Interfilm 42 (2026)

Five documentaries look across divides - animals, LGBT-free zones and digital fictions - to find ourselves in the other.

Six documentary shorts explore how the camera's gaze becomes a political act of solidarity and resistance.

The second European Short Film Audience Award program presents five audience favourites touring Europe, with the Berlin vote deciding the winner.

The films in this program are less concerned with the politics behind the wars than they are with the mental and temporal conditions that they produce. Armed conflict creates an atmosphere characterised by repetition, delay, uncertainty and an ongoing sense of suspension.

Five films spotlight women as key agents in revolutionary movements in West Asia, focusing on Iran and Palestine.

Feisty pixies, queer idols and rebellious protagonists let the paradoxical flourish in gardens that defy authority.

Six films explore urban life as a struggle for the good life and space, from shrinking villages to trash wars.

A young-curated selection of international shorts showing how feminist struggles connect across the globe.

Six essayistic films span geographical and metaphorical shores, examining how past and present shape our sense of home and foreignness.

Three fates, one legacy: desire and pain bound through time.

Eight animated films from Bonobostudio reflect on inner struggles and identities.

Seven experimental films from Bonobostudio deconstruct familiar images and memories until something new emerges.

Six essay films interrogate cultural and personal memory through experimental approaches.

Seven films use food to rekindle memories of stories, connections and places, turning eating into a form of resistance.

Seven films oscillate between queer pain and queer joy, giving distinctive characters their say.

Five films blur fact and fiction, leaving the audience to question where the boundaries of the credible lie.

Seven films expose the inherited ideas of home, happiness and belonging we carry, and imagine seeing differently.

Self-assured, cheeky and romantic young protagonists celebrate heartbreak and the power of community.