{"id":6750,"date":"2025-11-04T15:58:38","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T15:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/weihnachtsfilmfestival.de\/?page_id=6750"},"modified":"2026-02-06T19:12:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T19:12:28","slug":"customcustoms","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/weihnachtsfilmfestival.de\/en\/wff2025\/customcustoms","title":{"rendered":"Custom Customs (Shorts)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Custom Customs (Shorts)<\/h5>\n

9 International Short Films | 90min | OmeU<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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Marungo<\/h5>\n

Jer\u00f4nimo Vilhena, Manoel Vilhena Saldanha | Music, Animation | 13min | Brazil 2024 | OmeU | German Premiere
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Eine Tanne macht noch keinen Winter \/ A fir tree does not make a winter<\/h5>\n

Matthias Krinzinger | Experimental Film | 1min | Austria 2015 | OV
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Bo\u017ei\u0107 dolazi \/ Christmas Is Coming<\/h5>\n

Lucija Katarina \u0160e\u0161elj | Documentary | 15min | Croatia 2025 | OmeU | German Premiere
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Weihnachten von oben \/ Christmas from Upstairs<\/h5>\n

Franziskus Bries | Essay Film | 5min | Germany 2024 | OmeU
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Misericordia – Was wir uns antun \/ Misericordia – what we do to ourselves<\/h5>\n

Oskar Gaston Koller | Drama | 17min | Germany 2023 | OmeU
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\u00dei\u00f0 kannist vi\u00f0… \/ Krampuss<\/h5>\n

Gu\u00f0ni L\u00edndal Benediktsson | Fantasy | 8min | Iceland 2023 | OmeU
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\u0417\u0456\u0440\u043a\u0430 \/ Star<\/h5>\n

Anastasiia Kononova | Animation | 2min | Ukraine 2025 | OV | German Premiere
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Space Christmas<\/h5>\n

Oscar Barrouyer | Comedy, Experimental Film | 20min | France 2024 | OmeU | German Premiere
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Black Santa<\/h5>\n

Travis Wood | Comedy | 10min | USA 2022 | OmeU | German Premiere
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