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Susan Philipsz hums Brian Eno’s »Music for Airports« from a small aircraft while it is flying in a circle around Tegel airport. A short Super 8 film taken during the flight.

A girl suffers unbearable mental torment during a portrait photo shooting.

As the Earth has become increasingly hot, people are forced to fight for survival. In a desolate wasteland, a loner has created his own microcosm living off canned food and self-grown vegetables.

Located in Berlin and framed by my voiced address to the revolutionary Marxist, Rosa Luxemburg, the film brings the largely silenced stories of ordinary individuals who resisted fascism during the Third Reich, often at the cost of their own lives, into the present and foreground the current resistance to the right-wing nationalist organisation, the AfD, through the activities of the Berlin branch of the group, Omas Gegen Rechts (Grandmothers Against the Right).

Four friends on a surreal night out at a disco follow Elton John and Dua Lipa into a fantastical universe.

The video shows the evening return of tens of thousands of migratory birds to their roosts in a bay at a German-Dutch border region. In the montage, the theme of the border is transferred into a temporal grid: a cut is made every second. The editing draws a line from arrival to landing, from day to night and from an agricultural environment to a dystopian, post-industrial backdrop.

Small investors lose their savings, fund managers lose their reputation, financial regulators lose their credibility—the Wirecard bankruptcy has sent shockwaves through the financial market.

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Pascal tells about his experiences as a trans man.

Navid is a young Iranian who discovers that he is attracted to men. He lives with his Persian family in a small village where homosexuality and tradition are incompatible. His mother asks him to leave the village. Navid sets off for the big city, where he quickly meets like-minded people. Uncertainty remains, however, as homosexuals continue to be persecuted in Iran.

Carried by a pleasantly laid-back jazzy score, these seven minutes of animation offer a joyful journey through an elegantly black-and-white world of forms oscillating between figuration and abstraction. We meet strange frogs, caterpillars, and other critters moving in such perfect synchrony with the music that they could never seem real to us, as they take the shape of ornamental structures. And coming back again and again is the moon, with clouds gliding by. (tr)

Deep sea fishing - that's working to the limit. The ships of the German deep sea fishing fleet often stay at sea for months. The hunt for the black halibut takes the team to the Arctic Circle. Storm and snow are part of everyday life here, work on board is dangerous. Great trust in their comrades and their own skills makes the crew a tight-knit community. This documentary accompanies the crew on board one of the largest deep-sea trawlers in the German fleet.

Probably the most difficult construction site in Germany is 70 kilometers from Sylt. The sea is up to 32 meters deep and the waves are high even in good weather. A wind park with 80 turbines is being built here under harsh conditions, which will generate climate-friendly electricity for a million people. A mammoth project that is hard to beat in terms of size and complexity. And things are progressing rapidly: specialists erect the almost 150-meter-high wind turbines within a day.

Essay film based on writings by Marina Zwetajewa.

Islamic theologian Mouhanad Khorchide was in Saudi Arabia where his family lived on the day of the attack. What memories does he have of that day? In his opinion, how has international politics changed since then? How is the connection between religion and politics in the Islamic world, but also in the West?

A young woman loses herself thoughtfully in the architectural backdrop of Marzahn in Berlin. Matching scenes and sounds from “La Notte” (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1964), the film examines the cinematic quality of Marzahn’s formerly utopian urbanity. The protagonist’s melancholy is reflected in empty spaces and planned urban infrastructure.

Safe Space is pieced together from numerous YouTube clips of ballroom events from the early 1990s. Ballroom culture is created by trans and queer people of colour in response to a society that marginalised their presence.

The last evening before her gender reassignment surgery: Caroline thinks she is finally on the side of happiness. As the hospital settles down for the night, she says goodbye to her old self and feels happy for the first time in her life. Weeks later, her father is dying. Caroline looks paralyzed from a balcony parapet of her high-rise in Leipzig and talks about the first abuse on Christmas Eve in her childhood. Very soon she realizes that without coming to terms with her trauma, she has no chance of building a future and arriving in the new gender. With the help of a therapist, Caroline goes back into her past - with an uncertain outcome.

With their coming out, two women blow up the family party in a traditional allotment garden. When a party guest suddenly disappears, the situation escalates.

In "Fahren 7" the field of vision is constantly blocked through demarcating elements running closely along the route. Speed deforms the passing surfaces into abstract kinetic shapes. Even though fundamentally different processes are in play, the video claims to share the Materialists' devotion to structure, shape, the texture of surfaces and texture through patterns in motion.

Constantin, Sarah and Gregor live in a polyamorous relationship. Their intimate confession is not just a demonstration of a free relationship between three people. The lovers, who have intimate conversations, sing, tease each other, or remain silent together, give a glimpse into the life of a social unit that takes questions of trust and tolerance to extremes. A polyamorous relationship can sometimes be even more solid than a couple because it goes beyond the familiar. It represents an experimental space where safe boundaries are abandoned and a gateway is opened to a frighteningly unrestrained universe where established patterns of behavior do not apply. It is a chance to free oneself from inner demons and be renewed within. To find ourselves, we must first lose ourselves.

Lesbian, gay bisexual trans and intersex (LGBTI) people are currently criminally prosecuted in over seventy states worldwide on the basis of their identity. In 2019, over 85% of individuals applying for asylum in Germany came from states with anti-LGBTI criminal laws. In this film, five women who have survived persecution and violence based on their sexuality or gender identity share their stories: about their life before fleeing, their journey to Germany, their day-to-day experiences in Northrhine-Westphalia – and their hopes for the future.

A felicitous and at the same time almost unbearable cinematic experimental set-up that uses documentary means to show what the Belarusian reality behind the news items looks like. Based on eyewitness accounts, Pavel Mozhar re-stages Lukashenko’s perfidious and oppression-based power system. Violence in the shape of detailed reconstructions may seem abstract at first glance but drills itself into our consciousness all the more persistently in the course of the film.

Voices echo through sewer tunnels in Munich. They tell fragments of stories about vanished people, violence and memory loss while the camera moves above ground, scanning the city’s façades. Munich appears as a body winding its way through time.

The film is an intimate portrait of a woman who feels exposed to strange glances.

In 2020, Hannes Wesendonk and Josefine Rieks founded the Erste Berliner Kunstverein e. V. with fellow artists from Wedding, which was entered in the register of associations at Charlottenburg district court in the same year. The film portrays six people in their 20s who - in the midst of start-ups and coworking spaces - dream of changing the world with their art. With aesthetic borrowings from the French Nouvelle Vague, the film shows the life and revolutionary dreams of the Berlin living, working and living community, while also considering the potential for disappointment.

Four days, four neighborhoods, and 24 different people reflecting on the past year in front of the camera. A polyphonic kaleidoscope of reality in spring 2021, captured in poetic black and white.

What if you can no longer reach a loved one with arguments? Working on interfamily relationships during the pandemic—between justified criticism and irrational fears.

A girl who only wants to be alone. One day, a Cat knocks on her door. Since then everything has changed...

A secluded beach location, the perfect partner, the most exclusive hotel: it's your dreamlife. Join an eerie trip to a luxurious place of unfulfilled desire, nostalgia, and endless longing.