19. LICHTSPIELKLUB
SHORT FILM FESTIVAL
22.-28.01.2026

| Meat Raffle (Comedy), D.: Stuart Armstrong, 14:55 Min. Rich, a closeted gay father, plans to rig his local pub's Christmas raffle to show his son what it means to be a real man. |
| Dog (Drama, Coming of Age), D.: Caitlin French McLeod, 12:50 Min. Yorkshire, 1997: A cold, windswept rural countryside. Middle child Mathilde and her two siblings are playing house. A single moment between the two sisters almost changes everything. |
| Traces (Animation), D.: Tilly Wallace, 05:32 Min. There is a photograph of a child left on the moon, a golf ball, flags, a lost glove. When the glamour of space exploration fades, what remains? |
| Arctic Diva (Drama), D.: Federico Barni, 19:38 Min. A musician is invited to perform at a remote arctic research outpost for the resident scientists – an unwelcoming world which tests her resolve. |
| Rest Your Head (Drama), D.: Prasanna Sellathurai, 08:55 Min. A nervous queer couple tries to navigate their anxieties ahead of attending a South Asian family event. |
| Learners (Drama), D.: Paul Testar, 20:20 Min. When cantankerous widower David agrees to teach his son’s unemployed girlfriend Ellen to drive, things get off to a terrible start. |
| Retirement Plan (Animation), D.: John Kelly, 07:17 Min. In the throes of his overstimulated, energy-poor midlife, Ray (Domhnall Gleeson, "Ex Machina") fantasises about everything he’d love to do in retirement. |