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Durch die Nacht mit Wanda Wandalis & die krossen Kerle

A hybrid work of nocturnal forays through Hamburg in documentary-animated live action. Alongside feminist social criticism, autobiographical references remain never fully deciphered. Alongside the gloomy Wanda Wandalis and Krossen Kerlen, "Didi" enriches the director's dark excursions and artistic positions in a fascinating way with his presence as an eccentric character. This love, embodied by Dietrich Kuhlbrodt (known for his subversive roles in Christoph Schlingensief's films), brings unmistakable charm and humor to the collaboration with Pachet Fulmen. "I'm not interested in pigeonholing," says Fulmen. Her art is a rebellion against convention — uncompromising, uncomfortable, unforgettable.

Durch die Nacht mit Wanda Wandalis & die krossen Kerle

NR 2025
One Day I Wish to See You Happy

In the quiet of their home, filmmaker Maryna Nikolcheva documents her husband Max as he drifts through a midlife crisis. Once celebrated for his art, Max now edits commercials he can't stand, finding meaning only in the slow, obsessive restoration of a battered old car. Through the lens of Maryna's camera, we witness the small victories, frustrations, and tender moments that make up their shared life. When Russia invades Ukraine, the couple is torn apart, connected only through video calls. Amid missile strikes, blackouts, and uncertainty, they confront the fragility of life and the enduring pull of their shared craft. Despite the backdrop of war, Max begins to find happiness again – but, like safety itself, it remains precarious and fleeting.

One Day I Wish to See You Happy

NR 2025
Better Mont Blanc

In Better Mont-Blanc, Jacques Perconte explores the visual effects and theoretical implications of one of the operations performed by generative AI models: upscaling, or increasing the resolution of digital images. The work is based on historical and contemporary images photographed and filmed around Mont Blanc, the lignite mines of Hambach, foundries, and nuclear power plants in France. The melting of Alpine glaciers is juxtaposed here with infrastructure and techniques for extracting and exploiting terrestrial resources, recalling human activities' expansion, interconnection and standardisation. The work mediates the tension between the irreducible richness of sensory experience and the statistical approximation of AI-generated images. It questions our relationship to progress, effort and the desire to appropriate a world that is disappearing before our eyes.

Better Mont Blanc

NR 2025
Not My Film

There is the male gaze, the post-colonial gaze, and the anthropocentric gaze — but what about the gaze of youth? A diverse group of older people far over 65 re-perform stereotypical film scenes about older age: scenes of poor health, lack of mental sharpness and sexual invisibility. But do these cinematic images really correspond to their own reality? This documentary emphasizes that there is a need to challenge the dominant 'gaze of youth' and accept more multi-layered perspectives about later life.

Not My Film

NR 2025
Success Is Served

A woman calls The Success Service to help her create the façade of success. The service facilitates re-ordering the house to fit the woman’s perception of success. None of the invitees show up beside the mailperson who spent the day delivering said invites only to realize they too received an invitation. The party of two proceed with the night of fine dining and connection, facilitated by the service workers, but all is not what it seems. Examining the commodification of success and its defining parameters, the film aims to explore the lengths one will go for a fleeting sensation of perceived achievement and purpose. If success is commodified then, just like any other good for sale, it has an expiry.

Success Is Served

NR 2025
Capitol vs. Capitol

Instant chronicle of the times we are living, with a world and moral order that seems to falter without letting us glimpse what will come, the strength of the film lies in the use of images destined to disappear, poor images, rescued from mobile phones, social networks, Telegram groups, that no one will bother to archive. The film confronts us with two memories: on the one hand, the memory of the day before yesterday, where a spark emerged that caused everything, and on the other, the memory that we captured without protecting it later, without making it accessible.

Capitol vs. Capitol

NR 2025