{"id":6005,"date":"2026-10-26T21:55:30","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T20:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greenmotions-filmfestival.de\/de\/?p=6005"},"modified":"2026-10-27T16:31:27","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T15:31:27","slug":"our-short-films-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greenmotions-filmfestival.de\/de\/en\/2026\/10\/26\/our-short-films-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Short Films 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Our Short Films 2026<\/h1>\n\n\n
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This year we have arranged multiple short film programmes for you. Over the course of the entire festival, we will show numerous documentary, artistic and animation movies in a short format. The movies all have a unique way to tell stories about people concerned with sustainability, climate change and social injustice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Short Film Hour: Saving Ecosystems<\/a><\/strong> on Friday afternoon takes its audience to three entirely different habitats. In a delta scarred by war in Ukraine, in the icy waters of northern Norway as well as in the hostile salt plains of the Atacama desert, people are fighting to protect places especially threatened by human incursions and climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During Thursday’s screening of the Team’s Favourites<\/a><\/strong> we present a colourful collection of movies from around the world that present environmental topics through various lenses and tell the stories of relentless people fighting for change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like in the last years, we conclude our festival with the Jury Selection<\/a><\/strong> of short films. Alongside a selection of outstanding movies that were submitted to our festival this years, we will also crown the winner of our yearly short film award during this event on Sunday evening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Balconada<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Director: Iva Tokmakchieva<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: 11 min<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A hot summer day brings several neighbours out on their balconies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Screened before the movie „Climate Art“<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Corteza<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Director: Simon Acosta<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: 14 min<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Language: Spanish<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In rural Colombia\u2014one of the most dangerous countries for environmental leaders\u2014passionate forest ranger Astrid fights to protect the tropical forest and its elusive wildlife, including the rare spectacled bear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Desi Oon<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Director: Suresh Eriyat<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: 7 min<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Language: Hindi<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The film explores the deep connection between Deccani wool, the land, and its people, highlighting its cultural, spiritual, and ecological significance. It delves into the resilience of the Deccani sheep, the traditions of shepherding, and the sacred role of wool in daily life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Entropy<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Director: Inuk J\u00f8rgensen<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: 10 min<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Language: Kalaallisut, English<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The vast Greenlandic ice sheet has been created over thousands of years but today climate change is threatening the close and sacred connection between the land moulded by ice and the Inuit who live there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hang am Baum<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Director: Lucas D\u00fclligen<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: 13 min<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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An apocalyptic sound of roaring machines incessantly intrudes into the habitats of man and nature. Barren landscapes and deserted villages linger in hypnotic restlessness. A self-destructive system meets resistance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jus d’orange<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Director: Alexandre Athan\u00e9<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: 14 min<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Language: French<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Toni grows oranges. He loves them, they are his treasure. Until one day, strange cargo ships dock in the valley. Cargos loaded with… GREEN oranges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Karatoya<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Directors: Rowfel Ahmmed & Sadik Sarowar Sunam<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: 9 min<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Language: Bengali<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Flowing through the heart of Bogura, the Karatoya River bears the weight of a long, visible decline. Once one of northern Bengal\u2019s major waterways, the river today appears narrowed, stagnant, and burdened with waste its surface calm, its crisis deeply rooted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Director: Martin Cooper<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: 10 min<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Language: Englisch<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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As climate change increasingly transfigures our world, two artists living on different continents (Nii Obodai from Ghana, and Nakajima Hiroyukifrom Japan), explain how their creative work reflects what the notion of „LAND“ means to them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Life Invisible<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Directors: Bettina Perut & Ivan Osnovikoff<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: 20 min<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Language: Spanish<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Infections by antibiotic-resistant superbugs cause millions of deaths around the world each year. The hope for salvation lies in the hands of scientists such as Professor Cristina Dorador who explores the hostile salt flats of the Atacama Desert in search of natural antibiotics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mal Deetz bergauf, mal Deetz bergab<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Director: Fritz Hahn<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: 7 min<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Berlin ends in Deetz, a landfill site in Brandenburg. Here, a mountain of construction waste is growing, marking the downside of urban growth and greed for profit. The film analyses the ecological and social consequences of demolition in Berlin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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One Coral at a Time<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Director: Gabriele Castellani<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: 8 min<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On a small island in the Maldives, a young couple works to restore coral reefs, one fragment at a time. Through their daily work beneath the surface, their efforts reveal both the fragility of marine ecosystems and the quiet hope of regeneration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Paris Fox<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Director: Sofian Chouaib<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Swiper is a fox living peacefully in a wild space, surrounded by nature, majestic trees, tall grass\u2026 and the city of Paris. Indeed, this fox has settled in an urban wasteland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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P\u00ebk\u00ebya<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Director: Remi Bumstead<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: 14 min<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Siekopai Nation ancestrally lived between the Putamayo and the Napo Rivers in the Amazon basin. This film follows their journey to reconnect back with their ancestral land where they collect the seeds of fruits to reforest their current territory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Director: Lena Tondello<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In July of 2021 there was a flood of catastrophic scope in the Ahrtal Region of Germany. 135 people lost their lives and countless others lost their possessions, their homes, their most treasured mementos. Three years later the reconstruction is progressing slowly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Stone Biter: Saving the Arctic Sea Forest<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Director: Ismaele Tortella<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: 20 min<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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When an Italian photographer moves to Northern Norway, he carries a dream: to explore the icy Arctic waters and film the iconic wolffish amongst lush kelp forests. But beneath the surface, he finds a stark reality – an ocean floor stripped bare, where the once-thriving sea forests have nearly vanished.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Danube Delta and the Healing Power of Nature <\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Director: Emmanuel Rondeau<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: 17 min<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Languages: English, Russian, Ukrainian<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What if preserving wild nature could help heal the bodies, dreams, and landscapes of a country scarred by years of war? In the heart of Ukraine and the Danube Delta, this is what the team behind ‚Rewilding Ukraine‘ believes \u2014 betting on life itself to build the country of tomorrow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Dreaming World <\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Director: Alexi Scheiber<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The dreaming world emerges in a series of vignettes in the form of animation painting over live-action spaces. Spaces are de-paved and re-wilded. Cars are removed and formerly quiet suburban spaces become bustling with life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Directors: Roberta Palmieri & Olga Sargenti<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ziki is a Congolese boy living in a village with his mother. One day, while the two are playing, Ziki discovers a mysterious tunnel winding beneath the kitchen floor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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