This year’s Urban Space Videowalk, under the theme ‘Nightshift’, explores perspectives on the night as an urban, social, ecological and sensory space. We are seeking film works that engage with nocturnal atmospheres and the transitions between sleep and wakefulness, exhaustion and euphoria, safety and fear, control and loss of control.

At night, perceptions, bodies and relationships change. Clubs, bars, streets, stations and petrol stations become temporary spaces of resonance – shaped by sound, light, movement and encounters. Bass, voices, machines, sirens, silence and the continuous hum of the city structure the night just as much as shift work, sleep patterns and urban infrastructure. Darkness can be a sanctuary, a place of retreat and transformation – just as it can be a space of fear, a zone of uncertainty or a place of solitude and control.

At the same time, the city at night does not belong to humans alone. Foxes on empty streets, trees in neon light, rodents in underground tunnels, insects on neon signs or bats between concrete facades appear as dusk falls.

Between visibility and invisibility, new networks of relationships, coexistences and perceptions emerge.

We are looking for documentary, fictional, experimental and hybrid short films that explore urban nights as a tapestry of bodies, atmospheres, sounds and communities – and that expand, shift or rethink existing perspectives.