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Die Jungfrauenmaschine

(english) The Virgin Machine

Germany | Directed by Monika Treut

Young Hamburg journalist Dorothee Müller is fed up with her persistent lover, Heinz. A complete ingénue, she innocently embarks upon an exploration of romantic love – is it merely a ‘woman’s malady’? The places where she undertakes this research include a pleasure-addicted hormone researcher’s practice and the monkey house at the zoo. Unable to find any satisfactory answers, Dorothee decides to leave Europe and head for California where she cont...
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Die Jungs vom Bahnhof Zoo

(english) Rent Boys

Germany | Directed by Rosa von Praunheim

The documentary RENT BOYS (DIE JUNGS VOM BAHNHOF ZOO) is a compelling weave of authentic stories about rent boys that manages to illuminate the phenomenon of male prostitution whilst carefully avoiding the clichés that surround the milieu. The film focuses on the biographies of five rent boys, three of whom are Roma. We follow Ionel back to his village in Rumania and learn of the impoverished lives that lads like him have left behind. Nazif is a ...
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Die Letzte Stadt

(english) The Last City

Germany | Directed by Heinz Emigholz

An archaeologist and a weapons designer, who knew each other in a previous life as a filmmaker and a psychoanalyst, meet at an excavation site in the Negev desert and begin a conversation about love and war, which they continue in the Israeli city of Be’er Sheva. A series of encounters with alternating actors in different roles ensues, which leads the viewer through the cities of Athens, Berlin, Hong Kong and São Paulo. Among those appearing are...
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image caption Filmstill "The Legends of Rita"

Die Stille nach dem Schuss

(english) The Legends of Rita

Germany | Directed by Volker Schlöndorff

Germany in the 1970’s, Rita Vogt lives with an unshakeable belief in a better world. She wants to change something, so she and her friend Andi get involved with a terrorist. When people get killed, Rita goes into hiding in East Germany. The State Security Officer Hull aids her to disappear into a new identity there: a new name, a new job and new friends. When Rita falls in love with her colleague Tatjana, she believes she’s shaken off her past … ...
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image caption Claus Wilhelm Klinker, Eckhard Rhode, Klaus Dufke

Winner

Die Wiese der Sachen

(english) The Meadow of Things

Germany | Directed by Heinz Emigholz

Every decade hasits own gateway to heaven. Clonetown 1974 to 1979: a terrorist defector named Charon sits on the edge of oblivion and commentates on the imminent putrification of an abducted car dealer
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Die Zärtlichkeit der Wölfe

(english) Tenderness of the Wolves

Directed by Ulli Lommel

Ulli Lommel’s film about a serial killer in the early post-war era echoes the real story of “wolf man” murderer Fritz Haarmann. A mix of Fritz Lang’s M and Hitchcock’s Psycho that follows in the tradition of Weimar cinema.
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Dina and Noel

Israel | Directed by Sivan Levy, Natalie Melamed

An old man is dying. His carer Noel sits quietly by his side. Dina, the man’s granddaughter, appears in an animal costume. She raids the fridge and then goes off to have fun with her friends. When she returns late at night, her grandfather is dead. Dina and Noel lovingly stroke the man’s hands, comb his hair, smoke a cigarette, share a laugh and then go out into the night time city. Loud electronic music awaits them in a club. As the sun rises they leap into the sea’s clear, cleansing waters. Their night of farewell is also a new beginning. Dina and Noel unconventional cinematic means to portray the attitude to life among young Israelis.
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Discreet

United States | Directed by Travis Mathews

Bacon sizzling in fat, a young woman thanking the subscribers of her YouTube channel, a corpse neatly wrapped up in black garbage bags and floating down a river – as clear as the first few images of Travis Mathews’ mystery thriller may be, the connections only become clearer gradually, as if they were emerging from the subconscious. This elliptically edited story, which revolves around a man who can no longer be described as young, is accompanie...
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Dish

(german) Tratsch

United States | Directed by Brian Harris Krinsky

DISH observes the conversations of two adolescent Emos, Israel and Louie, in Los Angeles. The main issue is sex with other guys. Louie knows about it from personal experience, but Israel still needs to try. They are constantly exchanging text messages about the subject. While walking around their East Los Angeles neighborhood dishing about their high school classmates they talk about dicks, fucking, the use of condoms and the old cliché of top an...
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Dispatches from Elsewhere

United States | Directed by Jason Segel (Ep. 1), Wendey Stanzler (Ep. 2)

A chain of strange coincidences leads computer scientist Peter to the mysterious Jejune Institute. Its charismatic director Octavio promises Peter a way out of the invisibility and quiet desperation of his everyday life, offering him instead the gateway to a life full of magic, beauty and “divine nonchalance”. Peter plays along. But is this really a game? Is it an alternative reality? Or a conspiracy making a bid for social control? Together wit...
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Diva

Switzerland | Directed by Nicolas Cilins

Diva is a fan letter to Diva Cat Thy, a Vietnamese transwoman, street food vendor, and performer, who openly shares her life and struggles daily on social media. Trying to bridge distances of both geography and language, the French director uses found footage posted online by Diva and her community to get in touch with her. He has never met her, cannot travel to Vietnam due to COVID-19 restrictions, and relies on his boyfriend, an Australian ...
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Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot

United States | Directed by Gus Van Sant

John has a penchant for off-colour jokes - and a drinking problem. And so, when somebody he met at a party suggests they go on an all-night bender in L.A. he simply can’t refuse. But after falling asleep in a drunken stupor on his drinking buddy’s passenger seat, he wakes up the next morning in hospital, a quadriplegic. Confined to a wheelchair for life at the age of 21, he now requires every last drop of his sense of humour to rediscover meaning...
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Dorian Gray im Spiegel der Boulevardpresse

(english) Dorian Gray in the Mirror of the Yellow Press

Germany | Directed by Ulrike Ottinger

Frau Dr Mabuse, boss of an international media conglomerate, needs to boost circulation. She has decided to create an artificial character who will fulfil all her readers’ dreams, only to then destroy him before their very eyes. She chooses Dorian Gray. Dr Mabuse takes the rich, narcissistic dandy to the opera, where he falls in love with singer Andamana. He also cuts a dashing figure at the Press Ball, and on a journey through the underworld, w...
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Dream Boat

Germany | Directed by Tristan Ferland Milewski

One week on a cruise ship, with parties, fun and new friendships. The all-gay clientele on board are preoccupied with topics such as identity, the body beautiful and the search for sex. Every evening is dedicated to a new theme, challenging the passengers to ever more extravagant, body-hugging outfits. In the cabins however, the talk is more than skin deep as the men open up about their private lives. Marek, a young Polish man just wants to be a...
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Dream Boy

United States | Directed by James Bolton

A drama about taboos, love and violence, based on a best-selling novel by Jim Grimsley set in a religious community in America’s south. Fifteen-yearold Nathan and his parents have recently moved to a small country town in Louisiana. One Sunday morning on the way back from church he notices the boy next door for the first time. Roy is only seventeen, but is already driving the school bus. He also has a girlfriend that he seems to love very much – a...
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image caption Filmstill "Dreamers" © Dreamers Production Ltd.

Teddy icon Competition 2025

Dreamers

Great Britain | Directed by Joy Gharoro-Akpojotor

As her freedom is threatened, Isio, a Nigerian migrant freshly placed in a UK asylum removal centre, searches for the will to battle the system and finds a kindred spirit who might help her through. Freedom is elusive, but love is eternal.
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Dreaming Walls

United States | Directed by Amélie van Elbt, Maya Duverdier

The camera hovers, lost in reverie as voices and sounds waft through the gutted rooms of a building. Archive footage is sometimes projected onto unplastered walls and at others used as a soundtrack as we continue our tour. This is the legendary Chelsea Hotel, famous as the preferred abode of New York’s bohemia from the 1950s to the 1980s. Here, bourgeois society’s misfits – sex workers, poets, queers and artists – were able to find cheap acco...
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Teddy icon Competition 2025

Dreams in Nightmares

United States, Taiwan, Great Britain | Directed by Shatara Michelle Ford

Three Black queer femmes in their mid-thirties take a road trip across the American Midwest in search of their friend who has seemingly disappeared off the grid.
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Dress Rehearsal und Karola 2

Germany | Directed by Christine Noll Brinckmann

A tie or lace? After trying on numerous treasures from New York’s second-hand stores, and extravagant fashion accessories, Karola Gramann decides on a traditional dinner jacket with cummerbund and bow tie. We then see her posing & vogueing to Bryan Ferry’s “These Foolish Things”. These shorts are an early gender bend that evoke Kenneth Anger’s biker etude SCORPIO RISING (1963) and even anticipate the Madonna phenomenon. ...
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Drifter

Germany | Directed by Hannes Hirsch

Moritz arrives in Berlin with no particular plans. He might study art history, but there is no rush, he is only 22. He has moved here to be with his boyfriend Jonas, an attractive photographer who is a little more accustomed to the easy-going, noncommittal ways of the city. But then their relationship suddenly comes to an end. Devastated and alone, Moritz becomes a seeker. His first foray takes him to a gym. Little by little his fashion, his frie...