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Hunter from Elsewhere: A Journey with Helen Britton accompanies the artist on her search for valuable and everyday materials and her exploration of almost forgotten craft techniques and shows her encounters with the last remaining custodians of a fading knowledge.
J. S. Bach's Johannespassion performed in the Royal Chapel of the Château de Versailles in April 2024 by period forces including the Orchestre de l’Opéra Royal directed by Gaétan Jarry and the Tölzer Knabenchor.
From 2019 to 2024, a video team followed the production, focusing on the impressive efforts of the crew and their various trades. The footage provides an authentic and powerful look behind the production scenes: from intricate stage construction and lighting design to pyrotechnics, logistics, and countless other tasks. It highlights the expertise, tireless dedication, close collaboration, and sense of responsibility of an exceptional crew - qualities essential to creating a show of this magnitude.
The abyss looks into you. You can‘t escape from paradise, even if the cage is covered with towels. But they try. With eagles they try.
Documentary on the commemoration of the Holocaust.
With a gentle gaze, the artist Annelie Schrötter approaches the six people portrayed from different angles in the first part of her portrait series, creating a kaleidoscopic short film about the human and the personal.
They've known each other for over 20 years and have been making music together for around 15. Nils Wülker and Arne Jansen are constantly reinventing the space in which their musical ideas flourish.
An international group of scientists is using AI to decipher the communication patterns of pigs in different environments: what do their squeals and grunts tell us about their mood? Follow the impressive process of this large-scale research and get an answer to the question: are pigs happier at an organic farm than at an industrial mass farm?
It is common in Germany to tell children the weather will be good the next day if they finish their food. What has been lost over time is that this stems from a misinterpretation of the Northern German dialect. Beclouded, Bedimmed questions the narratives that have been carried along.
A coming-of-age story realised in collaboration with two young Turkish women, Asyu Naz Demirkan and her older sister Azra Nur Demirkan, boxers from the greater Munich area. They grapple with identity and womanhood through the prism of women’s sports.
A watch with history helps Theo write his own story.
Pregnancy, birthing and parental care are strongly charged social roles. The partly absurd public discourse about them – reinforced by hyper-positive media images and stereotypes – makes natural concerns feel less and less natural. Evolutionary necessities have been turned into ciphers whose collective emotional over-forming leaves next to no space for personal experience. In this phase of life, self-awareness and external perception often diverge substantially. There is usually little room, neither for fears and doubts nor for any other emotion, outside the generally prescribed bliss. Prenatal stages of development seem pre-defined, standardised, tried and tested. Little can be done “right”, much “wrong”. Every decision for or against a pre-natal optimisation measure counts. Nothing is left to chance.
In autumn 1989, many Leipzig citizens lost patience with the GDR. Within weeks, they brought down a forty-year-old state apparatus resistant to change by rallies. Now their patience is tested again: In 2008, the German Bundestag promised the “City of Heroes” of the Peaceful Revolution a monument. Planning has been going on and on … Leipzig bears the waiting with equanimity; after all, it was not idle in the meantime. Right after reunification, the citizenry took charge of its culture of remembrance with such vigour that the monuments are piling up today. Looking up to the crown of the palm tree of the Nikolai Column, one had better take care not to step on a commemorative plaque, fall into a commemorative fountain or bump into a commemorative bell.
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.
In the spring of 2022, an international tourist group will make a day trip to Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank to visit religious sites. But something is wrong here - the whole city is on strike. The two tour guides, one Israeli, the other Palestinian, do not want to comment on the matter. A murmur goes around about an incident the day before…
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.
The life of a young man gets sped up, as he finds a mysterious Button, that could fix his life. But he only can use it once.
The film follows Dima’s internal struggle as he grapples with deadly sins, symbolized by animals from Dante’s Divine Comedy. His relationship with Katya and encounters with the Panther, She-wolf, and Lion reveal his inner demons and moral dilemmas.
Relating to current discourses on class issues, Kerstin Honeit addresses social structures that lead to great economic inequality. In a poetic and resistant narrative created in cooperation with members of the Berlin Street Choir and her family, »decors of poverty« from the artist's milieu of origin meet the architecture of the Steglitzer Kreisel, a highly symbolic ruin of real estate speculation. The high-rise, finished in early 1980, housed once the district office, and therefore as well the social welfare office.
Filmed performance or public filming? Theater or cinema? What is the influence of the audience on intimate relationships, and vice versa? Sold Out is a live threesome, between two femmes and a photographer. The magnificent lounge of the Spoutnik cinema is transformed into an explicit playground. Around the Camera and through the screen, the performers' bodies tune in for the lens and then ignite for the audience.
In 2016, South Africa's Ombudsman Thuli Madonsela published a report revealing a vast system of corruption at the highest level of the state. She dubbed the phenomenon "State Capture". After trying at all costs to prevent its publication, then-President Jacob Zuma was forced to resign in 2018. A member of the African National Congress (ANC), Nelson Mandela's party, the deposed leader refused to testify before the commission of inquiry that incriminated him, while the malfeasance continued.
In the heart of Sardinia lies a table mountain: difficult to access, deserted, and barren. Here live hundreds of feral horses of an ancient breed – and among them, a quirky loner, the last of a long line of sheep and goat herders. The Giara di Gesturi volcanic plateau, with its cork oaks and lakes, is one of the world's last landscapes where feral horses gallop freely. Rain floods the meadows in winter, and during the droughts in summer, the shallow, temporary lakes dry up completely.
A short film about two girls spending the summer together.
A surreal political saga unfolds within the walls of Germany's most iconic police station. Reimagined in an alternative universe. A crew of journalists uncovers the station's peculiar secret: the so-called "butterfly trick" - the only means of escape.
"If my Lusatia is no longer Sorbian, then I'll riot!" - is the maxim of two young Sorbians, Mira and Luka. In Som Doma, Mira and Luka are accompanied as they produce a short film, which seeks to address queer topics in their supposedly conservative Sorbian community. Between the dying Sorbian language and queer-hostile voices in their environment, Mira and Luka search for their place in their own home.
A young student gifts her lifetime to a man terminally ill with cancer to accompany him in his dying process. Although all the signs point to farewell, for him it is like having birthday every day. How can you be ready for death when you still have very strong goals in life? A documentary short film about living and dying, about fears and hopes.
Artur is not really concentrated in the today’s wrestling training session. He cannot perform on his full potential. Additionally, his coach sets him under pressure because of the competition next week. It is all too much for Artur and he suffers a panic attack. He must learn to open up to his wrestling mate, because there is something is weighing on him mentally.
Every Saturday morning, locals of a remote village in Georgia's mountainous region of Racha take a bus to the weekly bazaar in the nearest larger town to sell their goods and make purchases. The observational documentary short film follows the villagers on their journey to the market and gives a very atmospheric feeling for the hardship of this long summer day.
A short independent film from Berlin.
Souly presents his new mixtape "Bossbaby Tape" live and unplugged, accompanied by an orchestra. Filmed entirely in split screen.
13-year-old Arminius navigates the contrasting worlds of his unique sport: chessboxing. In one moment, he is immersed in the calm concentration of the chessboard; in the next, he is engaged in the intense physicality of the boxing ring. This challenging balance extends into his home life, where his father, also his boxing coach, imposes rigorous training. Together, they prepare for the upcoming German championship.
The relationship between psyche, body, and socialization are sources of mental and physical strain. Personal thought patterns collide with societal demands, leading to thought loops that are reflected in a nonlinear narrative. The protagonist’s discomfort is made palpable through a collage of bleak everyday fragments, dance exercises, music, and flickering effects. Between rage and despair, the feeling of isolation is explored. How can we change mental structures? Where do we find strength? The answers reveal a long, endless path.
