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During his shift as a cleaner in a church, laid-back Eddie jokingly posts a photo of a Jesus statue with a joint on Twitter. Shortly thereafter, his account is blocked, and a mysterious person starts blackmailing him on WhatsApp.

In a small Southern town in the United States, a sharp-witted woman runs the local hardware store — and shakes up tradition, one corn bag at a time.

Warkings hit Wacken 2025 with full force, bringing their epic power metal straight from the halls of Valhalla to the festival stage. Since their founding, the band has portrayed themselves as a warrior collective from times long past, bringing their tales of crusaders, Vikings, and legends to musical life. Their current album, "Armageddon," is a storm of thunderous riffs, anthemic choruses, and dramatic theatricality, always accompanied by the mystical voice of Morgana le Fay. Those who appreciate monumental hooks, fierce pathos, and a touch of fantasy will find Warkings a show that oscillates between headbanging ecstasy and battlefield atmosphere, loud, proud, and with swords raised.

A young man feels lost in the modern, digital world before finding himself in a piece of clickbait.

How could we consider whether a day is a good day or a bad day?

Every year around 10,000 individuals in Europe take doctors or hospital trusts to court over medical errors. It is a long and costly process and there is no guarantee of success. When Silja Greuner and her unborn son Maxim died in hospital in 2019, nobody told her bereaved husband Joachim how it had happened for weeks. Since then, he has been fighting for an explanation, a long and painful process which has tested his belief in the medical and legal professions, and he is not alone in his experience.

This sports epic tells the extraordinary story of DSC Arminia Bielefeld's past twelve months from the perspective of its protagonists. Managing directors, coaches, and players relive the ups and downs of the past season on the big screen and recount the big and small stories of this black-white-blue journey.

A routine beer delivery becomes a citywide collapse. Ignored by traffic, a frustrated driver snaps, abandoning his route and spiraling into violence. Motorcycles, police cruisers, and helicopters become tools in a personal war against a world that refused to move. But even after the smoke clears, there's no triumph, only escape, silence, and a final, fatal toast.

A video installation by Simon Wachsmuth, referencing the famous "Prussian Archangel" of the Berlin DADA exhibit 1920: a puppet hanging from the exhibit's ceiling wearing a Prussian uniform with a pig's mask on his face. The work was understood then as a scathing assault on the military, and on the bourgeois culture at large.

Three young women simultaneously recite nearly identical conversations from dating apps.

This documentary explores the lives of the Korean diaspora in Germany, many of whom arrived as nurses and miners in the 1960s to 70s and still reside there today. How have their personal and communal lives evolved?

With the help of a magical flute, the old forest creature keeps a dark cloud cover at bay, which blocks out the sunlight and causes the plants to wither. But one day, the flute itself begins to wither because it is a fragile “flower flute”. Desperate, the forest creature sets off in search of a new flower, while the surrounding nature becomes increasingly lifeless...

If you do business with the abyss that opens up in front of you, you do “abyssness”. But how long can this go on and at what price? Like every morning, a farmer enters his farm, but now a black hole opens up in the middle of it. Not only does his pistol shot echo in it, but all his garbage can also be disposed of in this way. He quickly makes money by accepting the garbage from the entire surrounding area.

The film follows a Polish filmmaker's journey to Ukraine two years after the start of the full-scale Russian invasion. On his first visit to Kyiv, he documents the resilience of the people who are trying to maintain a semblance of normality despite the war. In personal conversations with artists who have decided to stay or return, the film recounts their motivations, fears, and hopes. It shows how creativity and determination continue to thrive even in times of greatest darkness. The film is a haunting reflection on life under constant threat—a contrast between the fragile peace of the sky and the brutal realities of war. The film offers a powerful, deeply human perspective on survival and hope.

This short documentary elevates the "Hackenporsche" - commonly known as the shopping trolley - to the emblem of existential persistence and evolutionary mutability. A filmic reflection on the art of flexibility in a world of constant change.

Sons of Jinn From the rugged peaks of Zagros and Taurus, a forgotten voice rises — the voice of the free Kurdish spirit. Sons of Jinn is not merely a documentary — it is a resurrection of memory, a poetic rebellion against centuries of erasure. Through ancient ruins, oral traditions, and sacred fire, this historical documentary traces the story of a people who refused to disappear. Narrated in English, with full Arabic subtitles. ⏱ Duration: 1h 52m �️ Format: Full HD (1080p) � Language: English narration, Arabic subtitles available � Exclusive to Vimeo On Demand A tribute to the spirit of resistance. A story they tried to silence.

A person sits in the waiting room. The sound of the wind slowly transforms into screaming antiabortion activists greeting Cologne. Unclear whether we are in memories or an inner struggle, we see how she slowly begins to change from the observed to the observer. Mary and Jesus cry. An associatively edited film about waiting, about abortion and abortion opponents, about shame, and about filmmaking as a form of resistance, as a way to take a countershot, to shift from the hunted into the hunter and create your own images.

She wanted to use the replacement transport. This is her story.

Can the reuse of home video archives transcend mere nostalgia? Blending home video archives with a subtle musical score, In this short life explores memory and time through a recurring clock tower motif, reflecting on the tension between nostalgia and the impossibility of truly preserving the past.

Medical student Rosi is short of money and urgently needs money to pay her rent. Without further ado, she decides to open a sex hotline. But is that even possible on her own? Don't customers always need a certain amount of choice? She soon finds a solution to this problem.

Naim is a security guard in an apartment complex. Every night he sees a hidden object picture of people, rooms and corridors. Each surveillance image provides insights into other people's lives. The interpretation is up to him: is what is happening a problem for security in the building? Somehow he had imagined things differently. Should it go on like this? Night after night alone in this room? When something unusual flickers on the monitor, he makes a decision - hoping to take the right path this time.

A white whale once appeared on the banks of the Rhine; eventually it disappeared in the hustle and bustle of people. When I arrived at Duisburg Zoo with my camera, I began to look at this place differently, while the traces of the past gradually faded away like the sound of the waves.

Henrietta Lacks' eternal cell line, the cloned sheep Dolly, artificial wombs, ovules and mice appear both as scientific products and as actors that confuse the concept of the human. A reflection on reproductive bodies in the technosciences.

In a park, the protagonist detaches from the world, rubbing off sense organs. They gradually regrow - sight, sound, touch, smell, taste - scaling from microcosmic levels to perceiving big scary reality. As their body regenerates slowly, they transform into a hybrid of the organic and the unknown, adapting to a future they can barely comprehend. Using charcoal, watercolor, ink, and microscope footage, the music video explores adaptation and the search for connection in uncertain times.

Two people meet at a train station and discover a connection.

Between sleeping, waking and dreaming, we experience a collective dream of children who seem to be alone in this world – alone with universal questions and fears for which they must find their own answers. What can the ‘real world’ learn from the games and rituals of children?

A 3D animated film that raises the question of whether avatars and artificial intelligence truly breathe or merely create an illusion. The film explores the idea that breathing in times of societal crises can be understood as an act of survival and resistance.

The third live anniversary special of the Bavarian film podcast Viva la Movielución, filmed with a live audience at Bandhaus Straubing. For the first time at an anniversary episode, all four hosts share the stage: Korbi, Kane, Seppi and, after being doubled at the 100th, finally the real Mike. The programme features a statistics recap of 300 episodes, a live Woah Lecks segment and an extended community Q&A. Rather than a podcast recording, it was produced as a standalone film with camera concept, live editing and postproduction.

A modestly furnished apartment becomes overcrowded with its inhabitant's emotional life: feelings of inadequacy take over the kitchen, quieted anger spreads all across the walls and moments of performed healing find their way within the living room space.

At its heart, „unbelong“ is a philosophical inquiry posed through visceral experience. The narrated poem questions whether we move through time or time moves through us, capturing the profound stillness of a moment when everything changes. It’s about the act of abandoning a home that abandoned you first, and the sharp blade hidden in the question, „Where are you from?“ „unbelong“ is for anyone who understands that migration is not a simple journey but a rupture, and that for some, movement is not freedom but a painful necessity for survival. It is a work of grief, hope, and transformation.

Set against the backdrop of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, "Her War" follows the journey of a transgender woman navigating both external war and her own inner battles. A raw and intimate portrayal of strength in the face of fear, this short film highlights personal truth in a world turned upside down.

Hyphae is an animated short following three tiny mushrooms as a wildfire sweeps through their forest clearing. Told without words, it explores fragility, loss, and the quiet resilience of life.