This year's festival will take place at the Hollywood Media Hotel on historic Kurfürstendamm in Berlin.

Ingrid LaFleur is a futurist, curator, and cultural strategist exploring the intersections of emerging technology, race, and decolonization. With over 20 years of curatorial experience, LaFleur merges futures research with Afrofuturism to inspire transformative change. As founder of The Afrofuture Strategies Institute (TASI), she advances equitable futures through foresight methodologies. 

Sebastian Stein spends most of his time with organizing, publishing, writing, parenting, occasionally music-making and other activities in places like ruine hq, MUSS STERBEN magazine, acid collège, gebrochene beine, kunstverein langenhagen and at home. Always interested in what other modes of living than bare survival could look like in these times of ever more unfolding catastrophes and disasters, sebastian is particularly interested in thinking and doing things in a cli-/sci-fi way.

Fernanda Parente is a curator and project lead working at the intersection of digital cultures, immersive media, and international collaboration.  For over a decade, Fernanda has been creating innovative formats across physical, digital, and hybrid spaces—exploring speculative storytelling and new ways of experiencing culture.

Raised in Nagold as a Swabian Turk, she studied acting and began her path in film and performance before expanding into production. Alongside her artistic work, she organized events for the Berlinale Film Festival with a strong focus on diversity and community, creating spaces where cinema, art, and dialogue come together.

JEIT

Neo Buenos Aires 2037, six years after the revolution.

Jeit Engranaje, the doctor of dreams,

leaves his world behind 

to begin a transcendental journey 

of fever dreams and electric malfunctions.

His lost love burns like hate inside of him.

A feeling so strong, it grows out of his body...

Berlin Loop

A disillusioned cleaning woman steals a bike, which leads to an unexpected encounter with Berlin’s bike thief mafia and its nefarious boss, Windisch. Trapped in a life of petty crime, she seeks a second chance to gain her freedom – but instead, she’s sucked into a time-loop cycle of revenge.