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After a photo shooting for gothic fashion in an old bunker, the entrance key gets lost. The three models and the photo team are desperately seeking for another exit. While seeking, they are getting deeper into a labyrinth until they are covered by insanity and hopelessness. Not all of them manage to find an exit and one of them has to face a horrifying discovery.
Offenbach’s mockery of bourgeois ideals, the sublimity of music and the institution of marriage ensures that the moralistic sermonizing of ‘Public Opinion’ falls on deaf ears. The mysterious figure of John Styx tells the story of behind-the-times Orpheus and his hacked-off Eurydice, of gods and goddesses seeking diversion, jaded with humdrum life in Olympus. He tells of the rebellion in the pantheon, which Jupiter adeptly averts by promising an amusement for his entourage. Burning with curiosity to see the beauteous captive and the contest between Jupiter and Pluto for Eurydice’s favour, the illustrious company embarks on an infernal ride to the underworld that culminates in what is surely the most wellknown can-can in the history of music. And what of Eurydice? She ends up putting a spoke in everyone’s wheel…
Could life be worse than going to hell? Enn is waiting nervously at a busstop, until his loneliness was suddenly interrupted by an uncanny, young woman with the name Baal. During the course of the conversation, the woman turns out to be a demon, who wants to persuade him to go to hell voluntarily- To cleanse his soul from his sins.
Struggling to cope with his sick brother, a boy makes a macabre bargain with a monstrous stranger.
2007: 17-year-old Karl lives with his single father Werner in a cramped flat in an East Berlin apartment block. Karl's eight-year-old brother David is in a sheltered housing group. Karl feels overwhelmed in his contact with his little brother, because David looks to him for what their 62-year-old father cannot provide. After their father's birthday, something unexpected happens: Karl lays an egg. He tries with all his might to keep the hatching creature alive.
Elaborately designed puppet animation film about the Brothers Grimm's "Fairy Tale of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was"
A sick child spends its numbered days confined to bed, waiting for Death to come. Silence slowly fills its room. The curtains veil the nights in blue. As Death moves closer, a series of strangely familiar visitors pass by. We are taken on a fantastical journey through a child’s dying dreams. A fairy tale unfolds.
In 1787, Friedrich Schiller published his story about a prince who manipulates, seduces, and ultimately falls victim to a murderous intrigue in Rococo Venice. The prince, an enlightened ruler with a penchant for worldly things, travels to the funeral of his brother, a sometimes mentally confused, generally incompetent, alcohol-addicted good-for-nothing who died in a brawl. Having come to fulfill a tedious duty, the prince falls in love with a mysterious beauty against a romantic backdrop of dreamy gondolas, castles, and masks, and she drives him mad. He, who is usually guided by incorruptible judgment, becomes increasingly entangled in the finely woven web of his invisible enemies from the nobility and clergy. For, despite all reason, it is a matter of succession to the throne and thus of power.
The son of the King of Saxony is very interested in women, but his father wants a good match for him and therefore has all other loves killed. So also the parents' house of the beautiful Kunigunde is torched, but she can escape with the help of a squire, who can then temporarily bring her to safety in the care of the vegetarian bear Beppo. But when a weapons dealer tries out his new crossbow on Beppo of all people, Kunigunde has to seek new protection...
An ugly cat struggles to coexist in a fragmented and broken world, eventually finding a soulmate in a mystical chief. Inspired by the internet story ‘Ugly the Cat’.
SPACEBIRTH 2 tells the story of a lonely cosmonaut traveling through the galaxy and searching for beauty. Long on his isolated quest, he becomes tired and despondent. After his final hope of reaching something meaningful is lost, his greatest journey begins. Sucked into a surreal adventure beyond understanding, the cosmonaut discovers what he's really been searching for all along.
A fairy-tale fantasy set in the backdrop of Snow White.
Haunted by dreams of her family's bull, a woman living in Berlin returns after many years to her hometown in Venezuela to visit her father and settle old scores with her siblings.
24-year-old Kjell feels trapped in his little village. One day he meets a mysterious young man named Flurin and is immediately fascinated by him. Soon they start spending time together and show one other what it is they each long for.
A short magical realism dance film explores the quirky personalities and awkward encounters that one only finds in a nail salon.
The ordinary Hell official Amon is assigned with a strange task by Luzifer: Together with the chaotic, sex-crazed Samsaveel, he is in charge of stopping Belial, Prince of Hell, who's gone out of control. In order to claim the thrones of Heaven and Hell, he uses a female body as a host, outwits Amon and Samsaveel and kills an angel. With this murder, he sparks a terrible war, because the forces of Heaven and Hell were supposed to balance good and evil on Earth. For centuries, they never raised a hand against each other. Until now...
A filmmaker suffers from a creative slump and has experiences that blur the boundaries of reality. On this journey, she stumbles upon a dark little truth that triggers her inspiration.
This is the story of Nils Jeschke and his friends Evelin, Ralf, Johnny, and Michael. It all begins on a Friday afternoon when a strange woman moves into the house across from Evelin's, which has been vacant for years. No one could have imagined the dark secret this woman carries within her, not even in their wildest dreams. Nor could anyone have imagined the mystical powers of the book that Evelin steals from this woman. It enables one to open the gates to the afterlife, to rule over the underworld—to bring back the dead. When the teenagers abuse these powers one night, they unleash a catastrophe from which there seems to be no escape...
A woman decides to take part in a psychiatric trial of a prototype capable of reading emotions through neurotransmitters. The inventor and doctor in charge will take her to the breaking point where she will unleash some unexpected inner powers...
A eight-inch robot must face off against its competitor, a tomcat, and save a young girl from being attacked by a monstrous machine.
Six friends spend the night at a lake in the middle of the woods of their childhood. What starts as a nostalgic summer getaway soon turns into an apocalyptic nightmare when our heroes have to face skinhead thugs running wild on testosterone and faceless giants creeping up from the deepest darkness of the underground.
What happens when a boy with an imaginative mind steals a toy rocket? Impact on him may be bigger than one could imagine.
A legless seller of matches falls asleep and dreams of matches performing tricks in stop-motion animation in this trick film from 1910.
Two friends want to create a comic book, but the more they are working on their story, the more they became their own creation.
When a mysterious dice rolls across Dakota's path at a party, a series of encounters with highly unusual people follow, all of whom seem to have a special interest in her.
What is illusion and reality? Man and environment are changing. The inhabitants of a medium-sized city seek out an old abandoned area - here they are promised to be able to learn more about themselves - but each visitor has to pay an individual price. A strange doorman welcomes the seekers and hands them each a key tailored to them. The opening of the magical door finally heralds a journey. The room as a mirror of themselves. Confronted with your hidden longings and fears, the border to reality becomes increasingly blurred.
A man sells his shadow to gain success and fame but soon suffers the terrible consequences of that deal.
The war of the Helio-Constellar sisters is reaching its peak. As the sun nation, lead by Scorpiids 55.2, is threatened to perish, Hephaestus, the God of fire, naturally born as a member of the sun tribe, is plagued by prophetic dreams in which Ahianmwen-oro, the bird of prophecy, shows him the future.
Anton, a tiny molecule among billions of others, dreams about a big divine eye watching all of them. When he tries to warn everybody about it, he is brutally being rejected from his authoritarian society. After a dangerous journey through the particle accelerator he meets the Molecular Biologist who gives him the power to return to his home world and get his revenge.
A woman in her mid-forties goes on a journey to the country. She visits her mother, whom she hasn't seen for quite a while. Of course, her father, who has been missing for many years, dominates the women's topic of conversation at first. What is said about the father raises questions as the pictures become more and more divergent. The following day she goes to see the manager of the train station café, the place from which her father departed on his forays. The manager is unable to say anything of importance. The woman strolls past the places she knew as a child and arrives at the meadow she was allowed to accompany her father to before he infiltrated the forbidden zone. She then follows the supposed paths her father took.
In an increasingly hostile world, this experimental 16mm film explores our relationship to the seascape.
Bird of paradise flowers, spider flowers and carnations are being beautifully arranged. It’s a bit too warm for the four people working in this little room. The rhythm and sequence of their movements is predetermined, and if you’re new here it’s not easy to join in their routine. At one point, they all put on white aprons. It sounds like the beating of wings.
Director Damien Krisl had the creative vision to visualize a deity. Beauty, weightlessness, mystery and art were key aspects of the concept. The objective was to mix the elements of fire and water. It was intended to create strong contrasts. On one side the deity had to have the beauty, femininity and delicacy of a seahorse and on the other side the strength and evilness of a dragon. In ancient Greek mythology, Amphitrite was a sea-goddess and wife of Poseidon. Under the influence of the Olympian pantheon, she became merely the consort of Poseidon, and was further diminished by poets to a symbolic representation of the sea. The clip shows the invocation of the goddess.
A shy and lonely creature is too scared to leave the old circus cage it once was trapped in until it finds a little seedling to care for.
Lovely princess Isabella loses her golden ball down a well and plitsch platsch, the frog comes to her rescue — but with a price! Will the great king allow his daughter to marry a funny little frog?
I am the hero, I’ll remain, See only me, push you away, Embrace destruction, face the pain, Transforming swiftly in my own domain! Blind to my path, antisocial in my reign.
The mythical mountain of Monte Adrion (Biokovo) shows us pictures from your life.
The Kazakh shepherd Bair finds a fabulous treasure in the steppe: a stone pot that doubles everything you put in it. Bair is a poor man without rights who has been cheated by the rich cattle herder Galzan and robbed of his wages. Now he sees an opportunity to make himself and his friends happy with this pot. But the greedy Galzan manages to take possession of the pot with cunning and trickery. The shepherd must now summon up a great deal of courage and cleverness to outwit him...
One day Jonah left his family. He gave no explanation and no goodbye — only a telephone number that redirected to an answering machine. Now, as he drifts deeper into an abyss of paper planets and cardboard comets, his connections to time, reality and home are falling prey to the vacuum of space. The signal from Earth is fading and his memories are blurring into obscurity. Only home can save him now but is it too late for Jonah?
A woman who cannot sleep, a sinkhole in the road, and a hospital that floods intertwine as the city's 'body' collides with a 'wave'.
You enter a calm yet unfamiliar world, lying dormant when you arrive. As you explore its surroundings, the world gradually opens up, revealing its light. The more you engage with it, the more you become enveloped in a soothing yet lively awakening, full of surprises.
Death faces a deep crisis and feels unable to fulfill his mortal duties.
The mythical character "Krahnstöver" is the secret sovereign over the tides in Hamburg, using his oversensitive ear and other measuring devices to control the city's fate
A jogger is bitten by a dog and has no idea at the time how terrible the consequences will be. The doctor called seems anything but trustworthy. When he injects another terrible drug into his patient's wound, terrible things continue.
Max and Fay meet on a train. The two become emotionally close. She dreams of him as a hero. Max would like to see her as Marylin Monroe or Marlene Dietrich.
A fairy tale told via live actors's silhouettes, created by filming on a back lit stage.
The Film Unruhr is based on a young girl named Maila, who enjoys spending most of her time in her own mind-palace. She passionately loves the element of water and always has a snow globe alongside her, which contains a wax-model of a mermaid. A present of her beloved, deceased father. Because of a car accident Maila and her mother end up at an abandoned Camping site at the shore of the river Ruhr. There Maila sees a man in a black coat, water-blue eyes, standing on the inner-shore of the river. He seems to be waiting just for her. Curiously Maila walks up to him. An old Woman, who lives there in a caravan for many years, observes her inconspicuously, while paying attention to Mailas mother. The young girl wants to get to know the man, that seems to come out of the river Ruhr, the river that her mermaid obviously would prefer rather than a small snow globe. Fascinated by his appearance she doesn't hear the many voices. Voices of children that come from the depths of the river.
She writes. She walks through the forest. She writes. She is attacked. She writes. She writes. Who is coming up with whom here?
The tree provides the machine that carries it with energy. In the machine, a worker fights against the forces of nature.