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A documentary about the tragic life of the forgotten German comedian Heino Jäger.

We are talking about pacemakers, artificial hips, defibrillators, breast implants - Germany is the leader when it comes to the installation of artificial joints and implants. But where do these products come from? Who produces and controls them? The editor meets victims of defective medical products and accompanies them in their legal disputes.

A mockumentary about german actor Volker Figge.

There is a storage room in the depot where things that are not exhibited or have been discarded are piled up. It is a cluttered archive of reticent and hidden remains interwoven with our voices. These voices are our real and imitated children’s voices that continue to haunt our bodies. We visit the ghosts of that which has been sorted out, deposited, and marginalized and take them with us into the future.

A gay short follows two best friends that go climbing in the Alps. Between the mountain tops they discover that there is more to discover, like some really nice guys.

'Life is like a movie, a movie we do not watch from the beginning' (Umberto Eco)

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

Painting, the process and what actually happens before the work is complete. Julia Benz is a young painter who has been living in Berlin for two years now. Painting is the center of her life. After several exhibits outside the capital, she is now preparing for her first solo exhibition at the Urban Spree gallery in Berlin. One person, one exhibit and everything in between. Andreas Lamoth and Frederic Leitzke from editude pictures, a film production company from Berlin, accompanied Julia Benz and her work with the canvas in the two weeks leading up to the start of her exhibition, in order to record a very important part of her artistic work: the process.

The performance Medea.Matrix is directed by Susanne Kennedy and was developed in collaboration with visual artist Markus Selg. They break through the traditional Medea interpretations and create their own universe of theater and art installation. The show is a co-production with the Vienna Festival. It is a multimedia solo performance performed by the German actress Birgit Minichmayr. Ammodo supports Medea.Matrix to contribute to the creation of new work by Susanne Kennedy.

Queens of Botswana shows three very different women whose lives have been touched by their love for Heavy Metal, engaged by their involvement with the Marok - as the metal scene calls itself - and infused with their need to be more.

Myself tries to quit smoking.

An intimate and minimalistic approach allows us to witness the daily routine of Mrs. Loosli in her home in the Swiss Mountains.

Animals in factory farming are susceptible to disease. This is why antibiotics are used. This massive use leads to the development of more and more germs that become resistant to antibiotics. This means that even more antibiotics have to be administered. A vicious circle. Antibiotics and resistant germs also reach humans through the consumption of meat. In the event of illness, or even an emergency, it is becoming increasingly difficult for doctors to find medication for patients, as widespread resistance has already developed.

A boy is late for school and embarks, by chance, on a quest for self-knowledge that makes him reflect on belonging, acceptance, and the price of being different.

In the middle of the countryside, young rider Anna has been desperately trying to educate her horse for the upcoming riding tournament. But Jumper, the untamed horse, just throws everyone off. When Anna's father plans to sell Jumper, Anna decides to run away with him, and so begins an exciting story of friendship with lots of surprises and adventure...

Documentary about art performances during the demonstrations against the G20 summit in Hamburg 2017.

Germans in Poland? For many in Germany, this does not sound like the European present, but rather like the past, after war and expulsion, after political and ideological disputes. In fact, German-Polish relations are often still overshadowed by the past, especially by the Second World War, which began exactly 70 years ago with the invasion of the Wehrmacht. Yet a surprising European success story has taken place in western Poland, in the former German Silesia, in recent years.

Katharina Gruzei combines a sociopolitical issue and a precise formal concept, which is rare in experimental film. Inspired by the Lumière brothers’ first film, La sortie de l’usine Lumière à Lyon, which shows a large number of workers leaving their factory’s gate, Gruzei begins in the interior, in a passageway (made to seem incredibly long by the editing) that emerges from the darkness. Solely portions of the corridor — a production line at the closed Austria Tabak factory — flash into view in the buzzing neon light. The impressive sound and choreography of light were taken from an installation by the artist in the empty spaces.

Every child in Switzerland is familiar with the red and white rescue helicopters. Far less well known are Rega's ambulance jets, which are also in daily use. "Rega 1414 – The Movie" shows rescue operations up close, from the emergency call to the rescue.

A publication offering a selective retrospective of the work of photographer and filmmaker Friedl Kubelka – known as a filmmaker under the name of Friedl vom Gröller.

After eating a mysterious jar of pickled fruit from the 1800s, a curmudgeonly woman transforms into a hideous and bloodthirsty granny hellbent on wreaking havoc on the criminals and lowlifes in her neighborhood.

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.

An 80’s giallo slasher set in the city of Berlin.

A lonesome hunter, a wildlife photographer, and a camera in the woods that took one photo too much.

Everyday objects and movements are employed as cinematographic mechanisms.

J. S. Bach motets, sinfonias and cantate performed by the Tölzer Knabenchor and the Concentus Musicus Wien and conducted by Stefan Gottfried in Melk Parish Church, Lower Austria on 5 June 2017.

Some want to create cities the world has never seen before: futuristic and as sustainable as possible. Others are calling for radical change, wanting to prevent new construction and demolition wherever possible. Architecture and urban planning are facing their greatest challenge ever: they must save nothing less than the world.

An experimental shortfilm poetry about the symbiotic relationship between human and bicycle. There are three states of riding a bicycle: The bicycle as a spaceship, as a body machine and as a time machine.

At original locations, in historic S-Bahn trains, with experts and eyewitnesses who experienced the fear of the S-Bahn murderer in darkened Berlin, the case of Paul Ogorzow and its significance for criminal investigation and police research in Europe is revisited and presented.

Schüttiman, a Hamburg superhero who gained powers after falling into a beer barrel as a child and learned to fly from a duck, must rise from his comfortable life to thwart a threat against the Elbphilharmonie.

Recent Super 8 films selected for Media City by Helga Fanderl, including a short tribute to Peter Hutton. Der Augenblick ist mein is borrowed from a poem by Andreas Gryphius. Karussell (Carousel), Wasserpflanzen (Water Plants), Blätter auf dem Glasdach (Leaves on a Glass Roof), Gespiegelt (Mirrored), Blütenbaum (Blossom Tree), Imkerschule (Beekeeping School), Pleinair Fotos (Plein-air Photos), Mimosen im Wind (Mimosa in the Wind), Für P. (For P.)

When a disillusioned Turkish man joins a far-right German party out of curiosity and defiance toward his Turkish immigrant community, he finds himself facing a series of provocative and absurd tests set by the party’s skeptical leader in a darkly comedic challenge of his loyalties and beliefs.