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Silent Disco

A virtual reality project in which viewers become part of a performance by watching three stereoscopic VR short films. The tension between the virtual party scenes of the three VR films and the physically experienced performance situation among the viewers in a kind of club plays an important role. The first film takes the audience into a mixture of club and elevator on the way down. Together with the other strange party guests, the audience dances in an apocalyptic mood on the way to the underworld. The second film reverses the voyeuristic view typical of cinema: the participants find themselves on a small round stage in an atmospheric strip club. How do the viewers relate to the room and the guests present? In the third black-and-white VR film, the audience finds themselves in a dark, abstract space. A self-playing piano and a fiddling death provide the musical background for a folk dance of death.

Silent Disco

NR 2025
Hals und Bein

55 kilograms. That is the upper limit of the weight jockeys are allowed to carry in a race. Most weigh even less than that. They usually only know their horse for a few minutes, but they are expected to lead it to victory and make its owner proud and rich. Every race also means: mortal danger. "It's not a question of whether you fall, but when" – a common saying in the jockey scene, which top jockey Tommaso Scardino knows only too well. The film crew accompanies him as he trains in preparation for the season.

Hals und Bein

NR 2025
Hajeck

The film portrays Hanns-Jakob Eckert-Schwegler, a reclusive teacher and architect who transformed an abandoned church into his own architectural work of art. What initially appears to be a classic documentary about his life and work increasingly defies clear categorization. Interstitial spaces open up—places that are neither entirely past nor present. In these liminal spaces, a lonely architect transforms a cultural wasteland into a cinematic space full of transitions, allusions, and visions.

Hajeck

NR 2025
Headshot

Solène is an ambitious photographer in financial difficulty. When a call from a former client interrupts a photo shoot with her friend Camille, she has no idea what a strange assignment she is about to be given. Finally, the caller tells Solène about his last wish for a very special photo—and in doing so, shakes her entire worldview. An intense journey through her thoughts and feelings begins as she struggles with herself, the assignment, and somehow also with the whole world.

Headshot

NR 2025
The Hallucination Zombie Rave Panoptikum

Enter a delirious maze of stroboscopic afterlife visions: The Hallucination Zombie Rave Panoptikum merges decayed glamour with ecstatic doom. Bodies move like spirits caught between VHS static and nightclub fog, while basslines resurrect forgotten dreams of delirium. This is not merely an event—it is a séance of sound and spectacle, a surreal carnival where the living and the undead sway together in neon twilight. Step inside the panoptikum and dissolve into the fever.

The Hallucination Zombie Rave Panoptikum

NR 2025
The Last Day in Fall

The unexpected death of a mutual acquaintance brings together the lives of two men in a crematorium. As the furnace operator, Cem is closer to death every day than most people. Cremating bodies and grinding the remains to fill urns is part of his daily routine. But when he recognizes an old friend during a post-mortem inspection one day, he is shocked. Confronted with the transience of life in a new and very personal way, he shares his pain with the deceased person's husband, who is a complete stranger to him.

The Last Day in Fall

NR 2025
Risen from Ruins

The 1990s: Amid the chaos of the post-socialist East, East German car mechanic Andreas and Alexej, a border crosser from the former Soviet Union, team up to smuggle German cars into Russia. Among the ruins of their old homeland, they try to build a future for themselves. But the new capitalist game is brutal: West German investors buy up the GDR, while corrupt border guards and ruthless gangsters control all the smuggling. Andreas and Alexej are painfully stripped of their naivety and forced to realize that in this world, they never really had a chance.

Risen from Ruins

NR 2025
AMERICAN DIRGE

Sam, a folk musician consumed by alcohol and the weight of a failed career, decides to leave Los Angeles for Louisiana and visit his father one last time. With this character directly inspired by folk and country music written in praise of the underdogs, Jörg Steineck illustrates the great disillusionment that the American dream has become. The result of nearly four years of work, this hybrid between documentary and fiction resonates ominously with the situation of a country whose image continues to deteriorate, and presents itself as a poignant portrayal of despair.

AMERICAN DIRGE

NR 2025
Der alte Arzt und sein Pferd - Über den Wolken Georgiens

Until his retirement, Irakli worked as a neurologist in a hospital in the valley. Only then did he return to the mountains in Tusheti and become a mountain doctor. Since then, he and Bitschola have saved 51 lives. In winter, when the shepherds move down into the valley with their sheep, there are hardly any people left in Tusheti. But even the few who remain need a doctor. Irakli perseveres and is there for them. "Sometimes I envy the wolves," he says. "They run in pairs. And I'm alone here in the snow." But as long as the 81-year-old can still mount his horse, he will continue to do so.

Der alte Arzt und sein Pferd - Über den Wolken Georgiens

NR 2025
Lingua Ignota

During her lifetime 12th-century abbess and mystic Hildegard von Bingen invented a secret language, the lingua ignota, which purpose remains unclear up until today. Taking the idea of visions as a starting point for playing with the filmic image and montage, Lingua Ignota connects a research into the different facets of Hildegard von Bingen’s life - music, plants, language - with an audio-visual diary. Collecting images at Disibodenberg, a former monastery where Hildegard used to live, visiting friends on a Danish Island and seasons changing - the principle of an unknown language connects the images and dictates their order, seeking correspondences between different spaces and temporalities.

Lingua Ignota

NR 2025