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The peaceful coexistence of twin brothers comes under threat when they develop opposing views on whether there is such a thing as ‘mine’ and ‘yours.’ What once began as a documentary exploring his brother’s shopping addiction became a simultaneously archetypal and contemporary parable.
A lonely vampire dreams of a vacation at the beach and longs to see the sun one last time.
A man and a woman who are in a cold and distant relationship find out that they suffer from the same strange ailment.
Fragments of memories are brought to the surface by the Danube Waltz, revealing the less-known history of the Danube-Black Sea Canal. While borders between filmmaker and actress become blurry, languages and layers of past intertwine.
Matthias Santiago Staehle writes bilingual poems: in his mother's Chilean Spanish and his father's German. "Mar, maduro y atrevido" (Sea, ripe and daring) narrates his lyrical odyssey of longing from Santiago, the capital of Chile, along the coast, passing through Valparaíso, to Patagonia, Tierra del Fuego.
Janne longs for a fresh start in her career, but has to face the obstacles that social advancement brings for women. Surrounded by the noise of machines and rigid work routines, she is faced with a final decision.
The dreaded arrival of a food critic turns into a (dis-)tasteful exploration of food ingestion and digestion.
“A Foal in the Autumn” is an experimental film exploring identity and cultural heritage through shamanic traditions and dreams With 99% AI-generated visuals, it blends personal memories, imagination, and visions into a soulful journey. The film portrays the psychological state of Mongolians facing cultural extinction and the societal revival of spiritual practices. Through symbolic imagery and innovative technology, film captures the tension between identity and transformation, offering a profound meditation on cultural preservation and self-discovery.
It's the existential questions that an abandoned plastic bottle in the middle of the desert struggles with. But her options are definitely limited. So she rolls through the dunes seemingly without an aim. Only one hope keeps her going: “Someone somewhere might still be able to use me.”
What’s the emotional toll of compulsively consuming war imagery on your smartphone? For a group of Gen Z Ukrainians living in Berlin, compassion fatigue and an embrace of absurdist humour are the all-too-relatable byproducts of this uniquely twenty-first century phenomenon.
When four friends go on a camping trip and loose their cutlery, all that remains is a spork. A device which use is strictly forbidden.
A couple tries to take the perfect wedding photo.
The author Maxwell Collins is travelling to his sister after an accident.
Michael and Billy have lived together for 40 years. One is human, the other a spectacled caiman with a metre-long tail and a taste for chicken. Side by side, they process grief, cope with tiny apartments and take comfort in their oddly ordinary friendship in Eastern Germany.
Explores the struggle between displacement and belonging, as well as the challenges of occupying space and land. The artist carries a red flag, a symbolic color of power, that evokes a sense of urgency and instability in the search for the rightful place.
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Drought, heat or heavy rain – extreme weather is increasingly leading to crop losses. If the forecasts are to be followed, climate change will threaten our food supply in the near future. Agriculture must react and adapt in the long term. Innovative solutions are needed, from exotic varieties and cultivation methods to new genetic engineering processes.
A film directed from exile: through her brother’s lens, the director seeks to capture the lives of Iran’s nomadic women who weave carpets – a powerful metaphor for feminine creation and resistance. Their collaboration also carries a symbolic weight: patriarchal structures seem to be repeated on the surface, yet in truth it is the woman who leads, decides, and shapes the narrative.
The trade fair city of Munich. But this time told by those who live there.
An old man gets lost in a maze of fragile memories - until a visit from his daughter stirs something within him.
If smartwatches think for themselves and apps make decisions, what is left of one's own will?
The War in Kassel and Chongqing - Explorations from the protagonist's perspective. She travels through the last words and remnants of the war to Chongqing and Kassel, two cities 7,900 kilometers apart. Although she lived there for a long time, she never experienced the war herself. As someone who grew up in a world heavily influenced by electronic media, images nevertheless give her an idea of the pain and depth. Images make the extent of the war visible and allow the horrors to be felt even beyond actual experience.
The boundaries between individual human freedom and the necessity of others, as illustrated by the case of a cannibal in Kassel. All elements appear arbitrary, as if they could be rearranged at any time to create a new film, but the question would remain: What is the significance of others for the individual?
home is where trees are dear. for someone these trees are ancient friends / and others are willing to burn them just to conquer the land they are growing on.
The teenager plays video games and gambles, his mother despairs. Both in Ukrainian and Lower Sorbian. And suddenly, real life intervenes.
A Russian teacher criticizes the Russian invasion of Ukraine in class and is denounced by a pupil. After fleeing, she re-enacts the incident with her Berlin class.
Two sisters, left to fend for themselves at home, create their own fantasy world in which they find comfort amidst their loneliness. Neglected by their parents and surrounded by the chaos of everyday life, the sisters Juli and Luca grow up together. When Juli takes her little sister to another party, Luca loses their mother’s old stuffed animal on the way. Suddenly, emotions rise to the surface that both sisters have long suppressed.
15-year-old Diana wants to present an art project for a school performance, consisting of video documentaries and a poetry slam. The theme is women and their everyday lives, or rather how they deal with their everyday problems. She documents not only girls and women in her environment, but also her female role models, her mother and grandmother. The three have been living together since Doloris separated from Diana's violent father. Diana's mother wants to move in with her long-distance boyfriend to give Diana and herself a better life and a real family. Diana is not particularly popular at school and is very withdrawn. When she starts filming at school and in everyday life for her school project, she repeatedly witnesses assaults on young girls and women. However, the women seem to have long since accepted such assaults as normal. Diana wants to break this narrative with her art project, show reality, and reveal one of her biggest secrets.
Shifting perspectives from the visual to the aural, this film is a result of research into the Central Asian holdings of Berlins Arsenal’s archive. It explores the evolution of sound, speech, and music in local cinema from the 1960s to the 1990s. By listening to characters’ concerns through dubbed voices in addition to soundscapes and soundtracks, we can trace the impact of Soviet ideology, its gradual weakening, and the rise of Perestroika’s freedom. Although the archive, with 45 films from Central Asia, cannot represent all of the region’s political and social shifts, it does offer a valuable basis for analyzing how evolving sound reflects broader transformations over three decades.
The name Tarta Relena conjures up images of a traditional Catalan pastry. In concert, their sensual, crystal-clear voices oscillate effortlessly between futuristic sounds and traditional Catalan harmonies; a refined experimental music that has the flavour of a mystical experience.
Golden autumn landscape on the pictorial level, sheep graze through the high field, logs are artfully arranged at the entrance to the house. On the audio level, a woman talks about the challenges of living in Chicago and starting a family on the remote German prairie. A journey to herself, in which she describes her experiences of integration as a Person of Color. One thing is certain: she already has the local Nazi under control.
A glorified childhood memory: a crispy dessert with a hole in the middle, seen in a Japanese cartoon. The mother corrects: It was a soft doughnut. This cognitive distortion inspired this film, which challenges the boundaries of subjective perception. Images and sounds mix and overlap. Street noise, excerpts of faces, snippets of interviews. Only the people's answers are visible, the questions remain hidden. Once you think about it, consciousness piles up.
In the quiet of a museum, a gaze lingers on a painted scream. Something boils, just beneath the surface.
A dystopian sci-fi future, an exploited planet, and a failed rescue mission. As the sole survivor, far away from her home planet, Hope must face the greatest challenge of her life: saving humanity. All hope seems lost. Will a divine matriarch save humanity?
In the 90-minute film “Die Tote im Rhein” (The Dead Woman in the Rhine), Barbara Salesch investigates a mysterious murder case. A missing woman, a dark secret, and two suspects lead to a thrilling hunt for a ruthless perpetrator.
In the Mangfallgebirge just outside Munich, a special geological history created the framework for a variety of natural habitats. It has been cultivated by man for at least 3000 years. And yet a treasure trove of nature has been preserved here to this day. Or precisely because of this? The documentary shows how crucial sustainable management is...
An intimate and moving short documentary where a young Franco-Lebanese director has a heartfelt exchange with her mother, Kawssar, as they spend time together in her late grandmother's house. In a space now filled with nostalgia and emptiness, Kawssar recounts how Lebanon's civil war drove her into exile and how she had to cope with the loss of family members, all the while poring over her mother's diaries. A transgenerational story, Mon Raison d'Être explores grief, loneliness and motherhood, lifting the veil on things left unsaid. A delicate journey of a filmmaker and her mother, struggling within their own relationship and ultimately trying to heal together.
The coronavirus pandemic began almost five years ago. Suddenly fear, uncertainty and isolation dominated life. Many people are still suffering from the consequences today, and quite a few are affected by Long Covid or Post Vac. Sascha Becker, known as the anchorman of SWR Aktuell-Nachrichten, meets people on his journey across Rhineland-Palatinate who report on how they are doing health-wise, economically and socially.
A first-person narrative from offscreen. Deserted shots of Venice and Amsterdam become images of a relationship that could never be lived because of shame and vulnerability.