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Inspired by Jean Genet's 1950 homoerotic "Un Chant D'Amour", this short film interrogates patriarchal credo through the lens of its unseen bodies. Shiny young male bodies are replaced with post-menopausal women, who celebrate their erotic power after shedding the patriarchal construct which places them ‘of the market'(as author Virginie Despentes would say).

A deal gone wrong, old debts and revenge - In fragments, "Brothers of the Night" tells of a maelstrom of violence in which drug lord Vince and the estranged brothers Leo & Mark find themselves.

What seems like routine for Billy Kuckuck ends dramatically for her quick-tempered client Karl Löwe: he ends up in hospital with a heart attack. The owner of a traditional pastry shop is alleged to have bought an e-scooter online and not paid for it. He stubbornly insists that he neither ordered nor received the scooter. Billy sees things differently, and this time she wants to follow the rules to the letter.

"Burnt" is a reinterpretation of a Japanese legend about the personification of death, the so called Shinigami. It's about a farmer whose daughter died recently. He wants to commit suicide to rejoin her in death. He is visited by a shinigami and as the story progresses, he learns that the lifespan of a person shall not be changed. This lesson is taught in a visually intriguing and metaphorical way.

Farewell Paradise is about the search for a truth within a broken family, based on the personal story of director Sonja Wyss's family. From one shared history, through 6 different perspectives, 6 different stories emerge.

In the process of satisfying his craving for a cigarette, a young man smokes. A lot. Watch it here: https://vimeo.com/1005629640?share=copy&fl=sv&fe=ci

Short film about the city Lopburri, which is mostly inhabited by monkey.

Sanne's and Markus' relationship is in crisis. They go on holiday together, but accidentally fly to the wrong island. There, in desperation, they break into an empty holiday home and embark on a role-play using new identities. At first, the game is an exciting rediscovery of their relationship, but it becomes increasingly destructive as they force themselves into archaic roles.

The ruthless mafioso El Huron spreads fear and terror throughout Mexico. He and his henchmen know no mercy. When Chucky, a low-level member of the organization, reveals that a media and mafia conspiracy is being plotted against his cartel, he threatens to break down under the pressure. El Huron is then forced to reactivate the aging underground killer Ñero.

Artificial Intelligence is already changing almost every area of life today. This documentary essay is inspired by the changes that influence our perception of Topos. By combining film images, graphics with documentary text modules, the author associatively points out how the progress of data and technology colonizes human existence and fundamentally influences the balance between the psychological, mental, and biological aspects of life.

A cinematic reflection on the lives of two middle-aged gay men and the formative value of personal freedom.

Every year in June, the small Bulgarian village of Balgari celebrates St Constantine with a special ritual. Initiated ‘nestinari’ go into a music-induced trance and dance on bonfires in a display of religious passion.

A glass factory in the middle of the German-Czech border region. The magic of routine carries through the night shift. A symphony of muscle mass, glowing hot glass and the birds that begin to sing with the coming daylight.

The proverbial "black sheep" will be bullied out of the herd and only the brave outsider can protect them from harm.

A character simply named Old White Male holds court in the lobbies of various apartment buildings in Buenos Aires and expounds with measured disgust on death, consciousness, and the state of contemporary human relations. The man’s mostly unsolicited remarks form an unsparing, stitched-together modern-day monologue that alternates between absurd and chilling, reasonable and grotesque. Filmed in Buenos Aires in October 2019, Heinz Emigholz’s spare continuation—and sardonic distillation—of certain themes explored in The Last City is morbid, confrontational, and hilarious.

A man floats peacefully above the clouds in his hot air balloon. His moustache sways softly in the wind until one day, the war destroys his castle in the clouds.

Felix Lobrecht aims his dark humor at overly polite culture, weird laughter, the sheer awkwardness of a walking baby and more in this stand-up special.

A young woman‘s tinder feed leads her to a horrific encounter.

Pierre Sanoussi-Bliss's two-minute submission to rbb.

Horst Krause tries to successfully couple his young cook.

Nick is a simple young gay man, however his life comes apart at the seams when he loses the love of his life. The pain is great and the fear of a new phase of life, throws him further and further back. One day he notices a strange hole in his wall, which begins to talk to him. It promises Nick the help he needs, and a boundless love develops. But the love is only hypocritical, because the being, the hole, has completely different plans.

His signature roles were the edgy North German characters: Jan Fedder was one of the most popular actors in the North. He was one of the most popular actors, a real guy with rough edges and a lot of heart: Jan Fedder. He was already on stage as a child and had his first acting lessons at the age of 13. He knew early on what he wanted: to become an actor. Antje Althoff's film traces his life and career, showing his incorrigible nature, an endearing symbiosis of a big mouth and a similarly big heart.

After 65 years at the rostrum, Bernard Haitink is making his departure from the concert stage at the age of 90. In his farewell concert at the Salzburg Festival, featuring the Vienna Philharmonic and pianist Emanuel Ax, the maestro conducts two tragical-lyrical works that mark the zenith of the respective composers’ creative powers - Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 and Anton Bruckner’s Symphony No. 7. The Dutch conductor was to enchant his audience, orchestra and apparently also himself in his final performance of the work.

When Hanna (Fanny Krausz) unexpectedly inherits half of her deceased grandmother's farm in Lower Bavaria, the young woman's life is turned upside down. Because the testamentary conditions have it all! She has to run the farm for four weeks with her cousin Max (Daniel Gawlowski) and worse: spend every night there - otherwise everything goes to church. A bad time, because Hanna is about to step into Alex's Munich coffee bar. And it just so happens that Alex (Matthias Gärtner) is also the man of her dreams. Hanna throws herself into adventure and tries to master the balancing act between town and country. But the longer she is in her old home, the more she realizes her true longings. She doesn't just uncover a family secret,

The Munich LKA officer Sandra Rutkowski received an anonymous call in which a star tenor from the Munich State Opera was accused of molesting children. A boy brought to him is said to be locked in the cloakroom of the singer, who is still being celebrated on the stage. When Sandra and the Munich inspector Lukas Laim break down the door to the cloakroom, they find an intimidated, apathetic boy in the closet.

The film tells the fascinating story of the rise and fall of Indian guru Bhagwan for the first time from the perspective of his German followers. What was it about the man they called and worshiped Osho that fascinated them? And why did they give up everything in order to be able to follow their idol to India and the USA? The documentary filmmaker Jobst Knigge managed to win the trust of some sannyasin. They tell their very personal story and give a deep insight into their life with the charismatic guru in the 70s and 80s.

Aslı, who has just moved to Berlin, is performing a voice. Speaking in Turkish for an audio tour of an archaeological museum, while talking about the altar of Zeus, who moved from his country to Germany in time, she tries to cope with feelings of mischief and foreignness in her own life and to be herself.

After initially turning down an assignment to investigate whether a child is taken care of by her father, as children are not really her thing, Sophie reconsiders it when she needs an escape after her boyfriend suggests starting a family.

Shortly before Christmas, the major baker Johann König had a fatal accident. He is the father of three daughters, who came from three different mothers and are in constant quarrel with one another.

Michael Scott was the most famous scientist in the world. When his mother tragically died one day, Michael decided to lock himself in his research building for years. After re-entering the public, Michael underwent a strange development - he became addicted to water. So he spends his last moments surrounded by water.

Private detective Ferdinand Zankl is arrested by the Passau police on suspicion of murder. He is suspected of having killed his ex-girlfriend, an animal shelter manager.

In 1989, thirteen GDR scientists and technicians set off from East Berlin to the Georg Forster research station in the Antarctic. During their expedition the Berlin Wall fell on November 9th. Cut off from the images that go around the world, the men can only experience the historical events passively. When they returned in the spring of 1991, their homeland was a foreign country. The documentary reconstructs the thoughts and feelings of the East German researchers on the basis of eyewitness accounts, diary excerpts, letters, film material, grandiose landscape shots from the location of the action and unique photos to make the consequences of the events tens of thousands of kilometers away on the small GDR expedition in the middle of the eternal ice tangible.

Salman Schocken was the King of department stores in Germany. Before WWII, he owned 22 department stores with 6,000 employees. He possessed a unique collection of 60,000 rare books in German and Hebrew and founded a modern, Jewish publishing house. He was the lifelong supporter of Shmuel Yosef Agnon and he owned the Haaretz newspaper which still survives on the border of consensus. He supported secular, Jewish culture and identified with humanist, liberal Judaism, a relic of 19th century Europe. Today, in an age of unscrupulous market economy and militant Judaism, Salman Schocken’s ways point to an alternative, perhaps not entirely lost.

Just how far is it acceptable to push actors in the name of cinema? And at what point do you cross the boundary where acting becomes sexual assault? These are the questions raised by the testimony of six young women who were manipulated and sexually abused during an audition.

Explration of today’s East German identity, shaped by history, hopes, and upheaval. Through multimedia storytelling, it explores lives between the Elbe and Oder, intergenerational socialization, and self-perception three decades after reunification. Are the new Länder lost to nostalgia and extremism or still salvageable?

In the Faroe Islands, a team of biologists is studying these marine plants with the aim of improving salmon farming and avoiding the need for drugs or chemicals. In Munich, others are working on a tiny algae whose high oil content could eventually replace petroleum. The carbon fiber obtained from it is a real match for fossil fuels. In France, a tower resembling a Morris column is being used to purify the air. The tower absorbs one tonne of CO₂ per year - the equivalent of several dozen trees - and converts it into oxygen.

Agnes and Gregor have had a happy marriage for 15 years. No crises, no affairs, no weariness. They looked for each other and found each other, say their friends Conny and Bernhard, who fight a lot and often. If a marriage is harmonious, it is this one. However, when Agnes became socially involved in addition to her job, the distribution of roles in the family, which had worked well for years, was thrown out of balance. The change in their relationship leads Agnes and Gregor into their first major crisis, which neither of them can deal with. They are shocked to find that they are about to lose love.