Official Selection 2026 · Day 2 · Sat 05.12 · Germany
Catsbark
25 min · 2025 · Germany · German
- Runtime
- 25 min
- Year
- 2025
- Country
- Germany
- Language
- German
- Type / Genre
- Short
- Director
- Pariya Bakhshi
- Writer
- Pariya Bakhshi, Nils Ramme
- Key Cast
- Lujain Mustafa, Benze C. Werner
Synopsis
Ava comes home and finds her partner Paul transformed into a cat. She too can no longer remain human.
Trailer
Director
Pariya Bakhshi
Pariya Bakhshi, born in Hiroshima in 1997, grew up in Iran. Studied design at the University of Fine Arts in Tehran. Since 2019, studying at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne with a focus on film directing. Themes such as freedom and exile are addressed in the documentary essay Displaced in Time.
Screening
Saturday, 5 December 2026
KiM Kino im Einstein, Einsteinstraße 42, 81675 München
Catsbark screens in the Official Selection of the Munich Open Film Festival 2026, the independent film festival in Munich. See the full programme.