Programme 2026

Wednesday 13-5-2026

 

10:00 Registration
 

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Student Film Competition

 

More Than Human

13:00

The Fishers of Mainmahla (45')
- Myanmar -
2024

 

Intertidal (20')
- United Kingdom -
Marina Espinach, Olivia Hird (Spanish, British) 2024

 

Ea - Home on Givær (36')
- Norway -
Ursula Möll (Swiss) 2025

 

Milking (30')
- Denmark -
Albert Osbæck Adelkilde (Danish) 2025

 

Layers of Confidence (28')
- New Zealand -
Lou Boshart (Dutch) 2025

 

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Break

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Doing Memory

 

Caution Colonialism (29')
- Germany -
Elisa Erpenbeck, Mara Müller (German) 2025

 

Dragging Chains (30')
- Grenada -
Emil Victor Hvidtfeldt (Danish) 2024

 

As I Witness (8,5')
- United States -
Pamela Andrea Martinez Barrera (Venezuelan) 2024

 

Then...Now...Forever (15')
- India -
Hemant Kumar (Indian) 2025

 

My Lens, My Land (23,5')
- China -
Ke Chen (Chinese) 2024

 

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Break
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Un/certain Relationships

20:00

A Happy Place (22')
- Belgium, Hungary, India, Portugal -
Siddhant Sarin (Indian) 2025

 

We Might Be Alike (17,5')
- Germany, Iran -
Monirsadat Jazaeri (Persian) 2025

 

Unveiling Voices (37')
- United Kingdom -
Smriti Singh (Indian) 2025

 

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Break

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Almost in Russia (33')
- Norway -
Sanni Marjaana Naukkarinen (Finnish) 2023

 

Dating in the Dark (51')
- Myanmar -
2025

Thursday 14-5-2026

 

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Student Film Competition Continued
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Doing Memory

09:00

Learning to Fly (49')
- Mexico -
Amelie von Marschalck (German) 2024

 

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Break

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Care and Aging

 

Tokiwadaira Danchi (33')
- Japan -
Haru Kato (Japanese) 2025

 

Distant Intimacy (20')
- China -
Yuzhe Zhu (Chinese) 2023

 

A Decent Person (35')
- Russian Federation -
Nastia Zheltova (Russian) 2024

 

Work Between Us (29')
- Austria -
Elaine Goldberg (German, Estonian) 2024

 

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Break - Presentation of the Installation: Legacy of Silence(s)
Janine Prins (Dutch) ________________________________________________________________________

 

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Main Festival
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Path of Resilience

14:00

Highway Nomads (84')
- Mexico -
Alberto Arnaut Estrada (Mexicans) 2023

 

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Break

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Throne Of Wood (30')
- Iran -
Sadegh Kazemi (Iranian) 2025

 

Safoora (18,5')
- Iran -
Perviz Rostemi (Kurdistan) 2025

 

Souls (79')
- Argentina -
Laura Basombrío (Argentine) 2023

 

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Break
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Elemental Relations

20:00

Clay Woman (17,5')
- Mexico -
Concepción Vásquez Martínez (Mexican/Mixe) 2024

 

Kathmandu Monsoon (18,5')
- Nepal -
Ngima Gelu Sherpa (Nepali) 2023

 

Mukunã Apprentice of Shaman (25')
- Not Specified -
Rodrigo Sena Sena Sena (Brasilian) 2025

 

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Break

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Angry Spirits (104')
- Mongolia -
Iris Pakulla (German) 2024

 

 

Friday 15-5-2026

 

Collective Actions

09:00

Marimari (98')
- Papua New Guinea -
Paul Wolffram (New Zealander) 2024

 

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Break

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City on the Back (76')
- Ecuador -
Fadia Paola Rodas Ziadé (Ecuadorian) 2023

 

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Break - Presentation of the Website: Living Room (i-doc)
- United Kingdom -
Caterina Sartori (Italian/British) 2025
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14:00

Help Me Help You (36')
- Namibia -
Stéphanie Sassen (Dutch) 2024

 

Wind's Heritage (30')
- Iran -
Nasim Soheili (Iranian) 2024

 

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Break

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Queering Lives

 

A Letter to Chinatown (48')
- Hong Kong, United Kingdom -
Alexandra D'Onofrio, Elena Barabantseva (Italian/Greek / British/Belarusian) 2025

 

Bride of Aravan (48')
- India -
Lesley Branagan (Australian) 2025

 

Drags in da´ House (67')
- Brazil -
Mihai Andrei Leaha, Paula Bessa Braz (Romanian, Brazilian) 2024

 

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Break
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Path of Resilience

20:00

Waterline (68')
- Not Specified -
Rui Simões (Portuguese) 2025

 

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Break

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Rhythms of Sodade (109')
- Cabo Verde -
Kay Aoki, Masashi Nagara (Japanese) 2025

 

 

Saturday 16-5-2026

 

Loss and Be/Longing

09:00

Macula (25')
- Mexico -
Mariana X. Rivera (Mexican) 2025

 

Making Space (13,5')
- India -
Nikita Parikh (Indian) 2024

 

You In This City, This City Inside You (28,5')
- India -
Amartya Ray (Indian) 2025

 

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Break

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Shape of Absence (21,5')
- China -
Yitong Lu (Chinese) 2025

 

Death in Palermo (65')
- Italy -
Caterina Pasqualino (Italian/French) 2024

 

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Break
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14:00

Only if the Baby Cries... (15')
- India -
Shadab Farooq (Indian) 2024

 

Make it Look Real (67')
- Pakistan -
Danial Shah (Pakistani) 2024

 

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Break

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What Returns

 

Ichi: Marks in Time (71')
- Nigeria -
Paul Basu, Christopher Thomas Allen (British) 2023

 

Oceanbone (9,5')
- United States -
Lani Cupchoy (US-American, Fijian) 2025

 

Shiva Linga: A Visual Quest (27')
- Germany, Nepal -
Deepak Tolange (Nepalese) 2025

 

Have You Seen My Gods? (60')
- Nepal, United States -
Amitabh Joshi (Nepalese) 2025

 

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Roundtable

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Break
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Award Ceremony
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Drinks and Snacks

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Sunday 17-5-2026

10:00

8 Seconds (79')
- France, Germany -
Jean-Marie Vinclair (French) 2025

 

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Break

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The Sacrifice (81')
- Indonesia -
Robert Lemelson (US-American) 2024

 

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End of Festival
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Only online screening 2026

GIEFF received many impressive films which were very long.

The selection committee and the film festival directors decided to offer the filmmakers to make their selected films available online.

 

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The following films you can watch only online.
To do so, you have to log in first.
Registered visitors of the festival in Göttingen get an corresponding log in for these films.

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The Mbako Trial: Myth and Reality (90')
- Belgium, Congo, the Democratic Republic of the -
Jean-Michel Kibushi Ndjate Wooto (Congolese) 2023

 

Maree's Backyard (29')
- Australia -
Amelie Marie Nadia Ward (French/Lebanese) 2024

 

Spring in Kangiqsualujjuaq (80')
- Canada -
Marie Zrenner (German) 2025

 

Wind Has No Tail (60')
- Russian Federation -
Ivan Vlasov, Nikita Stashkevich (Russians) 2024

 

Kotlovan (80')
- Not Specified -
Nikolay Bem (Russian) 2025

 

We Had Fun Yesterday (35')
- Not Specified -
Marion Guillard (French) 2024

 

Recording to Notice (36')
- Norway -
Nienke Winkel (Dutch) 2025

 

Sunrise - At the Frontiers of Feasibility (94')
- Germany, Sweden -
Johannes Kohout, Janek Sam Totaro (Germans) 2024

 

What about the F-Word? (67')
- Germany, Italy -
Nora Diekmann (German) 2024

 

Mantènnere - Holding the Sacred Sound (52')
- Italy -
Diego Pani (Italian) 2025

 

God in a Military Uniform (107')
- Japan, Taiwan -
Kano Endo (Japanese) 2025

 

Ökul Näs - Around us (38')
- Italy -
Enrico Micelli (Italian) 2025

 

60 Years of Singing Ballads in Hakka : Hsu Mu-chen (54')
- Not Specified -
Shao-chi Ku (Taiwanese) 2023

 

Once Upon a Time in Dongmen (61')
- China -
Yu Pei, Xuelai Ni (Chinese) 2024