Film Archive

Unmittelbar vor der Kamera sitzend schnitzt sich Valie Export regungslos mit einem Messer in die Fingernagelhaut. Das geöffnete Fleisch und […]

In ’Ricerche: Three’ Sharon Hayes is engaging in a conversation with 35 students who are enrolled in an all women’s […]

A short video essay on randomness, storytelling and disrupted stories of NSU victims. e video is part of the SPOTS […]

A cinematic walkabout. Glances up at the sky. The pigeons. Dirty and groggy. The footsteps. Slow and reluctant. The dreams. […]

This film features the WhatsApp chats between an Austrian activist and two Syrian refugees, who made their way to Germany […]

»While Ali is prepared to start over and face the chaos of the new, the fragile little Mr Mithat – […]

»Hari was the first person I knew to use the pronoun ›They‹.« In the voice-over of this film, the director’s […]

12 Sketches on the Impossibility of Being Still is a collection of animated experiments exploring the spaces where nothing happens: […]

In 2009, Claudia Rommel began a video project which involved 143 »completely normal people« prepared to take a risk without […]

»We wouldn’t be like our parents.« »Never.« »16 years age difference, that’s perfect.« »There wouldn’t be any generation conflict.« »They […]

In the 1970s, disguised as a steward and unarmed, Dutch policeman Wim Bokkers worked as a security officer on KLM […]

In the 1970s, disguised as a steward and unarmed, Dutch policeman Wim Bokkers worked as a security officer on KLM […]

A magnificent century-old mansion in an exclusive suburb of Cologne is home to two women and their unique collection of […]

»I am interested in relationships, how we react to differences and adaptations and the gap between the public and the […]

Girlfriends at the bowling alley. They decide themselves what’s appropriate. Film Series New Archives

Fascinated by artificial insemination, Luiza Gonçalves sets out to investigate banana trees: Why do so many of them grow in […]

»Roll 23 of my Five Year Diary chronicles the period from 1 September to 13 December 1982. It describes a […]

Because she cannot decide on a particular shampoo among the thousand look-alikes on the supermarket shelves, the young woman leaves […]

In staged fast-forward mode, a mother and father document a typical day in their lives. Film Series New Archives

Tired of looking for the right partner, Mina and Kian decide to have an arranged marriage. Mina has been in […]

The life of mother-of-three Marcela (Mercedes Morán) changes dramatically when her sister Rina suddenly dies. While clearing out Rina’s apartment, […]

Singing loudly, laughing wildly, dancing crazily and crying quietly, twelve 12-year-old girls declare the stage a place of self-presentation: »Today, […]

Young-nam, a promising young policewoman from Seoul, is transferred to a small fishing village as a disciplinary measure. The locals […]

»It’s like Sergio Leone and David Lynch had an Iranian rock ’n’ roll baby, and then Nosferatu came and babysat […]

In a filmic letter to her mother, Amina Maher examines the psychological consequences of the violence she experienced as a […]

A little teddy bear’s wondrous journey through snowy Sweden. A Christmas tale for young film fans. It’s the pre-Christmas season […]

A lonely journey home through a fantastical underwater world. Reality and fantasy come together in a love letter written to […]

A box of letters is found on the campus of the Film and Television Institute of India. Signed by a […]

It’s the last days of the summer holidays. A grandfather, who lives and works in the Bieszczady Mountains, awaits the […]

»What actually happened to the biographies of the female artists who were educated and trained in the GDR and worked […]

»What actually happened to the biographies of the female artists who were educated and trained in the GDR and worked […]

It all begins with a coincidence: Artist and author Eva Tind discovers not only that she has moved into the […]

A Self-Made Man examines the complexities of gender identity through an intimate portrait of trans youth advocate Tony Ferraiolo. Gender […]

A boy finds a sea shell on a beach. In his hands, the shell develops magic powers and turns the […]

»Roll 22 of my Super 8 work Five Year Diary chronicles the period from 23 August to 1 September 1982. […]

A Short Video about Tate Modern discusses public culture and the limits of visibility in spaces and moments in which […]

In A shtetl that’s no longer there, the director’s mother – Sonia Honigmann Pach – prepares »Yiddish vrennekes« just like […]

In her impressive documentary A Thousand Girls Like Me director Sahra Mani follows the courageous pursuit of a young woman […]

»There is a store in Fresno, California, near where I grew up, called A Unique Boutique. I was always intrigued […]

In 1995, Barbara Hammer released her filmic autobiography Tender Fictions. She deconstructs the genre and keeps her version fragmentary and […]

An older lesbian biker meets a group of four younger queer people in a pub who live together in a […]

According to human rights organisations, there are 45 million cases of modern-day slavery worldwide. Bernadett Tuza-Ritter’s documentary is dedicated to […]

Well-known choreographer Thierry Thieû Niang runs a dance workshop for Alzheimer patients in the geriatric department of Charles Foix d’Ivry […]

Women conductors working for the Bochum-Gelsenkirchen Tramway Company during the war.

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»Death does not belong to the women.« – Abla »Very little is really ours.« – Samia Abla, a widow, is […]

When Lissette Orozco was younger, she had a favourite aunt, Adriana, who now lives in Australia. While visiting her family […]

In the Arizona desert by the Mexican border, the US simulates war and bombs fake Middle Eastern villages. Meanwhile, Border […]

An orchestration of face-to-face conversations between various late icons of pop culture and political history, including Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley […]

In 2002, France ended the Mitterand doctrine which protected Italian far-left terrorists who had fled to France from extradition. In […]

In the Arizona desert by the Mexican border, the US simulates war and bombs fake Middle Eastern villages. Meanwhile, Border […]

Fragments from a country undergoing evolution: Aggregate gathers observations from Germany in 2016 and 2017. SPD parliamentarians in a training […]

»Why have you changed my name?« – »Because you write it like that in Germany« – »But my name’s written […]

Tunis, November 2019. A group of women is gathered at Saïda the hairdresser’s on the eve of the presidential election. […]

We present the spirit of the Alaska Peninsula! Instead of casting a shadow, the young husky creates northern lights. These […]

Alba, eleven years old, passes her days in silence. She is shy and embarrassed about recent developments in her body. […]

For legendary Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges, the »Aleph« was a point in the universe that combines all other possible […]

A collage of texts, illustrations, TV series, comics, computer games, live-action and animated films from the media fundus on Alice’s […]

Not being part of this world – this is a feeling many adolescents share when spots suddenly start to appear, […]

»Why are you filming?« Jin asks her sister Qiong, who’s holding the camera. »To know what you went through as […]

Dorothy is in the middle of an identity crisis. To the outside world, her family appears to be perfect: father, […]

8-year-old Tanans looks round the classroom, wide-eyed. He can’t understand a word of the other children’s merry chat, and all […]

Here in 1947 we can still see the extent of Dortmund’s devastation. People are living under harsh conditions in cellars […]

A seven year old boy is turning cartwheels along the UN buffer zone which divides the city of Nicosia. The […]

»Women’s work in the Ruhr« as reported by WDR TV in the 1960s.

A film fragment of the Dortmund city centre before destruction. We see among other things the Horn Player Fountain, a […]

A sunny hillside in the Bohemian Forest is the setting for this portrait of an unusual family. The parents and […]

The film shows a transformation based on the legend of Greek mythology: a woman becomes an Amazonian warrior and takes […]

Anna whiles away the last few days of summer together with her clique of friends… it’s all about crude language, […]

Two well-heeled couples are hoping for an evening of thrills in a low dive currently the talk of the local […]

In An Ode to Vaginismus, Indian poet Divya Dureja recites her eponymous poem which verbalises the shame and pain felt […]

»If you rest, you rust. Do you understand that?« Recordings from the integration course “Living in Germany” are discussed outside […]

The opening track of the eponymous album by Viennese underground combo Blueblut lasts just 41 seconds. Accompanied by minimalist percussive […]

»The sober and candid description of the personal and professional conditions of a young saleswoman raises our awareness of the […]

»My work has three main characteristics. One is my interest in the relation between animals and humans. In my Animal […]

It’s summer in Rome. Everyone’s sitting somewhere cool. Only nine-year-old Emma roams around her neighbourhood, which is located right next […]

Organic textures found in Mexico’s natural landscapes are captured frame by frame in macroscopic view. The sequences are morphed into […]

In Anna Müller-Lincke kandidiert (Anna Müller-Lincke runs for office) the actress appears as an election-fighting feminist. The film promotes active […]

The video is part of an hour-long multimedia installation called Glass Handel. Next to live painting and music performance, the […]

»I remember how shocked I was when I read an essay written by Anton, my future hero: ›people‹, I read […]

»It tears your head apart«: Three young people talk about losing a loved one. How enormously painful it is to […]

»A collection of apologies made in order to get over feelings of guilt and to treat some anxiety neuroses. I […]

A charming, light-hearted comedy set in Tunis at the time of the Arab spring. Selma moved to France with her […]

„How did I become everything I never wanted to be?“ – The melancholic girl A young woman drifts through a […]

Seventeen-year-old Aria works at Jimmy’s, a kebab joint in Athens. She is due to have her next driving lesson with […]

Arlette is a 15-year-old girl from the Central African Republic all too familiar with the horrors of war. A support […]

The British Museum in London holds a large collection of early-history artefacts from Armenia, including a head in bronze of […]

Images of firearms are widespread in Israeli society. They are just as present on the streets as mothers with buggies. […]

High up in the north of Norway, somewhere in the periphery, a curator is coming to visit. The artist who […]

»The fact that politics doesn’t interest you doesn’t mean that politics is indifferent towards you.« – Ash and Money Political […]

»In the late summer hours, Aoki Sadako tends to her flowering garden. Before nightfall, she returns to the temporary residency […]

Dance and pantomime from a spectacle at the »Olympia«, as performed by the ladies Lally and Julyett.

Four women behind the camera: film-makers Barbara Metselaar Berthold and Tina Bara accompany the photographers Evelyn Richter (born 1930) and […]

This charming romantic comedy is about blindness, both in the literal and in the figurative sense. We only really take […]

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Lulú is now just a shadow of her former self since the day four years ago when her husband and […]

A woman is caught by a police officer in the act of painting graffiti on a wall. She runs from […]

An incisive video-essay explicitly discusses its own production and censorship, which examines the power of images, the roles and responsibilities […]

Haiti, five years after the earthquake, in a coastal town forgotten by the rest of the world. The memory of […]

To outsiders, they appear to be a well-off, bourgeois-liberal family. Henry is a psychiatrist, his wife Anna a laid-back creative […]

»I wouldn’t want our film to be simply pressed into a political scheme which then has you view it not […]

The 26-year-old Ana works as an assistant on a film shoot. For the past few hours, she has been driving […]

In Bananaland, Loukia Alavanou combines pictures from the banana farming village of Los Ángeles in southern Ecuador with a mix […]

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»Change takes time, and comes with frustrations, with ups and downs. Shobe and Ayesha are role models, they can change […]

 The scene is downtown London, and Nina Könnemann observes various employees hid away in the niches and passageways of office […]

A Beauty-Kit for breast augmentation, liposuction, nose reshaping and jaw correction – a kit specifically aimed at young girls. The […]

A young woman describes her reaction to the arson attack in Mölln in the early 90ies.

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»In a country where any deviation from its norm was considered an existential threat, the birth of a black child […]

»In a country where any deviation from its norm was considered an existential threat, the birth of a black child […]

A feature film about intersexuality, Yo, Imposible finds ways to visualise society’s attitudes to normative gender stereotypes that highlight the […]

»My first video camera 1993. Dirk and I are sitting on a bed filming each other. I say to him: […]

This film sees us follow beekeeper Benedikt. It’s a year marked by the rhythms of labour, destinies and rituals. Benedikt […]

Salem and Halima have heard nothing from their son for nine months. Ahmed, who earned a living smuggling petrol like […]

Bergig is the story of a love that cannot be. Jan is married with two children. Mona is 15 years […]

»…now we’re getting our butts kicked by the West, that’s what it looks like. Kids, some are against it, some […]

»…now we’re getting our butts kicked by the West, that’s what it looks like. Kids, some are against it, some […]

The film document Berlin-Milieu. Ackerstraße 1973, edited by Veronika Otten, is visible evidence that the SFD made use of its […]

June 1990: the border checkpoint is dismantled at Friedrichstraße rail station – a historic moment in which the world is […]

Abducted cleaning lady, abducted daughter or threatened girlfriend of a German man: on racist stereotypes in German TV. The video […]

Talena Sanders’ film is a correspondence through time with Mary MacLane, a journalist and pioneering film- maker who questioned social […]

»I made myself a key for the city’s lightbox ads and so removed or borrowed the posters that showed women […]

»I had a strange dream the other day. I’m outdoors somewhere, walking across a large lawn which belongs to a […]

A crowd of people gather around the famous marble sculpture Hermaphrodite endormi in the Louvre in Paris. Categorising remarks and […]

Elias is a quiet boy who is determined to protect the endangered okapi in Africa. Congo-born Binti, on the other […]

»I like strong characters, as long as they are not too perfect. Binti is the heroine, but she is also […]

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»These are not dogs« could be a title loosely adapted from Magritte. Man’s best friend is liberated from the force […]

When Cathy gets a duck egg from her father for her tenth birthday, she doesn’t quite know what to make […]

Bisheh (thicket) was the name of a small anarchist- feminist group to which Mary Ana and her friend Shen belonged. […]

A found-footage film about Christian ideas of life after death. Do Christians and their beloved animals get reunited in the […]

This film pays tribute to the Black Bus Stop, an informal yet iconic meeting spot for Black students on the […]

Johanna Reich’s video piece Black Hole examines the increasing intrusion of media in our everyday life by presenting a method […]

Since 2001, Lee has developed and refined her animated character TOKI as part of her ongoing TOKI/Cyborg project. TOKI, the […]

»I’ve seen adults buying children. Just because I‘m a kid, can I not buy myself a mother?« Blanka battles her […]

Blind Date | MAMA portrays the intimate relationship between internationally acclaimed dancer Andrius Strakele and his blind mother. We watch […]

Blind Date | MAMA shows the intimate relationship of internationally acclaimed dancer Andrius Strakele with his blind mother. Hovering, abrupt, […]

Seventeen-year-old Alex dreams of flying, and of running for his school’s track team and taking part in the forthcoming competition. […]

»Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent.« Eleanor Roosevelt / Graffiti in Blood Below the Skin Jennifer Reeder’s […]

»You see an adolescent girl, 18 years old, going into a kitchen and doing ordinary things, but in a completely […]

A small room. A young woman asleep in bed. She’s rudely awoken by her sister, other people enter. There’s no […]

»Here we bid farewell and let mourning take place […] If there is an accusation, it will not be voiced.« […]

»Here we bid farewell and let mourning take place […] If there is an accusation, it will not be voiced.« […]

»The body can impose terrible limits, it can become an obsession. To all intents and purposes, everything might be related […]

The short film Body of Oz makes references to the »happiest film ever made«, The Wizard of Oz, turning conservative […]

Pictures of soldiers who repeat trained fighting rituals before the camera. Nobody dies and there are no victors. On the […]

A film about proximity, one room, two protagonists and an experiment to capture the process of bonding on film. Bonding […]

Borderhole takes place on a mythical border area between Colombia and the United States. The piece explores imperialism, globalisation through […]

Director and actress Maryam Zaree embarks on a quest to find out the violent circumstances surrounding her own birth in […]

It’s time today for Tatiana to say goodbye – quietly and secretly to a boy and to the time she […]

Bruderland ist abgebrannt (Brotherland has burnt down) is dedicated to the fate of Vietnamese contract workers in the GDR whose […]

Bruderland ist abgebrannt (Brotherland has burnt down) is dedicated to the fate of Vietnamese contract workers in the GDR whose […]

The video film Buck Fever is a YouTube collage of recordings originally made by amateur hunters. It documents the hunters’ […]

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On 5 October 2015, Belgian director Chantal Akerman took her own life. Film-maker and curator Vivian Ostrovsky had been a […]

»What fascinates me is that freedom is essentially an illusion. Whether you’re an artist, an accountant or a criminal, the […]

In 2016, Beth B completed her long-standing documentary film project about her mother, New York sculptor and painter Ida Applebroog. […]

Two girlfriends run a beauty channel on YouTube. Caught up in the beauty craze and constantly exposed to product placement, […]

»Please agree to the terms and conditions to be a part of the Community,« says the Big Data crystal ball […]

»While we watch the ›cat fail‹ of the day from a safe vantage point, all that remains invisible in this […]

A found footage collage about young people who practice a form of guttural expression. Together they perform a gesture of […]

For anyone who travels, Istanbul has always been a hub and interlink point between Asia and Europe. The chaotic dynamics […]

A small group of children has set up a temporary camp. Obviously, they are trying to evoke a certain kind […]

Burning Man is an experiential art festival that lasts eight days in the Black Rock desert in northern Nevada. It […]

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Precisely what journey does your average can of ravioli go on before it comes to rest on the shelf in […]

Cars were invented. Now they exist. We care about them. Therefore they drive. They are still there. I can see […]

Cats are self-sufficient creatures; they decide themselves which kind of relationship they want with people. And in #Cat# it’s a […]

49 French fries forks stuck in 49 slimy cat food cubes. Which will be the first six that Tabi the […]

Catalogue shows pictures of furniture and objects in a catalogue, namely, designer items that would be the pride of any […]

We are locked in history; prehistoric humans were not.

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A defining childhood experience gets the mind going and poses the question: How does memory work? At home, the TV […]

Over the last ten years, the incidence of female genital cosmetic surgery has grown by no less than 500%. Ellie […]

Chao has always felt like a woman. In her mid-20s, she finally decides to transition. Born in Japan, she is […]

Ten-year-old Charlie has been diagnosed with Asperger syndrome. He’s proud of his diagnosis, but sometimes he feels left out and […]

Six well-off men cross the Aegean Sea on a luxury yacht. To pass the time while moored in a harbour […]

A colourful cinematic journey with a positive message: Where there’s a will, there’s a wave! In some cultures, surfers are […]

Using its nose, a dog can perform amazing tricks with a ball.

Mikasch lives with his family in the Warsaw ghetto. Chika the dog is his whole world. Like the other Jewish […]

A true wrestler never gives up! The Sumo wrestling championships are approaching, and for Chikara, nothing’s more important than qualifying […]

»Basically, using ordinary peoples’ wartime video archives to illustrate Rahima’s memories, I wanted to share and explore the intimate recollections […]

Chiles en Nogada is a traditional Mexican dish. Its colours are those of the national flag and of its history […]

Is it possible to change a person into something by giving her a name? A movement-based short film with a […]

A collage of associations evoked by found objects. Her own family, three different Germanys including their treacherous subchapters. Her mother […]

Two young mothers with their children. They are joined by the grandmothers. The children change arms. Film Series New Archives

It’s a hot summer’s day in Berlin. School is closed. Two bored sisters hang around at home in their stuffy […]

»We are the terraformers of this new landscape: where fuel pours forth from our bodies, where consumption and extraction are […]

Clair-obscur is a term that derives from historical renaissance painting – Chiaroscuro in art is the use of strong contrasts […]

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Claudia practices carnival choreographies in the living room, Grandma watches. Film Series New Archives

After 17-year-old Cleo survives the devastating car crash that killed both her parents, she succumbs to post-traumatic stress disorder. She […]

Forty-five years of marriage is an impressive anniversary. Barbara and Zdzisław could be proud of themselves – if it weren’t […]

It all started back in the 1980s. Avid DJ Page Hordel assembled a collective of spirited girlfriends, and together they […]

»The coalfields spat us both out. You dug them up once. We wanted to make a difference.« Grit Lemke The […]

»Imagine if Death were to become a woman and living amongst us. She would be terrified and confused by Life. […]

Fernando: »My body is perspiring like hell. I’m soaking wet. Isn’t there something that’ll make me calm?« Pablo: »In that […]

Commodity Fetishism moves seamlessly between the realms of fashion and performance and criticism and comedy. Throughout this video, Catrine Val […]

Only one day after the 2004 attack in Cologne, interior minister Otto Schily told the press that »a terroristic background […]

With Confessions to the Mirror, the experimental cinematic art of British artist Sarah Pucill reaches a new highpoint. Pucill dedicates […]

The hybrid film is a phenomenon of contemporary film culture: in these films, a new, experimental way of narrative cinema […]

The found footage collage film Copy Complete deals with how cinema presented the computer in the 70s, 80s and 90s. […]

The Corniche Kennedy coastal road in Marseille, with its impressive panorama, is the visual anchor point of Dominique Cabrera’s sun- […]

»I kept saying involuntarily during the edit: ›I’m seeing you, Luma. Don’t worry Luma, we see you.‹ I’m not sure […]

A group of young girls take over a skate park. Behind the big fence that surrounds the concrete field around […]

Cycling is not easy at all! Luckily, the little girl has her grandfather to give her a helping hand as […]

Dame 2 recreates an interview on Parkinson with Helen Mirren from 1975, transcribed and performed as a song by Elkin. […]

Creating provocative theatre carries great personal risks: emotional, financial and artistic. For the members of the Belarus Free Theatre, however, […]

Dangling by their Mouths, one of Canadian video artist Colin Campbell’s DIY masterpieces, is a complex, humorous yet bleak study […]

A silhouette-animation in the style of The Adventures of Prinz Achmed, also by Lotte Reiniger. Behold! Her skin is white […]

After the war and various demolition raids, only one building is left standing at Potsdamer Platz directly next to the […]

The wonderful Persian folk tale as a silhouette film. A woman without children pleads with Allah to let her have […]

A German man, a Turkish man and an Israeli man meet up … and an Azerbaijani man translates for them […]

An animated, live-action comedy documentary about the successes, failures, and incredible confusions of trying to date as a genderqueer / […]

Water, earth, air and fire. Two children spend a summer’s day in the countryside.

»Crystal’s got everything a woman can wish for. A smart apartment, smart clothes, a nice Dad and a handsome loving […]

The bone collector Maxine Rose, a 14-year-old teenage girl, yearns for approval from her idols, including primatologist Jane Goodall, comedian […]

In Decrescendo, Marta Minorowicz shows us round a Care Home for Senior Citizens that is not just a place of […]

It may feel as if the internet is up in the clouds, but in actual fact it’s at the bottom […]

A pornographic film is transformed into a voyeuristic, lovelorn ballad. Drawn frame by frame on the 35-mm film stock of […]

On the way back, police at Cologne airport told the driver »You’re not allowed to stop here. Leave right away.« […]

Pilots simulate the choreography of an aerobatic flight for the French national holiday. An algorithmic police training software simulates a […]

The fisherman’s wife asks the flounder for a better life. But when her wish is fulfilled, she is beset by […]

The film-maker’s cinematic obituary in memory of the old municipal theatre in her hometown of Greiz. The film material, slides […]

A 1950s film advertising electricity with an entertaining storyline.

High up in the maple tree, the little bird delights in its beautiful blossoms. Intrigued by a mysterious humming sound, […]

These are catastrophic times: climate collapse, the waste from today’s civilisation, contaminated fruit, not to mention the social pressures. The […]

A look behind the scenes at a cartoon film workshop. The film-makers show us the first animated pictures of their […]

It’s 1943 but delicious Christmas goodies are still on sale at the Wilms Bakery – gingerbread men, cream cakes, spiced […]

»I think that the gringos started back then with the lithium.« Don Rosauro stands in the middle of an endless […]

Desert Miracles is a cinematic exploration of a commercialised architecture of desire. Across a range of 22 tableaus, the film […]

Devil’s Rope tells the story of a universal and apparently ordinary object: barbed wire. It goes back to the first […]

»I was always so afraid that someone would ask me where I was when JFK was shot and I would […]

»If I sometimes feel lonely, I think about all the microbes who live inside me and across my skin and […]

A face in close-up, using stop-motion, and a lot of diamonds. Coral Short and Raphaële Frigon turn the face into […]

This animated film was made for the washing powder »Famos« produced at soap factories in Riesa-Gröba and Düsseldorf. We see […]

„Suddenly, completely pointlessly, our past is back again, impossible to love.“ – Elfride Jelinek, The Children of the Dead Holiday […]

The young Lancelot is a confirmed bachelor and suitably shocked when his uncle, Baron de Chanterelle, decides it’s time for […]

Billie lives with her father on a hacienda in the Argentinian pampas. She masters all the skills you need to […]

In the 50s, women’s football was still referred to as ladies’ football and officially banned by the German Football Association. […]

»In Europe, the tradition of weather control has been documented for centuries«, as this film says. »Firing cannons is supposed […]

Selma gives up her ordinary, romantic idea of love for a reality of ‘queer’ experiences and deep friendship. Inspired by […]

An experimental found footage production dedicated to giddy moments in film history: DizzyMess explores the fascinating, uplifting feeling of losing […]

Ten years ago, it would have taken many years and over a billion dollars to map out the complete DNA […]

»In every house, someone has to tidy up, do the washing and clean. But who?« Inès Rabadán In Domestic Karaoke, […]

Pierre is seventeen and lives with his mother Aracy and sister Jacqueline in São Paulo suburb. The excitement level in […]

A white head rolls into the middle of the black screen. It breathes balls. A dispute starts about form. Out […]

»Everything on earth is imperfect is the Germans’ old refrain« – actress Grischa Huber quotes Hölderlin from the former ›death […]

Donna Haraway is a biologist, scientific historian and an accomplished storyteller. She has inspired people all over the world with […]

Elisabeth Wilms documented all the building phases in the construction of today’s Westphalia Hall. It was a modern replacement for […]

Dots is a part of Ann Oren’s video journals, a short square-format video series delivering a response to media culture, […]

The picturesque Austrian village of Hallstatt is a World Heritage Site for Cultural Heritage. In Double Happiness it is the […]

»You play too much!« This is something Nicolas’ mother is forever telling him. Even though she spends all day in […]

»Every age thinks it’s the modern age, but this one really is.« – Tom Stoppard, 1876 Dreams Rewired looks at […]

Sarah, a disabled girl aged about twenty, lives with her parents. She is increasingly subject to many fantasies and sees […]

Drive with Care investigates the life of a teacher at an elite boarding school in the US. In a deadpan, […]

Forget good manners and ladylike restraint, women here are the ones who drink and have fun. Film Series New Archives

Dun·kel·deutsch·land [1] umgangssprachlich: aus Sicht eines Bürgers der alten BRD eine abwertende Bezeichnung für die neuen Bundesländer – ehemalige DDR;  […]

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»When I was growing up in Texas in the late 1990s, I didn’t know any openly homosexual people in my […]

An early response to the ideas of Modernism, E.1027 is architecturally one of the most important private houses in Europe […]

»I knew that without a perfectly casted main character the film would be nothing. One day Lotta [Forsblad] got a […]

Echoes of Death / Forever Young is an unusual reflection on the denial of ageing and death via the techno […]

Best friends 4 ever? There’s no question about it for Zerda and Mia – until now! This school year, everything’s […]

Eden is a poignant journey back to the vibrant Paris of the early1990s. With rave music dominating the clubs, a […]

Stefanie Schroeder financed her study of photography by means of various part-time activities – i.e. a series of odd jobs […]

The persuasion of a husband who had resisted his wife’s household being converted to electricity.

»21 July. On some days that we spend in the desert, in the heat, we wonder how we could possibly […]

After getting her heart crushed, a woman writes a letter to the man she loves. Empathy (A Digital Love Letter) […]

»I can always see the bloody West-German questions coming a mile off.« Paul Gratzik An angry old man in a […]

Next to the site of the Stadtschloss, the Palace of the Republic, which is draped in mobile phone advertising, a […]

Somewhere on a beach in Tijuana, a woman in a black cocktail dress climbs a ladder and starts to paint […]

Beware fair little flower! To the melody of a melancholic German folksong from the 17th century, countless flowers emerge from […]

Another variation on the Little Red Riding Hood theme which neatly sums up the decline in species diversity. At the […]

It was a Sunday when it happened. The volcano erupted. Mañana Brzozadrzewska was busy cooking her radiation-contaminated shoe soles when […]

Jamie and Leo have run away from the home. On their way through field and forest, the two teenagers have […]

Eugène clatters through the sandy streets of Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso, on his moped, trying to flog mobile […]

Two years ago, zombies took over the Earth. Thanks to a protective fence, Weimar and Jena are probably the only […]

Shana Moulton’s alter ego Cynthia is a fragile person who struggles with her physical presence in the world. In a […]

People’s over-preoccupation with perceived or slight flaws in their appearance can cause great distress. We see the animals in Everybody with […]

»In these horrific times when lies are blatantly exclaimed as truths, when fear makes us withdraw from each other, when […]

Ten-year-old Nicolas lives with his mother in a small village on a remote rocky island. The landscape is surreal and […]

Exakte Vision is a prequel, an audio drama, a film without pictures, says Ulrike Haage. A story about Helen Hessel, […]

The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is sacred land to the indigenous First Nations community of Canada; it is also an […]

The setting for Exile Exotic is a hotel that is a replica of the Kremlin. The film relates the exotic […]

Exorcize Me is a photography, videography and live performance project addressing coming-of-age anxiety, teenage alienation and the confusing phrase between […]

Equipped with a Red Epic camera, supported by grants and surrounded by the impressive scenery of a volcanic crater, political […]

Exposed takes us around New York’s alternative burlesque scene as director Beth B portrays eight innovative performers, masters of their […]

FAB fabulous is a visual journey of discovery into the rituals of daily masquerades. The camera shows a group of […]

»The song evolved from various things I was thinking around the ways that images are used in the current climate, […]

Forty-seven year-old Mónica has been living and working in Buenos Aires as a dancer for 20 years when she receives […]

»The dandelion, it flowers, is pollinated and its petals close.« In her Super 8 film, Ingeborg Tölke explains how flowers […]

A student of anthropology, Lin Fan is carrying out a research project on the subject of prostitution and decides to […]

This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie. You […]

»He was happy on his isle of Ithaca. His sandals knew every path. He could walk with his eyes closed. […]

»As a child, I was fascinated by one moment in our family story. One day, in post-war Lodz, when my […]

»The fascination that Marlene Dietrich or Joan Crawford films have for women is due mainly to the ›feminine‹ power these […]

Born in Moscow, director Nadja Bobyleva moved as a nine-year-old to Cologne with her mother. Now thirty, the only things […]

The film contemplates a form of communication that is written into the air with great gestures. The unusual architecture of […]

We don’t see much in this ambitious Super 8 wildlife documentary. The film-maker lies in wait: »A cold and stormy […]

FEMMEfille tells the story of Isabelle Caro, who caused a sensation in 2007 when she was photographed by star photographer […]

Looking back in history, it’s soon clear that female chancellors, ministers or secretaries of state have never been a matter […]

Statement of the Jury (Isabelle Casez, Birgit Guðjonsdottir, Sabine Panossian) »Fence is an experimental short feature film that explores our […]

Seven-year-old Bram is a bright young boy, interested in everything around him large and small. So he can hardly wait […]

The outline of a figure emerges from a kind of snowstorm. Dust blends with the white matter that descends as […]

Created during a time when heroic thieves were common in European popular culture, Filibus – the first of thirty films […]

Filip doesn’t like going to school. He’d much rather play football or watch films with his big brother Sebastian, who […]

This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie. You […]

»When did you first think you might be a lesbian?« First Clue brings together the poignant, amusing and thoughtful responses […]

Sigur Rós, a post-rock-band from Iceland, gave a dozen film-makers the same modest budget and asked them to create whatever […]

Off screen: a sigh, an utterance (»Now then … today’s history«). On screen: a rustling noise. Right from the start, […]

Reducing the amount of household work. The introduction of the washing machine, here still running on gas. An advertising film […]

A dancing revolution swings its way through the streets of Gothenburg. A group of activists is venting its anger at […]

A sensual moment, audio-visually transmitted and full of desire. The film is the result of an experiment by the film- […]

»In this work, I was dealing with movement and the way camera reflects it … and how to transfer body […]

»I wanted to do something which was a remembrance of 20 years after the war, because for me living in […]

»Saleswomen in a supermarket discover they are paid lower wages than the men who work in the same store. (…) […]

This film will also be available online on our VoD platform from March 29 to April 10, 2022. Please note: […]

A teenager, Christina, loses her friends in the forest. Looking for them she finds the bodies of three drowned kids […]

This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie. You […]

Made up of hundreds of street interviews done in Berlin two years after the Reunification, Former East/Former West is a […]

An ordinary winter’s day in Norway. The way to school is a trek through the snow and ice. As if […]

Jerusalem, 1966. The year before the outbreak of the Six-Day War. In a crumbling old building in the centre of […]

What does it mean to die well? What is friendship in the face of death? When Muis learns that she […]

After serving a prison stretch, Francine aims to start up again in a small town somewhere in the USA. She […]

»We’d looked for an apartment in Ebel and set up some living and working premises there in order to get […]

Student Freda lives with her family in a popular but poor neighbourhood of Port-au-Prince. Her mother Jeanette supports herself and […]

Brother and sister Boris and Marina Urmatov live in the beautiful but remote Altai mountain region of Siberia. They come […]