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Based on the murder of Mahsa Jina Amini by the Iranian morality police, the film shows the situation of women and human rights in Iran since the Islamic Revolution. The hand-drawn animation illustrates a poem by the author Ayeda Alavie.

For Robert Gladitz and Elina Miller, the world suddenly turns upside down when they learn in 2021 that they are going to be parents. One thing is immediately clear to both of them: they want a better world for their son. So they establish a 'thrive village' in a small village in Bali. The community around the young couple grows quickly. A collective that has made it its mission to develop and promote projects that make the world a little bit better. Cooperation comes first. For many, this is also an opportunity to start over and let go of old burdens or traumas.

Egor lives in Irkutsk, Russia, loves ice diving, and is an active proponent of conserving Siberian nature on social media. But with the Russian invasion of Ukraine, his life will change radically.

Studio Ukraine, a collective of artists from Ukraine who have found refuge in Berlin, are working together to make a political statement about the war, using scrap fabric to create cathartic works of art that express their situation. This short documentary introduces the viewer to three members of the group and gives us a glimpse into their lives after recently being displaced in Berlin.

Johannes and Claas – a friendship overshadowed by an inability to express feelings and their lack of prospects. Their walk with a bottle of Korn takes a peculiar journey between bragging and speechlessness, Ballermann-Music and Expressionistic Nature Poetry, folkloric Trachtenverein and toxic masculinity.

Producer and DJ Asōka was inspired by the sudden appearance and disappearance of a 'space jellyfish' 300 million light years away, which could be experienced over Australia in the spring of 2021, to meet the cinematic footage. In the video "Abell 2877" she deals on different levels with the similarities that can be found in the emotional and social attributions towards both the depths of the oceans and outer space, and for this she makes use of elements of repetition and sound modulation. In this way, she attempts to direct the viewer's attention to the perspectival ambivalence, situativity, and transience as well as the inadequacy of undifferentiated, human meaning-making.

It shines bright white on Hamburg's Inner Alster: the façade of the Hotel Vier Jahreszeiten has been freshly painted to mark the 125th anniversary of the world-class luxury hotel. The whole of Hamburg has come to celebrate the legendary hotel's birthday. On February 24, 1897, the Swabian Friedrich Haerlin bought the bankrupt, narrow hotel with eleven rooms on the Alsterbassin at auction. Thanks to ingenious acquisitions and great skill as a hotelier, the hotel became one of the leading international hotels and a Hanseatic institution under its owner.

A ZDF documentary about the first year of government of the traffic light coalition. In the beginning there was the promise of a government of progress. Then came the Ukraine war, an energy crisis and strife.

In the 60th year of the revolution, four young Cubans search for traces of history: Daniel, whose grandfather Faustino Pérez became the first minister for nationalization of property after the revolution, still has a catalog from an auction where confiscated berets and seaside villas were sold. Software programmer Christian traces his grandfather’s path to the Angolan civil war, and Milagro, a history student, tries to understand why the revolution that enabled her to study barely allows her to earn a living when she becomes a professor. Diana is a musician whose grandfather was once one of the founding members of the Orquesta Maravillas de Florida.

The fascinating and partially hidden story of this woman and other former “guest workers” in Germany is told by her daughter, who as a member of the next generation is struggling with her own identity and her relationship with her mother, as well as her mother’s different cultural mindset.

This short, autobiographical documentary combines phone monologues, dashboard camera footage, and visual accounts from social media to make a unique, inside look into the life of an up-and-coming female artist from Baghdad who inevitably crosses paths with political turmoil. Munaf documents her journey from her attempts at creating contemporary art in a very limiting environment, the ISIS invasion, and her emigration to Turkey to the invasion of Ukraine where her parents emigrated to.

After a painful breakup, a young man finds it difficult to let go. Over time, he loses his sense of reality in a tailor-made virtual world.

Two masked figures meet. One of them just asks about the weather, but the conversation quickly becomes unbalanced. Or: This is what coyotes sound like.

Ayala Shoshana Guy tries to grasp the ephemeral: She interweaves her grandfather Jancsi’s story, remembered only in fragments, who left Vienna with his brother Bandi to escape the Nazi regime, with her own inner images, thus questioning them in a way. A ship to Palestine turns into an all-inclusive cruise liner, the vague becomes concrete only to fade away again. Cautious and bold in equal measure, the granddaughter enters shadowy terrain.

His mother starts drinking when he is eight years old. Jan Koester projects photos from his childhood on his own body that tell of loneliness and helplessness in toxic relationships. These Rorschach-like superimposed images put physical abstractions in relation to their violent and alienated surroundings. Shifting between fluid and halting movements, telescoped pixels tugging at each other deconstruct predominant gender norms.

The actor-director picks up the old telephone, hangs up, over and over again ; the soundman records all the takes. We are on the film set of Declan Clarke’s latest opus, What are the wild waves saying? (FID 2022). To concentrate on the sound takes of an almost silent film : here is an economy of attention, of caring for details. Serge Garcia shows us a string of sequences of flourishing activity, culminating in collective silence and careful listening. Until in the end Declan Clarke shares, in voice-over, his artistic and intellectual heritage, the nexus of all the moments of labour and observation shown here. (Nathan Letoré)

Ever since the Euromaidan revolution in 2014, Valentyn's life has been moving in heavy swell. In his hometown of Romny, in the east of Ukraine, he is fighting against corruption, and so against the strongest powers in the country. When Valentyn needs a break, he prepares for his third attempt to cross the Black Sea in his self-built kayak.

I’tikaaf (Arabic: اعتكاف) – “a practice of isolating oneself for a certain number of days, in order to reflect and stay away from worldly affairs” For six months Ahmad and Bilal have been living with Pastor Klaus Wening, unable to leave the house. The film accompanies their time in church asylum, waiting for news about their asylum process in Germany. I’tikaaf tells a story of exile and community, by documenting one station on the long journey of refugees, leaving their home.

A stunning circular pictorial history of church domes, mosques and synagogues treated like clockworks.

The way in which fleeing shapes and changes a person is not only related to the experiences made in their country of origin, and certainly not to their own motivation and strength. LGBT*I*Q+ people who have experienced forced migration encounter a lot of violence and exclusion in Germany and in supposedly "safe" countries. The arrival in Germany is truly complicated, challenging, and layered to say the least. Four BIPoC Queer/Trans*/Non-Binary people sensitively share their personal experiences, their feelings, and their hopes and dreams.

Rebellious daughter Lila wants to introduce her new friend Kim to her strict Catholic parents. But the supposedly peaceful family dinner ends in political disaster.

Borrowing its title from the memoir of early Japanese suffragette Hiratsuka Raichō, In the Beginning, Woman Was the Sun plunges deep into an oceanic vortex of saturated color and fleeting archival images, conjuring moments from the history of Japanese women’s movements in a headlong montage of bodies in protest, pulsating into abstraction.

A family makes a difficult decision that will prove fatal to them.

One man enchants an entire city: Roland Kaiser and his Kaisermania are as much a part of Dresden as the Semperoper and Eierschecke. For a few evenings this year, the grand seigneur of German pop music will transform the banks of the Elbe in Dresden into a sea of lights and the most beautiful party zone in the country. For Kaisermania, the Saxon state capital is in a musical state of emergency.

Found footage, visual postcards written in the 1990s on VHS, fragments of a new life abroad passed on, sent by planes or buses to Kosovo, and pictures sent back from the country. Hugs on platforms, cars leaving, weddings and birthdays. Dancing and tears: lots of tears of joy and despair. Repeatable situations create chronicles of torn lives, uncertainty, and suspended existences.

A girl is riding her bike home. When she arrives home, she is no longer alone. A strange murderer wants to kill her.

"Progress! Progress!" questions the necessity of continual growth, of the exploitation of personal and natural resources to economic needs and technological progress. It presents a hyperactive model of a woodpecker (a children’s toy of the 1950s) driven by a mechanical, technological framework...until resources and time run out.

Night after night, an unsuspecting woman is visited in her sleep by a demon.

What do you see in your dreams? With this question the director turned to friends and acquaintances from Russia, Ukraine, Germany, USA, Italy, Israel and Somalia. Dreams and nightmares combined into a poetic story about life and death, in which the traumatic experiences of the last war in Donbass, personal losses, experience of life with coronavirus, humor, surrealism and eroticism found their place.

Older citizens from a little German town meet refugees in an upcycle-workshop. There they not only create new clothes out of donated knitting ware, but also form new connections with each other.

One evening, a prison director announces to a convict his execution for the next day. As though by a miracle, later at night the cell door opens. Exhausted by endless interrogations the convict drags on through dark prison corridors. On his odyssey to gain freedom he is tossed back and forth through various mental states: his fear of being discovered, his hope for salvation and moments of sheer madness.

25 girls from Israel and Germany set off on a journey to learn and sing songs.

In his new work The Geometry Of Hope, media artist Daniel Laufer adapts Annette von Droste-Hülshoff's „Die Judenbuche“. He follows the traces of scripture in the "German" forest: How has culture irrevocably inscribed itself into nature there for 200 years? How do we speak and write about the planet? And to which social minorities are images attributed, against which they must measure themselves?

The dog park is a meeting place for four-legged friends and their owners, who sometimes can't stand each other any more than their furry companions. People of different origins and beliefs face each other. But this is not the right place for discussions. Or maybe it is?

Combining colourful Tableaux Vivants, – re-stagings of art historical references – with chimerically orchestrated scenes, and playful and improvised performances in a low-tech, DIY-style surrealist setting. Through interactions between bodies, objects, and spaces, mothers and children re-re-re-assemble and turn maternal fantasies into playful experiences, personal narratives into social questions, and body dimensions into fields of interaction.

Mara is a femme revenge body horror for the digital age. In a hybrid form of scripted scenes and live cam footage it explores the female body as breeding ground for artistic expression and liberation for the female psyche.

Three South Korean women in their thirties, who have successful careers, are considering whether to freeze their eggs so that they can become mothers when they want to. Between social pressure and self-assertion, this is an intimate look at a pivotal age.