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In conservative southwestern Germany, four people face a fundamental challenge in their quest to find a path to a happier life. In doing so, everything changes for them. At one point in their lives, they knew with every fiber of their being that things could not continue as they were and that a major change in their lives was necessary. Otherwise, there would be no escape from their emotional chaos and no hope for a happier future. Their names are Gabriel, Elisabeth, Melina, and Dunja. Before, they had different names, different lives, and different genders.

The potato farmer couple's fresh relationship is based on openness and honesty. Petri, a fifty-something man who has come to terms with his bisexuality, is learning to be true to himself and honest with his partner. Petri's desire to fulfill his own passions raises new questions for Anu about her own desires and demands in their relationship. Beneath the empty landscapes of the north lies a world of men that they have tried to keep secret from their spouses, the surrounding community, and, to some extent, even themselves.

At a time when elements of fascisation are becoming ever more apparent, ever more pervasive, artist Vika Kirchenbauer takes a personal look at what is in the air in present-day Germany.

Growing up alongside her non-verbal brother with a developmental disability, Jinhyun has always sensed the invisible boundaries society draws between them. Her film journeys through the institutions marked by abuse, tracing the shape of a world built on exclusion.

When a wolf and two rival film crews descend on a small Upper Bavarian village, an idealistic forester and a resolute huntress must overcome their bitter feud to save their idyll from a media-fueled witch hunt.

Through thoughtful letters from prison, an anarchist incarcerated since 1980 reflects on his radical past.

Mother owl doesn't know whether she's coming or going when her three mischievous babies try to leave the nest.

We want cheap fruit and veg, all year. No problem. The Pickers deliver, but they are paying the price for us: Exploited migrants harvest our oranges, strawberries, olives, blueberries and other fruit and vegetables in Greece, Spain, Italy or Portugal.

In a voice message, a non-binary person talks about the healing process after a mastectomy. A drawn room becomes a playful setting in which memories, role models, and friends are present through small details.

With his monumental productions, Einar Schleef pushed theatre to the outer reaches, confounded expectations in East and West alike, grappled with GDR origins and the BRD present. A universal artist emerges from the archive: “I’m not human, I’m dynamite”.

Ilama only intended to water her friend's flowers for two weeks—instead, she stumbles into a flower graveyard and the mistrust of an elderly lady from the neighborhood. What begins innocently escalates into a small-town crime thriller with dramatic mix-ups, overwhelmed retirees, and a carpet that sets everything in motion.

After the Taliban took power in Afghanistan in 2021, many refugees are stranded in the non-EU state of Bosnia-Herzegovina. One of them is 15-year-old Nahid. The girl finds some warmth and encouragement with Ferida, who lives in one of the border villages - and observes how people return to their tent accommodations after the pushbacks. The memories of her own civil war past slowly come back to her.

Somewhere between house, indie rock, and drum ‘n’ bass, mustbejohn's lyrics chronicle the ordinary daily life of a young man in the United Kingdom in the 2020s.

Websites mimicking the appearance of journalistic media, but which mainly generate advertising revenue by disseminating disinformation, are spreading like wildfire online. In this 3D animated documentary, Spray and Pray plunges us into the dark side of the web, where the anti-LGBTQ+ political agenda serves the economic interests of an unscrupulous minority.

As a bird warden, Kilian spends seven months alone on a barrier island in the Heligoland Bight. His tasks are simple: monitoring wildlife and collecting flotsam. The rich birdlife, extreme weather and ever-changing landscape are conveyed both through imagery and a soundtrack of wind, rain and birdsong. Contact with others is rare, but the intrusion of the outside world is all the more striking. The film’s melancholic atmosphere echoes both solitude and a sense that this fragile sanctuary is deeply at risk. Beyond its precise observations, an essay on climate change and militarisation emerges.

A fairy tale about friendship, money, power, and love. And what makes us happy in life.

“open and shut” is a short film about two sisters who find themselves stuck in old roles after their parents’ separation. Sascha and Liz are searching for closeness, but their efforts are repeatedly thwarted by arguments. In three repetitive cycles that grow longer with each iteration, they find themselves at the same threshold—a room cluttered with vases by their obsessive father—where new conflicts arise before each argument breaks off and starts all over again. In the end, two portraits remain: Sascha and Liz, who want to say something to each other but cannot. They are stuck. The film forms a duet with "TAKE CARE" (2025).

A claustrophobic plunge into the dystopian heart of darkness inspired by the director’s own detention, "Tomorrow Was War" unspools on a fraught New Year’s Eve in a Russian police state. Shura, a trans man hiding in plain sight, dreads his prying neighbors and the inevitable knock at the door. As the night fractures, so does the narrative — steered by the officer who arrested him, an architect of memory who twists history, truth, and identity to his will.

A wolf-human figure awakens in a world threatened by fire and decay. She senses that everything around her is disappearing, without understanding why—almost blind and unable to see the obvious.
But then she realizes the truth: huge, destructive feet are trampling through the world, setting everything on fire, plunging both the past and the future into darkness. In the end, she has only one option left: to save herself.

A group of strangely costumed heroes set out on a journey to find a miracle in this absurdist lo-fi musical roadmovie by the politically engaged art collective Chto Delat. Their experimental flashmob, staged in the former German mining town of Hettstedt, channels the political anxieties of our times.

Brussels sprouts on Dixie, on a sign, in water birds.

On a small island in southern Patagonia, the filmmaker begins a documentary project on climate research, becomes a mother, and returns three years later with her child to continue working on the film. Caught between care work and artistic practice, her focus shifts, guided by the question: How can one continue to be creative while connected to the rhythms and needs of another living being?

A film about striving for belonging against all odds.

Amid mud, sweat and tackles, Crushers follows an inclusive Cologne rugby team where queer identities are embraced — proving team spirit thrives only without exclusion.

As a woman wearing a mask on a meadow and a man in his living room gaze deeply into each other’s eyes via his television, the boundary between fiction and reality shifts. A dialogue-free and interpretively open art project about the influence of film on humans and vice versa, which raises the question of whether we, as viewers, might at precisely this moment merge with the play on the screen.

What does it mean to be a “HIPPIE”? In the road movie ”Be Hippie – Made in Poland“, Ronald and Tomek set out in search of Poland’s last remaining hippies and explore what defines the essence of a hippie. The ideals and ideas of that era reflect a hopeful and mindful approach to people and nature.

DON’T STOP is a short film about isolation, presence and the moment where silence becomes a decision.

Water, forest, sun. And everything that comes after. The mutual relationship between two boys.

The everyday life of a married couple at a turning point: Lore wants a divorce—after almost 40 years of marriage.

Elly travels from Berlin to Michigan to visit her grandfather Dixie. Their long-standing email correspondence, begun after their respective queer coming-outs in 2015, finally takes shape in person, revealing mismatched expectations: Dixie associates queerness with physical connection, while Elly does not.

However permanent and stable any order may seem, it may eventually crumble when reality outside of the system creeps in, growing like organic matter through the boundaries that the order has imposed. An animated odyssey.

Flora leaves. Antonis gets left behind. Elit moves in. Benni and Caro can’t seem to move on. In the classrooms, cafes, bars and train stations of an unnamed German city, the lives of several young people intersect.

A woman is getting ready to go out. When the time comes to go down to her driver, she comes across a rather stressful problem.

A look into a man and his double.