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The heads of exquisite corpses assembled from YouTube videos enthusiastically share their so-called success stories. This polyphonic montage of self-obsession and relentless competitiveness is contextualised by fragments from 1950s documentaries, when the normalisation of productivity, progress and individualism was in full swing.
A dollar slice, a city of pixels, and lives condemned to repeat: Buck a Slice observes Night City’s forgotten characters to ask how much choice we ever truly have.
Zoey runs. Olivia doesn’t know whether to chase after her or let her go. Between love and longing, closeness and distance, one unavoidable question remains: When do you hold on—and when do you let go?
The life of an elderly man at an East Chinese river basin is disturbed by the arrival of his niece. She is looking for a conversation about the past. Together, they drift over the murky river and face unspoken secrets. Once, the aunt set out to find the lost son and never returned. Does the river carry memories, or is it muddying them up?
Kai and Patrick are transforming a former pharmacy in the St. Georgen neighborhood of Freiburg into a bakery. At a time of labor shortages and the decline of small artisan businesses, the film follows them as they launch their business and search for a contemporary approach to baking — one that goes beyond industrial standards.
More and more goods are being transported on Europe's roads, yet work conditions for truck drivers are getting worse and worse. Exploitative dependency and wage dumping. A broken system! The film relentlessly exposes how disenfranchisement has become the norm.
Director Daniel Hopp and his neighbor Daggi, a former private investigator from East Berlin, investigate the death of his previous tenant. Daggi not only brings with her keen powers of observation, but also her own story of escape, ruptures, and distrustful care. During their investigation, their two biographies become increasingly intertwined—reinforced by an actor who embodies Hopp and elevates the events to a reflexive meta-level.
A jester who escapes into the real world, only to realize that everything is worse there.
Friends find fragments of their shared youth in old videotapes, including the portrait of a person who connects their stories. The film unfolds as an act of remembrance and reevaluation.
High energy meets automated pleasure.
A pair of twin artists stumble upon a tiny doll’s dress, which they want to showcase on a grand scale. After all, this little dress bears a direct resemblance to the fairy tale »The Emperor’s New Clothes«, in which the emperor was actually wearing clothes after all! Unfortunately, the story is repeatedly misrepresented because ordinary people, like peasants and such, are simply too stupid to recognise transparent clothing. Of course.
16mm film performance. Caught in an endless loop of everyday repetition, a solitary man drifts through the crowd while quietly struggling between surrendering to the pattern and breaking free.
Frederikke struggles with control, coincidence and hidden pain between everyday life and cigarettes. A character study juxtaposing still and moving moments.
Harry Kane has made a name for himself in the German league. Join the journey — all the way from his loan spell at Leicester to breaking records in the Bundesliga. But the most important record of them all still remains.
Jenseits von Heimat portrays Syrian women’s experiences in their German exile with a focus on arguments, friendships and ultimately change triggered by the refugee’s arrival. The film immerses the audience in the worlds of Samar, Batoul and Nibal who arrived five years ago and now live in the remote communities of Altena, a medieval town in the hills of the Sauerland, and on the tiny North Sea Island of Föhr.
A young German travels through Istanbul and urban Turkey. Meanwhile, a Turkish woman spends her days smoking in the countryside. Ultimately, their paths cross.
The suicide of a boy from the Q3 youth club throws social worker Luca off balance. When her friend and colleague Kiran comes under suspicion of having had an inappropriate relationship with the boy, she fights for his innocence. Torn between responsibility, trust, and her own moral convictions, a painful search for the truth begins.
A year in Berlin: Leonie wanders through the city and the texts of Anna Maria Ortese. Speaking with friends and translator Sigrid Vagt, she is also looking for the narrative threads of her own life. A film of reading shot in glowing, matter-of-fact 16mm.
Anke is about to leave her small German town in the Black Forest region, while Lisa finds it hard to feel at home there. They meet by chance on a cold, grey autumn day, and wander the streets together. Cracks in the thin membrane between reality and dream transform their stroll into a journey to new places.
HOUSE 4 documents a year in the life of inmates at Berlin´s youth prison. With exceptional access and the trust of both prisoners and staff, the film follows its protagonists as they undergo mandatory therapy. Does this institution succeed in changing the paths of these young men? House 4 holds up a mirror to the youth prison systems of Western social welfare states.
A woman renovating her new apartment discovers a dark, blood-soaked hollow hidden beneath the peeling paint. As she rips away layers of wallpaper, the walls begin to feel unnervingly alive, as if the building itself is breathing beneath her hands. Determined to uncover the truth behind the growing horror inside her home, she digs deeper — unaware that some secrets refuse to stay buried.
How can we live sustainably, and are there any initiatives already in place? Eco-activist and filmmaker Mickel Rentsch sets out on a journey by bicycle and travel trailer. He meets inspiring people who are testing out a different way of life. A charming road movie about openness, exchange, and the ideas we need for the future.
Two 12-year-old boys secretly watch their physically disabled neighbor having sex with a woman through the window. The next day their doorbell rings.
Three minutes stretch on endlessly as a man loses his last nerves fighting a one sided conflict.
A biologist trying to invent human cloning to bring back the love of his life.
In a country undergoing an awakening, a middle-aged woman wanders through war-torn Damascus. Just a few weeks after Assad’s fall she is searching for herself as she has lost her memory. When her path crosses Amira’s, the two women may just change each other's lives by providing the answers each is looking for.
On her way to school, Emma comes across the memorial of a classmate who took his own life.She remembers their last encounter, where she recognized his distress but looked away. Fragmented flashbacks show her everyday life-dancing, putting on makeup, her relationship with the boy who bullied him. In the end, Emma stands before the memorial and asks: Why did you do it?
Through items left behind, After the Game explores traces of structural violence at Europe’s borders.
Behind her husband’s back, a housewife goes live on TikTok to sell hyper-feminine bridal products. When he enters mid-stream, the bubbly performance begins to crack, and what feels like harmless online commerce slowly reveals a chilling reality of control and offscreen violence.
At three o'clock at the gas station.
A radio, a table tennis paddle, the drawing of a child – from a respectful distance, the camera captures the few personal belongings of prisoners. The gaze lingers for a long time on everyday objects that are by no means a given in prison and which, through this focus, become defiant symbols of individuality. Intercut images reveal the stark geometry and functionality of the cells, which remain deserted until the very last shot of the film.
Upon the longest day of the year, the world is engulfed by an eternal night, as the sun ceases to rise again. Yet, Strangely, Elias appears to be the last person consumed by grief for the brighter past.
A ritual, words from a long-forgotten language. In 2018, an Egyptian mother fights in court for the fundamental rights of her daughter who was born out of wedlock. The film is inspired by this event. With great tenderness and sensitivity, Birth interweaves the story of this struggle with images of an archaic birth ritual.
A film sketch by Anja Czioska, shot and edited using a Bauer Super 8 camera on a hot summer’s day in a castle in Italy.
Diamond’s life spirals into chaos when she uncovers her boyfriend Sean’s infidelity and relapse. Desperate to save him from his addiction, she is forced to confront the painful truth that love alone can’t fix what’s broken. As secrets unravel and loyalties fracture, Diamond faces the shattering reality of their relationship and the strength it takes to finally let go.
Romy and Mio sneak off to Oktoberfest. A chance encounter in a beer tent turns a bit of fun into something serious.
A young woman makes an interesting discovery while waiting for the subway. Could this completely change her life?
