“Cinema Without Limits” is a promise whose fulfilment may well remain a pipe dream. And yet: when it comes to approaching the limits of human existence and probing the possibilities of the medium of film, the works in this section accomplish both, each in its own special way. They devote themselves to the magic of childhood, how it feels from the inside, and tell of a speculative future, of “gentle forms of anarchy” and of running up against obstacles both internal and external. In them, individuals overcome limits or tear them down, they fight against systems that make them sick or against constricting concepts of morality. They move between mental and spiritual health and states of emergency, experience hallucinations, out-of-body experiences and altered perceptions. Sometimes subtle, quiet transformations take place – and then there is a huge bang again, spectacle, excess. Sometimes ambiguities in perspective emerge, the dynamics in front of and behind the camera become ambivalent, the boundaries blur between personal life and filmmaking, between an artificial character and the authentic self. In their formal language, several of the films shift the limits of the depictable, act upon specific senses and expand awareness for the complexity of the world. Perhaps that’s already a significant start.