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29 Jan – 8 Feb 2026

Overview of articles

  • Songs of Hope and Despair. Performed by Bundschuh, Fish, Fox Tail, Rainbow, Dead Drummer, Muse-Leaving Germany and by other agencies

    Strangely costumed heroes long for a miracle in this absurdist lo-fi musical roadmovie by the Chto Delat collective.
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  • Mergen

    Beneath the snowy mountains lie dark secrets and buried trauma in this hypnotic Kyrgyz noir.
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  • The Poet’s Son

    Set in a Russia at war, a young man who narrowly avoids conscription must navigate a harrowing choice: remain loyal to his father or break…
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  • The Second Skin

    Three filmmakers re-enact the testimonies of sexual violence survivors, as a shared gesture of empathy and grief.
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  • Who Killed Teddy Bear

    Grim New York noir about a stalked woman. A descent into depravity that remains disturbing and shocking.
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  • TRACE

    A displaced man tries to return, but his hometown has turned into a ghostly, alienated place.
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  • Two Prosecutors

    A stark but absorbing drama of a young prosecutor’s struggle for justice in Stalinist Russia.
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  • Lotus

    A fantasy about Latvia’s first female director. Filmmaking as visual witchcraft – 24 spells per second.
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  • The Orphanage

    Bollywood-film nostalgia colours the experiences of fifteen-year-old Qodrat, who ends up in an orphanage during Afghanistan’s 1980s Soviet-oriented period.
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  • Spiegl

    Available on Festival Scope Pro from 26 January 9:00 CET to 14 February 9:00 CET
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