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Can we become friends with AI, or build a loving relationship with a robot or hologram? This episode of Twist looks at how artificial intelligence could change human relations.

M.A. Littler's film diary, Beyond the White Rains, subtly reflects the dichotomy of man, mind, and place. In Littler's singular style, the film juxtaposes an author's interior landscape with the dramatic exterior of a remote coastal setting. Set within the interior of an old whaler's cottage, the film captures the ever-changing weather, the impervious sea, and moving clouds, reflecting a lifelong study of the interaction between man and place. Enigmatic, elegiac, and at times eerie, the film's pared-down images and otherworldly sound design reveal both the external beauty and the haunting interior landscape.

A documentary film about Laura Halding-Hoppenheit, an LGBTIQ* and AIDS activist who became an icon in Stuttgart through her tireless commitment. The film crew accompanies her in her everyday life and provides insights into the places that have shaped her work and her life. These include the town hall and the currently closed 'Kings Club' – an internationally renowned meeting place in the scene for many decades. The team also accompanies Laura to the studio of her husband Peter Jacobi, which adds another dimension to her everyday life alongside her political work.

Experimental Short Film By Yasaman Pishvaei.

63-year-old Uta accompanies her daughter Sara to a business meeting in France. Although it is February, the two women also want to spend a few days vacationing on the Atlantic coast and picnicking on the beach. Uta prefers to ignore the fact that she will probably be unable to work in the future after an accident and will barely be able to pay her rent in Stuttgart with her pension. The Atlantic Ocean is wild, it is windy and cold, and neither of the two women is really enjoying the short trip. Suddenly, they find several packets of cocaine on the beach.

In the near future, where selfishness dominates the headlines, a disillusioned news anchor enters the studio, ready to report on crises, conflicts, and disasters as usual. But what awaits him causes his professional facade to crumble: the field reporter announces that people are voluntarily collecting trash. A woman says that a stranger at the checkout simply let her go ahead of her. And it goes on: a new currency called 'Kindness First' is gaining value, and the renowned Kittel Institute in Freiburg reports the outbreak of a social phenomenon: compassion.

This true crime thriller is inspired by the real-life case of serial killer Rodney Alcala in the late 1970s. It tells the story of his encounter with young Ellen Hover. The story begins in a park, where Rodney first secretly observes and photographs the young woman before charming her into conversation. He persuades Ellen to take part in a photo shoot.

A business dinner at the home of the enigmatic Mrs. Lieven turns into a dangerous game for Director Schallenberg. Between crystal glasses, exquisite courses, and polite conversation, an invisible struggle for power and control ensues. What begins as an invitation to dinner turns out to be a cleverly staged trap. As the evening progresses, Schallenberg feels increasingly trapped in a web of manipulation and his own dark past. An evening full of suspense, leaving the question: Who will prevail in the end?

Recorded August 1st 2025 at Wacken Open Air. SETYØURSAILS from Cologne are one of the most exciting voices in modern melodic metalcore. Since 2017, they've been shaking up the scene with uncompromising energy, emotional depth, and a clear stance. Frontwoman Jules Mitch captivates with her powerful voice and genuine stage presence. Setlist: "Mirror", "Nightfall", "Why", "In My Head", "Bad Company", "Break Stuff", "Fckoff", "Bad Blood", "Dangerous", "Halo", "Best of Me"

The narrative documentary tells the personal story of a migrant daughter who travels to the dwindling village of her ancestors.

A young woman on the run. "Blood" on her shoes. And someone is knockin' on heaven's door.

James Blond is on the way. In Duisburg. He is hunting an escape-map-forger.

The life of the wildlife in the African savanna is being disturbed. A poacher is hunting them. But an antelope possesses magical powers.

Swipe, play, watch TV. Repeat. Sometimes it would be good to have someone there to tell you that things can't go on like this.

The tree provides the machine that carries it with energy. In the machine, a worker fights against the forces of nature.

Mallorca, a holiday dream. And an island with too many tourists and too little living space. But there is also another story hidden between the colourful beach umbrellas and picturesque hiking trails: a tightly entangled one of military dictatorship and forced labour, of forgetting and concealment, of the struggle for memorial sites… Jaume Serra Cardell, a teacher from Sa Pobla, was shot dead in 1937 in the military fortress of Illetes, on Mallorca. Today, his niece is fighting for a critical examination of the historical past and is collecting evidence.

Ten years ago, young Syrian Alayham fled civil war, and the threat of being drafted, for Germany. There, he became one of the first refugees in Eckernförde – there were six of them at the time, he later remembers. Quickly learning German, he got politically involved in refugee projects, and spoke publicly about his experiences. A move to Jena for university followed: a new everyday life with exam stress, living in a shared flat, a relationship. It was during his studies that he finally felt that he was no longer being reduced to his experience as a refugee: he belonged. Alayham found his feet, as much as possible in a foreign country. But when is “arriving” truly over? Over a period of ten years, documentary filmmaker Fredo Wulf accompanied Alayham on his journey from Schleswig-Holstein via Jena to Heidelberg, where he has lived since getting his medical license.

Manu and her grandfather are passionate soccer fans. When the TV breaks down shortly before the final, she hatches a plan. An exciting chase begins. Will she be back in time for her grandfather to witness the big event?

The story of an Iranian family scattered across years and borders, where home becomes a fragmented memory. The essay film shows how displacement also shapes time and encounters remain possible only in images.

The 90-year-old Ms. Pupak lives in a retirement home in Dieburg, Hesse. The film shows her everyday life in slow motion and gives her space for honest and self-reflective words about her past, the present, and the last stage of her life.

Frankfurt's railway station district is a place full of contrasts: visible, raw, loud. Right in the middle of it all is "YokYok," a late-night shop that is more than just a retail space. Here, Nazim and his boys have been selling drinks, cigarettes, and all kinds of small items for years. But if you stay a little longer, you quickly realize that it's not just goods stacked between the shelves, but also stories.

When his brother disappears in the night, the young child follows him into a dark forest—and embarks on a journey through pain and hope to find his way back into the light.

The "center" is a metaphor for urban dehumanization. All movements of people and objects, all developments revolve around an empty illusion. Robots drift through the ruins in the deep sea, representing the collapse of the center and psychological alienation in a performance-oriented society. The film is the filmmaker's abstract response to the urban reality of her ever-growing hometown of Beijing.

In a space between reality and simulation, a cinematic dream log unfolds, created by a machine formed from algorithms, pixels, and speculative intuition.

What happens when humanity fails to learn from its mistakes? Fairytale images, symbols, and transformations speak to show the past as a living resonance chamber. "Once upon a time" becomes a touchstone for the present. Fairy tales with motifs of loss, transformation, and rescue form a cultural echo that extends beyond childhood. At the center is a dialogue with photographer Gerty Deutsch. Based on her images, Catrine Val developed a new, cinematic-poetic language in which singing becomes the ultimate form of expression—where words no longer suffice.

How do historical revisionism and negationism work today? The film examines this question using the example of the peace statues for the "comfort women" of World War II—victims of human trafficking—which are to be removed from public spaces. It is a rarely told story of decades of revisionism and worldwide resistance. The victims were mostly poor women and girls whose stories were long ignored. Can denial and erasure completely wipe out the past? Will the truth remain hidden forever, or will it be replaced by an idealized past?

A music film about people experiencing their own reality, and about pigeons.

Clay-covered bodies squeeze through narrow rock passages. Sparingly lit by their helmet lamps, they blend in with the sediment-covered cave walls. The film accompanies a group of cave explorers and looks at their different motives for venturing into the inaccessible depths. In the farthest corners of the "Windloch" cave, discovered in 2019, lies a chamber filled with bizarre, delicate aragonite crystals. The most extraordinary of these is called "Hydra" by its discoverers.

In her essayistic documentary film, Katrin Esser stages the story of her mother, who suffers from Alzheimer's disease. The course of the illness is told from two perspectives: that of the Polish caregiver Violetta and that of the daughter. They take turns recounting their experiences, the limits of care, excessive demands, working conditions, exploitation within the system, and death. The only filming location is the apartment, which alternates between living space, museum, and crime scene. Esser's staging reveals layers of memory and shows that remembering and forgetting are very individual processes.

While the eyes seek protection and comfort, agents of homogenization are silencing those who speak out. In this climate of radical silence and ignorance, the narrator describes the various muscles that people use to turn away from what they encounter. Meanwhile, the images intertwine. They resemble bodies whose muscles are capable of stretching beyond the edges of the image, resisting and challenging the authority of the seemingly factual and neutral narrative.

A journey through a universe shaped by voices.

Dozens of men, women, and children toil on a large, dusty construction site to produce thousands of bricks—all by hand. A centuries-old process of shaping, cutting, and firing clay—from wet to dry and from brown to red—is revealed in stunning beauty in this short film. Wagons full of bricks are transported day and night, in blazing sun and refreshing rain.

The four cheese cultures in Cheese Land are embroiled in a great war. When the temperature suddenly rises, the entire country is in danger of melting.

Slavka Adžović owns 170 sheep and goats. She is the only woman in Montenegro who works as a shepherdess and the only Romani in the country who earns her living doing so. She never learned to read or write. But through her love for animals, she still found her way to assert herself as an independent farmer. In addition to her alpine hut on the windy plateau of Krnovo, four calves and 14 cows graze, whose milk she sells. Slavka Adžović tells a modern shepherd's story and her self-determined life between tradition and progress.

During a stay in Egypt, Roman Pernack observes the revolutionary unrest on the streets and captures it with his camera. Contemporary history up close.

A reinterpretation of the Sorbian legend of the Mittagsfrau/Pśezpołdnica. In the past, she urged people to take a midday rest in the fields; today, the Mittagskind calls for a digital detox. A spooky mystery film shot in the abandoned Kolkwitz sanatorium.

Nûşîn returns to her Kurdish family when her sister is hospitalised after attempting suicide and is declared brain dead. But her sister is pregnant – accidentally? Torn between feelings of guilt, shame and social pressure, Nûşîn fights against her family's wish to keep her sister's body alive until the baby is born.

Bela from Leipzig is a real fighter – on the judo mat and in life. When he bravely defeated leukaemia with chemotherapy, he lost all his hair. Now he regularly has to go to the hospital for blood tests. It is not so bad, Bela thinks – as long as he is allowed to go to judo training. He wants to get even stronger there to become a real judo master one day.

Facing up to discrimination and reviving deadlocked debates? Finding alliances outside of one's bubble? Six strong voices seek (and find) answers together.

An artist on the phone with a supposed Microsoft employee. She begins to talk - about heartbreak, emptiness, procrastination - and unwittingly becomes a scam-baiter.

In a big city in China, an individual is just a dot on a gigantic wall of other dots. Social media and certain notions about masculinity make it very difficult for young men searching for a serious partner. Xao lives here. He is depressed and dreams of having a girlfriend. So he invites Lin to his home – but can he manage to open up and overcome his fear of physical contact?

In a post-apocalyptic stone desert, Fiona fights against starvation and for survival. A functioning society no longer exists, and resources are scarce. When her supplies run out, only one vague hope remains: a supposed paradise promised to her by a mysterious voice on the radio.

Franz Himpsl is an athlete, teacher, trumpeter, chaotic spirit, and founder of the Unterbiberger Hofmusik. Together with his wife Irene and their sons Xaver, Ludwig, and Franz Jr., he breaks through the barriers of Bavarian folk music, blending it with jazz and influences from around the globe. Their motto: Respect – and don’t piss your pants! The film accompanies them on musical journeys around the world: to Marrakesh, the pyramids, Alexandria, the Nile, and even the skies above Iran – while Father Franz returns to his roots in the “Woid,” the deepest Bavarian Forest.

Rhymed couplets express the irritation caused by an uninvited rat guest. Based on a book by Nadia Budde, this short humorously advocates for sharing space and time with others.

This documentary deals with the prosperity of the German population. It analyzes whether Germans are becoming poorer and poorer.

In an Asian supermarket, the director tries to get closer to her Vietnamese roots. Above all, however, she looks for a connection to her parents.

Jamaican singer Etana made a name for herself in 2008 with album The Strong One, blending reggae, soul, jazz and R'n'B. Twice nominated for a Grammy Award, she has long established herself as one of the great voices of reggae.

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