Boy Meets Girl (D 2025, Joey Arand, 01 Min.)

A story as old as time: boy meets girl, girl meets boy – meet-cute activated. But does that really work? A film genre encounters itself.

Viel Kalkül, wenig Romantik: Das Balzverhalten unserer Vögel (D 2025, Mara Weinert, 21 Min.)

Online-Dating is crazy, a fact that FLINTA* people know all too well. With humor and glee, they share their experiences of unpaid work, disrespect, and frustration. A witty and beautifully presented critique of modern Dating.

Táxismemoria (D 2025, Mariia Maiorova, 11 Min.)

An experimental animation that imprints itself on all the senses: women who were imprisoned in the gulag - the network of prisons and labour camps in the Soviet Union, recount what they experienced and lived through.

Mandarinen (D 2025, Lucie Linn Stoll, 10 Min.)

Why is it so hard for us to forgive ourselves and why do we fly off the handle at the slightest mistake? ''Mandarinnen‘‘ explores the relationships between fathers who struggle to confront their own emotions. When their memory begins to fail them, their adult daughters step in to pick up the pieces.

Abandon All Hope! (D 2025, Lena Grobusch, Laura Krabes, 26 Min.)

Just like the inscription on the gates of hell, the title of this anthology promises both damnation and salvation. In three episodes, it explores the horror of being trapped in a menstruating body. Without leaving out any mucus, blood, or period products, the film glows with resilience and coolness – feminist genre cinema at its finest.

Kutte (D 2025, Sylvie Hohlbaum, 15 Min.)

The patches on a denim jacket tells a story: At a flea market in Offenbach,Sylvie Hohlbaum comes across a football denim jacket bearing the SV Darmstadt-Logo and is immediately fascinated with it. Who was the original owner of this iconic denim jacket? What is the story behind it? The film takes us through various fan cultures and decades, and deep into a rabbit hole studded with rivets and stitching.

Auferstanden aus Ruinen (D 2025, Harry Besel, 20 Min.)

Buy a cheap car, repair it, revamp it, smuggle it across the border with a buddy, bribe the border patrol, and sell it for a good price there. Never change a running system. But what happens when changes come anyway?