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After Russia started a fully-fledged war against Ukraine, the state's repressive machine against its own civil society started spinning with even greater velocity and the law system, which barely functioned before, eventually turned into a mechanism of abuse and brutality.
Anna... She doesn't know if that's her real name. Because apart from the vague memory of the sound of this name, she only associates one thing with her early childhood: horrible fear. Of doctors, of injections and the bitter-sweet taste of a piece of sugar on liberation day. Anna Strishkowa is a toddler when she stands on the ramp of Auschwitz on 4 December 1943. She neither knows the names of her parents nor where she was born. For Luigi Toscano, Anna Strishkowa is the first Auschwitz survivor he portrays for the exhibition of his project "Against Forgetting" in Kyiv.
During his first night shift at the gas station, Felix struggles with the radio, his boredom and increasingly bizarre customers.
When sleep comes, the monkey glides gently from leaf to leaf and into a mysterious dream world which becomes darker, more colourful and wilder. Sonja Rohleder's cinematic lullaby floats through the phases of sleep and their various hues and shapes.
Guille, a young Venezuelan immigrant, is a bartender in Berlin. On a lonely night at the bar, he is surprised by the sudden appearance of his brother Memo, whom he hasn’t talked to in a long time. Over the course of a surreal night out, past grievances of the two estranged brothers will come to the fore as they make sense of a mysterious message from back home.
A young refugee is stabbed to death in Celle in northern Germany. The police question, interrogate, perform an autopsy, search, take evidence, record: 1,700 pages. An approach to structural racism via files, soccer and growing up.
In this lonely dystopian world, Player 0.1 is stuck in a desperate loop to complete an impossible, abstract mission every day.
The Spectral Lo-Fi Body Art Performance Piece I Created For The "Alter Ego Film Project".
Christo Foerster travels through Germany within two months on foot and on his stand up board, from the Zugspitze to Sylt, spending every day and every night in the great outdoors.
Low season on the Italian coast. Two Romanian caregivers meet at a bus stop and decide to break into a beach house. A moment of solidarity and tenderness that challenges the structural norms that govern their daily lives.
Scent from Heaven investigates the paradoxical relationship between suffering and enlightenment through the story of the agarwood tree, a fragrant and highly valued wood native to Southeast Asia. Agarwood is revered for its heavenly scent and deep symbolic ties to healing and redemption. Yet this scent only emerges when the tree is wounded-typically through infection or physical damage, often caused by human intervention. In responding to harm, the tree produces a dark, aromatic resin as a kind of immune response-transforming trauma into something treasured. As such, the work invites reflection on how beauty and value are often revealed in the light of destruction and pain, while also exposing the tension between the suffering of nature and humanity's longing for healing and salvation.
In breathtaking words, Germán López Rosales from Mexico describes his experience of a human smuggling operation from Laredo, TX to San Antonio. Next to Germán locked up inside the cargo area of a tractor-trailer, 8 of the 39 migrants died.
The extraordinary story of German businessman Ernst Leitz II (1871-1956), second only to his father in ownership of the optics company that developed the famous and highly successful Leica camera, and his heroic struggle against Nazism.
A hot-dog stand worker falls in love with a vegan protester.
Consumed by her obsessive habits to heal from the past, a woman confronts the event she was trying to forget.
What is illusion and reality? Man and environment are changing. The inhabitants of a medium-sized city seek out an old abandoned area - here they are promised to be able to learn more about themselves - but each visitor has to pay an individual price. A strange doorman welcomes the seekers and hands them each a key tailored to them. The opening of the magical door finally heralds a journey. The room as a mirror of themselves. Confronted with your hidden longings and fears, the border to reality becomes increasingly blurred.
Documentary about Germany's parliamentary election in the year 2021, focusing on a single district.
Although Grandpa Kalle is willing to teach his granddaughter Luise how to swim, this project is not crowned with particular success. The problem: Grandpa Kalle doesn't know how to swim! However, he does not want to admit this to himself, but especially not to others. But when Claire, hated neighbor who also happens to be the lifeguard at the same time, discovers this, she can’t let go of this fact and before she knows it, she teaches an entire pensioners club on how to swim.
The viewer enters alone into a cabin containing images from a brain scanner, where they receive hypnotic instructions and challenge them to surrender to a state of psychic transcendence.
An experimental poetic investigation of one of the world's largest e-waste recycling sites, Agbogbloshie, as a contact zone of complex global economic, social, power-political and technological processes.
Gor's escape takes 48 hours. The 13-year-old is behind the wheel himself to bring his large family to safety. In Armenia, Gor is therefore celebrated as a hero. In his new home he can now fulfill his big dream: becoming a hairdresser.
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.
Super 8 (Color) film by Helga Fanderl
Self-determination, emancipation and justice. All of these should be taken for granted in this day and age. Nevertheless, views that are often outdated continue to determine our present. With a look into the past, the Western should lead us to become aware of these problems in order to separate ourselves from them.
Adrift in space, an astronaut reflects on the life events that led to his dire situation.
The Volvo A60 is regarded as the world’s largest articulated hauler. With a payload capacity of up to 55 tonnes, it is capable of transporting even the heaviest materials with ease. When fully loaded, the vehicle reaches a total weight of nearly 100 tonnes. The XXL hauler is manufactured in Braås, southern Sweden, where around 550 employees produce a total of six different hauler models. The A60 is the largest vehicle built at the plant, and due to its enormous weight, most components can only be installed using cranes.
For 35 years, LA TRIBU, an autonomous collective and community radio station in Buenos Aires, has been broadcasting voices of resistance on the 88.7 frequency. The protagonists share their stories and tell of the beginnings of the radio station in 1988, five years after the end of the last military dictatorship. Like La Tribu, the film moves between inside and outside - between studio and street - in an attempt to connect present and past lines.
Mehnersmoos are one of Germany‘s most important music act. In this documentary we see that carrying a whole nation of music nerds is not as easy as it seems.
In May 1991, Düsseldorf ice hockey fans take a trip to Garmisch-Partenkirchen lasting several days. There they leave a trail of spiritual devastation in their wake, among like-minded alcoholics, party animals and post-pimps. They lay siege to a Bottrup coach and enjoy the forces of nature from outside. Who can survive this caliber of beer-swilling men?
Short documentary on the Augsburger Domsingknaben, the all-male choir of Bavaria's Augsburg Cathedral, focussing on one fourteen-year-old singer.
A short clip shot on super 8 camera.
A road movie from a post-migrant perspective at the fringes of Europe.
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.
As a young boy, Franco Piccolini receives a magic bottle from a graveyard attendant. He tells him that the bottle once belonged to Captain Rack, a famous pirate who achieved wealth and fame thanks to its magic. Years later, Franco discovers how the bottle seems to work: when he places it on the ground and turns it, it shows him the way to the treasure. So he sets off on an adventurous journey, always following the bottle to find it. Along the way, he meets Luigi Ferrari, a cheerful fellow who lives in a remote mountain hut. Franco uses a trick to persuade him to become his travelling companion. Together they get into all sorts of funny and dangerous situations due to the unpredictable directions the bottle takes them. On their treasure hunt, they open the door to another dimension and meet the pirate Captain Rack. And so disaster takes its course.
“Lonely in her big city life, neurotic, increasingly paranoid, and under the influence of addiction our protagonist finds herself in a surreal labyrinth. While bad things happen when she listens to the voices in her head, she is unable to ignore the ever growing power of the dark passenger within. She’ll do anything to find love — and she’ll go even further to make sure that love never escapes...”
At night, R32 is like a kaleidoscope. The colourful lights are as manifold as the occupants are diverse, living close together and yet worlds apart.
Bernard's routine life is turned upside-down by a mischievous little tiger.
A journey through the history of electronic music from Cologne – from the 50's until today.
A photographic image in its production: exposure, development and reproduction. As the subject of its recording the faces of two people. The experimental short film "IMAGE ME" equates the face with the photographic image, exposing the merge with our depiction and a mechanics of rotation around our own axis.
In an experimental arrangement, the film accompanies two young Italian war photographers on an inner journey through their photo archives of wars and catastrophes. While shooting themselves they are searching for images that bear witness and asking about the human impulse to make and absorb pictures of dead and disaster. The film—shot during the Italian Corona lockdown—circles around what Giorgio Agamben calls the ”void“ that every testimony contains at its core.