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A collective movie by students from Hamburg about the problems of the publicly funded German public television...

Don't look down Loch Änzi or you might turn into a ghost.

Documentary about a road being built in the Amazonian rainforest, and the effect it has on the native population.

The tourist route leads via Lviv to Kyiv. We meet people who tell us about the current situation in Ukraine. Glimpses of everyday life. Tradition next to modernity. This world seems light and free to us. Nevertheless, we see hints of a dark past everywhere. The view becomes very clouded when we leave the cities and take excursions into the surrounding area. Not so long ago, there were completely different people here. A trail of unbelievable crimes.

Documentary about a noise musician.

Elke Marhöfer's observational essay takes its title from a Korean Pansori song. One of three musical interludes performed in the film, this song tells the story of a turtle locked in a futile circle of evasion with a hungry tiger. Marhöfer's film is concerned with the formal attributes of Pansori music – its traditions of storytelling and the transmittance of an alternative knowledge. The film journeys through natural landscapes, small town streets, forested mountains and busy shipping channels as it looks at the divide between the traditional and the modern. Shot in 16mm, this measured and lyrical film is an exploration into the boundaries between humans, animals and things.

"Pastiche of a Vermeer painting and the ongoing theaters of war."

Short film of a man performing surgery on his arm.

Karl wants to start over. After he is released from prison, his only wish is to go underground and put his past behind him. However, his former companion Arnold puts a spoke in his wheel. He wants the money back that Karl stole from him before he was caught. At first Karl is not very impressed, but when Arnold uses Sarah, an important person in Karl's life, as a bargaining chip, Karl is forced to act.

On Our Own We Are Free To Do Many Things ocuses on the construction of the Romanian Palace of the Parliament (known as the Casa Poporului); the heaviest, most expensive and largest civilian administrative building in the world manically commissioned by Nicolae Ceauşescu in the 1980s. The film considers the problem of making a redundant legacy workable, such as the Casa Poporului that Ceauşescu left behind – too big to demolish, too big to utilise.

Social hotspots can be found everywhere. Recognizing this, rapper Carlos Zamora started his project Rapflektion in Braunschweig and the surrounding area, to educate teenagers to communicate responsibly, respectfully and without violence through rap. For the past seven years he has been travelling to Latin American countries known for their drug cartels and violence. Other than church initiatives, Zamora's rap workshops for disadvantaged youth are frequently the only projects available for these teenagers.

Sunday, August 13, 1961 Since early morning, the pavement in the heart of Berlin has been torn up. Construction workers have begun erecting a 43-kilometer-long inner-city wall. West Berliners stand stunned on one side, East Berliners on the other, facing each other at the sector border. The entire city is in shock. Citizens take their cameras and video recorders out of their closets and document the events. From then on, many Berliners and visitors to Berlin produce their own documentaries about life in a changed city.

The video Sugar & Salt shows a mother and daughter who are licking sugar and salt from each other's tongues. Sugar being licked and consumed off the mother's tongue and salt off the daughter's tongue. The backdrop is of a romanticized ornamental pattern. The scenery acts as a vanishing point for the camera lens, at the same time the pattern creates a border between the two generations.

The story of an old, lonesome talisman-writer, who earns his money with prophecy and has already lost the hope for acknowledgement in life, but suddenly finds himself as a messiah as a result of the rumours in the village.

a conversation, wordless… a dialogue… extended time…

Using the example of Hamburg's Bahnhofviertel St.Georg, the film depicts a development that is often observed in large cities: A district, formerly considered dirty and criminally, is suddenly "discovered" by wealthier sections of the population. As a result, dilapidated apartment buildings are being renovated and divided into condominiums, rental prices are rising, shops are also becoming more chic and expensive. In the course of this "upgrading", the previous social structures are dissolving, long-established residents are visibly displaced. The film has a say to long-standing tenants and traders, prostitutes and activists of the "Recht auf Stadt" network as well as investors and urban planners who talk about their ideas and goals for St. Georg.

Miriam sends an email to a counseling center. An email that tells a painful story. A story of everyday racism. A story that happens every day in Germany. Through Miriam's personal perspective, the film addresses her feelings of powerlessness, her pain, and her questions.

A sensitive portrait of the Sorbian composer Juro Mětšk (1954–2022).

My fathers moves to another flat and wants to sell his vinyl collection after decades of passionate collecting. A conversation between father and son, respectively documentary-film protagonist and filmmaker covers reflections about collecting.

Two kids get into a fight until they magically get teleported away

When i was young i always wanted to have a dog, but we couldn't afford it. so i just bought me a bag, that's quite the same. so come on little baggy, let's go for a walk. An experiment, "environ-mental", in the best sense, a film about what surrounds us, about imagination and perception that can become reality.

Former fighters of the Colombian FARC guerilla report in letters on their most formative experiences from their time in the armed underground. University students from three continents adapt these personal memories in a parallel collective process to develop a touching film whose visual joy of experimentation is impressive.

The K.I.Z concert at Splash! 2014.

Wolfgang Tillmans performs an absolute bop in this combination of two videos recorded in Tehran and Los Angeles.

The first documentary focusing exclusively on the situation of lesbians in Poland.

Documentary by Eckhart Schmidt.

"Portavoce" (Megaphone) traces back the evolution of a culture of protest in Romania, developing in recent years, through the voices and opinions of key actors involved in social mobilization, in direct actions and in the development of a cultural scene favorable to political involvement.

The German football club EINTRACHT FRANKFURT is set to celebrate its 120th anniversary in the Commerzbank Arena (stadium) in the most extraordinary and unprecedented settings on Saturday, June 29th, 2019. Together with the hr-Sinfonieorchester and many other artists, the club is set to embark on a unique journey back through time, and through their history. There will be musical highs and lows, in the style of the "moody diva". Also, the thrash metal legends TANKARD will perform the club’s anthem 'Schwarz-weiß wie Schnee' together with the Sinphony-Orchestra, for the first time.

The old-turned-scientist tells in the form of his Vlog about the frightening development of his self-built AI. In the end, the prospect emerges that it may even have developed its own consciousness.