Die lange Filmnacht: Sharp Nails, Sharp Tongues

Digital frustration, analog ghosts, creative crises, cracks, revised history, reversed gender roles, empowerment. A feminist short film program that confronts the absurdities and challenges of life with wit and acumen.

How to Make a Mud Cake
Helena Uambembe
ZA | 2021 / 2025 | 9'
An online cooking class about the enduring trauma of colonialism.

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Seating
Franca Pape
DE | 2025 | 6'
An associatively edited film about abortion and its opponents, about shame and about filmmaking.

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How to Be a Ghost in Bangkok?
Jing Zhao
TH / GB | 2025 | 9'
Personal heartbreak becomes a playful exploration of being a ghost.

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This is life and nothing else
Lenia Friedrich
DE | 2024 | 13'
A hypnotic-hybrid exploration of the aging process.
🅘 Young Talent Award Shoot 2026

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Contrewers
Zuza Banasińska
NL / PL / FR | 2026 | 21'
The ghost of a possessed girl meets the director's 102-year-old grandmother.

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Abortion Party
Julia Mellen
ES | 2025 | 13'
A hilarious monologue deals with sexuality, motherhood and stereotypes of abortion.

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Obey, obey
Akira Kawasaki
DE | 2024 | 4'
A hairstyle tutorial provides insights into the rules at Japanese middle and high schools.

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The Magic Flute
Hansol Kim
DE | 2025 | 5'
The self-portrait of an Asian woman in the context of German clichés.

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Hope Road
Susann Maria Hempel
DE | 2025 | 12'
In view of the world situation, the director and mother of a small child reflects on her creative crisis.

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Dear Hans
Claudia Richarz
DE | 2025 | 2'
A postcard from Marie to Hans, who will not be returning home.

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Descent
Hoàng Quỳnh Nguyễn
EN | 2026 | 12'
The last morning before a journey into the unknown.

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Warnings to the distant future
Juliane Jaschnow, Stefanie Schroeder
EN | 2025 | 19'
In search of the German-German nuclear waste repository.

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Love Your Nails!
Narges Kalhor
DE | 2026 | 9'
Role reversal in a world where women are born armed: with their long fingernails.

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From Kita - Horizontal Gene Transfer
Melisa Chee
DE | 2025 | 3'
How can a child have six mothers? With the help of horizontal gene transfer!

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