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Fasciae, hidden connective tissues, are largely unstudied parts of our anatomy. What role do they play in the organism? And could a better understanding of them help in finding a cure for back pain?
On the 3rd of April 2014 flash floods hit Honiara, capital of the Solomon Islands. My 30 minutes long documentary looks at the aftermath of the flood and shows what happens in a poor South Pacific nation when 10'000 people, most of them illegal settlers, are left homeless and conflicts arise.
Conceived as the sixth installment of the multi-part series future past perfect, this short film is the result of a long-standing fascination with the famous cambodian white building, a large apartment complex in the center of phnom penh. nicolai's interest and motivation for the film project are rooted in his personal connection to the artist collective sa sa art projects who have also and continuously dealt with the housing complex in artistic ways. for the artist, the architecture of the white building is a prime example of a form adequate to its building materials and developed organically out of function.
A taxi driver has always had a fantasy about a nun, until one night, a real nun gets into his car. And that's when the action begins.
The search for Beate continues.
small planets is a film about isolated places and their inhabitants. In the era of globalization, when the world community seemingly moves together, we find groups of people living in isolated places, marginalized by the rest of the society.
A homicidal maniac is on the loose. The police are powerless. The victims are defenseless.
Two construction workers in Hamburg have to deal with the residents of a skyscraper within a day - because on the one hand it is to be demolished shortly and on the other hand no one was informed about it in advance. Various disputes and strange incidents result only the tip of the iceberg, in which even the first mayor of the city is involved!
A child has to leave its hut to collect wood for the fire that went out. The search for suitable wood becomes a life's work.
After completing her training as a hotel manager, Polly Cameron returns to the town where she grew up. In the idyllic fishing village of Cherry Cove on the New York coast, she takes over her parents’ cozy bed-and-breakfast with the help of her friend Bridget. Polly has already put a lot of work into the “Sunflower” and is hoping for a successful first season. The start is promising: at a party hosted by Mayor Melissa Teerpack, she meets the extremely charming businessman David Locking. Sparks fly immediately between Polly and him—much to Melissa’s displeasure, as she has long had her eye on the successful bachelor due to her unhappy marriage.
December 19th, 1909, Sunday, the fourth Advent. At the Borsigplatz, the big bang happens: The catholic church wants to ban Franz Jacobi and his friends from playing soccer. But the boys rebel against the church and found a soccer club which would later achieve world fame: Borussia Dortmund.
This is a story between dream and reality, waiting for happiness and living in a prison and finally getting it and breaking free.
For three weeks Joy has been on her own when her mother Martina, who had not come home after a date, suddenly shows up. When Martina falls for a new lover, Joys anger is unleashed. Out of resentment a fight for each other's love begins.
Svobodan lives his life carrying an old choleric toad on his head. An animated short about a stressed out modern human being.
Escaping everyday life and taking on a new identity: Three very different people talk about how wrestling means pure freedom for them. Not much happens in Weinheim, a small town in Baden-Württemberg. Life takes place in the countryside and is idyllic. But there is one special feature: Weinheim is home to the oldest wrestling club in Germany. For 15 years now, the members of the ACW have been fighting their way through the ring according to the American model, immersing themselves in a different world: including 18-year-old Nadine, who looks like a delicate inconspicuous girl from the outside, but becomes a fighter in the ring.
The shift of technology in all our areas of life opens a range of intim encounters between human and machine and is writing over the natural act of creation. Imagination and fantasy are important factors of our sexual desires, nothing seems more personal than our own thoughts. It’s up to us if we share them or keep them for ourselves.
A documentary about two friends travelling around the world with only basic things, a sailing boat and a school bus. On their way they are trying to gather and record the music of every country they visit.
In 1920s Germany, Erich Korngold's work was considered “degenerate” and banned. Eventually, in 1934, he left for Hollywood. There, he made a name for himself as a film composer and only rarely wrote great works for the stage. Many of his quite successful operas, composed between 1913 and 1927, stopped being performed after World War II. Among these was his perhaps most significant work, Die tote Stadt (“The Dead City”), which was performed again for the first time after a long hiatus in 1955 in Munich. Further productions followed. Nevertheless, Götz Friedrich's version of 1983 for the Deutsche Oper Berlin was only the fifth new production of the opera after 1945.
An experimental conclusion to Klopfensteins trilogy of walk-and-talk philosophical films, presented mostly in negative black-and-white pictures
Berlin, Capital of Germany. The integration of East and West, multicultural society, departure, movement, creativity, active life, but also loneliness, solitude, and anonymity. Everyone yearns for togetherness, and each love is possible. 'At Second Glance' is a film about Kay and Falk, Benjamin and Elena, Till and Pan - three visually impaired couples in the big city juggernaut Berlin - who meet, discover, and feel attracted to each other.
The last bachelorette Stefanie doesn't find a man, but instead a woman, whom she finds even more fascinating.
To mark his incredible 20th stage anniversary, the most famous Swiss artist, DJ BoBo, is now touring Germany with his brand new “Dancing Las Vegas” show. In a two-hour program, DJ BoBo presents brand new songs from his album "Dancing Las Vegas" and many of his numerous world hits.
Henriette is terminally ill with cancer. Since her diagnosis, contact with her sister Gerlinde has fizzled out. It is only when she talks to the open-minded pastor Linus Gobert that she begins to accept her fate and gets closer to her sister again. But before she can tell Gerlinde about her illness, she is shot dead in the street. Gerlinde, the only witness to the crime, doubts that it was a robbery.
Documentation on a protest campaign against urban displacement, organized by neighbors from Kreuzberg, Berlin.
Festivalhalle Moers, Moers, Germany
"House in the Lake" takes a look on an oppressive and intimate family. We follow the holidays in their remote summer house, the every day and the fragile normality, where the three kids absorb and partially channels the emotional energies of their parents.
The talented young entrepreneur Finn Sieveking has to cope with the death of his mother Maria, who was always at his side in the management of the traditional Hamburg family business. Out of nowhere the adventurer Jonathan Clark appears, who introduces himself as his biological father. Finn has to cooperate with him unwillingly, because Maria has bequeathed both of them half of their business shares. Only gradually does Finn begin to understand what his clever mother intended.
JK's is definitely in love with Italy; not only is he fluent in Italian but he sings here traditional songs some of which are in the Napolitanean dialect and he is good at it. There are wonderful views of the Italian coastline with Jonas driving an iconic Alfa. There are bits of black and white film from his childhood spending holidays in Italyas a boy. The audience adores him and his voice soars easily as such songs are easy on someone used to much heavier Verdi or Wagner roles. A delight to the ear.
A documentary about the filming of "Mark of the Devil" and it's sequel "Mark of the Devil II" directed by Martin Nechvatal.
Short film after the Swedish poet Gustaf Fröding's (1860-1911) reflections on youth, coming of age and first love.
When 31,000 policemen take action against 50 tree occupants and tear gas and truncheons are used, a 550-hectare "pedunculate oak-hornbeam-lily-of-the-valley-forest" becomes a symbol of resistance. Since 2015, director Karin de Miguel Wessendorf has accompanied the protests against the clearing of the Hambacher forest and against the destruction of the villages on the edge of the lignite opencast mining, the largest CO2 source in Europe. First it was only a rebellion of individual groups with different goals, but in the autumn of 2018 the protest against the clearing finally becomes one broad supraregional movement.
A short film about a boy, Cozmo, who feels uncomfortable being in public with his boyfriend. After realizing he is not the only one affected by the situation he decides to overcome his fears
Born and raised in a township in Ivory Coast, the brothers Koroballa and Tiemogo experience the beauty and terribleness of Ivorian life. Koroballa wants to escape. Not knowing that Tiemogo is following him, he sneaks into the landing gear of a plane. A story about brotherhood, freedom, and a better future begins.
Martin (45) leads a quiet, inconspicuous life. Most of the time he sits in a video chat with Milena Sunday, the best internet specialist in stress relief. Only she knows that this quiet person is actually a former secret agent.
The self-produced NITRO documentary "Werner - The Phenomenon" accompanies Werner's father and comic artist Brösel - alias Rötger Feldmann: It illustrates how the comic artist brought the Werner phenomenon to life.
What’s up with love? Can it still be found or is it a utopian dream? What keeps a couple together and where does desire take us? In its search for clues, the film comes upon two completely different couples: a first love and a last love. One begins unexpectedly via Internet, the other culminates in a shared dream of many years in Portland, Oregon. Meanwhile, Eva Illouz and Sven Hillenkamp discerningly crack the code of the impossible character of love, the findings of which the two couples discount.
A portrait of a young woman who can’t find stability in her life. Lena’s relationship has turned into a power struggle; for her, love is all about bargaining, rivalry and transgression. The film’s fragmentary narrative reflects the protagonist’s state of mind, and the natural beauty of the idyllic small east German town of Brandenburg provides a stark contrast to Lena’s dark inner struggle.
Her love couldn't save the eternal city.
