Custom Customs (Shorts)
9 International Short Films | 90min | OmeU
Every household celebrates Christmas a little differently. And yet it remains a tradition, a gentle blanket of fresh snow named routine: Bright colours, sweet scents, good food and cheerful music. All of this can easily become too much. Before things get out of hand, let’s question established customs or invent some new ones.
Saturday, 20.12. | 16:30 Uhr | Recommended for ages 16+
Guests: Franziskus Bries, Oskar Gaston Koller, Ben-Alexander Hüttig, Oscar Barrouyer, Daniel Ramses
Marungo
Jerônimo Vilhena, Manoel Vilhena Saldanha | Music, Animation | 13min | Brazil 2024 | OmeU | German Premiere
A young girl discovers a mysterious ribbon that connects her with local ancestral traditions. With the help of her grandfather she learns about the Folia de Reis festival and the story of three enchanted figures called Marungos.
Eine Tanne macht noch keinen Winter / A fir tree does not make a winter
Matthias Krinzinger | Experimental Film | 1min | Austria 2015 | OV
A rocket Christmas tree in action.
Božić dolazi / Christmas Is Coming
Lucija Katarina Šešelj | Documentary | 15min | Croatia 2025 | OmeU | German Premiere
A stroll through the Christmas market in search of the Christmas spirit during Advent in Zagreb.
Weihnachten von oben / Christmas from Upstairs
Franziskus Bries | Essay Film | 5min | Germany 2024 | OmeU
What is usually associated with Christmas – warmth, closeness and joy – is experienced quite differently by some: loneliness, sorrows and depression. This film merges the perspectives of the filmmakers father and his own.
Misericordia – Was wir uns antun / Misericordia – what we do to ourselves
Oskar Gaston Koller | Drama | 17min | Germany 2023 | OmeU
On the evening of St. Nicholas Day Theo loses control. The mixture of fear, anger, and shame that has been brewing in his family for years. A family oscillating between care and strictness, without questioning itself and its traditions.
Þið kannist við… / Krampuss
Guðni Líndal Benediktsson | Fantasy | 8min | Iceland 2023 | OmeU
On Christmas Eve, an Icelandic family comes face to face with the Yule Cat, a ravenous creature of folklore hungry for those who didn’t get clothes for Christmas.
Зірка / Star
Anastasiia Kononova | Animation | 2min | Ukraine 2025 | OV | German Premiere
A girl becomes separated from her mother in the crowd. Lost and frightened, she encounters a mysterious goat-like figure holding a glowing star.
Space Christmas
Oscar Barrouyer | Comedy, Experimental Film | 20min | France 2024 | OmeU | German Premiere
Two best friends in their twenties gather around a Space Cake on Christmas Eve, hoping to revive the Christmas Spirit they long lost.
Black Santa
Travis Wood | Comedy | 10min | USA 2022 | OmeU | German Premiere
Every year Henry looks forward to his job working as a mall Santa alongside his son Otis. But as Otis grows older, this may prove to be their last holiday season as a duo.