Almost Centainly False | Neredeyse Kesinlikle Yanlış
Turkey 2024 – 20:00 min – Director: Cansu Baydar
After fleeing the war in Syria, Hanna and her little brother Nader live in a run-down neighbourhood in Istanbul. While she dreams of finding a way to emigrate to Europe, she tries to reconcile her identity and her desires with the needs of her little brother.
Duty Free
Germany/Sweden/Denmark 2024 – 17:00 min – Director: Hilke Rönnfeldt
The manager of a ferry moored in the harbour cuts the ropes that connect her to the cold outside world and sets sail to preserve the realm of tenderness that she and her crew have built up together. In a rhythmically pulsating choreography, an alternative universe based on more beautiful values comes to life.
As I Was a Tree
Germany/Syria 2024 – 10:44 min – Director: Jalal Maghout
Trapped in a surreal odyssey of terror, violence and powerlessness, the self searches for a way out.
After Have a Nice Dog! (Münster Film Festival 2021), a new dark and fascinating animated allegory by Jalal Maghout.
The First Times | Le prime volte
Italy/Spain 2025 – 16:00 min – Director: Giulia Cosentino & Perla Sardella
Emilia and Caterina write letters to each other in which they reminisce about their childhood memories and earliest experiences at a boarding school in the 1950s.
Did they choose the life they really wanted, or only the one they dared to dream?
sonic salt
Germany 2024 – 03:00 min – Director: Felix Dierich
On September 20, followed by a film talk with Felix Dierich.
Take a closer look and immerse yourself in a microscopic world. Grains of salt become rocks and boulders, quarries and caves. But don’t expect them to remain solid when music comes into play …
Felix Dierich was a guest at the Münster Film Festival in 2019 with A Year Along the Geostationary Orbit .
Skin on Skin
Germany 2025 – 29:59 min – Director: Simon Schneckenburger
On September 20, followed by a film talk with producer Leon Döhner.
An industrial slaughterhouse somewhere in Germany. Jakob works as a security guard, the Bosnian labourer Boris in the slaughterhouse. In the midst of violence and cold, a silent connection and an unspoken longing for freedom develops between them. Nominated for the German Short Film Award.
