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To make an object based on a photograph means adding dimensions such as space, time and continuity. Roasting skewers, hairpins and nails were the tools of self-liberation in the photo series Zerstörung einer Illusion ("Destruction of an Illusion") by Karin Mack, which was produced in 1977 with a self-timer and her hand processing work in the darkroom. Forty years after its creation, it is a new perspective that transforms and sets into motion the examination of the self-image and role as a woman into a three-dimensional object. Light and rotation create an illusory horizon of perception inherent in filmmaking and make the living shadows dance in the delirium of the real. (C. P.)

Her love conquers what's belonging to her.

2034 - Earthling Dabbill Windbag is appointed Emperor Lord Leather in the fight against intergalactic AIDS. Together with his subordinates Constable Plum and Lord Liver, he then tries to rule the galaxy. But he is opposed by the bounty hunters Schwanz Solo & Superbingowoman, who make the universe unsafe with their spaceship. A merciless and hilarious battle for space-life and space-death breaks out!

Julian lived as a harpsichord maker in a warehouse in Zurich for twelve years. Forced to move out of his live-in studio, he is confronted with his own neglect, with questions about his life so far, his future, and his purpose in life.

A young man is confronted with the abyss of his soul and becomes more and more enslaved by insanity.

Faust Sonnengesang III is a road movie: A traverse of the American continent, full of memories of American images, songs and literature that shape our lives from our youth. Wild West films, series, lecture impressions as well as the encounter with a Navajo shaman in Monument Valley form the background of this opulent and beguiling sound and picture noise.

Going to the cinema is always a matter of joy, that unless... this is an episode in the story of a "unique" character who loves cinema because of some peculiar reasons.

A seven-year-old child, his brother Billy and their depressed mother live on a farm. Then something painful happens to the family and the kids are left to live by themselves.

During the Second World War thousands of women in Asia were forced to work as prostitutes for Japanese soldiers. Some of them were still teenagers. They were raped, often beaten and abused. The Japanese called them “ianfu” or Comfort Women. After the war the survivors struggled to continue with their lives, hiding what many considered to be a “shame”. After having been silent for more than 50 years they have started to tell their stories. Until today, they are waiting for an adequate compensation and official acknowledgment of their victimization. They are in their Eighties and Nineties now and time is running out for them. This intimate, touching film tells the story of nine comfort women in the Philippines and follows their efforts to find justice before they die.

European animal protection laws, foreign deployments of the German army and a confiscated tortoise with a Syrian rebel flag painted on its shell. The reptile sanctuary in Munich becomes a meeting place for humans and animals. And the war.

A poetic examination of the impermanence of rolling clouds, of droplets on a window, and reflections on large bodies of water in the ever-shifting cycle of precipitation.

The Horse casts a shoe and from then on it only has bad luck.

Portrait of the action artist, environmental activist, natural philosopher, gallery owner and "anarchist" Ben Wagin.

A woman is trapped in a strange world in between worlds. She will find out something about herself and you will watch her.

The 94-year-old grandmother and her daughter visit the grandson's self-built torture prison.

Vincent and Maya must question their friendship while breaking into a video store one night.

This is a non profit short film for more tolerance for gay people, especially gay boys who have to face a lot of hate in their lifes. But it’s okay to be gay, and it’s okay to be nude or kissing your friend and the people you love.

After midnight. On July 7 and 8, 2017, the filmmaker cycles through Sternschanze. He lingers under the Sternbrücke bridge, passes the Pferdemarkt, and slowly rides up Schulterblatt, past the Rote Flora, where he gets a flat tire and comes to a stop in front of the railway bridge. The G20 summit viewed from its end.

The Yakuza is the most powerful criminal organization in the world. But it's not simply black and white. The truth is between the underworld.

A documentary about the left revolution in Munich and Bavaria as well as the republic following governing for several months. The movie consists mostly of eye witness interviews of the peaceful change of government.

Elias Gottstein and Carl Luis Zielke have no fixed abode, no education, no bank account, no securities. Instead, they are living their dream of freedom: radical, anarchic, unplugged! They are young, they are intelligent, they are hungry: for life, for music, for a future far removed from the bourgeois imaginary world. They also have an irrepressible optimism that they can shape this life themselves with and through their music. As Guaia Guaia, they travel from city to city on self-built bicycles, attracting fans and police officers with loud, illegal concerts.

Louise is the only daughter of an artistic, liberal German family. She marries Mohamed, a Muslim from Algeria. Louise converts to Islam and lives a life of serious commitment to the faith. She misbehaves and scandalises people. The two have now been married for 15 years and live with their three children in Germany. Their older daughter Sainab is eleven, their son is seven and the younger daughter is nine months old. In complete opposition to the current trend, in which millions of people are escaping the African continent, the family makes an unusual decision. They emigrate from Germany to Algeria. The film follows them for two years as they bravely try to live between two fundamentally different cultures.

After his company goes bankrupt, a man goes into the forest to die.

Giorgi, a Georgian unemployed actor and tragic looser is suddenly confronted with the arrival of his 15-year old daughter Tina whom he hasn't seen for 10 years. Together with his black lover-to-rent room mate Ngudu and the wooden-legged soap opera actress Mia he desperately tries to show Tina a fake life of a rich man who's got everything, including a big car and a villa. But things go wrong and his daughter isn't that stupid. So soon she starts enjoying the pure chaos around her until all secrets are revealed.

Short film by Roman Holtwick.

Corpses are piling up in the streets of a city. How could this happen? The victims have what look like shark bite marks. A shark—in the middle of the city? The inspector and his assistant Chubby begin their investigation...

Earth is uninhabited by man. Most died, few left for Titan, a moon of Saturn. With them they took the remnants of humanity, what was left of it anyway. But there was an accident, the ships were damaged, and the remnants lost. They arrived on Titan without their history and soon began to lose their memory. Sankofa is a film about the woman they asked to find it.

Short film about drug violence in Mexico.

A short magical realism dance film explores the quirky personalities and awkward encounters that one only finds in a nail salon.

Documentary about the creation of a painting.

Every summer, when the major football teams fly their star athletes to training grounds in expensive and sunny locations, some other players meet on a football field in Duisburg. Even though there are professional footballers, they are all unemployed. And they look desperately for a job. "The Other Fields" sheds a new and completely different light on the mythologies of contemporary football. While some may think that “bling-bling” and “glitz” is all there is to modern football, Marco Kugel’s and Simon Quack’s film shows the intricate economic and moral complexities behind the façade of entertainment. Dreams only last a season or two.

Basel Christmas Tattoo 2013

Experience Dark Fall, Alex DePhillipo's award winning documentary as he follows a year in the life of New Jersey's best surfers as they tackle some of the best surf right in their own back yard and travel to remote locations across the globe... This film gives a look at the lifestyle of a cold-water surfer and glorifies the most prestigious and naturally beautiful time for a New Jersey surfer, the fall.

The Pan-American Highway is a road that connects two continents and twelve countries. Along the 15,000 km of the historic original route between Laredo (Mexico) and Buenos Aires (Argentina), you encounter people with their destinies, destinies, life goals, and hopes. Like a needle, the longest road in the world pierces from north to south. This stirring, contrasting, and informative documentary shows intimate and moving moments—completely authentic, natural, close, and touching. It takes the viewer on a journey through different cultures, where one's own existence often depends on just a few cents. The film illustrates the mindset of the Latin American population, who can often sum up the unvarnished reality in a single sentence. It shows neither staged scenes nor does it chase after tourist attractions.

A man is stuck in a loop, controlled by a mysterious rhythm.

"Margina" reflects upon life in the Roma community, giving very intimate insights into the life of a Roma family in Macedonia, who exists "at the edge" of European society. Without overt pathos, the film shows everyday family-life, marked by social marginalization and economic hardship, but also the usual domestic problems

The power company Vattenfall wants to capture emissions from a coal-fired power station and bury them underground - in order to save the world climate. The opponents of the CCS-technology fear not only the risks of this compression but also that the existing power system would be cemented. A film about the challenges of the energy turnaround.

Ron, a nineteen-year-old girl, is deeply in love with May, her best friend. A short time after Ron moves from Taipei, May decides to join her in Berlin. The love between them is strong but contrasting: Ron does not openly tell May her feelings but May is conscious of what she represents to her friend.

The ordinary Hell official Amon is assigned with a strange task by Luzifer: Together with the chaotic, sex-crazed Samsaveel, he is in charge of stopping Belial, Prince of Hell, who's gone out of control. In order to claim the thrones of Heaven and Hell, he uses a female body as a host, outwits Amon and Samsaveel and kills an angel. With this murder, he sparks a terrible war, because the forces of Heaven and Hell were supposed to balance good and evil on Earth. For centuries, they never raised a hand against each other. Until now...

Film tells the story of the boxer who sensationally won the German light heavyweight championship in 1933 and was stripped of the championship because he is a "gypsy". In protest, he went into the next fight as a caricature of an Aryan with white powdered skin and light hair - a dramatic decision.

Forty years after the release of Rosa von Praunheim's film, NICHT DER HOMOSEXUELLE IST PERVERS, SONDERN DIE SITUATION IN DER ER LEBT, a group of men assemble to review, rewrite and restage its legendary final scene. THE ROSA SONG combines dialogue from the original film with challenging new ideas about gay male life in Germany and internationally, concluding with a rousing musical manifesto that breathes new life into this 1970s classic.