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GERMAN SHORT FILMS AT VILA DO CONDE 2025

Festivals

33rd Curtas International Film Festival Vila do Conde (July 12-20, 2025)

International Competition
400 CASSETTES by Thelyia Petraki (GR/DE, Watchmen)
CRITICAL CONDITION by Mila Zhluktenko (Michael Kalb Filmproduktion)
ICEBERGS by Carlos Pereira (DFFB)

Experimental Competition
I WAN’NA BE LIKE YOU by Persijn Broersen, Margit Lukács (NL/FR/BE/GB/DE)
ONE HUNDRED YEARS LATER by Christoph Girardet
SONGS OVERHEARD IN THE SHADOWS by James Edmonds
A THOUSAND WAVES AWAY by Helena Wittmann

Curtinhas M/3 – Children’s Film Competition
FIRST FLIGHT by Adrian Jaffé
FULL NEST – LENA’S FARM (VOLLES NEST – LENAS HOF) by Elena Walf (Studio FILM BILDER)
RISE AGE by Tatjana Theuer (Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg)

Curtinhas M/6 – Children’s Film Competition
WHEN OCEAN RISES by Yongxin Wang (Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF)

Curtinhas M/9 – Children’s Film Competition
ON THE MAT OUTSIDE MY DOOR (VOR MEINER TÜR AUF EINER MATTE) by Antje Heyn (Protoplanet Studio)
POLLIWOG (KAULQUAPPE) by Julia Skala (Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg)

My Generation
ELYSIAN FIELDS by Anna-Maria Dutoit (DE/GR, University of Television and Film Munich HFF)

Radical Intimacy
BALCONIES by Kamal Aljafari (DE/CH)
PLEASE SAY SOMETHING by David OReilly

European Short Film Audience Award
ROSE by Annika Mayer (Majmun Films)

In Focus: Mahdi Fleifel
20 HANDSHAKES FOR PEACE by Mahdi Fleifel (PS/DE)
I SIGNED THE PETITION by Mahda Fleifel (GB/DE/CH)