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Over 3,000 men dressed in tuxedos, top hats, and carrying wooden rifles march through the small town of Wildeshausen. Every year at Pentecost, time is turned back 600 years here. The city is the guild and the guild is the city.
Half a million people have gathered at Alexanderplatz to tell the GDR leadership: We are the people! The demonstrators demanded free elections and the end of the SED dictatorship. Hundreds of thousands of hope, self-confidence, a demand for change. Weeks earlier, the demonstration would have been classified as an anti-state riot. It was a disciplined rebellion, a "peaceful revolution". The film accompanies the politician Gregor Gysi, whose political career began in those days in the fall of 1989, who transformed himself from an eloquent lawyer to a political star. 989 - for almost 17 million GDR citizens, it was a year of boundless freedom. They made history with their courage to disobey. The Wall is suddenly open in the fall. The largest protest rally in the history of the GDR on Alexanderplatz in Berlin on November 4, a milestone in the peaceful revolution, is the starting point for stories from the last year of the GDR.
A tender documentary portrait of Volga German grandparents, Alexander´s story unfolds with the garden as the central motif. This documentary is about cultivating, security, tradition, and strength. This is education!
Poetic, rhythmic everyday life description by Mariola Brillowska
The film portrays the everyday lives of seven ambitious artists from Malawi and Ghana who are torn between authenticity, making a living, global recognition, and stereotypical expectations.
Pale Alpine scenery, trembling focus, plus a silence drowned out by rumbling and static. Distance and fragmentation determine the vibrational space of Resonance. Telephoto views of cloud-covered glaciers. Blurred edges of forest, a view of a dim valley. Or, in the opposite direction, television towers appear in the shimmering light of high Alpine horizons: in particular, the Felsenegg broadcasting tower, built in 1963 on the Albis mountain range southwest of Zurich.
Growing up in West Germany in the 1980s, Aline imagined a gregarious life on the other side of the Berlin Wall. Meanwhile, in communist Bulgaria, Veselina believed that everyone was happy under capitalism. In their collaborative hybrid documentary, they use their childhood fantasies to sketch a new utopia.
Where the sandy beach of the Salton Sea, the biggest lake in California, begins to crunch harder, it does not even consist of sand any more: Millions of dead fish, plants and insects pile up on the shore to form a highly toxic substance. This is how Derek explains it, a member of a Cahuilla tribe that managed to escape an attempted genocide in the 19th century to the Salton Sea and now sees itself as a protective force for the once flourishing but increasingly deserted area and its outcasts.
A quick insider perspective of the fight of the Tuntenhaus in Berlin against gentrification.
A journey through Potsdam and Berlin, the interplay of nature and the city resulting from abstractions of memories of Berlin.
Silke Schranz and Christian Wüstenberg have extensively traveled the tropical island of Mauritius and now return with exciting stories and impressive footage. This documentary takes viewers to the most beautiful places on Mauritius. The filmmakers traverse tropical forests, swim with dolphins, explore the fascinating underwater world, sail to offshore islands, and are enchanted by the colorful markets of the vibrant capital, Port Louis.
Six-year-old Lily visits her grandmother, who has had a mastectomy and now misses her breasts. When Lily finds out that her grandmother’s shadow still has both breasts, she is prepared to do anything to get them back.
When Timo finds a note in a book one day, it develops into a conversation that helps him overcome his problems.
Jim, a young medical student, attends a techno party on the day of his exams with his long-time partner Arya, her friend Johanna and his best friend Jonas. After a while, the event takes dramatic turns and the initial fun suddenly turns into bitter seriousness.
Homage to Anselm Kiefer.
A visual journey exploring themes such as the ideology of success, human isolation, noise, our dependence on technology, the military-industrial complex, space travel, and information overload, all in the context of the modern human experience. Created using Stable Diffusion artificial intelligence and refined in post-production.
Sit back, relax, grab yourself a cup of Tea, and enjoy the slightly slower but dramatic story that is about to unfold!
The first event by martial arts influencer Edmon Avagyan. Almost 2000 spectators celebrate a huge Peaky Blinders-style boxing party at Motorworld Köln, garnished with a spectacular 8-man tournament and hard-hitting bare-knuckle duels. Immerse yourself in the 1920s à la "Peaky Blinders" - Motorworld Köln will be an immersive journey through time into a world of gangsters, smugglers, casinos and, above all, spectacular fights. Presented by RINGLIFE, the largest martial arts YouTube channel in Europe, the RCS brings a new dimension of competition to the arena. In a spectacular 8-man knockout tournament with new rules, designs and challenges, the best fighters from all over Germany will gather to compete in breathtaking duels.
A short documentary animation about the European Witch Trials
Short films are like pasta! They come in many forms, each culture has its own specialties, everyone likes them.
On a winter night, Katalin, a newly arrived immigrant in Germany, wanders the streets of Kalk in what seems to be an attempt to search for a room. After her failure, she takes refuge in ethereal havens of intimacy in a detour home to mend an existence shaped by the margins.
"The Unfinished Story" is a poignant and symbolic short film that delves into the themes of loss, grief, and family dynamics. The story unfolds as an exploration of an unfinished narrative, initially intended to be a complete work by its author. The film takes the audience on a non-linear journey that captures the emotional aftermath of a loss within a family.
"The Unfinished Story" is a poignant and symbolic short film that delves into the themes of loss, grief, and family dynamics. The story unfolds as an exploration of an unfinished narrative, initially intended to be a complete work by its author. The film takes the audience on a non-linear journey that captures the emotional aftermath of a loss within a family.
The true story of Phil, a young man from Mannheim, whose path into drug use ultimately culminates in a near-fatal overdose. Addiction, personal decisions, and the consequences of irresponsible behavior—that is his story.
There is a glaring lack of basic knowledge about the menstrual cycle. However, various areas of research are beginning to take an interest, ask questions, and break the taboo surrounding it. Freed from myths and prejudices, the menstrual cycle is being re-evaluated and no longer seen a weakness, but rather as a strength.
In this film, language is used as a sculptural tool to create space and subsequently dissolve it. The cinematic image space becomes an ice sculpture. Its physical appearance is connected to an absorbing soundscape. The term entropy describes the thermodynamic state of an object or body, which is shrinking continuously during the film. The virtual space expands and the arctic volume dwindles.
A dusty gray square surrounded by walls becomes a projection surface. Remnants of a utopian idea: DEMO. The "federal government's demonstration building project" for family-friendly coexistence in Cologne-Porz, created at the end of the 1960s, was always detached from the reality of migration and work and influenced by the arbitrariness of large real estate companies. The children of the square are revitalizing it.
14-year-old Margarita is walking through the streets of a small village in Tyrol. A thunderstorm passes by at dusk and no one is on the streets. She lets herself drift, and through the brightly lit windows she observes the lives of others.
Two Sámi girls end up in a club in Berlin and meet people wildly different from themselves. Lost in the DJ’s heavy rhythms, they’re transported back to Sápmi, to the warmth of the midnight sun and the diffuse sounds of joik. Throughout the night, the girls experience the joy of being part of a community and meeting people they would otherwise never have met – and throwing themselves wholeheartedly into it.
Henry is a petty thief in his early 20s and is looking for a way out of this lifestyle. To achieve that he has to do one last job. ReTry is series of 3 short films telling a unique heist story with a twist.
The first part, "Property Instead of Human Rights," deals with the system of converting housing into corporate property. Banks, funds, and international investment capital have been pushing into cities for many years. Hardly any tenant is safe from having their apartment sold. When it comes to making money, they are the only ones who get in the way. Politicians seem to have completely abandoned their duty to provide for their citizens, and social housing construction has been dwindling for decades in favor of private investors, despite billions in subsidies. What is the situation in other large cities such as London or Vienna, which are also surrounded by investor capital?
A lone astronaut wanders through the desert of a forgotten planet. Instead of dates, only dust; instead of chats, only silence. But how do you find intimacy when the only match is your own reflection?
Columbus did not discover America in 1492, but it was the beginning of colonialism that also brought the colonial thinking of the two-gender system & othering. Crossing the river is not only about people from Mexico, Central- and South America trying to cross the border to the United States looking for a better life, but also about Transpeople crossing the gender border. The recent developments in the USA in dealing with indigenous people, whom they call migrants and/or trans people, are just the consequences that have been apparent for a long time.
Through the synthetic voice of Adam Curtis, the movie tells the story of how humans may survive in a world that is becoming weirder, harder, and faster: dead celebrities are brought back from heaven, gen AI is rising, millionaires are hiding in the bottom of the earth. We feel stuck in a mediated reality, where love is constantly intercepted by emotional advertising, robots, and deepfakes. But…
The Danish DJ has been competing among the elite of electronic music for many years. IPSO, the label he created, produces melodic house and techno tracks with soulful accents. Kölsch's albums are filled with timeless tracks like "Lorely," "Opa," and notably "Grey," which has 5.5 million views on YouTube and nearly 50 million streams on Spotify. I Talk To Water is his latest release. Filmed on August 3, 2024, at the NatureOne festival in Pydna Kastellaun, Germany.
The film documents the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, and the subsequent occupation of Bucha, during which the residents endured hunger, thirst, and cold. Their collective testimonies weave a variety of diverse perspectives.
The film explores the world of Fehir Ceylan and Pakize Uslu, two women who came to Germany from Turkey as part of the “guest worker” migration in the 1960s. Through the stories of her grandmothers, Fehir and Pakize, filmmaker Merve Uslu-Ersoy offers insights into her past and allows viewers to experience the emotional impact of their migration firsthand.
The following film shows a documentary about Dresden-Cotta High School. From the founding of a school in the Dresden-Cotta district (1869) to its renovation (2024), all the important events in the school's history are presented in the documentary. The video club at Dresden-Cotta High School hopes you enjoy watching it!
The documentary film, “Every Line Becomes A Circle” celebrates the extraordinary life of 93- year-old post-war German artist, Inge Besgen who began to pursue her dream of becoming an artist at age 50 against the conventions of her time. In our documentary we explore how Inge broke from the typical conventions that prevailed and were expected of women in the 1950s in West Germany.
All moms (and dads) know how difficult it can be to have small children. They cry a lot, they are moody, and they don't always know what they want. A short story about a mother trying to enjoy a quiet cup of coffee in the morning while her son sleeps. But this is not meant to be, because small children are unpredictable. After a start to the day like this, anyone would feel out of sorts.
SOOTHEON is a fashion film showcasing in movement Mona Cordes' collection of the same name. According to Mona, “the collection is about community x unity as individuals and in community. Lives are lived so differently depending on our upbringing, race, heritage, gender, community, education, connections, health +++”.
In this first part of a series of audio-visual installations, video artist Eli Cortiñas shows humanoid robots, avatars, and chatbots engaging in monologs about the troubles of our times. We listen to their thoughts and concerns, wondering where their words come from. Do they originate from our collective consciousness, which inevitably runs through their engines? While scientists debate the potential for consciousness in A.I. and robotics, Cortiñas raises the question: are these beings capable of more humanity than humans? Throughout the work, she challenges technology’s influence on our behavior and its reinforcement of human biases. She offers no easy answers. At the same time, Cortiñas' work speaks to our human ability to share stories and shift narratives toward new paths. Using intricate montage, humor and joy as tools for resistance and critical reflection, she encourages us to rethink the material and virtual reality of our existence and the humanity that underlies it.
Entering into worlds of mystery, magic and folktales happens through delicate and precisely placed tweaks and twist of the reality that surrounds us
Driven by poverty and with big dreams, the young man makes his way to Germany. Instead of good money and fulfilled wishes, he encounters difficulties and disappointments right from the start.
