Program

07.05.2025

Opening Film / Short Film Program

Drift: Memory & Self

Drifting between media and narrative, these films intertwine history, reality, home, exile, and self, blurring boundaries and questioning identity. (Jiawen Zhang)

20:30 | Metropolis | 86min | QA

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08.05.2025

Feature Program

An Unfinished Film

This film reflects on traditional cinema, creatively employs vertical-screen imagery, and explores reality and fiction’s boundaries. It reveals the fragility yet resilience of images while offering an empathetic gaze on individuals in the present moment.

18:30 | Metropolis | 107min

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09.05.2025

Feature & Short Program

Into the Current

These two Taiwanese films capture silent struggles and deep emotions, reflecting the choices and conflicts of contemporary youth in a complex reality. (Run Yuan)

19:00 | Metropolis | 104min | Q&A

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Feature Program

Carefree Days

Adapted from Ban Yu’s novel, Carefree Days captures Northeast youth in struggle, questioning whether freedom is fleeting joy or acceptance of life’s impermanence — a journey of resilience amid quiet struggles. (Jiawen Zhang)

21:30 | Metropolis | 120min | Q&A

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10.05.2025

Short Film Program

Frames of Defiance

The lens as prism—refracting commodified eggs, taboo blood, and silenced desire into women’s embodied narratives. (Hanqi Sheng)

12:30 | Lichtmess | 99min | Q&A

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Feature & Short Program

Here and Now

Through conversations, these two films reveal how people’s stories create shared narratives, connecting emotions and experiences in public spaces. (Yao Su)

15:10 | Lichtmess | 112min | Q&A

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Short Film Program

Echoes in Hiding

History shapes lives and buries truths. Through four films, this program unveils forgotten voices, exploring memory, politics, and the hidden echoes of the past. (Zhizhao Zhu)

18:15 | Lichtmess | 90min | Q&A

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Medium & Short Program

Unspoken Secrets

Secrets and lies shape our lives in unseen ways. Here, filmmakers use language as a code, inviting us into their secret havens to explore hidden emotions and seek understanding through conversation. (Zhiwen Ding)

20:45 | Lichtmess | 95min | Q&A

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11.05.2025

Feature Program

The Scream

In the age of live-streaming, two drifters chase dreams through their phones. Amidst the noise, their loneliness lingers, revealing fragile bonds of a "built family" on society's margins. (Jiawen Zhang)

12:30 | Lichtmess | 89min | Q&A

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Medium & Short Program

Drifting Labor-Scapes

These two experimental documentaries traverse China’s Gobi Desert and mining town, to frame laborers' realities in perpetual movements and shifts, mapping a mutating surreal landscape. (Pincent Liu)

14:50 | Lichtmess | 88min | Q&A

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Closing Film / Feature Program

Borrowed Time

A tale of two Cantonese cities. A melancholy odyssey. Borrowed Time explores family secrets through a dreamy Guangzhou-Hong Kong journey. This surreal sensory feast poetically mirrors the cross-border relationship while guiding audiences through memory lanes. (Pincent Liu)

17:20 | Lichtmess | 93min | Q&A

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09.05.2025 - 22.06.2025

Special Event: Video Art Exhibition

In Between And Never There

In Between And Never There is an artistic activation of the Millerntorwache, curated by Bettina Freimann.

Nostalgia Machine | Millerntorwache | Millerntorplatz 20

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