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The protagonist is haunted by cruel forces. Or is it all just a bad dream?

A resident is challenged by demons from another realm in his closet.

The famous bust of Nefertiti, queen of ancient Egypt, wife of Akhenaten, the heretic pharaoh of the 18th dynasty, has been on display in the Neues Museum in Berlin since 1913. But why is it not, as valuable as it is, in its country of origin, where it was discovered in December 1912 by the German archaeologist Ludwig Borchardt?

One hot summer night in New Orleans a drag collective staged wrestling night. They dressed up as their vibrant alter-egos, and proceeded to beat the living daylights out each other while the audience collectively lost their shit. That night, Chokehole was born. This documentary follows Chokehole as they take the show to Germany, sharing the stories of cast members as they grapple with racism, gender conformism, queer identity and America’s suppression of the arts. The film depicts the artists both with and without drag, sharing their larger-than-life and theatrical alter egos while displaying the unique vulnerabilities that lie behind the character.

While the youth of Chemnitz is seeking its way into adulthood, the former GDR industrial menopolis is struggling to guide them along the way.

The film deals with the decades-long development of the legal prosecution of the crimes committed in Auschwitz, using the last trials as a mirror of the first Auschwitz trials in the 1960s.

Medieval time travelers on a flying visit to the future, the so-called present, and the not-so-distant past encounter burgers, SUVs, esotericists, and a mammoth, and then (spoiler alert) return to the past.

Transience is about a love that blooms quickly and burns brightly. How it stirs the soul and quickens the heart. Like a flame, it flickers and dances, illuminating the darkness, warming the cold. It is a love that knows no bounds, that lives and dies in the same breath. Without games or pretense you lay yourself bare in hope of acceptance. A journey of exploration and discovery. And yet, as quickly as it begins, a transient romance can end just as suddenly. An opening act for the melancholy symphony. But even in its brevity, it can leave a lasting impact on our souls. We become both student and teacher, we hold and feel held, we lean fearlessly into time’s consequence. Let us reel in its beauty and it struggles, its joys and its pains. As we somersault through life, let’s not forget that to lose a connection it must first be found.

In 1942 there was war almost everywhere: people who experienced that year, women, men and children, mostly civilians, tell about it in the six-part documentary series "1942. Tales of War". Letters, diaries, biographies and testimonies handed down orally bring to life the lives of those people who were shaped by the war.

How does fatherhood change men? From the moment their partner becomes pregnant, men can experience hormonal, neural, and psychological changes. Fatherhood as seen by scientists and recounted by three new dads.

The “Painting Skills for Africa” association has been traveling to Rwanda for 10 years now. They support local institutions through social projects. They are painting schools, kindergartens and hospitals. Always at eye level with the journeymen and vocational students.

Anahita grows up in the company of her father's camera. Confronted with his death, the film searches for answers between love and death. With the help of her father's archive material, the director sketches an intimate, poetic and deeply personal portrait of the relationship between father and daughter.

An audiovisual artist’s doubts about her failing marriage trigger a mysterious sound that becomes impossible to ignore.

On my bike Im here and somewhere else at the same time. The place of movement is the inbetween, the inbetween is where thinking takes place: about the fleeting now, family and the perfect bike.

Hanna and Leila, two feminist filmmakers, have only read about their pioneers in books. The pair's cinematic quest begins after they find an old VHS tape. In 1975, the first women's bookstore opened in Munich: For the first time, men are not allowed in. Even after all these years, the owners demonstrate their militant stance. We are too prudish and too well-behaved for them - can we learn from each other? What unites and what separates our generations?

Finding their own way in the big city of Berlin after a refugee experience - this occupies the five Somali sisters Jameela, Jehan, Noura, Aidah and Johara just as much as schoolwork, plans for the future and the revolt of the youngest against traditional views.

H.264 infrared video – a compressed, wide-angle image of a security camera shows a sparse, exchangeable interior room in which a young woman resides. For professional reasons, she is monitoring office spaces and employees until she turns her gaze to the inside. Tanita Olbrich paints the psychogram of a fragile person to whom everything seems suspicious.

Investor Lars Windhorst surprisingly invested in Hertha BSC in 2019, giving the club great ambitions and financial resources. However, the dream turned into a nightmare for the fans: a change of coach, a lack of strategy and a dispute with the investor led to a crisis. The documentary shows the most difficult years in the club's 130-year history and gives the fans a voice. Embarrassments such as the departure of Jürgen Klinsmann, the coronavirus affair involving Salomon Kalou and the espionage scandal surrounding Windhorst and President Gegenbauer followed. The era of manager Michael Preetz ended, but the problems worsened under Fredi Bobic. The change of president with Kay Bernstein brought fans and club closer together, but the sporting decline ultimately led to relegation. The fallen Big City club now faces an uncertain future.

A man finds his wife dead with an anonymous note after coming home.

In his film, Marcel Kolvenbach follows in the footsteps of his grandmother's first husband: the Jew Fritz Kann. He was deported in 1942 - exactly 9 months before the filmmaker's father was born - and murdered by the Nazis in Izbica. Is Marcel Kolvenbach Fritz Kann's grandson or does he owe his existence to the fact that Fritz Kann was deported and murdered?

Five friends meet again after decades. They just want to have a little fun in the hut. In doing so they awaken a threat that has been deep asleep since World War 2. A series of absurdities begins and if you want to survive, you have to be faster than the TINGER!

The macro 3D camera roams through different windowless spaces that oscillate between bunker and club architecture. There one encounters human-sized praying mantises and stick insects with no determinable sex. CLUB BUNKER has traits of a hallucinatory memory, in which an acute danger always resonates.

intimate portrait of queer photographer Leo Maki. A dreamlike journey into his mind that explores the artists life in Poland, the creative process behind his work and the embrace of his own sexuality.

The town of Kupyansk was one of the first places in Ukraine to fall to Russian invaders. Six months later it was recaptured by Ukraine. Left in the ruins of the town, residents are now grappling with questions of guilt and complicity. This film reconstructs the mechanisms of the occupation with those who lived through it: those who were at some point able to flee, and those who stayed. The documentary hears from residents who collaborated as well as those who resisted, whether openly or in secret. It illustrates a panorama of life under occupation and poses the big questions of guilt and complicity.

Body Image is a fully hand-animated social spot of about 60 seconds in length. It addresses the topic of Body Image Disorder and the distorted ways in which we perceive ourselves compared to how the world perceives us.

Juliane Ebner reflects on her childhood in Stralsund, at a time when the city was still part of the GDR.

More than a quarter of Munich’s urban population is younger than 27. However, many young adults do not feel sufficiently represented in the city. Nightowls Munich focuses on the often invisible world of this generation.

In this short film the viewer is following a wide-opened eye, which is looking for something it views as “home”.The search leads the eye through different locations, movies and even literature. But eye is a restless observing force, the images themselves are not stable at all.

In the heart of Madrid a ravaged forest lays calm in the aftermath of the storm. Shepherds, sheep and dogs roam among the branches of uprooted trees. Above them, the city resounds with birdsong and underneath we hear the murmurs of the herd. Old walls, new barriers enclose this territory. At night its borders dissolve on the hilltop. Under a black sky the contours of its inhabitants emerge. The land rings out and the city glimmers.

The Eastern Railway connects Europe with Asia. Containers roll by, anonymous and abstract. On the basis of two different states, this work unfurls an interplay of silence and noise, which is given a visual counterpart with presence and absence. A space where the rhythms of nature and economy collide in different temporalities. Colossal volumes move along predetermined routes from east to west between producing and consuming countries and leave their traces . The footage presents a chronology of cargo movement within a 24-hour economy. An overwhelming flow of material that has a challenging effect on observers.

The Bergmans have gathered for a family meeting. As a specific topic arises, Victor is confronted with memories of his past that could have had serious consequences for the entire family had events unfolded as he had envisioned.

The film analyzes the greatest - and all man-made - threats to humanity: nuclear weapons, climate change, digital disinformation and the loss of democracy.

Andrei Proskuryakov's documentary delves into a profound examination and contemplation of the events that transpired on January 31, 1945. On that day, the Nazis perpetrated a large-scale execution of approximately 3,000 prisoners from the Stutthof concentration camp on the shores of the Baltic Sea, near the village of Palmnicken in East Prussia. The film is meticulously structured around three pivotal individuals: Martin Bergau, a former Hitler Youth member who was connected to the tragedy; Gunther Nitsch, a German-American writer whose grandfather was involved in exhuming the victims» bodies; and Simcha Koplowicz, the son of Sheva Koplowicz, a survivor of the massacre. Through these characters, the documentary meticulously examines the historical silence that surrounded this tragedy and endeavors to reveal the unvarnished truth surrounding the event.

A dreamlike story of coming of age, depicting a transgender protagonist who takes his younger self, KID, on a journey through the woods in summer. Interwoven in different timelines, encounters with a horse and a motocross bike suggest the protagonist's literal and metaphorical coming-of-age as a gesture of friendship with the inner child.

The animated puppet film „the way to a man's heart" tells the story of a dog who falls in love with a single gentleman. As a sign of his love, he leaves a dog turd in front of the man's door every morning. The story unfolds about misunderstandings and the failure of gestures where there is no match. The film's cute aesthetics stands in strong contrast to the drama of the conflict in which both protagonists become entangled.

a short film about a stop over.

A desert critter casts the shadow of a palm tree. No other animal has such a shadow. Can the animal exchange it? A reflection on identity and a story about the friendship of two animals that stay together regardless of their species.