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Hartmann proposes a 76-minute film in which each minute stands for a year of his life. This obsessive rule is invoked in the last 4 “years” of his life (and of the film). A cable-car journey codes in its own duration the secret of a perdurable shot. A poetic emancipation by a young filmmaker: a life plan finding its right frame. Roger Koza
The courageous fight of one woman to save the whales of the Strait of Gibraltar.
Manni and Gustav Held breed pigeons. The brothers live in Oberhausen-Sterkrade, where their "little man's racehorses" have their loft. Because on Sundays, they set off. During the race, they release their pigeons and let them find their way back.
A tour behind-the-scenes of a puppet theatre in Munich, set up by students.
'Inside me' gives us a glimpse into how people with mental and multiple disabilities perceive the world. It provides us insight into each of their specific problems. We become acquainted with the abilities and emotions of the protagonists, and become witnesses of their triumphs and tribulations.
“The Unicorn in Snow Pants Suddenly Ran Off” explores the clash between blind children's play worlds and the reality they live in. The film introduces us to three confident children, for whom blindness is not a disability but rather a different kind of normal. Unicorns, call centers and flying grandfathers each play a role.
A trip back to the own roots, into the troubled country of Kurdistan.
Frances Kroll Ring, the personal secretary to F. Scott Fitzgerald for the last 20 months of his life and a longtime source of information for biographers, documentary and filmmakers.
"Since the beginning of history women have also been perpetrators. They have been as courageous and brave as men. They can be equally brutal and criminal and of course just as horny. Nevertheless, to this day, there exists the feminine ideal of "non-aggressiveness – peacefulness – asexuality“ with which women have been surpessed for centuries. This film shows women as soldiers, partisans, watchmen, criminals, as well as child-bearing, drunk, masturbating strong femals but also as circumsized, dismembered victims, who must pay for the fear that women cause within men. Scenes from old and recent documentaries, from trivial films and my own stagend sequences are mounted to a collage of images. These are sup-plemented by a collage of sounds and a montage of quotes and my own texts. It’s also about me about my fears and my fighting to be able to live my own strength." - Birgit Hein
A portrait of a city as seen by temporary Berliners. The documentary recounts stories from the forty-plus years of post-war history, from the days of the Cold War to the arrival of a new Berliner after the fall of the Wall and depicts those who came and stayed and those who passed on through – artists who report on their life, work, and their personal experiences. The film’s pageant interweaves the life stories of internationally renowned artists which are raucous and restrained stories of constraints and freedom, of flight and yearning, miniatures of world history set in a place that has learned to flaunt its difference to the rest of the world.
There are significantly fewer people with a migrant background living in eastern Germany than in the west. Those who do not look German or speak a different language are more likely to stand out. The film shows how people find their way between feeling like outsiders and belonging: a young man born in the Ore Mountains with Vietnamese roots, a Syrian refugee family who open a bookshop in Erfurt, and the residents of a shared accommodation facility in Saalfeld, Thuringia.
Three Muscovite women taxi-drivers laugh, swear and talk their way through everyday life after Perestroika - life's full of dreams and contradictions.
Silent adventure film
In his first film, Peter Nestler gives voice to an old floodgate. A nearby village, its inhabitants, wooden posts and twisted willow rods are presented from this unusual perspective. The floodgate ponders the fisher boats coming home from the sea along the shipping channel which is fed at low tide by a small river.
A video project meant to highlight the human cost in Palestine.
Short film about the dangers of winter traffic on the German Federal Railways
How do people look back on a life that was torn from their hands by arbitrariness, secret police, and the justice system? Gisela Tuchtenhagen and Margot Neubert-Maric portray three former prisoners whose experiences in prison in the GDR left lifelong scars. They fell into the clutches of the GDR justice system at a young age.
Suddenly it felt right to abort a 16 year old project.
Jewish children perform in an opera written for them, at the Terezin concentration camp in Czechoslovakia in 1944, after which they and the composer are sent to the Auschwitz extermination camp in Poland where they meet their deaths.
The peace treaty of Brest-Litovsk was a dictated peace. With him, however, the German Empire recognized Soviet Russia. And so German-Soviet relations took their course. The film tells the story of the eventful history of both countries and the people in them. It is a story with repercussions right up to the present day, as their images continue to have an impact. Their myths, enemy images and projections continue to shape mutual perceptions. A history of ideologies - their fight against each other was to the death, the extermination of the other - here racial, there political-ideological - was meant existentially. It was about annihilation. Then again, at other times, it was about coexistence: in friendly enmity - hostile friendship.
A bomb hits, the windows vibrate—just a few minutes later, the needle starts buzzing again. In a city full of conflict, Poko Chaim and Daniel Bulitchev, two Russian tattoo artists, have created a place where there are no walls. Here, they immortalize the stories of Jerusalem's inhabitants. The ink under their skin connects them all. A glance at their tattoos sheds a whole new light on the heart of the Holy City and its inhabitants. The tattoo studio is open to everyone, regardless of nationality, religion, or skin color. The conversations that take place under painful circumstances often resemble confessions. Customers provide insight into their lives in this controversial city, their beliefs, and their fears in this constant conflict that shapes their everyday lives. There are moments when Poko and Daniel are almost simultaneously psychologists and artists...
In the film, journalist Ina Borrmann documents her own fertility treatment.
In his documentary film, Karl Saurer recounts the history of Switzerland's largest reservoir, located near Einsiedeln in the canton of Schwyz. The film brings to life the landscape of the vast Sihl plain, which was flooded in 1937 to generate electricity for rail transport. The dam affected the livelihoods of more than 1,700 people; 107 farms were flooded. Saurer tells a story of colonialism in central Switzerland. In his film, he paints a picture of this event and the associated contradictions and conflicts between the agricultural mountain region and the industrialized lowlands, regional and national aspirations, and economic and ecological interests. Old and new footage and conversations with construction workers and displaced farmers make it clear that the wounds left by the construction and concession in the high valley have not yet healed.
Max and Felix, mid-20th, have gone through the hard school of star gastronomy and obsessed with cooking. The two Berliners travel through eight countries and 25 cities (in Asia), an exciting trip from simple foodstuffs to top international food. Dazulerne can be (almost) everywhere.
The past is ghosts we left at home. The past is what we always carry with us. "nonplace" attempts to document a place that now exists only in dreams and memories, aiming to connect the ever-changing present with the encapsulated past.
An installation work by Minha Park, shot in 16mm.
Portrait of the titular road in the german area Ruhrgebiet.
Wilhelm II. returns from his trip to Bethlehem
This film is a cut together of DV-tapes, bought at an online auction whose content apparently has never been deleted. Special Award of the Film Academy Vienna, VIENNA SHORTS 2012.
The young Viennese gypsy musician Joshi Szalay travels to India and takes the same route that his ancestors had followed but in the opposite direction. His trip covers Hungary, Yugoslavia, Romania, Greece, Anatolia and finally the northwestern part of the Indian subcontinent. The pop musician encounters gypsies who still retain many of the authentic customs, traditions, morals, taboos, legends and music of their nomadic ancestors.
Rudolf Thome’s idiosyncratic oeuvre was created with a continuity rare in German cinema – he has directed 28 feature-length films over more than four decades since 1968. The writing of the script for film no. 29 and the parallel efforts to secure financing form the thread that runs through this cinematic portrait, which consists wholly of conversations and observations around Thome’s home, a converted farm in Brandenburg. The filmmaker is nothing if not forthcoming, and the viewer has the opportunity to experience him in various other roles: as a gardener, a father, a cyclist, and a performer of his own persona.
The essayistic documentary MAJUB’S JOURNEY tells the story of an African man who lived in Nazi Germany during the 1930s and worked as an extra in the movie industry. He was born in the German colony Deutsch-Ostafrika and became a soldier for the Germans during World War I – when he was only nine years old. After the Germans lost the war, they failed to hand him his military pay. About a decade later he decides to travel to Germany and personally collect his outstanding money. This film tells his story – his childhood in the colony and his life and in Nazi Germany – including the holes that the archive leaves open.
A German Film Award winning short documentary.
The daily work of Fabienne Roelants and Christine Watremez, two Brussels anesthesiologists who are among the most renowned specialists in surgical hypnosis.
A look at the cultural, historical, and urban development of Kassel.
Nine-year-old Miranda and her siblings are neurodiverse. Miranda, who has ADHD, navigates between school, family, and leisure time. In this documentary, she and her siblings portray their everyday lives from their point of view. Filming each other with a camcorder, they show what it means to be a neurodiverse child.
The story of Moldovan migrant worker Damian, navigating the postmodern world in foreign country, within the walls of a German warehouse, where an artificial mind named “Lydia” guides his every move.
Short film about the addictive nature of alcohol
Documentary on how the osprey catches its prey. The film shows the search for prey, the launch maneuvers, take-off maneuvers and the fights with the fish.
Jackie Jencquel, author and activist, is not terminally ill when she announces her death date—she simply refuses to live beyond a certain age. This unconventional conversation between a mother and her son, the filmmaker, tackles desire, personal autonomy, vanity and money.
I’tikaaf (Arabic: اعتكاف) – “a practice of isolating oneself for a certain number of days, in order to reflect and stay away from worldly affairs” For six months Ahmad and Bilal have been living with Pastor Klaus Wening, unable to leave the house. The film accompanies their time in church asylum, waiting for news about their asylum process in Germany. I’tikaaf tells a story of exile and community, by documenting one station on the long journey of refugees, leaving their home.
A parable on the relationship between human beings and animals, subject and object, thinking and life.
Torsten Ricardo Engelholz, 31 years old, was locked in a dark room by his parents for most of his childhood and then placed in a psychiatric ward. Torsten Ricardo loves riding the subway and spends every free minute doing so. In addition to this passion, he is a talented painter and actor in the professional theater group Thikwa in Berlin. He is very interested in German history. This film explores the universe of a very special person in a sensual way and deals with fundamental questions of life: Torsten Ricardo holds up a mirror to us. "The others are disabled, knowledge-disabled, because they don't recognize what abilities you have," says Torsten Ricardo Engelholz in his poetic, clear-sighted language. This includes the abysses of his own existence as well as his great desires.