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Inspired by recent paradigm shifts in global politics, Other Side is a full CG-animated short film exploring the increasing divide between social groups and ideologies. In questioning the dominance of ideas such as meritocracy and individuality, Other Side suggests the possibility of alternative ways to think, and to live.

Director Claudio Fragasso and writer Rossella Drudi talk about the making of the infamous Italian zombie flick Hell of the Living Dead.

Two conversations, two cities, the question: is the only revolutionary thought of today, to let the dreamer sleeping?
 Die Ordnung der Träume is a film that revolves around the (e) motion of human beings, their resistance, their mental activity and the imagination of their worlds. Two people who search for each other, but miss to find, and yet remain in common. Two doubting figures whose conversation is characterized by the different perceptions and the skepticism on the other. In constant presence, a voice sinking into the thoughts of the figures; A traveler, a flaneur, a critical gaze that raises questions itself. An exploration and contemplation of the world; a gaze points at the magician and its deceptions, the faithful and their self-flagellation, the workers who build cities, and children who play young gods.

Genevieve has a small hole in the leg. A trace of her past. She shares all the story in this short animated documentary.

Harold Nebenzal talks about his career.

The film takes the sprawling form of a Chinese checkers games, creating a collage of associations evoked by movements and gambles. Through one family, three different Germanys take shape, including their problematic subchapters. The film centres on the mother who is a passionate Chinese checkers player as well as a tailor and fashion designer in the GDR. The mother’s favourite piece of work is a showpiece dress with piping, cording, tabs and embroidery around the neckline. One has to love this film, if only for the tender re-animation of words we presumed obsolete.

The set design of the short movie is based on the 70's hippie era.

Kayleigh’s Love Story is as a warning to young people, both girls and boys, about the dangers of speaking to people they don’t know online. The film highlights just how quick and easy it can be for children to be groomed online without them or those around them knowing it is happening. Its purpose is to protect children now and in the future and to stop another family losing a child in this way.

Look at Me is a mixed-format short documentary about queer and trans bodies and online self-representation. It is DIY labour of love made by a host of queer filmmakers and collaborators in London.

Nine-year-old Maribel explains to us how it feels to be stricken with the world's oldest infliction: love.

TV movie about the experience of living in Barcelona during the 1992 Olympic Games

Filmed over three years at the Rebellion punk festival.

Amedeo Modigliani's portraits of women are among the most printed images of modernism. What is their special magic? British art critic John Berger believes that the nudes in particular are about falling in love. The documentary follows Berger's thoughts and explores the secret of Modigliani's art.

Did Volkswagen spy on its own employees and subject opposition members to torture during the dictatorship in Brazil? The report investigates the allegations.

In 1920, Jacques traumatized by the war lives as the reclusive groundskeeper of a cemetery. One night he encounters Henri, a young soldier, risen from his grave.

In her small apartment on the outskirts of Paris, Chahine tinkers with the rhythms that will accompany her on stage. This is her space, the only one where she feels safe. She visits her surroundings on Google Street View. As a woman born in a man's body, she is reminded of her difference every day. And the difficulty of finding one's place in the world is coupled with another question: who owns the city?

Experimental documentary considering the life and work of pioneering holographer Margaret Benyon.

A rude knock at the door and an unseen visitor's muffled cry for help wake up an unsuspecting man in the dead of night. He truly seems in grave danger; however, should he open it? Who knows what terrors await behind a thin piece of wood?

The Tears of Minos

In Smara refugee camp, barber Mohammed treats customers of different generations.

A documentary that explores identities, human nature, and happiness. While the larger society tends to define a person’s life with wealth, property, stability and sex, protagonists of the film choose to abandon them all and reconsider their identities and lives. The film follows two Brits as their lives push for mainstream society to rethink the relationships between wealth, family, stability, sex, gender, and happiness.

A plunge into the Mediterranean Sea, a body that connects and divides us, an elemental force of creation and of death. At a time of care-free relaxation by the sea, in the same waters, a bit farther off, intense dramas unfold, as they have, increasingly, over the last decade. Between empathy, indifference and powerlessness, a desire to make a purifying gesture arises—one which might appear egotistical in face such enormous suffering. A collection of positive and negative images that seeks no new dialectic, set discourse, dichotomy, or separation, but looks to establish connections, links and possibilities.

In 2000, group of Romani people of Kosovan origins settled at the foot of Mount Etna. This film depicts a dance dedicated to a bride, a young woman who prepare herself to become wife and mother, the center of a culture. A film as an 'objet trouvé', a show without a show, full of details and life.

Three dreams, three stories that explore the charms and dangers of the imagination... In a small café, around 1900, a provincial theater enthusiast recounts his supposed successes to anyone who will listen. In an isolated house in the countryside, two women watch night fall and gradually succumb to terror. In the heart of a psychiatric clinic (with reputedly modern methods), the madmen may not be who we think they are—and they end up turning appearances upside down. Based on plays by Georges Courteline and André de Lorde.

„It used to be down to fate whether you gave birth to a disabled child. Today you can choose if you want to keep it or not.“ The results of prenatal screening can present would-be parents with a very difficult dilemma. Should a physically or mentally disabled child be allowed to live – or not be brought into the world at all? Who gets to decide what is normal and worthy of life? The filmic essay DIE DRITTE OPTION puts a new perspective on a highly controversial topic: while we listen to the statements of doctors, those who carry out prenatal screenings and the disturbing experiences of the couples affected, the visual level places the topic in a much wider socio-political context. Director Thomas Fürhapter’s debut film offers fascinating visual and acoustic impressions that tackle the core questions of birth, death, ethics and questions how far we should go when it comes to optimising our lives.

Every summer, when the major football teams fly their star athletes to training grounds in expensive and sunny locations, some other players meet on a football field in Duisburg. Even though there are professional footballers, they are all unemployed. And they look desperately for a job. "The Other Fields" sheds a new and completely different light on the mythologies of contemporary football. While some may think that “bling-bling” and “glitz” is all there is to modern football, Marco Kugel’s and Simon Quack’s film shows the intricate economic and moral complexities behind the façade of entertainment. Dreams only last a season or two.

Fall 2014: two women, a journalist and an activist, are slowly losing their coherent worldviews. After a chance encounter, their perspectives on the refugee crisis, on politics, work and capitalism collide. What emerges is a road movie through rural Greece, in pursuit of invisible borders and an attitude toward our present times.

Two young women register for membership in a nationalist party and take us through the dark places that hide behind the curtains.

Carl is a real athlete, nobody can compete with him on the minigolf course! Or at least that's what he believes...

What would you do if your night dreams really came true? What if what you dream about isn't what you really want? Your life could become hell. Marco decides to escape from those nightmares that are tearing up his daily life when Giulia, his best friend, introduces him to someone who could save him. But he finds himself trapped in the center of an intrigue from which he can't get rid of except... returning to reality.

Super 8 (Color) film by Helga Fanderl

In the Argentine pampas, the lands around Colonia Hansen are among the most fertiles in the world. For a long time, millions of cows were pasting there in the open air. It was said that the best beef was Argentine.

Marcos gets his first audition for a movie, but he doesn't expect what the movie is about...

A film that moves with sensitivity through the pilgrimage a young boy must take after his father's death.

A father and his son share a memorable day together.

The tale of a senior trans man and the Opening Doors befriending network.

Survival Signs deals with the problem of language as an organ of taste, cause of the loss of paradise and instrument of language. It leased men to build the Tower of Babel to reach heaven and surpass God, after which God punished them by destroying their unity. By using electronic language, echographical and televised images, Survival Signs dismantles the loss of the power of understanding and communication of language. As an example, the video presents the fight for survival or Iraqi children deprived of food - a way of cutting off their tongues. And what forbidden fruit had they tasted? What language would we like them to speak? That of having or that or being? Or, do we simply hope that they die without uttering a word?