Grand Prize of the City of Oberhausen
worth 8,000 euros

Jailoogo Karay Uzak Jol
(Long Way to the Pasture)
Ilgiz-Sherniiaz Tursunbek uulu
Kyrgyzstan 2025, 23‘35‘‘, colour

Statement:
A cinematic energy is unleashed in a film of a shepherding family’s move to summer pastures in Kyrgyzstan. A way of capturing the moments of this human and animal life’s migration over a wild river. All creatures are revealed in the heat of action, totally immersed in the moment. Moving with the forces of nature and its elements. Remarkable cinematography and use of light and motion.

Principal Prize
worth 4,000 euros

Dvorts∞vaya
(The Palace Sq∞are)
Mikhail Zheleznikov
Israel 2024, 22‘, colour/black and white

Statement:
The Alexander Column is the axis of encounters on the Palace Square in St. Petersburg. Starting from a witty photomontage, the film expands to a broader narrative; a film that equally captures a place and time. The First World War is declared, the Winter Palace is stormed, and in one shock cut, we move from the Russian Revolution to the dismantling of the Soviet Union. For the filmmaker there is never a faceless crowd, always a crowd of individuals with faces that are still watching us today.

Promotional Prize of the International Competition
worth 1,500 euros

Gusarapos
(Crawlies)
Ulysse de Maximy
Mexico 2024, 17‘55‘‘, colour

Statement:
The filmmaker guides us to a family, drawing from his own experiences with madness, centering on the voice recordings and observations of a schizophrenic uncle. We feel a strong individual voice transformed into a unique cinematic language. The story is disturbing and moving at the same time. We feel it more than we read it.

European Film Awards Short Film Candidate

Common Pear
Gregor Božič
Slovenia/UK 2025, 15‘, colour

Statement:
A new generation is awakening in an environment where one cannot survive. They use the archive to study the recent past to achieve knowledge from the previous generations. Voices from the past lead us to a poetic exploration of nature threatened by the climate catastrophe. A near-future fiction film about the loss of nature and how to navigate this reality.

Special Mentions

Será inmortal quien merezca serlo
(Whoever Deserves It, Will Be Immortal)
Nay Mendl
Cuba 2024, 19‘, colour

Statement:
How do we remember a beloved person? A film that relates to the queer present and a previous generation in the name of Winston Hernandez. Old photographs show the history interwoven with the present reality of queer people in Cuba. A repressive government installed detention camps for these people regardless of their political convictions. The film reveals the voices of this community.

Aswin Pyaung Lelkyinn Titehku
(A Metamorphosis)
Lin Htet Aung
Myanmar 2024, 16‘39‘‘, colour

Statement:
In this film the filmmaker transforms the experiences of what it is like to grow up with state television propaganda into a kind of counter-broadcast. An outstanding exploration of the possibilities of AI in the compositions and its narratives.
This distorted, eerie broadcast explores the daily experiences of living in a dictatorship accompanied by a lullaby that might haunt you forever: Yee, lé-lé! Yee, lé-lé!

The International Critics’ Prize (FIPRESCI Prize)

Members:
Giuseppe Di Salvatore (Switzerland), Kathrin Häger (Germany), Nini Shvelidze (Georgia)

Common Pear
Gregor Božič
Slovenia/UK 2025, 15‘, colour

Statement:
The FIPRESCI Film Critic Award 2025 goes to a film that focuses on caring for trees and highlights the intergenerational responsibility for the climate breakdown. Also, on the dramaturgical level the vegetables create a visual bridge between science fiction and documentary. A dystopian view filled with a feeling of loss and melancholia introduces us to a place of refuge where we can hope for repair. Here the documentary elements are put at a distance through the analysis of images. The cinematic immersion, enhanced by impressive photography and elaborate framing, leaves room for a reflection about an urgent “common fear” to which anyone can feel connected, and probably re-connected with nature.

1st Prize of the Jury of the Ministry of Culture and Science of North Rhine-Westphalia
worth 5,000 euros

Members:
Bernd Brehmer (Germany), Stephan Brüggenthies (Germany), Ruth Schiffer (Germany), Silke Schönfeld (Germany), Ulrike Sprenger (Germany)

Myakish
(Crumb)
Elena Kulesh
Russia 2025, 28‘45‘‘, colour

Statement:
The “Njet” as a bracket. Three young men full of longing, looking for a life of their own against all odds. We gain insights into a society in which the wishes and needs of the weaker members are thwarted by patriarchal violence.

2nd Prize of the Jury of the Ministry of Culture and Science of North Rhine-Westphalia
worth 3,000 euros

Jailoogo Karay Uzak Jol
(Long Way to the Pasture)
Ilgiz-Sherniiaz Tursunbek uulu
Kyrgyzstan 2025, 23‘35‘‘, colour

Statement:
A family in Kyrgysztan take their livestock to the summer pasture. Intense, almost magical images make the audience part of this journey. This film always finds the right rhythm, precisely observing the interplay of forces between humans and nature.

Special Mention

Les Fenêtres
(Windows)
Elsa Pennacchio/Etienne De Villars
Frankreich 2024, 13‘42‘‘, Farbe

Statement:
When prisoners’ thoughts set the walls in motion.

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury
worth 1,500 euros

Members:
Michael Müller (Germany), Mina Radović (United Kingdom), Valeriia Shakhunova (Poland)

Drogi Leo Sokolosky
(Dear Leo Sokolosky)
Weronika Szyma
Poland 2024, 8‘, colour

Statement:
By employing minimalist animation with live action resurrected from family archives, this film transports the viewer through Ansbach and the inner space of one woman's journey to find her great-grandfather who went through the labour camps of the Second World War. Making the past present, and bringing together history, documentary and critical personal reflection, Drogi Leo Sokolosky is a wondrous cinematic diary that gives us the rare opportunity to pull back the curtain and peer into the depths of a human soul.

Special Mention

Nocturno
(Nocturne)
Sol Muñoz/Ana Apontes
Argentina 2025, 14‘28‘‘, colour

Statement:
Inviting us into the atmospheric carefree world of childhood, the film captures two sisters walking through the night as their father works as a security guard for an affluent neighbourhood. Contrasting the loneliness of locked up condominiums with the freedom of sisters discovering an open and wide world, Nocturno is a delicate work of social critique and an existential reminder of what it really means to live life embraced by love.

ZONTA Prize
worth 1,000 euros
for a female filmmaker in the International or German Competition

She Crossed
Zhang Daisy Ziyan
USA 2024, 20‘, colour

Statement:
A portrait always tells us something about the portrayed and the one portraying. The film in question doesn’t merely portray care work, but creates a cinematic form through rhythm and observation to convey precarity, tenderness and evanescence; the gentle passion as well as aesthetic grandeur of human encounters. Through an homage to a very particular woman, it celebrates intimacy, trust and activities carried out by millions of women around the world without recognition. The protagonist’s love for plants is mirrored in the attention with which the filmmaker turns to the most ephemeral phenomena, be it a raindrop or the passing expression of a face.

Members of the Jury:
Adrian Figueroa (Germany), Amos Ponger (Germany), Giovanna Thiery (Germany)

Prize of the German Competition
worth 5,000 euros

Hay un dolor
(There’s a Pain)
Froilán Urzagasti
Germany/Bolivia 2024, 39‘51‘‘, colour

Statement:
With great poetic power and subtle observation, the film unfolds a nuanced panorama of work, migration and community. Combining documentary moments with fictional elements in quiet, precisely composed images, it creates a narrative of foreignness, belonging and shared experiences in both public and private spaces.

Promotional Prize of the German Competition
worth 1,500 euros

Haha no tegami
(Mother’s Letter)
Sylvia Schedelbauer
Germany 2025, 25‘05‘‘, colour/black and white

Statement:
In her film, the filmmaker paints a poetic tale of two personal journeys on which mother and daughter are reflected in each other. A journey of emancipation and migration, and a journey of remembrance. Using archive material, the filmmaker weaves an intimate and multi-layered document of longing, transience, freedom and reconciliation.

3sat Emerging Talent Prize
worth 2,500 euros
In addition the award includes a buying option on the awarded work to be broadcast on 3sat.

Monument
Maksim Avdeev
Germany 2024, 14‘45‘‘, colour

Statement:
The film is a reflection on filmmaking itself – as an act of empowerment and an attempt to speak about the unspeakable. In a documentary approach between two generations, a telephone call is interwoven with family videos and becomes a multi-layered mirror of familial, political and emotional tensions. The search for understanding becomes a confrontation with traditional values and ideological constructs, without providing simple answers. The precise interplay of sound and image, present and memory, proximity and distance creates an open space for dialogue, doubt and transformation.

Special Mention

Amanhã não dão chuva
(It Shouldn’t Rain Tomorrow)
Maria Trigo Teixeira
Portugal/Germany 2024, 11‘30‘‘, colour

Statement:
In her poetic work, the filmmaker paints an emotionally complex picture of a mother-daughter relationship. Fear and loss are processed in a lyrical animation.

Members of the Jury:
Neriman Bayram (Germany), Oliver Flothkötter (Germany), Lili Hartwig (Germany)

Prize of the NRW Competition
worth 1,000 euros

Overwork
Céline Berger
Germany 2025, 10‘10‘‘, colour

Statement:
Precise movements, mechanical hand movements, small-scale work steps. Always rhythmical, always following a fixed choreography. An arrangement of found images that highlights the significance of work which is becoming more and more intangible in the age of AI and digitization, and which celebrates the craft of montage itself.

Promotional Prize of the NRW Competition
worth 500 euros

Chrysanthemum
Jingyuan Luo
Germany 2025, 9‘20‘‘, colour

Statement:
Impotent grief, concealed and covered up by state censorship. An approach from a distance. Subtle animations and repetitive movement patterns create a poetic attempt to transform the intangible into remembrance.

Special Mention

ghosting mother
Bernard Mescherowsky
Germany 2025, 16‘58‘‘, black and white

Statement:
The development process leaves traces on the 16mm stock, just like the passing of time destroys the grave. In search of remembrance, the filmmaker not only portrays his mother but also the attempt to create his own ritual of mourning.

Prize of the WDR Westart Audience Jury
worth 750 euros, sponsored by WDR Westart

Members:
Reinhard Beckmann, Vera Conrad, Susanne Degener, Agnes Lampkin, Nicole Lohner, Dorothea Musik, Reinhold Radermacher, Torsten Schilinsky, Maren Scheele, Gabriele Sommer, Sandra Walter

ghosting mother
Bernard Mescherowsky
Germany 2025, 16‘58‘‘, black and white

Statement:
A son says farewell, looking for traces. His mother died too early, giving him no more time to ask questions. What does he know about her beyond her role as mother? About her dreams, longings, hopes. What do we know about each other? Which memories will remain?
A very personal film, deeply moving and experimental. The 16mm stock disintegrates like a sick body. The images fade, dissolve.
We were touched by this exploration of grief, the simple words, the visual design, the soundtrack, the idea.

Members of the Jury:
Lin Htet Aung (Myanmar), Xenia Lesniewski (Austria), Jo Zimmermann (Germany)

1st Prize
worth 2,000 euros

K-BOB STAR (Cardi B)
Hansol Kim
Germany/South Korea 2024, 3‘01‘‘, colour

Statement:
Hansol Kim‘s K-BOB STAR is a precise and playful investigation into the intersections between different generations, the role of women in the K-Pop industry and carework. Working with several generations of women, particularly her grandmother, she creates a multigenerational narrative that subtly undermines traditional notions of age and gender. Employing a pared-down, poignant combination of video and text, as well as ironic references – for example to kimchi as a cultural signifier – Kim questions issues of appropriation and cultural identity. The result is a fresh, idiosyncratic work whose aesthetic otherness and performative eccentricity open new visual spaces of female emancipation.

2nd Prize
worth 1,000 euros

Quand le grenier aura pris feu (Anadol & Marie Klock)
Utku Önal
Germany/France 2025, 6‘13‘‘, colour

Statement:
With Quand le grenier aura pris feux, Utku Önal has designed a poetic, multi-layered work that plays with surrealist nuances and at the same time refuses to be categorized. Image and sound complement each other in irritating and at the same time subtle ways, between daydream and nightmare, between tenderness and distress. Watching it inevitably raises the question: How was this made? The use of AI is not displayed as a spectacle but as a quiet, almost casual performance that re-explores the relationship between human, machine and representation. The result is an enigmatic, idiosyncratic work that eludes any clear definition – which is precisely how its power unfolds.

MuVi Online Audience Award
chosen by online vote on www.muvipreis.de and worth 500 euros

looking @ ghosts (die hunde x prozpera)
Jeremias Heppeler
Germany/Japan 2024, 5‘07‘‘, colour

The MuVi Partners 2025:
3sat
Byte.FM
kaput – Magazin für Insolvenz & Pop
kultur.west
netpoint media

Members of the Children's Jury:
Adam Dadirkh, Carla Hentschel, Lara Seidel, Finja Telge, Carla van Benthem

Prize of the Children’s Jury
worth 1,000 euros, sponsored by Wirtschaftsbetriebe Oberhausen (WBO)

Autokar
Sylwia Szkiłądź
France/Belgium 2025, 17‘, colour

Statement:
What we liked about our winning film was that the girl was courageous enough to go on such a long journey by bus alone. In the film, all the people in the bus change into animals, which we thought was fascinating because they scared the girl less than before. Some of the animals’ characters were not at all what we expected. The she-wolf, for example, was really nice at the end. Our favourite scene was when the girl grew and lifted her house.

Promotional Prize of the Children’s Jury
worth 1,000 euros, sponsored by Energieversorgung Oberhausen AG (evo)

A Small Garden by the Window
Lee Jonghoon
South Korea 2024, 4‘35‘‘, colour

Statement:
Our award winner takes up an important topic: climate change. The issue was well presented even without words. The film shows that one individual can make a real change. We especially liked the green cuties that drank rainwater from the air in one scene. The animation was particularly cool.

Special Mention

Shan Shen De Huang Yan
(The Lie of the Mountain God)
China 2024, 15‘55‘‘, colour

Statement:
What we liked about our Special Mention was that real people acted in the film. In this film, a child has seen the Mountain God, but nobody believes him. It was good to see that the child still believed in the story and gave free rein to his imagination. And it was nice that the grandmother supported the boy at the end. Our favourite scene was when the boy stole the scarecrow.

Prize of the Youth Jury
worth 1,000 euros, sponsored by the Rotary Club Oberhausen

Members:
Dersem Hasan, Phil Laskowski, Danilo Lopez da Silva, Nazanin Semo, Linda Tenge

Ik Zeg Je Eerlijjk
(Honestly)
Eva Nijsten
Netherlands 2024, 24‘16‘‘, colour

Statement:
This documentary really made us think. By creating a space where people can discuss sexual, religious and cultural diversity openly and freely, Peter shows that conflict and force are not the way to solve problems and that a solution need not necessarily be the goal. That’s why the film does not try to instruct, nor does Peter. Instead, his questions and statements inspire us to ask our own questions. They make us laugh, despair and hope, creating a need for exchange. And only when there is exchange will we be able to move towards each other instead of turning away from the other.

SURPRISE. Prize for the most surprising film
worth 1,000 euros, sponsored by Methode Film

Gravity
Robotina
Italy/Mexico 2024, 8‘40‘‘, colour

Statement: 
The SURPRISE goes to a film in which a change of gravity changes the action. While this animation begins in a very imaginative and futuristic way that seems far from our reality, its surprising end is a critique of human consumerism and the irresponsible way garbage is handled. And yet the Italian Banger at the end sounds like hope and solidarity.

Special Mention

Kismet
Žiga Virc
Slovenia 2025, 14‘56‘‘, colour

Statement:
Our Special Mention goes to a film that opens insights into the most intimate moments of a family consisting of women from different generations who disagree about the traditions of their Roma community. While the main character longs for freedom and independence, her grandmothers fears the disintegration of tradition. It was especially interesting to us that all actors are actually part of the community and partly improvised their own stories. While this feature film shows some dark and oppressive situations in the young girl’s life, we quickly realise that she also finds a lot of love and understanding in her family. We think that this is important, because otherwise it would simply be a confirmation of outsiders’ pre-existing prejudices.

ECFA Short Film Award
(The award consists of a nomination for the ECFA Short Film Award 2025)

Members:
Raluca Bugnar (Romania), Pantelis Panteloglou (Greece), Teresa Lima (Portugal)

Gravity
Robotina
Italy/Mexico 2024, 8‘40‘‘, colour

Statement:
After loving many, many of the selected shorts, our three member jury agreed on a film that surprised us the most.
When the world turns upside down there are things that fly away and things that stand firmly on the ground. This film charmed us with this unexpected plot and its authentic unique aesthetic. We all need a little reminder now and then to become aware of all that is abandoned in our lives and embrace it again.
A film that creates an entire viable universe in under nine minutes, with such creativity and plot twists, that it will be keeping the audience on their toes as they enjoy the ride.

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury of the Children’s and Youth Film Competition
worth 1,500 euros

Members:
Andreas Greif (Germany), Jochen Mündlein (Germany), Boglárka Paksa (Hungary)

Autokar
Sylwia Szkiłądź
France/Belgium 2025, 17‘, colour

Statement:
Agata's journey from Poland to Belgium offers a universal perspective on leaving one's homeland and explores identity and tradition with sensitivity. In times of political and social polarisation, the film confronts the fear of otherness and provides a valuable insight into human connection that resonates across all age groups.

Special Mention

Happy Snaps
Tyro Heath
UK 2024, 12‘03‘‘, colour

Statement:
Happy Snaps offers a sensitive portrayal of a friendship that must face the challenges of separation and loss over the course of the film. It provides an important and inclusive perspective on relationships shaped by the human need to hold on and the emotional process of coping with change.

Argentina
Canción de Cumbre (Summit Song), Federica Cafferata, 2024, 15' 00", Children’s and Youth Film Competition
La última frontera (The last border), Camila Dron, 2025, 10' 14", International Competition
Nocturno (Nocturne), Sol Muñoz, Ana Apontes, 2025, 14' 28", International Competition

Austria
Gleichzeitig Nackt (Simultaneously Naked), Ashley Hans Scheirl, Ursula Pürrer, 2024, 3' 00", International Competition
Jelena, Friedl vom Gröller, 2024, 2' 50", International Competition
Some Memories, Lotte Schreiber, 2024, 10' 00", International Competition
Wohnjuwel (Living Jewel), Simon Spitzer, 2025, 16' 30", International Competition

Austria/ Germany
A Provenance, Katharina Bayer, 2025, 13' 57", German Competition

Brazil
O amor não cabe na sala (Not enough for the love inside), Marcelo Matos de Oliveira, Wallace Nogueira, 2024, 17' 36", International Competition
Ri, Bola (Laugh, Bola), Diego Bauer, 2024, 11' 49", International Competition

Cambodia
ក្រូច (The Orange), Seakleng Song, 2024, 17' 13", International Competition

Canada
Texas Switch, Darren Dominique Heroux, 2024, 9' 16", International Competition

China
SHANMAO (Ghost Cat), Liu Shubo, 2025, 10' 09", International Competition
Shan Shen De Huang Yan (The lie of The Mountain God), Ma Myers, 2024, 15' 55", Children’s and Youth Film Competition

Colombia
Preguntas Frecuentes (Frequently asked questions), Sofía Salinas Barrera, 2024, 15' 43", International Competition

Croatia
Všmš (Wshmch), Nela Gluhak, 2024, 1' 33", Children’s and Youth Film Competition

Cuba/ Brazil
Será inmortal quien merezca serlo (Whoever deserves it, will be immortal), Nay Mendl, 2024, 19' 00", International Competition

Cuba/ Dominican Republic
RITO DE PASO (RITE OF PASSAGE), José Luis Jiménez, 2024, 19' 00", Children’s and Youth Film Competition

Finland
Aavetuntohetki (The Ghost Feel Hour), Eero Tammi, 2025, 10' 57", International Competition
Muistot liikkuvat kuin kaukaiset saaret (Memories Move Like Distant Islands), Saarlotta Virri, 2025, 28' 52", International Competition
Ocean Blvd, Jade Kallio, 2024, 17' 31", International Competition
The Will, Salla Tykkä, 2025, 27' 43", International Competition

France
Adieu Gropius (So long Gropius), Bertille Rondard, 2024, 4' 09", Children’s and Youth Film Competition
Généalogie de la violence (Genealogy of Violence), Mohamed Bourouissa, 2024, 15' 15", Children’s and Youth Film Competition
J'ai trouvé une boite (I found a box), Eric Montchaud, 2025, 10' 00", Children’s and Youth Film Competition
Les fenêtres (Windows), Elsa Pennacchio, Etienne De Villars, 2024, 13' 42", International Competition
Tonada de l’hirondelle (Swallow's Tonada), Daniela Godel, 2024, 4' 11", Children’s and Youth Film Competition
Un tilleul parmi les platanes (Back to the Basswood), Mariam Farota, 2024, 4' 13", Children’s and Youth Film Competition

France/ Belgium
Autokar, Sylwia Szkiladz, 2025, 17' 00", Children’s and Youth Film Competition

Germany
113 Bottles of Water in a Nightshop, Leo Rottmann, 2024, 10' 41", Children’s and Youth Film Competition
A Thousand Waves Away, Helena Wittmann, 2025, 10' 00", German Competition
Ansitzen (To Sit On Watch), Franca Pape, 2024, 5' 46", NRW Competition
BIEST, Stefan Panhans, 2025, 9' 27", MuVi Award
Capriccio, Christos Dassios, 2024, 6' 41", NRW Competition
Chrysanthemum, Jingyuan Luo, 2025, 9' 20", NRW Competition
Deutsch+ (German+), Margit Schild, 2024, 5' 25", NRW Competition
Die Unvorzeigbarkeit dessen, was nie hätte geschehen sollen (The impossibility of showing what should never have happened), Silke Schönfeld, 2025, 24' 56", German Competition
Dokhtar'am (My Daughter), Pedram Sadough, 2025, 16' 30", German Competition
Dream In Dream, Christine Gensheimer, 2024, 4' 14", MuVi Award
Eram, Lucien Liebecke, Ole Christian Dreihaupt, 2025, 12' 37", NRW Competition      
GERHARD, Ulu Braun, 2025, 10' 20", German Competition
Gesamtklärwerk Deutschland, Andreas Loff, 2025, 4' 18", MuVi Award
ghosting mother, Bernard Mescherowsky, 2025, 16' 58", NRW Competition    grathwohlbildhübschklang, Nikolaus Grathwohl, 2025, 7' 29", MuVi Award
Könnt ihr noch? (Can you still?), Timo Schierhorn, UWE, 2024, 3' 31", MuVi Award
Mkoum, Peter Ott, 2024, 4' 35", MuVi Award
Monument, Maksim Avdeev, 2024, 14' 45", German Competition
母の手紙 (Mother's Letter), Sylvia Schedelbauer, 2025, 24' 05", German Competition
One Hundred Years Later, Christoph Girardet, 2025, 7' 50", German Competition
OVERWORK, Céline Berger, 2025, 10' 10", NRW Competition         
Piccin Gemellone (lil big Twin), Tibor Koehne, 2024, 19' 24", German Competition
Schwanensee (Swan Lake), Stella Deborah Traub, 2024, 5' 32", German Competition
Shawano, Felix Bartke, 2024, 13' 24", NRW Competition
The internet will break my heart, Markus S Fiedler, 2024, 3' 18", MuVi Award
Vernacular Dreamscapes: Nocturnal Dream Disposal, Marc Richter, 2024, 8' 32", MuVi Award
Vom Ende her gedacht (Thinking From The End), Tom Briele, 2024, 18' 46", NRW Competition
You do not leave traces of your presence, just of your acts, Gernot Wieland, 2024, 16' 21", German Competition
Zu wenig (Too Little), Valeriia Butakova, 2024, 16' 01", NRW Competition     

Germany/ Argentina
Chispa (Spark), Vera Kayh, 2025, 11' 09", Children’s and Youth Film Competition
Cómo ser Pehuén Pedre (How to be Pehuén Pedre), Federico Luis, 2024, 22' 11", German Competition
Nuestra Sombra (Our Own Shadow), Agustina Sánchez Gavier, 2024, 19' 30", NRW Competition           

Germany/ Bolivia
Hay un dolor (There's a pain), Froilan Urzagasti, 2024, 39' 51", German Competition

Germany/ Burkina Faso/ Argentina
Die ganze Nacht (The whole night), Alejo Franzetti, 2025, 15' 22", German Competition

Germany/ Chile
Digo no con Esperanza (I say no with hope), Francisca Villela, 2024, 2' 49", MuVi Award

Germany/ France
Quand le grenier aura pris feu, Utku Önal, 2025, 6' 13", MuVi Award

Germany/ Iran
Mother is a Natural Sinner, Hoda Taheri, Boris Hadžija, 2024, 15' 00", German Competition

Germany/ Israel
Butterfly Kiss, Zohar Dvir, 2024, 10' 30", German Competition

Germany/ Japan
looking @ ghosts, Jeremias Heppeler, 2024, 5' 07", MuVi Award

Germany/ South Korea
K-BOB STAR, Hansol Kim, 2024, 3' 01", MuVi Award

Germany/ Spain
In Wolken (In Clouds), Dagie Brundert, 2024, 1' 21", German Competition

Germany/ Switzerland
Bereinigung II (Decontamination II), Franz Wanner, 2024, 4' 40", German Competition

Germany/ Taiwan
Prayer for Taiwan, Tobias Klich, 2024, 5' 50", German Competition

Germany/ USA
如你所愿 (Correct Me If I'm Wrong), Zhou Hao, 2025, 22' 59", International Competition

Greece
400 Cassettes, Thelyia Petraki, 2024, 14' 00", Children’s and Youth Film Competition

Hungary
Levelek nagymamámnak, Bibi Ase-nak (Letters to my grandmother, Bibi Ase), Amina Abdulrachimzai, 2025, 9' 11", International Competition
Wish You Were Ear, Balogh Mirjana, 2025, 10' 14", Children’s and Youth Film Competition

India
ദിനോസറിന്റെമുട്ട (Dinosaur's egg), Sruthil Mathew, 2024, 18' 30", International Competition
Ruse, Rhea Shukla, 2025, 9' 32", Children’s and Youth Film Competition

Iran
Baraftoo (Within The Sun), Sepideh Jamshidi Nejad, 2025, 28' 15", International Competition
گوسفند (Sheep), Hadi Babaeifar, 2024, 13' 15", Children’s and Youth Film Competition

Israel
Дворц∞вая (The Palace Sq∞are), Mikhail Zheleznikov, 2024, 22' 00", International Competition

Italy/ Germany/ Nigeria
Machine Boys, Karimah Ashadu, 2024, 8' 50", German Competition

Italy/ Mexico
Gravity, Robotina, 2024, 8' 33", Children’s and Youth Film Competition

Japan
ゑ (Eh), Kiyono Ayaka, 2024, 2' 02", Children’s and Youth Film Competition
Light Fragments, Asakura Satomi, 2024, 6' 40", International Competition
Ms.Understoned, Buma Yuki, 2024, 11' 00", International Competition

Kyrgyztan
Жайлоого Карай Узак Жол (Long Way To The Pasture), Ilgiz-Sherniiaz Tursunbek uulu, 2025, 23' 35", International Competition

Mexico
Gusarapos (Crawlies), Ulysse de Maximy, 2024, 17' 55", International Competition

Myanmar
အသွင်ပြောင်းလဲခြင်းတစ်ခု (A Metamorphosis), Lin Htet Aung, 2024, 16' 36", International Competition

Netherlands
Ik Zeg Je Eerlijjk (Honestly), Eva Nijsten, 2024, 24' 16", Children’s and Youth Film Competition

Netherlands/ Germany
The Beginning of Identification, and its End, Philipp Gufler, 2024, 19' 02", German Competition

Philippines
Nightbirds, Maria Estela Paiso, Ashok Vish, 2024, 13' 48", International Competition

Poland
"tłum. it's okay to be quiet" ("transl. it's okay to be quiet"), Filip Jakubowski, 2025, 21' 53", International Competition
Drogi Leo Sokolosky (Dear Leo Sokolosky), Weronika Szyma, 2024, 8' 00", International Competition

Portugal
Conseguimos fazer um filme (We Made a Film), Tota Alves, 2024, 14' 57", Children’s and Youth Film Competition
Maria Henriqueta Esteve Aqui (Maria Henriqueta Was Here), Nuno Pimentel, 2024, 13' 44", International Competition

Portugal/ Germany
Amanhã não dão chuva (It shouldn’t rain tomorrow), Maria Trigo Teixeira, 2024, 11' 30", German Competition

Romania
A fost odată un țânțar (Once upon a mosquito), Stanca Radu, 2024, 9' 58", Children’s and Youth Film Competition

Russia
Мякиш (Crumb), Elena Kulesh, 2025, 28' 45", International Competition

Slovenia
Kismet, Žiga Virc, 2025, 14' 56", Children’s and Youth Film Competition

Slovenia/ United Kingdom
Common Pear, Gregor Božič, 2025, 15' 00", International Competition

South Korea
A Small Garden by the Window, Lee Jonghoon, 2024, 4' 35", Children’s and Youth Film Competition
Being and Nothingness, Kim Jiwoo, 2024, 6' 34", Children’s and Youth Film Competition
심파테르 (Sim Par Terre), Lee Donghyuk, 2024, 20' 07", International Competition
SUPERNOVA, Lim Yerim, Joo Youngwoo, Lee Jiyoon, Kim Minkyung, 2024, 7' 25", Children’s and Youth Film Competition

Spain
Retales (Snippets), Juanjo Giménez, 2024, 19' 50", International Competition
ULÍA, Laura Moreno Bueno, 2024, 14' 10", International Competition

Sweden
I want to know what love is, Hanna Järgenstedt, 2024, 6' 27", International Competition

Switzerland
Habitants (Inhabitants), Charline Lefrançois, Florian Geisseler, 2024, 15' 00", Children’s and Youth Film Competition

Taiwan
秘密森林少年 (Boy In The Secret Forest), Tseng Tzu Yen, 2024, 16' 07", Children’s and Youth Film Competition

Taiwan/ Japan
Dancing in the rain, Chao-chun Yeh, 2024, 6' 27", Children’s and Youth Film Competition

Tanzania
SEEKING DREAMS, Heidi Li, 2024, 15' 03", Children’s and Youth Film Competition

Thailand
The Slides of Prof. Somkiat Tang-Namo, Prapat Jiwarangsan, 2024, 6' 24", International Competition

United Kingdom
Happy Snaps, Tyro Heath, 2024, 12' 03", Children’s and Youth Film Competition
Sinkhole, Kate Liston, 2024, 15' 11", International Competition
The Last Garden, Eloise Jenninger, 2024, 7' 50", Children’s and Youth Film Competition
True Love, Jess Dadds, Sam Giles, 2024, 4' 19", Children’s and Youth Film Competition

USA
Allrecipes (Stuffed Manifesto), David de Rozas, 2024, 5' 17", International Competition
ESP, Laura Kraning, 2024, 2' 45", International Competition
Language Decay, Zazie Ray-Trapido, 2024, 2' 55", International Competition
Samantha, Nina Yuen, 2024, 8' 59", International Competition
She Crossed, Zhang Daisy Ziyan, 2024, 20’ 00", International Competition
YouTuber, Josh Weissbach, 2024, 0' 39", Children’s and Youth Film Competition

USA/ China
山的另一面 (The Other Side of the Mountain), He Shirley Yumeng, 2024, 19' 58", International Competition

Vietnam/ South Korea
Elysium vô bờ (Elysium without Shores), Tran Arlette Quynh-Anh, 2024, 10' 08", International Competition

Internationaler Wettbewerb / International Competition

"tłum. it's okay to be quiet" ("transl. it's okay to be quiet"), Filip Jakubowski, 2025, 21' 53", Poland
အသွင်ပြောင်းလဲခြင်းတစ်ခု (A Metamorphosis), Lin Htet Aung, 2024, 16' 36", Myanmar
Aavetuntohetki (The Ghost Feel Hour), Eero Tammi, 2025, 10' 57", Finland
Allrecipes (Stuffed Manifesto), David de Rozas, 2024, 5' 17", USA
Baraftoo (Within The Sun), Sepideh Jamshidi Nejad, 2025, 28' 15", Iran
CommonPear, Gregor Božič, 2025, 15' 00", Slovenia, United Kingdom
如你所愿 (Correct Me If I'm Wrong), Zhou Hao, 2025, 22' 59", Germany, USA
Мякиш (Crumb), Elena Kulesh, 2025, 28' 45", Russia
Drogi Leo Sokolosky (Dear Leo Sokolosky), Weronika Szyma, 2024, 8' 00", Poland
ദിനോസറിന്റെമുട്ട (Dinosaur's egg), Sruthil Mathew, 2024, 18' 30", India
Elysium vô bờ (Elysium without Shores), Tran Arlette Quynh-Anh, 2024, 10' 08", Vietnam, South Korea
ESP, Laura Kraning, 2024, 2' 45", USA
Gleichzeitig Nackt (Simultaneously Naked), Ashley Hans Scheirl, Ursula Pürrer, 2024, 3' 00", Austria
Gusarapos (Crawlies), Ulysse de Maximy, 2024, 17' 55", Mexico
I want to know what love is, Hanna Järgenstedt, 2024, 6' 27", Sweden
Jelena, Friedl vom Gröller, 2024, 2' 50", Austria
La última frontera (The last border), Camila Dron, 2025, 10' 14", Argentina
Language Decay, Zazie Ray-Trapido, 2024, 2' 55", USA
Les fenêtres (Windows), Elsa Pennacchio, Etienne De Villars, 2024, 13' 42", France
Levelek nagymamámnak, Bibi Ase-nak (Letters to my grandmother, Bibi Ase), Amina Abdulrachimzai, 2025, 9' 11", Hungary
Light Fragments, Asakura Satomi, 2024, 6' 40", Japan
Maria Henriqueta Esteve Aqui (Maria Henriqueta Was Here), Nuno Pimentel, 2024, 13' 44", Portugal
Ms.Understoned, Buma Yuki, 2024, 11' 00", Japan
Muistot liikkuvat kuin kaukaiset saaret (Memories Move Like Distant Islands), Saarlotta Virri, 2025, 28' 52", Finland
Nightbirds, Maria Estela Paiso, Ashok Vish, 2024, 13' 48", Philippines
Nocturno (Nocturne), Sol Muñoz, Ana Apontes, 2025, 14' 28", Argentina
O amor não cabe na sala (Not enough for the love inside), Marcelo Matos de Oliveira, Wallace Nogueira, 2024, 17' 36", Brazil
Ocean Blvd, Jade Kallio, 2024, 17' 31", Finland
Preguntas Frecuentes (Frequently asked questions), Sofía Salinas Barrera, 2024, 15' 43", Colombia
Retales (Snippets), Juanjo Giménez, 2024, 19' 50", Spain
Ri, Bola (Laugh, Bola), Diego Bauer, 2024, 11' 49", Brazil
Samantha, Nina Yuen, 2024, 8' 59", USA
Será inmortal quien merezca serlo (Whoever deserves it, will be immortal), Nay Mendl, 2024, 19' 00", Cuba, Brazil
SHANMAO (Ghost Cat), Liu Shubo, 2025, 10' 09", China
She Crossed, Zhang Daisy Ziyan, 2024, 20' 00", USA
심파테르 (Sim Par Terre), Lee Donghyuk, 2024, 20' 07", South Korea
Sinkhole, Kate Liston, 2024, 15' 11", United Kingdom
Some Memories , Lotte Schreiber, 2024, 10' 00", Austria
Texas Switch, Darren Dominique Heroux, 2024, 9' 16", Canada
Жайлоого Карай Узак Жол (Long Way To The Pasture), Ilgiz-Sherniiaz Tursunbek uulu, 2025, 23' 35", Kyrgyztan
ក្រូច (The Orange), Seakleng Song, 2024, 17' 13", Cambodia
山的另一面 (The Other Side of the Mountain), He Shirley Yumeng, 2024, 19' 58", USA, China
Дворц∞вая (The Palace Sq∞are), Mikhail Zheleznikov, 2024, 22' 00", Israel
The Slides of Prof. Somkiat Tang-Namo, Prapat Jiwarangsan, 2024, 6' 24", Thailand
The Will, Salla Tykkä, 2025, 27' 43", Finland
ULÍA, Laura Moreno Bueno, 2024, 14' 10", Spain
Wohnjuwel (Living Jewel), Simon Spitzer, 2025, 16' 30", Austria

Deutscher Wettbewerb / German Competition

A Provenance, Katharina Bayer, 2025, 13' 57", Austria, Germany
A Thousand Waves Away, Helena Wittmann, 2025, 10' 00", Germany
Amanhã não dão chuva (It shouldn’t rain tomorrow), Maria Trigo Teixeira, 2024, 11' 30", Portugal, Germany
Bereinigung II (Decontamination II), Franz Wanner, 2024, 4' 40", Germany, Switzerland
Butterfly Kiss, Zohar Dvir, 2024, 10' 30", Germany, Israel
Cómo ser Pehuén Pedre (How to be Pehuén Pedre), Federico Luis, 2024, 22' 11", Germany, Argentina
Die ganze Nacht (The whole night), Alejo Franzetti, 2025, 15' 22", Germany, Burkina Faso, Argentina
Die Unvorzeigbarkeit dessen, was nie hätte geschehen sollen (The impossibility of showing what should never have happened), Silke Schönfeld, 2025, 24' 56", Germany
Dokhtar'am (My Daughter), Pedram Sadough, 2025, 16' 30", German Competition
GERHARD, Ulu Braun, 2025, 10' 20", Germany
Hay un dolor (There's a pain), Froilan Urzagasti, 2024, 39' 51", Germany, Bolivia
In Wolken (In Clouds), Dagie Brundert, 2024, 1' 21", Germany, Spain
Machine Boys, Karimah Ashadu, 2024, 8' 50", Italy, Germany, Nigeria
Monument, Maksim Avdeev, 2024, 14' 45", Germany
Mother is a Natural Sinner, Hoda Taheri, Boris Hadžija, 2024, 15' 00", Germany, Iran
母の手紙 (Mother's Letter), Sylvia Schedelbauer, 2025, 24' 05", Germany
One Hundred Years Later, Christoph Girardet, 2025, 7' 50", Germany
Piccin Gemellone (lil Twin), Tibor Koehne, 2024, 19' 24", Germany
Prayer for Taiwan, Tobias Klich, 2024, 5' 50", Germany, Taiwan
Schwanensee (Swan Lake), Stella Deborah Traub, 2024, 5' 32", Germany
The Beginning of Identification, and its End, Philipp Gufler, 2024, 19' 02", Netherlands, Germany
You do not leave traces of your presence, just of your acts, Gernot Wieland, 2024, 16' 21", Germany

NRW-Wettbewerb / NRW Competition

Ansitzen (To Sit On Watch), Franca Pape, 2024, 5' 46", Germany
Capriccio, Christos Dassios, 2024, 6' 41", Germany
Chrysanthemum, Jingyuan Luo, 2025, 9' 20", Germany
Deutsch+ (German+), Margit Schild, 2024, 5' 25", Germany
Eram, Lucien Liebecke, Ole Christian Dreihaupt, 2025, 12' 37", Germany
ghosting mother, Bernard Mescherowsky, 2025, 16' 58", Germany
Nuestra Sombra (Our Own Shadow), Agustina Sánchez Gavier, 2024, 19' 30", Germany, Argentina
OVERWORK, Céline Berger, 2025, 10' 10", Germany
Shawano, Felix Bartke, 2024, 13' 24", Germany
Vom Ende her gedacht (Thinking From The End), Tom Briele, 2024, 18' 46", Germany
Zu wenig (Too Little), Valeriia Butakova, 2024, 16' 01", Germany

Kinder- und Jugendwettbewerb / Children’s and Youth Film Competition

113 Bottles of Water in a Nightshop, Leo Rottmann, 2024, 10' 41", Germany
400 Cassettes, Thelyia Petraki, 2024, 14' 00", Greece
A fost odată un țânțar (Once upon a mosquito), Stanca Radu, 2024, 9' 58", Romania
A Small Garden by the Window, Lee Jonghoon, 2024, 4' 35", South Korea
Adieu Gropius (So long Gropius), Bertille Rondard, 2024, 4' 09", France
Autokar, Sylwia Szkiladz, 2025, 17' 00", France, Belgium
Being and Nothingness, Kim Jiwoo, 2024, 6' 34", South Korea
秘密森林少年 (Boy In The Secret Forest), Tseng Tzu Yen, 2024, 16' 07", Taiwan
Canción de Cumbre, (Summit Song), Federica Cafferata, 2024, 15' 00", Argentina
Chispa (Spark), Vera Kayh, 2025, 11' 09", Germany/ Argentina
Conseguimos fazer um filme (We Made a Film), Tota Alves, 2024, 14' 57", Portugal
Dancing in the rain, Yeh Chao-chun, 2024, 6' 27", Taiwan, Japan
ゑ (Eh), Kiyono Ayaka, 2024, 2' 02", Japan
Généalogie de la violence (Genealogy of Violence), Mohamed Bourouissa, 2024, 15' 15",France
Gravity, Robotina, 2024, 8' 33", Italy, Mexico
Habitants (Inhabitants), Charline Lefrançois, Florian Geisseler, 2024, 15' 00", Switzerland
Happy Snaps, Tyro Heath, 2024, 12' 03", United Kingdom
Ik Zeg Je Eerlijjk (Honestly), Eva Nijsten, 2024, 24' 16", Netherlands
J'ai trouvé une boite (I found a box), Eric Montchaud, 2025, 10' 00", France
Kismet, Žiga Virc, 2025, 14' 56", Slovenia
RITO DE PASO (RITE OF PASSAGE), José Luis Jiménez, 2024, 19' 00", Cuba, Dominican Republic
Ruse, Rhea Shukla, 2025, 9' 32", India
SEEKING DREAMS, Heidi Li, 2024, 15' 03", Tanzania
Shan Shen De Huang Yan (The lie of The Mountain God), Ma Myers, 2024, 15' 55", China
گوسفند (Sheep), Hadi Babaeifar, 2024, 13' 15", Iran
SUPERNOVA, Lim Yerim, Joo Youngwoo, Lee Jiyoon, Kim Minkyung, 2024, 7' 25", South Korea
The Last Garden, Eloise Jenninger, 2024, 7' 50", United Kingdom
Tonada de l’hirondelle (Swallow's Tonada), Daniela Godel, 2024, 4' 11", France
True Love, Jess Dadds, Sam Giles, 2024, 4' 19", United Kingdom
Un tilleul parmi les platanes (Back to the Basswood), Mariam Farota, 2024, 4' 13", France
Všmš (Wshmch), Nela Gluhak, 2024, 1' 33", Croatia
Wish You Were Ear, Balogh Mirjana, 2025, 10' 14", Hungary
YouTuber, Josh Weissbach, 2024, 0' 39", USA

MuVi-Preis / MuVi Award

BIEST, Stefan Panhans, 2025, 9' 27", Germany
Digo no con esperanza, (I say no with hope), Francisca Villela, 2024, 2' 49", Germany, Chile
Dream In Dream, Christine Gensheimer, 2024, 4' 14", Germany
Gesamtklärwerk Deutschland, Andreas Loff, 2025, 4' 18", Germany
grathwohlbildhübschklang, Nikolaus Grathwohl, 2025, 7' 29", Germany
K-BOB STAR, Hansol Kim, 2024, 3' 01", Germany, South Korea
Könnt ihr noch? (Can you still?), Timo Schierhorn, UWE, 2024, 3' 31", Germany
looking @ ghosts, Jeremias Heppeler, 2024, 5' 07", Germany, Japan
Mkoum, Peter Ott, 2024, 4' 35", Germany
Quand le grenier aura pris feu, Utku Önal, 2025, 6' 13", Germany, France
The internet will break my heart, Markus S Fiedler, 2024, 3' 18", Germany
Vernacular Dreamscapes: Nocturnal Dream Disposal, Marc Richter, 2024, 8' 32", Germany

Since the 1990s, a central and successful part of our profile has been the Theme, an extensive programme on annually changing issues.

The Oberhausen Profiles are traditionally dedicated to the works of outstanding filmmakers, some of whom have dealt with short films for decades.

In its Podium series 2025, Oberhausen will discuss topics including ideology machines (in cooperation with the ESFN), GDR films and globalism.

In cinema, no one is surprised anymore!

Philosophical toys are objects and instruments that make processes and interdependencies sensorially perceptible and relatable, clear and comprehensible. Unlike models, which primarily serve as demonstrations, philosophical toys belong to the tradition of experimental culture. They are not so much end products of insight as tools of insight. As their name implies, they are designed to be used playfully in a manner that stimulates thought and the imagination. Philosophical toys have been very popular since the 18th century. Many of these toys were initially made for scientific observations, only later becoming sought-after objects for young and old. Among the most fascinating ones are surely the optical-kinetic toys and the jouets séditieux: figures — often steles, seals or walking-stick knobs —  turned from wood in whose silhouettes, when cast on a wall using some source of light, one can recognise profiles of political personages, for example. With the programme Expanded, we investigate the question of how philosophical toys look and function today. As part of this interrogation, we show experimental set-ups in which autonomous machines create a shadow play on an overhead projector that makes visible the process of sound production by means of interactions of hand and movement. In an electrochemical machine performance, a mesh of molten metal is filmed by several cameras and projected live on to a  screen. An accompanying soundscape generated by a direct conversion of the electrochemical processes of the liquid invites us to speculate on a heterogeneous technological culture, while the humorous duet between a robot goat and a performance and installation artist stupefies and unsettles us, ultimately calling familiar habits of viewing and listening into question.

Expanded: Time-Based Experimental Culture with Shiny Toys

Oberhausen continues its Expanded series with a presentation of Shiny Toys, the Festival for Time-Based Experimental Culture. Positions of local and international artists, curated by international media artist Jan Ehlen, extend the screen through performances, installations or audiovisual concepts. The limits of the medium are re-thought, explored – and knocked on their head. The focus is on what Werner Nekes, who accompanied Shiny Toys until his death in 2017, called “cinema as an optical toy”.

Experimental music, performance, light art, autonomous machines and electro-chemical machine performances expand the film projection; projectors become musical instruments, cordless screwdrivers drive a praxinoscope: playful projects that challenge familiar viewing and listening habits.

The series will premiere in Oberhausen and continue in June and September at the Theater an der Ruhr and in the Kunsthaus Macroscope Mülheim and the Künstlerraum Dortmund.

Supported by the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westfphalia and New Arts Ruhr.

The Curator Jan Ehlen fills in here and there when someone has to cancel. He has been able to nurture his passion for audiovisual media through his work for the Nekes Collection for many years. As a member of the RaumZeitPiraten for over ten years, he describes himself as a professional dilettante who is constantly overwhelmed.

Historically speaking, the omnibus film is one of the most important forms of presenting short films: the only “regular” commercial exploitation option open to the short format. But even though the genre dates back to the 1930s and comprises around 100 productions, the omnibus film tends to lead an existence in the shadows of film history. In an age where short film conquers new platforms in the digital world on an almost daily basis but is practically absent even from the niches of regular cinema programming, Oberhausen is launching this multi-part series to champion the specific form of attention of concentrated distraction generated by the hybrid format of the omnibus film as a cross between long and short film.

“Travelling Companions”, curated by film critic and curator Lukas Foerster, is not intended to offer a representative history of the genre, but focuses on key motives, narrative and production-related aspects. Where, when and for whom did omnibus films become an interesting form of presentation? What subjects and interests are primarily served by the genre? Under what conditions do these productions become a commercially relevant format?

The first part of the series, entitled “Counter Glances”, focuses in four film programmes on West German omnibus films from the 1980s by predominantly female directors, including Chantal Akerman, Valie Export, Monika Funke Stern, Ebba Jahn, Ulrike Ottinger, Maxi Cohen, Renate Sami or Helke Sander. Featured films: Aus heiterem Himmel (Out of the Blue, 1982), Sieben Frauen – sieben Sünden (Seven Women – Seven Sins, 1986), Die Gedächtnislücke. Filmminiaturen über den täglichen Umgang mit Gift (The Memory Gap. Film Miniatures About the Daily Handling of Poison, 1983) und Ama Zone (1983).

Film history begins with the cessation of labour – la sortie de l’usine – and the surveillance of the proletariat, since it was the owners of the factory, the Lumière brothers, who filmed this separating moment between labour and spare time. This symbolic origin forges an unbreakable bond between cinema – a literal and figurative mass movement itself – and labour struggles.

In this spirit, What’s Left delves into our archive to honour films that were present at places of exploitation, consumption, education and spare time to ignite a spark of collective self-realization of women, workers, students and others. In a wider sense, the series explores what it means to be politically left – and to be left in an archive. The two programmes will show a dispersive variety of cinematic works echoing the West German spirit of 1968, including Für Frauen – 1. Kapitel (For Women – Chapter 1, Christina Perincioli, 1971), Helfen können wir uns nur selbst (We Can Only Help Ourselves, Gardi Deppe, 1974), Maulwürfe der Revolution (Moles of the Revolution, Horst Schwaab, 1969) and Von der Revolte zur Revolution (From Revolt to Revolution, Filmemacher Cooperative Hamburg, Kurt Rosenthal, 1969).

A workshop event conceived by Christoph Hesse which takes a close look at the outtakes of Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah to illuminate the film’s conception as it unfolded in the process of its making. 210 hours of footage, the complete filmed material, have recently become accessible – hitherto unknown interviews, testimonies of rescue and resistance, footage that was unusable for technical or legal reasons. To begin with, we will take a look at two very different examples: at extracts from the Einsatzgruppen interviews and from the long conversation with Inge Deutschkron who talks about the persecution of Jews in Berlin where she had survived in hiding.

The Berlin-based sound researcher Dirk Schäfer presents experimental film soundtracks – the screen is dark; the film plays in the head.

A free offer to all filmmakers from NRW who can consult members of the Filmbüro NW on all questions of production, funding and festival placement of short films. Prior registration required!

Register: dw@kurzfilmtage.de

Here you can find a colourful mix of fixed programme elements that have become indispensable to our festival, but also always new and diverse interesting offers.

BIEST
Music: Jannik Giger
Director: Stefan Panhans
2025, 9'27"

Digo no con esperanza
Music: F.V. te llaman por teléfono
Director: Francisca Villela
2024, 2'49"

Dream In Dream
Music: Saeko Killy
Director: Christine Gensheimer
2024, 4'3"

Gesamtklärwerk Deutschland
Music: MEESE x Hell
Director: Andreas Loff
2025, 4'18"

grathwohlbildhübschklang
Music: Carl Ludwig Hübsch
Director: Nikolaus Grathwohl
2025, 7'29"

K-BOB STAR
Music: Cardi B
Director: Hansol Kim
2024, 3'1"

Könnt ihr noch?
Music: Deichkind
Director: Timo Schierhorn, UWE
2024, 3'31"

looking @ ghosts
Music: Die Hunde X Prozpera
Director: Jeremias Heppeler
2024, 5'7"

Mkoum
Music: Jeano Elong
Director: Peter Ott
2024, 4'35"

Quand le grenier aura pris feu
Music: Anadol & Marie Klock
Director: Utku Önal
2025, 6'13"

The internet will break my heart
Music: Chris Imler
Director: Markus S Fiedler
2024, 3'18"

Vernacular Dreamscapes: Nocturnal Dream Disposal
Music: Black To Comm
Director: Marc Richter aka Neue Deutsche Kunst
2024, 8'32"

MuVi Audience Award
determined by voting on www.muvipreis.de and endowed with 500 euros

looking @ ghosts (die hunde x prozpera)
Jeremias Heppeler
Germany/Japan 2024, 5‘07‘‘, Colour

looking @ ghosts
Jeremias Heppeler
2024, 5'7"

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