Zebra Poetry Film Festival – Histories

The best poetry films from around the world - and the world in the microcosm of poetry film. This is where great poetry performances meet moving stories. Over 1,000 entries from more than 90 countries were submitted for the ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival 2025. Accompanying the International Competition, the festival offers an insight into the diversity of the poetry film scene in four programs with around 50 animations, feature films, experimental films and documentaries. Filmmakers and poets question history and current political conditions, explore identities and the ever-present longing for human closeness, are guided by ghosts and travel through landscapes and memories. Their films move between visionary dreams and clearly documentary approaches - as poetic as they are fearless.

Moderation: Gian-Philip Andreas, Ingrid Beerbaum

The event will take place in the domed hall of silent green.

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At Nights I Sought
ISR 2024 | 6 min | Director: Sari Azoulay Turgeman | Poem: Song of Songs - chapter 3, (verses 1-4)

Faen i helvete / Goddammit
NOR 2025 | 4 min | Director: Kristian Pedersen | Poem: Faen i helvete | Poet: Jan Erik Vold

The Gardener
GBR 2024 | 1 min | Director: Efa Blosse-Mason, Sofie Marsh | Poem: The Gardener | Poet: Jane Campbell

March 20/64 kalymnos
DEU 2024 | 8 min | Director: Susanne Wiegner | Poem: March 20/64 kalymnos | Poet: Robert Lax

LIVING WATER
CHE 2024 | 3 min | Director: Katia Sophia Ditzler | Poem: Metaverse for the chosen ones | Poet: Katia Sophia Ditzler

Sorry
AUT 2024 | 2 min | Director: Jörg Piringer | Poem: SORRY | Poet: Jörg Piringer

Gedicht ohne uns / Poem without us
DEU 2025 | 8 min | Director: Jenny Dam | Poem: Poem without us | Poet: Clemens Schittko,

Sëida - poetica magica
AUT 2024 | 2 min | Director: Silke Müller | Poem: Sëida | Poet: Rut Bernardi

Sphere Supreme-Flying Ability
BEL 2024 | 5 min | Director: Hasan Pastacı | Poem: Flying Ability | Poet: Paul Demets

Lo que cuenta / What Counts
USA 2024 | 4 min | Director: Eric Felipe-Barkin | Poem: Lo que cuenta | Poet: Óscar Cruz

I havn't told my garden yet
ZAF 2024 | 4 min | Director: Diek Grobler | Poem: I havent told my garden yet | Poet: Emily Dickinson

Реквием по Еве / Requiem for Eve
ARM 2024 | 1 min | Director: Anna-Maria Chernigovskaya | Poem: Requiem for Eve | Poet: Hayk Ryan

零零點零零零分 / Midnight, the Zero Hour
TWN 2025 | 10 min | Director: Ye Mimi | Poem: Midnight, the Zero Hour | Poet: Ye Mimi