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After Mr. L. had to leave his old home due to a resettlement, he finds himself in a room full of furniture. A journey of exploration begins, through drawers, rooms, sounds and memories. Daniel Höpfner's experimental animated film impresses with its original, detailed form. The exploration of the old building with soundscapes filled with the speeches of old rulers also provides an insight into something much larger and more global than just the decay of an individual's property. Old systems decay, dictators and governments fall. And what remains are memories and symbols.

Growing up in times of conflict - 13-year old Palestinian girls Wafaa and Raneen from two different Westbank villages are faced with the option of going on a one-day trip to the beach in Israel. Although they live only a few kilometers away, they have both never been to the sea. Israeli peace activists organize a day at the beach in Tel Aviv for Palestinian women and children, to let them exchange the view on the Wall against the horizon. One summer morning, Wafaa is preparing for the journey and imagining pretty people in Israel, while Raneen is playing freedom fighter with her friends. Her village is in constant conflict with the Israeli soldiers and for her and her parents it is out of the question to spend a beach day with the "others". Is the day by the sea a one-day utopia? Or a possible future?

Corinna Kleist is a juvenile court judge who, after a leave of absence following the suicide of a convicted teenager, is appointed to a 'problem area' in Berlin. She now tries harder than ever to change the system in order to prevent troubled kids from being turned into vicious criminals.

Doctor Dahna lives with her mother Ayana in Kenya, where she runs the children's aid organization Hekima Foundation. When Ayana is dying, she reveals one last secret to her daughter: her biological father is Victor Frey, the famous head of a large beauty company. After the loss of her mother, Dahna travels to Germany to get to know her father better. There, however, she encounters a completely alien world. Although her father welcomes her with open arms, his life is characterized by luxury, glamour and money, unlike hers. In memory of Ayana, Victor decides to launch his new perfume under her name. After he uses almost any means necessary, Dahna realizes that her father has two faces. When the press suddenly reports that the Hekima Foundation is involved in a donation scandal, Dahna begins to investigate and discovers a dark family secret.

Invited by the conductor Premil Petrovic to stage Arnold Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire, a musical theater work from 1912 based on the poems of Albert Giraud, LaBruce transposed a strange and tragic episode of true crime onto the composition. Complementing the original atonal score is a narrative about a trans man who is outed by his girlfriend’s father and forbidden from seeing the young woman again. Crestfallen, the protagonist decides to prove the fact of his manhood by castrating a taxi driver and then revealing his newly transplanted member to the two of them. This story, which for LaBruce “serves as a kind of allegory for all gender radicals and outcasts driven to extremes by the disapproval and hostility of the dominant order,” is rendered in a visual style that nods to the era of Schoenberg’s melodrama. LaBruce cheekily appropriates the formal vocabulary of silent cinema with black-and-white photography, irises, and intertitles like “A cock, a cock, my kingdom for a cock!”

The random choreography of colorful, flashing screen signals that sink back into black has its appeal.

A poem, a kaleidoscope and life itself.

Jan is in the last year of his apprenticeship. He wants to be taken on and he wants to do everything right. But what is the right thing to do when restructuring increases the pressure on Jan and his colleagues, when redundancies are the order of the day and the HR manager, who is himself under control and pressure to succeed, keeps a watchful eye on everything? When Jenny, a temporary worker of the same age, joins his company, a tender love story begins. But does love have a chance under these conditions and will Jan manage to rebel against the system?

When the highly trained assassin receives an order from his boss to kill a child, his life is thrown off balance. He makes a decision that will change his life forever...

The adventures of two half-time crooks, a dead body and a bird.

What happens if the global crisis suddenly becomes personal? After her twin sister has simply run away, Emmi goes on a search for clues. Surrounded by overwhelmed adults and terror news, she tries to sound out her perplexity between loss of control and dreamy longing ...

Sex is the most beautiful thing in the world. But talking about it without straying into lasciviousness or becoming inhibited remains tricky. Sprache:Sex places its trust in the power of free expression, the art of conversation, the miracle of the encounter. Sixteen people aged between 13 and 74 prove themselves to be practitioners of these disciplines. It is a matter of insecurities and desires, of preferences and turn offs, of varieties of love and life. A representative cross-section of society? Surely not! Statistically useful results? Even less so! A fanatical handing out of advice? Not a bit of it! Instead, it is a bold experimental set-up. Sober and playful. A documentary dance whose whole is more than the sum of its parts. Who should care? Actually, everybody.

After a night of heavy drinking, AsiPhil wants to get rid of his empty bottles. But he gets lost and ends up at a junk shop. What happens there is astonishing, and not just for him.

The film tells us the last dialog between two women in love at the Aarhus Harbor; after Eva takes that boarding gate, the love story will be done. The Pretty Things Are Going to Hell is about the last kiss, the last look, the last goodbye.

Looking for something to eat, a homeless woman sneaks into a man's apartment and initially hides in his closet.

The German Angst of the unknown - a reluctant dialogue.

A journey around the globe together with the world's best wildlife filmmakers. We experience their passion and commitment for the natural beauty of our planet. However, their mission is now in jeopardy as the destruction of nature world-wide caused by the impact of man, is ever increasing.

At first the mysterious black ship seem to be the rescue from the stormy sea. But soon the rescued castaway starts to realise what is the purpose of the expedition. And the ship follows irresistible its course to the south. Graduation film at the school of arts and design Kassel. Based loosely on the short story of the same titel by A.E. Poe.

In the midst of Kosovo, an area that’s been haunted by war and ethical conflicts, Elias Elhardt discovers the small ski resort Brezovica. With several abandoned hotels and lifts, time has seemingly stopped here since Yugoslavia’s breakdown over 20 years ago. Snowboard enthusiast Hamdi is one of the locals, that now wants to breathe new life into this special place. He guides Elias through this forgotten world and reflects on the question, how a future can be built if the past still weighs so heavily.

Ada Hänselmann presents her debut novel. However, the numerous guests are only interested in the 82-year-old legendary actor Nino Winter and his autobiography. The two meet again in the evening at the hotel bar. Ada involves Nino in a game - he is supposed to play a detective and shadow her. After a tour of the city, the games continue: Both are to answer any five of the other's questions honestly. Nino is skeptical, but eventually there are hundreds of questions, big and small, casual and existential, about life, love, fame, transience: what would Nino look like as a woman, what was nature thinking when it created the family, what does love sound like, what does death mean? Ada and Nino become allies of the night. They have to jump over their own shadows and a magical closeness develops between them. It is an encounter that neither of them will ever forget...

A single mother of three children lives a chaotic and not very wealthy life in which her oldest daughter tries to manage everything and wants to find a decent guy for her mum.

A Tyrolean Production. Three men, a life coach and the search for an appropriate therapy.

For 40 years, Gerhard Steidl has combined the roles of printer and publisher, resolved to personally check each sheet leaving his printing shop in Göttingen. This perfectionism, combined with an unconditional love for books, for the traditional printing craft, and a commitment to the quality standards of manufacturing (in the original sense of the word, made by hand), has gained worldwide attention. The most internationally renowned photographic artists vie for the opportunity to collaborate with Gerhard Steidl, to conceive and produce the perfect publication with him.

The film tells the story of rapist and murderer Willi Kimmritz, who terrorized the forests around Berlin between 1946 and 1948.

It's the summer of 1987, and the young Schuster family from the Leipzig district is heading on vacation. With their Trabant and trailer, they set off for a small private accommodation near the border of what was then West Germany. This autobiographical animated documentary follows the family on their journey, providing a glimpse into the curious details of a typical GDR vacation so close to the western border. Between the Volkspolizei, border patrols, shortages, and idyllic beach scenes in East Germany's vacation paradise, this animated docufilm swings back and forth. Personal memories and carefully documented facts merge into a travel diary brought to life through animation.

Both abject through its texture and relatable in its fragility, WETWARE offers hyperreality without the common symptoms of alienation. A seemingly self-sustaining ‘organism’ is generated completely in digital through synthesis without reliance on ’real’ imagery. The resulting image is limitless, perpetually spilling outside itself. Suggesting a feed pulsating beyond a bodily surface or even any bodily context, the work examines digital intimacies while also referencing worship music in its relaxing albeit disorienting sonic composition.

A snowball fight is fun for everyone! Because it's sooo cold outside, the penguin has to think of something special to get his friends to join in the game.

When Mishal is compelled to travel to Berlin to prove his marriage to the scholarship student Nora at the cultural attaché’s office, his relentless curiosity drives him to explore the bustling Western city. But his presence quickly stirs suspicion and chaos when he realizes that finding the Qibla in Berlin is a puzzle, with each person praying in a different direction. As Mishal hops from one adventure to the next in search of the “right” direction, his journey spirals into a series of comedic encounters that spark curiosity and questions wherever he goes.

Silent film about five girls, dealing with the dream of beauty, despair of revolution, broken Gretchen love, absurd self-discovery, and on the heels of Dürer's Melancholia, the future and a massacre vision.

Do we really want that our Computers, toasters, fridges and routers go to war? Should intelligence agencies be allowed to turn our infrastructure into dangerous weapons?

CLIMATE WARRIORS gives a voice to people acting for change. American activists, celebrities and German energy inventors, investors and political activists all drive towards the same goal: saving our world and keeping peace.

Anthology film by Eckhart Schmidt.