Watch the short films from our interviews online for free

Since 2008, we have conducted many interviews at festivals year after year, and the films discussed in them have often later been released online for free. In this blogpost, we keep a regularly updated list of all these freely available shorts together with our corresponding "Short Talks" conversations with the artists behind the films.

Kevin Contento brings Pahokee to Berlin again

Kevin Contento continues sharing his fascination for Pahokee in Palm Beach County with audiences in theatres around the world. It was already the setting of his short film From Fish to Moon - which we discussed with him in 2024 - and then he returned to the Berlinale 2026 with his feature film The Moths and the Flame, once again set in this distinctive locale and mainly focused on friends of his, who portray versions of themselves on camera.

Quenton Miller - We should let animals tell their own stories

Quenton Miller's short film Koki, Ciao is narrated from the perspective of, and actually spoken by, a parrot. Although we were only able to speak with the Australian director at the Berlinale 2025 and not with the 67-year-old bird, who once belonged to the Yugoslav head of state Josip Broz Tito - we still learned a lot of interesting things about the cockatoo.

Rein Maychaelson – Second-Hand Body Parts & Plenty of Big Favors

In Rein Maychaelson’s short film at Berlinale 2025, a mother searches for the body parts of her son. He was able to detach them as kind of a superpower but died when he gave them all away.

Xabier Erkizia - Narrative layers creating worlds in sound

Basque sound artist and researcher Xabier Erkizia has been combining experimental music with sociocultural fieldwork since the 1990s. His work uses sound as a tool to explore memory, identity, and cultural change—such as in the participatory mapping project Soinumapa.net or through assembled industrial noises in installations.

Luciana Merino & Pascal Viveros - Discovering love in Santiago de Chile

Luciana Merino and Pascal Viveros are fascinated by poetic deviations in reality, such as when their camera captures a city through extreme wide-angle shots while life unfolds within it. From above and afar, they let us discover an unconventionally cinematic love story in Santiago de Chile.

İlker Çatak - Artists need to be free of existential worries

Director İlker Çatak (The Teachers' Lounge) has known from his early youth he wanted to do nothing but make films - even though this did not bring success or prosperity for a long time. In our interview, he reflects on this challenging time for him as an artist, explains how his perspective on short films has recently changed and why he believes that filmmaking, as well as cinema itself, can have a profoundly healing effect on us humans.