Since 1989, the Dresden Film Festival has provided an international meeting place for short and animated films: With an annual competition, special programs, retrospectives, and a focus on inclusion and diversity, it creates space for new voices in cinema. Inclusive offerings such as audio descriptions and subtitles demonstrate that the festival is not only aesthetically oriented but also socially reflective.
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Kaltes Tal
12 Min., Dokumentarfilm , KurzfilmKALTES TAL explores, through a dialectical lens, our relationship to nature as both a repository of raw materials and a mystical realm of possibility.
LAKE OF FIRE
11 Min., Experimentalfilm , KurzfilmThe third chapter of the LAST THINGS trilogy explores the fear of death, its close association with hell in Christian belief, and the way this worldview further inflames visions of a climate-driven “hell on Earth”.
BITING THE DUST
13 Min., Experimentalfilm , KurzfilmThe second chapter of the LAST THINGS trilogy examines Christian ideas of the afterlife, asking which living beings are admitted to heaven—and which are shut out.
LITTLE LOWER THAN THE ANGELS
13 Min., Experimentalfilm , KurzfilmThe first chapter of the LAST THINGS trilogy examines the relationship between religion and speciesism, while asking whether anthropocentric systems of belief have any future.
Les Rites de Passage
14 Min., Experimentalfilm , KurzfilmA cloud of ash settles softly upon the currents of a river. Light enters the heart of a tree through a myriad of tiny holes. Monoculture forests succumb to parasites and become fertile ground for forms of life still to come. A film about earthly and mythological passages through becoming and decay.
An der Saale hellem Strande
19 Min., Dokumentarfilm , Experimentalfilm , KurzfilmThe film deals with the memory of Delfin Guerra and Raúl Garcia Paret, two Cuban contract workers in the GDR who died in Merseburg in 1979. During a visual tour of the city, acoustic fragments from Stasi files, letters and Facebook chats condense into a reflection on forms of remembrance and racist continuities.
Saft
5 Min., AnimationsfilmA gaggle of fleshy, damp creatures gleefully smears itself with viscous juice. Will they learn to share their world with the pesky little crawlers before the juice runs dry?
Transient Witness
47 Min., Experimentalfilm , SpielfilmTransient Witness unfolds through the eyes of three protagonists: Christina, the manager of an art collection; Maurizio, an art mover; and Präsens, the collector's dog.
