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| The gala evening for the award winners and the vote for the best short film of the year! On this special evening, the nominated works will be presented once again on the big screen and evaluated by a jury. The best short film of the year will then be chosen. The prizes for the other competitions will also be awarded during the gala. |
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| Berlin in the 90s - Aside from the major political upheavals and the commercialized techno culture, a somewhat forgotten parallel universe also shaped the city's aura: The world of basement bars and backyard creatives. In the free houses and apartments in Berlin-Mitte, after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a scene of very different young people celebrated carefree freedom. Whether a project was promising or not did not matter - they lived from one event to the next experiment, playfully de-establishing art and market. The film "Berlinized - Sexy an Eis" describes this special way of life in a reflective journey back to Berlin-Mitte of the 90s. The filmmaker Lucian Busse, himself an active protagonist of that time, documented the city's transformation, the art scene, clubs, concerts, and the construction sites where the open spaces were constantly being filled with new impersonal office buildings. |
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| Can art change the world? At the very least, it can give a voice to those who would otherwise not be heard. In Brazil, cultural initiatives and collectives are having an enormous impact – and have become paragons of political resistance. An insight into participatory art and the creative achievements of those who do not give up. |
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| In Fort McMurray, Canada, lies one of the planet’s largest — and last — oil deposits. As if by magic, the "black gold" draws people from all over the world. After all, you can make more money from the oil sands here than anywhere else. But the price is high: the elaborate extraction of oil from the tar sands releases life-threatening substances that poison nature, animals, and people. So anything but a paradise! Of all places, at this forsaken spot director Jasmin Herold finds great love — her future co-director Michael Beamish. But when Michael falls seriously ill, the two are suddenly directly affected. Their own nightmare begins. |
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| Two angels watch over Berlin. Damiel (Bruno Ganz) and Cassiel (Otto Sander) are silent observers, accompanying people through the city's rooftops and streets. They hear their thoughts and feelings, without being able to feel them themselves. Ever since Damiel fell in love with the trapeze artist Marion (Solveig Dommartin), he struggles with his fate. He would love to become human. To do this, he would have to become mortal, with all the consequences. A former angel (Peter Falk) advises him to take the plunge into life. |
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| This densely-packed film is based on a book by Tom Hart about the struggles of a young Yorkshire boy trying to come to grips with squabbling parents, a doctor who wants to institutionalize him because of his epilepsy, and a mother who refuses to accept that he is different in any way -- and that is only the half of it. The boy, Tim (Andrew Hawley), also acts as a go-between for his friend Carns (Liam Neeson) who is having an affair with a married woman (Miranda Richardson). Eventually, things start to sort themselves out, and Tim sees life getting more interesting when he and his friend Win (Kate Foster) slowly get a relationship going. |
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| In a small town, everyone has tried to forget what happened shortly after WWII. That is, until a stranger finds a book that Jadup (Kurt Böwe) gave to the young refugee Boel (Katrin Knappe), who resettled in the town over 30 years ago. Painful memories about Boel and the post-war period begin to surface and shake up the whole town. Boel vanished back then and nobody knew why. Word spread about a rape and some tried to blame a Russian soldier. Jadup, the town's respected and popular mayor, remembers, though, how he mistrusted Boel and did not help her through this difficult time; HE didn't even notice THAT Boel loved him. Jadup's confrontation with the past gives him a new, critical view of his current situation and surroundings. Originally censored and later banned by GDR officials for being too controversial, Jadup and Boel was not released until 1988. |
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| A film based on Titus Milech, a German psychiatrist who renounces his identity and embarks on a personal journey through space and time of the crimes of World War II. A story where the personal becomes public and reveals to us the secrets of collective consciousness and an individual trauma that has not yet been healed. |
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| In the early 1980s, Abdullah Catli becomes embroiled in an international conflict spanning several European countries. As Europe becomes the stage for covert warfare, Catli faces increasingly existential choices. Caught between loyalty, responsibility, and protecting his family, an intense drama unfolds, exploring themes of guilt, loss, and survival, based on real historical events. |