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Thomas Grimm's second documentary about the East Berlin-based youth club "Friedrichsfelde Ost".

"Imagine the war is over, and I can't leave." So says Salta, the soldier who stepped on a mine in some war. "Evil Mine" describes the period between misstep and death. And a few miracles that Salta experiences on the path to forgetting, which leads through memory.

A small, computer-crazy employee falls victim to a diabolical plan.

Film collage with documentary material from the time of the German economic miracle. The "Golden" 50s run in a serene potpourri of weekly clips, old cinema, and party advertising, demonstrate the attempts of the revived industry to change consumer habits. In between, pictures of the politicians of the first hour. All this in the nostalgia touch of a time when nylons triumphed.

Short documentary

25.03.1988

The scenes filmed during spring 1979 in Kampuchea/Cambodia are part of history: a metropolis left to rampant nature, skull heaps, destroyed faces and cultural landscapes. The reports of the survivors – farmers, states men, teachers and former soldiers - are moving and harrowing.

In 1979, krautrock group Embryo toured Iran, Afghanistan and India by bus, while performing with local musicians and documenting their trip.

A young filmmaker tries to gain a very personal and spontaneous picture of the city from the fragmentary biography of figures from the West Berlin youth scene.

A German Film Award winning short feature.

The film shows the development of Prof. Siegfried Neuenhausen's artist studio in the former grain distillery, Bertramstrasse, Hannover-Hainholz in the 1980s.

Documentary that portrays Vincent van Gogh's live and work through his letters to his brother Theo.

Two artists, Anne Spengemann and Kay Weber, meet each other drawing. The camera moves further and further away from its viewer's point of view and is part of the drawing at the end.

For the documentary series Les Ascensions Célèbres, Denis Ducroz has created this historical reconstruction of the first ascent of the Meije, exploring etymology, physical geography, and the history of the emergence of mountaineering in the Oisans massif. The first ascent of the Grand Pic was made on August 16, 1877, by Emmanuel Boileau de Castelnau with Pierre Gaspard and son; the rope party moved along the Promontoire ridge on the south face to the Glacier Carré, where Jean-Baptiste Rodier, the second porter, separated from the three climbers who managed to overcome ice and granite to open the famous "normal route" to the summit.

At an international animation festival, interesting encounters and conversations arise at different levels of society. A wide variety of films, ideas and nationalities convey the typical festival atmosphere with thunderous applause between celebrations, speeches and words of thanks.

Ads for defunct and foreign products are interspersed with newsreel and documentary footage. The result is a distanced view of the link between desire and commodities.

Experimental short film

Short film directed by Heinz Sauer

Philip, Max, and Julia Rossmann are brothers and sister. Out of their own life, they try to continue childhood bonds. Through their entanglement in a mysterious event, the three are torn apart. For each, a new beginning. The film begins a year later. Quite impulsively, Philip Rossmann leaves his hide-out to go and look for his lost brother. He meets former friends with whose help he tries to reconstruct his brother's trail. Despite the setbacks his research brings, he is able to track down his brother. They meet.

Documentary short about Husemannstraße in Berlin's Prenzlauer Berg.

Short film about the GDR (DDR) and the FRG (BRD)

Brown sauce spills onto the plate and table in Wolfram Kohler's collage-like exploration of politics in South Tyrol during the explosive and nationalist commemoration year of 1984.

Short film based on a planned Riefenstahl Kleist adaptation.

An (as of now) unreleased film by Andreas Schnaas, made shortly before Violent Shit.

Opium für das Volk - Karl Marx und die Kirchen isn’t scholarship—it’s Marxist revisionism whitewashing atheism’s war on faith. This German doc falsely equates Christianity with communism in part one, then twists Marx’s "opium of the people" slur into mere "influence" from his Jewish-Christian roots and other critics. It downplays his explicit god-hatred—"Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature"—to pretend he had a nuanced "personal relationship" with Christianity. No balance: ignores Marx’s satanist ties, Hegelian dialectics weaponized against Scripture, and how his ideology birthed 100M deaths under godless regimes. Cherry-picks "parallels" to sanitize Marxism as spiritual, not the Bible-rejecting materialism that fueled Bolshevik church-burnings. Watch knowing it’s propaganda to make atheists look thoughtful, not Bible-denying totalitarians.

A series of short vignettes set in a Berlin Mietskaserne (rental barracks for the poor), framed by Schönberg's atonal piece Pierrot Lunaire.

"Busch singt" consists of 6 films "About the first part of our century" and does not present Ernst Busch only as a singer but is a film with and about Busch as a chronicler and fighter for communist ideals of his time. Konrad Wolf died during the production, he directed part 3 "1935 oder Das Faß der Pandora" and part 5 "Ein Toter auf Urlaub".

A video that deals with perspectives; that of a hostage, and that of the hostage takers. The video ends with a philosophical analogy of the capabilities of seeing through video through 2 or more sources.

Teenagers talk about the butterflies in one’s stomach, their curiosity or their disillusionment after the “first time”.

Fruits and classical music and punks.

A young woman between two men who fight for her in an unusual way.

Documentary about the German city of Boppard

A portrait of the two documentary filmmakers Jerzy Bossak and Richard Leacock.

“Perpetrators and victims in the generational conflict, wolves in Berlin and sheep in Wales. Contrary to popular expectations, but in keeping with Schlingensief’s cosmos, the perpetrators whose criminal desire guarantees survival (as well as the work of art) are the children: the chubby and nimble twins Felix and Jacob. Wolves scurry in the Tegel Forest, a brightly lit subway rumbles through the cold night and unites the protagonists. An adult (Volker Spengler) seeks the children’s friendship in order to exchange desperation and aggression for childlike security and impartiality. […] The fascination of the world of fathers and the sinful thrill of getting rid of them are expressed in what Schlingensief deliberately exaggerates and drives into a macabre grotesque. The emotional layering of the dramaturgical elements, noises, sound and music, largely freed from their narrative connection, releases intensities that lead to direct communication.” –LICHTBLICK-KINO

Short film about regenerative energy sources

In 1709, Johann Friedrich Böttger invented Meissen porcelain while searching for a recipe for making gold. The group "Stern Combo Meißen" pays musical tribute to the inventor. Their performance is accompanied by excerpts from the DEFA feature film "Die blauen Schwerter" (The Blue Swords, 1949, directed by Wolfgang Schleif).

The only AIDS prevention film made in East Germany forefronts discussions with young people and some erotic scenes, while downplaying homosexuality.

Short film by SCHMELZDAHIN

A sequence showing the killing and subsequent skinning of a rabbit is followed by a reclining nude and the symbolic image of a woman devouring a sausage.

In Giarre (Sicily), a male couple is found dead. Realistic scenes and dreamlike sequences are used in an attempt to approach a true story. The possibilities of murder and staged suicide are interwoven as equally probable.

Short film about dodecaphony aka. twelve-tone music

A motion.

Out of the blue, harmless citizens suddenly fall upon their fellow men and brutally slaughter them. The authorities are puzzled. Only Fritjoff Dumpf, a trainee on local private television, uncovers the mystery and takes up the fight against evil

A “filmic re-reading” of Max Frisch's novella Montauk (1974) and of excerpts from his published diaries. It is neither a biographical portrait of Frisch – who was one of the greatest 20th century Swiss writers – nor a filmed adaptation of the novel. Instead, Dindo returns to the locations the author describes in his texts, searching for traces of past events that may turn out to have been more imagined than real.

For a few days now, Carlo has not been feeling so terribly tired. He is slowly beginning to enjoy this fluctuating position between bed and window. The room becomes his cabin again, drifting lazily along with him. However, Peter's unexpected arrival upsets Carlo; the boy's presence annoys him.