The summer in Berlin is hotter than usually. Nora is a quiet and reserved teenager, who lives alone with her mother and older sister. With the latter, she spends most of her days at school, on the roofs of the overheated apartments and at the swimming pool. It is at the pool that she first sees Romy… It is clear that the summer will bring many transformations and changes for Nora: her first period, first kiss, relationships and disappointments. Nora is getting to know herself and the people around her. Full of courageous and pleasant summer scintillation, the film shows the troubles and joys of looking for your place among your peers, in society and the world.
Cocoon Kokon
Let film take you away on the wings of awakening!
Screenplay Leonie Krippendorff, Cinematography Martin Neumeyer, Editing Emma Graef, Sound Desgin Cristoph Walter, Music Maya Postepski, Production Jost Hering, Cast Lena Urezndowsky, Jella Haase, Lena Klenke, Elina Vildanova
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The Songbirds' Secret Le Secret des mésanges
Antoine Lanciaux
Sunday, 22. 02. 2026 / 14:40 / Main Hall
When 9-year-old Lucie arrives for a vacation in a small town, she has no idea of the adventures ahead. Beautiful paper-cut animation.
Fiume o morte! Fiume o morte!
Igor Bezinović
Sunday, 22. 02. 2026 / 16:30 / Main Hall
On 12 September 1919, a troop of some three hundred soldiers under the leadership of the flamboyant war-loving Italian poet Gabriele D’Annunzio swooped into the Northern-Adriatic port town of Fiume, now Rijeka, wanting to annex the city to Italy. Over the course of the next 16 months, during what is regarded as one of the most bizarre militant sieges of all time his official photography team captured over 10,000 images. A century later, Igor Bezinović orchestrates a direct-action history lesson focused on the siege and its modern-day implications.
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Wisdom of Happiness Wisdom of Happiness
Barbara Miller, Philip Delaquis
Sunday, 22. 02. 2026 / 18:00 / Small Hall
With disarming wit, the Dalai Lama reflects on balancing millennia-old Tibetan Buddhist traditions with the contemporary values of our globalised society that now struggles to overcome violence and war while standing on the brink of environmental collapse.