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In November 2021, people tried to enter the EU via Belarus and Poland, but the route turned out to be a death trap. All access points to the border region were blocked in order not to create an escape corridor. Men, women and children were stuck in no man’s land – in the middle of winter, in the middle of the forest, for weeks. The film follows Polish activists on their mission. They learn that humanitarian aid, just like the refugees themselves, comes up against borders.

The Virgin Spring of Dracula - an experimental approach to vampirism rituals. The vampires need the blood of a virgin to reincarnate the force of the virgin spring. This movie was filmed on original filming locations of Nosferatu (1979, Werner Herzog) Suspiria (1977, Dario Argento) Phenomena (1985, Dario Argento) Lucifer Rising (1972/1980, Kenneth Anger) Les Demoniaques (1974, Jean Rollin) Malpertuis (1971, Harry Kümel) Daughters of Darkness (1971, Harry Kümel) and was built on the cosmic spirit of these places. starring Shazzula Aura Lucina Fortuna Kathy S Juju Christian Lala Charlett Valeria Alvarado Mejia Pablo Alvarado Mejia Corvus von Burtle

A gay hook-up for three. Two in front of the camera and one behind.

In the audiovisual composition, not only do the sounds of the solo flute overlap and unite with those of the wooden stairs and floors of the Habichtshorst Old Forester's Lodge, but also the visual impressions of the video images with the acoustic ones.

Lebenslaute is a nationwide network of mainly classical musicians who meet once a year to blockade a "political hotspot". In the summer of 2020, several concerts were In the summer of 2020, several concerts blocked the shift change at the Rheinmetall weapons factory in Unterlüß, Lower Saxony. The film tells about the rehearsals and the action training of the musicians during the preparatory camp and accompanies them during the action. and accompanies them during the action.

What do the long-ago war experiences of one's parents have to do with one's own life? Oliver Kanehl takes the audience on a search for the places of his father's wartime childhood in present-day Poland. Past and present meet when today's normality encounters past horrors and hidden trauma is slowly revealed.

Maria, Tirloi and their relatives have no choice: in their Romanian Roma village there is no work. In order to survive and provide for their families at home, they go begging in Hamburg.

An empty house. Inside, four surveillance cameras showing different rooms. A woman in a winter coat enters the hallway, holding a large plate of cake. As if in a secret surveillance centre, we look at four monitors and watch the figures in black mourning clothes move from room to room. In the centre of it all is our main character, who tries in vain to escape the countless expressions of condolence. The traditional mourning rite as a social gauntlet. "Dein Beileid" was shot in two planned sequences with four cameras running in parallel. It is a play with the medium of film, an experiment with parallelism. With each viewing, the audience can focus their attention on new aspects and actively explore the plot and relationships. Depending on what we focus on, the film is sad, humorous, or in any case deeply atmospheric.

The film comprises a barrage of images of Kurdish activists, journalists and fighters – mostly women – facing the camera, often smiling. Scored to rapid electronic music, this visual onslaught echoes the sensory overload of contemporary media. While the similarity of portraits, whose low resolution raises its own political questions, encourages instant parsing, the sight of young women in uniform slows down our perception, inviting us to interrogate the meaning of these smiles and poses.

Various electronic eyes from mobile phones tell the journey of a group of young migrants. With no job opportunities in Germany's first lockdown, they leave Berlin to work and live in a remote flower factory.

In 2022, Paragraph 219a, which prohibited advertising for the termination of pregnancy, was finally deleted without replacement. Paragraph 218, which makes abortions a punishable offence in Germany, has now been in the penal code for 150 years. In the documentary, 50 people who have had an abortion have their say. They are women, trans and non-binary people who describe the choices they had and the obstacles they faced. In the face of a emerging shortage of doctors, a strengthening network of Christian fundamentalists and a worldwide attack on reproductive rights and the right to bodily self-determination, a very important thematic debate

James Richards’ Qualities of Life: Living in the Radiant Cold is a descent into a maelstrom of images and objects—from glitched medical optics, photos from the archive of Horst Ademeit, who documented the impact of radiation on his body, to Richards’ own collection of erotic objects, drug paraphernalia, and other ephemera that swim in a dark techno-pharmacological miasma.

The Berezinsky Biosphere Reserve in Belarus is an undisturbed realm in the southern taiga. Extensive swamps, a complex river system, and numerous lakes bear witness to the glaciers that once covered the area. It is unique because it contains so many different types of natural swamps. The "Big Five" of European wildlife live here in one place: bear, wolf, lynx, bison, and elk. And the black grouse, which has become extremely rare in Europe, gathers here every April for mating season. It is an extraordinary spectacle when the imposing blue-black black grouses make their courtship calls in the swamps. Those who immerse themselves in the world of the Berezinsky Biosphere Reserve gain an incomparable insight into the vast mosaic of floodplain forests, lakes, and acidic peat bogs.

All hail the crocodile god! Muddy Swamp Rex brings us the latest trash/gore/grind flick from El Excremento and friends.

An empty room in a new city, the first apartment together – milestones everyone encounters sooner or later. Usually, these stories start, where others leave something behind: On online marketplaces. After scrolling through an ocean of small ads you find yourself in the apartment of a stranger buying a random object. Who are these people and what can they tell us about life?

Sparrows, robins and great tits have a relatively limited range, but it is not inconceivable that they will soon have to start migrating over long distances. Climate change is transforming the landscapes where they usually settle into uninhabitable, barren plains.

“Mathuật” is a combination of the artist’s name, Maithu, and the Vietnamese word for magic, ma thuật, while MMRBX is an acronym for the working term memory box. The work metaphorically associates the Vietnamese ritual of caring for the dead with an allegorical and virtual memory box that stores mnemonic moving images. Heavily contextualized within Southeast and East Asian mythology, where communication with the dead is an integral part of everyday life, Mathuật – MMRBX aims to excavate the wounded past of survivor diasporas (Việt Kiều) that remains invisible to most communities. The artist believes that in a world suffering from postcolonial amnesia, we resist by remembering, as it is impossible for the ghosts and spirits of historical traumas to rest in peace. Bùi aims to establish an archive of personal memories and transgenerational traumas that allows the Vietnamese diaspora to formalize a story of their own.

Edena and Delora are in the forest. It is Delora’s birthday; however, it is she who is grilling the fish while Edena bathes in the lake. This is the starting point of a couple’s discussion that serves as a metaphor to work on the themes of self-love and love.

A Child and its day. A conquest before breakfast, a clueless goat next to the house, a couple of promising airplanes far up in the sky. Then things and events fall apart. The goat seems to be linked to all of that. If there is any link between anything at all.

In the 2022/23 season, Alexei Ratmansky created a three-part evening for the Bayerisches Staatsballett based on overtures by Pyotr I. Tchaikovsky and Shakespeare's Hamlet, The Tempest and Romeo and Juliet. Ratmansky forms an abstract ballet out of them, in which narrative motifs appear again and again without following a fixed plot. Instead, overture follows overture - each as a new beginning. The result is a multi-layered dialog between music, literature and dance that questions classical ballet in the here and now.

Dee, Mariarita, Claudia, Giselle, Elizabeth - all of them have fun to show the world how they do their business.

Story of a Santa Claus, also known as Father Christmas.

Jamal Phoenix lets Sir Malice take the lead as he is bound. Having never been suspended, Jamal's anticipation and slight sense of fear are palpable. You never know how the world will feel when you release control. Every tie, every knot, every wrapping of the rope pushes Jamal deeper into submission. Sir Malice expertly weaves a web that supports and Jamal in a nest of security. As the pressure peaks, Jamal's body starts to lift off the ground. Weight, becomes weightless and pain gives way to pleasure.

The story of the forbidden friendship between Dam, the tip of mount Damavand in Iran and Hofit, an air force plane from Israel. Their unexpected encounter dares them to reimagine a friendship against all odds.

Munay, a lovable older lady, 75 years old, radically burns all bridges after 27 years of Black Forest idyll in order to find herself. She doesn't want a shared flat for senior citizens or a small room with concrete walls to become her new home - she just wants to get out into her beloved nature... Her journey on foot takes her right across Germany. From Constance to Flensburg. Alone, with a small tent and light luggage. Documentary Filmmaker Mario Kanzinger and his team accompanied her with the camera. Munay herself kept a mobile phone diary. From these authentic recordings, an intimate documentary film was made: "Munay dances - a special journey".

The more life lies behind you, the more consciously your own death comes into view. Three people over the age of eighty share their thoughts about the inevitable.

Two messy nerds try to hack into "cool guy's" social media profile to destroy his relationship, but instead they accidentally hack into the whole REALIFE (social media) system.

The dancer Fatima is the main attraction of the Oasis Bar. Two villainous couples are planning to kidnap her. Bruno Sukrow, the eccentric Scheherazade of German cinema, was born in Berlin in 1927. Initially working as a machine fitter, he started animating films using the program iClone at the age of 82, following the death of his wife. He died peacefully on Easter Sunday 2022, having directed around 80 films. “Fatima” is his last finished work.

In this film, Melina gets the chance to prove herself as a musical actress while learning about the beauty and difficulty of love.

After getting a bit off the rails from eating contaminated raisins, three suburban dads team up to fight the local Russian mob boss in this comic crime caper.

Summer 2021: The Allianz Arena in Munich is to be lit up in rainbow colors for Germany's match against Hungary. UEFA forbids this - and Germany is in a rainbow frenzy in protest: landmarks are illuminated in color, rainbow flags are hoisted, and the country's own tolerance is celebrated. Germany, a paradise for queer people? Reporter Klaas-Wilhelm Brandenburg has had other experiences. "Die Story im Ersten" meets queer people in various phases of their lives: children at school, young people at work, senior citizens in nursing homes. We take stock after five years of "marriage for all": How equal are queer people in Germany? How tolerant is our society really?

How do we explain to our children that one day we will all have to die? Do we even have to? FINALLY INFINITE explores the question of whether we have to accept birth, illness and death as the natural course of our lives and meets those visionaries who already want to take our evolution into their own hands.

A former left-wing V-man comes clean, wants to clear the air. Actually, something like this doesn't happen. It took many preliminary talks and several attempts before Jan P. actually sat down in front of the camera. For 10 years in the 1990s, he spied on the left-wing autonomous scene in Wuppertal and Solingen and betrayed his friends to the Office for the Protection of the Constitution. Afterwards, he kept quiet about his double life for 20 years. His original aim was to protect the state. Today, however, his doubts about having been a stooge for the wrong cause prevail. STRG_F reporter Felix met Jan P. and asks himself: What does such a double life do to people - to the traitor and the betrayed?

An affectionate, locally rooted portrait of the Danish town of Nakskov as a miniature model in the ratio of 1:50. The locals share their stories of class struggle over beers in the lunch break.

The Bangladesh cultural scene is dynamic, creative and on the up. With fashion designer Bibi Russell, art patron Nadia Samdani, the Britto Arts Trust and photographers Shahidul Alam and Munem Wasif.

A traveling installation that imagines the future of libraries as interactive spaces, engaging visitors by multi-sensory forms of storytelling. It embed human stories within a grander narrative, one with birth of our planet and evolution.

This short vertical video presents the library of the Broumov monastery, combining documentary elements with 3D animation and synthetic commentary with a tinge of music. The internal directorial dialogue reflects Kohout’s own works of art exhibited as part of the Ora et lege project, which related contemporary art to the culture and teachings of the Benedictines.

The journey of a man who seeks his very beginning as a human and his approaching end in humanity. In this journey his father, mother, brother, daughter and a mysterious voice accompany him. He tries to find the right way in the labyrinth of life, by following the signs of secret stories and prepares to tell his own story to us.

The art of deception and the science of detection. Criminals’ lies exposed.

At the end of the horizon a singing cicada is born. Its flying is short, yet its chanting is eternal.

Jan Peters collects time in pictures.

Diebsteich, a long forgotten neighborhood in the middle of Hamburg, in the district of Altona. Residential area, commercial, cemetery and a Cuban café. But the neighborhood is about to undergo major changes. The railroad company, Deutsche Bahn, has begun work on the controversial relocation of the Altona long-distance train station. A concert hall is also to find space at Diebsteich. The film tells of the concerns and resistance of the residents, who feel ignored in the development of their neighborhood, and of the Cuban café owner, whose popular neighborhood meeting place is to fall victim to the wrecking ball.

Kluge compares with three screens with clips, stills, storyboards of the two works.

When the night is clear, the inquisitive mouse Armstrong can look at the moon from her attic through a telescope: white and round and unreachable. "The moon is made of cheese!" claim the other mice and do not want to know about Armstrong's theory. So he makes a plan to prove that the moon is made of rock, just like the Earth. He will fly there and get a chunk! But how is that supposed to work? A mouse in space ... Fortunately, Armstrong gets help and thus takes on the legacy of the mouse flight pioneers. He constructs a rocket to take him to the moon and back. After weeks of experiments, experiments and failures that cost Armstrong everything - even his beloved attic and the valuable telescope - the time has finally come: the rocket takes off. According to the picture book by Torben Kuhlmann, "Armstrong" describes how a furry, four-legged inventor succeeds in the impossible. A small step for the mouse, but a big step for humanity, which is already on its heels.