Short Film Day: Short Looks at Nature

On the shortest day of the year, the German Short Film Day celebrates the short film, this year with the motto "I see something you don't see". We are celebrating too and invite you to have a look at nature and explore its hidden facets: poetry, elegy, beauty, but also danger and ambivalence.
Kino am Markt

Nemophelia

film still Nemophelia
Fiction Germany
direction: Mirjam Dahl Pedersen

A forest. A place of amazing colours, sounds, scents, a centre of peace and power. All this is going to almost spill out of the screen.

Haulout

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Documentary Great Britain, Russia
direction: Evgenia Arbugaeva, Maxim Arbugaev

Some people, led by the love for science and cinematography, go to the most harsh places on Earth to meet the local inhabitants.

Blue Love

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Fiction France
direction: Sylvain Bes

The professional underwater photographer Sylvain Bes presents his epic and poetic version of a somewhat disturbing love story.

Nuisance Bear

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Documentary Canada, USA
direction: Gabriela Osio Vanden, Jack Weisman

Polar bears are one of the most ambivalent creatures of nature: they spellbindingly attract people and pose huge danger. Do not let them settle in your town.

Erään hyönteisen tuho

Death of an Insect

film still Erään hyönteisen tuho
Experimental Finland
direction: Hannes Vartiainen, Pekka Veikkolainen

Science meets nature and cinematography: in this fusion of stop-motion animation and 3D-Tomography, the insects join the meditative dance of death.

Krähen schießen

Shooting Crows

film still Krähen schießen
Experimental Switzerland
direction: Christine Hürzeler

A park in the fog. Crows flap and caw in the sky. A homeless man sleeps between the trees. A woman disappears. What secrets does this fog hide?