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In order to avoid being tagged, the shadow must run away. Only the body to which the shadow belongs can escape to protect the shadow from the catcher’s evil kick. When the feet detach from the ground, the connection between the three-dimensional and two-dimensional figures breaks. Ultimately, all the children’s shadows get caught while the pigeons fly away in the sky.
Documentary about German rock band Ihre Kinder.
A woman who cannot sleep, a sinkhole in the road, and a hospital that floods intertwine as the city's 'body' collides with a 'wave'.
On the night of August 17, 1969, the former GDR professional swimmer Axel Mitbauer swam from Boltenhagen (former GDR) to the Bay of Lübeck (former FRG). He covered a distance of around 25 km through the Baltic Sea. Before his spectacular escape from the GDR regime, he was imprisoned and interrogated by the Stasi (former secret police of the GDR) for several weeks as a result of various circumstances. As a grim consequence of his arrest, Axel Mitbauer was banned from sport and swimming in the GDR for life - the death blow to his sporting career in his former homeland and at the same time the impetus for one of the most unique escape attempts in the history of divided Germany. This film tells his story.
In 2022, theater director and dramaturge Evgenia Berkovich wrote poems about the Russian-Ukrainian war. She is imprisoned in Russia for “public incitement to terrorism”. Before the verdict was announced on January 9, 2024, she gave her final speech in poetry.
A comedic short film that tells the fictional life of Eduard Schulze in 10 scenes.
Don't make a fuss
Fort Gross Friedrichsburg is located in Ghana, formerly known as the Gold Coast. A relic from the colonial era, it serves as a reminder of the years of Brandenburg occupation. Forts like this one line the entire coast. These former slave trading hubs are now World Heritage Sites, silent witnesses to a time that still casts a shadow over the everyday lives of the people here.
The "Mainzer Straßenkarneval" as the setting: a camera and a microphone gone astray.
In the privileged suburbs of a Mexican city, Lucas, a boy on the cusp of puberty, tries to find his place—torn between friendship, desire, and violence. The film paints a portrait of youth, especially in those moments when tenderness and complicity collide with toxic behavior, misogyny, and dark humor. This coming-of-age film is a reflection on the invisible patterns that shape human behavior and are often passed on unnoticed among Mexican youth, especially in the upper social classes. The film invites us not to judge, but to take a closer look at how these forces shape identity and relationships.
All cyclists are beautiful: Can is actually doing everything right, he's straightforward and honest – until he suddenly finds himself caught in the crossfire on the streets of Neukölln. The charge: theft.
The same circumstances led three people to flee: they are Russian and queer. But their experiences in exile in Germany could not be more different. David longs for community, Evgeniy struggles with professional and language barriers, while Sanya experiences the feeling of being normal for the first time. The film accompanies the three protagonists in a kaleidoscope of memories, belonging, and the future.
The artist Fabian Widukind Penzkofer and his embroideries entitled “Das Personal” (The Staff) have made their way to Lusatia. The excerpt from the audio diary, accompanied by snapshots from Weißwasser and the surrounding area, recounts chance encounters with the locals.
The artist and choreographer use oral history and bodies to make visible how deeply the Dutch colonization of Southeast Asia is engraved in the collective memory.
An intimate look at American artist Nancy Atakan, who has spent 50 years balancing life as a visible minority in Istanbul.
A Palestinian family deals with the loss of their 22-year-old son Omar after he was shot dead by the Israeli military. The film follows Omar's younger brother, his sister and his mother who live in a Palestinian refugee camp near Bethlehem, West Bank. While Omar’s sister Rama holds onto old memories and pictures, his brother Mohammad rarely talks about Omar’s death. But one evening, above the roofs of the camp, he shares his deepest thoughts about the future with his best friend. Omar's death has left deep marks on the siblings and their own will to live. While they struggle to move on with their lives, Omar’s mother is torn between pride and grief. She believes in the meaning of his death as a martyr.
A documentary film about being queer and Cypriot. It tells the story of six queer Cypriots and their experiences of migration from Cyprus to Berlin. As we move through the streets of the two cities, we see Nicosia as a city experiencing emigration while Berlin as a city that has become a new “home.”
How long spring-wound cameras will continue to exist depends solely on us humans.
In the stairwell of a pizzeria hangs an unknown painting. As one of hundreds of props in a First-Person Shooter video game, it receives no attention from the players. But its story reveals an unrecognized privilege.
Karola Pfaffinger makes it a principle that the term sex work emphasises the work and not the voyeuristically illustrated sex.
Jakob and Konne, two adventurous fathers bring their two year old sons, on a six-day mountain bike tour through the Swiss Alps. From rumbling stomachs and croissant crises to unavoidable tantrums – what begins as an ideal plan quickly turns into a test of patience for all four.
13-year-old Marta lives in Taranto Vecchia, a little island in southern Italy. In the limited space of her hometown, located right next to a steel factory, global and personal issues densify like under a magnifying glass.
The super-rich mafia boss Mr. Manni-Money plans to build a hotel complex in a nature reserve, but an ordinary citizen named Ed Grau has a problem with it. But nothing is as it seems...
Video installation, two-channel. Commissioned by Fundação Bienal de São Paulo for the 36th Bienal.
A nonsense film, perhaps. This Super 8 cassette (Kodak Plus-X) lay forgotten in my possession for 15 years until I developed it. That's why the film is so faded, damaged and knackered! (Dagie Brundert)
Fascinatingly, moors are both water and land. They are home to rare plants, special animals, and enormous amounts of carbon. However, these unique ecosystems are now rarely found in Germany. For economic reasons, 95 percent of them have been drained, posing a massive threat to our climate. Drainage turns climate protectors into climate killers, emitting huge amounts of carbon dioxide every year. In this film, researchers, farmers, and politicians have their say. How can these areas be successfully renaturalized? It won't be easy.
This film addresses the emotional absence of parents in a digitalized world. Inspired by Edward Tronick's scientific "still face" experiment, it shows how children are suddenly left alone in shared moments—not physically, but emotionally. Adults disappear behind glass panes, symbolic of smartphone screens, into their own reality, while children desperately seek attention.
What if an old clock could show us our memories? An elderly woman finds it. And soon even the king knows about it...
Environmental disasters, pollution, war. No wonder the alien doesn't want to stay on Earth. Off to new planets!
A chance find at the flea market: an old football-fan vest, covered with the patches and slogans of the football team SV Darmstadt. To whom did it once belong? Moreover, what is behind the phenomenon? Those colourful, never-washed denim frocks worn by rock fans at heavy metal concerts or football fans in sports stadiums? A good-humoured road trip exploring passion, rivalry, and belonging.
An aging Osho commune in rural Germany. The dream of enlightenment and free love still echoes, but the winds of change are impossible to ignore. Wahhab is the caretaker of this community and faces the slow fading of things with his unwavering cordless drill.
In Between the Waves Charlotte Ming examines the narratives of German colonial rule in her hometown Qingdao, reaching into personal and historical recollections, interwoven with her own migration experience in Berlin.
What happens when we can no longer agree on a collective reality, when the line between truth and delusion blurs? When Emma introduces her boyfriend, who is invisible, to her parents, the dinner escalates, and Emma realizes that she must choose between two realities.
Nurse Teresa is forced to leave her children home alone to start her shift. When her son injures his head, she, as the only registered nurse, cannot leave the ward. Her ex-husband steps in at home but threatens to revoke Teresa's custody of her son. At the same time, a patient suffers cardiac arrest, and Teresa is fighting for his life.
A poetic journey through Kira's seventh birthday, where memories of loss are softened by the unwavering hope and companionship of her loyal dog, Curly Joe.
A building collapses in Mumbai, tenants film the ruins of their apartments. Cinema switches from celluloid to digital, veterans lament the loss of their craft. A candy store causes traffic jams and is demolished. On a soap opera set, 200 crew members watch as a leopard kills a stray dog.
Obsessed with expanding her family video archive, Ulana plans a trip to her hometown, now under Russian bombardment, but as she plans, everything begins to fall apart.
In 2014, German war photographer and Pulitzer Prize winner Anja Niedringhaus was killed in an attack in Afghanistan. Through interviews with colleagues and family members, and through Niedringhaus’ vibrant and powerful photographs, Sonya Winterberg’s documentary paints the portrait of a woman full of joie de vivre and curiosity – but also reveals the political backgrounds to her murder and the failure of the German and Afghan security services that made this tragedy possible in the first place.
You enter a calm yet unfamiliar world, lying dormant when you arrive. As you explore its surroundings, the world gradually opens up, revealing its light. The more you engage with it, the more you become enveloped in a soothing yet lively awakening, full of surprises.
Short film about death.
Shangri-La (2023) journeys through Mongolia from an intercultural perspective, reflecting on tradition, modernity, and the tension between indigenous and Western belief systems. As filmmakers from industrialized nations — Germany and South Korea — we critically examine our own positions as outsiders, questioning the ways in which histories, environments, and ways of knowing are perceived and represented.
Do I want to go, do I have to go?
The internet is no longer working due to an accident. People in the city and in the mountains are searching for reception. United in the lack of connection.
As a nun, Elisabeth‘s faith is unshakeable. But shortly before taking her final vows, a love from her youth reappears, stirring memories of the past and long-buried desires. Now Elisabeth must choose: will she devote her life to the convent, or is love more important after all?
"What kind of times are these, when talking about trees is almost a crime? Because it implies silence about so many misdeeds!" Bertolt Brecht from the poem "To Those Born After," written in exile in Denmark between 1934 and 1938. A poetry film.
Since the 1980s, twin sisters Yvonne and Susy Klos have been enriching the Munich punk scene with their electro-Dadaist performances. Their work is directed against right-wing ideologies, social brutalization, and the normalization of authoritarian thinking, and is satirical, radical, and anarchic. The film accompanies the twins for three days around the federal elections in February 2025—a moment when political alliances between the CDU and AfD provoke public outrage and protests across the country. A portrait of two artists whose view of the world is rebellious yet permeable to contradictions.
One border. Two friends. Curiosity. Naïveté. Control.
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