The Maternity Ward
The Maternity Ward
The Maternity Ward
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The Maternity Ward#354
CineStar 7
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CineStar 7
#354
The Maternity WardThe Maternity Ward
Elégie pour Les Lilas
Alain Kassanda
France
International Competition Documentary Film
The fate of the storied Parisian maternity clinic Les Lilas already seems sealed: it is not profitable enough. An unsentimental elegy about the staff, the patients and their fight.
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Fracture + Discussion#3A2
Schaubühne Lindenfels
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Schaubühne Lindenfels
#3A2
Fracture + DiscussionFracture
Fracture
Keren Kreizer
Belgium
Positions
Bracingly topical and beautifully fluid, Israeli activist Keren Kraizer’s video diary documents her ambivalence at returning to her home country, where everything is about to explode.
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Short Film Reel: The Fading of Shooting Stars#374
Passage Kinos Wintergarten
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Passage Kinos Wintergarten
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Short Film Reel: The Fading of Shooting StarsThe Divided City of Mitrovica
The Divided City of Mitrovica
Marko Grba Singh
Serbia,
Kosovo
Doc Alliance
Mitrovica bears the consequences of the Kosovo war as a lingering echo: The north is inhabited by Serbs, the south by Albanians. How does this division manifest itself in people’s minds?
Contains mentions of death Decay
Decaer
Juan Camilo González
Colombia
International Competition Animated Film
Can the evil spirit of a person too close to you be banished by animation, just as one would use fireworks? A marvelously well-thought-out experiment to fight one’s own emotional decay.
Contains mentions of mental health conditions, murder Photosensitivity warning Nothing Happens After Your Absence
Nothing Happens After Your Absence
Ibrahim Omar
Sudan
International Competition Documentary Film
“Cinema is banned here – people prefer football.” Ibrahim has to overcome bureaucracy and resistance in order to show films in his home village in Sudan. Then the war breaks out.
in memory of
in memory of
Florinda Ciucio
Belgium
International Competition Documentary Film
A pencil and a few sheets of paper. A hand drawing a version of Gaza that only now exists on the memory of the person drawing it. And as he draws, he says: I remember everything.
Du solltest träumen, dass du fliegst
Du solltest träumen, dass du fliegst
Laura Elisabeth Staab
Germany,
Austria
German Competition Documentary Film
Children’s games, school essays and driving lessons: summery snapshots that circle around each other from the everyday lives of refugees, held together by the hope of returning to normality.
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Sumo: Spirit Weighs Nothing#324
CineStar 4
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CineStar 4
#324
Sumo: Spirit Weighs NothingSumo: Spirit Weighs Nothing
Sumo: Spirit Weighs Nothing
Erik Shirai
Japan,
USA,
UK
Audience Competition
What does it mean to become a professional sumo wrestler in Japan? As several wrestlers are followed at different points in their career, unique, sometimes harrowing insights are obtained.
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We Are Aliens#342
CineStar 6
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CineStar 6
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We Are AliensWe Are Aliens
We Are Aliens
Kohei Kadowaki
Japan,
France
International Competition Animated Film
Adults forever hurting: an anti-coming-of-age film about a friendship between boys, a misunderstanding and quarrel. Which images of masculinity prevent childhood wounds from healing?
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Tricontinental, Letter to Open in Case Of#3C2
Cinémathèque in der naTo
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Cinémathèque in der naTo
#3C2
Tricontinental, Letter to Open in Case OfTricontinental, Letter to Open in Case Of
Tricontinentale, lettre à ouvrir au cas où
Laura Cazador
Switzerland,
Cuba
Positions
In the 1960s, film critic and activist Michèle Firk fought for the anti-imperialist revolution in Africa, Asia and Latin America. A tribute to her short, radical life.
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Heat#364
Passage Kinos Astoria
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Passage Kinos Astoria
Heat
Heat
Jacqueline Zünd
Switzerland
Audience Competition
The heat in the Gulf region is hard to bear – and how people deal with it depends on their wallet. An immersive dive into a horror scenario, narrated in feverish images.
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