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The two young teenage friends Hamama and Caluna have left everything behind to flee their home country and ended up stranded in a camp in northern Italy. One day, they decide to cross the closed border into Switzerland under cover of darkness by going over the Alps.

Frau Maria is the last employee of Stastny Fabrics, a shop in the former textile district in the heart of Vienna. While she prepares bales of fabric for the clearance sale in premises that have gone unchanged for decades, she tells of better times, when business flourished and work was a pleasure. She removes the company nameplate and locks the shop for the last time: With it a part of Vienna’s Jewish history disappears.

In one week increments, Yves Paradis worked on an unscripted, improvised animation, starting only with the concept of a character pushing a big cube in the desert. The result is an unexpected science fiction adventure into a distant future of mankind.

After midnight. On July 7 and 8, 2017, the filmmaker cycles through Sternschanze. He lingers under the Sternbrücke bridge, passes the Pferdemarkt, and slowly rides up Schulterblatt, past the Rote Flora, where he gets a flat tire and comes to a stop in front of the railway bridge. The G20 summit viewed from its end.

This film illustrates the thoughts of a man living in social isolation.

Moping around during his vertical journeys, an elevator boy can’t help but having highs and lows. Prepare for a very dark farce.

Looking for a deeper meaning to his life, Ralf makes connections to Germany's underground techno scene and has the summer of his life.

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

September 18, 2015: The U.S. EPA announces that VW has been cheating on the prescribed emissions test for years through electronic manipulation. A total of eleven million vehicles are affected. A storm of indignation rages, a scandal with a history. How could this happen? The documentary takes a look behind the scenes of the German company.

Her love conquers what's belonging to her.

On the subject of circuses during wartime, illustrations and more are shown.

Following the traces of Jürgenssen’s path through the final years of World War II (from Hungary to Italy, and later denazification in Upper Austria, where he got married), Olger visits sites and speaks to witnesses from the period when Olaf Jürgenssen was part of the German war crimes, even if his photos seem to suggest that he was there in all innocence. In a video interview before his death his grandfather remains vague and deflects questions. Nils Olger’s pointed conclusion from his somber and calm film about history, memory and denialism: “What will I remember of my grandfather? Negatives.” (Bert Rebhandl)

Documentary film.

The big day has come. Grandpa Herbert Maibach has become obsolete. Spending the last years in a coma, he didn’t exactly cover himself in glory. The family gathers to say their goodbyes. Easier said than done…

The show #HarrydieEhre is the second programme of the successful comedy breakthrough Harry G and was recorded live in winter 2017 at the sold-out Circus Krone in Munich. Wannabes and trends are the target of his programme, he dissects them without regard for losses as passionately as unabashedly and does not stop at his audience in the process. Is brunch a man's job? Meat or vegetables? Single or in a relationship? Which dating portal? Harry G answers all these questions and many more openly, honestly and... very subjective. If you think you're cool because you own rollerblades, run to theme parties in white clothes or post your food on Facebook, you're wrong: Here he will be proven wrong.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel condemned far-right protesters who were "hunting down" foreigners in street mobs following the killing of a German man, allegedly by a Syrian and an Iraqi. The far-right movement PEGIDA called for demonstrations for a second straight day after a gathering of around 800 people in the city of Chemnitz in the country's ex-communist east degenerated into violent chaos, forcing police to call in reinforcements.

Every year more than 3000 mostly young Germans travel to Africa in order to complete a voluntary service of several months in an organization or in a project. The motivation of the travelers is different. It is mostly their personal experiences, stories and reports that shape the public image of volunteer services in Africa. But what do the guides on site think about the coming and going of the German guests? What visible and invisible traces do volunteers leave behind in the projects from the perspective of people living on site? In the perspective-rich documentation, people in South Africa, Ghana and Gambia describe their perspectives and experiences with German volunteers. An exciting film about the diversity and complexity of encounters in context of voluntary service.

Five friends decide to establish a mafia network in their provincial town but encounter several obstacles, including personal greed, love and existing drug networks within the first weeks of their venture.

Most people play it for fun, to them it’s a deadly serious matter. A small group of professional players from all over the country gather in Amriswil to crown the Swiss Minigolf Champion. Among them is the young and extremely ambitious Maja as well as Jörg, one of the most experienced players of the tournament. Far away from everyday life, the players need nerves of steel and a knack for selecting the right balls to deserve a place on the podium.

A little girls fantasy runs wild as she reenacts Mexican telenovelas she's watched on tv.

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+!

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.

Live at Lollapalooza, Berlin (Germany). Noonday Dream Tour 2018.

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.

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.

Despite her advanced age, an elderly woman overcomes her fear of the water to learn how to swim.

She opens her arms wide: Crossing from an unbearable reality to the world of magic sometimes takes only the snap of a finger, sometimes several press-ups.

Short film set in Nuremberg

The terms of the human and the lie are treated philosophically via a read text. Definitions connect and question things. In addition hypnotically rotating orchids.

a conversation, wordless… a dialogue… extended time…