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HF168 - Super 8 (Color) film by Helga Fanderl

A documentary describing the role of the Quandt family businesses during World War II.

The documentary sheds a light onto the life of the Emberá, an indigenous group in Panama. It focuses on the preservation of traditions. How can a modern lifestyle be reconciled with the heritage of the people?

Mars (Marcel Gornik) gets his report card and finds out that he has to repeat the 8th grade for the second time. To avoid further trouble from his parents, he runs away into the forest. There he finds a gas mask that soon causes him serious problems…

Bridges are built to connect people, unless it is forbidden to cross them. The towns of Sighet in Romania and Ukrainian Slatina are separated by the river Tisza. A recently rebuilt bridge is supposed to not only reunite the two towns but also bring back together friends and relatives who have been divided throughout history by various political decisions. The former bridge was destroyed by German troops in 1944. After WWII, the border was closed. For 50 years there was nothing but silence between the inhabitants of Romanian Sighet and the city of Slatina, which then belonged to the Soviet Union. The film documents the long, often absurd and eventually vain struggle of the local inhabitants and politicians to reconnect the two communities.

The source material came from the prosecution, who wanted to use it as a basis. The 120 hours of material from the broadcasts of various US television stations, which the officials of the Sacramento prosecutor's office had recorded (in poor picture and sound quality), were surprisingly made available to Lutz Dammbeck in 2002. However, there was no trial in 1998.

The view from a balcony window in Berlin: one sees elements of Summertime, such as shadows and the movement of plastic wrapping material in the wind, which alternately hides and reveals the view of an intersection teeming with life.

A documentary feature about Jewish communist Theodor Bergmann, who escaped National Socialism and is portrayed as he revisits stages of his own history.

Butter, shit, puke. A reminder of my hometown Chemnitz.

Documentary about the Jewish Ashkenazi-Polish dancer and resistance fighter Sylvin Rubinstein, who made a career on stage in his sister's costumes after losing his family in the Second World War.

One-night stand can lead to fatal results. Martin is a living proof. He's a straight family guy whose life turns upside down when he finds out that he has AIDS so he tricks his ex gay lover Josh into an empty flat and ties him up awaiting his blood test results.

Ute Aurand’s Hanging upside down in the Branches is a gentle, generous and unsparing portrait of the filmmaker’s parents, whose passing is marked by remembrance and the loving recording of them - Andréa Picard

Paul is a lifeguard at an indoor swimming bath and enjoys flirting with girls.

The other guy talks about living abroad.

July, 1946. Bikini. It was the first of 23 nuclear tests the US government made in their race against the Soviets during the Cold War. A remote atoll in the Marshall Islands, set in the vast blue expanse of the Pacific Ocean between the Philippines and Hawaii. Ironically though, it was this isolation, that sealed the atoll's fate: During "Operation Crossroads" in July of 1946, two atom bombs were used to sink a ghost fleet of 84 vessels, destroying the natural environment and leaving parts of the huge atoll ring permanently contaminated in the process. The islanders are still reliant on imported food even today.

Documentary film.

Vladimir Pilipenko built a submarine. Life size. And in the village lake, his submarine worked. But Vladimir has set his sights on something bigger than the local pond. Can his sub really dive in the Black Sea?

German splatter movie

The Soul Hunter is a short animated film created from over 1,000 of Christine Rebet's drawings on watercolour paper and filmed in 35mm frame by frame. In her first work of film, the young French artist depicts a disturbing soul hunter battling against a kamikaze 'waterworks' boy.

The work of a film editor usually takes place in secret. At the end of their work is a finished film - the result of weeks of concentrated work. In documentary films, the narrative structure is often only found at the editing table. The editor is a co-author who juggles with the existing material and organizes it. It's about rhythm, compositional thinking, the sensitive handling of space and time. In the documentary by Gabriele Voss, who also works as an editor herself, renowned editors, a brain researcher and the author and director Alexander Kluge use selected film examples to report on seeing, hearing and perceiving, on chaos and order, on hidden tricks and astonishing techniques.

A coming out story. Susann and Tanja turn Berlin upside down on their birthday night and discover themselves in the process. Susann wants to experience something on her 18th birthday. In search of her boyfriend, she catapults herself into an adventure with a stolen car and a strange woman who leads her astray.

Discarded takes from advertising films are presented almost untouched, as documents that unwittingly offer valuable and humorous insights into the human condition.

Dieser Film beschreibt in kleinen Geschichten den Verein Eintracht Frankfurt und seine Fankultur. Fans, Freunde, Spieler und Offizielle der Eintracht kommen zu Wort und geben einen Einblick in das Herz von Eintracht Frankfurt. Dabei wird Eintracht Frankfurt nicht nur als der erfolgreiche Fußballclub abgebildet, sondern auch als der große Sportverein mit all seinen Facetten

The documentary film by and with Stefan Hayn describes how election posters, cigarette, detergent and cinema advertisements refer more or less clearly to topics such as tax legislation, security in old age, increasing fears about losing one's job, and domestic and foreign policy crises. In order to develop this impression, in 1998 Hayn began painting watercolors of billboards that had been put up in Berlin. From the outset, each sheet was intended as a "setting" of a documentary film that would document the economic, political and interpersonal changes that would become visible in "public" images up until 2005.

Delegations of the homeless from all over the world march in. This is a film in which there is nothing to see. - Vlado Kristl

Bastian happens to run into Isabelle in the elevator; he secretly writes his phone number on one of her cigarettes. The next morning, she smokes the cigarette. She accidentally destroys her chance to contact him again. Isabelle therefore goes to a radio station she knows Bastian likes and goes on the air to make a “I’m looking for” call, but at the exact moment she’s live on the radio—which he’s listening to—he gets a call and doesn’t hear her. She waits for him, but of course he doesn’t show up—or is there a chance for a do-over, a chance to go back in time and do it all over again?

A short parody of Das komabrutale Duell directed by Heiko Fipper.

Short horror film.

The gates opened for a baroque journey through the interior of a huge cathedral. In blaring colours, the space slowly reveals itself as a divine amusement park. Reble is incomparable in the refined use of chemicals on film with digital techniques. L’après-midi d’un faune is a beautiful colour spectacle, balancing on the frontiers of spirituality and kitsch.

Compilation of clips and scenes from classic movies featuring Dita Von Teese and Eve Ellis.

A chorus of women dressed in white is shown to us by the camera. After a few seconds, a tracking shot reveals their faces, one after the other. Each of them is serious and looks directly into the camera. What will happen next? Even these first shots suggest that we are about to witness a very special spectacle. A show that harks back to the past and celebrates women, all women, but also the queer world, without (almost) always taking itself too seriously.

After years of absence, the Yakuza Gang around Max and Jay Jay are finally up to mischief again. And it would be all right for the naughty homies if the Deliquentes Clan could keep their hands off the big deal. The police, who are known not to shy away from losses, are getting closer and closer to resolving the case through the clever investigation by special agent Joe Miller ... But in this world, where violence is preferred over prudence, the barometer stands for death - and that's exactly what we're going to see. Bullenblut 2 is supposed to reveal how things really go on Winterthur's streets, nothing more and nothing less.

What happens if a child, which is after 27 years still connected with its mother by the umbilical cord, refuses to leave her?

"I'm Sure You're All Wondering, What Kind Of Project This Is. A Film?...A Play?...An Event Of Some Sort? Well, Fuck You! Because You Don't Get To Know That Yet...You're Not Even Human Yet...You're Just Three Filthy Dead-Eyed Animals Waiting To Be Slaughtered As Far As I'm Concerned. Any Questions?"

Sequel to the german splatter film 'Screamday - Ihre Schreie verstummen'

The film is based on the real life story of a twenty-year-old boy. The main character comes from Russia to Germany with his parents, Russian Germans. In the cycle of Berlin life, he is trying to find himself and his place in a new environment for him. A student of a German school, a part–time worker, a seller of a Russian fish shop, a statistician of the "German Opera", a petty criminal - his path runs through such a bizarre line. The multifaceted Russian Berlin with all the tragic comedy of emigrant life becomes the background of its existence. Here he meets many different people, finds his love, indulges in dashing fun with friends, the same immigrants as him, works, paints, makes plans for the future and ... by chance becomes an accomplice to murder. So the breadth of central Russia narrowed around him to the size of a prison cell in Germany.

Walter Benjamin, Godard, Restivo, Plato and Fassbinder have a meeting in a cinephiles head in a Berlin flat late 2000. Verité situationism of the worst kind. Blasphotainment for worshippers of the cult of raw materialism, that brutally encircles all that applies…

Documentary about an area in the east of Germany.

Filmed every day during the final four weeks of the Berlin Film Museum’s construction.