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An experimental portrait of the Spanish composer Maria de Alvear.

Experimental film based on the radio play "Die Befreiung des Prometheus" (The Liberation of Prometheus) by Heiner Goebbels, based on texts by Heiner Müller: While Heracles circles the mountain to free Prometheus, who is chained and tormented by the eagle's beak, Prometheus is on his way to see his boss as a middle manager—in an elevator. An important appointment. But the elevator malfunctions and becomes his prison... Two texts by playwright Heiner Müller that ironically tell the story of two men. Composer Heiner Goebbels has interwoven these texts and adapted them musically into an audio play: "The Liberation of Prometheus." Theo Janßen composed the images to accompany it: documentary, staged, and journalistic images. Archive footage, photographs, drawings—not illustrative, but associative and contrapuntal. The result is a kind of "film opera" or "film musical."

On the storm-lashed rocky coast of Moogeland, farmer Harry lives in deep harmony with nature. His peaceful existence comes to an abrupt end when Harry witnesses a poisoning incident that the military is trying to cover up at all costs. The farmer sees red...

Documentary about Herschel Grynszpan, born in Hanover in 1921, who made history by assassinating Ernst von Rath, the secretary of the German embassy in Paris, on November 7, 1938. This incident served as a pretext for the Nazis to carry out pogroms against the Jewish population on the night of November 9-10, 1938. In addition to providing historical insight into the background of the events, which were euphemistically referred to as "Reichskristallnacht" (Night of Broken Glass), the film uses the person and story of the then 17-year-old to illustrate the conflicts that persecuted young people grew up with in the 1930s.

A young couple and an older couple meet by chance and become entangled in a love quadrangle. A farce in the Darmstadt dialect.

A Russian Anna and a German Anna begin their dialogue in the middle of a backdrop landscape in a birch forest. During the conversation, they change their points of view and positions. In the end, it's all about the question of direction: Anna, where are you going?

Bettina Bayerl has turned situations from everyday life that reflect a certain mindset and images that symbolize success into a pitch-black satire on reality TV, exaggerated trend worship, and conformist stupidity.

At a playground, two young people arrive to beat up a stranger.

Film by Thomas Mank about queerness, coming of age, aids and offenbach.

Alina accepted the invitation from her Polish friend Elszbieta and traveled to Warsaw. Had she known beforehand that she would not be able to locate Elszbieta, she might never have left. However, then she would never have encountered the two men with the wardrobe, met Mariusz and the musicians, or spoken with Pan Tadeusz...

The film shows portraits of five former soldiers of the Wehrmacht and a hospital assistant who deserted during the Second World War. Through long interview passages, rarely interrupted by original film documents from the time of National Socialism and the post-war period, the life paths of the contemporary witnesses are traced and different motives for their decision to desert are traced.

A short domestic drama exploring the relationship between a man and his young daughter. The film uses high gloss colour to create a naturalistic view of home life. It begins with the daughter joyfully riding a horse, followed by scenes in the attic and her father’s room, where she discovers a coin and experiences moments of tension and mystery. The narrative shifts through various scenes, including a barn, a room with a seemingly dead person, and a final scene where the daughter lies beside her sleeping father.

It is a film that has as its object everything that one does not usually see when watching a film, but which is of essential importance for the projection: the perforations, the footer numbers, the letters and sometimes the emulsion that becomes the protagonist at the end of the film instead of the images recorded by the camera.

Atlas, when he was holding the sky and thought he could no longer carry it, asked the gods to release him from his heavy burden.

Short Imagefilme by the Deutsches Bahn about dealing with colleagues suffering from alcoholism.

A history of the Portuguese Empire's expansion and contraction.

A look at the work of the US police.

A surprising fantasy/parable of repressed lesbian desire.

Experimental short film

A short documentary about the making of Heidi Bucher's skins of the Bellevue Sanatorium at Kreuzlingen.

fantasy hands

I like trains.

A conversation between the filmmaker and his mother in the purest form; cleaning with a vacuum cleaner, about the Japanese Embassy hostage crisis in Peru. Calling for a delivery of noodles for lunch, but the delivery service is closed. Starting to cook udon noodles. A telephone dialling, a car ride. The noodles are cooked and people talk about Germany. The sound of the cooking appliances: rattling and sizzling. A pure focus on the conversations.

In the spring of 1997 I placed the camera in front of a mirror and filmed the camera and myself at the same time as manipulating the camera in ways not recommended in the instructions for use. When the film came back from being developed, I was forced to think "Whew". The camera looked much better that I did and I wanted to destroy the film immediately. Dietmar Brehm

"Franziska is a hand-made blow-up - single Super 8 frames are fixed into windows cut in 16 mm black and white film. Space and time are involved with each other in a fascinating manner and in different frameworks and abrasive processes of movement."

Vampirism of the glimpse. The lady shaves her legs to a bloody end. The strategies of the art of viewing are laid down. Separation.

Are they beings from another planet or products of the laboratories of gene-technicians? Aged Austrian rock 'n' roll musicians and their clones from the 90's tell about their lives.

A married man going astray hires a young waiter to watch his lover. This waiter fills in for him when he happens to have no time and is forced to deal with his wife. The paid friend takes his job more than seriously and is responsible for some surprises.

Garish logos, labels, corporate symbols and brand-names frenetically alternate, detached from their context (TV or Internet), re-modeled on the computer, broken down into their structural elements, and spinning in an endless loop.

A documentary chronicling two years of conflict at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp memorial site, where a controversial director dismantles exhibits honoring anti-fascist resistance while pushing to equate Nazi crimes with a Soviet internment camp, as former prisoners fight to preserve the historical truth of their suffering.

Documentary film.

Film by Telscher.

1993 short by Dietmar Brehm

Photo film about mannequins.

Portrait of composer Canlon Nancarrow.

The documentary about Kurdish lawyers Serafettin Kaya and Rusen Arslan reflects the experiences of Kurds with the power of the Turkish judicial system. After the military coup in Turkey in 1971, the two defend opposition Kurds arrested in Diyarbakir. In their pleas, Kaya and Arslan break a taboo by insisting on the Kurdish language, culture, and identity of their clients. As a result, they are temporarily arrested as "separatists." After the second coup by the Turkish military in 1980, mass trials against Kurdish opposition figures took place. Arslan was already in prison, while Kaya spoke publicly about the military's use of torture and became a victim of it himself. At the beginning of the 1980s, Kaya and his friend Arslan were able to flee to West Germany.

Life in a tiny countryside village is simple but hard for this couple from a different world.

In the Nueva Guinea region of Southern Nicaragua, farmers struggle to subsist amidst the pressures of the Sandinista movement and the constant threat of Contra attacks, which target their cooperatives and force them into self-defense. The ongoing conflict, part of the USA’s “Low Intensity Warfare” policy, leads to widespread fear, destruction of agricultural efforts, and displacement, highlighting the harsh realities of economic warfare.