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109 min
Youth Film , Panorama
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#annaismissing

2023
Czech Republic, Slovakia
from 16 years

When 15-year-old Nina finds private pictures of a teenager on her fatherʼs mobile phone, she is in shock. Where did these photos come from and do they have anything to do with the disappearance of the well-known influencer? Her investigation reveals a spiral of shocking secrets.

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86 min
Junior Film
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A Past Ahead

2023
Spain
from 12 years

Two brothers, Óscar and Teo, are trying to come to terms with the loss of their mother. The scientist is obsessed with wormholes and one day she disappears. Perhaps she herself has fallen into a wormhole? Their lives change abruptly when one of them finds the cosmic gateway ...

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88 min
Animated Film
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A Tooth Fairy Tale

2024
USA
from 9 years

Van, the brave son of a tooth fairy leader, meets the goblins girl Gemma on his first mission. Despite the myths about ancient disputes between fairies and goblins, they share common values. When the greedy Spider Queen threatens both tribes, they must work together.

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70 min
German Focus
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Akiko, the Flying Ape

2024
Germany
from 6 years

Little monkey Akiko lives in the zoo and feels very much at home there. Until his grandfather tells him that his family once lived in the forest. And because Akiko can easily get through the bars, he is told to look for his relatives and free the captive animals with them.

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3 min
Short Film
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Animanimusical

2024
Germany
from 5 years

The Animanimals want to do a big musical performance but somebody got the wrong notes.

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17 min
Short Film
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Babayagagogo

2023
France
from 6 years

A little turtle is rejected by both sea and land creatures because she’s too different. Never doubting herself, she ends up changing the world for the better through the sheer force of her love.

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80 min
Animated Film
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Bartali's Bicycle

2024
Italy, India, Ireland
from 10 years

David and Ibrahim, two teenagers from rival teams in Jerusalem, share their passion for cycling and become friends. Despite prejudice and rejection, they follow Gino Bartaliʼs example and show how friendship and solidarity can change history.

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12 min
Short Film
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Basia: Birthday In A Museum

2024
Poland
from 5 years

Clever Basia is full of charm, energy and stripy humour, ensuring that her life is never boring. Every day is an adventure where she learns something new.

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9 min
Short Film
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Battery Mommy

2023
South Korea
from 4 years

Battery Mommy works at various electronic devices in a nursery. One day, she finds out the Christmas tree in the nursery is on fire. She urgently runs to the fire alarm to safely rescue the sleeping children.

 

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9 min
Short Film
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Bird Drone

Australia
from 14 years

A heartfelt story of unrequited love explored through a lonely seagull struggling to accept that his newfound object of affection is a human-operated drone with a limited battery life.

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78 min
Junior Film
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Block 5

2024
Slovenia, Czech Republic, Serbia, Croatia
from 11 years

Alma has problems making friends after moving to a new home and is bullied by Luna and her gang. When a building project threatens the playground and park in their shared building they have to band together, for better or worse, to save what is important to them.

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105 min
Junior Film
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Blue Sky Jo

2024
Canada
from 12 years

Québec in the 1980s. Inspired by her comic book heroine, ten-year-old Jo wants to help her depressed father so that he can pursue his dreams. She receives unexpected support from her gruff neighbor Monsieur Roger, in whom she soon finds a good friend.

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15 min
Short Film
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Calico

2024
Großbritannien / UK, USA
from 14 years

Lorrie is bullied at school for her severe vitiligo. She steals the school’s talking goldfish, escaping school and briefly enjoying freedom. But then she and her new friend run into danger.

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86 min
Junior Film
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Clenched Fists

2023
Belgium
from 13 years

Eleven-year-old Lucien lives with his mother and brother in Belgium. His father is in prison and although his mother has broken off contact, Lucien longs for him. But the more time he spends with his father, the more he gets caught up in his father's manipulative behaviour.

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89 min
Special Programme
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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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8 min
Short Film
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Come Back to My Shelf

2023
Russia
from 16 years

Father and daughter live in a world where everyone has a locker for storing good memories. One day the dad leaves and the girl stops replenishing her shelves with new impressions.

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5 min
Short Film
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Cooked Fellas

2023
Germany
from 16 years

Don Cannelloni is enraged. Somebody cut the good premium parmigiano of La Famiglia with cheap, pre-grated cheese! Now it is up to Tony Riga and Al Capenne to get Long John Sghetti to confess.

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15 min
Short Film
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Days of Thunder

2023
Mexico
from 14 years

Luna wants to use her menstrual cup at school, but that is difficult because there is no clean water. So she and her classmates organize a protest for their right to water and collect rainwater together.

 

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93 min
Panorama
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Diplodocus

2024
Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia
from 8 years

The little dinosaur Diplo is horrified: from one moment to the next his parents disappeared without a trance and the jungle is gone too. Luckily, he can save himself in a foreign world. But here too comes the white nothingness and wipes everything out. What does a cartoonist have to do with it?

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9 min
Short Film
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Dissociation

2023
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
from 7 years

Pouya is suffering from not recalling his deceased mother’s voice. His aunt is trying to help him.

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89 min
Panorama
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Dyad

2023
Bulgaria
from 16 years

15-year-old Didaʼs everyday life is characterised by violence, neglect and problems at school. Her only goal in life is to buy a plane ticket to visit her mother in the USA. She will stop at nothing to achieve this, is stealing and bullying. But then a discovery throws her life even further into chaos.

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86 min
German Focus
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Elbow

2024
Germany, Turkey, France
from 16 years

17-year-old Hazal sees few opportunities for herself in life. She encounters prejudice everywhere she goes. But for her 18th birthday, she wants to really let it rip. But then a fatal incident occurs. Hazal flees Berlin and tries to go into hiding in Istanbul.

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85 min
German Focus
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Elli and the Ghostly Ghost Train

2023
Germany, Canada
from 8 years

Als mysteriöse Drohnen Ellis alte Spukvilla zerstören und ihren Onkel entführen, begibt sich das Gespenstermädchen auf die Suche nach ihm. In einer Geisterbahn trifft sie drei Monster, die sich hier versteckt halten. Schon bald freunden sich die vier an und nehmen den Kampf mit den „Geisterjägern“ auf.

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87 min
Special Programme
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Even Mice Belong in Heaven

2020
Czech Republic, France, Poland, Slovakia
from 10 years

Two arch-enemies on Earth – a small mouse and a fox – land in the sky after a deadly accident, abandoning their prejudices and becoming best friends. Because they have to go through a lot of adventures and encounter strange characters in this paradise, boredom never arises.

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127 min
Panorama
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Explanation for Everything

2023
Hungary, Slovakia
from 15 years

Budapest im Sommer: Der Gymnasiast Abel hat Schwierigkeiten, sich auf seine Abschlussprüfung zu konzentrieren, da er unsterblich in seine beste Freundin Janka verliebt ist. Plötzlich brechen die Spannungen einer gespaltenen Gesellschaft auf, als Abels Geschichtsprüfung einen nationalen Skandal auslöst.

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90 min
Special Programme
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FEHLT

2024
Germany
from 12 years

A new project to connect two ski resorts with a ski lift divides the public opinion. When a lobbyist and a forest owner die under mysterious circumstances, the police detectives Robert Winkler and Karina Szabo once again need the help of forester Saskia Bergelt.

 

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11 min
Short Film
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Fallin´

2024
Spain
from 7 years

Awakening in a season not its own, the Winter Spirit must learn to discover beauty in the unfamiliar, confronting personal biases and embracing the ever-changing cycle.

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3 min
Short Film
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Fly by

2023
Czech Republic
from 5 years

The story of a little cloud taking care of a colorful flower.

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9 min
Short Film
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Forever SEVEN

2024
Germany
from 5 years

A box is a box is a box. Sometimes though it’s just a matter of perspective to discover something completely different behind it.

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71 min
Panorama
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Fox and Hare Save the Forest

2024
Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg
from 6 years

Strange things are happening in the forest: Owl has disappeared, mean rats are making the neighborhood unsafe and an overflowing lake is threatening the forest animals. Fox and Rabbit are determined to find Owl. But their friendship is put to the test.

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22 min
Short Film
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Fritzi & Sophie - Borderless Friendship: A Journey That Changes Everything

Germany
from 9 years

In the middle of the holidays, Sophie has to travel to Hungary with her mother – without her dog Sputnik and Fritzi. When Sophie arrives in Hungary, a surprise awaits her: her mother wants to escape with her from the GDR to West Germany.

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22 min
Short Film
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Fritzi & Sophie - Borderless Friendship: Three, Two, One, Treehouse!

Germany
from 9 years

Fritzi and Sophie are super proud of their new tree house and also met break dancer Rocco while looking for material. They’re ready for the holiday fun, but then Sophie’s mother Kati gets into trouble with the GDR secret service...

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22 min
Short Film
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Fritzi & Sophie - Borderless Friendship: We Become Refugees

2024
Germany
from 9 years

While Kati and Sophie, accompanied by Rocco and his older brother Ecki, try to escape from Hungary to the West, Fritzi realizes in Leipzig that Sophie is not coming back. Fritzi courageously sets out to bring Sputnik to Sophie.

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12 min
Short Film
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Game Rules

2024
Sweden
from 12 years

A youth handball team is about to participate in their first major tournament. As they aim for the top, the game is suddenly interrupted by adults questioning who’s really allowed to play.

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7 min
Short Film
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Go my Way

2024
Spain
from 6 years

Elisa likes Martin, but Martin doesn’t seem to realise it. All the advice Elisa receives to make Martin fall in love with her is to change not only her appearance, but also who she really is.

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84 min
German Focus
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Greetings from Mars

2023
Germany
from 8 years

Tom is different. He needs firm rules. However, they are quite out of order when he has to spend the holidays with his grandparents. “If you can do this”, his mother says, “then you can also make it to Mars”. That is where Tom really wants to go, so he sets of to his first space mission.

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126 min
Junior Film
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Hajjan

2023
Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan
from 13 years

Matar, youngest son of a Saudi family of camel jockeys, continues his brother Ghanimʼs dream after his death in camel racing. Under pressure from a ruthless racing stable owner, Matar fights to achieve success and freedom for himself and his camel Hofira.

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16 min
Short Film
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Hannah & The Crocodile

2024
Belgium
from 7 years

When Fien discovers that her sister, Hannah, is threatened by a vicious crocodile that is making her very skinny and sick, she calls in the help of mom and dad to work with Hannah to defeat the crocodile.

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11 min
Short Film
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Head in the Clouds

2023
France, Belgium
from 4 years

Alfonso, a young squirrel, loves watching clouds. But cloud-gazing is not always easy – Alfonso sometimes has to be as brave as some of the great explorers of our times.

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11 min
Short Film
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Hello Summer

2024
Slovakia, Czech Republic, France
from 16 years

Sea, sun, beaches and family holidays. But what if the hotel isn’t as stellar as promised, your room has a bit of a naughty view, the dinner is surprisingly exotic and your luggage travels elsewhere?

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20 min
Short Film
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Hex Daddy, hex!

Germany
from 7 years

When Marie’s father suddenly becomes a witch, they both have to learn what it means to use their skills for good.

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29 min
Short Film
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Huldufólk - A hidden world

2024
Germany, Iceland
from 12 years

In order to save the hidden elf village of Alfgarður from destruction, five adolescents from the world of elves and humans have to convince the people of the Icelandic village of Falinfjörður of the elves’ existence.

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92 min
Youth Film , Panorama
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Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person

2023
Canada
from 16 years

Sasha is a young vampire and too sensitive to kill. When her annoyed parents withdraw her blood supply, her life is put in danger. But then she meets Paul, a lonely teenager with suicidal thoughts who is prepared to sacrifice his life for hers.

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8 min
Short Film
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Humanity

2024
Czech Republic
from 16 years

Life is hard even without having to tolerate other people's annoying habits. But in this world, you can make all your dark visions of fatal revenge a reality.

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101 min
Special Programme , Focus
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Hunt for the Wilderpeople

2016
New Zealand
from 13 years

Disobedience, stealing, spitting, running away, throwing stones, kicking, arson, graffiti: these are all crimes committed by young outsider Ricky Baker, a self-proclaimed gangster. Until now, he’s moved from foster family to foster family, this is his last chance before he lands in a juvenile detention facility.

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15 min
Short Film
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Inhuman

2024
Netherlands
from 16 years

Faced with a 700 euro cost to save the life of his daughter’s guinea pig, Peter is forced to choose which values to hand down to his eight-year-old.

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95 min
Special Programme
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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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20 min
Short Film
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Just Us Two

2024
Germany
from 7 years

10-year-old Zoya has only been in Germany for a few years and loves to cook. She is supported by her plush mouse Mischka. After a dispute with her basketball-loving mother, she runs away from home.

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9 min
Short Film
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Karaoke, The End

2023
Netherlands
from 15 years

17-year-old Luna has two identities: offline, she is the good daughter, but online, she secretly poses as a mature woman, chatting with 37-year-old Michael. Everything goes well until the moment these two worlds unexpectedly collide.

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102 min
Junior Film
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Kaytek the Wizard

2023
Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia
from 11 years

Kaytek wants to change the world and his magical powers seem to be the answer. But as his magic causes more and more delicate situations and an evil wizard comes after him, Kaytek finds himself confronted with the challenges of his magical powers.

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90 min
Panorama
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Lars is LOL

2023
Norway
from 8 years

At school, twelve-year-old Amanda meets her new classmate Lars, who has Down syndrome. Despite their initial insecurities, a close friendship develops between them. But when Amandaʼs fear of standing out at school leads her to turn against Lars, their bond threatens to break.

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9 min
Short Film
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Legacy

2023
Hungary
from 16 years

A woman has lost her grandmother. The granny’s apartment is now lifeless, only a few boxes lie in the living room. But is that really all that is left behind her?

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80 min
Animated Film
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Living Large

2024
Czech Republic, Slovakia, France
from 12 years

Overweight teenager Benjamin struggles with bullying and his first love. Recommended by a nutritionist and in order to impress Klara, he starts a diet. When the self-confident beauty makes it clear to him that she doesnʼt love him, Benjamin has to find himself anew.

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20 min
Short Film
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Look at the wildflowers

2024
Switzerland, France
from 12 years

An old woman arrives to a small village. She comes from the desert and asks for hospitality. In return, she will share the story she captured in the dunes and carries in a large wooden box.

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5 min
Short Film
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Lucky's plan(e)t

2023
Serbia
from 16 years

Lucky the Gnome goes to a meadow every morning, where he waters a flower for years. One day he finds Wicky, the evil gnome, taking the flower, so Lucky decides to follow him to get his plant back.

 

 

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3 min
Short Film
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Madeline´s House

2023
Großbritannien / UK
from 16 years

A little girl, Madeline, takes a tour of her beloved childhood home. The more rooms she explores, the more she slowly remembers the strange and disturbing events that led to her death.

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8 min
Short Film
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Malila

2023
Germany
from 14 years

During her vacation, Malila comes across a mysterious alley and finds herself in a fascinating carnival filled with fantastic figures. But then her newly discovered world turns against her.

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5 min
Short Film
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Marie

2024
Czech Republic
from 5 years

During the monotonous lesson, Frantisek dives into the depths of his imagination and loses himself in the drawings in his notebook. But all his thoughts lead to his classmate Marie.

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94 min
German Focus
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Max and the Wild Bunch: The Ghostly Granny

2024
Germany
from 9 years

Max and his new friends, the senior residents Vera, Horst and Kilian from table 7 have another murder mystery to solve. Because the retirement home is haunted! Furthermore Max also has to train hard so that he can join his schoolʼs football team.

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82 min
Panorama
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Mika

2024
Kazakhstan
from 10 years

Seven-year-old orphan Mika lives in the big city with her grandfather. The two inseparables are popular everywhere. One day, top model Dajana takes an interest in the little girl. But for Mika, a dream job in the fashion world quickly turns into a nightmare.

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7 min
Short Film
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Mine is Better Than Your´s

2024
Austria
from 6 years

Feeling embarrassed, twelve-year-old Nico tries to keep his older dad from dropping him at his classmate Luisa’s birthday party. His hesitation causes a tricky situation.

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3 min
Short Film
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Mr. Slumber

2023
Czech Republic
from 5 years

Mr. Slumber sets off to the city every night to provide people with rest. However, sometimes someone appears, who does not want his services.

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15 min
Short Film
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My very own Footballer

2023
France
from 15 years

Sylvie and Karim have given it a lot of thought. They’re ready to put there hardly earned money into Sylvie’s latest aspiration: acquiring a domestic football player.

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85 min
German Focus
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Niko - Beyond the Northern Lights

2024
Finland, Germany, Ireland, Denmark
from 7 years

Niko is finally allowed to join Santaʼs flying squad. But the reindeer girl Stella is also applying. So the two of them have to enter the competition. But before the competition is decided, disaster strikes: Santaʼs sleigh is gone!

 

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8 min
Short Film
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Octopus Banana Hotchpotch

2023
Slovenia
from 16 years

A lively and dynamic journey through the lives of best friends, soulmates Mila and Mara, whose quite different life paths join in a wonderful adventure over many decades.

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7 min
Short Film
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Odo: Spooky

Poland
from 5 years

Odo is a little owl with big ideas. The Forest Camp is a wonderful leafy playground where birds of all shapes and sizes can play games and learn skills. In this episode Odo tries to show that even little birds can be scary.

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93 min
Panorama
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On Earth as in Heaven

2023
Canada
from 14 years

16-year-old Clara and her older sister Sarah are growing up in an isolated Christian society. When Sarah suddenly disappears, Clara sets off to find her. During the search, Clara stays with her aunt Louise in Montreal and gets to know a whole new side of the world.

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8 min
Short Film
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On the 8th Day

France
from 14 years

It took 7 days to create the world, it only took one to disrupt its balance.

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30 min
Short Film
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PIECHT

2023
Germany
from 15 years

Johanna is on vacation in idyllic Piecht. While her mother dreams of an ecological alternative life, a nightmare unfolds for Johanna as she is confronted with a far-right community.

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4 min
Short Film
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Potatoes

2023
Poland
from 16 years

A little boy grows up and looks upon the father role. It is a story of family relationships: Sometimes, it’s worth letting go. For yourself and for others.

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18 min
Short Film
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Pothole

2024
Canada
from 16 years

While riding his bike, Thomas, a young illustrator, learns that he got his dream job, but an accident shatters his dream. The encounter with a little girl changes his perspective.

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87 min
German Focus
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Rapunzel and the Return of the Falcons

2023
Germany, Czech Republic
from 9 years

Abandoned as a baby, Rapunzel lives happily with the magician Eleonor. At Queen Freya's court, she befriends Prince Sigismund. But then the two have to flee because Eleonor refuses to give the queen magical help. For many years, Rapunzel and her foster mother now live hidden away in a tower without a door ...

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10 min
Short Film
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Recordari

2024
Germany, Chile
from 14 years

Santiago, Chile in the 1980s: two girls face sweetness as best friends and neighbors. The outside life is determined by discipline, curfews, harassment & protests.

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5 min
Short Film
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Reincarnation Mall

2023
Germany
from 16 years

When Mr. Grump finds himself in a shopping mall after his death, in which you can buy a new life with karma points you collected, he is forced to rethink his entire attitude towards life.

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11 min
Short Film
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Reni´s World

2023
Argentina
from 6 years

Reni likes to read. On the first day of school, he is afraid to go to school where he doesn’t know anyone. At school he meets Adina, who shows him the library and they enter the world of origami together.

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101 min
Special Programme
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Rickshaw Girl

2021
Bangladesh
from 12 years

Driving a rickshaw is a male privilege in Bangladesh. The brave and resolut Naima would do anything to help her family, even leave them. In order to earn money in the capital city Dhaka, she pretends to be a boy and becomes a rickshaw driver.

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Robin and the Hoods
100 min
Junior Film
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Robin and the Hoods

2024
UK, Ireland, Switzerland
from 12 years

In the woods at the end of the road, Robin and her friends, the “Hoods”, have no limits to their imagination. But when an unscrupulous developer wants to cut down the forest and redevelop the area, the children must do whatever it takes to save “the kingdom”.

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87 min
Animated Film
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Savages

2024
Switzerland, France, Belgium
from 11 years

Keria, a girl living on Borneo, looks after the orangutan baby Oshi, whose mother was killed. Together with her cousin Selai, she fights against the destruction of the rainforest and discovers her own indigenous roots in an adventurous way.

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11 min
Short Film
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Saïd & Anna - Patient

2024
Netherlands, Germany
from 4 years

A sad little boy walks into the Repair Shop. His teddy bear is broken. Since Saïd’s father doesn’t have time, Saïd and Anna take matters into their own hands.

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101 min
German Focus
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School of Magical Animals 3

2024
Germany
from 8 years

While Ida prepares for the annual forest day with her class, Helene has completely different plans. She needs more followers for her influencer channel and therefore more money, because her family is on the verge of bankruptcy. She will use any means to achieve her goal, including breaking into the museum...

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7 min
Short Film
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Scrubby

2023
Germany
from 4 years

Scrubby lives a secure and warm life in his mother’s fur, until she slowly loses it. When he´s searching for her, he meets a naked, freezing creature. Is his fur enough for the both of them?

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20 min
Short Film
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Secret Seed

2024
South Korea
from 6 years

Eun-Seo comes to believe the story of her classmate Su-Bin, who insists that the tooth fairy exists and grants wishes. To make her earnest wish come true, Eun-Seo starts to wiggle her teeth.

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7 min
Short Film
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Sevanik

2023
Armenia
from 4 years

Sevanik, a small dragon, lives in Lake Sevan. His only friend is a fluffy cloud. But one day, while exploring outside of the lake, Sevanik gets bitten by a mosquito. This event leads to unexpected changes.

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6 min
Short Film
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Sheep Story

2024
Czech Republic, Iceland
from 16 years

A person finds a home within a sheep’s body. The person cuts into the sheep from the inside, feeding off its body while disregarding the sheep's desperate screams. Eventually, they go too far and face the consequences.

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20 min
Short Film
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Shooting Watermelons

2023
Italy, Großbritannien / UK
from 16 years

Federico ist mit seinem Vater und Bruder im Urlaub. Sein Vater ist ein strenger und stark maskuliner Mann, durch den er sich unsicher und ungenügend fühlt. Aber Frederico entdeckt, dass sie sich doch ähneln.

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93 min
Junior Film
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Soaring Wings

2024
India
from 11 years

For the movie-loving Maya, one thing is certain: the story of her young married friend Togor, who returns to her family broken after being mistreated by her new husband, must be told. But not everyone in the small Indian village is happy about her film project.

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95 min
Special Programme
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Souls without Walls

2024
Germany
from 12 years

The 93-minute film focuses on the sporting comeback and the emotional entanglement between Katharina Witt and Jutta Müller. The film is not a biography of an athlete, but the struggle of two strong women from different generations who lost their identity with the end of the GDR and are forced to reposition themselves.

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4 min
Short Film
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Space

2024
Kazakhstan
from 16 years

Children living in an unknown place, travel every day in search of food. One day, they find the television antenna they have been dreaming of. When they turn on the TV, they see themselves on the news.

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15 min
Short Film
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Summer End's Poem

2024
China, Malaysia, Switzerland
from 14 years

Shortly before the end of the summer holidays, a country boy spends his savings on his dream hairstyle – with surprising results. A story about the end of childhood and the poetic end of a summer.

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93 min
Panorama
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The Art Class

2023
China
from 13 years

At the end of the 1990s, Art and Music were still far from being accepted school subjects in the provinces of China. The friends Ba Wang, Hein Hongniu and Xueju suffer greatly in class as a result. Until a new teacher called Leng Lang appears and shakes up the old-fashioned school system.

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90 min
Junior Film
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The Book of Everything

2023
Netherlands, Latvia
from 11 years

In a small Dutch town in the 1960s, eleven-year-old Thomas lives under the rules of his strictly religious father. But the boy begins to question his familyʼs religious beliefs and escapes into a fantasy world to free himself from them. His eccentric neighbour helps him.

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2 min
Short Film
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The Hedgehog

2023
Czech Republic
from 5 years

A schoolgirl draws a hedgehog that can swim. A classmate sees it and wants to test it. His family has a pool and under the tree in their backyard… a hedgehog.

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86 min
German Focus
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The Key of Saint Peter

2023
Czech Republic, Slovakia, Germany
from 6 years

The thieves Wilhelm and Emilia have stolen the key of Saint Peter and in the process have also involved the good-natured Tobias. When the three of them find themselves at heaven's door after an accident, Saint Peter sends them back to life. They have three times three days to find the key, otherwise: hell!

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108 min
Junior Film
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The Last Time We Were Children

2023
Italy
from 11 years

Rome 1943: When their best friend Riccardo, son of a Jewish trader, suddenly disappears overnight along with his family, the friends Cosimo, Italo and Vanda set off in search of him. Their only clue is the railway tracks leading to Germany.

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90 min
Special Programme , Focus
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The Map Reader

2008
New Zealand
from 14 years

"You can go anywhere in the world, to any place, if you can read a map." Michael has been interested in maps from an early age. He used to puzzle them as a child, others were measured and pointed to the north. Meanwhile, his whole room is full of them. Even the walls are decorated with maps high up to the ceiling. Still now, at the age of 16, they constitute his favourite pastime.

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Trailer
89 min
Junior Film , Focus
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The Mountain

2024
New Zealand
from 11 years

Sam, Mallory and Bronco want to climb the mountain Taranaki for different reasons. Sam wants to get well on the mountain, Mallory wants to honor his mother and prove that he can be brave, and Bronco wants to clear nature of garbage. The three of them set off on the adventure of a lifetime.

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12 min
Short Film
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The Queen´s Flowers

2024
USA
from 6 years

A magical take on a true story. In 1915 Honolulu, Hawaiian girl Emma gives a special gift to the last monarch of Hawaii, Queen Lili’uokalani.

 

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15 min
Short Film
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The Shadow of Dawn

2024
Estonia
from 15 years

An incorporeal shadow takes up a dangerous adventure through a mystical forest, fancy castle and dream world to save her frivolous owner from a cursed Beast.

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10 min
Short Film
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The Strange Case of the Human Cannonball

2023
Ecuador
from 14 years

One morning, a mysterious man is found lying in the square of a small village. No one knows who he is nor where he came from. The inhabitants must act quickly and decide what to do before the stranger awakens.

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77 min
German Focus
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The Super Elfkins

2024
Germany
from 7 years

When the Heinzel girl Helvi meets the somewhat clumsy Bo, she learns that there is a Heinzel gang alongside her clan who just want to have fun. Helvi wants all the Heinzels to make up again. But thatʼs not so easy – as stubborn as the adults are.

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96 min
Special Programme , Focus
Dates

The Whole of the Moon

1995
Canada, New Zealand
from 15 years

After a fall while rollerblading, Kirk is hospitalised. During examinations, it turns out that the 17-year-old is suffering from bone cancer. He meets Marty, who is suffering from leukaemia, and a friendship develops between the two.

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17 min
Short Film
Dates

The sleeplessnes of Jutka

2023
Poland
from 15 years

Jutka is a little girl whose world falls apart when she is closed in the Łódz ghetto. When a monstrous Minotaur begins hunting in her neighbourhood, she must follow the advice of her grandfather.

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Trailer
71 min
Animated Film
Dates

Thelma's Perfect Birthday

2024
Latvia, Luxembourg
from 5 years

Thelma, a bright and curious penguin girl from the Arctic Ocean, wants to celebrate her upcoming birthday with all her friends. To do so, the little girl sets off on a fantastic journey that boosts her self-confidence and suddenly confronts her with the question of what home means.

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13 min
Short Film
Dates

This is not a character, this is betrayal

2024
Germany
from 16 years

An acclaimed debut novel. A reading at the Stuttgart Literaturhaus. A car ride through the Ruhr region into the Swabian province. A mother and her son, separated by the shame of their origins that actually unites them.

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128 min
Panorama
Dates

Till We Meet Again on the Lily Hill

2023
Japan
from 16 years

After an argument with her mother, school girl Yuri runs away and hides in an old air defence bunker. When she wakes up, it is 1945 and there she meets the soldier Akira, a kamikaze pilot. Knowing his destiny, Yuri does everything she can to prevent his upcoming mission.

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Trailer
91 min
Children´s Film , Panorama
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Timir

2024
Russia, Jakutien
from 11 years

When Timirʼs mother dies, there are only two options for the boy: either orphanage or village life with his dad. In the middle of the Yakutian countryside, Timir has no friends, and he has nothing in common with his father either. But then a haunting ghost from Soviet times comes to his aid.

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7 min
Short Film
Dates

Tiny Toot - The Cow

2024
Denmark
from 4 years

Tiny Toot is camping with her family. While there, she and her friends meet a cow and need to help it immediately. 

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4 min
Short Film
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Today you have to shine

2024
Germany
from 5 years

When the old winter boot Jäätä and the little sneaker Wetz disappear during the night and reappear in the morning all cleaned up in front of the shoe rack, the other shoes wonder what happened.

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Trailer
114 min
Panorama
Dates

Totto-chan: The Little Girl At The Window

2023
Japan
from 10 years

In the 1940s, the bright Totto-chan upsets her class and is expelled from school. At Tomoe-Gakuen elementary school, however, she is allowed to flourish and quickly makes friends. But while they grow up carefree, Japan is drawn deeper into the war.

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21 min
Short Film
Dates

Tremolo

2023
Germany

After a long time a deaf boy meets his father again, whoʼs a musician and does not speak sign language. Over a long weekend father and son realize they speak a common language through music.

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11 min
Short Film
Dates

Trigger Warning

2023
Germany
from 15 years

Alina has to find a way to deal with the assault. But was it really sexual assault? When is which boundary actually considered exceeded? She gathers all the courage to stand up for herself.

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5 min
Short Film
Dates

Tuu Tuu Til

2024
Germany
from 4 years

Little children need the help of a companion to navigate the challenges of life. Or maybe it’s their awe at everything new that fills the life with magic (and nonsense) for the adults around?

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4 min
Short Film
Dates

Ummi & Zaki

2024
Germany
from 5 years

“Now we’re friends for life”, says Zaki. But Ummi doesn’t know if that’s what she wants. A little story about courage, tolerance and friendship at second glance.

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Trailer
117 min
Panorama
Dates

Upon Open Sky

2023
Mexico, Spain
from 16 years

Two years after the death of their father in a car accident, Salvador, his older brother Fernando and stepsister Paula set off on a road trip to the north of Mexico. Their goal: to track down the man who caused the accident. Together they want to take revenge.

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14 min
Short Film
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Weeds

2024
Czech Republic
from 16 years

A gardener tends a small garden in a field overgrown with weeds. What begins as an innocent encounter turns into a fight for survival and an attempt to preserve the existing world at any cost.

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101 min
Special Programme , Focus
Dates

Whale Rider

2003
New Zealand, Germany
from 11 years

The Maori girl Paikea wants to be the successor to the legendary tribal founder who once came to New Zealand from Hawaii on the back of a whale. Her grandfather Koro, the current head of the tribe, does not believe in his granddaughter’s ambitions, which are contrary to tradition.

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19 min
Short Film
Dates

Who Needs Teachers?

2023
India
from 12 years

Isha Sahni grows weary of her teachers’ rules and control. Determined to rebel, she challenges them at every opportunity. But then she meets the new English teacher, Mrs. Khanna.

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Trailer
119 min
German Focus
Dates

Winners

2024
Germany
from 10 years

Eleven-year-old Mona from Syria is new at the chaotic school in Berlin-Wedding, where everyone seems to be fighting against everyone else. She only speaks broken German, but she can play soccer really well. Thatʼs why sheʼs asked to join the school team, against the wishes of the other girls ...

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Trailer
103 min
German Focus
Dates

Wow! Message from outer Space

2023
Germany
from 7 years

Billie and her friend Dino receive strange signals through their home-made radio telescope. They can only come from aliens! They write to the ESA to have the sounds deciphered. They are actually invited there and even fly into space. Only they are on their own ...

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12 min
Short Film
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Writing Home

2024
Czech Republic
from 5 years

A small bark beetle girl lives peacefully in the forest until a fire burns down her home and separates her from her family. Lost in a human town, she has to face the dangerous world of giants.

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12 min
Short Film , Focus
Dates

Yargh!

2024
New Zealand, Germany
from 6 years

A merry trio of pirates unearth a stash of riches on the beach of a remote island. But when their boat gets taken by the tide, stranding them, they are quick to turn on one another and squabble over their prize.

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