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A commissioned piece for the project 100x100=900 (100 video artists to tell a century).

Her teacher dies in a fall from the school stairs and bequeaths Wake a mysterious chest, the contents of which lead her, Chao and Ace on the trail of a mysterious legend and into a nerve-wracking adventure.

The story of a journey through the eastern United States to various places that share the same name: Vienna. It's the charm of the everyday that accompanies the road trip to remote areas of rural America, far removed from politics and crisis.

Air To Breathe is a film about a group of militant workers inside the Opel car plant in Bochum, Germany. The group was founded in 1972, initially with the help of revolutionaries from the 1968 movement. For over 40 years, the group fought for better working conditions inside the plant. Over time, their incessant rank-and-file activism made the workers in Bochum the most radical in the entire German metal sector: Opel Bochum saw several wildcat strikes, and a persistent and successful fight for the reduction of daily working time. The group even attempted to build up direct links between different workforces of General Motors in Europe to fight back against the raise to the bottom of wages and working conditions in a situation of worldwide competition for investments amongst GM plants. Their activities culminated in a six days wildcat strike in 2004.

Major Luna jumps towards the moon. In a swimming pool she acts out her dreams to float weightlessly in space.

“I’m not in the picture!” The grandmother is sure the filmmaker has positioned the camera wrong. The old lady vigorously defends her image of herself against her granddaughter, who wants to learn more about her flight from Hungary to Austria. In a dialogue characterized by friction and intimacy, they reveal the way families pass on their history from one generation to the next, and how it works its way into the core of relationships.

"At the end of the rainbow you will find a treasure – it will completely change your life.“ Whoever tries to find the end of the rainbow will realise things are not that easy - the end of the rainbow is not a fixed point. Also, Yusuf, Ritah and William had to make this experience in their lives – just like many LGBT* refugees. The film tells the story of their journey. A journey from Uganda to Germany, a story of violence, hope, disappointments, and everyone's personal rainbow.

HF792 - Super 8 (Color) film by Helga Fanderl

The cargo ship MS Valentina covers 1640 danube kilometers on its route from Linz, Austria to Russe, Bulgaria. It crosses through seven countries while doing so. The River as an „European Road“ is full of opposites and differences.

Director Eva Stotz visits people she has found in online host networks such as Couchsurfing.org and immerses herself in their lives for a limited period of time: her inspiring hosts are a music-loving Tuareg in Mali, a wildlife lover in Tokyo, an ecologist in the Palestinian West Bank, a dance enthusiast in Turkey and a visionary in the USA. The film discovers an exciting new way of traveling and tells of the longing for genuine encounters and an alternative to fear, isolation and mistrust in the modern world.

While cycling through a dark forest at night, a young boy is visited by der Erlkönig, a harbinger of death. He asks for his father to save him but the father can't see the Erlkönig and there is nothing to stop the approach of death.

For decades, the 'Legionaries of Christ' appeared mainly as a globally acting and rapidly growing community that is very loyal to the Pope. Especially due to their success among the young, many conservative Catholic circles considered the movement a convincing answer to the crisis of faith in the Western world. After an unparalleled abuse scandal surrounding the Mexican founder of the order, however, overall enthusiasm has cooled noticeably. Nevertheless, the remaining members still believe in the validity of the movement's original mission. Even in an increasingly skeptical environment they continue spreading a message that is inspired by a radical faith. The film follows the work of the Legionaries in Germany, thereby giving a rare insight into the mindset and survival strategies of a specific Catholic worldview.

Chika the dog and the five-year old Mikasch live in a Jewish ghetto in an unnamed Polish city. The little dog helps Mikasch to develop as a child despite the persecution of the Jews by the Germans.

Shining a light on what is generally perceived as the losing side in the political and social upheavals of the past two decades, marxism today is an ongoing project that began by following the fortunes of Marxist-Leninist teachers in the former Communist East Germany. Collins’ short film marxism today (prologue) (2010) mixes contemporary interviews with the ex-teachers alongside archive material, to form the centrepiece of this exhibition, which also includes a new video in which a number of concepts central to Marxist economic analysis are introduced to a new generation of students. Relocating from the start of this school year to Manchester, where Engels wrote The Condition of the Working Class in England, Collins’ project prompts a wider reflection on the city’s formative place in the history of radical thinking. Initiating a series of interactions with nearby schools and the local public, it also enquires into the continuing relevance of Marxist ideas in the present day.

A documentary about a family of four generations in Flossenbürg, a village in the Upper Palatinate in Bavaria. The film shows in quiet observations the lives of the village residents and the coexistence of housewife and mother Kerstin and her daughter Lena.

A young woman wakes up in the middle of the night to find an intruder kneeling over her, pressing a pillow over her face. Drenched in sweat, she startles awake—it was only a dream. But when she falls back asleep, the nightmare continues. Helplessly at the mercy of the stranger, she desperately tries to find her way back to reality. But what is dream and what is reality?

A portrait of the Berlin cult football club - 1. FC Union and its supporters.

After six years in exile, Harry returns from Hallig Hooge to Hamburg to settle unpaid bills in the neighborhood, which has now changed - he gets beaten up by the Russian mafia. As a result of his defeat, he discovers his hidden talent as a singer in a karaoke bar, and finds a new path in his home town.

Embedded in marble on a pedestal, an iPod shows the phrase "Ne me quitte pas" [Don't leave me] being tattooed on a man's shoulder, while Jacques Brel's song of the same title plays throughout. A poisoned gift to a lover with the intention to manipulate them to stay? Or a moment of anguish and abandonment? Khaled's work embodies the violence and fragility of failed relationships and puts the universal experience of heartbreak literally on a pedestal. (Bozar, Brussels)

Investigates how the multi-billion-dollar weight-loss industry systematically buys scientific research and uses it in its favor.

A youth theatre group in Berlin prepares to play "Brundibar", an opera the Nazis premiered with the children of Theresienstadt concentration camp.

BIG EARTH follows on from the story of HOTEL CALIFORNIA, takes up the theme of solidarity and tells how young people come together, dance, make music, fall in love and break up again. It tells of temptation, dreams, power and powerlessness, allows different languages to have their say, different cultures to appear and finally opens the stage for the unique big show, where everyone finds each other again, united under the globe.

An art student writes a letter to the socio-economic system she has experienced and in which she is trying to find her place as a student today. In doing so, her desires and needs come to light, seeking to restore balance in this one-sided relationship between a man-made construct and human beings.

Experience the fall of the Third Reich like never before, the last year of the war and the liberation of Europe from Nazi rule. Documented up close by the most courageous cameramen of their time and uniquely edited. The most authentic documentary about the fall of Hitler's Germany, over ninety minutes of brilliant HD color footage with impressive original commentary from the time.

Looking at the Nazi horrors through the eyes of an artist who draws portaits of children killed in concentration camps to keep their memory allive.

How do you introduce a werewolf to your family? And how do you prevent that the postman gets devoured? Tom has to realize that living with his new girlfriend, Lauri, is different to many other couples. Inside of the lovely, young woman naps a beast that breaks out at night to follow the call of nature.

Recordings of elephants in the wild and various graphs lain atop.

For four years, German engineers have been working on a gigantic construction project in Saudi Arabia: installing the workings six hundred meters up in the largest clock tower in the world. How did they manage it?

A man has been kidnapped. He is being tortured.

2016 documentary on the Tölz Boys' Choir, based in Munich, which produces the world's most sought-after boy soloists.

The Esso buildings, including the eponymous petrol station and strip mall, are exemplary of a displacement process that is not only taking place in St. Pauli. In 2009, a large real estate company bought the ensemble of buildings typical of post-war modernism, whose previous owner had failed to meet the maintenance obligations. An initiative of residents and neighbours formed against the investor's new construction plans, and artistic actions such as the »Echohäuser« song and its accompanying music video made the protest widely known. The houses were demolished in 2014, and despite a self-organized planning process, they left behind nothing but a gaping hole.

The film situates the action in the street: the video tells the story of a passer-by who becomes witness of a series of events without ever becoming part of things. Like Alice from Lewis Carroll’s novel, who maintains her position as observer and tries to understand the functioning of a world which is alien, here the protagonist plays the role of spectator, exactly as the viewers in the exhibition – strangers from another world. The work also investigates the idea of timelessness, as usual in von Brandenburg’s practice, which – as the artist herself has stated – attempts “to situate the action out of time and play with different epochs”.

A film about five young German politicians aged 25 to 32, who are elected for the first time into the German Parliament, the Bundestag: a physicist from Leipzig, a pianist from Ingolstadt, an architect from Forchheim, a lawyer from Ludwigsburg and a graduated lawyer from Oberhausen. Their legislative period started in 2009 and will end in 2013. What do they expect to happen in Berlin? What are their ideas and maybe doubts? How will their lives change now that they are part of "important politics"? Can they live up to their own resolutions? Can they change something or will they just blend in? How do they experience democracy in their home country? What kind of success or disappointments will they experience?

A nun guide at the art gallery, accompanied by the sound of her throat-clearing.

A killer enters someone's home to kill them.

Shiny supermarkets stand next to dilapidated factory buildings in the Bulgarian city of Pernik, one of the Balkans once most important industrial areas. The film tells stories of intense historical transformations and economic crises, through the experiences of people who lived through an industrial rise and an industrial decline.