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Lola is on the withdrawal of love. To satisfy the complaint, she cuts the throat of her bird, puts the bloodied body in the freezer and abused sexually the vacuum cleaners.

Pablo Heras-Casado leads the Orchestra and Chorus of Teatro Real de Madrid in this performance of Wagner's opera. The cast includes Samuel Youn as Der Holländer, Ingela Brimberg as Senta and Kwangchul Youn as Daland.

The balletic retelling of a mother murdering her two kids, choreographed by Renato Zanella, features music by Mikis Theodorakis in a powerful film about today's lost generation.

Kurt's life is dominated by caring for his depressed wife. The highlight of his day is that he meets a young woman jogging every morning, for whom he always waits in the same place at the same time. Over time, both Kurt's wife and the kiosk owner realize that he is stalking the blonde beauty every day.

Marktl, birthplace of Pope Benedict XVI, transforms from a quiet village to a global pilgrimage site. The film traces his early life, Marktl’s twinning with Wadowice, townspeople’s journey to St. Peter’s, gifts and celebrations in his honor, and the balance between devotion and tourism.

Gustav Mahler’s symphonies are a universe in themselves – infinitely multi-dimensional, and full of cosmic primordial power. Performances of these works are among the highlights of the Berliner Philharmoniker’s Rattle era.

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.

A virtual tour of a computer-generated desert landscape and a story of failure: In 1998, the “Oasis”, Palestine’s first casino, opened. The peace-making idea associated with this development project lost out against political reality. Game over – the oasis becomes a multifaceted fata morgana of interviews with employees, operators and guests.

A bunch of friends playing video games finds themselves in trouble when they start disappearing one by one.

Rudolf Buth, 86, leaves his 45-year-old apartment due to loneliness and moves in with Pauline Pappert and Therese Heinze, also 86, who have lived together for ten years. Initially, their different lifestyles clash, but the women win Rudolf over with empathy. Rudolf charms them, with Therese feeling the need to educate him and Pauline enjoying flirting. However, their joy is short-lived. The documentary “Ménage à trois” captures their story of finding companionship in old age.

A promise given once and a vision of a community that was upheld, lapsed. A construct of a family is about to disappear. A home is about to become a place of the past.

Two boys push their mother towards the lookout of the eiffel tower, visitors are overwhelmed by the beauty of Versailles and couples kiss on the Pont-Neuf, while a young woman gets stood up on a weekend trip to Paris.

Life in Neuperlach, a Munich suburb, is quaint. It is a safe neighborhood, where people know and greet each other. Everybody has their own backyard; single car garages are lining the narrow footpaths and everything is groomed. But for some time now that peacefulness is troubled, because refugees are supposed to move in next door. As some of the residents are afraid of the noise to be expected, they are putting up a noise protection wall. Biotope shows the life of the locals and gets to the bottom of the reason for building that wall.

A poetic testimony by Jabbar Abdullah that remembers an intact Syria. In 2011 he experienced the outbreak of war and escaped until a river led him to his new home.

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.

In Russia ladybugs are sitting on the lower third of the flag, since they are hiding there like spies in the cables of a computer. Bugs in the machine. On. Off. The mysterious bug ate the Russian Coccinellidae after they had a sexual intercourse for about 5 hours. A woman caged in her apartment. In the news they are saying no is allowed to leave the building. Ban of going out. Someone is inside. Someone is watching her.

A man, a tower of toast bread and a package of inconspicuous contents. A film that begins with a skillful exercise and ends with a treat.

A guy helps a stranger and gives him a place to stay under the condition that he would work for him. Soon his intentions become more sinister and his tasks become more sadistic.

Told in five chapters, ABSCHIEDE is a unique tale about personal loss, grief and hope, starting with a nine-year-old girl and ending with a man at the end of his life.

Two attractive young men are looking forward to their dates. But for one of them his date is going differently than planned.

"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.

The two teenagers Melek and Fabio couldn't be any more different. But they have one thing in common that brings them together: Both want to get away from home. Fabio because he is gay and Melek because her Turkish parents limit her dreams. Together they learn to face their problems. A film about understanding, being gay and migration.

Aykan Safoğlu takes his artistic friendship with Nihad Nino Pušija as the point of departure for Touching Feeling. Their friendship began in 2014 in the nGbK, an artists’ association in Berlin, where Pušija has been active since the 1990s as an artist, curator, activist, and photographer. Pušija has been recording the world around him for years with his camera: queer life in Kreuzberg, the life of the Romani in the former Yugoslavia and in German refugee shelters; everyday occurrences, but also scenes of flight and migration. Pušija’s photographs form the basis for the film; mark by mark, Safoğlu uncovers them on the black screen. The scratches on the picture’s surface turn into contours and fragments: prompting Safoğlu’s reflection on his role as observer, the defiant beauty of everyday life, and the terrible rupture that war and destruction left in their trail in the 1990s across the Balkans.

Semra Ertan was born in Turkey, 1956 and moved to her parents to the federal republic of Germany in 1972. She worked as a construction draftswomen as well as an interpreter and wrote over 350 poems.1982 Semra Ertan burnt herself in Hamburg to give a sign against racism in Germany.

The video performance "Persistent Disturbance" visualizes the three-month travel route through South America in an absurd way. At each point where the two artists paused, a short sound performance was created. The performer runs tirelessly with a horn honking through the different landscapes of the Andes. Through this experience not only the different places are shown, but at the same time an acoustic scanning of the respective places is created.

Documentary about a painter.

Frankfurter Street comes alive with painted suggestions and the sounds of a garbage man, a stray cat and a lunchtime meeting.

A musical adventure with Taymaz, Sofiia, Apsarah, Loghithan, Omar and Gabriele. Six children from Lucerne with a migration background who find a common language in classical music.

We accompany our heroes, Tim & Trixi Tropf, on their exciting journey from a rain cloud over the mountains of Lower Austria and Styria through Vienna's mountain spring pipelines to the Austrian capital. After an adventure in the bathtub, Tim & Trixi discover Vienna.

A collage of associations evoked by finds. One’s family, three different Germanys including their insidious subchapters, the taste of life. The mother used to be a passionate Chinese checkers player. On the one hand. On the other she was a tailor and fashion designer in the GDR. Her journeyman’s piece: a showpiece with piping, cording, tabs and embroidery around the neckline. One has to love this film, if only for the tender re-animation of these words we presumed obsolete. And for everything else!

During an apartment visit in East Stuttgart, three parties try to convince the broker that they're each the best candidates.

The musician Maja and her roommate Charly come in contact with a new method called 'Somnia', which makes them experience lucid dreams.

Michael Klier documents some ideas about Dresden while shooting three short films for the TV channel ARTE.