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What does it mean to be a human being with the desire to experience life in all its facets, when the freedom of the individual is threatened with suffocation by wars and increasingly restrictive governments? A poetic confrontation with the poem "you know that you are human" by Vasyl Symonenko.
Marco, an 18-year-old footballer from the small village of Lindorf, is about to get the chance of a lifetime: a contract with a major club. But while the whole village celebrates his success, Marco’s fear of the unknown grows. Between Schützenfest celebrations and old friendships, he searches for a way out that will allow him to remain in the world he knows.
Nine-year-old Miranda and her siblings are neurodiverse. Miranda, who has ADHD, navigates between school, family, and leisure time. In this documentary, she and her siblings portray their everyday lives from their point of view. Filming each other with a camcorder, they show what it means to be a neurodiverse child.
Set in a mysterious dark forest inhabited by luminescent slug-like creatures, our protagonist feels disgust over the community's habit of consuming rotten plants. Driven by a refusal to conform, he decides to abandon communal life, causing his own glow to dim. However when he stumbles upon a dying slug deep within the forest, he can't resist his craving for it's fading light and he extracts it out of the body. But the euphoria and heightened glow he experiences are short-lived which leads to unexpected consequences...
Rick finds out that his father has murdered his whole family, even Rick himself...
A young woman’s quiet evening turn into fear when strange noises disturb her bedtime routine.
A young queer person encounters the community grave of 12 elderly lesbians. This intergenerational encounter sparks a discourse on coexistence and (co) dying within the LGBTQIA+ community. We follow the young person as they navigate expectations and share their thoughts on death and queer community.
The Impossibility of Showing What Should Never Have Happened examines the persistent impact of National Socialist child rearing ideals in post-war Germany. Specifically, it focuses on how the parenting book "The German Mother and Her First Child" by Johanna Haarer, infused with Nazi ideology, remained in publication, demonstrating the enduring influence of these ideas. The work investigates the continued existence of these harmful practices in a society supposedly moving beyond them.
Summer camp with my best friend? Great. But in the camp, Nastii suddenly feels quite alone. Fortunately, a unicorn appears. Or unfortunately.
After a fruit fly flies into her roommate's eye, the protagonist sets off on a journey through her brain to remove the intruder.
Fucking cathedral. Fucking opera. Fucking film museum. These shit-representative piles of stone against the human finger, made of flesh and blood, the one against the other.
Four kayakers (ab)use rafting as a means to catch fish on Slovenia’s chalk stream called Krka. Casting flies amongst castles and cattails, this became the arena for a gruelling competition that applied pressure of all kinds.
In 1991, the Schwarze Pumpe energy centre in Lusatia is phased out. Tens of thousands lose their jobs, hoping for better times. Today, the dirt and feelings of the past keep coming up.
Who owns the land? Legend has it that ex-prime minister Silvio Berlusconi stole a dune in Sardinia, while the locals are fighting for their land and struggling with their dependence on tourism. La Duna is an irresistibly cathartic and humorous documentary that intertwines a portrait of a community with absurd almost-fairytales.
A composer recounts a dream from his youth that inspired the slow movement of his first string quartet, Prayer of the Sea. The dream, depicting a peaceful dissolution into the sea and wind, symbolized his future death. Decades later, rediscovering a drawing from the quartet's premiere - perfectly capturing the dream’s essence - revived its emotions. Now older, he reflects on the dream’s message: a serene acceptance of life’s inevitable end. Prayer of the Sea is an audiovisual elegy offering a calm perspective on the universal experience of passing.
During a cozy evening in front of the tv with sparkling wine and creamy tarts, Betty tells her friends Stefan and Gesa about her four-month stay in a neurological research institute, which results in them eventually revealing absurd and formative experiences from their own pasts. In the background other figures lurk, waiting for their chance to butt in and add their own to cents.
“Morning,” “Noon,” “Evening”: a day set to music by Joseph Haydn. Italian conductor Giovanni Antonini and his ensemble Il Giardino Armonico perform the Austrian composer’s symphonic trilogy in the sumptuous Haydn Hall of the Esterházy Palace in Austria, the very place where it was first performed. More than 250 years later, a true alchemy unfolds in this historic setting between the musicians and the three works.
A mixed-media animation in which artist Julie grapples with her imposter syndrome by coming into conflict with her newly developed werewolf personality, who would rather spend time with her band than focus on work. Now the two sides are at odds, as Julie's work deadline falls on the same day as her band's gig! Will she manage to be there for her friends by accepting her wilder side?
An urgent appointment a sky-blue bike and a familiar surprise.
A short film.
The in medias res monologue of Margarete during her stay in Buenos Aires questions to what extent, having thoughts in a loop reveals truths or obstructs paths of forgetting. A process which is so essential for the survival of human emotions, just as much as not forgetting.
On a Monday morning in Berlin, Rachelle is driving home. Issaka, far away in Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso, writes her a message. Rachelle replies with one of her special messages, a reminder of the long night. Her nocturnal journey took her through Tiergarten. Surrounded by darkness, places seem smaller, almost unreal. A cinematic nocturne that appropriates space through language.
In the documentary series Always Hamburg, director Tom Häussler accompanies Hamburger SV over a period of three years to capture moments behind the scenes and personal and sporting moments involving the board, coaches, and players.
A trip on line 4 from Schlebusch to Bocklemünd.
At Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, a man jumps over a barrier. Within seconds, five police officers catch him and push him to the ground. He laughs loudly. Evidently, this is exactly what he was aiming for. Dario is disappointed with current climate policies and sees only one solution: strike out and resist. His resistance has already led to several outstanding criminal proceedings against him in Germany. A request from Switzerland comes at just the right moment to prove himself further: the activist group “Klimastreik” is looking for someone who is willing to commit a “crime”.
Levi is 17 and alone in his room. When his brother stops by—broad, confident, his father's favorite—Levi suddenly feels too thin for this world. While trying on clothes, his gaze lingers on his own silhouette. Through quiet moments and casual comments, the film tells a subtle story about body image, insecurity, and the question: When are you actually "enough"?
While hoping for an advanced prosthesis, Nina faces the limits of her device — a journey between human and technology, ending in groundbreaking surgery.
Can AI play music like a human being? Can it improvise or perform complicated music with sensitivity and style? This documentary explores what happens when machines simulate creativity with two pianists, Kit Armstrong and Michael Wollny, who are both undertaking research with artificial intelligence.
Elke Kruse lives alone on her old farm in North Frisia. She was born during the Nazi regime in 1935, was a queen of the shooting range, and mainly tends to her beautiful garden these days. But there’s a mole that regularly destroys the gorgeous idyll with holes and black mounds of dirt. Elke wants revenge and hatches a plan. A documentary western set against the vast Frisian horizon.
Two retro-gaming special agents go on a nearly impossible mission to retrieve a CD-ROM from a space station orbiting the earth.
Shot on 35mm film and hand-developed on negative stock, this abstract experimental animation immerses the viewer in the psychological atmosphere of life inside a bunker. Through distorted visuals and fragmented rhythms, it explores the blurred line between physical confinement and mental unraveling. As the shelter becomes a pressure chamber of the soul, hallucinations and inner fears begin to seep through the cracks. The film is less a narrative than a sensory experience — a descent into the emotional and perceptual dissonance of isolation.
Interviews with the last living contemporary witnesses of the Nazi era, focusing on those who were involved at the time, the followers and accomplices of the regime. Almost no one from this generation ever spoke about that time after 1945; in German families, the subject was taboo—the unspoken.
Blargh is a passive little feller. Everything just kind of happens around him, while he’s keeping it all in. So much that he discovers a ball of black goo in his stomach.
By introducing various personal ‘antidotes’ to loneliness such as a kitchen light, the sound of a radio, or the flight of cranes, Circles contemplates the perpetual oscillation between loneliness and solace, light and dark, silence and company as something inherent to and shared by humans and nature.
Desperate to reignite the spark of creative inspiration that made her a Wunderkind, 29-year-old Heather embarks on a quest for heartache to give her artistic voice as a writer depth and find an idea for her new novel. Heather must discover, that the true heartache lies in not being a Wunderkind anymore, and that it is time to take center stage in her own life.
Short film.
Heir to the great voices of jazz, Dianne Reeves is renowned for her vocal virtuosity and improvisational skills. With Beautiful Life, her latest studio album to date, the singer won her fifth Grammy Award. The American also holds two honorary doctorates from Berklee College of Music and The Juilliard School.
The Atlantic migration route is one of the most dangerous escape routes in the world. It leads from the West African coast—from countries such as Senegal, Gambia, and Mauritania—across the open Atlantic to the Spanish Canary Islands. Despite the great risks, thousands of people venture across the sea every year in simple, often overloaded wooden boats. Many of them disappear without a trace at sea.
The small Italian volcanic island of Linosa, south of Sicily, is home to one of the largest colonies of cuttlefish shearwaters in the Mediterranean. According to legend, the birds, with their distinctive song, provided the inspiration for Homer's epic poem: Odysseus had himself tied to the mast of his ship so he could safely listen to the song of the Sirens.
In Germany, the memorable performance by reggae artist Alborosie and his band, the Shengen Clan, at the 2025 Summerjam Festival.
Between minesweeper and family photos, the filmmaker faces the grief over the grandfather with radical honesty. A rough yet deeply tender work of remembrance.
In the 1970s, a small Greek island emerges as a symbol of hope, freedom, and self-expression. Mykonos was "paradise on earth," and for some, it still is.
With his unparalleled sense of melody, Kölsch has been a pillar of the international techno scene for years. His releases on the Kompakt label and his collaborations with artists like Tiga or Sasha demonstrate his ability to effortlessly bridge the gap between emotion and energy. At Street Parade 2025, he will deliver a set as euphoric as it is deep—a sensational show tailored for the dancefloor.
Through the vanishing of 32 porcelain chess pieces, the film follows the fate of a Jewish collection looted by the Nazis.