Sections
Feature Film Competition
The best productions from Central and Eastern Europe. Young talents compete with established directors. Twelve films from 19 (co-)production countries compete for the Lubinas for best film, best director and outstanding performance. Twelve stories as diverse as Eastern Europe between political ...
Short Film Competition
Once again, it's curtain up for "The Long Night of Short Films" on Friday evening. 12 films from 10 production countries show how to get to the point quickly or digress briefly, between punchline and mind game, romance and black humour, fantasy and social metaphor. The ...
Youth Film U18 Competition
The films in the youth competition impressively tell us about young people's wild search for identity in the face of the rapidly changing world of the 21st century. A jury of students will choose the best film in the competition.
Spectrum
Everything but - ordinary. Tour de force between historical reflection and everyday grotesque, artist flat-share and computer nerds, loopy comedy and blatant horror film. Stories of people caught between the seats and the times, insights into political abysses, glimpses of a science fiction that has ...
Hits
In their production countries, Central and Eastern European productions often compete successfully with Marvel, Disney & Co for the favour of the audience. With their specific humour, their allusions to regional mentalities, political culture and history, they strike a chord with their ...
EcoEast
How do people change the landscape and how does the landscape change people? How does Eastern Europe deal with climate change? What are the interactions between nature and people, between ecology and economy? How are we changing our own habitats? EcoEast presents films about nature and the ...
Close-Up: Kazakhstan
Epic expanses with modern swag. Close-Up: Kazakhstan offers an overview of the undreamed-of diversity of Kazakh cinema. Here, slacker comedy meets pop folklore and silent protest meets historical genre smash hit. From the Cannes classic to the small-time gangster road movie to the historical ...
Spotlight: Ukraine
Ukrainian cinema continues to be one of the most creativefilm landscapes in Europe. With Spotlight: Ukraine, the FFC is putting Ukrainian cinema in the spotlight for the third time since 2016. But Ukraine's presence is also an integral part of the FFC programme in other sections: in the ...
POLSKIE HORYZONTY: The Female Gaze
In the last few years, films by female directors from Poland have increasingly made a name for themselves on the international festival scene. Most recently, two Polish women, Agnieszka Holland and Małgorzata Szumowska, were represented in the main competitions in Venice. Recent successes at other ...
What remains of history
Good Bye, Lenin! meets strike protests in the Gdansk shipyards. What is left of the uprisings against the communist dictatorships in the GDR, Poland and Hungary? From intimate portraits of their own family histories to unheralded heroines, these films ask: How is history reinterpreted, and ...
FullDome
Cosmic cinema in the planetarium: global warming, microbes, vegetable markets or animal carcasses, the 360° projections in the dome of the Cottbus space flight planetarium again offer space for all kinds of philosophical, artistic, abstract and technical full-dome cinema.
MIOB
Founded in 2017 by seven European film festivals, MIOB aims to promote, show and discuss European cinema in all its diversity, also to initiate change and to bring issues such as environmental and climate protection or diversity to the fore in programme curation. In addition to FilmFestival ...
Polizeiruf 110
This year, the FFC is once again presenting the premiere of the new Polizeiruf 110.
Series marathon
New 2023: Series Lounge at the Stadthalle! And that: FREE OF CHARGE. Just come along, sink into the cinema seat and enjoy the high voltage.
PLA NAS GRONJE JEJ HANKA
New film by Grit Lemke.
Homeland | Domownja | Domizna
Sorbian worlds and themes that shape and embody the region, with films from Upper and Lower Lusatia and elsewhere that tell stories that can sound all too familiar here. HEIMAT musy serbski byś! A programme full of references to what Lusatia is first and foremost: Sorbian. Including: DIE LANGE ...
Children's Film
Grab some popcorn and get into the cinema seat: Five children's films will be screened at this year's FilmFestival Cottbus for all kids and the young at heart. All films are shown in the original language and will be translated live into German for you; headphones are available at the box office. ...
The Boy
THE BOY Shortfilm by Yahav Winner