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  • Bottlemen

    Bottlemen

    Bottlemen

    Director: Nemanja Vojinović

    Duration: 84 min

    Languages: Serbian, Romanian

    Subtitles: English

    On the outskirts of Serbia’s capital, Belgrade, lies one of the biggest landfills in Europe – Vinča. Once an archeological site of the European neolithic, this toxic place, unsettled by fires, is a workplace for a community of plastic bottle collectors – Bottlemen. In this documentary-western, we follow the last days of this community before their jobs become obsolete, as we focus on the struggle of a good-hearted boxer, Yanika, to be a group leader in a chaotic system.

    09.11.25

    4:00 PM

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  • Birdsong + Au 8ème Jour (Short Film)

    Birdsong + Au 8ème Jour (Short Film)

    Birdsong + Au 8ème Jour (Short Film)

    Directors: Kathleen Harris / Agathe Sénéchal, Alicia Massez, Elise Debruyne, Flavie Carin & Théo Duhautois

    Duration: 60 min (52 min / 8 min)

    Languages: English / No Dialogue

    Subtitles: English

    This double feature showcases the beauty of the natural world and reminds us, how close we are to losing it. The French film Au 8ème Jour delicately illustrates how humans disrupt the balance of Earth’s tightly interwoven ecosystems. This artfully animated film serves as a grim metaphor of humanity’s role on the planet.

    Birdsong presents the ambitious project of ornithologist Seán Ronayne who attempts to make sound recordings of every bird species that still breeds in Ireland. Throughout his journey he travels to some of the country’s most beautiful and remote locations to find its most elusive species and soundscapes. Seán’s search for species is complicated by the fact, that a lot of Irish bird populations are on the verge of extinction. With its intimate animal scenes and its charismatic, authentic protagonist, the film inevitably arouses a fascination of the living world surrounding us.

    08.11.25

    5:00 PM

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  • Roots of Resilience: Stories of Caribbean Women in Agriculture + Weeds (short)

    Roots of Resilience: Stories of Caribbean Women in Agriculture + Weeds (short)

    Roots of Resilience: Stories of Caribbean Women in Agriculture + Weeds (short)

    Directors: Curmiah Lisette & Keithlin Caroo-Afrifa / Pola Kazak

    Duration: 62 min (48 min / 14 min)

    Languages: English / No Dialogue

    Untertitel: English

    To start this double screening, Pola Kazak’s Weeds illustrates the relationship between flowers in our gardens and those in nature all around us. Her film, which she animated by painting on glass using stop motion animation techniques, reflects on the human stewardship of the life that surrounds us.

    Subsequently Roots of Resilience tells the story of agriculture on the Caribbean island nation of St. Lucia. In light of St. Lucia’s past journey from indigenous roots through European colonisation and slavery, the film focuses on the inspiring work of the organisation Helen’s Daughters. Led by Keithlin Caroo-Afrifa, it empowers women farmers across the Caribbean with innovative contributions like FarmHers markets and rural training programs.

    08.11.25

    3:30 PM

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  • People at the Heart of Change + Ben & bEartha: A Community’s Compost Love Story

    People at the Heart of Change + Ben & bEartha: A Community’s Compost Love Story

    People at the Heart of Change + Ben & bEartha: A Community’s Compost Love Story

    Directors: Karen Logan /Jordan Osmond

    Duration: 66 min (27 min / 39min)

    Language: Englisch

    Subtitles: Englisch

    This double feature is dedicated to an essential aspect of our special topic of living within planetary boundaries – composting. Focusing on a Zero-waste and Environmental justice project in the city of Durban, South Africa, the heart-warming documentary People at the Heart of Change shows the power of small but local solutions with big impact. Waste-pickers, traders, artists, activists and neighbours come together and prove that if we can slow down long enough to listen to each other, we can lay the groundwork for a more just world.

    Ben & bEartha follows the story of passionate composter Ben Bushell of Community Compost, Nelson. Through the inspiring story of Ben and his dedicated composting community, we get to know bEartha, an automatic composting machine that’s about to revolutionise small-scale commercial composting. This inspiring film offers a potentially game-changing approach to making compost on an urban scale.

    After the screening, there will be a discussion about waste management in Freiburg with Veit Cornelis of the ASF.

    08.11.25

    1:30 PM

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  • Demain, la vallée + The Crazy Farm (Short Film)

    Demain, la vallée + The Crazy Farm (Short Film)

    Demain, la vallée + The Crazy Farm (Short Film)

    Director: Jérôme Prudent / Josephine Liu, Yuyuan Ma

    Duration: 82 min (63 min / 19 min)

    Languages: French / Chinese, English

    Subtitles: English

    After our foodsharing buffet on sunday morning, we continue our programme with two films about agriculture. The short film The Crazy Farm shows the extraordinary project of taiwanese farmer Humama located near Chengdu. At the age of 50, she decided to quit her city job and founded an ecologically oriented farm where she grows both plants and raises cattle in harmony.

    The feature film Demain, la vallée tackles the question how change in the agricultural sector can be made equitably. In the idyllic Arac valley in the french Pyrenees, the project “Just Scapes” brings together farmers, gardeners and members of local administrations to develop visions of just adaptions to climate change in rural areas.

    Following the screening, we will have a discussion with local initiatives Agronauten, Piluweri, Regionalwert AG and Gartencoop.

    09.11.25

    11:00 PM

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  • Short film programme for kids 2025

    Short film programme for kids 2025

    Short film programme for kids 2025

    For the third time in a row, we invite young guests and their families to a programme of short movies aimed at children from the age of five. In the approximately one hour long event, we will watch and discuss five exciting and funny short movies. The kid-friendly stories focus on the environment and how we can all live together happily and sustainably. At the end, the children have the chance to vote for their favourite film, which we will then watch together one more time.
    We hope to welcome many of you to one of our two screenings on Saturday morning and Sunday afternoon at the KoKi Freiburg.

    08.11.25

    10:30 AM

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    09.11.25

    2:30 PM

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    Our Kids Movies 2025

    Momo, the Marmot

    Directors: Kids ‘N Tricks

    Duration: 2 min

    Language: German

    Subtitles: –

    Momo, the marmot, lives in the Alps. She normally sleeps through the cold winters in her burrow underground with the winter fat she has eaten over the summer. But Momo can’t stand the increasingly warm summers in the Alps at all and instead of filling her belly, she prefers to hide in her burrow. As a result, Momo and the other marmots are too thin in winter and cannot hibernate.

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    Writing Home

    Director: Eva Matejovičová

    Duration: 12 min

    Languages: No Dialogue

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    A little bark beetle girl lives a peaceful life in the forest until a fire destroys her home. She is separated from her family and finds refuge in a human school, where she discovers a new talent: writing.

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    Si Viene de la Tierra

    Director: Katalyn Egely

    Duration: 4 min

    Language: Spanish (song)

    Subtitles: –

    A girl, a cumbia and a sustainable and healthy world. Katalin Egely’s animation to the song by Ruth Hillar and Sebastián Cúneo (Canticuénticos) invites young and old to think about responsible consumption and the environment: “What a great festival of colours, flavours and surprises when we eat what comes from the earth again!”

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    World I Live in

    Director: Ester Kasalová

    Duration: 7 min

    Language: No Dialogue

    Subtitles: –

    Alice’s summer with her grandfather brings to light their shared interest in butterflies and connects their different perspectives – one through a video game, the other through the real world.

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    A small garden by the window

    Director: Lee Jonghoon

    Duration: 5 min

    Language: No Dialogue

    Subtitles: –

    Early morning. A man picks ripe cherry tomatoes from his small patch on the windowsill to pack a lunchbox for work. Ecological energy flows from the tomato vines. This energy, which comes from small acts for the environment, accompanies the man as he once again goes to the front line of the climate crisis.

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  • Documerica, Self-Portrait of a Nation on the Brink

    Documerica, Self-Portrait of a Nation on the Brink

    Documerica, Self-Portrait of a Nation on the Brink

    Director: Pierre-François Didek

    Duration: 58 min

    Language: English

    Subtitles: German

    Landscapes disfigured by industry, nature disfigured by mountains of rubbish and scrap cars: ‘Documerica’ paints an unsparing picture of the USA. ‘Documerica’ is the name of a photography programme run by the US Environmental Protection Agency in the 1970s. The aim was to photographically document the dramatic ecological state of the country. From 1972, around one hundred photographers travelled the United States. Their photographs show the society of the time and its living conditions as a disturbing mosaic. Tens of thousands of pictures were taken at the time, but they were forgotten. Now we revisit the project with some of the photographers involved.

    09.11.25

    1:00 PM

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  • Screening at the Agrikulturfestival 2025.

    Screening at the Agrikulturfestival 2025.

    At this years Agrikulturfestival in Freiburg, we showed two movies from last year’s selection. Despite the excellent weather, more than 40 people watched the movies “The Pickers” by Elke Sasse und “Im Land der Wölfe” by Ralf Bücheler with us. Über 40 interessierte Gäste haben, trotz prächtigem Wetter, den Weg in unseren dunklen Kinosaal gefunden. Toll, dass ihr da wart!

    We hope to see many of you again in November at our festival. Currently, we are putting on the last touches to our programme and hope to be able to present it to you very soon. Wir hoffen, möglichst viele von euch im November beim Festival wiederzusehen. Gerade befinden wir uns in den letzten Zügen der Programmplanung, sodass wir euch schon bald unsere Filme und weiteren spannenden Programmpunkte präsentieren können. Wir freuen uns schon riesig auf das Festival – und vor allem auf euch.

    (Picture by Tobias Schächtele)

  • The Wolves Always Come at Night

    The Wolves Always Come at Night

    The Wolves Always Come at Night

    Director: Gabrielle Brady

    Duration: 96 min

    Language: Mongolian

    Subtitles: English

    A Mongolian family lives in a simple tent camp in the Gobi desert. They earn their living by herding sheep, while the consequences of climate change are becoming increasingly noticeable in their homeland. When an extreme storm wipes out their flock of sheep, the young family is suddenly forced to move to the city, where they struggle to make a living. A film that touches the heart, makes you think and tells the moving story of a family in beautiful images.
    After the film, there will be a discussion with the film’s editor Katharina Fiedler.

    08.11.25

    8:30 PM

    Main Screening is sold out!

    But we also show the movie in a parallel screening in the cinema’s smaller gallery room! There will be no discussion in the gallery, however.

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  • Submission period over

    Submission period over

    The submission period for this year’s festival has ended. We are happy to have received over 250 movies in our various categories. Now, we are working hard to review all the great films we have received and selecting the programme for the festival. Already we are looking forward to showing inspiring, educational and moving films at our festival in November. A huge Thank You to all of the film makers and distributors that have sent us their movies to review this year!

    If you are a film maker or distributor and have not had the chance to submit you film in time, you can always hand in your movie during next year’s submission period, which starts on the 15th of February 2026. More infos on our categories and the terms and conditions can be found on our page for filmmakers.

    (Picture from “We Are Guardians” co-winner of the audience award 2024 by Chelsea Greene, Rob Grobman & Edivan Guajajara)