Themes

Festival Favourites features audience favourites that have proven their quality at international festivals.

With turbulent elections and the devastating earthquake in Türkiye a year ago still in the back of its mind, this edition of the festival sees reason to invite three main guests of Turkish origin. A delegation of young filmmakers from the disaster zone has also been invited.

17 short films have been selected for the Shorts competition. The shorts are programmed in four different thematic blocks.

A look at human rights through the lens of cinematic classics. We screen the Turkish film Mustang and the Kurdish film YOL – The Full Version.

In Take on Freedom, you will see films about the indomitable desire for freedom – and the work it takes to achieve it.

The transition into a sustainable future is a slow one. What is needed to speed it up? And what dilemmas does this entail? That is what the films in Take on Future are all about.

Take on Love is our theme programme about the right to be yourself and love whom you want.

In Take on Power we show films about uneven power relations. And about people taking on forces and structures that seem bigger than themselves.