Program overview
Climate change, lost memories, and changing environments: This selection of shorts is about the loss of the world as we know it. Losing Flowers For All Occasions, Overflow, Aura and WATER focus on the fragility of our planet and the destructive ex...
Feminist crossroads of all sorts become visible in this selection of shorts—because the fight for an equal world is all but over. Queer belonging as a migrant is at the centre of the visually stunning film-poem Lost Arab as well as the hommage to ...
In Ethiopia, it often takes a long time for an ambulance to arrive, which is why many women take the risk of giving birth at home. This is also the case with Hulu. The film accompanies this young woman with empathy and without prejudice before and...
“In Medellín you can't see the horizon.“ When not only the main actor of his planned first film, but also other acquaintances die within a short time, either from an overdose or suicide, director Theo Montoya realizes that the focus of his film ha...
Cairo, January 25, 2013: On the second anniversary of the revolution, women are exposed to numerous sexualized acts of violence at Tahrir Square. As a result, crowds of enraged women go out on the streets. The camera in director Samaher Alqadi han...
This is the story of seven LGBTQIA+ people living in Kosovo, coming from different backgrounds and generations. In their own words, using their real names, voices, and faces, Megi, Semi, Edon, Qerkica, Mustafa, Blendi, and Linda share their journe...
It is August, and Valérie Pelet takes us to well-known Italian vacation destinations close to the Austrian border. These places, which she explores with 16 mm shots and an off-voice, become more and more diverse. Shots of half-empty plates with fo...
A TV-documentary on antisemitism that caused a scandal in 2017: the TV-channels ARTE and WDR refused to air the film for it did not meet their quality standards. Critics and Jewish Institutions accused the responsibles of censorship and anti-israe...
Aya has grown up with her mother on the island of Lahou in southern Côte d’Ivoire. She plays with her friends, looks after her younger brother, and leads a completely normal life in many ways. Apart from the fact that the island she lives on is si...
Over a period of three years, the filmmakers accompanied women who were victims of rape during the Croatian War of Independence and who have been suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder ever since. For a long time, they were not able to spea...
Many Syrian refugees are stranded in Zaatari, which is the biggest refugee camp in Jordan. Among them are Fawzi and Mahmoud. In this town made up of tents, soccer is a great passion for these two young men, giving them hope for a better future. Th...
“One day some people swam across a sea and by doing it they saved it.” Mungeth Mehyar, Yusuf Matari and Oded Rahav long to be able to tell a similar story. The men hail from Palestine, Israel, and Jordan, all neighbors of the Dead Sea, which is th...
