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CHAIRITY is the television report of a journalist obsessed with a savior complex, who wants to draw attention to the suffering of her protagonists. With all filmic means she tries to artificially create drama and to frame her interview partners as pitiful victims. But latest in the interviews her clichéd ideas collide with reality.
“FILMMAKERS ON HOLD” is a documentary film that celebrates the incredible individuals behind independent filmmaking in New York City. Filmed between March 2020 and March 2022, the film offers a unique perspective on the industry professionals. Through a series of personal stories, it delves into the passion, creativity, and resourcefulness of this community as they navigate the challenges and opportunities. The film also raises important questions about the future of the film industry as it continues to evolve, particularly in the wake of the challenges posed by the pandemic and lockdown.
Super 8 (Black & White) film by Helga Fanderl
A short film following a small-time drug dealer whose failure to collect payment from a junkie triggers a chain of violence, double-crosses, and shifting loyalties.
Spring, 2022. Russian troops begin their destructive conquest of the coastal city of Mariupol, on the Sea of Azov. In this film, survivors from war-torn Mariupol recount their traumatic experiences. It is the story of a crime against humanity, told from the survivors' point of view.
Good friends are there for each other. Looking after your friends‘ apartment while they‘re gone is no problem at all. Are the lights switched off? Sure. The dog has to go outside? Not a problem. Emptying out the mailbox? Emptied out already. Watering the plants.. Wait what?
For more and more people, food not only has to be tasty and healthy, but also good for the climate. Five alternatives to classic foods are being put to the test. Can they meaningfully supplement our diet? This documentary goes in search of answers with the vegan star chef Ricky Saward and health experts Irina Blumenstein, Sandra Ulrich-Rückert and Margareta Büning-Fesel.
Two applicants waiting for an interview start a fight, only to realize that they have more in common than they first thought.
Filmed at the Zeiss planetarium in Berlin, Musicverse features concerts accompanied by AI-generated projections in real time. Mogli, a versatile artist from Berlin, plunges the audience into a surprising psychedelic world.
About the courage to refuse the war and to desert, the power of staying true to oneself and a vision that has changed the Federal Republic of Germany. 30 000 deserters were sentenced to death during World War II. One of them is Ludwig Baumann. He survives death row, concentration camp and Eastern Front. But after the war the punishment of Nazi military justice remains valid in german democracy. He starts to fight: all sentences of the Nazi military justice especially the death sentences against the deserters have to be repealed. At least he succeeded: in 2002, almost 60 years after the end of the war, the death sentences of the Nazi military justice against them are lifted. A tribute to humanity and against war.
An almost deserted diner in the middle of the port. The owner, Violeta, dreams of a life that could have been different. She employs her niece, Maria, a radical passivist who steers away from any drive or ambition. Between chores and cigarette breaks, they talk about the future. As the day goes by, they witness one love story dying out while another is trying to be born.
'How are you' asks the voice in his ear. 'Okay' Lars answers to avoid the question. The artificial intelligence seems to understand him and tries to help. A group of men. They have identical tents and the same voice in their ear. A post-humanist gaze into the forest.
Mysterious creatures swarm through the night, attracted by the light of the lanterns.
It is an charming story about the little fan who is on a quest. But where it is most beautiful, unexpected things happen.
A filmmaker suffers from a creative slump and has experiences that blur the boundaries of reality. On this journey, she stumbles upon a dark little truth that triggers her inspiration.
The protagonist is haunted by cruel forces. Or is it all just a bad dream?
Walter shows himself and his apartment.
The film deals with the decades-long development of the legal prosecution of the crimes committed in Auschwitz, using the last trials as a mirror of the first Auschwitz trials in the 1960s.
It considers the mundane poetry of casual sex. Here, Lutz arrives at Holger’s apartment for a hook-up.
For little money, a used kitchen worktop changes its owner and environment. Starting at the older, refurbished middle-class buildings of Prenzlauer Berg, going past the hip ice cream parlours with tussled Hawaiian sunshades, a boy and a woman in her twenties are carrying the newly purchased and slightly dilapidated worktop to the fringes of Berlin. The high summer midday heat makes the sweat roll into their eyes and the noise of the construction sites swallows the last speech fragments as the lines of cars pushes them into ever smaller corridors. Three Trees Don’t Make a Forest subtly describes a classist and neoliberal city architecture which develops a centrifugal force that inevitably pushes the precariously living inhabitants to the outside.
Silvia and Birgit have never met, but they live similar lives: both work over 15 hours a day and give everything to their regular customers. For decades, they have been the proud owners of their own “Trinkhalle” in the deepest Ruhr area.
At the peak of the Christmas holidays, an old double bass player reminisces about his time as a struggling jazz musician in Berlin.
Female ejaculation in a (animated) nutshell.
A contemporary portrait of the German-Chinese fashion designer William Fan. Between escapism and realism, his story reflects the social conflicts of our time and provides insights into the world of fashion, which is characterized by contrasts and change.
An exploration of the entanglements and overlaps of historical events, past present and future, in the Atacama Desert, in Chile. Told from the perspective of the wind the film takes us on a visual journey, moving freely through the many sites and histories of the Atacama, from some of the largest lithium mines in the world, to prehistoric stone drawings; hovering above the remnants of colonial labour camps later reactivated under Pinochet’s regime, and slipping in the international observatory of the ALMA large array facility.
A woman decides to take part in a psychiatric trial of a prototype capable of reading emotions through neurotransmitters. The inventor and doctor in charge will take her to the breaking point where she will unleash some unexpected inner powers...
TO THE BODY is an ode to resilience, a raw and poetic manifesto of how anxiety and depression is lived in the flesh. From the drama and thriller genre, the short film TO THE BODY tells the story of a woman around her mid 30s who is dealing secretly with anxiety and depression. The entire film is structured in constant loops, reinforced by routine, normal scenarios, close to the single and main character, to denote how centered in her mind she is and how overwhelmingly repetitive her thoughts become. Throughout the film, the main character shows physical symptoms, expressed with contemporary dance gestures, in the search for self-improvement and healing. A call from her body, while feeling and validating every emotion that passes through it, to transcend the mind and come back to the body. This film was made with the main objective of giving shape and body to all the emotions silenced by those people who have suffered and currently suffer from depression or anxiety.
In 1942 there was war almost everywhere: people who experienced that year, women, men and children, mostly civilians, tell about it in the six-part documentary series "1942. Tales of War". Letters, diaries, biographies and testimonies handed down orally bring to life the lives of those people who were shaped by the war.
A eight-inch robot must face off against its competitor, a tomcat, and save a young girl from being attacked by a monstrous machine.
In the following movie, a companies goal is to develop Ai-Humanlike-Robots and as well experiment on a Time Travel Machine. The owners son heard about these futuristic plans which made him very curious, he wants to see the robots himself! He manages to convince his sister and her friend to accompany him on his secret plan.Therefore an accident occurs, that makes an innocent trip take a dangerous turn. It is now a matter of life and death for the three teenagers.
Nairobi is on a mission, to love forever. Physically and intellectually superior her blackness was conceived as an evolutionary advantage.
This semi-fictional short film follows the protagonist to Prague and explores how the medium of film can access the memories of a city. The film is based on the family history of the director, who fled Czechoslovakia after the Warsaw Pact invasion of 1968.
A passage over the pregnant body through the prisms Territory, Terrain, Terra. A questioning of belonging. An attempt to sketch the polyphonic call of the mother, to draw the navel as the scar of the maternal presence
Anahita grows up in the company of her father's camera. Confronted with his death, the film searches for answers between love and death. With the help of her father's archive material, the director sketches an intimate, poetic and deeply personal portrait of the relationship between father and daughter.
A documentary about transgender activists and refugees from Ukraine who trying to settle down in Berlin during the full-scale Russian aggression in Ukraine. Activists share their experience of gender transition in Ukraine and face new hardships of forced immigration, however, Hanna starts noticing Kyrylo’s “I’m out of politics” narratives and the conflict between them grows more and more often. Will they manage to find a common language during the most difficult period of their lives?
Rahaf, Sara, Rawa and Afraa take a road trip through Europe. What unites them is that they had to leave Syria eight years ago because of the war. This journey is a coping with memories and traumas, but is also full of happiness and positive moments.
A new Musifants episode! Grandpa Günter – a retired circus elephant – and grandson Charlie take another musical excursion into the songbook of the 1920s and 1930s. This time, it’s the little green cactus’s birthday and Charlie bakes a cake. No sooner is it on the table, smelling delicious, than a bit is missing. Charlie wants to know who has been sneaking a bite …
He is one of the forefathers of European free jazz: Alexander von Schlippenbach has been following his own path for decades, playing the piano, composing and leading bands. Thsis film now paints a very personal portrait, showing biographical breaks but also departures. He reconstructs Schlippenbach's path into the musician collective of the now legendary “Free Music Production” (FMP), for whom free jazz meant breaking boundaries.
In the heart of Madrid a ravaged forest lays calm in the aftermath of the storm. Shepherds, sheep and dogs roam among the branches of uprooted trees. Above them, the city resounds with birdsong and underneath we hear the murmurs of the herd. Old walls, new barriers enclose this territory. At night its borders dissolve on the hilltop. Under a black sky the contours of its inhabitants emerge. The land rings out and the city glimmers.
Sophie is reserved, introverted and daydreams at school. Her classmate Frida is completely different. Unlike Sophie, she is rebellious and a real system breaker. As different as they may be, the two share a special relationship – because they are a couple. While they keep this a secret from their outside world, the two meet secretly and try to live out their love. One night, Frida gets the idea to run away from home and go to Berlin. For more justice, love and freedom.
An office restroom turns into a battle of wills between an intern and an executive.
Pilgyu Shin has a dream: As a gay activist, he wants to enforce the anti-discrimination law in South Korea. In Seoul, he encounters a parallel society in which many queers hide and pretend to be heterosexual. The reason: Christian churches are gathering thousands of members around them in order to threaten the LGBTQ+ community. With their money and influence, they can steer politics. “Burning Blue“ portrays twelve people who stand up against these authorities. It is a battle against time, as they lose more and more members of their community to suicide. Yet dividing barriers keep growing bigger and bigger within their own circle. In a country that stigmatizes minorities and their mental health, the struggle for visibility pushes queer resistance to its limits. The film shines a spotlight on the abuse of power in the church and the growing transphobia in the LGBTQ+ community in South Korea. And it poses the question: Can there ever be a real safe space?
Far away, in the middle of the Namibian wasteland, on former German colonial soil. Unsecured, threatening tunnels lead deep into a monolithic mountain. Major, Esmeralda and Peter are working in illegal mines, searching for gemstones. The workers risk their lives every day, and their work brings little economic return. The group lives in its own microcosm, in which it seems they have buried their dreams.
When a mysterious dice rolls across Dakota's path at a party, a series of encounters with highly unusual people follow, all of whom seem to have a special interest in her.