Zebra Poetry Film Festival – Voices

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

Thrall
DEU 2024 | 9 min | Director: Logan February | Poems: Red in the Evenings / The Gun / Thrall | Poet: Logan February

Ocean Bursting Into Tears
DEU 2023 | 2 min | Director: Katrin Sikora | Poem: Ocean Bursting Into Tears | Poet: Anahita Safarnejad

ŞİİR YAZ / Write a poem
DEU/TUR 2023 | 7 min | Director: Suhan Lalettayin | Poem: ŞİİR YAZ | Poet: Suhan Lalettayin

Everyone Wants A Tight Pussy
MEX 2024 | 1 min | Director: Sofia Auza | Poem: Everyone Wants a Tight Pussy | Poet: Cassandra Myers

GOLDEN IN THE MORNING CRANE OUR NECKS
USA 2023 | 2 min | Director: Matthew Thompson | Poem: GOLDEN IN THE MORNING CRANE OUR NECKS | Poet: CAConrad

Unseen
GBR 2024 | 2 min | Director: Helmie Stil | Poem: Onzichtbaar | Poem: Sjaan Flikweert

סוג של טבע / some kind of nature
ISR 2024 | 7 min | Director: Gay Klein | Poem: Afn Veg Shteyt a Boym | Poet: Itzik Manger

Distant Voices / Distant Voices
BEL 2023 | 5 min | Director: Annik Leroy, Julie Morel | Poem: W. B. (1942) | Poet: Hannah Arendt

Benin Did Not Die She Sends Her Regards
NGA 2024 | 10 min | Director: David Osaodion Odiase, Prince Uhunoma Charles | Poem: Benin did not die; she sends Her regards | Poem: David Odiase

09.01.berkovich
DEU 2024 | 6 min | Director: Anya Ryzhkova | Poem: 09.01.berkovich | Poet: Evgenia Berkovich

גופ.ה / Some.Body - A Nova Story
DEU/ISR 2024 | 10 min | Director: Netanel Kafka | Poem: Trigger (Liquid Sky) | Poet: Nir Soffer-Dudek