Ultraviolet
Belgium/Netherlands 2024 – 24:00 min – Director: Veerle De Wilde
How do you grieve for someone who is still alive? Although the loss is equally profound, there is no final goodbye. A young girl struggles to come to terms with her mother’s mental health issues as she searches for her own feminine identity.
Beyond the façade
Austria 2024 – 04:35 min – Director: Eyup Kuş
On September 20, followed by a film talk with Eyup Kuş.
An abstract short film in which his atmospheric music merges with visual elements to create a sensory journey that blurs the boundaries between seeing and hearing. A haunting commentary on the climate crisis reflects the transience of human experience and symbolically melts like the glaciers of the Alps.
Tshegl
Italy 2025 – 11:04 min – Director: Philipp Silbernagl
Beneath the picturesque surface of South Tyrol lies a world that is often misunderstood – a world in which farmers are wrongly seen as backward and narrow-minded. This film reveals the real life of a young farmer and shows his challenges and his unique world between tradition and progress.
400 cassettes
Greece 2024 – 14:00 min – Director: Thelyia Petraki
After a lesson about cosmic archaeologists and a water fight in the schoolyard, Elly steals Faye’s soul and Faye gives Elly a rare birthday present.
But then, under a starry sky, a song from the past reminds the girls that nothing really lasts forever.
On Weary Wings Go By | Linnud läinud
Estonia/Lithuania 2024 – 10:00 min – Director: Anu-Laura Tuttelberg
A wintry poem about Nordic nature. The sun is low in the sky and the days are getting shorter. Birds fly south, porcelain animals and insects hide from the icy wind and snow. Only a little porcelain girl wanders through the deserted landscape without finding a way out.
Magdalena Hausen – The frozen time
Greece/Germany 2025 – 24:15 min – Director: Yannis Karpouzis
On September 20, followed by a film talk with producer Lejla Aliev.
Magdalena Hausen was a German artist who was known for having achieved the impossible: photographing the wind. Fifteen years after her mysterious disappearance, there are still more riddles than answers. An experimental film about political identity, history and the inner mechanisms of memory.
