2023
Czech Republic
from 10 years

Eleven-year-old Dom dreams of becoming a famous ice hockey goalkeeper. Just like his idol Dominik Hašek, who won the gold medal with the Czech team in Nagano. Together with his friend Honza, Dom founds a hockey team. His crush Katka also joins the team.

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115 min
Youth Film
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Billie Blue

2023
Canada
from 14 years

16-year-old Billie spends the summer in Montreal with her sister Annette. There she meets Pierre. As the two get closer, Billie immediately falls in love. But Annette, unaware of her sisterʼs feelings, also has her eye on the beau.

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15 min
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Bimberlee

2022
Slovenia
from 6 years

A fairy-tale adventure of a little girl saying goodbye to her childhood. Bimberlee in a magical being, a child's anima, who is with the child since birth, who protects and helps him grow up.
 

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120 min
Youth Film
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Brother

2022
Canada
from 16 years

Michael and his older brother Francis grow up in the immigrant neighbourhood of Scarborough in Toronto. There are violence and racism the order of the day. Francis tries to keep his brother away from it and to protect him. But a traumatic event throws the family off balance.

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94 min
Youth Film
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Bullets

2022
Sweden
from 14 years

Abdel is a very talented boy with dreams and good behaviour. But the neighbourhood he lives in and the company he keeps are not exactly conducive to his future. When he wants to bail his best friend out, everything takes its course.

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88 min
German Focus
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Butterfly Tale

2023
Canada, Germany
from 6 years

A heartwarming and exciting tale of a gutsy one-winged butterfly named Patrick who stows away in a milkweed trailer with his goofy caterpillar friend Marty. Together with Jennifer, a butterfly who is afraid of heights, our heroes will defy the odds and have the adventure of a lifetime.  

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90 min
Junior Film
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Call Bebel

2023
Brazil
from 11 years

When 15-year-old Bebel starts at a new school, she quickly befriends with Zico and cousin Beto. Fellow pupil Rochane, on the other hand, sees Bebelʼs commitment to more environmental awareness as a threat to her popularity. She devises a plan to discredit Bebel.

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17 min
Short Film
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Camouflage

2022
Netherlands
from 16 years

Camouflage shows how an unsafe home affects 14-year-old Deniz’s relationship with his mother, the interaction with his friends and his behavior at school.

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90 min
Junior Film
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Captain

2022
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
from 11 years

Eleven-year-old Isa is absolutly convinced that he will soon be playing for the Iranian national football team. Nothing can shake his confidence. Not even the fact that he lives in the cancer station of a hospital and gets weaker from treatment to treatment.

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1 min
Short Film
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Cats Are Liquid

2023
Czech Republic
from 5 years

Proof that cats -contrary to general belief- are actually not solid, but liquid.

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92 min
German Focus
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Checker Tobi und die Reise zu den fliegenden Flüssen

2023
Germany
from 6 years

FSK: 0

One day, Checker Tobi receives a treasure chest. But Marina, his best friend from childhood, has the key. So Tobi sets off in search of her. An adventurous journey begins, leading to Vietnam, Mongolia and finally Brazil.

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73 min
Animated Film
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Chicken for Linda!

2023
France, Italy
from 10 years

Because mother Paula has punished her little Linda unfairly, the daughter is allowed to make a wish. She chooses paprika chicken, her late fatherʼs favourite food. But today is a general strike and there is no bird to be found anywhere. A turbulent hunt for a chicken begins.

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89 min
Children´s Film
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Coco Farm

2023
Canada
from 9 years

Reluctantly, Max moves from Montreal to the countryside with his father. But when he discovers at breakfast that farm eggs taste much better than those from industrial animal husbandry, he decides to found the animal-friendly Coco Farm together with his cousin Charles.

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5 min
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Code Rose

2022
France
from 16 years

A flamingo lands on an aircraft carrier and disrupts a military operation. Although he is scared away, he and his fellow flamingos return, adding a touch of pink to the gray war machine.

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11 min
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Corvine

2022
Canada
from 6 years

An eccentric boy has trouble fitting in at school due to his obsession with crows.

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9 min
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Crab

2022
Poland
from 16 years

How events that we all know from history lessons may look like through the eyes of the animals who witnessed it? A historical event from the point of view of a crab.

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82 min
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Cricket & Antoinette

2022
Croatia
from 8 years

A guitar-playing and carefree cricket named Ket and an ant named Antoinette meet by chance and are attracted to each other. But she is the heiress of an anthill where only discipline as well as hard work count. And this brings some problems with it.

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2 min
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Daily Tales - Part One: The Magnificent Beauty Of A Train Ride

2023
Germany
from 14 years

Mini wants to travel by public transport. The rudeness of her fellow passengers makes her so angry that she dumps her rage on a little bird who is also looking for a seat.

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3 min
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Dandelions

2022
Czech Republic
from 5 years

A tale of two lions, young and old, in a flower world not so different from ours – with the same crisis coming with old age and worries about what we leave behind.

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91 min
Youth Film
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Daughter of Rage

2022
Nicaragua, Mexico, Netherlands, Germany, France, Norway, Spain
from 14 years

Eleven-year-old María lives with her mother in very poor conditions on the edge of a huge rubbish dump. After unforeseen events, the mother-daughter pair is separated. María then sets out alone to find her mother.

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1 min
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Dealing With War

2022
Germany
from 14 years

Two sheep, one Dog. Two sheep: „Peace“.
Dog wags his tail, … opens his mouth showing six sharp teeth, ... screams: „War!“. 

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8 min
Short Film
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Desert Critter

2023
Germany
from 6 years

The desert critter casts the shadow of a palm tree. No other animal has such an annoying shadow. Can the animal exchange the shadow? A story about ones own identity and the search for friendship.

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25 min
Short Film
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Digital Investigations

2022
Germany
from 16 years

Lyn has a weird hobby. She stalks people online. Usually that gets her into trouble with her friends. But sometimes it gets her into real danger.

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91 min
Junior Film
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Echo To Delta

2023
Canada
from 12 years

Etienne and David are convinced of the existence of extraterrestrial life. On a stormy night, they try to contact aliens with their walkie-talkies. In the process, David is struck by lightning and dies. Etienne, however, is sure – his brother has been abducted.

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15 min
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Eisspin, the oh so Terrible

2023
Germany
from 12 years

Die hungernde Katze Echo wird zu einem schrecklichen Deal mit dem Alchemaster Eisspin gezwungen. Er wird die Katze einen Monat lang füttern, aber dann darf er sie töten und ihr kostbares Fett für seine Experimente extrahieren.

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10 min
Short Film
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Elephant in the Room

2022
India
from 11 years

Children from a small village in the Wayanad forest in Kerala, Southern India make a unique appeal to humanity on how to resolve the conflict between humans and wild animals and preserving the forest and the biodiversity.

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10 min
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Erich, 37, Looking for a Flat

2022
Germany
from 16 years

Heinz and Erich are cellmates and act out the visitation of an imaginary apartment. The film deals with the challenges of resocialization comedically.

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90 min
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Esteban

2016
Cuba, Spain
from 12 years

Esteban is nine years old and lives with his mother in Havana. Miriam sells cosmetic products on the street without a license and can thus only just feed the small family. Esteban also has to help after school. One day he hears an old man wonderfully playing the piano at an open window. At the gate, he discovers the sign saying “piano lessons” and gets to know the grumpy composer and teacher named Hugo.

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93 min
Youth Film
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Excursion

2023
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Serbia, France, Norway, Qatar
from 14 years

In search of validation, frustrated teenager Iman claims to her classmates that she has already had sex. Caught in her own lie, she invents a pregnancy and becomes the centre of a controversy that spirals out of control.

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100 min
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F for Frog

2023
India
from 10 years

From an early age on, his grandmother told Balu that it starts to rain as soon as frogs cry. Believing this story, the boy is laughed at at school. So he catches one of the animals to prove to everyone that he is right. But how is he supposed to make a frog cry?

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91 min
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Fancy Dance

2023
USA
from 14 years

Since her sister Tawi disapeared, Jax has been looking after her niece Roki on the Seneca Cayuga reservation. But when the Child Protective Services wants to place the 13-year-old with her father, an exciting road trip to the upcoming powwow begins for Jax and Roki, as does the search for Tawi. 

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15 min
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Felt Cute

2023
Iceland
from 12 years

Eleven year old Breki is at constant odds with his older sister, but all he wants is her validation. One day when she is out, Breki sneaks into her closet and makeup, leaving the room a mess. 
 

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84 min
Junior Film
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Fever

2022
Chile, Peru, Brazil
from 10 years

Little Nino is drawn into a mysterious painting. In search of a way out, he gets caught in a labyrinth of drawings, photos, postcards, advertising brochures and dreams. Each painting leads him into a new, different world. A return home seems impossible.

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134 min
Youth Film
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Fireworks

2022
Italy
from 15 years

In 1982, all of Italy is awaiting the World Cup. 16-year-old Nino has just finished school when he meets Gianni in a moped accident. They quickly become friends and soon discover their affection for each other. But family and community donʼt think much of such a connection.

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6 min
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Foxtale

2022
Portugal
from 16 years

A hungry fox fights for the last berry on top of the tree.

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92 min
German Focus
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Get Up

2022
Germany
from 13 years

FSK: 6

The twins Alex and Juli are fundamentally different. While Juli passed her A-levels with top grades, Alex failed and only wants one thing: to skate. So she trains with Juli, Ewa and Nia for a skate contest. But as soon as they are shortlisted, one conflict follows another.

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94 min
German Focus
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Ghosts under the Ferris Wheel

2023
Germany
from 9 years

13-year-old Tammi is annoyed. Instead of going on holiday, she has to attend the funeral of her grandfather Jackel. In his old-fashioned amusement park, she not only has to get along with the annoying relatives, but as "mummy" she also has to look after three ghosts that have come to life.

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4 min
Short Film
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Glow

2023
Germany
from 5 years

No power, no action!

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11 min
Short Film
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Go Away, Alfred!

2023
France, Belgium
from 6 years

Alfred had to flee his country because of the war. Without housing, he wanders, from rejection to rejection. One day he meets Sonia, who offers him a coffee.

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116 min
Animated Film
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Gold Kingdom and Water Kingdom

2022
Japan
from 10 years

After a failed marriage, Princess Sara and the scholar Naranbayar from the hostile kingdoms of Alhamit and Baikari meet again by chance. Together, the mismatched couple now takes the reconciliation of the two kingdoms into their own hands.

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84 min
Panorama
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Guilt

2022
Turkey
from 12 years

13-year-old Reyhan lives in Istanbul and is on a holiday visit to her grandmother. She is increasingly disturbed by the rigidity and intolerance in the village, but above all by the lack of a bathroom and the scheming grandmotherʼs gossip. In the end, the girl, who is just growing up, bursts her neck.

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87 min
Panorama
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Home Is Somewhere Else

2022
Mexico, USA
from 13 years

Four young people living as undocumented immigrants in the United States talk about their hopes and dreams for a better future and describe their experiences of growing up in a country and being constantly afraid of possible deportation.

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27 min
Short Film
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Homeland of Silence

2022
Slovakia
from 12 years

After the recent political attacks in a small Eastern European village, everyone stops talking to thirteen years old Ivanka, as if she was the one who caused the conflicts. So, Ivanka discovers the odd feeling of losing her most loved ones.

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25 min
Short Film
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How to Bury a Fish

2022
Germany
from 16 years

Four completely different teenagers in a psychiatric hospital develop a very special connection to each other while trying to build a pond.

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83 min
Panorama
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How to Get Your Parents to Divorce

2022
Canada
from 12 years

The constant arguing of her parents becomes too much for twelve-year-old Justine and she plans to divorce her parents with the help of her friends. A staged court case is to become the means to an end.

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100 min
Youth Film
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I Like Movies

2022
Canada
from 14 years

17-year-old Lawrence Kweller lives with his mother in Burlington, Canada. The teenager desperately wants to become a big film producer and applies to work in a video store. In the process, he is confronted with the reality of the working life and reaches his limits. 

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17 min
Short Film
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If We Were Birds

2023
Austria
from 11 years

Despite great feelings of shame, ten-year-old Maria can't stop writing secret notes that - in a storm of emotions - put herself and also her closest friends in danger.

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6 min
Short Film
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Inside Anthony's Head

2022
Canada
from 11 years

On a bizarre journey, young Anthony bravely faces the threat of men, monsters and the elements. 

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121 min
Panorama
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It's All My Fault

2022
Japan
from 13 years

Yuta lives in a childrenʼs home, but longs to be with his mother again. On the coast, he meets the homeless Sakamoto and schoolgirl Shiori, who are also searching for a true family. Together they try to find a place in the world and the meaning of life.

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16 min
Short Film
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It's Nice in Here

2022
Netherlands
from 16 years

The fragmented portrait of a moment that would significantly change the lives of everyone present, told from the memories of the young girl Imani and the rookie police officer David.

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95 min
Junior Film
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Juniors

2022
France
from 12 years

When Jordan and Patrickʼs beloved PlayStation unexpectedly breaks, the two 14-year-olds come up with a perfidious plan: Jordan pretends to be suffering from cancer and baldly launches an appeal for donations so that he can afford a new console with the money.

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76 min
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Just Super

2022
Norway
from 8 years

No one knows who is hiding behind the mask of the mysterious hero Super Lion – except Hedwig. The eleven-year-old is supposed to follow in her fatherʼs footsteps one day. But when the magical superhero suit shrinks in the wash, she has to face the task sooner than planned.

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82 min
Animated Film
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Katak, the Brave Beluga

2023
Canada
from 6 years

The young beluga whale Katak lives with his herd at a peaceful mouth of a river When his grandmother is dying, he sets off for the Arctic Ocean. Katak hopes to find his grandfather there, the legendary conqueror of the feared killer whale Jack-Knife.

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97 min
Junior Film
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Kepler 6B

2023
Spain
from 13 years

Jonás is convinced that his flat is a space shuttle on the planet Kepler 6B. He meets 13-year-old Zaida, who has to live with her violent guardian. They become friends. She helps Jonás return to reality and he offers Zaida a refuge.

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3 min
Short Film
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Kids in Winter

2022
China
from 4 years

In the cold winter, the rabbits try to get home in the face of an unexpected snowstorm. They hope to make the home become a safe shelter for everbody, for all the children of winter.

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21 min
Short Film
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King Sausage

2022
Netherlands
from 12 years

When Greetjeʼs father, butcher Tuitjes, takes on the Italian butcher Smakkerelli, the formerly rustic village of Moppel is turned upside down and Greetje is in danger of losing not only the annual sausage competition, but also her great love Nol.

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85 min
Panorama
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Kung Fu Lion

2023
Netherlands, China
from 12 years

14-year-old Jimmy is a gifted kung fu trainee and sees his big chance coming when the squad of the new lion dance team is put together. But his dream is quickly shattered. Because his teacher selects the newcomer Li Jié for the breathtaking martial arts jumps in the lionʼs head.

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92 min
German Focus
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Lassie - A New Adventure

2022
Germany
from 7 years

FSK: 0

In order to not leave Lassie alone, Flo forgoes the family holiday and goes to Aunt Cosima. The siblings Kleo and Henri also live there now. Kleo is rather dismissive. This changes when Cosimaʼs dog Pippa is stolen and the children go on a manhunt.

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4 min
Short Film
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Lemon & Berry

2022
Poland
from 5 years

The main characters are two hummingbird siblings that solve different problems by cooperating and trying various inventions.

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75 min
Special Programme
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Life Without Sara Amat

2019
Spain
from 14 years

Pep is 13. As every year, he spends his holidays in his grandmother's house in the country. There he meets again with his friends, who stir up the small town in the summertime. The gang includes Sara, who Pep is madly in love with. Every night the youngsters meet to play hide and seek or spin the bottle.

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88 min
Junior Film
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Lioness

2023
Netherlands
from 12 years

Teenage Rosiʼs life changes abruptly when she moves with her family from South America to the Netherlands. With little self-confidence but a great talent for playing football, she tries to assert herself and from then on has only one goal – to make it to the national team.

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90 min
Youth Film
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Little Ones

2022
France
from 16 years

16-year-old Camilla is unintentionally pregnant. After a failed abortion, she is sent to a home for pregnant women and young mothers. Here Camille is separated from her loving but toxic mother for the first time and must now make an important decision on her own.

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13 min
Short Film
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Madden

2023
Sweden
from 14 years

Madden tells a story about relating to your herd. About duty versus longing. About high-heeled shoes stepping in dung and heavy animal bodies thundering across a Scandinavian landscape.

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2 min
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Master Painter Ernst

2022
Germany
from 5 years

Forgetful Squirrel “Ernst” almost goes nuts looking for his meticulously hidden acorns. Only a shift in perspective can help him now.

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93 min
German Focus
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Maurice, der Kater

2022
Germany, UK
from 9 years

The tricky cat Maurice and the boy Keith free the villages from a supposed plague of rats for a good fee. No one suspects that they are in cahoots with the rats. But then they come to the village Bad Blintz, where dusky figures are up to mischief.

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94 min
Panorama
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Memory Forest

2023
Israel
from 15 years

A group of Israeli youths travels to Poland to visit former concentration camps. All of them are affected by the terrible past, as they themselves have victims in their families to mourn. Despite the grief, two of the teenagers fall in love. 

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81 min
Special Programme
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Mini-Zlatan and Uncle Darling

2022
Sweden, Norway, Netherlands
from 6 years

Ella is a great fan of the footballer Zlatan Ibrahimović and from her uncle Tommy. That's why she is happy that she can stay with Tommy for a week. But then he supposedly has a lot to do.But in reality he receive a visit – from his new boyfriend Steve. Sure, he has to be scared away!

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87 min
German Focus
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Mission: School of Fun

2023
Germany
from 10 years

FSK: 0

The strict headmaster Schnittlich wants to enforce 777 rules at all schools in the country. But troublemaker Maxe Zack is in his way. Thatʼs why he and his class are sent on a class trip. But Maxe has a helper at his side, a inspector for boredom-fighting.

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11 min
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Musical Socks

2023
Croatia
from 4 years

The extremely untalented bunny Darko takes singing lessons from Zvonko the cricket. Their lessons are a total failure. Željko the hedgehog brings a new perspective to the problem, turning Darko's flaws into advantages.

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82 min
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My Aunt Gilma

2022
Peru, Venezuela, Brazil
from 14 years

13-year-old Isabel lives with her aunt Gilma in Caracas, Venezuela. She is hospitalised after being beaten up by her partner. In the middle of the chaos of political and social injustices that surround her, Isabel would do anything to help her aunt.

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15 min
Short Film
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My Grandpa cannot write

2022
Japan
from 6 years

When Kana finds a letter from her grandpa that is full of mistakes, she makes fun of him. But then she learns why he can't write and helps him with a dictionary.
 

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89 min
Special Programme
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My Life as Lotta - Okey Dokey Alpaka

2022
Germany
from 10 years

Lotta is looking forward to her first school trip to Amrum! But her joyful anticipation is already dampened when she leaves, because her dad Rainer joins the trip as accompanying person. Oh, how embarrassing! But it's even more awkward when the French exchange student Rémi doesn't leave her side.

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8 min
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My Name Is Edgar and I Have a Cow

2023
Czech Republic, Slovakia
from 16 years

Edgar’s ordinary life is disrupted by a newborn calf he sees on a tourist trip to a slaughterhouse. He takes it home after finding out that the calf would become a schnitzel.

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90 min
German Focus
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Nach uns der Rest der Welt

2022
Germany
from 14 years

Jonas has an incurable muscle disease and is confined to a wheelchair. Once again he is expelled from school and so he moves to Stuttgart with his mother. Jonas also feels like "rejects" in his new class, until he meets Emily.

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72 min
German Focus
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New Tales of Franz

2023
Germany, Austria
from 9 years

FSK: 0

Franz has a problem again. His best friend Gabi is always arguing with his best friend Eberhard and Franz is always in between. His dad says: "The strongest bond of friendship is the common enemy". Could a manhunt help?

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77 min
Animated Film
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Nina and the Hedgehog's Secret

2023
France, Luxembourg
from 7 years

Ten-year-old Nina lets her father put her to bed with stories about a clever hedgehog. When Dad becomes unemployed because crooks have ruined the factory, his stories stop. With friend Mehdi, Nina gets to the bottom of it and an adventure begins.

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9 min
Short Film
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Nobody

2022
Netherlands
from 14 years

Florian is obsessed with Instagram. When he takes too many selfies he becomes transparent and has to struggle to keep his beloved followers.

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87 min
Youth Film
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Normal

2022
France
from 14 years

Lucie likes to invent bloody stories. The 14-year-old also lovingly takes care of her sick father, keeps the house in order and works as a part-time besides school . No wonder she falls asleep in class. Then, a social worker arrives to assess Lucieʼs living situation.

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15 min
Short Film
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Nudes

2022
Netherlands
from 14 years

When some boys in Jordi's class don't come to school after being filmed in the shower, the school questions all the girls in his class.

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92 min
Youth Film
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Okthanksbye

2023
Netherlands
from 11 years

Jamie has barely settled into the boarding school for the deaf when she learns that her grandmother is in a Paris hospital. Together with her classmate Imane, she immediately sets off. But the journey holds many challenges for the two 13-year-old girls.

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2 min
Short Film
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Our Piggy: Blocks

2022
Czech Republic
from 5 years

Stuffed animals are fun. And our Piggy's bear is not just any stuffed animal. He's great for playing kitchen or doctor.

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18 min
Short Film
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P.D.O. (Protected Designation of Origin)

2022
France
from 14 years

Advised by an administration full of good intentions, Latefa and her children frenchize their first names. They face this unique ordeal with humor and lightness, just before the start of the school year.

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14 min
Short Film
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Paolo´s Happiness

2021
Germany, Czech Republic, Switzerland
from 6 years

Paolo Piangino is a very happy man – because he can cry. Paolo’s tears make other people happy, too: They can pick Paolo’s happiness from the ground. But they cannot hold on to it. 

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7 min
Short Film
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Patchwork Kingdom: The Mole’s Job

2022
Poland
from 5 years

Princess Bianca and Albert the Hamster play on a small sandy hill. Noticing they are surrounded by more and a desert, they don’t know how to escape.

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103 min
Youth Film
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Peacock Lament

2022
Sri Lanka, Italy
from 15 years

Sri Lankan Amila is 19 years old. Both of his parents are deceased and only he can take care of his four siblings. One of his sisters is seriously ill. Under this pressure, he accepts the dubious offer of a Ms. Malini without hesitation and falls into the clutches of human and child trafficking.

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9 min
Short Film
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Pond

2023
Switzerland
from 4 years

Fleeing from attacking seagulls, a small herring gets caught in a tidal pool. Looking for a way out, he discovers other sea creatures.Together they defend themselves against a greedy seagull.

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88 min
Junior Film
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Popular Theory

2023
USA
from 10 years

Erwin is twelve years old and highly gifted. At school, she witnesses the constant struggle for popularity. She decides to develop a popularity serum for the upcoming science competition. But now, of all times, her father Arthur and aunt Tammy decree a off-time from science.

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110 min
Children´s Film
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Princes of the Desert

2023
France
from 10 years

The twelve-year-old nomad Zodi finds an orphaned baby camel in the desert. He names it Tehu and it becomes his best friend from then on. It turns out that Tehu is an excellent runner. And so the two of them set off for the biggest dromedary race in Abu Dhabi.

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8 min
Short Film
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Princess Aubergine

2023
Germany
from 5 years

A king and a queen have almost everything: love, pets and a flourishing garden, but something is missing. Where is the princess?

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92 min
Panorama
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Rock. Paper. Grenade

2022
Ukraine
from 15 years

Ukraine, 1990s: Ten-year-old Tymophii make friends with older Felix, a veteran of the Afghan war. Felix suffers from PTSD, loves music as well as weapons and lives as if he has nothing left to lose. For Tymophii, he quickly becomes a role model worthy of imitation.

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10 min
Short Film
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Roped

2022
Spain
from 16 years

Mother and daughter are roped for life by an eternal bond that heals and hurts, and that is perpetuated when the daughter becomes a mother.

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75 min
Animated Film
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Rosa and The Stone Troll

2023
Denmark
from 5 years

Flower fairy Rosa and her friends live in beautiful Summerland. The idyll is in danger when a stone troll takes up residence in the nearby forest and turns animals and mythical creatures into stone. A conference is held to discuss how to deal with the intruder.

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15 min
Short Film
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SHARK or HYENA

2023
Germany
from 11 years

The North Sea island kids Fritzi, Kalle, Ava and Bo have a problem. Mama Leo's new friend drives away the invisible elf Nisse because he doesn't believe in him and thus puts the new family in danger.

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7 min
Short Film
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Samara Op.4

2022
France
from 16 years

An old automaton sculptor retraces his own life throughout the four seasons.

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Trailer
84 min
Youth Film
Dates

Scrapper

2022
UK
from 12 years

After the death of her mother, Georgie initially fends for herself. Suddenly her father enters her life and tries to build a connection with his daughter for the first time in twelve years.

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3 min
Short Film
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Scratches

2023
Germany
from 14 years

On an old school desk, penis scribbles and carved love stories soon turn into a star of david and anti-Semitic slogans. What remains is a grown man who can't leave his school desk.

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22 min
Short Film
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Seaweed

2023
Germany, Israel
from 11 years

In the south of Israel, a boy dealing with the loss of his mother, befriends a mysterious wanderer who lives in the desert.

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Trailer
83 min
Panorama
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She - Hero

2023
Slovakia
from 6 years

Seven-year-old Romy misses her budgie Mimi, who flew away. Although her mother buys her a new bird, Romy is not consoled by her loss. With the help of her friend Cypko, she sets out to find Mimi. In the process, she meets some strange people.

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80 min
Animated Film
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Sirocco and the Kingdom of Winds

2023
France, Belgium
from 8 years

Visiting Agnes, the author of the popular books about the Kingdom of the Winds, Juliette and Carmen are pulled into one of the stories. In this fantastic world, the two sisters must find the dreaded Storm Lord Sirocco in order to return home.

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7 min
Short Film
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Spin & Ella

2022
Belgium
from 4 years

Ella, a spider fairy, quarrels with her friend Spider about her spider web art. The usually inseparable friends break up and cause chaos in Twig City. Can they reconcile again?
 

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7 min
Short Film
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Spin Cycle

2022
Germany, Switzerland
from 5 years

In the spin cycle of the washing machine, a pair of socks gets lost from sight! These new acquaintances there put the sock friendship to the test.

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20 min
Short Film
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Starman

2022
Colombia
from 12 years

Young Bugs sends signals in post-apocalyptic Boyacá to find other survivors. When an alien cosmonaut lands with him, unable to survive on Earth, Bugs must find a way to save him.

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9 min
Short Film
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Symphony

2023
Czech Republic
from 6 years

Little boy Martin has a visual disorder. He stays at home alone with his only friend - a magical toy called Francis, that helps Martin to explore the world. When he is invited to play football with the kids on the street he happily joins the game but everything results in bullying, theft, and a chase to get Francis back.

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4 min
Short Film
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T-Rex

2022
Germany
from 4 years

Sadly, the T-Rex is very bad at playing basketball.

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Trailer
83 min
Panorama
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The Black Pharaoh, the Savage and the Princess

2022
France
from 12 years

The latest animated film by the French master Michel Ocelot tells three stories set in three ages, in three worlds. A young pharaoh becomes the first black king, a wild boy steals from the rich and two lovers flee in 18th century Turkey.

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22 min
Short Film
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The Character

2022
Chile
from 14 years

Transvestite, is the character that David must play for the annual school play. Bullying will be his main enemy when acting the character.

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21 min
Short Film
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The Coins

2023
Norway
from 12 years

Inspired by a true story from 1968: Four boys decide to bury some ancient Chinese coins in a Norwegian excavation field and consequentially rewrite world history. They must now deal with the ramifications of their runaway prank.

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96 min
Youth Film
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The Cord of Life

2022
China
from 15 years

Electric musician Arlo canʼt stand the fact that his mum, who suffers from Alzheimerʼs, lives with his brother like a prisoner. He wants to help her and decides to take her on one last fulfilling journey. To prevent her from getting lost, he ties her to him with a cord.

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15 min
Short Film
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The Delay

2022
Italy
from 16 years

A clap of hands: the palms meet, but the snap comes a few seconds later. Arturo is out of sync, the delay is growing day by day. On the verge of a nervous breakdown, Arturo will have to question the pace of his life.

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96 min
Children´s Film
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The Diary of Paulina P.

2023
Croatia
from 8 years

For Paulina P., the new school year starts in the third grade, which means facing new challenges. On the one hand, the new girl in her class and two cute boys cause her problems. On the other hand, her parents are constantly arguing. But Paulina has a solution for every problem.

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95 min
Panorama
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The Fantastic Three

2022
France
from 14 years

Max, Vivian and Tom are inseparable, but then everything changes. Vivian has to move. Also, when Maxʼs brother Seb is released from prison and begins to drag the 12-year-old into his troubles, the friendship of the three is put to the test.

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88 min
Children´s Film
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The Gift

2023
Kyrgyzstan
from 9 years

Iman is teased by other men because of his five daughters. Seven-year-old Arno wishes to be the son Iman has always wanted. Arno dresses like a boy, hides her pigtails. But no matter how hard she tries, she is denied her fatherʼs love and approval.

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13 min
Short Film
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The Goose

2023
France, Czech Republic
from 5 years

A young boy living with his grandmother dreams of becoming a famous footballer. Their calm is unexpectedly disturbed by a sneaky goose, who wrestles him for his ball.

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14 min
Short Film
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The Innkeeper

2023
Ireland
from 6 years

When a spirited eight-year-old lands the part of Innkeeper in the school nativity play, she battles her perfectionist teacher who insists that she should "stick to the script" and refuse Mary and Joseph a room.

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100 min
Panorama
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The Kings of the World

2022
Colombia, Norway, Luxembourg, Mexico, France
from 16 years

The street boy Rá goes deep into the Colombian hinterland with his friends to claim a piece of land that was stolen from his grandmother by the military. Life in Apartadó is hard and without prospects. A desperate journey for survival begins.

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86 min
Children´s Film
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The Little Horsewhip

2022
China
from 7 years

Little Ansgar is infatuated with horses and dreams of nothing else than winning a race one day. Then, as a gift the family receives a beautiful riding horse named Flylake. But Ansgar has to share the horse with his brother and then it gets injured.

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20 min
Short Film
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The Mystery of Missing Socks

2023
Estonia
from 6 years

Little Pille goes to find her father’s missing socks under the bed, to a fantastical world of forgotten things. There she finds that dad’s socks have laid an egg! Now Pille must protect the socks from danger until the tiny egg can hatch.

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12 min
Short Film
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The Old Young Crow

2022
Japan, USA
from 16 years

Mehrdad recalls his experience befriending the old Japanese woman Chiyo at a graveyard in Tokyo through his old sketchbook. The following day she suddenly disappeared.

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13 min
Short Film
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The Photo That Came to Life

2023
Estonia
from 11 years

It is Peter’s first summer in the countryside! All seems to be going well until the innkeeper's dead grandfather tries to eat him.

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Trailer
95 min
Panorama
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The Quiet Girl

2022
Ireland
from 11 years

In the spring of 1981, nine-year-old Cáit is taken to live with distant relatives on the country side. Here the reserved and silent girl is to spend the summer so that she will not be a burden to her parents at home. She does not know when or if she will return to her family.

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98 min
Special Programme
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The School of Magical Animals

2022
Germany
from 8 years

Excitement at the Winterstein School! Mortimer Morrison presents two new magical animals and the rehearsals for a musical begin. Ida is to direct and her secret crush Jo should play the lead role. Everything would be perfect if it weren't for the conceited Helene always interfering.

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16 min
Short Film
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The Smile

2022
Netherlands, Belgium
from 16 years

When a world-famous film star is accused of eating his female co-stars, his career goes down the drain. That wipes the smile off his face.

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90 min
German Focus
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The Tale of the Frog and the Golden Orb

2022
Germany, Czech Republic
from 8 years

Gai and Teo make a mock bid for the hand of Princess Griseldis in order to get her dowry. The plan fails. When Teo then steals the golden orb, they are both banished to the Shadow Forest. But Gai has fallen in love with Griseldisʼ sister and she with him.

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100 min
Panorama
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There and Back

2023
Russia
from 12 years

Mitya is ten and has cancer. At the hospital, he befriends the slightly older orphan Marina. She doesnʼt care about anything. But she still has a spark of hope. At Crooked Cape, she has heard, oneʼs heartʼs desire is granted. For her, it is clear that she must go there. And Mitya follows her.

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23 min
Short Film
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This Is Your Captain Speaking

2022
Netherlands
from 6 years

To prevent his music teacher Seydou from being evicted from the Netherlands, ten-year-old Asare decides to adopt him. When grown-up reality creeps up on Asare's plan, he is at risk of losing not only his friend, but also his child-like imagination.

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21 min
Short Film
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This Long Breath, Concerning Beate’s Shop

2023
Germany
from 16 years

1992: Beate opens a overlooked shop in the Ore Mountains. Steffen travels the country with new products, Jan struggles in his job search and Lotta has stolen a car. But why?

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10 min
Short Film
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Tipping Point

2022
Netherlands
from 16 years

Tipping Point tells the story of Sustania, a world that is, in a sense, literally thrown off balance when its inhabitants start exploiting a previously inaccessible part of their world.

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Trailer
92 min
Panorama
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Titina

2022
Norway, Belgium
from 7 years

In 1926, airship engineer Nobile finds the young dog Titina in the streets of Rome. After Nobile has constructed an airship for the polar explorer Amundsen, Titina accompanies the first successful expedition to the North Pole. Everything goes well until Nobile and Amundsen quarrel.

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80 min
German Focus
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Tomorrow Somewhere by the Sea

2023
Germany
from 14 years

For a long time there was silence between Konrad and his school friend Romy. Now he invites her on a road trip to Lisbon. Romy accepts and takes her new lover Julian with her. Julian soon suspects that the two are connected by a secret from the past.

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Trailer
82 min
Animated Film
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Tony, Shelly and the Magic Light

2023
Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary
from 9 years

Eleven-year-old Tony is guarding a big secret. Shelly and her mother have just moved into the dark house where Tony lives with his family, and she reveals his secret – he glows. Together they set out to find out why the house is filled with darkness.

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97 min
Children´s Film
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Totem

2022
Netherlands, Luxembourg, Germany
from 10 years

Amaʼs family immigrated illegally from Senegal to the Netherlands. Then her mother and brother are arrested. Now the eleven-year-old tries to find her father and prevent the planned deportation of the entire family – she gets support from her totem animal

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12 min
Short Film
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Upside down

2023
Latvia
from 4 years

Andulis, the little bat, wakes up at the wrong time and makes friends with Little Mouse. He is surprised to find out that Little Mouse’s house is different from his own.

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Trailer
85 min
Special Programme
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Vinsky and the Invisibility Powder

2021
Finland
from 8 years

Hömpstad is hit by a series of burglaries. Ten-year-old Vinski meets an old pharmacist who gives him an invisibility powder because the city needs it. When his mother’s pastry shop is raided at night, Vinski actually has to take action.

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15 min
Short Film
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We Were Kids

2022
Sweden
from 16 years

Alexander made a film about macho norms, the talk that disturbs dreams and words that kill. When he shows it to his childhood friends, a poetic and physical conflict erupts.

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95 min
German Focus
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What the Finn?! A summer of surprises

2023
Germany
from 8 years

FSK: 6

Everything is going wrong for ten-year-old Finn at the moment: his father has been given an important assignment. Thatʼs why the paddling trip is cancelled and Finn has to go to his mother in Berlin. His backpack is stolen on the train and then the conductor calls the police. What the Finn!?

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10 min
Short Film
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What’s in That Crate?

2023
Belgium
from 6 years

“What’s in the box?” wondered the captain, bus driver and postman as they transported their cargo. The journey takes them overland, across the sea and in the air before the secret is revealed.

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Trailer
100 min
German Focus
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Wild Heart

2023
Germany, Belgium
from 8 years

FSK: 0

Anni has just moved to the country side with her family and dreams of having her own horse. But her parents do not keep their promise. On top of that, the prissy Pia makes life difficult for her at school. But then Anni discovers a wild horse in the forest, which she names Ponyherz.

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7 min
Short Film
Dates

Wind Whisperer

2022
Germany, Ecuador
from 16 years

At the end of the horizon a singing cicada is born. Its flying is short, yet its chanting is eternal.
 

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96 min
Youth Film
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You Can Live Forever

2022
Canada
from 16 years

After the death of her father, Jamie spends some time with her aunt and uncle in a Jehovahʼs Witness congregation. After a service, she meets Marike. The young women are attracted to each other and begin a secret love affair.

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