Seminar The Aesthetics of Crime: Reflectionf of Violence And Forgery In Art

10 June 2025 - The seminar examines the relationship between art and crime. Drawing on important theft and forgery events in art history, it examines how works of art are stolen, copied, and how these situations find a response in the art world.

Film The Zone of Interest

14 August 2026 - In this session of the series "Conflicts: Breaking Points in Cinema," we will open a collective space for discussion around the film The Zone of Interest (2023), which strikingly portrays the banality of evil and collective denial.

Film Dogtooth (Kinodontas)

7 August 2026 - In the first session of the series "Conflicts: Breaking Points in Cinema," we will open a collective space for discussion around the film Dogtooth (2009), which unlocks the doors to a dystopian universe.

Blog Stories beyond borders: A closer look at the “World Shorts” program

The films competing in this year’s “World Shorts” section of the festival predominantly invite audiences into the world of children with characters who neither rely on excuses nor shy away from expressing their emotions with raw honesty.

Short Film Amarela

Short Film The Second Child

Short Film Cura Sana

Seminar Return to Plato's Cave: Artificial Intelligence, Big Data and the Future of Political Systems

13 February 2025 - This talk will assess the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) and big data on political systems in light of Plato's Allegory of the Cave. It will focus on whether these technologies will completely eliminate political systems or lead to their radical transformation.

Seminar Identity Impasse: A Phenomenological Approach to the Problem of Identity

22 March 2024 - An essential yet overlooked aspect of identity debates surrounding race, gender and religion is that there is another basis on which distinctions are formed. Neglecting this foundation - one which arises only when contemplating existence and experience - can result in an "identity impasse".

Short Film Between Delicate and Violent

Seminar The Pathology of Community

14 December 2023

Workshop Movement of Sound

10 June 2023 - In this workshop, together with the participants, it will be investigated how the sound is formed and how the sound is composed of notes, resonant, violence, etc. different qualities will be studied.