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

A fascinating lovestory between a woman and a piece of meat.

"Steinriegel" hedges are introduced as representatives for hedges of the Swabian Area. They dominate the landscape's appearance and provide a habitat for certain communities of plants and animals.

Short film about the coelacanth

Short film about Johnny, who is a bagger in a supermarket in the big city of Guayaquil in Ecuador. He brings the groceries to the customers' cars and gets a tip for it. He works 12 hours a day - six days a week.

Short documentary

In contrast to Hochhaus, with Felder 9.6 I wanted to realize a creative solution in the smallest of spaces, and at the same time exercise complete control over the development process. For this purpose I first looked for a suitable motif; it should be devoid of emotional or physical meaning and should not represent any function or idea. But it should very well already have a process-like dynamic, which I then wanted to take up with my design and, so to speak, 'transform'. I made a wooden light box with a glass surface; I mounted a red light underneath and a graph paper template on the glass with precise graphic instructions for the positions of the filmstrip on the photostrip. I had calculated that I could move the 16mm film 12 times across the width of the 35mm format, each time shifting the optical soundtrack by 3mm.

The Berlin rock group Passion presents their "Apple Song" and interprets it in a humorous way.

A room above the slaughterhouse. While the animals are beeing butchered below, upstairs an adult is playing out scenes of early puberty. The woman in the room of the slaughterhouse cuts off all his hair. Aloud the man reads a story of the unrestrained Scheherazade. The children cheerfully cook the dog’s carcass and the adults resolutety expose their private parts... „Memories and dreams, which were banned in the cinema until now and which have magically freed themselves from the chains of the prohibitions and the realms of the taboos.“ (D. Kuhlbrodt)

Short film by SCHMELZDAHIN

A film that played the Munich Film Festival in 1986.

Documentary by Anne Spoerri.

Mimi Minus spreads out a paper with a chequered pattern and drinks repeatedly from a bottle containing and dark liquid which is never emptied. The chequered paper is successively covered in chaotic painting until, finally, it is rolled out of the way. Underneath is a fresh chequered paper. With very intensive cutting, the film is composed of infinitely varied primary contradictions - black versus white, circle versus square, order versus chaos.

And our old Emperor said: "Thank you, it’s been very nice, it was a pleasure!" (M. M.)

In a small harbor on the North Sea coast, the skipper's pub "Zum eisernen Matrosen" and the customs office are located opposite each other. Since smuggling has been practiced on the Waterkant since time immemorial, the "smuggler king" Adrian and his two sons Paul and Emil try to outsmart the conscientious and omnipresent customs officer - according to the motto: "Go to sleep with grog, wake up with grog, that's the whole course of the day!"

The peasants of Cap Vert, women and young girls, practically always left to themselves, since husbands and fathers leave the country in order to find work, know how to face up to everyday life and difficulties with a smile.

My mother lights 80 candles and becomes visible. When I set to work, it turned into an intense confrontation between mother and son. I finally learned the unvarnished story of my mother's life and began to understand why we both became who we are. I interwove the film image with two layers of sound: the Suite in C minor for violoncello, Bach, and dialogical texts spoken by mother and son, based on our conversations and describing how she gave birth to her seven children during the years of Hitler's fascism. I will continue to work on my mother's biography.

On April 20, 1945, twenty Jewish children were hanged at the Hamburg school on Bullenhuser Damm. SS doctor Heißmeier had previously conducted "medical" experiments on the children. To conceal this crime from the advancing British forces, the SS, under the command of Obersturmführer Arnold Strippel, killed the children, two prisoner nurses, two prisoner doctors, and 24 Soviet prisoners of war. One of the children's murderers, Arnold Strippel, who now lives in Frankfurt, has been under investigation by the Hamburg public prosecutor's office since 1979, but so far without any results. The film documents the children's story through eyewitness accounts. It conveys impressions of Nazi propaganda through "Die Deutsche Wochenschau" (The German Weekly Newsreel) and shows the dangers of neo-fascism in the Federal Republic of Germany. In April 1980, a few days after a memorial service for the children, neo-Nazis planted a bomb in the school on Bullenhuser Damm...

The film shows a woman in front of a mirror, whose preparatory gestures are fragmented by re-photography. In an electrifying blue tone and hand-processed, the film reveals intimate moments of a couple at the table, caught in repetitions of media clichés of tenderness. Structural repetition and changing perspectives intensify the tension of waiting. The film switches to the male perspective in front of the mirror, followed by intimate scenes that address loneliness and unfulfilled desire.

Odenbach looks at forced definitions of gender by contrasting the mechanics of physical fitness with the stifling confinement of a baroque setting.

One of Bielický’s first videos, filmed during his studies in Düsseldorf. The recording of spontaneously occurring situations was shot in the studio on Double Super 8 film. However, with its subsequent conversion to video, we watch an unbroken film strip. This creates a new type of spatial communication between the individual frames of film and the action in them.

A bird saves a little tree from withering.

A man rehearses for an emergency—the dry swimmer, his technique is good, he must be very fast. Only the water still causes him difficulties, it confuses him so much.

Paulina (Kristin Genee, daughter of director Heidi Genee) has had to suddenly shoulder the burden of taking care of her mother's responsibilities at home while the latter goes off to a rehab center for alcoholics. Unfortunately, Paulina also has to work at a drive-in to cover the bills, handle the visits of a social worker, and take care of an unwanted teenager hiding out from the law -- making school and homework seem like child's play.

Short film by SCHMELZDAHIN

Jochen Hick talks about an aging gay masseur and the times before AIDS.

Bedrooms filmed in a Freudian way.

A futuristic short film based on a motif by Gerhard Schultze-Seehof.

The Salambo Theatre's variety show and sex revue in the Reeperbahn of Hamburg, Germany.

A fast railway and motorcar travel from West-Berlin to the south coast of Portugal called "Algarve".

A young Turkish woman runs away from home to avoid her father's punishment. Despite all the setbacks, she makes her own way.

Fairytail Hessen. Here you can discover your love.

Palermo is home to a gigantic theater building: the Teatro Massimo - the largest theater in the world. The writer Isidor Gondlowitz sets off from his home country, Switzerland, to write a book about this impressive place. Although the theater is intact and playable, it is not being used. Gondlowitz tries out all the roles on and behind the stage and begins to lose himself more and more in the huge building and in acting.

The video work “Frankensteins Scheidung” by Monika Funke Stern takes up the motif of an artificial human being, which reaches back to the early nineteenth century. The artist develops her own story of an artificially created woman.

Berlin-Northeast. An area tries to meet new needs, to conform to human demands. The film registers the feelings of a girl from this area as she looks at photographs taken between 1903 and 1920 on behalf of the Berlin Local Health Insurance Fund.

Experimental short film

Short film about chemicals in cleaning products

November 7, 1918: Revolutionary night in Munich. After a large demonstration, Kurt Eisner leads the crowd to the barracks. The war-weary soldiers immediately defect. The king and his entourage flee. Without bloodshed, the Free State of Bavaria is born. Subsequently, revolutionary and reactionary forces fight for power with all means. Eisner is assassinated. Two soviet republics are short-lived. The young democracy is vulnerable and fails, is bloodily crushed. It goes through the world a whisper was made in 1988 and interweaves contemporary film documents and interviews. The audience includes contemporary witnesses from the anarchist, communist and socialist spectrum who were already very old at the time, such as Benno Scharmanski, Centa Herker, Hugo Jakusch, Sophie Radischnigg, Minna Dittenheber, Emil Meier and Peter Lichtinger.

Dr. Josef Eins, neurologist, treats the only remaining patient in the clinic, Herrn von KA. Herr von KA was taken to the mental institute after the emperor's death because he lost view of reality. After many years he is to be discharged in the course of the opening of the hospital. For this event Dr. Eins pepares a speech. His wife, Sissi Eins, deceives her husband with the pimp Hans. Dr. Eins commissions the detective Rudi "Spürnase" Kronfisch, who in the course of his investigations suspects espionage and future assassinations.

Accidentally, as if they had secretly intended to do so, Jonas and Maria meet. They go on a trip together and try to find out what sense there is in living and the road to freedom. Just as accidentally, an unknown man is trailed, hindered and kidnapped. Finally, he fights back and becomes the victim of his own doing. Accident? Fate? Necessity?...

An independent experimental short from the GDR.

A study of the economic relationship between developing countries and industrialized nations, developed using the example of an agricultural cooperative in Upper Volta. Beans are grown on huge monocultures for the European market, largely displacing the cultivation of urgently needed staple foods. The critical essence of the film is largely weakened by confusing dramatic effects and overly simplistic symbolism.

The view from the living room extends to the facade of a newly born metropolis.

Gliding flight, soaring flight and flapping flight are presented as basic types of bird flight. The development of lift and propulsion are explained in the animation. Special features of shaking flight, take-off and landing are shown for different types of birds.

Short-documentary by Ursula Demitter

A movie about the railroad line built between 1908 and 1912 from Jünkerath to Losheim

Short film directed by Lilo Mangelsdorff.

Like a mantra, performer Gabi Stötzer repeats the question that gives the piece its title, which becomes increasingly unnerving. With her body paint, she opens up a wide field of associations ranging from loss and grief to activist determination.

A playful reimagining of A Nightmare on Elm Street.

The documentary deals with the squatter and punk scene of Freiburg in the 1980s from the perspective of its participants.

Short film by SCHMELZDAHIN

In this short, cracks appear in the idyllic concept of ‘Heidi in the Alps’. Lisa is eight and spending the summer with her parents in the mountains. But the much-vaunted beauty of nature provides the young girl with little comfort in the sparse Alpine landscape. Instead, it seems eerie. Her father is often away and her mother is always busy with washing and doing the dishes. Lisa watches and fantasises about being far away – ideally in Persia. In the South Tirolean dialect, “kribus krabus” means “topsy turvy”. The “domine” in the title stands for the opposite, for God, control, and power. (Berlinale)

Snapshots from the life of the eccentric Tohm di Roes, who angrily shouts against the philistines with the wild gesture of punk.

A gay short crime, in which the pleasure is located in its details. Arranged as an opera, but with with simple arrangements, after seven short films Hans-J. was successful in creating his first theatrical movie highlight.