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29 Jan – 8 Feb 2026

Overview of articles

  • Simply Cinema 3

    About the state of affairs in film art, with film makers who have a special bond with the festival. In this edition: the spiritual world…
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  • Import Export

    As usual, Seidl ignores all taboos in his stagings and guards the style to the ultimate. This dark comedy is about the crossing stories of…
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  • The Best of Times

    Restraint and stylistically stern drama about the spiritual side of love. Two women have been fighting all their lives over one man and after his…
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  • Islands. Alexander Sokurov

    Proskurina’s personal homage to her friends and mentor Alexandr Sokurov. The intimate yet objective portrait comprises frank conversations with the ma
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  • Absurd and Absurdity

    As the title suggests, this is anything but a realistic drama. The film takes a light-hearted look at the adventures of three Kyrgyz young men…
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  • 11 Coins

    After a stay abroad, a man returns to his birthplace to bury coins in the land of his forefathers. Classic short documentary.
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  • Allein in vier Wänden

    A documentary about a Russian reform school for very young delinquents who have often committed serious crimes. Paradoxically enough, despite its ster
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  • Reflection in the Mirror

    When a successful actor (played by Victor Proskurin, ‘the husband of’) stops working, he loses his own identity. The characters he played and the mask
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  • Cargo 200

    Extremely realistic thriller about Soviet Russia in the 1980s, when a crazy policeman introduces his own laws when he has to solve two important cases
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  • Welche Richtung geht’s nach Hause?

    A documentary road movie about two Russian Germans who travel to their birthplace in Kazakhstan by train. They are looking for their identity and root
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