Since 2004 the FiSH film festival is, with more than 3.500 visitors in various locations, one of the most important film events for young German filmmakers. The core of the festival is the Germany-wide competition JUNGER FILM, which shows the best short films from young talents under 27 years of age. The films will be publicly discussed by directors and other film experts in front of the audience. This adds a lot to the special flavour of FiSH. In addition, the festival program includes films, music videos, and documentaries from Germany and the Baltic region.
Curator: Arne Papenhagen
Hubris can blind you, even towards your best friends. But who is friend and who is foe? New media and social networks open friends’ doors to the most private areas. Does this permeability corrupt digital malice to a real menace?
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A conservative white family gets dislodged by monsters and tries to flee to their black neighbours. But the monsters are going to raid them too. So, both families end up scared in the woods, until the daughters team up.
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A girl gets stuck in a loop of oppressive uncurledness until her swelling anger erupts and throws her out of passiveness. But into where? Animation meets stop-motion meets live action.
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A film with a morbid sense of humour which ruthlessly and with a good dose of exaggeration shows what getting old can mean. If even the way to the canteen of the retirement home becomes a horror trip...
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The two brothers Tim and Tom are on the brink of robbing a gas station. While they go through their plan one last time, things go wrong. Can these inexpert criminals still succeed in the heist?
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Zoe, Tomke, and Bruno do not know everything, but they want to discover as much as they can. What they mean for each other and what they mean to themselves, how it feels to stand alone against the world or to trek through the night.
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Everyone has a dream of freedom. To be free from obedience, prejudice, a political situation. But the need for order and security is a strong foe. A monologue staged as a dialogue till the bitter end.
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