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A documentary about art movement ZERO.

The bus stop becomes the coaching zone of a football match. In the end, a well-deserved victory awaits.

The spirits that I called… In her video work Lip Sync 2015, Julia Scher shines a light on the contradictory feelings that arise in the face of 21st century surveillance – from voluntary posing in front of the camera to the desperate and hopeless attempt to flee back into the private sphere.

Triptych collage film regarding the history of revolution.

There are thousands of them. Children. Aged between nine and sixteen. They come to Europe from the middle East and Africa, and now they are on the move across our continent – alone, with no adults to accompany them. A blot on European immigration policy. Of all people, minors whose young age should guarantee them special protection and speedy integration into the new society, slip effortlessly through the net of the inadequate security afforded by European asylum procedures, escape to wherever they can, and are easy prey for criminals both from their own home countries and from Europe. Since the beginning of 2014 at least two hundred thousand unaccompanied child migrants have managed to cross Europe's borders. But according to the authorities, at least ten thousand of them have simply vanished en route. These are children, and one estimate of unreported cases puts the figure at twice or even three times that. Who are these children, and how did they manage to make themselves invisible?

A punk boidyke, handcuffed, facing the wall in a sparse, empty room, breathes heavily with anxiety and expectation. And anxious she should be, for the rough treatment she will face in the 13 minutes that follow! The film is a contribution to much-needed lesbian visibility – conveying a proud and unashamed image of dyke eroticism and BDSM – also at the age of 50+!

In May 2008, Cyclone Nargis hit Myanmar's Ayeyarwaddy Delta, claiming 140,000 lives. Despite a filming ban, young Burmese filmmakers clandestinely visited devastated villages after the storm, capturing surreal scenes of loss and resilience. Their emotional footage reveals the profound impact of Nargis, depicting a world where life and death intertwine, altering countless lives forever. For security reasons, the filmmakers couldn't reveal their names and they used pseudonyms. But for the first time, they screened the film with their real names at the 2nd Wathann Film Festival in 2012.

My short films are like little drawing scribbles so I call them "film-scribbles". In this movie I put the camera on a tripod and start doing a performance naked in the bathroom. I try to expand my movement in cooperation with the speed of the camera to create a new dimension of body space.

The film tells the story of the miraculous transformation of celebrity lawyer Ülo Salm. Once a representative of the rich and famous, he was later accused of large-scale fraud and sentenced to more than five years in prison after 14 months on remand. He wants to change his life. In America, he revisits his happy student days. His wife Constanze Salm von Rohn, who has since divorced him, runs a boutique and also works as a top gossip journalist.

Patrons of a restaurant wait patiently for their meal while two chefs dismember, mutilate and cook people in a variety of gory culinary ways before finally serving it to the hungry patrons awaiting their dinner.

A couple fucking.

The clatter of sewing machines, the clatter of memories. In 1987, the Saxon town of Werdau was looking for workers for the textile industry. Due to full employment, the jobs were advertised in Vietnam, as was customary in the GDR at the time. Many came, and some stayed.

St. Pauli, the traditional district of Hamburg is changing. Local resident Johannes Neinens embarks on a journey through his own district to find out why everyone here has a different opinion.

On a quiet empty street, in a beautifully serene and clear night, a solitary young man is stalked by a nightmarish slender demon which lurks in the shadows.

The countryside in Lukas Marxt’s and Jakub Vrba’s film is, in any case, as the original title says, ruhig gelegen (secluded). At first, not much can be heard apart from the chirping of birds and sounds of the wind. The buzzing of airplane motors then mixes in, and sounds that must come from the man behind the camera. This reference to a human presence in an otherwise seemingly lonely stretch of land is concentrated in instructions that one of the filmmakers calls out to the other from off screen.

The installations exhibition was part of a series organized by Galerie Vayhinger revolving around the German concept of ‘heimat’ - the area in which someone was born or had their early formative experiences. Considering the artists’ far-flung locations it was decided that the gallery’s locale should provide them with a ‘temporary heimat’. The Mindelsee lake situated just a few hundred yards away from the gallery became the natural focus of the installation. During their stay, Sabine and Rutger recorded the video and audio footage that became the foundation which Steve Roden responded to with material inspired by his surroundings in the US. It resulted in an immersive four-channel audio-visual presentation, in a gallery space also showing additional visual works by each of the artists, and the floor covered with dried leaves.

In the highlands of Tigray - northern Ethiopia - on the edge of the escarpment that descends steeply to the Danakil dessert, Hagos Mashisho and Desta Gidey have toiled and struggled for years to turn the rugged slopes of the East African Rift Valley into fertile ground. They have grown crops here not only to feed themselves and their family, but also to share with others, in particular the pilgrims who regularly pass by on their way to the monastery of Gundagundo. Touched by the kindness of their hosts, the pilgrims have given them the biblical names "Abraham" and "Sarah". The film explores the work ethos and grace of these Tigrean farmers: the cheerful mood with which they do what needs to be done; the devotedness to the tasks at hand; the coordinated movements of humans and animals as they work when ploughing, sowing, harvesting, threshing; - and finally those moments of invocation when the dependence on nature and the transcendent are acknowledged.

A boy and a girl are on a date in a movie theatre and dream of being a couple, but then reality strikes back.

On December 21, 2017, the writer Heinrich Böll would have turned 100. In the Federal Republic, Böll, who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1972, was tremendously present and well-known. His criticism of media hectoring, his commitment to peace and his solidarity with the weaker made him, the writer, a kind of moral authority. Whoever wants to get to know him anew today - 33 years after his death - discovers a personality with amazingly modern, timelessly topical sides, with themes and concerns that today, far more than 30 years after his death, have a completely new meaning again: Anti-fascism, pacifism, the fight against media agitation, personal freedom, solidarity and comprehensive humanity. In Tina Srowig's documentary, Böll's son René, his publisher Reinhold Neven DuMont and friends and companions recall important stages, great successes, turbulent conflicts and very human, moving and amusing moments in the writer's life.

Emails to My Little Sister is an anthropologically intended film created as part of an MA thesis project concerning the phenomenology of Blackness in Berlin. The film, however, takes place in Ethiopia where becoming Black is reflected back on in siblings’ email conversations.

Named after its setting, the French river Vidourle, Yalda Afsah’s film documents a strange and subtly unnerving choreography, capturing a group of young men performing what could be a ritual, a spectacle, a game, or a fight. In their collective movements as well as individual moments of concentration, anticipation and occasional forlornness, the adrenalin-fuelled adolescent protagonists seem to embody the frailty of the human condition awaiting an environmental change, much like an unexpectedly forceful current in a river.

Wake, Chao and Ace want to go on a trip during their summer vacation, but their vacation spot turns out to be a half-abandoned, mysterious town that is filled with creepy sailor stories and seems to harbor an ancient secret.

Originally intended as a four-room media installation, allowing the viewer to "live" the film, come and go, Michael Pilz's essay about South Styrian painter Gerald Brettschuh was adapted to one 751 minutes sequential documentary with three parts and an epilogue. Part 1: The Use of Bodies, Part 2: As-If-Not, Part 3: The Party, Epilogue: Coda

When a young gay man has to cope with a terminal diagnosis, his life and home fall into chaos.

Jolanda and Hendrik are a couple. They have very close relationship. Hendrik is her favorite coat to put on. We see a day in their life.

An emotional documentary about the relationship between Kurt and his husband Toon as well as the history of gay rights in Germany and Austria.

When trying to drink away a heartbreak, things happen at night, that one doesn’t remember the next day...

The staff of the Berlin based movie theatre Babylon unites for better working conditions. A look behind the scenes of a collective action analyzing the increasing exploitation in a modern cultural industry.