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This film is a surreal ode to Dave Brubeck’s 'Point of Jazz,' born from his reflections during a train ride, where the rhythm of life unfolded through a window. Set in the wake of the pandemic’s first wave, the film captures a couple trapped in a timeless bubble, where reality dissolves into imagination. Their love—both fragile and unyielding—emerges as a poignant symbol of hope and resilience.

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In a glowing, infinite space, “One” depicts the journey of an artist who faces adversity and transcends his reality to arrive at a higher consciousness of his art. Created and produced by Studio Simkin. Renowned choreographer David Dawson and star ballet dancer Daniil Simkin create an emotional journey that reflects the struggle and rebirth of artists in a changing world. By moving through fear, isolation, and distress, the dancer comes to understand the transformative power of his art and its potential to awaken new understanding.

A wailing scream pierces the night! A woman is dead and at her side sits a bride. Who is responsible for this cruel murder? And will it be possible to solve this mystery in just one take?

Finding parallels between a multi-generational, queer housing project and the study of old-growth forests, the film testifies to the ecological importance of diversity and care.

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A biologist describes her research into various species of frogs in the rainforest of Central America and their mysterious disappearance as if it were a criminal case. Brilliantly animated drawings accompany her vivid scientific analysis.

With the stylistic devices of contemporary dance and a deconstructed flamenco, the aggregate states of water and their effects on people and the environment are explored. A flamenco typical train dress is changed and recreated. The rhythm of flamenco is taken out of context and used for new scenarios. Immersed in blue underwater light, classic flamenco meets contemporary dance and experimental electronic music.

For more than 30 years, my father has been travelling from Georgia to Germany or the Netherlands to buy second-hand cars, preferably Mercedes Sprinter vans. He packs them full of bicycles and furniture such as used leather sofas, chairs and tables. For some years now, he has also been buying scrap cars. He dismantles them into their components, which he sends to Georgia by container, often on behalf of Georgian wholesalers. Then my father drives 4,800 kilometres back to Georgia in a Sprinter alone. Spare parts and second-hand goods from Europe are valuable enough in Georgia to sell them for a small profit, despite the high cost of travel. This is how my father earns his living in the international flow of goods—under difficult conditions: hard physical work, health hazards, separation from his family and poor accommodations.

Walter shows himself and his apartment.

In 2008, through Russian military interventions, South Ossetia was declared an “independent” territory. Robinson and part of his family still live in the Georgian settlement that was built for the refugees. The story of a parallelism: while Robinson gazes into the distance, uprooted, life for his grandchildren begins in the here and now.

The search for self-acceptance and self-love is an intimate process. It means entering into an inner dialogue with yourself. Andreas, Amelie and Patricia were forced into this inner dialogue through their bodies. Accepting yourself as you are is difficult because there are often still shadows from the past and uncertainties regarding the medical transition. But one thing is clear to everyone: She helps them to be able to live their dream as Andreas, Amelie and Patricia and they don't give that up.

A promotion according to plan? No. But the 3 years of hardship were worth it: for a championship that the club & the fans will never forget. We take you with us from the Preußenstadion to the Rathausbalkon. Intimate insights, exciting interviews & emotional moments make the promotion documentary a piece of contemporary history for all fans: All together for Preußen Münster!

A performance television show hosted by the presenter Ruth. With humor, she interviews Leila Mousavi, Nicholas Mboya, and Vicente Hirmas, graduating art students from HFBK. Filmed in July 2023.

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.

An exploration through interviews with survivors and investigators of the 2017 bomb attack against German soccer team Borussia Dortmund, produced just before their Champions League quarter-final match against Monaco.

"Astrogolem" is a film about a love triangle set in a fantastical world where science and the supernatural collide. The story follows the brilliant inventor, Nikola Tesla, as he and Alan Turing accidentally release demons into our dimension. Desperate to find a solution, he turns to the renowned scientist, Robo-Marie Curie, for help. On his way he completely forgets about his mission as he has a huge crush on her and wants to seize the moment to confess his love. However he is shocked to learn that Robo-Marie Curie is in a relationship with the Astrogolem. The film tells a story of love, sacrifice, and the consequences of playing with powers beyond human understanding. It is a thrilling journey into a world where science and the supernatural coexist, and the choices we make have the power to shape our destiny.

The film mixes the journey of a fictional character, an unknown entity played by drag performance artist Beaujangless, with documentary roadside encounters in a nocturnal car ride through the ‚City of Angels’. Observations of people passing by, accompanied by an AI-generated voice-over reciting first-person narratives from interviews, intertwine with sequences of the main character dancing to Holly Herndon‘s song ‚Frontier’. The film explores narratives as both center and limit of human world experience and self-awareness, the concept of an immortal human soul in neo-religious, dataist times, as well as the USA as a collective narrative of capitalist superiority in decay. ‚Because We Bleed‘ is a meditation on storytelling and a poetic journey into a new, dark age.

Super 8 (Black & White) film by Helga Fanderl

“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.

EREN portrays a woman who has been fighting for fundamental rights and peace in Turkey for more than 30 years. As a lawyer and human rights defender, Eren Keskin is one of the main actors and plaintiffs for women’s, LGBT, and minority rights, opposing torture and sexualized violence. Her strong sense of justice knows no taboos, shaking even the foundations of the Turkish state. Now she has been designated an enemy of the state and has to defend herself. She faces a life sentence in more than a hundred criminal cases. How much time she has left in freedom, she doesn’t know. At any moment she could disappear behind bars forever.

Illegal care for the elderly is a major grievance that has long been tolerated by the state - it's the only way the system works. The work is hard, self-sacrificing and unnoticed by the public. Seemingly invisible. An affected person reports.

Super 8 (Black & White) film by Helga Fanderl

Together with her cat Cobalt, the witch Olivia likes to spend her evenings at the "Brewberry Café". Also because her secret crush Connie also works there. But Olivia is shy and insecure, because as a witch she looks a little more unusual than most people. In addition, she's not always in control of her witchcraft. To pluck up courage and ask Connie out on a date to the annual bonfire party, Olivia concocts a dangerous potion. But the long-awaited date will not end the way Olivia expects.

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.

The Eurofighter is the Bundeswehr's most modern and powerful aircraft and enables the pilot to move at supersonic speeds. It was developed by Germany, Great Britain, Spain and Italy to dominate the airspace. Manufacturing also takes place at these four different locations. Assembly requires millimetre work and, like regular routine checks lasting several months, is carried out in Germany.

By means of a clothing collection and a film, 'wunderheiler' explores the concepts of rationality, spirituality and the spaces that lie in between.

Diving into the eerie depths, the movie delves into the lives of two characters who return to the safety of their home following a seemingly enchanting first date. Yet, as the shadows lengthen, their world metamorphoses into a chilling descent, a nightmarish journey into the unknown.

Super 8 (Black & White) film by Helga Fanderl

In a valley where cold and warm water are merging, queer bodies are cruising. They recognize themselves by emitting and receiving their own whistling language.The paths of desire are always meandering.

Solace is a Weeping River is an essay on the multifaceted process involved in mourning. The work visits the shadows, feelings, reasonings and directions involved in this painful yet liberating part of any human being's life. It is the result of a collective sharing of thoughts that celebrate the life of the one who departs and mourns the posthumous existence of the one who remains alive. It is also a reflection that there is more to grief than mourning, it is an attempt to translate all impressions of this unique event. It is an understanding that passing encompasses hopelessness and hope in almost proportional measures.

There is such a variety of places where you can find water in Berlin: sometimes, you feel like you are in the countryside, other times, it is industrial, or just full. This project has been an excuse to spend time at places where there are bodies of water, whether rivers, canals, fountains or lakes...

Martina is a handicapped person. In order to be able to live her everyday life in her own home, she requires personal assistance. When Sandra starts working for her, the two of them carefully approach each other. In the extreme intimacy between the tenderness of the gestures, it is also the heaviness of the situation that emerges. It is a fragile dance between being near and being distant, that demands a lot from both of them.

In a world free of judgment, how would you live? David left Colombia to follow their path of art, dancing and simply being. As a professional ballet dancer in Hamburg, they found a new family far from home that is united in diversity: House of Brownies. Together, they show the importance of community and the power of art to encourage change. A reminder to embrace the beauty of being.

Together with graphic designer Tim Eckhorst, filmmaker Martina Fluck goes in search of traces of the important German-American comic pioneer, illustrator and Western painter W.H.D. Koerner, who was born in Schleswig-Holstein in 1878 and emigrated to the USA with his family in 1881. In 1902, W.H.D. Koerner created the first superhero "Hugo Hercules" in Chicago. At the same time, he began his career as an illustrator for important contemporary novels and discovered his love of the "Wild West". Around 2,000 of his oil paintings are published as illustrations in popular magazines such as the Saturday Evening Post and books. He became an important illustrator and painter of the Western genre. To this day, his paintings characterise the global visual memory of the so-called "Wild West", as they also serve as models for the sets and costumes of the first Hollywood western films.

On the morning of October 7, 2023, Hamas terrorists attacked Israel. In the south of the country, they stormed a music festival and killed 350 people there alone. A celebration of love turned into the worst nightmare. Filmmaker Duki Dror and his colleagues have created a moving documentary from thousands of social media images and many haunting interviews, with footage of disturbing brutality and directness. The montage also makes it clear: The Hamas attack also marked the beginning of a new era in the dissemination of images and news through the media.

In 1965 three newly graduated German architects won an international competition for the new Tegel Airport in Berlin with a surprising design.

A talk show about today's significance of the radio derails after the hosts don't like what their guest has to offer.

Like a single film frame, insects flash for a fraction of a second, only to immediately withdraw from the field of vision again.

Khabur is the longest tributary of the Euphrates, a transboundary river crossing the border between Turkey and Northeastern Syria. Climate crisis, prolonged drought periods, the ongoing war, embargo, water policies, and dam building across the border by the Turkish state are among the reasons contributing to the drying up of the Khabur River and the water crisis in the region.

A delicious dinner, a stage, a magic show - what can go wrong? When Lisa accompanies the nice magician home after the show, she has to learn that some tricks are better not to be questioned.

“Until The Sun Dies“ unfolds its stories over co-incidences of the contrary: life born from death, and death from the pursuit of peace and justice. Through its insight into the struggles of two social leaders in Colombia’s “post-conflict“ era, the film invites us to delve deeply into the stories of those who have defied violence and demonstrates that the human spirit can prevail and leave a legacy of hope in the midst of the deepest darkness.