20. UNDER|DOX 09-15 OKT 2025

Short experimental film that has been created through a mixture of digital special effects, compositing, frame by frame animation, and 16mm hand processed film. Through material-based exploration, this film plays with the concept of post-humanism via the return to nature and the body in a tactile and gritty manner.

Karly McCloskey
CA 2024 | German Premiere
2 min | no dialogues

A broken camera and three rolls of film, two daylight and one tungsten, capture days with my grandmother. The version of the woman on celluloid is more foreign to her than to me, and the version of herself speaking these languages is more foreign to me than to her, but both are not fully in our grasp and slip away and decay. They do not belong to either of us but to time—much like how languages are imperfect and adapt to the needs of those who speak them. – Zazie Ray-Trapido

Zazie Ray-Trapido
USA 2025
3 min | Croatian, English, French, German

A tattoo ritual and hookah session memorializes a pre-war flower shop. After seeing its storefront in archival footage of the Lebanese Civil War, a first-generation daughter seeks information and connection to place. Scenes of 1976 Beirut are paired with today’s modern landscape, while roses are etched and coconut coals burn in a snowy diasporic setting.

Christina Hajjar
CA 2023 | German Premiere
7 min | English
Best International Short Documentary
Lebanese Independent FF 2025

“Death is her boyfriend/ She spits on summers and smiles to the night/ She collects crowns made of black roses/ But her heart is made of bubble gum“ – M83, The Graveyard Girl

Friedl vom Gröller
AT 2025 | German Premiere
3 min | no dialogues | 16mm

The chronology of the deconstruction of Sava Centar. Built in Belgrade in 1977, this congress center, with its striking late-modernist architecture, was a vision of the future for the progressive, Non-Aligned, international Yugoslavia. After the collapse of Yugoslavia in the nineties, this monumental building slowly became obsolete and run down. In 2022, it was privatised. During the commercial reconstruction which took place in 2022 and 2023, the original interior elements and the physical traces of the history and socio-political identity of Sava Centar were gradually removed. “Inventory” observes this erasure.

Ivan Marković
RS 2025 | German Premiere
21 min | Serbian

Two neighbors bond after a shared traumatic event, a continuous home development creeps into nature’s threshold, and a community celebrates freedom. “The Instability of Clouds“ navigates an ecosystem in decay and growth while traversing across its spaces of comfort, spectacle, and disaster.

Zazie Ray-Trapido
USA 2024 |
15 min | English

The series of Super8 shots taken from his travels and the comprehensive voice-overs make for a fascinating mosaic of encounters, observations, formative quotations from cinematic and other works, and also possible fantasies. Here, Jenkin demonstrates his ability to give his films an appealing timeless quality and to connect the familiar with the curiously enigmatic. One hundred and one interesting facts from the filmmaker’s diary. – Karlovy Vary IFF

Mark Jenkin
GB 2025 | German Premiere
17 min | English

Documentary footage in past video aesthetics shows fragile-looking structures beneath the flickering images—they leave behind the certainties of the ideologies associated with them as potentially collapsing new buildings of a future built in the past. This is accompanied by an ominous, idyllic soundtrack that achieves a powerful effect.

Andres Komatsu
FR 2024 | German Premiere
6 min | English

What does a day in the life of the most famous painter alive look like? Is it a battleground of colour, a symphony of rebellion, a spectacle of squeegeeing? And what roles do the Sparkasse Bank and mysterious Anselm play in all of that? In his hilarious spoof documentary on the art world, Ulu Braun walks away from his trademark ‘video paintings’ and steps into a full blown AI universe. – IFF Rotterdam

Ulu Braun
DE 2025
10 min | English