Feature Film

In today’s fast-paced world, optimists have become rarer. In places where new ideas for a more just future could flourish, hard-won achievements are being dismantled. Right-wing movements are gaining influence, wars continue. Artificial intelligence makes many things easier, but at the same time it is destabilizing entire professions. The world’s resources are being depleted – and sometimes our own as well. Countless eyes around the world see many things. How fortunate that much of this is captured and transformed into an artistic cinematic form. When we take our seats in the cinema, a window to the world opens for a limited time. From the nearly 600 feature films that reached us, we have selected 39 works that move us, challenge us, make us laugh and make us think. Many of them tell the stories of people who do not lose hope despite the most adverse circumstances. They weave urgent questions of our time into personal stories and make visible what is often lost in the noise of everyday life. This year, voices from Israel and Palestine are strongly represented, not only documenting the war, but reflecting on it through artistic and media processes. But the selected films show us much more than just political urgency. We encounter the absurd, the humorous, the unexpected, and the familiar in surprising forms. We immerse ourselves in complex family dynamics and utopian experiments, experiencing poetic and essayistic visual experiences. In terms of both form and content, we take on unfamiliar perspectives, broaden our horizons, pay attention to details, and seek the big picture. We focus our gaze on our immediate surroundings and remain open to new things. 18 of these films are available online. Additionally, films from the section DokfestGeneration are also available online.

our own as well.

Countless eyes around the world see many things. How fortunate that much of this is captured and transformed into an artistic cinematic form. When we take our seats in the cinema, a window to the world opens for a limited time. From the nearly 600 feature films that reached us, we have selected 39 works that move us, challenge us, make us laugh and make us think. Many of them tell the stories of people who do not lose hope despite the most adverse circumstances. They weave urgent questions of our time into personal stories and make visible what is often lost in the noise of everyday life. This year, voices from Israel and

Palestine are strongly represented, not only documenting the war, but reflecting on it through artistic and media processes.

But the selected films show us much more than just political urgency. We encounter the absurd, the humorous, the unexpected, and the familiar in surprising forms. We immerse ourselves in complex family dynamics and utopian experiments, experiencing poetic and essayistic visual experiences. In terms of both form and content, we take on unfamiliar perspectives, broaden our horizons, pay attention to details, and seek the big picture. We focus our gaze on our immediate surroundings and remain open to new things.

18 of these films are available online. Additionally, films from the section DokfestGeneration are also available online.

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