Thursday, April 24
| 11 a.m. Thalia 2 |
Sweet Drops (Children’s Films) Pauls Opa - Paul's Grandpa Feature| Germany| 19' |
Paul is an inventor and wants to fulfill his greatest wish – he wants to have grandpa just like every child. So he builds one himself and dares to do things with him he would never have had dared to do alone. When realizes Paul his grandpa can’t replace a real on, a small miracle occurs.
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Tôt Ou Tard Animation | Switzerland | 5' |
Squirrel and bat live in a tree that separates the world of day from the world of night. Cogs in the underworld control the orderly passage of time and a bit more. An accident brings this orderly daily routine to a halt. Thus, begins the two loners’ shared adventure.
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Der Wachmann und das Kleine Mädchen The Watchman and the Little Girl Feature | Germany | 10' |
A security guard in a gallery: The oil paintings around him haven’t interested him any more for a long time. Suddenly a red balloon is there and with it a little girl who pulls him out of his rut. She takes him on a journey through the world of pictures, seeing them as only a child’s eyes can.
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Dharma Dream Eater Animation | Denmark | 5' |
Dharma is a young witch. She lives in a nightstand in an abandoned house. Every night, she flies on her magic vacuum cleaner through the bedrooms of children to chase away their nightmares.
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Paux De Trois Animation | Denmark | 3' |
Paux de Trois is a two-dimensional animation of a ballerina during a performance. She begins to dance but some parts of her body suddenly develop a life of their own. She spends the rest of the dance trying to get her body back under control.
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Die Kleine Giftmischerin The Little Poison Mixer Feature | Germany| 20' |
Helene is six years old and actually has everything a little girl could desire: A house, a bicycle and a raven. Everything could be perfect if it weren’t for Alex her older brother, a really obnoxious jerk who makes her life hell. Then one day, mom announces marvelous news…
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| 2 p.m. Thalia 1 |
Honorable Mention Platz im Schatten - In the Shade Feature| Germany| 14'54'' |
It is summer and time is standing still. Eight-year old Nele is lonely at the vacation house belonging to her parents who are preoccupied with themselves. Looking for attention, she gets fed up with waiting quietly and begins to take matters into her own hands. Desperately hoping for a change, she gets stranded on an old jetty and dreamily enjoys her place in the shade.
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Status: Geduldet On Sufferance Documentary | Germany| 60' |
Hajrije is forty-two and a single mother of three children. Her family has lived in Germany for fifteen years. Classified as residents “on sufferance”, they can be deported to Kosovo at any time. This uncertainty and familial tensions, especially between the eldest daughter Ramize and her mother, causes great rifts. A perpetual struggle for love and recognition.
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Mišolovka - Mousetrap Feature| Serbia | 14'59'' |
Why is it standard procedure for executions to be carried out by several soldiers? Could it be an attempt to dilute individual soldier’s moral conflict by allowing it to be shouldered by a group? “Mišolovka” relates a tale of the decisions an execution squad’s commanding officer makes based on his conscience. Is it however not also a question of responsibility and not just conscience?
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| 3 p.m. Thalia 2 |
Producer´s Award 1 Absolution Feature| Germany| 15' |
His wife’s suffering from cancer has driven Thomas to despair. He calls up the counselor Susanne and confesses that he has released his wife from her suffering. Susanne is stunned, especially when she realizes she knew the woman. When Thomas and Susanne start to argue heatedly, Susanne fails to notice that Thomas is mixing a deadly drink...
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Pietas Feature | Germany | 36' |
Bergisch Land in the 1920s: The strict religious preacher Caspar and his son Friedel live in a secluded house in the forest. Everything is as it always is until the reputed sinner Hannah moves in as their housekeeper so that Caspar can bring her back to the narrow path. Hannah and Friedel’s meeting is the beginning of a tender love story fated to be buried alive.
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Der Goldene Nazivampir von Absam 2 – Das Geheimnis von Schloss Kottlitz The Golden Nazi Vampire of Absam: Part II The Secret of Kottlitz Castle Feature | Germany | 45' |
In October of 1942, Secret agent Blazkowicz is given the mission to investigate reports that the Waffen SS is searching for Atlantis and developing an occult wonder weapon. Spirited into the alpine fortress in Absam, he finds out what the SS Ahnenerbe is searching for, who made off with Count Dracula’s skeleton and what the fanatical SS General Otto von Grimm is up to with German scientists.
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Amiland Documentary | Germany | 90' |
A documentary road movie through the USA. One year before the end of the era of George W. Bush, the time has come for us to cinematically examine our generation’s existential questions: Our relationship with the United States of America. No other nation has influenced us so much that it has its own colloquial nickname: Amiland.
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| 4 p.m. Thalia 1 |
Homecoming Le Retour - The Homecoming Feature | USA | 19' |
Katherine returns to California after spending a year in France. Unfortunately, it’s much harder for her to readjust to her old surroundings than she anticipated. Her friends, family and culture suddenly all seem alien to her.
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Hej Tovariši - Hey ho, Comrades Feature | Slowenia | 17' |
The student Darko Zuljan is fascinated by old war songs sung by Slovenian partisans during the Second World War. One day, he comes up with the idea to try out these songs with some friends. Thereafter, they perform as a small ensemble at commemorative ceremonies. During one performance, Zuljan suddenly experiences pangs of conscience and tries to grapple with the actual content of the songs.
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Conversations II Documentary | USA | 16'30'' |
With stirring images and recollections, “Conversations II” presents an intimate review of the life of an elderly woman and her female relatives. Their dreams, thoughts and experiences contrast with the lives of other women. This film explores the evolution of women’s role in Latin American society and demonstrates how perceptions of marriage and motherhood have changed over generations.
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En Låda Full av Minnen A Box Full Of Memories Feature | Sweden | 16' |
Stella and her mother have grown apart over time. In the hope of regaining their closeness, Stella makes the first attempt after a long time and visits her sick mother on a small Swedish island. The island is full of memories and a box full of stones evokes recollections of a world in the past for both of them. Yet, they have completely different memories…
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Ha`Hufsha - The Home Leave Feature | Israel | 29' |
After serving over a year in prison, Meir is granted home leave from his unpleasant housing for the first time. He hasn’t seen his son Ido even once the entire time and even now they’re only able to spend three days together. It is extremely important to Meir to contact his son since it may be the last time the two will be able to see each other…
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| 6 p.m. Thalia 1 |
Bestiae Im Wendekreis des Bären In the Tropic of the Bear Feature | Germany | 32' |
Oktay loses his job as a chauffeur and initially tries to keep this from his daughter. In front of his daughter’s school, he makes the acquaintance of a woman and introduces himself to her as a photographer hunting for the bear Bruno that had escaped from the zoo. Grown lethargic from unemployment, Oktay increasingly identifies with the set upon “problem bear Bruno” as the film progresses.
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Tir Nan Og- Amour Toujours Tir Nan Og- Forever Love Animation | France | 4'03 |
On the coast: A girl and her grandmother are playing the piano. Suddenly, a swarm of crows appears and a man with a crow’s head emerges, seemingly trying to separate the grandmother and granddaughter.
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Pan Much - Mr. Fly Feature | Poland | 9'40 |
A man in love must make decisions. Either he shares his life with his girlfriend or he chooses a life with his mother who has power over insects. After all, she intends to put a stop to their newfound happiness.
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Abelov Cierny Pes Abel's Black Dog Feature | Slovakia | 30' |
The cemetery caretaker Abel is not taken seriously by his entire village and everyone harasses him. In order to get some respect, he dupes the community’s by dreaming up a fictitious dog his neighbors will be afraid of. When mysterious things happen in the village, the villagers hold Abel’s dog responsible and want to exact retribution.
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Leer ist das Vogelhaus The Empty Birdcage Feature | Germany | 28' |
A married couple lives alone in a big house. One day the wife hears strange noises coming from the birdhouse in the garden. Nobody believes her until something peculiar happens at night.
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Samsa- Hommage an Franz Kafka Samsa: Homage to Franz Kafka Animation | Germany | 4' |
An author sits before his typewriter. After some hesitation, he begins to type. With every key he strikes, he dissolves some more and the boundaries between reality and fiction blur.
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| 7 p.m. Thalia 2 |
Explosive: The Cineaste’s Quintet Kein Kinderspiel - No Walkover Documentary | Germany | 28' |
Marco is thirty-four and a pedophile. His sexual preference makes him feel insecure in his everyday environment. It is absolutely clear to him that he may never act on his sexual desires. Marco would like to make an ad appealing to others like him to also abstain from acting on their inclinations. What should a personal and effective appeal to pedophiles look like though?
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At Ratzit Laasot Seret? You wanted to make a film? Documentary | Israel | 25' |
In spite of her disability, Zehava dreams of dancing professionally. She trains with her dance partner Oren for a performance. The physically challenged filmmaker Gali Weintraub accompanies them with her camera as they prepare. The close relationship with the protagonists produces tensions, which reflect the filmmaker’s problems on the one hand and her subjects’ self image on the other.
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The Safety in Rubber Feature | Israel | 14' |
A forlorn and sparsely furnished room bathed in yellowish light. An agonizingly long silence is interrupted by a loud noise. On the bed sits a half naked man who appears to be inflating something. The object is concealed and yet one already surmises what is going on; what will accompany his solitude and his search for intimacy from now on.
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| 8 p.m. Thalia 1 |
Off the Beaten Track Hakenland Feature | Germany | 33'30" |
Legrand travels through Brandenburg to document the state of churches threatened by disrepair and is supposed to photograph the altar in Patkow. The village distinguished by rural exodus and an aging population regards him as an undesired intruder. One day is all it takes to wind up in the wrong place, talk to the wrong woman and get caught in menacingly beery press of the village fair.
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Entgleist - Derailed Feature | USA | 18'13" |
Joe is a model railway enthusiast. He is frustrated with his job and on top of everything his girlfriend is pregnant too. He doesn’t feel he can handle the duties of fatherhood and although he has promised his girlfriend he will be there for her, he’s not sure he’s really up to it.
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Pere Total - All Out Father Feature | Belgium | 15'27" |
An overzealous father is trying to help his son win a go-kart race. He is particularly nervous because a sport agent will be sitting at the track. Right before the race, a new family appears at the track. The new entrant views the ambitious father as serious competition and pulls all the stops so that his son will win.
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Auf der Strecke - On the Line Feature | Germany/ Switzerland | 30' |
A department store detective is secretly in love with a saleswoman in the store’s own bookshop. He observes her regularly on the video security system and follows her to the train evenings. When he witnesses an assault on an assumed rival, the jealous detective doesn’t intervene – with fatal consequences.
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| 10 p.m. Thalia 1 |
Systems In Formatica Feature | Germany | 8'44" |
Ever had the feeling that machines lead lives of their own?
A satire about the vagaries of technology, humans driven to despair on computers and those who live in them.
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Underground Animation | Australia | 4' |
Going underground! Masses moving on escalators are swallowed up by subway tunnels and followed by security cameras. Audrey Lam’s animated film is an uproarious stop-motion photo collage.
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Petzolds Pfeifen Petzold’s Whistling Feature | Germany | 5'30" |
Petzold is working in his workshop until that strange noise suddenly hits him. He finds a solution to his acoustic problem through...
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Fleisch - Meat Animation | Poland | 2'47" |
In her experimental animated film, Katarzyna Kijek embarks on a search for commonalities between communism and capitalism. Social criticism that is fun and looks good: Everything is meat!
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Sarrelibre Feature | Germany | 9'30" |
Revolution is imminent in the Saarland. The leader of a small underground movement has big plans and wants to reach the very top of the organization. Funés, grandpa and the little separatist are on his side. They still need a decisive coup. All at once, a man is there with a sack over his head. Is it really the minister? At least Funés abducted him for a start...
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Dear Terrorist – How to be a Muslim in the States Documentary | Germany | 18' |
The roles of ten New York Muslims and non-Muslims, from taxi driver to political activist: What is an “Islamist”? What is a “Djihadist”? Are fundamentalist Muslims a threat to democratic societies? What civil freedoms are we willing to sacrifice for our own security? A journey into the creeping paranoia of everyday life seen from individual perspectives.
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Das Baby - The Baby Feature | Germany | 30' |
Four days after the birth of her baby, eighteen year old Nadine is waiting to finally be able to leave the hospital, yet the passageways and halls of the hospital are full of odd commotion today. Nadine notices too late that her baby has disappeared from the ward without a trace…
What powers have a hand in this? A suspenseful thriller in the tradition of Polanski.
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Häh? - Huh? Experimental | Germany | 3' |
A cowboy meets a meter maid... Huh?
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| 10 p.m. Thalia 2 |
And who are you? Nachtimbiss - Night Snack Feature | Germany | 15' |
Chef and Wlodek are deaf. The all night diner is their own microcosm where they both know their way around and feel at ease. One night brings curious guests who fundamentally alter the protagonists’ lives.
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Ulotne - Disappearing Feature | Poland | 6'30" |
They live not far from one another. Yet they will never be able to meet on earth. Only high above the clouds will they share a unique moment.
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The Stain Animation | Israel | 12'23" |
An unfinished version of a fable is given an ending by a random gust of wind through an author’s study. A new, headstrong adaption of the familiar tale “The Scorpion and the Frog”.
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Chapter 3 Feature | India | 21' |
This story and its time lie somewhere between past and present, reality and dream, storyteller and listener. “Chapter 3” takes viewers on a journey that becomes a search for one’s own identity. What exists and what is imagined? A wise monk tries to explain this to his disciples. A film for the senses!
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Pro Radii Experimental | Germany | 3' |
The birth of a hybrid creature: Skin, water, bones, dirt are the items out of which Stefan Ringelschwandtner assembles an atmospheric whole that ideally matches Autechre’s eclectic music.
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Szükenszépen - Scantly Feature | Hungary | 16'37’’ |
A husband prefers getting drunk into the wee hours of the morning instead of spending time with his wife. This neglect and sexual frustration lead his wife to make an interesting decision.
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Weiss Experimental | Germany | 13' |
This is the story of a man who lives without conforming to the uniform outside world. Secluded in his room, he is chiefly interested in his unrequited love next door. A chance discovery presents him an opportunity to break out of the mechanized society.
A dystopia that foregoes language and text, revealing powerfully expressive worlds of sounds and images through the harmonious symbiosis of music, sound design and visual aesthetics.
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