UFFB 2026
Opening & Closing

Festival-Anmeldung

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Festival Opening

Date & time Wed, 14 Oct 2026 18:30

Where CineStar Kino in der Kulturbrauerei – Cinema 3 Schönhauser Allee 36, 10435 Berlin · Map

The Illusion of a Quiet Night — Synopsis

Filmed during a single night in July 2025 by forty filmmakers and hundreds of citizens across Ukraine, The Illusion of a Quiet Night paints a vast collective portrait of a nation living with war — between fear, exhaustion and fleeting moments of joy.

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Festival Closing

Date & time Sun, 18 Oct 2026 18:30

Where CineStar Kino in der Kulturbrauerei – Cinema 4 Schönhauser Allee 36, 10435 Berlin · Map

Run of Show

Content warning: depiction of war.

Closing Ceremony — Sunday, 18 October 2026
6:30 pm — Doors
7:30 pm — Award Ceremony for the Short Film Competition
Afterwards: Screening of “Don’t Ask Me If I Killed” followed by Q&A with the director Helena Maksyom and the producer Adrian Pîrvu.

Don’t Ask Me If I Killed — Synopsis

A Ukrainian documentary filmmaker puts down her camera to pick up a rifle — and later both — filming the moral ordeal of ordinary people forced to kill.

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