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Stones are witnesses of time, carried from the landscape into the architecture of a new world.

Do you remember when you knocked your tooth out? Over there on the slide?

Why do butterflies constantly fly towards light? Their instinctual pursuit of light is genetically ingrained. When observed for a long time, their flight movements create a fluttering on the retina, which can be digitized into countless small pixels. This species begins its journey with a transformation in a cocoon and continues to be reshaped, like the peppered moth that adapted to soot-covered walls by developing darker wings. In this ongoing metamorphosis, there may be a strange sense of calm as the instinctual becomes algorithmic flight paths.

The director dreams of making a 16mm masturbation film guided by her grandmother - according to an old recipe. With great displeasure she has to realize that her subconscious makes use of a male gaze and old gender roles.

Moritz has just moved house and is motivated to start his new life. But when he goes to bed on his first night, he meets his new antagonist. The street lamp outside his window doesn't mean well for him. A battle between man and machine and, ultimately, against himself.

Lea finds a strange video in front of her door. She must realize she's not as safe at home as she thinks.

A short documentary animation about the European Witch Trials

Three friends make plans to win 50€ in a talentshow.

A couple comes home from an event and gets into trouble because of an unexpected phone call.

In Poeler Luft, Toni returns to her childhood home for a holiday: the Baltic Sea island of Poel. Thereby she is confronted with her past, which was characterised by racism.

2017 - I am travelling to Russia with a German tour group. I take the diary of Wehrmacht soldier Buff, killed in action in 1942 when he tried to give first aid to a Russian soldier, as my travel reading. Our itinerary intersects with places where he fought. I grew up in Russia. My grandmother toiled in Stalin's camps. 2022 - the conflict that Russia's attack on Ukraine triggered in me runs through the film. The journey to Russia was characterised by encounters between people whose parents' or grandparents' had common experiences - those of the Second World War. In brief moments of rapprochement, many questions remain unanswered - especially about the purpose of war.

The angels have given the Captain of the Sea Butches the holy assignment to travel to a lesbian bar on Venus to get hold of the strongest vibrator in the whole universe – the weapon needed in the fight to destroy the phallic tower of the evil gentrifiers.

Here, another Thai translator and mediator, Payungsri Adam, who works at Ban Ying, has her say.

The peculiarities and endearing quirks of everyday life in a high-rise building.

An official bootleg recording of the Mater Suspiria Vision with Mistress Bella Lugosi and Juju Christian Liaisons Dangereuses X Experience, recorded 20 September 2024 at Urban Spree Berlin.

A portrait of a nude man.

The picnicking park visitors occasionally leave behind a few morsels - much to the delight of the Sparrows. However, the Sparrows are not content with mere meager crumbs. They aim to swipe the entire meal from the unsuspecting ones. Their sparcial mission comes with top secret sparrowcifications and requires cutting-edge sparweilance technologies.

Care and violence, acknowledgement and reprehension, to give or withdraw support: the video finds performative, sculptural, bizarre and poetic images for this range of diverse gestures and actions. They line up like a series of tests reflecting interpersonal relationships and current social conditions.

Director Gernot Wieland worked for twelve years with an animal trainer who taught birds to fly in circles or squares. The film examines how aesthetic norms influence Western views of the world and why these norms end in failure.

For a long-awaited reunion, a family meets on the island of Hispaniola, where grandmother is from. Everyone is happy to show up. Except grandfather. He wants to die, urgently. His wish to close his eyes for good comes true overnight and leaves a stain.

The viewer is lured deep into a dilapidated glasshouse, a place where nature is traditionally tamed and studied, by a ghostly figure, dancing to a variation on the popular song from Disney’s The Jungle Book (1967). As the music fades out, he makes way for the vocal group Black Harmony, offering a reinterpretation of the song in their own language - Lugbara. I Wan’na Be Like You deconstructs and reconstructs the novel, film, that song and their legacies.

“The main thing is that I’m fine!” Charly, a family man and consultant in his early 60s, has had to put up with quite a few setbacks in his life. Born as Karl-Heinz in Franconia, he reinvented himself and created an optimized personality under the stage name “Charly”. Never to be vulnerable again – self-protection is his new motto.

Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, Tania Licheuskaya has been following the events at the Luninets air base in Belarus, and the black soup she cooks for uninvited guests from the neighbouring country becomes a symbol of resistance.

Sister Jenkins spends her days in downtown Frankfurt trying to speak to pedestrians about Jesus. When an agitated young woman unexpectedly seeks her advice, a cat-and-mouse game ensues between two women who couldn't be more different.

In Groß-Umstadt, a small town in the Oberwald region of central Germany, a community of Portuguese workers arrived in the 1960s. Legend has it that a young Portuguese man was travelling through the area in 1962 when his motorbike broke down… and he never left, becoming the first Portuguese person to settle there. This documentary looks at the immigrant story between Portugal and Germany.

Portugal, April 25, 1974. The Carnation Revolution puts an end to the dictatorship established in 1933 by António de Oliveira Salazar (1889-1970) and to five centuries of colonial history. Fifty years later, several witnesses recount how they lived this decisive day.

On the way back, it all came down in torrents and it was warm. I walked through the rain. The streets were almost empty, my feet wet from the water. Slightly disgusted by the dirt mixed into the soup my shoes were swimming through, the lights looked so beautiful and the buildings were so tall and there were so many people I didn't know.

Faithful to the motto "Exercise until the end of your life", people work out at the "Fitness California" gym in Freiburg. Bernd Fleig, Mario Sabatini and Adolf Seger, all stars of the wrestling scene in the 1960s and 70s, can always be found here, flexing their muscles regardless of their age. Embellished with music and images from the Californian fitness boom, the film traces their careers as athletes and gives a loving insight into the family-run gym that stood up to the big fitness chains.

A fragmented memory documentary about a Merkur Spielothek in Frankfurt.

A behind-the-scenes documentary on "Three Colors: Black, Red, Gold" and the movement behind the film.

The relationship between the human body and the perception of space in the field of today's use of technology is questioned by showing parts of the ancient Qi Gong dragon form.

Punk music and drumming are Wiete's greatest passions. An equally important part of her life is her disability and the wheelchair she is mostly dependent on. But for a long time it was not easy for her to identify with this.

Edinburgh and its people in 26 letters and 13 numbers: About spreading love and kindness and baking pancakes.

An homage to Max Horkheimer.

When the world is in huge danger and health crisis only the impeccable Pflege Wonka can save them all

A horrific reminder to always keep brushing your teeth

In "In Our Garden There Was an Olive Tree," we follow 67-year-old Almasa, whose visit to Germany became a nightmare when radical Islamic groups, supported by the Turkish army, took her home in Afrin. Unable to return to her village, despite still holding the key, Almasa embodies the hope of reclaiming her confiscated land and the olive groves she once cared for. Her story reflects a deep longing for her roots and the memories she lost.

What drives Chlär is an unquenchable thirst for learning and progress. So it's hardly surprising that his productions are like attempts to awaken the primal, tribal instinct that lies dormant in all of us. Dax J, British DJ and producer, has gone from pirate radio to headlining the world's biggest techno institutions. All the while cultivating a resolutely singular style and an unshakeable attachment to his underground DNA.

Floating in nothingness without direction or purpose. Existence at bay either in a physical space or a mental prison. Like a fish out of water or whale in a tank. What it means to fear support, accepting it with the risk of vulnerability and the ability to be empathic towards others even if they lack the tools to help escape out of your own prison. „Adrift“ distills those feelings while simultaneously dealing with the immensely frustrating reality of large sentient animals held in captivity for our own amusement. Dive in but don’t forget to come back up to inhale the air.

Laboratory rats are born under neon lights, in endlessly stacked plastic trays. Here, the relationship between man and animal is ambivalent: tenderness comes gloved in latex, and the violence of experiments looms on the horizon. With remarkable framing and sound design, Gene:sis takes us right into the animal’s point of view.

Machines work the countryside, birds fly over the fields and robots imitate human movements. Ornithologists and cutting-edge robotics make for an unlikely yet fruitful encounter, as the artist Sandra Schäfer questions post-humanist modes of production. What will the relationship between nature and culture look like in the future?