Zebra Poetry Film Festival – Connections

In the organizer's words:

The best poetry films from around the world - and the world in the microcosm of poetry film. This is where great poetry performances meet moving stories. Over 1,000 entries from more than 90 countries were submitted for the ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival 2025. Accompanying the International Competition, the festival offers an insight into the diversity of the poetry film scene in four programs with around 50 animations, feature films, experimental films and documentaries. Filmmakers and poets question history and current political conditions, explore identities and the ever-present longing for human closeness, are guided by ghosts and travel through landscapes and memories. Their films move between visionary dreams and clearly documentary approaches - as poetic as they are fearless.

Moderation: Gian-Philip Andreas, Ingrid Beerbaum

The event will take place in the domed hall of silent green.

OmeU

The Great Connection
DEU 2023 | 5 min | Director: Christen Bach | Poem: The Great Connection | Poets: Christen Bach, Elia Rediger

Yoghurt Sauce
DEU 2024 | 1 min | Director: Ennie Petersen | Poem: Yogurt Sauce | Poet: Ennie Petersen

burak
DEU 2024 | 4 min | Director: Ozan Zakariya Keskinkılıç, Sami Morhayim | Poem: burak | Poet: Ozan Zakariya Keskinkılıç

Saber cair é uma ciencia / to know to fall is a science
HUN/PRT 2023 | 2 min | Director: Katalin Egely | Poem: Saber cair é uma ciencia | Poets: Franisca Camelo, Cátia Mazari

NEST
BEL 2024 | 7 min | Director: Arwen Aznag | Poem: Nest | Poet: Arwen Aznag

Pint of the Usual
GBR 2024 | 4 min | Director: Keir Cain Cairns, Peter Holt | Poem: Pint of the Usual | Poet: Jude Sides

wet archives
DEU 2024 | 6 min | Director: Hannah Schraven | Poem: wet archives | Poet: Hannah Schraven

Heartbreak
AGO 2023 | 3 min | Director: Jaliya The Bird | Poem: Heartbreak | Poet: Jaliya The Bird

I say no with hope / Digo no con esperanza
DEU 2024 | 3 min | Director: Francisca Villela | Poem: Digo no con esperanza | Poet: Francisca Villela

the little yellow square / das kleine gelbe quadrat
DEU 2025 | 5 min | Director: Philipp Seefeldt | Poem: das kleine gelbe quadrat | Poet: Eugen Gomringer

Water
ECU 2023 | 4 min | Director: Manuel Suquilanda | Poem: Water | Poet: Lars Jongeblod

IT'S JUST A RISKY TIGHTROPE WALK
DEU 2024 | 7 min | Director: Antonia Jungwirth, Fiona Schiffer | Poem: ES IST HALT EIN RISKANTER SEILTANZ | Poet: Fiona Schiffer

Border Dweller Love
USA 2024 | 3 min | Director: Laura Asherman, Anna Flores | Poem: Border Dweller Love | Poet: Anna Flores

Naval Ode / Ode Maritima
PRT 2024 | 6 min | Director: Fu Le | Poem: Ode Maritima | Poet: Fernando Pessoa