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When a man decides to spend a boring evening in a porn cinema, someone might not like it.

Kassetten-Fernsehen tells the story of the development of video as an entertainment medium in West Germany. The story begins with visions of a revolution and ends with a persistent censorship debate in a climate of intellectual and moral change.

The story of Ron Jones 'experiment went around the world: Morton Rhue's novel "The Wave", which is based on Jones' experiment, became a bestseller and standard work that has been a must-read for generations in numerous schools around the world.

"My parents were never a couple." Even before Carlotta Kittel was born, her parents had already separated. She grew up with her mother and occasionally visited her father. As a child, she somehow came to terms with this situation. But this 'somehow' is not a situation that Carlotta Kittel wants to settle for today. She interviews her parents separately and then confronts each of them with the views of the other. Step by step, question by question, the story of a childhood and a family that never existed unfolds. It is about contradictions, long-suppressed feelings and questions that were never asked.

Conceived as part of the future past perfect series the seventh part is focused on the surfaces/structures of fluids. simular to pt.01 and pt.04 this short film explores the topic of micro and macro structures and was inspired by the mathematical theory of attractors. as the title already mentions the film was shoot in istanbul at the bosporus.

Conceived as the fourth part of the series under the name future past perfect, the fourth short film of the row is the result of a long-term fascination with clouds, their movements, structure/texture, and their potentially infinite variety of forms. shot from the plane on various trips, the sequences of cloud imagery are edited and collaged in different ways to match the diverse qualities of constitution and behaviour of clouds. the short movie especially focussed on so-called stratus clouds, a category of clouds that usually appears rather flat, hazy and featureless. their visual quality as seen from above may imply micro and macro structures at the same time thus potentially deceives the viewer's perception.

Three boys are growing up in Israel and the Palestinian territories, right next to each other, in completely different worlds. We follow them over the course of a year, through adolescence. We watch as they experience life in promiscuous Tel Aviv, in the religious ideology of a Jewish settlement and in the occupied city of Hebron, where Israeli soldiers are in control. One year of trials and tribulations of three sixteen year old boys. They try to fulfill their teenage dreams in an environment of violence and sometimes war.

Staying at their vacation home in the South of France, parents and filmmaking daughter have different ideas about what it is to make a film. The exuberant parental motivation is immediately diverted into interviews and resulting cinematic experimental arrangements that play with the realization of the film ideas. The result is an experiment between image description and moving image, which paints the portrait of a family that has a passionate relationship to the image of the nature that surrounds it.

Protest and Desire is a video artwork that challenges popular STD / HIV discourse by focusing on how women of color deal with intimacy, sex, and age that relates to STDs and HIV within the landscape of white Europe.

"IDLE" is about an alternate future of humanity. It is a praise of idleness. The film follows a humanoid being in a post-apocalyptic landscape dancing and enjoying leisure while housekeeping robots do their job and unintentionally create works of art. A voice speaks a text based on the essay "Laziness as the Real Truth of Mankind" (1921) by Kazimir Malevich.

A tree in front of a wall over the course of a year.

Looking for a deeper meaning to his life, Ralf makes connections to Germany's underground techno scene and has the summer of his life.

Already as a student of the Art Academy in Dusseldorf, Otto Modersohn, born in 1865, rebelled against the teachings of his professors and placed his own natural philosophy at the center of his artistic work. He declared himself a landscape painter. His unmistakable style testifies to simplicity and inwardness. In Teufelsmoor in northern Germany, he finally founded the artists' colony Worpswede, where his work reached its peak.

Whether it's the appalling conditions in turkey fattening, the massive use of antibiotics in poultry farming or the improper killing of cattle - meat producers are under fire. In addition, feed exports from third world countries lead to hunger and misery there and meat exports to Africa destroy local markets. Filmmaker Jutta Pinzler spent over a year researching around the world. Her footage shows the devastating consequences of mass meat production.

The short film Brotherly tells the story of two best friends whose friendship is being put to an extreme test. It's about love, death and hope.

Three friends, equipped only with cameras, venture into an abandoned, but highly secured building. The trip, that began as harmless fun, slowly develops into a night of terror, as they find out, why it is so heavily guarded.

While it has been debated for many years, new evidence might finally put one debate to rest: Marco Polo has gone to China. Explore the mysteries of the historical figure in this documentary.

A short story about royal exercises in the space-time continuum ... 3D animated film by Stefan Eling

Why do humans torture other humans? This is the question Frankfurt’s director Dieter Reifarth addresses in Die Tortur. Following along the lines of Jean Améry’s essay of the same name, he draws a picture of the author’s experiences of being a Nazi prisoner in the Belgian fort Breendonk. Archived footage and images from the present-day museum are shown to accompany the original audio recordings.

Live from Hamburg, Iranian-German comedian Enissa Amani shares her take on German engineering, tax deductions and online fan-mail etiquette.

Max and Felix, mid-20th, have gone through the hard school of star gastronomy and obsessed with cooking. The two Berliners travel through eight countries and 25 cities (in Asia), an exciting trip from simple foodstuffs to top international food. Dazulerne can be (almost) everywhere.

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.

One of four "Saw" Video Contest winners in Germany leading up to the release of "Saw: The Final Chapter" in 2010. Little is known about the film, but it was officially featured on the German 9-film box set following the physical release of "Spiral: From the Book of Saw" in Germany.

George Litto on 'Blow Out'

Lying on her bed between textbooks on jazz, dirty laundry and French fries, eighteen year old Suza just wants to be left alone. Her once beloved red guitar, inherited from her father, has become a relentless reminder of failure. But social withdrawal isn’t easy when plagued with an overbearing mother, a best friend skilled at blackmail and a weird old nutcase screaming insults right outside your window.

'Here and Now' tenderly unveils self made adversities in everyday life of three friends. Artist Jo is suffering from a mental block and her canvas is still blank. Her therapist asks her to do nothing to conquer the block. But how on earth can you do nothing? Restaurateur Luke longs to do nothing as he is terrorized by his thoughts. He takes a time-out to flee the pending madness. But who is actually thinking in his head? Nothing left but fear in musician Gibsi's head as the date of her gig approaches. She'd love to escape her destiny - but if not now, when? A Dramedy set in Switzerland and vividly portrayed by a non professional gay and lesbian cast.

Documentary about the cult figure of German science fiction literature, Perry Rhodan, as well as its creators and lovers.

Arwed, 48, is a farmer in the third generation. Exhausted from the harvest he gets from his life companion Dennis, 38, a gift: one week wellness vacation. In jail.

Argentina, 1977: The country is oppressed by a military dictatorship. Thousands of critics of the regime are abducted, tortured and killed. Elisabeth K., a German student living in Buenos Aires, also disappears under mysterious circumstances. Her parents turn to the German Foreign Office, but the West German government refrains from any intervention one year before the World Cup. Why does the German government continue to deny any responsibility to this day? And: How apolitical can sport be?

Hanne, novel writer sweeps through the eastern part of Berlin.

Documentary about the German painter Oda Jaune.

The film is the documentary reappraisal of the carnival taboo topic par excellence, "Carnival under the swastika". First of all: He existed! See numerous historical recordings of Rose Monday parades and meetings of the 1930s.

In no other province have as many cultural buildings been erected in the last two decades as in Lower Austria.The documentary Building for the Arts presents a few outstanding examples of this cultural development.Starting with St. Pölten’s cultural district and the “Art Mile” in Krems, we show how contemporary architecture has uniformly established itself - from the revitalization of historic sites, including monasteries and castles, to the construction of sensational new buildings. The viewer will be led through the broad spectrum of exceptional building culture in Lower Austria, a culture which provides art, theater and music with the plentiful and spectacular stages it deserves.

Jellyfish is a cinematic novel; a meditative approach to talk about notions of gender by translating cognitive knowledge and literary elements into filmic narrative. The film depicts two types of characters: inhabitants of the fictional planet of gender utopian society that are gender fluid, and real characters who find themselves outside of cisnormativity. It offers another way of seeing gender with its possibility to float between different forms without limitations and restrictions.

Everyday objects and movements are employed as cinematographic mechanisms.

In September of 2017 German writer and director Daniel Raboldt accompanied a group of German and Polish scientists and students into the woods of Masuria, Poland. The expedition aimed to find traces of the so-called "lost villages", left by the Masurians around 1945 by the end of the Second World War. Today only some of the old graveyards can be found deep in the woods of the beautiful Masurian landscape. The documentary "In the back of history - The lost villages of Masuria" shows the students at their work in the historic archives and in the woods. How conclusive can this kind of historic research be? How much can we really learn by looking through old files or other sources? And what can we learn from the vanishing of the Masurians? Do we face similar problems today? The film dives deep into themes like the rise of nationalism and identity and uncovers the tragic end of a population that was asked one simple question in the early 20th century: Stay or Leave?

This is a large projection of aerial footage that has been shot by pigeons equipped with lightweight digital cameras. With heavy wind and the nervous flapping of wings the viewer gets only a fractured impression, though immediately identifiable, of a political demonstration.

For the 6th ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival, Polish filmmaker Wiola Sowa have collaborated with German poet Nico Bleutge and made a film based on his poem "nicht fare".