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The film UMBRA deals with rare and common optical phenomena that occur in nature. These phenomena evoke familiar images such as shadows or reflections on a water surface; but also unusual ones like the "Brocken spectre" or the pinhole effect during a solar eclipse. These ancient and natural projections can be considered as precultural and independent of any apparatus. They occured even before mankind and are united by their intangible, ephemeral presence. In their immateriality and fragility, they are precursors of the cinema image. UMBRA develops a visual dialogue between phenomenon and apparatus, archetype and image, self and self-perception.

Abandoned by his girlfriend for a lack of qualities, Flo has to decide what to do and where to go next. By chance, he meets Leonie, who has a heart condition. She takes him on a journey: One heart broken, the other one damaged.

Karl Valentin is the greatest Bavarian comedian... but: maybe it's all just a misunderstanding? In any case, Valentin only saw himself as a folk singer, but he also produced Dadaist works of art and wrote futuristic songs. Today, he has a reputation as a comedian who has somewhat fallen out of time. In this film essay, Andreas Ammers asks contemporary comedians such as Luise Kinseher, Willy Astor, Helmut Schleich and Christian Springer about their relationship to their great ancestor. Above all, however, he examines how Karl Valentin would come across if he were played in High German today.

A portrait of 19-year-old Ekhlas Bajoo, who was captured by IS at the age of 14, survived the unimaginable, was finally able to flee after six months and finally came to Germany as a refugee in 2015.

Ten percent of the earth's surface is covered by glaciers. While these frozen peaks are the planet's largest reservoirs of drinking water, they are also home to precious relics of the distant past. Like tree rings, each layer of ice provides information on past years, such as temperature and precipitation. With global warming - an environmental concern but a boon for glaciologists - these treasures are gradually being released. In 1991, for example, hikers in Italy discovered a corpse lying at an altitude of over 3,000 metres.

The student Steve Worres moves into a new apartment. He soon realizes that his landlord is not only a Nazi esoteric who explores alien technologies from the Third Reich, but also has a passion for snuff films.

A film about the search for your own truth, by and with Andy Brings (Ex-Sodom, Double Crush Syndrome).

Tolga is confused. His girlfriend has left him, but he feels no sense of sadness. But he wants to change that. So he asks his best friend Burak, an imaginative guy who sells kebabs, how he could cry. Burak, who is an expert in feelings, or at least in showing feelings, offers him various techniques. But the more he tries, the more Tolga begins to question his own friendship. Up to the point where Burak asks him a very serious question…

Two very different groups of guests are waiting for the bride and groom outside the registry office in St. Pauli. Engineer Isabel and ex-convict Ivo have an unusual connection. After a stroke, Isabel's father Ernst needs care. Isabel meets Ivo by chance and hires him as a domestic help. The two come from completely different worlds, but it doesn't take long for the spark to ignite. Although Isabel is completely smitten with Ivo, he is hiding something from her.

Among friends, there is always one wanting more. An exploration of improvised contemporary dance in a metaphoric artificial setting. Interpretation of Bacon's "Laws of movement".

This film accompanies five children of the young ensemble of the Friedrichstadt-Palast during the creation of the new children's play from the castings to the rehearsals to the grand premiere evening in front of 2,000 spectators.

Judith is a doctor who is very committed to her profession. Aiming to become a cardiologist, she performs part of her residency in a chronically understaffed hospital emergency room. During a particularly difficult shift, she makes a mistake that causes the death of a patient. Judith is devastated and doubts whether she is suited to the profession. Her fellow doctors, including her partner Mark, advise her to just carry on as before. While Judith’s actions are investigated, she is assigned to ambulance duty. Being in a new environment and having some distance to the clinical routine allow her to see things in a new light.

A dreamy big city atmosphere from a haven in the middle of Berlin, where a motley community of eccentric people have created their own world.

A father and daughter have lost touch. They used to take trips to the cinema, discuss music and politics. Until her interests began to change; then her looks; then her way of speaking. And one day she told him she was going to a wedding party in Denmark. Instead she started a new life. As the wife of a jihadist living in Syria.

In order to save her mountain guesthouse from ruin, Sopie plans to build a glass extension with a pool as an attraction. She comes up with this saving idea when her best friend Verena visits, who brings her brother Jan with her and who draws the plans for it. However, Sophie's permanent guest for life does not agree with these plans at all: Barthl, who would like to drive away all visitors, fears for his stable rights.

Many fishermen are gradually losing their traditional livelihoods. On the west coast of India, a power plant has scared away the fish, while in Sri Lanka fishermen are being driven away from coastlines taken over by tourist infrastructure. In Costa Rica, environmental concerns are leading to a ban on crab fishing, which provides a livelihood for entire villages.

A young migrant wants to learn how to converse in German. The teacher he gets in touch with uses a peculiar new method. As the lessons progress, the student starts to feel more and more committed.

They were the absolute superstars in ancient Rome: charioteers. The heroes of the racetrack, often slaves, risked their lives in every competition. Only a few enjoyed the rewards of victory into old age. Using ancient documents and artifacts, the documentary traces the biography of Scorpus, probably the most successful Roman charioteer.

When the moon starts to shine, creatures wander through the night and begin to dance to the melody of the forest.

Experience an action-packed urban mountain bike adventure with extreme sports athlete Fabio Wibmer. Why does he keep pushing his limits and expose himself to high risks of injury? Find out what's going on in his mind and witness how they conquer the craziest urban spots in France - including security & police, as well as spectacular crashes. His videos have millions of clicks but is it really worth the risk?

A young woman stands on the Rialto Bridge in Venice; in a cool box is her dead goldfish. Initially she had planned to let it be carried out to sea. But then an emotion that is even stronger causes her misgivings, and so she packs the fish up again. In the surreal setting of an empty city, she sets out in search of lost meaning.

Frustrated by a corrupt system, Yves leaves his home in Cameroon to try his fortune in Europe. But to get there is more difficult than expected. Yves has been on the road for eight years – and is close to failing. Back home are the people who mean the most to him: his sister Annie, who has been holding the family together since Yves left, his little brother, waiting for Yves to take him to Europe, and his father, who expects him to lead the family to a better life. A film about family, the dream of Europe and the impossibility of giving up.

An essayistic architecture documentary dwelling on modern-day Ukraine, Constructivism, and the Soviet Revolution.

Borchert and his boss Dominique can't believe it: Captain Furrer, respected top investigator of the Zurich Criminal Investigation Department and fair opponent of the unorthodox lawyer duo, is now himself under urgent suspicion of murder! Corrupt colleagues want to pin the murder of young policewoman Emmi, who could have been dangerous to them as a witness, on him. Emmi had confided in her mentor Furrer that brothel owner Jean Berger had been deliberately shot during a raid by colleagues. Now Furrer fears he will be eliminated himself. With Dominique's help, the suspended captain goes into hiding to prove his innocence on his own.

In the old projection room of a cinema something comes to life. 24 frames per second. 24 beats per minute. The analogue film is infinite. ∞

Lynette Dawson wants to set up a foundation in the name of her late husband. Her sons Patrick and Robin are to act as directors. Lynette hopes that her daughter-in-law Kim and daughter-in-law-to-be Marisa will also get involved in the business. But they have completely different plans. While Kim is reluctant to give up her job as a biologist in London, Marisa breaks off her engagement to Robin. Lynette still thinks she has everything under control. A mistake, because a scandal breaks out on her very first day at the new company: a group of young people working on a project there are diagnosed with signs of poisoning. Lynette denies all accusations. As it turns out, she has put her trust in the wrong person...

The story of a group of young people during the last day of summer in Vienna.

It seems to be an intermediate world of peace and quiet, the garden and country house where four people look back on testing lives. And forward, to the time they have left. On the one hand, there is regret – on the other, satisfaction. In a way, they are looking forward to the future – but at the same time, a longing for death regularly arises. And who is actually behind the camera? Are we watching actors or real people? Is there really any difference? Garten is full of contradictions – it is not until the credits roll that we realise who these people from very different backgrounds are.

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.

Adrian Semoti lives in the constant laps of his daily life since the separation of theatre actress Florina. One day Florina announces herself by sending back what he once gave her as a present. Neither new acquaintance nor family squabbling can distract him. The attempt to circumnavigate the final end of the relation, the separating couples bond inflames for the last time.

A story of diaspora. The film criticises the myth of Swiss neutrality, which violently masks structural, systemic, and social passivity.

Landscape and cinema form an amalgam here, being both interior spaces of thought and feeling and projected images of an outside.

When a monster-transporting time machine gets the two stoner brothers - Rufus and Brutus - into trouble, they seek shelter in the forest and launch a monster army to fight back.

Cesária Évora made the music of the Cape Verde islands famous throughout the world in the early 1990s. This film is an introduction to the culture, music and zest for life of the Cape Verdean people. On the occasion of the famous carnival of Mindelno, on the island of São Vicente where Cesaria Évora was born, this documentary offers a musical journey to discover "Sodade" and its legacy. Cesaria Évora, who died in 2011 after a twenty-year career, has allowed Cape Verde to shine throughout the world. The "barefoot diva", considered the queen of the morna has conquered the world and inspired many Cape Verdean artists. The small archipelago, which was for several centuries an important hub of the slave trade has promoted since then an important ethnic mix, which has played an important role in the evolution of local music.

A magical opera, a Singspiel, a comedy with spectacular stage effects, a Masonic ritual intertwined with Egyptian mysteries, a heroic-comic opera? "The Magic Flute" has been heard, performed, discussed, scrutinised and questioned more often than almost any other work in the history of opera. But this time, they’ve really outdone themselves... .

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A story about a building with an inner courtyard an its inhabitants. While the different character follow their everyday routines, trash slowly begins to pile up in the courtyard.

Visual patterns are tied up in hierarchical behaviour that restrains the full potential and mobility of each individual element until the matrix collapses.

An architectural visual story based on the conceptual project “Sports Tower” — finalist in eVolo's Skyscraper Design Competition and model of Manhattan.

In September 2015, the world of science experienced a sensation: researchers in the USA succeeded in proving the existence of gravitational waves for the first time in the history of physics. A milestone. This proof opens up a completely new perspective on our universe - perhaps even on the birth of the cosmos itself, nothing less than the Big Bang. Gravitational waves are created when something gigantic happens in the universe: a stellar explosion, the merging of neutron stars or black holes.

Single mother Kathi receives day release from prison and finds her three-year-old son, who is living with her unstable mother, in bad circumstances. She is forced to find a way to enable a better future for him, while time is against her, she has to be back in prison at six pm.