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Valie Export
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 […]
(Against) Randomness…
belit sağ
A short video essay on randomness, storytelling and disrupted stories of NSU victims. e video is part of the SPOTS […]
& das gegenteil von glück
Lütfiye Güzel
A cinematic walkabout. Glances up at the sky. The pigeons. Dirty and groggy. The footsteps. Slow and reluctant. The dreams. […]
#theircatsaswell
Lisbeth Kovacic
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 – […]
100 Crushes Chapter 6: They
Elisha Lim
»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
Magali Charrier
12 Sketches on the Impossibility of Being Still is a collection of animated experiments exploring the spaces where nothing happens: […]
143 Wagnisse
Claudia Roemmel
In 2009, Claudia Rommel began a video project which involved 143 »completely normal people« prepared to take a risk without […]
17 Girls
Delphine and Muriel Coulin
»We wouldn’t be like our parents.« »Never.« »16 years age difference, that’s perfect.« »There wouldn’t be any generation conflict.« »They […]
1974
Katelijne Schrama
In the 1970s, disguised as a steward and unarmed, Dutch policeman Wim Bokkers worked as a security officer on KLM […]
1974
Katelijne Schrama
In the 1970s, disguised as a steward and unarmed, Dutch policeman Wim Bokkers worked as a security officer on KLM […]
2000m² and a Garden
Tama Tobias-Macht
A magnificent century-old mansion in an exclusive suburb of Cologne is home to two women and their unique collection of […]
2011 12 30
Leontine Arvidsson
»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
5050
Hector Dockrill
A Banana Tree Is No Coincidence
Luiza Gonçalves
Fascinated by artificial insemination, Luiza Gonçalves sets out to investigate banana trees: Why do so many of them grow in […]
A Breakdown (and) after the Mental Hospital
Anne Charlotte Robertson
»Roll 23 of my Five Year Diary chronicles the period from 1 September to 13 December 1982. It describes a […]
A Choice, Maybe Not
Jenny Man Wu
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
A Dysfunctional Cat
Susan Gordanshekan
Tired of looking for the right partner, Mina and Kian decide to have an arranged marriage. Mina has been in […]
A Family Submerged
María Alché
The life of mother-of-three Marcela (Mercedes Morán) changes dramatically when her sister Rina suddenly dies. While clearing out Rina’s apartment, […]
A Field Guide to Being a 12-Year-Old
Tilda Cobham-Hervey
Singing loudly, laughing wildly, dancing crazily and crying quietly, twelve 12-year-old girls declare the stage a place of self-presentation: »Today, […]
A Girl at My Door
July Jung
Young-nam, a promising young policewoman from Seoul, is transferred to a small fishing village as a disciplinary measure. The locals […]
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
Ana Lily Amirpour
»It’s like Sergio Leone and David Lynch had an Iranian rock ’n’ roll baby, and then Nosferatu came and babysat […]
A Letter to My Mother
Amina Maher
In a filmic letter to her mother, Amina Maher examines the psychological consequences of the violence she experienced as a […]
A Little Christmas Story
Åsa Sjöström, Mari Marten-Bias Wahlgren
A little teddy bear’s wondrous journey through snowy Sweden. A Christmas tale for young film fans. It’s the pre-Christmas season […]
A Love Letter to the One I Made Up
Rachel Gutgarts
A lonely journey home through a fantastical underwater world. Reality and fantasy come together in a love letter written to […]
A Night of Knowing Nothing
Payal Kapadia
A box of letters is found on the campus of the Film and Television Institute of India. Signed by a […]
A Piece of Summer
Marta Minorowicz
It’s the last days of the summer holidays. A grandfather, who lives and works in the Bieszczady Mountains, awaits the […]
A Quiet Resistance
Therese Koppe
»What actually happened to the biographies of the female artists who were educated and trained in the GDR and worked […]
A Quiet Resistance
Therese Koppe
»What actually happened to the biographies of the female artists who were educated and trained in the GDR and worked […]
A Red Carpet for Asta Nielsen
Eva Tind
It all begins with a coincidence: Artist and author Eva Tind discovers not only that she has moved into the […]
A Self-Made Man
Lori Petchers
A Self-Made Man examines the complexities of gender identity through an intimate portrait of trans youth advocate Tony Ferraiolo. Gender […]
A Shell
Maya Tiberman
A boy finds a sea shell on a beach. In his hands, the shell develops magic powers and turns the […]
A Short Affair (and) Going Crazy
Anne Charlotte Robertson
»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
Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa
A Short Video about Tate Modern discusses public culture and the limits of visibility in spaces and moments in which […]
A shtetl that’s no longer There (Yiddish vrennekes)
Heddy Honigmann
In A shtetl that’s no longer there, the director’s mother – Sonia Honigmann Pach – prepares »Yiddish vrennekes« just like […]
A Thousand Girls Like Me
Sahra Mani
In her impressive documentary A Thousand Girls Like Me director Sahra Mani follows the courageous pursuit of a young woman […]
A Unique Boutique
Shana Moulton
»There is a store in Fresno, California, near where I grew up, called A Unique Boutique. I was always intrigued […]
A Video Letter to Barbara Hammer
Joey Carducci
In 1995, Barbara Hammer released her filmic autobiography Tender Fictions. She deconstructs the genre and keeps her version fragmentary and […]
A Wild Patience Has Taken Me Here
Érica Sarmet
An older lesbian biker meets a group of four younger queer people in a pub who live together in a […]
A Woman Captured
Bernadett Tuza-Ritter
According to human rights organisations, there are 45 million cases of modern-day slavery worldwide. Bernadett Tuza-Ritter’s documentary is dedicated to […]
A Young Girl in Her Nineties
Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Yann Coridian
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.
Actual People
Kit Zauhar
This film will also be available online on our VoD platform from March 29 to April 10, 2022. Please note: […]
Adam
Maryam Touzani
»Death does not belong to the women.« – Abla »Very little is really ours.« – Samia Abla, a widow, is […]
Adriana’s Pact
Lissette Orozco
When Lissette Orozco was younger, she had a favourite aunt, Adriana, who now lives in Australia. While visiting her family […]
Afer/Life
Puck Lo
In the Arizona desert by the Mexican border, the US simulates war and bombs fake Middle Eastern villages. Meanwhile, Border […]
After the Empire
Elodie Pong
An orchestration of face-to-face conversations between various late icons of pop culture and political history, including Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley […]
After the War
Annarita Zambrano
In 2002, France ended the Mitterand doctrine which protected Italian far-left terrorists who had fled to France from extradition. In […]
After/Life
Puck Lo
In the Arizona desert by the Mexican border, the US simulates war and bombs fake Middle Eastern villages. Meanwhile, Border […]
Aggregate
Marie Wilke
Fragments from a country undergoing evolution: Aggregate gathers observations from Germany in 2016 and 2017. SPD parliamentarians in a training […]
AÏCHA
Laura Bleck, Faraz Shariat
»Why have you changed my name?« – »Because you write it like that in Germany« – »But my name’s written […]
Ain’t No Time for Women
Sarra El Abed
Tunis, November 2019. A group of women is gathered at Saïda the hairdresser’s on the eve of the presidential election. […]
Alaska
Oxana Kuvaldina
We present the spirit of the Alaska Peninsula! Instead of casting a shadow, the young husky creates northern lights. These […]
Alba
Ana Cristina Barragán
Alba, eleven years old, passes her days in silence. She is shy and embarrassed about recent developments in her body. […]
Aleph
Narcisa Hirsch
For legendary Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges, the »Aleph« was a point in the universe that combines all other possible […]
Alice Remixed
Karin Fisslthaler
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, […]
All About My Sisters
Wang Qiong
»Why are you filming?« Jin asks her sister Qiong, who’s holding the camera. »To know what you went through as […]
All Cats Are Grey
Savina Dellicour
Dorothy is in the middle of an identity crisis. To the outside world, her family appears to be perfect: father, […]
Alle meine Blumen
Dorit Kiesewetter
Alles Neu
Eefje Blankevoort
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 […]
Alltag nach dem Krieg
Elisabeth Wilms
Here in 1947 we can still see the extent of Dortmund’s devastation. People are living under harsh conditions in cellars […]
Along the G-Line
Marianna Christofides
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.
Alt-Dortmund unzerstört
Elisabeth Wilms
A film fragment of the Dortmund city centre before destruction. We see among other things the Horn Player Fountain, a […]
Always Together
Eva Tomanova
A sunny hillside in the Bohemian Forest is the setting for this portrait of an unusual family. The parents and […]
Ama-zona
Narcisa Hirsch
The film shows a transformation based on the legend of Greek mythology: a woman becomes an Amazonian warrior and takes […]
an Anna
Denise Riedmayr
Anna whiles away the last few days of summer together with her clique of friends… it’s all about crude language, […]
An Evening out on a Spending Spree
Polaire (Artist)
Two well-heeled couples are hoping for an evening of thrills in a low dive currently the talk of the local […]
An Ode to Vaginismus
Catrine Val
In An Ode to Vaginismus, Indian poet Divya Dureja recites her eponymous poem which verbalises the shame and pain felt […]
And we still speak German Today
Clara Winter, Miguel Ferráez
»If you rest, you rust. Do you understand that?« Recordings from the integration course “Living in Germany” are discussed outside […]
Andenborstengürteltier
Angela Christlieb
The opening track of the eponymous album by Viennese underground combo Blueblut lasts just 41 seconds. Accompanied by minimalist percussive […]
Angelika Urban, Sales Assistant, Engaged
Helma Sanders-Brahms
»The sober and candid description of the personal and professional conditions of a young saleswoman raises our awareness of the […]
Animal Performances – Horse Performance
Joanna Rytel
»My work has three main characteristics. One is my interest in the relation between animals and humans. In my Animal […]
Animali
Elisabeth Wilke
It’s summer in Rome. Everyone’s sitting somewhere cool. Only nine-year-old Emma roams around her neighbourhood, which is located right next […]
animistica
Nikki Schuster
Organic textures found in Mexico’s natural landscapes are captured frame by frame in macroscopic view. The sequences are morphed into […]
Anna Müller-Lincke kandidiert
Anna Müller-Lincke (Artist)
In Anna Müller-Lincke kandidiert (Anna Müller-Lincke runs for office) the actress appears as an election-fighting feminist. The film promotes active […]
Anthony Roth Costanzo – Handel: Flavio, HWV 16 – Rompo i Lacci
Tilda Swinton, Sandro Kopp
The video is part of an hour-long multimedia installation called Glass Handel. Next to live painting and music performance, the […]
Anton’s Right Here
Lyubov Arkus
»I remember how shocked I was when I read an essay written by Anton, my future hero: ›people‹, I read […]
Apart
Diana Cam Van Nguyen
»It tears your head apart«: Three young people talk about losing a loved one. How enormously painful it is to […]
Apologies
Anne Charlotte Robertson
»A collection of apologies made in order to get over feelings of guilt and to treat some anxiety neuroses. I […]
Arab Blues
Manele Labidi
A charming, light-hearted comedy set in Tunis at the time of the Arab spring. Selma moved to France with her […]
Aren’t You Happy?
Susanne Heinrich
„How did I become everything I never wanted to be?“ – The melancholic girl A young woman drifts through a […]
Aria
Myrsini Aristidou
Seventeen-year-old Aria works at Jimmy’s, a kebab joint in Athens. She is due to have her next driving lesson with […]
Arlette – Mut ist ein Muskel
Katharina Diessner (DoP)
Arlette is a 15-year-old girl from the Central African Republic all too familiar with the horrors of war. A support […]
Armenia – Invisible Country
Mariam Ohanyan
The British Museum in London holds a large collection of early-history artefacts from Armenia, including a head in bronze of […]
Arms (Mary Ocher)
Mary Ocher
Images of firearms are widespread in Israeli society. They are just as present on the streets as mothers with buggies. […]
Arrival of the Art Curator
Eva Hegge
High up in the north of Norway, somewhere in the periphery, a curator is coming to visit. The artist who […]
Ash and Money
Tiit Ojasoo, Ene-Liis Semper
»The fact that politics doesn’t interest you doesn’t mean that politics is indifferent towards you.« – Ash and Money Political […]
Atomic Garden
Ana Vaz
»In the late summer hours, Aoki Sadako tends to her flowering garden. Before nightfall, she returns to the temporary residency […]
Au Bal de Flore
Alice Guy
Dance and pantomime from a spectacle at the »Olympia«, as performed by the ladies Lally and Julyett.
Audienzen – Strategien der Selbstbehauptung
Tina Bara, Barbara Metselaar Berthold
Four women behind the camera: film-makers Barbara Metselaar Berthold and Tina Bara accompany the photographers Evelyn Richter (born 1930) and […]
Auf den Zweiten Blick
Sheri Hagen
This charming romantic comedy is about blindness, both in the literal and in the figurative sense. We only really take […]
Aurora
Paz Fábrega
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie. You […]
Ausencias
Tatiana Huezo
Lulú is now just a shadow of her former self since the day four years ago when her husband and […]
Authority
Marit Östberg
A woman is caught by a police officer in the act of painting graffiti on a wall. She runs from […]
Ayhan and Me
belit sağ
An incisive video-essay explicitly discusses its own production and censorship, which examines the power of images, the roles and responsibilities […]
Ayiti mon Amour
Guetty Felin
Haiti, five years after the earthquake, in a coastal town forgotten by the rest of the world. The memory of […]
Babyteeth
Shannon Murphy
To outsiders, they appear to be a well-off, bourgeois-liberal family. Henry is a psychiatrist, his wife Anna a laid-back creative […]
Bad Hair
Mariana Rondón
»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 […]
Bananaland
Loukia Alavanou
In Bananaland, Loukia Alavanou combines pictures from the banana farming village of Los Ángeles in southern Ecuador with a mix […]
Bandar Band
Manijeh Hekmat
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie. You […]
Bangla Surf Girls
Elizabeth D. Costa
»Change takes time, and comes with frustrations, with ups and downs. Shobe and Ayesha are role models, they can change […]
Bann
Nina Könnemann
The scene is downtown London, and Nina Könnemann observes various employees hid away in the niches and passageways of office […]
Beauty-Kit
Pleix
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.
Becoming Animal
Emma Davie, Peter Mettler
PLEASE NOTE: Becoming Animal runs only on June 17 at 8 p.m. at Schauburg Dortmund. You can’t buy tickets for […]
Becoming Black
Ines Johnson-Spain
»In a country where any deviation from its norm was considered an existential threat, the birth of a black child […]
Becoming Black
Ines Johnson-Spain
»In a country where any deviation from its norm was considered an existential threat, the birth of a black child […]
Being Impossible
Patricia Ortega
A feature film about intersexuality, Yo, Imposible finds ways to visualise society’s attitudes to normative gender stereotypes that highlight the […]
Believe in Miracles
Britta Wandaogo
»My first video camera 1993. Dirk and I are sitting on a bed filming each other. I say to him: […]
Benedikt
Katrin Memmer
This film sees us follow beekeeper Benedikt. It’s a year marked by the rhythms of labour, destinies and rituals. Benedikt […]
Benzine
Sarra Abidi
Salem and Halima have heard nothing from their son for nine months. Ahmed, who earned a living smuggling petrol like […]
Bergig
Julia Daschner
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 […]
Berlin-Milieu. Ackerstraße 1973
Veronika Otten (Editor)
The film document Berlin-Milieu. Ackerstraße 1973, edited by Veronika Otten, is visible evidence that the SFD made use of its […]
Berlin, Bahnhof Friedrichstraße 1990
Konstanze Binder, Lilly Grote, Ulrike Herdin, Julia Kunert
June 1990: the border checkpoint is dismantled at Friedrichstraße rail station – a historic moment in which the world is […]
Best court ever
Cana Bilir-Meier
Abducted cleaning lady, abducted daughter or threatened girlfriend of a German man: on racist stereotypes in German TV. The video […]
Between My Flesh and the World’s Fingers
Talena Sanders
Talena Sanders’ film is a correspondence through time with Mary MacLane, a journalist and pioneering film- maker who questioned social […]
Beyoncé
Lisa Dreykluft
»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 […]
Binsen
Helga Fanderl
Binti
Frederike Migom
Elias is a quiet boy who is determined to protect the endangered okapi in Africa. Congo-born Binti, on the other […]
Binti
Frederike Migom
»I like strong characters, as long as they are not too perfect. Binti is the heroine, but she is also […]
Bipolar
Queena Li
This film will also be available online on our VoD platform from March 29 to April 10, 2022. Please note: […]
Birds
Pleix
»These are not dogs« could be a title loosely adapted from Magritte. Man’s best friend is liberated from the force […]
Birds of Passage
Olivier Ringer
When Cathy gets a duck egg from her father for her tenth birthday, she doesn’t quite know what to make […]
Bisheh!
Mary Ana
Bisheh (thicket) was the name of a small anarchist- feminist group to which Mary Ana and her friend Shen belonged. […]
Biting the Dust
NEOZOON
A found-footage film about Christian ideas of life after death. Do Christians and their beloved animals get reunited in the […]
Black Bus Stop
Claudrena N. Harold, Kevin Jerome Everson
This film pays tribute to the Black Bus Stop, an informal yet iconic meeting spot for Black students on the […]
Black Girl Magik
Sanjay De Silva
Black Hole
Johanna Reich
Johanna Reich’s video piece Black Hole examines the increasing intrusion of media in our everyday life by presenting a method […]
Black Rose
Hye Rim Lee
Since 2001, Lee has developed and refined her animated character TOKI as part of her ongoing TOKI/Cyborg project. TOKI, the […]
Blanka
Kohki Hasei
»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
Catrine Val
Blind Date | MAMA portrays the intimate relationship between internationally acclaimed dancer Andrius Strakele and his blind mother. We watch […]
Blind Date | MAMA
Catrine Val
Blind Date | MAMA shows the intimate relationship of internationally acclaimed dancer Andrius Strakele with his blind mother. Hovering, abrupt, […]
Blindes Vertrauen
Allan Harmon
Seventeen-year-old Alex dreams of flying, and of running for his school’s track team and taking part in the forthcoming competition. […]
Blood Below the Skin
Jennifer Reeder
»Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent.« Eleanor Roosevelt / Graffiti in Blood Below the Skin Jennifer Reeder’s […]
Blow Up My Town
Chantal Akerman
»You see an adolescent girl, 18 years old, going into a kitchen and doing ordinary things, but in a completely […]
Blue Moon
Alina Grigore
A small room. A young woman asleep in bed. She’s rudely awoken by her sister, other people enter. There’s no […]
blueberries – cerne jagody
Maja Nagel, Julius Günzel
»Here we bid farewell and let mourning take place […] If there is an accusation, it will not be voiced.« […]
blueberries – cerne jagody
Maja Nagel, Julius Günzel
»Here we bid farewell and let mourning take place […] If there is an accusation, it will not be voiced.« […]
Body
Małgorzata Szumowska
»The body can impose terrible limits, it can become an obsession. To all intents and purposes, everything might be related […]
Body of Oz
Stephanie Müller, Klaus Erich Dietl
The short film Body of Oz makes references to the »happiest film ever made«, The Wizard of Oz, turning conservative […]
Body of War
Isabel Rocamora
Pictures of soldiers who repeat trained fighting rituals before the camera. Nobody dies and there are no victors. On the […]
Bonds
dani Tardif
A film about proximity, one room, two protagonists and an experiment to capture the process of bonding on film. Bonding […]
Borderhole
Amber Bemak, Nadia Granados
Borderhole takes place on a mythical border area between Colombia and the United States. The piece explores imperialism, globalisation through […]
Borders (M.I.A)
Maya Arulpragasam (M.I.A.)
Born in Evin
Maryam Zaree
Director and actress Maryam Zaree embarks on a quest to find out the violent circumstances surrounding her own birth in […]
Boy
Isabelle Schapira
It’s time today for Tatiana to say goodbye – quietly and secretly to a boy and to the time she […]
Boys
Quinn Wilson, Andy Madeleine
Bruderland ist abgebrannt
Angelika Nguyen
Bruderland ist abgebrannt (Brotherland has burnt down) is dedicated to the fate of Vietnamese contract workers in the GDR whose […]
Bruderland ist abgebrannt
Angelika Nguyen
Bruderland ist abgebrannt (Brotherland has burnt down) is dedicated to the fate of Vietnamese contract workers in the GDR whose […]
Brunnen
Helga Fanderl
Buck Fever
NEOZOON
The video film Buck Fever is a YouTube collage of recordings originally made by amateur hunters. It documents the hunters’ […]
Buried
Françoise Ellong
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie. You […]
But Elsewhere Is Always Better
Vivian Ostrovsky
On 5 October 2015, Belgian director Chantal Akerman took her own life. Film-maker and curator Vivian Ostrovsky had been a […]
C.K.
Barbara Visser
»What fascinates me is that freedom is essentially an illusion. Whether you’re an artist, an accountant or a criminal, the […]
Call Her Applebroog
Beth B
In 2016, Beth B completed her long-standing documentary film project about her mother, New York sculptor and painter Ida Applebroog. […]
Call of Beauty
Brenda Lien
Two girlfriends run a beauty channel on YouTube. Caught up in the beauty craze and constantly exposed to product placement, […]
Call of Comfort
Brenda Lien
»Please agree to the terms and conditions to be a part of the Community,« says the Big Data crystal ball […]
Call of Cuteness
Brenda Lien
»While we watch the ›cat fail‹ of the day from a safe vantage point, all that remains invisible in this […]
Call of the Wild
NEOZOON
A found footage collage about young people who practice a form of guttural expression. Together they perform a gesture of […]
Callshop Istanbul
Hind Benchekroun, Sami Mermer
For anyone who travels, Istanbul has always been a hub and interlink point between Asia and Europe. The chaotic dynamics […]
Camp
Julia Charlotte Richter
A small group of children has set up a temporary camp. Obviously, they are trying to evoke a certain kind […]
Camp Beaverton: Meet the Beavers
Ana Grillo, Beth Nelson
Burning Man is an experiential art festival that lasts eight days in the Black Rock desert in northern Nevada. It […]
Canela
Cecilia del Valle
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie. You […]
Canned Dreams
Katja Gauriloff
Precisely what journey does your average can of ravioli go on before it comes to rest on the shelf in […]
Car Care
Lisa Domin
Cars were invented. Now they exist. We care about them. Therefore they drive. They are still there. I can see […]
Cat
Margaret Salmon
Cats are self-sufficient creatures; they decide themselves which kind of relationship they want with people. And in #Cat# it’s a […]
Cat Lotto
Dagie Brundert
49 French fries forks stuck in 49 slimy cat food cubes. Which will be the first six that Tabi the […]
Catalogue
Daba Berman Duff
Catalogue shows pictures of furniture and objects in a catalogue, namely, designer items that would be the pride of any […]
Cave of Rotten Dreams
Dorit Kiesewetter, Carsten Knoop
We are locked in history; prehistoric humans were not.
Celts
Milica Tomović
This film will also be available online on our VoD platform from March 29 to April 10, 2022. Please note: […]
Centauress
Deniz Şimşek
A defining childhood experience gets the mind going and poses the question: How does memory work? At home, the TV […]
Centrefold
Ellie Land
Over the last ten years, the incidence of female genital cosmetic surgery has grown by no less than 500%. Ellie […]
Chao’s Transition
Susanne Mi-Son Quester, Mieko Azuma
Chao has always felt like a woman. In her mid-20s, she finally decides to transition. Born in Japan, she is […]
Charlie Surfer
Pia Strømme
Ten-year-old Charlie has been diagnosed with Asperger syndrome. He’s proud of his diagnosis, but sometimes he feels left out and […]
Chevalier
Athina Rachel Tsangari
Six well-off men cross the Aegean Sea on a luxury yacht. To pass the time while moored in a harbour […]
Chicks on Boards
Dörthe Eickelberg
A colourful cinematic journey with a positive message: Where there’s a will, there’s a wave! In some cultures, surfers are […]
Chient jouant à la balle
Alice Guy
Using its nose, a dog can perform amazing tricks with a ball.
Chika, die Hündin im Ghetto
Sandra Schießl
Mikasch lives with his family in the Warsaw ghetto. Chika the dog is his whole world. Like the other Jewish […]
Chikara – The Sumo Wrestler’s Son
Simon Lereng Wilmont
A true wrestler never gives up! The Sumo wrestling championships are approaching, and for Chikara, nothing’s more important than qualifying […]
Children of Sarajevo
Aida Begić
»Basically, using ordinary peoples’ wartime video archives to illustrate Rahima’s memories, I wanted to share and explore the intimate recollections […]
Chiles en Nogada
Billy Roisz
Chiles en Nogada is a traditional Mexican dish. Its colours are those of the national flag and of its history […]
Chill Out
Philippa Price
Chimpanzee
Saana Inari
Is it possible to change a person into something by giving her a name? A movement-based short film with a […]
Chinese Checkers
Betina Kuntzsch
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
City Penguin
Florinda Frisardi
It’s a hot summer’s day in Berlin. School is closed. Two bored sisters hang around at home in their stuffy […]
Civil Twilight at the Vernal Equinox
Emily Vey Duke, Cooper Battersby
»We are the terraformers of this new landscape: where fuel pours forth from our bodies, where consumption and extraction are […]
Clair Obscur
Yeşim Ustaoğlu
Clair-obscur is a term that derives from historical renaissance painting – Chiaroscuro in art is the use of strong contrasts […]
Clara Sola
Nathalie Álvarez Mesén
This film will also be available online on our VoD platform from March 29 to April 10, 2022. Please note: […]
Claudia practices carnival choreographies in the living room, Grandma watches. Film Series New Archives
Cleo
Eva Cools
After 17-year-old Cleo survives the devastating car crash that killed both her parents, she succumbs to post-traumatic stress disorder. She […]
Close Ties
Zofia Kowalewska
Forty-five years of marriage is an impressive anniversary. Barbara and Zdzisław could be proud of themselves – if it weren’t […]
Club Q: The Legendary Dance Party for Women
Kristen Wolf
It all started back in the 1980s. Avid DJ Page Hordel assembled a collective of spirited girlfriends, and together they […]
Cluburlaub
Katharina Duve
Coal-Country Song. Gundermann
Grit Lemke
»The coalfields spat us both out. You dug them up once. We wanted to make a difference.« Grit Lemke The […]
Code Blue
Urszula Antoniak
»Imagine if Death were to become a woman and living amongst us. She would be terrified and confused by Life. […]
Colombianos
Tora Mkandawire Mårtens
Fernando: »My body is perspiring like hell. I’m soaking wet. Isn’t there something that’ll make me calm?« Pablo: »In that […]
Colony Collapse Disorder
Martha Colburn
Commodity Fetishism
Catrine Val
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 […]
Confessions to the Mirror
Sarah Pucill
With Confessions to the Mirror, the experimental cinematic art of British artist Sarah Pucill reaches a new highpoint. Pucill dedicates […]
Controfigura
Rä di Martino
The hybrid film is a phenomenon of contemporary film culture: in these films, a new, experimental way of narrative cinema […]
Convenient, Sacred, Blessed
Vika Kirchenbauer
Copy Complete
Maria Auerbach
The found footage collage film Copy Complete deals with how cinema presented the computer in the 70s, 80s and 90s. […]
Corniche Kennedy
Dominique Cabrera
The Corniche Kennedy coastal road in Marseille, with its impressive panorama, is the visual anchor point of Dominique Cabrera’s sun- […]
Cow
Andrea Arnold
»I kept saying involuntarily during the edit: ›I’m seeing you, Luma. Don’t worry Luma, we see you.‹ I’m not sure […]
Crystal Lake
Jennifer Reeder
A group of young girls take over a skate park. Behind the big fence that surrounds the concrete field around […]
Cycle
Sophia Olga de Jong, Sytske Kok
Cycling is not easy at all! Luckily, the little girl has her grandfather to give her a helping hand as […]
Dame 2 (Helen Mirren)
Kathryn Elkin
Dame 2 recreates an interview on Parkinson with Helen Mirren from 1975, transcribed and performed as a song by Elkin. […]
Dangerous Acts Starring the Unstable Elements of Belarus
Madeleine Sackler
Creating provocative theatre carries great personal risks: emotional, financial and artistic. For the members of the Belarus Free Theatre, however, […]
Dangling by Their Mouths
Colin Campbell
Dangling by their Mouths, one of Canadian video artist Colin Campbell’s DIY masterpieces, is a complex, humorous yet bleak study […]
Das Geheimnis der Marquise
Lotte Reiniger
A silhouette-animation in the style of The Adventures of Prinz Achmed, also by Lotte Reiniger. Behold! Her skin is white […]
Das Haus
Barbara Metselaar Berthold
After the war and various demolition raids, only one building is left standing at Potsdamer Platz directly next to the […]
Das Kürbiskind
Raimund Backwinkel
The wonderful Persian folk tale as a silhouette film. A woman without children pleads with Allah to let her have […]
Das Translator
Dorit Kiesewetter und Carsten Knoop
A German man, a Turkish man and an Israeli man meet up … and an Azerbaijani man translates for them […]
Dating Sucks: A Genderqueer Misadventure
Sam Berliner
An animated, live-action comedy documentary about the successes, failures, and incredible confusions of trying to date as a genderqueer / […]
De Natura
Lucile Hadžihalilović
Water, earth, air and fire. Two children spend a summer’s day in the countryside.
Deadly Weapons
Doris Wishman
»Crystal’s got everything a woman can wish for. A smart apartment, smart clothes, a nice Dad and a handsome loving […]
Dear Afghanistan
Lisa Domin, Lena Tempich
Dear Lorde
Cooper Battersby, Emily Vey Duke
The bone collector Maxine Rose, a 14-year-old teenage girl, yearns for approval from her idols, including primatologist Jane Goodall, comedian […]
Decrescendo
Marta Minorowicz
In Decrescendo, Marta Minorowicz shows us round a Care Home for Senior Citizens that is not just a place of […]
Deep Down Tidal
Tabita Rezaire
It may feel as if the internet is up in the clouds, but in actual fact it’s at the bottom […]
Deep Inside
Camille Henrot
A pornographic film is transformed into a voyeuristic, lovelorn ballad. Drawn frame by frame on the 35-mm film stock of […]
Deep Insomnia
Shabnam Azar
On the way back, police at Cologne airport told the driver »You’re not allowed to stop here. Leave right away.« […]
Deployments
Stéphanie Lagarde
Pilots simulate the choreography of an aerobatic flight for the French national holiday. An algorithmic police training software simulates a […]
Der Fischer und seine Frau
Kyne Uhlig and Nikolaus Hildebrand
The fisherman’s wife asks the flounder for a better life. But when her wish is fulfilled, she is beset by […]
Der große Gammel
Susann Maria Hempel
The film-maker’s cinematic obituary in memory of the old municipal theatre in her hometown of Greiz. The film material, slides […]
Der Hexenschuß
Erni and Dr. Gero Priemel
A 1950s film advertising electricity with an entertaining storyline.
Der kleine Vogel und die Bienen
Lena von Döhren
High up in the maple tree, the little bird delights in its beautiful blossoms. Intrigued by a mysterious humming sound, […]
Der natürliche Tod der Maus
Katharina Huber
These are catastrophic times: climate collapse, the waste from today’s civilisation, contaminated fruit, not to mention the social pressures. The […]
Der süße Brei
Kyne Uhlig and Nikolaus Hildebrand
A look behind the scenes at a cartoon film workshop. The film-makers show us the first animated pictures of their […]
Der Weihnachtsbäcker
Elisabeth Wilms
It’s 1943 but delicious Christmas goodies are still on sale at the Wilms Bakery – gingerbread men, cream cakes, spiced […]
Der weiße Prinz
Eva Bertram
Der weiße Schatz und die Salzarbeiter von Caquena
Eva Katharina Bühler
»I think that the gringos started back then with the lithium.« Don Rosauro stands in the middle of an endless […]
Desert Miracles
Miriam Gossing und Lina Sieckmann
Desert Miracles is a cinematic exploration of a commercialised architecture of desire. Across a range of 22 tableaus, the film […]
Devil’s Rope
Sophie Bruneau
Devil’s Rope tells the story of a universal and apparently ordinary object: barbed wire. It goes back to the first […]
Dialogues with Madwomen
Allie Light
»I was always so afraid that someone would ask me where I was when JFK was shot and I would […]
Diamond Belly
Anni Puolakka
»If I sometimes feel lonely, I think about all the microbes who live inside me and across my skin and […]
Diamonds
Coral Short
A face in close-up, using stop-motion, and a lot of diamonds. Coral Short and Raphaële Frigon turn the face into […]
Die Geschichte der heiligen Veronika
Vroni and Vroni
Die Katastrophe
Leni Fischer
This animated film was made for the washing powder »Famos« produced at soap factories in Riesa-Gröba and Düsseldorf. We see […]
Die Kinder Toten
Kelly Copper, Pavol Liska
„Suddenly, completely pointlessly, our past is back again, impossible to love.“ – Elfride Jelinek, The Children of the Dead Holiday […]
Die Puppe
Ossi Oswalda (Artist)
The young Lancelot is a confirmed bachelor and suitably shocked when his uncle, Baron de Chanterelle, decides it’s time for […]
Die Republik der Backfische
Käthe von Nagy (Artist)
Billie lives with her father on a hacienda in the Argentinian pampas. She masters all the skills you need to […]
Die schönste Nebensache der Welt
Tanja Bubbel
In the 50s, women’s football was still referred to as ladies’ football and officially banned by the German Football Association. […]
Die Wirkung des Geschützes auf Gewitterwolken
Juliane Jaschnow, Stefanie Schroeder
»In Europe, the tradition of weather control has been documented for centuries«, as this film says. »Firing cannons is supposed […]
Dildotectonic for Beginners
Slavina
Selma gives up her ordinary, romantic idea of love for a reality of ‘queer’ experiences and deep friendship. Inspired by […]
Ding-A-Ling
Luke Biggins, Stefflon Don
Dizzy Mess
Vivian Ostrovsky
An experimental found footage production dedicated to giddy moments in film history: DizzyMess explores the fascinating, uplifting feeling of losing […]
DNA Dreams
Bregtje van der Haak
Ten years ago, it would have taken many years and over a billion dollars to map out the complete DNA […]
Domestic Karaoke
Inès Rabadán
»In every house, someone has to tidy up, do the washing and clean. But who?« Inès Rabadán In Domestic Karaoke, […]
Don’t Call Me Son
Anna Muylaert
Pierre is seventeen and lives with his mother Aracy and sister Jacqueline in São Paulo suburb. The excitement level in […]
Don’t Lose Your Head
Karolina Specht
A white head rolls into the middle of the black screen. It breathes balls. A dispute starts about form. Out […]
Don’t Talk About Fate
Ula Stöckl
»Everything on earth is imperfect is the Germans’ old refrain« – actress Grischa Huber quotes Hölderlin from the former ›death […]
Donna Haraway: Story Telling for Earthly Survival
Fabrizio Terranova
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
Ann Oren
Dots is a part of Ann Oren’s video journals, a short square-format video series delivering a response to media culture, […]
Double Happiness
Ella Raidel
The picturesque Austrian village of Hallstatt is a World Heritage Site for Cultural Heritage. In Double Happiness it is the […]
Dream Game
Elisabet Gustafsson
»You play too much!« This is something Nicolas’ mother is forever telling him. Even though she spends all day in […]
Dreams Rewired
Manu Luksch, Thomas Tode, Martin Reinhart
»Every age thinks it’s the modern age, but this one really is.« – Tom Stoppard, 1876 Dreams Rewired looks at […]
Dressed for Pleasure
Marie de Maricourt
Sarah, a disabled girl aged about twenty, lives with her parents. She is increasingly subject to many fantasies and sees […]
Drive with Care
Pilvi Takala
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
Dunkeldeutschland
Juliane Jaschnow, Stefanie Schroeder
Dun·kel·deutsch·land [1] umgangssprachlich: aus Sicht eines Bürgers der alten BRD eine abwertende Bezeichnung für die neuen Bundesländer – ehemalige DDR; […]
Dust of Modern Life
Franziska von Stenglin
This film will also be available online on our VoD platform from March 29 to April 10, 2022. Please note: […]
Dykes, Camera, Action!
Caroline Berler
»When I was growing up in Texas in the late 1990s, I didn’t know any openly homosexual people in my […]
E.1027
Lisa Domin
An early response to the ideas of Modernism, E.1027 is architecturally one of the most important private houses in Europe […]
Eat Sleep Die
Gabriela Pichler
»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
Lydia Schouten
Echoes of Death / Forever Young is an unusual reflection on the denial of ageing and death via the techno […]
ECHT
Süheyla Schwenk
Best friends 4 ever? There’s no question about it for Zerda and Mia – until now! This school year, everything’s […]
Eden
Mia Hansen-Løve
Eden is a poignant journey back to the vibrant Paris of the early1990s. With rave music dominating the clubs, a […]
Ego Mein Alter
Mariola Brillowska
Eigentumswohnung
Lucian Busse, Sofie Hein - Alien TV
Ein Bild abgeben
Stefanie Schroeder
Stefanie Schroeder financed her study of photography by means of various part-time activities – i.e. a series of odd jobs […]
Eine gute Idee – Heißwasser
Erik Wernicke
The persuasion of a husband who had resisted his wife’s household being converted to electricity.
Ella Maillart – Double Journey
Mariann Lewinsky, Antonio Bigini
»21 July. On some days that we spend in the desert, in the heat, we wonder how we could possibly […]
Empathy (A Digital Love Letter)
Qiyue Q Sun
After getting her heart crushed, a woman writes a letter to the man she loves. Empathy (A Digital Love Letter) […]
Enemy of the State
Annekatrin Hendel
»I can always see the bloody West-German questions coming a mile off.« Paul Gratzik An angry old man in a […]
equal area
Juliane Henrich
Next to the site of the Stadtschloss, the Palace of the Republic, which is draped in mobile phone advertising, a […]
Erasing the Border
Ana Teresa Fernández
Somewhere on a beach in Tijuana, a woman in a black cocktail dress climbs a ladder and starts to paint […]
Es ist ein Schnitter
Sigrun Köhler
Beware fair little flower! To the melody of a melancholic German folksong from the 17th century, countless flowers emerge from […]
Es war einmal …
Denise Faust (Emil Futur)
Another variation on the Little Red Riding Hood theme which neatly sums up the decline in species diversity. At the […]
Es wird Schuhe regnen
Mariola Brillowska
It was a Sunday when it happened. The volcano erupted. Mañana Brzozadrzewska was busy cooking her radiation-contaminated shoe soles when […]
Escape
Rosa Hannah Ziegler
Jamie and Leo have run away from the home. On their way through field and forest, the two teenagers have […]
Eugène Gabana le Pétrolier
Jeanne Delafosse, Camille Plagnet
Eugène clatters through the sandy streets of Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso, on his moped, trying to flog mobile […]
Europa
Ariane Andereggen, Ted Gaier
Ever After
Carolina Hellsgård
Two years ago, zombies took over the Earth. Thanks to a protective fence, Weimar and Jena are probably the only […]
Every Angle is an Angle
Shana Moulton
Shana Moulton’s alter ego Cynthia is a fragile person who struggles with her physical presence in the world. In a […]
Everybody
Jessie Mott, Steve Reinke
People’s over-preoccupation with perceived or slight flaws in their appearance can cause great distress. We see the animals in Everybody with […]
Evidentiary Bodies
Barbara Hammer
»In these horrific times when lies are blatantly exclaimed as truths, when fear makes us withdraw from each other, when […]
Evolution
Lucile Hadžihalilović
Ten-year-old Nicolas lives with his mother in a small village on a remote rocky island. The landscape is surreal and […]
Exakte Vision. Helen Hessels »Jules & Jim«
Ulrike Haage
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 […]
Exile Exotic
Sasha Litvintseva
The setting for Exile Exotic is a hotel that is a replica of the Kremlin. The film relates the exotic […]
Exorcize Me
Sookoon Ang
Exorcize Me is a photography, videography and live performance project addressing coming-of-age anxiety, teenage alienation and the confusing phrase between […]
ExplorerIn 2009
Clara Winter
Equipped with a Red Epic camera, supported by grants and surrounded by the impressive scenery of a volcanic crater, political […]
Exposed
Beth B
Exposed takes us around New York’s alternative burlesque scene as director Beth B portrays eight innovative performers, masters of their […]
FAB fabulous
Catrine Val
FAB fabulous is a visual journey of discovery into the rituals of daily masquerades. The camera shows a group of […]
Faceshopping
Sophie Xeon
»The song evolved from various things I was thinking around the ways that images are used in the current climate, […]
Facing the Wind
Meritxell Colell Aparicio
Forty-seven year-old Mónica has been living and working in Buenos Aires as a dancer for 20 years when she receives […]
Fahrt ins Blaue
Ingeborg Tölke
»The dandelion, it flowers, is pollinated and its petals close.« In her Super 8 film, Ingeborg Tölke explains how flowers […]
Fan Fan
Chia-Hsin Liu
A student of anthropology, Lin Fan is carrying out a research project on the subject of prostitution and decides to […]
Far From You I Grew
Marie Dumora
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie. You […]
Far From You I Grew
Marie Dumora
»He was happy on his isle of Ithaca. His sandals knew every path. He could walk with his eyes closed. […]
Farewell Herr Schwarz
Yael Reuveny
»As a child, I was fascinated by one moment in our family story. One day, in post-war Lodz, when my […]
Fatale Femme
Claudia Schillinger
»The fascination that Marlene Dietrich or Joan Crawford films have for women is due mainly to the ›feminine‹ power these […]
Father. Mother. Me.
Nadja Bobyleva
Born in Moscow, director Nadja Bobyleva moved as a nine-year-old to Cologne with her mother. Now thirty, the only things […]
Faxen
Lisa Domin
The film contemplates a form of communication that is written into the air with great gestures. The unusual architecture of […]
Feeding the Birdies
Dagie Brundert
We don’t see much in this ambitious Super 8 wildlife documentary. The film-maker lies in wait: »A cold and stormy […]
FEMMEfille
Kiki Allgeier
FEMMEfille tells the story of Isabelle Caro, who caused a sensation in 2007 when she was photographed by star photographer […]
Femocracy
Torsten Körner
Looking back in history, it’s soon clear that female chancellors, ministers or secretaries of state have never been a matter […]
Fence
Roxana Reiss (DoP)
Statement of the Jury (Isabelle Casez, Birgit Guðjonsdottir, Sabine Panossian) »Fence is an experimental short feature film that explores our […]
Fidgety Bram
Anna van der Heide
Seven-year-old Bram is a bright young boy, interested in everything around him large and small. So he can hardly wait […]
Figure
Katarzyna Gondek
The outline of a figure emerges from a kind of snowstorm. Dust blends with the white matter that descends as […]
Filibus
Christina Ruspoli (Artist)
Created during a time when heroic thieves were common in European popular culture, Filibus – the first of thirty films […]
Filip
Nathalie Álvarez Mesén
Filip doesn’t like going to school. He’d much rather play football or watch films with his big brother Sebastian, who […]
Finding Sally
Tamara Dawit
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie. You […]
First Clue
Susan Sullivan
»When did you first think you might be a lesbian?« First Clue brings together the poignant, amusing and thoughtful responses […]
Fjögur Píanó
Alma Har’el
Sigur Rós, a post-rock-band from Iceland, gave a dozen film-makers the same modest budget and asked them to create whatever […]
Flaschenpost
Gabriele Mathes
Off screen: a sigh, an utterance (»Now then … today’s history«). On screen: a rustling noise. Right from the start, […]
Flirt mit einer Maschine
Elisabeth Wilms
Reducing the amount of household work. The introduction of the washing machine, here still running on gas. An advertising film […]
Folkbildningsterror
Lasse Långström
A dancing revolution swings its way through the streets of Gothenburg. A group of activists is venting its anger at […]
Fontanestr.
Deborah Phillips
foodgasm #2
Florence Freitag
A sensual moment, audio-visually transmitted and full of desire. The film is the result of an experiment by the film- […]
Football
Ana Hušman
»In this work, I was dealing with movement and the way camera reflects it … and how to transfer body […]
For Those Who Can Tell No Tales
Jasmila Žbanić
»I wanted to do something which was a remembrance of 20 years after the war, because for me living in […]
For Women, Chapter 1
Cristina Perincioli
»Saleswomen in a supermarket discover they are paid lower wages than the men who work in the same store. (…) […]
For Your Peace of Mind, Make Your Own Museum
Ana Endara, Pilar Moreno
This film will also be available online on our VoD platform from March 29 to April 10, 2022. Please note: […]
Forest of Echoes
Luz Olivares Capelle
A teenager, Christina, loses her friends in the forest. Looking for them she finds the bodies of three drowned kids […]
Forgotten Roads
Nicol Ruiz Benavides
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie. You […]
Former East / Former West
Shelly Silver
Made up of hundreds of street interviews done in Berlin two years after the Reunification, Former East/Former West is a […]
Foul
Rune Denstad Langlo
An ordinary winter’s day in Norway. The way to school is a trek through the snow and ice. As if […]
Fragile
Vidi Bilu
Jerusalem, 1966. The year before the outbreak of the Six-Day War. In a crumbling old building in the centre of […]
Frailer
Mijke de Jong
What does it mean to die well? What is friendship in the face of death? When Muis learns that she […]
Francine
Melanie Shatzky and Brian M. Cassidy
After serving a prison stretch, Francine aims to start up again in a small town somewhere in the USA. She […]
Frauen-Leben
Gabriele Voss, Christa Donner
»We’d looked for an apartment in Ebel and set up some living and working premises there in order to get […]
Freda
Gessica Généus
Student Freda lives with her family in a popular but poor neighbourhood of Port-au-Prince. Her mother Jeanette supports herself and […]
Free Fall
Susanne Schüle, Elena Levina
Brother and sister Boris and Marina Urmatov live in the beautiful but remote Altai mountain region of Siberia. They come […]
From Us To Me
Amber Film & Photography Collective (Ellin Hare, Richard Grassick)
»Asked about the openness and emotional power of the interviews, one of the participants said: ›We’ve been waiting all these […]
Fruits of Clouds
Kateřina Karhánková
A group of jungle animals look beyond the horizon and discover that something wonderful is hiding beyond the eerie forest.
FtWTF – Female to What the Fuck
Cordula Thym, Katharina Lampert
What does it mean to identify oneself as trans*? In six personal portraits, FtWTF explores backgrounds and reasons of living […]
Fünf Ahoi
Frigga Horstmann
Futura
Alice Rohrwacher, Pietro Marcello, Francesco Munzi
In early 2020, three film-makers travelled throughout Italy to ask young people between the ages of 15 and 20 about […]
Gabi
Michael Fetter Nathansky
Gabi looks after everything. Her father, her sister, and everything at work. She’s the best master tiler her apprentice Marco […]
Genderation
Monika Treut
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie. You […]
Genderblend
Sophie Dros
Lisa, Anne, Dennis, Lashawn and Selm are gender benders. They don’t fit into the binary gender categories, they are »nothing […]
Genderless Jellyfish
Coral Short
Coral Short’s Genderless Jellyfish, shot in an aquarium in Vancouver, might seem a misfit for our film programme. It’s based […]
Genderless Jellyfish
Coral Short
Shot at the Vancouver Aquarium but based on an infamous popular YouTube, this film enthusiastically loves on the magical and […]
Gendernauts
Monika Treut
PLEASE NOTE: Gendernauts runs only on June 19 at 6 p.m. at Schauburg Dortmund. You can’t buy tickets online for […]
Genius
Transnationales Ensemble Labsa
Gestatten Dortmund
Elisabeth Wilms
»But do you really know this town? Well, here you have the opportunity to go on a ramble through the […]
Get Up, Jucy Lordan
Dagie Brundert
Giant
Salla Tykkä
Giant was filmed in Romania at the famous, communist-era gymnastics schools of Onesti and Deva where people still train fanatically. […]
Giddy
Pussycrew, Ewelina Aleksandrowicz (Tikul) and Andrzej Wojtas (mi$ Gogo)
Ginger & Rosa
Sally Potter
»It was a very difficult generation, and many of the daughters of that generation wrongly blamed their mothers.« – Sally […]
girls & boys in history I–III (EMANZIPATION, MÄNNERHORRORFRAUEN, REAL EXISTIERENDE GESCHLECHTERVERHÄLTNISSE)
Tatjana Turanskyj
With girls & boys in history we pay homage to Tatjana Turanskyj and show that we must continue to act, […]
Git Cut Noise
Lotte Schreiber
In 2009, the post-rock-band Radian released their fifth album: chimeric. Lotte Schreiber sampled a song called »Git Cut Noise« and […]
Glory to the Queen
Tatia Skhirtladze
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie. You […]
Go Off
Maya Arulpragasam (M.I.A.)
Go on Living
Alejandra Sánchez
In the gang wars of Ciudad Juárez, the mother of teenagers Jade and Caleb is seriously wounded. A journalist takes […]
God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunya
Teona Strugar Mitevska
»Petrunya, an everyday woman, has the force to change something, to make a change for all of us together.« – […]
God Exists. Her Name is Petrunya
Teona Strugar Mitevska
Petrunya has moved back to her small home town in Macedonia, but is unable to find a job. After an […]
God Is Not Working on Sunday!
Leona Goldstein
What sounds like a feminist utopia is reality in Rwanda: Since 2008, the country has been led by a majority-female […]
Goddess Lament
Tommy Nova
Godless
Ralitza Petrova
Nurse Gana trades the ID documents belonging to her dementia patients on the black market. Driven by the temptation of […]
Golem
Joy und Noelle Vaccese
Golem’s Asylum is a place where idealistic dreams of musical success are twisted and distorted into prepackaged fodder for ranks […]
Gölge
Sema Poyraz, Sophokles Adamidis
Gölge by Sema Poyraz is one of the first feature films of what would later be called German-Turkish cinema. The […]
Good Husband, Dear Son
Heddy Honigmann
In the hills surrounding Sarajevo lies the village Ahatovici. In 1992 about 80 % of all the men were killed. […]
Goodbye Fantasy
Amber Bemak, Nadia Granados
Goodbye Fantasy is about two bodies in relation to each other enacting different constellations of social and political power.
Gordon & Paddy
Linda Hambäck
»One step at a time – even if the case seems difficult and there are lots of suspects to question. […]
Women and men working on bullet-case machines in the Sterkrade production halls.
Grandma Lo-Fi
Orri Jónsson, Kristín Björk Kristjánsdóttir, Ingibjörg Birgisdóttir
»I just start pressing things until I hear something I like.« – Sigrídur Níelsdóttir At the age of 70, Sigrídur […]
Grandpa Walrus
Lucrèce Andreae
»Dammit! There’s no signal. Mum, can we leave?« A deserted beach, it’s off-season, grey and dirty. Grandma prays, Mum yells, […]
Grandpère
Kathrin Hürlimann
In the 1960s, Fritz Hürlimann worked in the telephone exchange of the Swiss Post Office in Zurich-Hottingen. But when working […]
Gratitude
Jeremy Ngatho Cole
GRRRL
Natascha Zink
»Out all on your own?« Sexual harassment happens every day. Zoe is part of self-organised group of friends who go […]
Guillaumes Wondrous World
Els van Driel
The other children call him ›the bookworm‹. Which annoys Guillaume, while also making him swell with pride. The boy from […]
Gut Renovation
Su Friedrich
In the late 1980s, various artists moved into the New York working-class neighbourhood of Williamsburg which, at the time, was […]
H.O.N.D. Aerobic
Mariola Brillowska
»Nice-looking poodles sit up and beg, nice-looking poodles wiggle their bums. Nice-looking poodles twiddle their thumbs. Nice-looking poodles raise their […]
This experimental music video is based on a poem by Yin Ni that satirizes and celebrates a local custom in […]
Hair Wolf
Mariama Diallo
Imagine a world in which cultural appropriation was a virus: white people, appropriating black culture with a vampiric intent, infect […]
Hallo T-Shirt
Ulrike Korbach
Made in the »fishes« group of the FABIDO nursery school Kuithanstraße Dortmund.
Happy (Mark Lotterman)
Alice Saey
A group of geese performs a graceful yet awkward choreography, torn between the desire to express themselves individually and to […]
Happy Profiling
Wassan Ali
»Happy Profiling is an answer to letters and emails I got from the Postbank two years ago. The film is […]
Hayat Jumps
Miriam Goeze
»Papa, I wish you were how you used to be.« Nine-year-old Hayat lives with her single father in a refugee […]
Heads or Tails
Eva von Schweinitz
Lilly persuades her best friend René to accompany her on a nocturnal adventure. The two young women break into a […]
Heavy Craving
Hsieh Pei-Ju
»In cinema, we do not see different types of bodies, especially for women we only see slim, with perfect bodies, […]
One sofa, three couples, a lot of possibilities. A get-together turns into a rollicking partner swap. Film Series New Archives
The dream of no longer being a housewife becomes true. In this film, work is done on its own … […]
Her Name in My Mouth
Onyeka Igwe
The film revisions the Aba Women’s War, the first major anti-colonial uprisings in Nigeria, using embodiment, gesture and the archive. […]
Here Is Everything
Cooper Battersby, Emily Vey Duke
Here Is Everything presents itself as a message from the future, as narrated by a cat and a rabbit, spirit […]
Herzsprung
Helke Misselwitz
Ein von Massenentlassungen erschüttertes Dorf in der Nachwendezeit. Alles ist in Auflösung. Johanna (Claudia Geisler) betrachtet ungläubig das Geschehen um […]
Hinterland
Marie Voignier
In her poetic research documentary film Hinterland, Marie Voignier portrays the leisure world of Tropical Island, Europe‘s largest indoor rainforest. […]
History Bleeds Under Your Fingernails
Azar Saiyar
An essay film about taming the left hand and the fear of being different. Left-handedness used to be seen as […]
Hiwa
Jacqueline Lentzou
Manila, Philippines. Jay wakes up from a dream about a place where he’s never been. A nightmare in which he […]
Holy God
Vladlena Sandu
»Self-portrait. In 1998 our family came under armed attack. We were able to escape and we fled Grozny. We have […]
Home
Lisa Domin
Home is a film about homeland, homelessness and deer.
Hooligan Sparrow
Nanfu Wang
The young film-maker Nanfu Wang accompanies activist Ye Haiyan, also known by the name of Hooligan Sparrow, to the south […]
Host
Kristin Lucas
An online therapy session between the artist and a multimedia advisory system. The personal confession before the camera is reduced […]
House of Women
Michelle Williams Gamaker
In 1946, the white actress Jean Simmons was cast for the character of the silent dancing girl Kanchi in the […]
How I Lost Myself
Marie Zahir (DoP)
P hat das Vertrauen in die Sprache verloren. Mit der Freundin bringt sie ihre Unsicherheit über die Sprache zum Ausdruck, […]
After the NSU claimed responsibility for the crimes in 2011, the German state intelligence agency shredded numerous files of Secret […]
How the Room Felt
Ketevan Kapanadze
This film will also be available online on our VoD platform from March 29 to April 10, 2022. Please note: […]
How to Adapt
María Chalela-Puccini
These are the rules of how to adapt as a human to the contemporary world.
»I don’t feel like I’m Turkish anymore, actually, but I have to …«
How to Civilize a Waterfall
Hanna Ljungh
Hanna Ljungh confronts the untameable force of nature head on in her film. Inspired by the powerful eloquence of hard […]
How to Pick Berries
Elina Talvensaari
Strangers suddenly appear in the swamps of Northern Finland and disrupt the locals’ established routine. As the incomers pick berries […]
Human Radio
Miranda Pennell
Human Radio by Miranda Pennell, from 2002, could just as easily have been shot in 2020. The short film is […]
Human Vessel
Sissi Deng
Jewel is a young female director. A less than adept storyteller, she attempts to write a script about the only […]
Humanité, année zéro
Florence Gatineau-S’Bex
Security cameras are watching us, impassively. They produce pictures unconcerned about the misfortune of humanity. In Humanité, année zéro, director […]
Humanoids from the Deep
Barbara Peeters
As a growing number of weird deaths shatter the idyll of a small town on the American coast, a seriously […]
I Am a Real Boy
Bella und Jiga
Pinocchio goes on a quest to find the good fairy that will turn him into a real boy. However, a […]
I Am a Subversive Person
Shabnam Azar
Whose eyes look at the images captured by a security camera? In her video work, Azar analyses and re-enacts the […]
I Am Not a Feminist, But…
Florence Tissot, Sylvie Tissot
»I remember as a teenager being told that there was a masculine and a feminine way of striking a match. […]
I am Not a Witch
Rungano Nyoni
Eight-year-old Shula is roaming about unsuspectingly when a woman crosses her path and suddenly falls. In this remote part of […]
I Am Truly a Drop of Sun on Earth
Elene Naveriani
34-year-old April makes her money illegally as a prostitute in the city centre of Tbilisi. With her upright gait, she […]
I Cannot Tell You How I Feel
Su Friedrich
Su Friedrich takes up her camera again in her ongoing quest to film the battleground of family life. Her sprightly […]
I Don’t Belong Anywhere – The Cinema of Chantal Akerman
Marianne Lambert
Pioneer of feminist cinema, experimental film-maker, nomad: Chantal Akerman left behind over forty films. Films that reinvented cinema. At the […]
I Have a Song to Sing You
Eluned Zoë Aiano, Alesandra Tatić
Ivanka lives in rural Eastern Serbia and spent most of her life falling into a trance to enter the realm […]
I Like Tomorrow
Nancy Andrews, Jennifer Reeder
I Like Tomorrow is a sci-fi comedy musical that combines live action and animation. This short hybrid film is set […]
I Often Think of Hawaii
Elfie Mikesch
»Ruth R. is a 42-year-old woman. I got to know her years ago when I came to Berlin. She was […]
I Thought I was an Alien
Spike Jonze
I’m Not the Girl Who Misses Much
Pipilotti Rist
One of the first works by Pipilotti Rist using the video medium. Rist edited the tape and created a luxury-boxed, […]
I’ve Had a Belly Full of Pink
Suli Puschban, Mathieu Seiler
The song ›I’ve Had a Belly Full of Pink‹ puts an end to gender stereotypes and roles. Fairy Lillifee meets […]
Icenose
Veronica L. Montaño, Joel Hofmann
Moco hates the icy landscape in which he lives. He’s always freezing cold and his nose won’t stop running. The […]
ICH bin ICH – Gui und sein Wellenspielplatz
Ute Hilgefort
Gui lives on the Algarve coast of Portugal, where the sea, surf and sandy beaches are the best playground ever. […]
Ich wandle unter Blumen
Claudia Richarz
I wander among flowers And blossom with them; I wander as in a dream And sway with every step. O, […]
Il Palazzo
Katharina Copony
Te protagonist of this film is a building. Standing on the outskirts of Rome – like a monolith in the […]
Im Ernstfall nicht Verfügbar
Monika Funke-Stern
Im Ernstfall nicht verfügbar (»Unavailable in an emergency«) is the eighth part of an episodic film made by nine film-makers. […]
Im Filmatelier
Hedwig Otto, Gerda Otto
A commercial for aspirin. We see an advert being filmed. A lady suffering from a headache takes some aspirin tablets. […]
In a Foreign Land
Icíar Bollaín
Carte Blanche – Dràc Magic I wanted to find out first hand why people are leaving. And you discover they […]
In Between
Maysaloun Hamoud
Laila (Mouna Hawa), Salma (Sana Jammalieh) and Nour (Shaden Kanboura) live together in an apartment in trendy Tel Aviv. During […]
In Free Fall
Hito Steyerl
An aeroplane scrapyard somewhere in the Californian desert. Its most lucrative source of income is being hired out as a […]
In Her Boots
Kathrin Steinbacher
Hedi doesn’t seem to be what you’d call the average grandma. She’s quite happy breakfasting with her granddaughter with nothing […]
In My Bathtub I’m The Captain in Command
Meike Fehre
A dirty little elephant doesn’t feel like taking a bath, but a little imagination and lots of bubbles make the […]
In Search …
Beryl Magoko, Jule Katinka Cramer (DoP)
As a young girl growing up in a rural village in Kenya, Beryl thought that all women in the world […]
In the Future They Ate from the Finest Porcelain
Larissa Sansour, Søren Lind
A self-titled »narrative resistance group« buries the finest porcelain they claim belonged to an entirely fictional civilisation. The group’s aim […]
In the Name Of
Małgorzata Szumowska
»I thought the idea of love between a priest and a young man very interesting and decided straightaway that I […]
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie. You […]
In the silence of an abyssal sea
Juliette Klinke
This film looks at pioneering women film-makers such as Alice Guy, who made the first ever fiction film, and Germaine […]
International Tourism
Marie Voignier
Marie Voigner sets off on a group tour of North Korea and visits museums, artists’ studios, film studios and chemical […]
Into Our Own Hands
Mariana Otero
»It’s a kind of political and economic comedy: at times serious, at times humorous.« Mariana Otero The Starissima lingerie factory […]
Invisibles
Louis-Julien Petit
A self-deprecating sense of humour and an aversion to any form of self-pity characterise these women who manage to keep […]
Examining the echoes of crime scenes like a stethoscope.
It Will End in Tears
Rammatik
It, Heat, Hit
Laure Prouvost
«This six-minute film requires all your attention.» Pictures flash staccato-like across the screen, abruptly, fragmentarily. They are accompanied by an […]
It’s So Sad the Giraffe Is Dead
Lisa Domin
In January 2012, Lisa Domin is looking for an apolitical place in Cairo; the result is a work featuring 16-mm […]
J.M. Mondésir
Alice Colomer-Kang
It is not a documentary about this death. It is a ballet of souls lost in the middle of the […]
Jackie
Antoinette Beumer
»I do have the ambition to make films with a bigger budget, but whether this is in Holland or abroad […]
Jackson/Marker 4am
Ruth Beckermann
Early hours of the morning in Jackson in the US state of Mississippi. Someone with a dress pulled on over […]
Jaime’s House
Marie Gavois, Michel Klöfkorn
A flock of sheep filmed from the air trying to find their way in a strange setting. Are we already […]
Jibril
Henrika Kull
Berlin, 2018. Maryam is a single working mum who has both feet firmly on the ground. Then she meets Jibril, […]
Joanna
Aneta Kopacz
»What remains are moments of great emotional power and ultimately a plea: do everything with love and devotion. Then you […]
Johanna Dohnal – Visionary of Feminism
Sabine Derflinger
Elected Minister of State for General Women’s Issues in 1979 under Bruno Kreisky and from 1990 until her involuntary departure […]
Juck
Olivia Kastebring, Julia Gumpert, Ulrika Bandeira
Juck is a feminist intervention in public space and a visual documentary about a dance group who pushes the limits […]
Judex, Episode V – The Tragic Mill
Louis Feuillade, Musidora (Artist)
Judex has incarcerated Favraux, a banker, because he ruined the lives of poor people such as Kerjean. At the same […]
Junkanoo Talk
Rhea Storr
In Junkanoo Talk, Rhea Storr dissects the colour codes, rhythms and body language of the folkloric Junkanoo, a carnival of […]
Just Like My Son
Costanza Quatriglio
Having fled the civil war in Afghanistan and the persecution of his people, the Hazara, by the Taliban, Ismail now […]
Just My Kind
Carmine Covelli, Kathleen Hanna, Adam Horovitz, Brendan Kennedy
A baby is bathed and dressed in a christening robe: The baby turns into a girl. Film Series New Archives
Kare Kare Zvako – Mother’s Day
Tsitsi Dangarembga
The country is stricken by drought. A father is horrified when his desperate wife serves termites for supper. Furious, he […]
Karmok
Rannvá Káradóttir and Marianna Mørkøre
Karmok is the fourth instalment of Cycle, a series of experimental shorts that sets out to examine the phenomenon of […]
Katharine
Elly Heuss-Knapp, Rudi Klemm
Kunterbunt the poster artist is looking for a model for a Nivea poster. But his colleague is unshaven and scruffy. […]
Kevin
Joana Oliveira
This film will also be available online on our VoD platform from March 29 to April 10, 2022. Please note: […]
Khartoum Offside
Marwa Zein Arbab
Just in time for the kick-off for the Women’s World Cup in France 2019, Marwa Zein presents her impressive and […]
KI 木
Meikeminne Clinckspoor
Yuki’s older sister has died. The seven-year-old is sad and angry. Her parents don’t want her to lay a place […]
Kiem Holijanda
Sarah Veltmeyer
Day after day, Andi and his older brother Florist sell bottled milk in a desolate village in Kosovo. There’s not […]
Kiki the Feather
Julie Rembauville und Nicolas Bianco-Levrin
Kiki, the yellow canary, is bored with his monotonous life in a cage. Every day is the same. One day, […]
Kimya
Amira Duynhouwer
Kimya (Swahili for »silence«) is a story about the first moment of silence in the life of Josephine. Josie is […]
Kind als Pinsel (Kooperatorka)
Else Gabriel, Ulf Wrede
The artist’s memories of her childhood in the GDR. Astonishing as it may seem, the title Kind als Pinsel (child […]
Kind als Pinsel (Kooperatorka)
Else Gabriel, Ulf Wrede
The artist’s memories of her childhood in the GDR. Astonishing as it may seem, the title Kind als Pinsel (child […]
Kis
Svetlana Bolycheva
A cat is the best friend of the Orthodox priest in the Russian provinces. Two soul mates in a life […]
Kiwi
Martha Jurksaitis, Cherry Kino
Komm du kleines Kohlenmädchen
Fritzi Massary (Artist)
The acting and operetta stars Fritzi Massary and Joseph Giampietro sing the song »Komm du kleines Kohlenmädchen« (»Come little coal […]
A party cellar becomes a space station. An intergenerational journey to another reality. Film Series New Archives
Krokodile ohne Sattel
Britta Wandaogo
Kaddi Malika is doubtful about everything: even her selfawareness is crumbling. She thinks of the end of the world and […]
Kumbia Queers: More louder please!
Natalia Sanhueza, Almut Wetzstein
The documentary Kumbia Queers: More louder please! shows six Latin-American musicians touring through Germany in 2011. The sound of the […]
Kurpusher
Dorit Kiesewetter und Carsten Knoop
From Rasul baths with hot stone massage, Physiotherm infrared cabins, soft pack and hard pack to inhalation rooms, brine dispensers […]
Kurpusher
Dorit Kiesewetter, Carsten Knoop
A chicken soup for the soul; the dialogue with the inner child can begin.
KwieKulik
Joanna Turowicz, Anna Zakrzewska
Having reached the peak of her career, Zofia Kulik decides to give up work as an artist and join Przemysław […]
La Course à la saucisse
Alice Guy
A poodle grabs a sausage from outside a butcher’s shop, and a madcap chase begins: a recurring theme of early […]
La fée aux fleurs
Alice Guy
A flower arrangement. Bonsoir.
La fée printemps
Alice Guy
The fairy has power over the weather, oversees the fertility of the fields and blesses a farming couple with a […]
La femme collante
Alice Guy
Down at the post office, a housemaid is expected to stick out her tongue so that her mistress can moisten […]
La glu
Alice Guy
A boy smears glue on benches, staircases, ladders, bicycles – much to his delight and that of the audience. Except, […]
La sagrada de Cuba
Elke Margarete Lehrenkrauss, Christiane Buchmann (DoP)
»The cow is the symbol of our country,« says Luis, a herdsman. Anyone in Cuba who slaughters a cow can […]
Laila’s Apple
Azar Saiyar
Childhood – that grainy past of small secrets and big feelings. Against a backdrop of black-and-white, slow gliding archive footage […]
Land without Evil
Katalin Egely
Humanity has always been in search of paradise. A Guarani mythology looks at things from a completely different perspective: What […]
Landfill Harmonic
Graham Townsley, Brad Allgood
A few kilometres outside Paraguay’s capital city of Asunción is one of the poorest slums in Latin America. Cateura is […]
Landscapes of Resistance
Marta Popivoda
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie. You […]
Lange Weile
Tina Bara
»I am only interested in the form once everything else is in place. The contradictory. Suspense. Tension. The beauty in […]
Lange Weile
Tina Bara
»I am only interested in the form once everything else is in place. The contradictory. Suspense. Tension. The beauty in […]
Lapse of Honour
Rayna Campbell
There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.« – Maya Angelou Lapse of Honour is a […]
Lauras Stern
Joya Thome
After moving to the city, Laura misses her old home badly. One night, she sees a small star fall from […]
Laurel Sabino y Jaguilla
Beatriz Santiago Muñoz
What might it sound like when a magnolia thinks and speaks? Laurel Sabino y Jaguilla is the common name of […]
Le frotteur
Louis Feuillade, Alice Guy
A meticulous cleaner who sets about his work with ardent zeal and enjoyment. The parquet gleams, the people slip and […]
Le matelas alcoolique
Alice Guy
A married couple are having their mattress restuffed. The worker, matelassière, does not notice that during her break a drunk […]
Lea
Nina Yuen
»Now, they are coming together.« (Nina Yuen) Off-screen we hear antlers crashing against each other: two deer are fighting. On-screen […]
Leaf
Aliona Sasková
The giant sailor prepares for his next voyage, shovelling more coal into the boiler, and scrubbing the deck. As he […]
Leones
Jazmín López
»Leones is an essay about death from the point of view of a mortal being, death seen as a beautiful […]
Les fredaines de Pierette
Alice Guy
A dance film.
Les maçons
Alice Guy
The O’Mer are a comic acrobat duo. Alice Guy filmed them several times. Here the play out a short idea […]
Les résultats du féminisme
Alice Guy
Role reversal. As so often in those days, the film makes a comedy of women’s emancipation. Yet it’s really funny: […]
Les Vampires, Episode IV – The Specter
Musidora (Artist)
Introducing the most important figures in the series: Irma Vep, the only female member of the gang led by the […]
Lichtwelle
Julia Rublow, Xenia Lesniewski
Liebmann
Jules Herrmann
Der Lehrer Antek Liebmann fährt ins sommerliche Nordfrankreich. Nach einer erschütternden Erfahrung, die ihn aus der Bahn geworfen hat, will […]
Life Could Be So Beautiful
Angelika Herta
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie. You […]
Life Is Beautiful
Sasha Pirker
A brief scene from a Super-8 home video, an archetypal snapshot: two little girls riding on coin-operated rocking horses. As […]
Light Years
Esther May Campbell
Eight-year-old Rose believes a family is like a stellar constellation – even if some stars died millions of years ago, […]
Like Rats Leaving a Sinking Ship
Vika Kirchenbauer
Partly based on psychiatric assessments that diagnosed Ms Kirchenbauer herself with »Gender Identity Disorder«, the film Like Rats Leaving a […]
Like Sugar – Chaka Khan
Kim Gehrig
In 2019, Chaka Khan, music icon and grande dame of the 70s and 80s, released her first album in over […]
Lili in den Wolken
Toma Leroux
Lili and her grandfather spend the summer in the country. Lili plays hide-and-seek, teases the chickens and, together with her […]
Lions Love ( … and Lies)
Agnès Varda
Day by day, Agnès Varda recounts the events that take place between 1 and 9 June 1968 at Villa Fake […]
Little Red Riding Hood, Dachshund and the Wolf
Britt Dunse
Grimms’ famous fairytale in a new guise: the narrator is a house with long arms, the grandmother scoffs chocolates and […]
Livepan
Sasha Pirker
»The work is not really funny work […] but more a reflection on humour.« – Sasha Pirker A woman ironing. […]
Locomotion
Anne Charlotte Robertson
»A performance about insanity and real anger against the psychiatric system, the clinics. The onset was this: a lecture on […]
Lola and the Pea
Thomas Heinemann
Lola doesn’t go to the hairdresser’s any more, and she doesn’t want to wash her neck any more either. That’s […]
Lone
Anthony and Alex
Look Closely at the Mountains
Ana Vaz
Ana Vaz compares mining regions in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, and in northern France. The artist calls on […]
Lookin’ Good, Feelin’ Good
Stanya Kahn
In her exploration of the phenomena of anxiety and power, Kahn climbs inside a giant penis costume in Lookin’ Good, […]
Looking for Somewehre to Live
Transnationales Ensemble Labsa
Los Silencios
Beatriz Seigner
To escape the armed conflict in Colombia, Amparo and her children Nuria and Fabio move to an island in the […]
Losing the Thread
Vivian Ostrovsky
»Not everybody reads poetry or listens to music, but every single person in the world gets up in the morning […]
Lost In Face
Doro Götz (DoP)
Carlotta cannot recognise faces. For her, human faces don’t inspire trust, they are grey places of fear and confusion. She […]
Louisa
Katharina Pethke
»Ms Pethke gives us an extremely intimate but respectful portrait of her sister. An unusual coming-of-age story with sophisticated cinematography […]
Love Island
Jasmila Žbanić
»We, the people from the Balkans tend to take our past way too seriously and are experience it in a […]
Lucky
Ines Christine Geißer, Kirsten Carina Geißer
The protagonists in this short animated film are horses, way beyond the object of nursery innocence, trotting across the screen, […]
Lucky Seven
Claudia Heindel
Three boys in Northern Ireland on the verge of adulthood: one swerves out of control in the attempt to experience […]
Madame’s Cravings
Alice Guy
The insatiable cravings of a pregnant woman are the source of some amusing scenes. While she shamelessly snatches a lolly […]
Mädchen
Helga Fanderl
Mademoiselle
Emilie Jouvet
A young woman has found a way of getting out of her system the verbal harassment to which men subject […]
Magma – No. 1 from 8
Rannvá Káradóttir and Marianna Mørkøre
Magma is the first instalment of Cycle, a series of experimental shorts that sets out to examine the phenomenon of […]
Mai
Marta González
Carmeta, Mari and Pilar are three old ladies who meet every afternoon on a bench to chat together – strategically […]
Majub’s Journey
Eva Knopf
»Almost all we know about [Mohamed Husen] stems from the archives of the National Socialists, from documents kept by the […]
Manakamana
Stefanie Spray, Pacho Velez
Mana stands for heart, kamana means wish. Until 1995, an arduous, three-hour-long foot march up the steep slopes of a […]
Mara Mattuschka – Different Faces of an Anti-Diva
Elisabeth Maria Klocker
For more than 30 years, Mara Mattuschka has been among Austria’s most eminent experimental film-makers. In addition to her film […]
Marabunta
Narcisa Hirsch
Documentary of the eponymous event performed on 3 October 1967 at the Teatro Coliseo in Buenos Aires: Marabunta celebrates collective […]
Marcus Fisher’s Wake
Oreet Ashery
The mock documentary Marcus Fisher’s Wake shows some of the public interventions conducted by Oreet Ashery’s alter ego, Orthodox Jew […]
Mariam
Sharipa Urazbayeva
Zhanash, a small village in the Kazakh steppe, 400 km from the capital Almaty and three kilometres from the nearest […]
Marina Abramovic, From Tuesday to Friday
Ximena Cuevas
The first solo exhibition by Marina Abramovic took place in Mexico City in 2008. Here Ximena Cuevas captures the artist […]
Marions Bart (Teil 1 und 2)
Marion Pfaus
Wearing a beard, Marion Pfaus lip-sync interprets Germany’s most successful comedian, Mario Barth. Barth’s jokes reference simple male/female stereotypes. Jokes […]
Martha & Niki
Tora Mkandawire Mårtens
In 2010 Martha Nabwire and Niki Tsappos took part in the biggest international Street Dance Competition, Juste Debout in Paris. […]
Marussia
Eva Pervolovici
»Although Lucia and Marussia change shelter every night, the film is not against the system as such. Nor is it […]
Matei Copil Miner
Alexandra Gulea
»Some years ago, while filming at Bucharest’s main railway station, I needed to find a child to appear in a […]
Material Bodies
Dorothy Allen-Pickard
»I would love to be able to shift to viewing my prosthetics as an accessory. I want to be able […]
Mayor, Shepherd, Widow, Dragon
Constanze Schmitt (DoP)
Statement of the Jury (Isabelle Casez, Birgit Guðjonsdottir, Sabine Panossian) »We were impressed with the successful collaboration between director and […]
Me-LOG
Eni Brandner
Me-Log is a reflection on artificial and medial identities that we create of ourselves – how these exaggerated images manipulate […]
Medea
Alexandra Latishev
Twenty-five-year-old María José’s life seems unspectacular, monotonous even. She attends classes at university, goes to rugby training, chats with her […]
Megatrick
Anne Isensee
»I’ve heard such a killer trick how to draw a straight line …« In just two minutes, Anne Isensee’s animated […]
Meine Liebe
Clara Jost
»Meine Liebe came about on the spur of a moment when I […] had to pick the only tomato fruit […]
Meissen Porcelain
Franz Porten
In 1906, actor and film pioneer Franz Porten was commissioned to direct six »Tonbilder« for Messters Projektion GmbH: short motion […]
Melon Patches, or Reasons to Go On Living
Anne Charlotte Robertson
One of the most positive films from the Super 8 epic Five Year Diary, in which Anne Charlotte Robertson and […]
Memory Extended
Yara Haskiel
Memory Extended marks the beginning of Yara Haskiel’s long research into her family history. The video shows the impossibility of […]
Mi iubita, mon amour
Noémie Merlant
This film will also be available online on our VoD platform from March 29 to April 10, 2022. Please note: […]
Mighty Flash
Ainhoa Rodríguez
In Extremadura, a province in the southwest of Spain, a village awaits a great flash of light. Anything to shake […]
Mikrokosmos – Das Volk der Gräser
Claude Nuridsany and Marie Pérennou
»Allow yourself to be carried off to an unknown world for 24 hours. Experience an adventure on a scale of […]
Miles to Go Before I Sleep
Hanna Hovitie
Achat is seven years old when her parents send her from the Congo to France and give her up for […]
Milli’s Awakening
Natasha A. Kelly
»Dresden, circa 1910–11. Lying naked on a divan in the studio of painter Ernst Ludwig Kirchner is ›Milli‹. The artist […]
Miriam’s Stray Dog
Andres Tenusaar
Miriam is building a snowman with her family when suddenly a dog appears. Is he lost?
Miss Impossible
Émilie Deleuze
»Sophie is good at school, and Mum’s pleased about that. Jessica has her boyfriend and, well, she’s just Jessica. And […]
Mitläufer
Vlada Majic
A rural winter landscape and – beautifully photographed in slow motion – dynamic performances in the snow by various animals: […]
Mixed Messages
Kanchi Wichmann
Kanchi Wichmann’s lesbian web series Mixed Messages centres around 36-year-old dyke Ren, newly arrived in Berlin from London and now […]
Model Village
Hayoun Kwon
Model Village is about a stretch of land separating North and South Korea that acts as a buffer zone between […]
American-style dancing in the living room together with charades and old-fashioned drinking games. Film Series New Archives
Moms on Fire
Joanna Rytel
Two women shortly before they are due to give birth: their mood is rock bottom. Now would be time for […]
Monika Hauser – Ein Porträt
Edith Eisenstecken, Evi Oberkofler
»I have the privilege of having a European passport, I’ve had a good education, I am strong. I have to […]
Monitoring Sea Borders
Susanna Schoenberg
By definition, a border is real when it is crossed. The external borders of the European Union are controlled by […]
Monolog
Laure Prouvost
»I am talking to you, there!« – Laure Prouvost Of the artist addressing a Monolog to the audience, only her […]
Monster Attack
Milja Viita
Kenyan children are playing under a canopy of bamboo trees when, suddenly, the harmonious atmosphere gets broken.
Mother’s Soul
Nhuê Giang Pham
»My aim was to make a realistic film about the life of women and children from underprivileged circles; a difficult […]
Mothers of Derick
Cássio Kelm Soares
This film will also be available online on our VoD platform from March 29 to April 10, 2022. Please note: […]
Munic – Tehran
Narges Kalhor
»My friends and family show me via Webcam places in Teheran with which I associate pleasant memories together with them […]
Mustang
Deniz Gamze Ergüven
Set against the backdrop of Turkey’s stunning Black Sea coastline, the director highlights the cruelty of social norms and portrays […]
Mustang
Deniz Gamze Ergüven
It’s the final day of school before the summer holidays in a small Turkish village. Lale and her four sisters […]
My 20th Century
Ildikó Enyedi
My 20th Century tells the stories of two women whose lives could not be more different: The glamorous Dóra is […]
MY BBY 8L3W
NEOZOON
Independent of one another, thirty women present themselves and their beloved pets in selfie poses on the internet. They declare […]
my camera seems to recognize people
belit sağ
A video poem in three parts, on recording and being exposed to the images of death and destruction.
my castle your castle
Kerstin Honeit
»I saw my castles fall today And crumble into dust beneath my feet.« –Ray Price, I Saw My Castles Fall […]
my castle your castle
Kerstin Honeit
»I saw my castles fall today And crumble into dust beneath my feet.« –Ray Price, I Saw My Castles Fall […]
My Dearest F#ucking Phone
Eef Hilgers
A life without the Internet, can you imagine it? Probably not. 14-year-old Claudia has a love-hate relationship with her mobile […]
My Father’s Facebook
Erige Shiri
Erige Sehiri sets o to meet her father. It seems that the Tunisian revolution and his new addiction to Facebook […]
My Gay Sister
Lia Hietala
Gabbi has just recently got her first proper girlfriend, Majken. With Gabbi’s little sister Cleo in tow, the two girls […]
My Happy Family
Nana & Simon
On the evening of her 52nd birthday, Georgian literature teacher Manana unexpectedly announces to her family that she is leaving. […]
My Happy Family
Nana & Simon
On her 52nd birthday, literature teacher Manana realises just how unsatisfying her life is. She shares a small apartment with […]
My Kingdom
Debra Solomon
»All my choices are about how to make feelings come alive for the audience through colour, humour, and music.« – […]
My Love Awaits Me by the Sea
Mais Darwazah
»In my world, loneliness, sadness, love, fragility and hope are emotions so often overshadowed by the bigger political picture of […]
My Mother, a War and Me
Tamara Trampe
In the documentary film Tamara Trame and Johann Feindt recall the life story of her mother, who comes from the […]
My Name is Baghdad
Caru Alves de Souza
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie. You […]
My Skinny Sister
Sanna Lenken
»I drew on my own experiences, but I also did a lot of research. Of course it was important for […]
Naked Animals
Melanie Waelde
A film about a time when conquering the world seems entirely possible. Five adolescents growing up somewhere in provincial Germany, […]
Nalu on the Border
Cristiane Oliveira
»It can’t be easy for your Dad.« »It’s not easy for me! I have to do everything for him, he […]
Narcisa
Daniela Muttis
Daniela Muttis met Narcisa Hirsch at the end of the 1990s and has worked closely with her ever since. The […]
Nashi
Daya Cahen
At a Nashi Summer Camp in Russia, 10,000 boys and girls are preparing themselves for a heroic future. They are […]
Nation Estate
Larissa Sansour
Nation Estate is a sci-fi short offering a clinically dystopian yet humorous approach to the Middle East deadlock. The film […]
Nekropolis
Kerstin Gramberg
Necropolis – a city as an autonomous organism, modulating rhythmically between construction and deconstruction.
Nena
Saskia Diesing
Nena is 16 and in love for the first time – with Carlo, the baseball team pitcher with the blue […]
Nest
Sonja Rohleder
A lonely bird tries to find true love in a dark forest. Will he find it?
Netflix & Pills
Manny Bonett
New Report
Wynne Greenwood, K8 Hardy
Wynne Greenwood and K8 Hardy are reporters at WKRH − a feminist news station whose tagline is »pregnant with information«. […]
Next Door Letters
Sascha Fülscher
Lilja and her friend pull a mean trick on Melitta with Lilja writing a fake love letter in which she […]
Nico
Eline Gehring
This film will also be available online on our VoD platform from March 29 to April 10, 2022. Please note: […]
Susanna Nicchiarelli’s road movie and biopic Nico, 1988 takes us from Paris via Prague, Nuremberg, Manchester, the Polish provinces and […]
No Cities to Love
Carrie Brownstein
No Home Movie
Chantal Akerman
»I am not a feminist film-maker. I am a feminist – and I am a film-maker. But I’m also Jewish. […]
No Land No Food No Life
Amy Miller
»Global food production is increasingly becoming concentrated by a handful of huge multinationals, not only impacting people ›over there‹ but […]
Nobody’s Wife
Adela Sequeyro
The young Ana María is forced to flee her brutal stepfather and leave home. She finds shelter with three artistic […]
Noor
Çağla Zencirci, Guillaume Giovanetti
Noor wants to be a man. He no longer belongs to the Khusras, Pakistan’s transgender community. And he is definitely […]
Nothing but the Sun
Arami Ullón
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie. You […]
Nouhaila – I’m a Boxer!
Bettina Braun
Nouhaila is 11 years old and lives in Cologne. She’s a Muslim and wears a hijab. Her sport is kick-boxing. […]
Nuit #1
Anne Emond
Clara is 28, a teacher, and lives in Québec. At a rave she meets the Ukrainian artist Nikolai and lands […]
Of Origins, Part 1: Hannah
Irit Reinheimer
Hannah is the first part of the experimental documentary series Of Origins, which deals with the life and activities of […]
Off Season
Sabine Panossian (DoP)
Judith’s boyfriend Gregor treats her to a surprise holiday at a spa hotel in Sicily to give her a break […]
Office Killer
Cindy Sherman
Unassuming copy editor Dorine Douglas is given a hard time in her job with the weekly magazine Constant Consumer, where […]
Oh! Die Vier Jahreszeiten
Ute Aurand, Ulrike Pfeiffer
Winter in Berlin in front of the Reichstag, summer in Paris on the Place de la Concorde, spring on Red […]
Oida
Jessica Hausner
Oma Lien
Annelies de Wit
The 14-year-old Christel visits her beloved Gran at the old folk’s home twice a week. She’s suffering from Alzheimer’s, is […]
The difficult livelihoods of small farmers from the Alfina plateau in Italy is the starting point for this unique homage. […]
On the Edge
Leïla Kilani
»Soufia Issami is the jittery and complex core of the film, never sleeping but rushing between work and her night-time […]
On the Threshold of Liberty
Heidi Tikka
This experimental film combines the deconstruction of the image into repetition and rhythm that is typical of analogue structural film […]
One
Anouk de Clercq
One is a film, a performance, a 21st century protest song, a pledge, a commitment, a solemn undertaking, a summoning […]
One in a Thousand
Clarisa Navas
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie. You […]
One Thousand Ways to Skin It
Jennifer Reeder
Jennifer Reeder’s music video features two 13-year-old girls dressed as black metal brides, lip-synching to a mash-up of Smells Like […]
Only the Best
Kim Münster
The biggest mistake you can make is to consider something is perfect. There’s always room for improvement.« – Quality Assurance […]
Only the Best for Our Son
Monique Nolte
»Dear Monique, many who know me ask me how I am. Answer: not so good. I was hoping for cooler […]
Ornette Coleman: A Jazz Video Game
Shirley Clarke
In this short, magical film experiment, independent film pioneer Shirley Clarke interprets the musical universe of jazz giant Ornette Coleman […]
Oscillare
Lauren Feiring
Shot entirely on Super 8, Lauren Feiring follows in her film Oscillare Alyson Bowles as she struggles to transition from […]
Other Girls
Esa Illi
18-year-old Jessica is going through the trials and tribulations of being in love for the first time. For the lucky […]
Out of Frame
Amina Maher
Isolated in their inner-city apartment in Tehran, Narges and her controlling mother pierce through the layers to the core of […]
Out of Place
Friederike Güssefeld
Weed, alcohol, speed, coke: this is how street-wise yet naïve teenager Kevin sums up his life in Germany. Classed as […]
outside
Johanna Sunder-Plassmann, Tama Tobias-Macht
Matze, Elvis, Peter and Sergio live outside, on the streets, in the woods – on the margins of a society […]
Ovarian Psycos
Joanna Sokolowski, Kate Trumbull-LaValle
Riding at night through the streets of Eastside Los Angeles is considered dangerous. But the Ovarian Psycos Bicycle Brigade, a […]
Owls & Mice
Simone van Dusseldorp
»So Peepeep is literally in here?« – »Exactly. Or at least, his bones are.« Meral has just moved house with […]
P.O.W.A. (M.I.A.)
Maya Arulpragasam (M.I.A.)
»I’m not Rihanna, I’m not Madonna.« Lying on a bed of flowers, M.I.A. rides on a truck through colourful landscapes […]
PAC 9000
Minu Park
»Are we smart consumers or just slaves to technology? […] This film is about a woman living in a world […]
Pam Pam
Maria Duncker
Sunrise, sunset … if I say so. The protagonist shoots the sun and makes the bright star fall behind the […]
Panda Moonwalk or Why Meng Meng Walks Backwards
Kerstin Honeit
Sometimes, it’s two steps backwards. Berlin Zoo’s multi-million-dollar investment refuses to cooperate. In a cross between short film and performance […]
Paradies! Paradies!
Kurdwin Ayub
Kurdwin Ayub fled to Austria from Iraq with her family in 1991. Nearly 25 years later, she accompanies her father […]
Parallel Planes
Nicole Wegner
Nicole Wegner’s documentary essay film Parallel Planes is something of a cross between road movie and diary novel, a journey […]
Parisienne
Danielle Arbid
Paris in the 90s. Eighteen-year-old Lina has just arrived in France from Beirut to study. She quickly flees from the […]
Old and young at a big kitchen sit-in. The mistress of the house is in charge here. Film Series New […]
Passing Drama
Angela Melitopoulos
In her award-winning video essay Passing Drama, Angela Melitopoulos addresses the process of collective remembering. She examines the experiences of […]
Passion
Maja Borg
Passion is a personal film about a quest. It arose from the director’s desire to work through their own hurtful […]
Patterns of the Conquerors
Sascha Reichstein
In 1866, John Forbes Watson compiled a book featuring various patterns used in South Asian textile handicrafts to show them […]
Pause
Tonia Mishiali
»I was inspired by images that were depicted in my mind and events that I experienced growing up in Cyprus […]
Pawo
Antje Heyn
A little toy figure meets a constantly changing companion that makes her aware of her strengths and capabilities.
Peaches Does Herself
Peaches
In 2010, the musician and artiste known as Peaches first staged her »anti-jukebox-musical« Peaches Does Herself at the Hebbel Am […]
Penguin
Julia Ocker
The penguin waiter wants the penguin party to be perfect. Has he taken on too much?
Perfect Garden
Mara Mattuschka, Chris Haring
We are taken to an occupied establishment – a sort of self-defined subcosmos of reality – to observe a sensual […]
Permanent Residents
Isabell Spengler
Permanent Residents combines lavish costume design with a documentary-style depiction of everyday events in the contemporary urban space of Los […]
Persian Pickles
Jodie Mack
During the 1960s, paisley patterns became hugely popular. In Persian Pickles, Jodie Mack goes one better by using high-frequency cut […]
Personal Images: Personal Semiotics of War
Masa Hilcisin Dervišević
Personal Images: Personal Semiotics of War presents a selection of the articles, diaries, letters and photographs that director Masa Hilcisin […]
Petite Maman
Céline Sciamma
PLEASE NOTE: Petite Maman runs only on June 18 at 8 p.m. at Schauburg Dortmund. You can’t buy tickets online. […]
Phantom Foreign Vienna
Lisl Ponger
In cafés, social centres, back rooms and religious locations, between 1991 and 1992 Lisl Ponger filmed the celebrations and gatherings […]
Pierburg: Ihr Kampf ist unser Kampf
Edith Schmidt-Marcello, David Wittenberg
»Does the Pierburg company actually still have serfs working there?« Voice-over quote from the film 13 August 1973: Despite the […]
Pigs in Progress
Kerstin Honeit
Pigs in Progress links two opposing phenomena within urban development: the current gentrification process in Berlin, where long-term tenants are […]
Pilgrimage
Adéọlá Ọlágúnjú
Life is a journey is a conventional metaphor that derives its vitality from the fact that it closely fits the […]
Pink Cuts Pink
Alma Weber
A girl stuck in a dismal loop where everything is firmly smoothed over, until her pent-up rage allows her to […]
Pirate Boys
Pol Merchan
Kathy Acker’s writing, and a seminal portrait of her taken by intersex photographer Del LaGrace Volcano, provide a lens through […]
Plateau
Vanessa Nica Mueller
A man wanders around outside, through deserted spaces. Two women have found temporary shelter somewhere inside. Their deserted environment poses […]
Playing with Balls
Nanna Kristin Magnúsdóttir
As tempers become frayed and temperatures rise during a tennis match, a group of old lesbians is inspired and aroused […]
Please Relax Now
Vika Kirchenbauer
»This is going to be a memorable event, orchestrated by me for you. Believe me, you will never forget this. […]
Please Relax Now
Vika Kirchenbauer
»This is going to be a memorable event, orchestrated by me for you. Believe me, you will never forget this. […]
Pluto
Su-won Shin
»Korea has the highest teen suicide rate in the world and the main reason is the pressure they’re under in […]
Political Romance
Michelle Keserwany, Noelle Keserwany, Dania Bdeir
»On August 4th, 2020, the Lebanese political class of a failing state destroyed its own capital and killed its own […]
Poor People Relax Me
Clara Winter
Clara wakes up in Mexico and is determined to turn the aesthetic exploitation of the less privileged against that of […]
Porn Punk Poetry
Julia Hönemann (DoP)
Damon is 27 years old, tattooed, sports a Mohawk haircut and works as a prostitute. Actually, at his age, he […]
Possibly in Michigan
Cecilia Condit
Two young women are pursued in a shopping mall by a cannibal. In a surreal suburban setting, victims become aggressors, […]
Postcards
Ana Hušman
Among the methods a textbook for learning Croatian as a foreign language recommends are: role playing, reading aloud, the staging […]
PQR Berlinale Channel – Questions
Marion Pfaus
Rigoletti is seen at the Berlin International Film Festival as a roving reporter. On behalf of Pro Quota Direction, a […]
Precautionary Measure
Lizzy Deacon and Ika Schwander
Helen wins a life coaching session in a raffle. She is assigned life coach Hazel, who introduces Helen to the […]
Prelude Op. 28 No. 2’
Jenni Toikka
Inspired by Ingmar Bergman’s Autumn Sonata, the order of playing piano is put to the test. While we follow the […]
Presence
Aleksandra Kołodziejczyk, Karl Wratschko
In most cities, women are greatly under-represented in the urban landscape – a far cry from gender parity. In Vienna, […]
Prevenge
Alice Lowe
Related with darkly vicious British humour by Alice Lowe as screenwriter, director and also in the main acting role, Prevenge […]
Primus Tempus
Azar Saiyar
»When I was collecting, organising and editing pictures for this film, I was searching for ways to look at commercial […]
Prolog Yorgun Savaşçı 28229/2
Cana Bilir-Meier
A Collage visualising Bilir-Meier’s research on censorship in the art world in Turkey. One recent example is the demolition of […]
Pussy
Renata Gąsiorowska
A young girl spends the evening at home alone. She decides to indulge in some sweet solo pleasure – it […]
Pwdre Ser: the rot of stars
Charlotte Pryce
The film particles in Pryce’s analogue film experiment move across the screen like stars over the horizon. The pictures, which […]
The image of the Mariachi musician wearing tight trousers, a Sombrero and cowboy boots is one of the most famous […]
Queen of Niendorf
Joya Thome
»We’re a boys’ gang, girls are not allowed! They’re always scared.« »Somehow, they’ve all become strange this year.« The summer […]
Queen’s Speech EP 7
Lady Leshurr & Wow
Queer Genius
Chet Pancake
A fascinating and unusual portrait of artists. In experimental episodes, the film introduces five queer artists: Barbara Hammer, the Black […]
Queerama
Daisy Asquith
Queerama is a film traversing a century of gay experiences, created from the treasure trove of the BFI archive. Daisy […]
Quo Vadis, Aida?
Jasmila Žbanić
Bosnia, July 1995. Teacher Aida works as an interpreter for the UN at the Srebrenica camp. When the Serbian army […]
Quo Vadis, Aida?
Jasmila Žbanić
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie. You […]
Racetrack Superstar Ghost
Myriam Yates
Racetrack Superstar Ghost documents a horse racecourse shortly before its demolition –at the very moment it gets a new phase […]
Radiant Green Field
Sophie Hilbert
What do you actually find if you start digging a hole? Fifty years of uranium mining in the Ore Mountains […]
Rat Women
Minkie Spiro
»Do you mind rats? Because I have some …« Women who keep rats as pets – lots of rats – […]
Raw
Julia Ducournau
The exceptionally gifted Justine (Garance Marillier) wants to become a vet like everyone else in her family. During a cruel […]
Razzle Dazzle
Jodie Mack
Razzle Dazzle is an iridescent animated flicker film about textiles which lend a new and dizzying dimension to the illusion […]
Real Snow White
Pilvi Takala
The absurd logic and extreme discipline of Disneyland become apparent when a real fan of Disney’s Snow White is banned […]
Rebecca
Bine Jankowski (DoP)
Following her separation from Ben, the 28-year-old Rebecca is staying with friends in a flat-share. As to why the relationship […]
Rebel Dykes
Harri Shanahan and Siân A. Williams
This film will also be available online on our VoD platform from March 29 to April 10, 2022. Please note: […]
Rebirth is Necessary
Jenn Nkiru
An exploration of the magic and dynamism of blackness in a realm where time and space are altered. The now, […]
Records of everyday life. Housing problems 1982/83. Document II. Condemned buildings
Gerd Barz (Editor)
A question asked in all of the SFD films on the subject of housing is whether and how traditional, provincial […]
Red Rose
Sepideh Farsi
»It was very important for me to make a film without any compromises. A film pure ‘to its core’ in […]
Redbird and Other Birds
Julieta Maria
The location for this essayistic film is the area around a small suburban airport. Since the control tower is now […]
Refahmation
Nicola Awang
Refahmation is a performance work on the deconstruction of colonialised bodies. Nicola Awang’s video explores the interrelations between self-love, identity […]
Regarding Susan Sontag
Nancy D. Kates
»She was the indispensable voice of moral responsibility, perceptual clarity, passionate advocacy for social justice. Sontag took it as a […]
Reisen durch Deutschland – Teil 1
Khani Kahnert
Rejoice Resist
Elisha Smith-Leverock
Rejoice Resist is a film that celebrates and shows Black joy and Black pleasure as the ultimate form of resistance. […]
Republic of Silence
Diana El Jeiroudi
»This film starts without a picture.«. We just see white letters on a black background. Childhood memories, a camera given […]
Restless Legs Saga
Shana Moulton
Shana Moulton’s video works and performances aim to combine the therapeutic promise of shopping, orthodox medicine and New Age philosophy […]
Return
Liza Johnson
»In all my work, I’m interested in the ongoing present, in the atmosphere and texture of everyday life. … For […]
Rico, Oskar and the Deeper Shadows
Neele Leana Vollmar
»You can’t have a set plan with children. For a start, they’re only allowed to be on set five hours […]
Rico, Oskar und der Diebstahlstein
Neele Leana Vollmar
»You can’t have a set plan with children. For a start, they’re only allowed to be on set five hours. […]
Ridestar
Hannaleena Heiska
Ridestar begins with a picture that is reminiscent of a wild and empty landscape. The camera scans in detail over […]
RIOT NOT DIET
Julia Fuhr Mann
A golden summer dress in XXL, the ice lolly drips slowly onto the hot ground. RIOT NOT DIET creates a […]
Rock the Casbah
Laïla Marrakchi
Summer in Tangiers. After the death of the patriarch, family members congregate for three days of mourning in the ancestral […]
Rocks in My Pocket
Signe Baumane
»I want to bridge the gap between the internal and external, I want to communicate what it really feels like […]
Romy’s Salon
Mischa Kamp
Since her mother has been working so much, Romy has been going to her grandmother’s after school. She usually helps […]
Rosas Hochzeit
Icíar Bollaín
Rosa has had enough! She’s worked herself to the bone as a seamstress, looked after her father, and taken care […]
Rosie & Moussa
Dorothée van den Berghe
»Shall we play topsy-turvy world?« – »Yes, we can jump on clouds!« – »And we can swim in the trees!« […]
Rub (Uncensored)
Peaches, A.L. Steiner, Lex Vaughn
Rules of the Game
Claudine Bories, Patrice Chagnard
Lolita hates to laugh, Kevin doesn’t know how to sell himself and Hamid doesn’t like bosses. They’re 20, poorly educated, […]
Ruski Make Up
Mariola Brillowska
If the Russians were to join the EU, their post-communist trauma of anarchy would spread across globalised Europe. And Ruski […]
Sage-femme de première classe
Alice Guy
Alice Guy shot La Fée aux choux twice, this time outside the garden gate and then inside the garden where […]
Salomè
Francesca Bertini (Artist)
Salome (Francesca Bertini) enchants the guests attending the birthday party of her stepfather Herodes with a veil dance. In return, […]
Salt White
Keti Machavariani
Post-Soviet Georgia at the beginning of the 21st century. Nana, 35, is single and works as a seasonal worker at […]
Sand Storm
Elite Zexer
The celebrations in a Bedouin village on the edge of Israel’s Negev desert are in full swing. Jalila is host […]
Satan’s Rhapsody
Lyda Borelli (Artist)
The aging diva Alba d’Oltrevita (Lyda Borelli) yearns for her lost youth and so swears a pact with the Devil. […]
Satellite Boy
Catriona McKenzie
»Satellite Boy is a love letter to my father. He’s gone now – he’ll never see the film – but […]
Saturn Return
Ale Bachlechner
»What did I do so far? Any remarkable achievements or prospects? What can I expect from life? From myself? And […]
Scarred Skies
Vera Neubauer
Vera Neubauer documents industrial pollution in the city – but in a surprising way. For it’s the beautiful and the […]
Scheinwerfer und Lautsprecher
Timo Schierhorn, Katharina Duve, Schorsch Kamerun
Schicht
Alexandra Gerbaulet
Shift simultaneously takes stock of and retraces the past. Salzgitter: A town where history deposits itself layer upon layer. The […]
Schraube
Hanna Nordholt and Fritz Steingrobe
Seahorse – The Dad Who Gave Birth
Jeanie Finlay
Seahorse is a documentary about manhood, the body and childbirth. What is it like for a transgender man to carry […]
Searching for Sugar Man
Malik Bendjelloul
Detroit, in the early 1970s, and Mexican-American singer Sixto Rodriguez is playing in a dingy backyard. Two renowned producers visiting […]
Secret of Beauty and Youth
Clarissa Patrix
»Sport, sauna bath, massage and gymnastics are good for the health, beauty and youth […] boost performance and mobilise all […]
Seepferdchen
Nele Dehnenkamp
A seahorse swims upright in the water and can’t sink. Part of the human brain is named after it, the […]
Self Surgery
Hikari Wajima
How do we accept our own bodies, our hair and skin colour, figure, muscle form and fat, things we can’t […]
Semra Ertan
Cana Bilir-Meier
Semra Ertan was born in Turkey in 1956 and moved to her parents to the federal republic of Germany in […]
Sense of Humor
Marilyne Canto
»The film recounts the difficult genesis of a couple, and the reconstitution of a family long after a death occurs. […]
Sept.-Oct. 2015, Cizre
belit sağ
News coverage from conflict areas generally consists of sensational material. The footage reflects only selected moments of reality. While local […]
Ses Alma Rehberi
Cana Bilir-Meier
A video performance consisting of a public viewing of Cana Bilir-Meier’s personal archive and a spoken text collage
Seventeen
Monja Art
It’s the final weeks before school summer holidays, somewhere in lower Austria. Seventeen-year-old Paula is secretly in love with Charlotte. […]
Shade
KC Locke
Shake Shake Shake
NEOZOON
The most recent found footage work of the collective NEOZOON consists of a collection of animated pictures (GIFs) showing trophy […]
Shame /Fame
Eef Hilgers
What takes place every day and every second on the Internet is a raging inferno: videos of people in embarrassing […]
Share
Marit Östberg
A woman is longing for her lover. Pictures come to her mind. She sees her lover and her lover’s lover, […]
She
Libia Stella Gómez
»The indifference towards death in this story mirrors the indifference towards life, an open wound in our modern Colombia, indeed […]
She Whose Blood Is Clotting in My Underwear
Vika Kirchenbauer
She Whose Blood Is Clotting in My Underwear was made for Vika Kirchenbauer’s music/performance project COOL FOR YOU. The point […]
Shook Raja
Gil Green
Shuttles
Pleix
The core idea of Shuttles was to make a film without filming anything but finding everything on the internet. The […]
Signs of a City
Johanna Reich
The video Signs of a City explores the multiple role and impact of white space. Empty canvases roam urban space […]
Silva Shade
Martha Jurksaitis, Cherry Kino
Siren’s Tail
Alba Barbé i Serra, Miquel Muntaner Marcè
Roque is confused and sad. When he proudly dresses up as a mermaid for carnival, he’s laughed at by all […]
Sirene
Zara Dwinger
»Women like it when the man’s the boss.« Kay and his friends like energy drinks, motocross and girls. But the […]
Sisterhood
Marit Östberg
Sisterhood is a documentary about making queer feminist porn. Marit Östberg talks to the key participants in the film Share […]
Sitzend überleben
Carolin Schmitz
People spend at least eight hours a day working. During this time, they are surrounded by other people they didn’t […]
Skwod
Reece Proctor
Slapper
Luci Schroder
Taylah, a rebellious, penniless teenager, roams through Australia’s suburban wasteland. She has to find cash to pay for the morning-after […]
Snackbar
Meral Uslu
Mohamed, Mounir, Nouredin and friends have a lot of fun and a lot of anger inside them. Sometimes, a mere […]
Snow Crazy
Laila Pakalniņa
How can you ski in a country without mountains? Well, ski-crazed Latvians have found the solution: they jump off roofs […]
Snow White
Britt Dunse
Dunse’s elaborately animated film is a different take on this Grimm’s fairytale, and in a special language: German sign language. […]
Solar Walk
Réka Bucsi
Two fantasy creatures enter a new universe, a still undiscovered solar system. In a wild chain of associations, they tumble […]
Solitary Acts #4
Nazlı Dinçel
A young girl explores her sexuality. In a humorous, impetuous and provocative manner, Dinçel shares with us her personal memories. […]
Solitary Acts #5
Nazlı Dinçel
»There is a knock on the door. Her grandmother shouts: ›You will not make a good Muslim.‹ Eating in the […]
Something Better to Come
Hanna Polak
Bulldozers crush everything that is dumped here day after day by armies of trucks. Amidst the stinking detritus of a […]
Something Different
Věra Chytilová
This film is about Something Different, and in 1963 won Věra Chytilová first prize in the Mannheim Film Festival. Chytilová […]
Something Must Break
Ester Martin Bergsmark
A love story between two young men where one is the androgynous Sebastian and the other is Andreas who is […]
Somewhere only We Know
Jesse McLean
What’s in a face? The close-ups of participants in various US casting shows are a useful guide to the more […]
Song N° 22
Céline Trouillet
Two twin sisters perform Bonnie Tyler’s Total Eclipse of the Heart. The title’s allusion to the universe continues in this […]
Song of the Sea
Tomm Moore
A girl called Saoirse and her brother Ben can hear the sound of the sea in a magic shell left […]
Songs My Brothers Taught Me
Chloé Zhao
»Anything that runs wild has got something bad in them. You want to leave some of that in there, because […]
Sonita
Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami
»Even an eighty-year-old man can marry a girl of sixteen.« – »But I’m sure if my song comes out, that […]
Sonita
Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami
In her internationally acclaimed documentary Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami tells the story of 19-year-old rapper Sonita. Sonita lives in Iran as […]
Sookee – Von Seepferdchen und Schränken
Kerstin Polte
Sookee – Von Seepferdchen und Schränken (Sookee – On Seahorses and Cupboards) is the portrait of queer-feminist rapper and left-wing […]
Sorge 87
Thanh Nguyen Phuong
»In principle there was 5 sqm for each person plus kitchen and toilet.« In the impressively named district of »Sorge« […]
Sorge 87
Thanh Nguyen Phuong
»In principle there was 5 sqm for each person plus kitchen and toilet.« In the impressively named district of »Sorge« […]
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie. You […]
Sounds for Mazin
Ingrid Kamerling
Twelve-year-old Mazin has been deaf since birth. Now he’s about to have the operation that promises to allow him to […]
Souvenir
Miriam Gossing und Lina Sieckmann
The setting: cruise liners that commute between Rotterdam and Hull, Kiel and Oslo in 36 hours. Off camera, sailors’ widows […]
SP
Azucena Losana
Space Is the Place! A Kanakfuturist Mystery
Veronika Gerhard
A film and music project investigating Blaxploitation and science fiction featuring young post migrants, made by akademie der autodidakten in […]
Spain
Anja Salomonowitz
Why Spain? »People there are still afraid of God. Where people are afraid of God, you can live well.« Sava […]
Spirit Away
Betina Kuntzsch
Spirit Away evolved out of an interest in the biographies of patients whose artistic work is represented in the Prinzhorn […]
Split Ends, I Feel Wonderful
Akosua Adoma Owusu
Manipulating found footage, the film observes the latest fad in hairstyles of 1975 among African Americans at a time when […]
Spontaneous
Lori Felker
»I had a miscarriage while attending a film festival in 2016. This is a story about bad timing, ignorance, public […]
Spoor
Agnieszka Holland
Janina Duszejko, a retired construction engineer, lives in a small mountain village on the Czech-Polish border. One day her beloved […]
Spotless
Emma Branderhorst
Like about 9 per cent of women in the Netherlands aged between 12 and 25, Ruby can’t always afford to […]
Standing Tall
Emmanuelle Bercot
Malony is verbally and physically abusive, he fights the authorities, ends up in a juvenile court for the first time […]
Stay Woke
Chelsea Odufu
Stern des Méliès
Dore O.
Stern des Méliès is dedicated to Georges Méliès, the film- making pioneer. Dore O. produces visual poetic creations that capture […]
Still the Water
Naomi Kawase
»I would like spectators to realize that we human beings are not the centre of all things. We are but […]
»If you don’t dare, you’ll never know.« It’s the penultimate year of school for Masha, Yana and Senia. In her […]
Stories Only Exist When Remembered
Julia Murat
Magdalena: »I’m afraid of dying.« Antonio: »Then just don’t die.« Madalena lives in Jotoumba, a run-down and over-aged village in […]
Stucky Bumaye!
Erica Stucky
Suburbia
Penelope Spheeris
»When I did Suburbia, none of those kids were actors. I felt like it was much easier to turn punk […]
Sugar Snap TV – Nationality
Transnationales Ensemble Labsa
Summer 1993
Carla Simón
After her late mother’s belongings are all packed up, 6-year-old Frida is sent to live with her uncle, aunt and […]
Summertime
Catherine Corsini
In 1970s France, 23-year-old Delphine moves out of her parents’ farm to go and live in Paris. Once there she […]
Super Amir Country
Transnationales Ensemble Labsa
Super Smile
Effie Wu
As the camera follows the artist around the apartment, she transfixes the viewer with her hypnotic smile. The irritation between […]
Super Unit
Teresa Czepiec
›Super Unit‹ refers to Le Corbusier and his vision of a new style of architecture that was to lead to […]
Suspended Time, on Caring
MATERNAL FANTASIES
»The film proposes new vocabularies and visual performative translations of the maternal experience with the goal of integrating intergenerational knowledge, […]
Suzzanna van Osch
Katharina Duve
Based on the theory that biographies are constantly evolving and per se bring together contradictions, the film explores the elusive […]
Swallow
Laure Prouvost
Swallow takes us to somewhere in Italy, to a secluded waterfall under an azure sky. The images that Laure Prouvost […]
Swinguerra
Bárbara Wagner, Benjamin de Burca
Swinguerra is all about self-empowerment. The film’s immensely strong and positive portrayal of BIPOC and the queer community, especially trans […]
Tailor
Calí dos Anjos
An animation in the animation: Transgender cartoonist Orlando Tailor runs a website that focuses on the experiences of trans people. […]
Take One Two
Erika M. Anderson
Talea
Katharina Mückstein
»The desire to find out something about yourself is ingrained in all of us, no matter the environment in which […]
Talk to Me
Marta Prus
Marta Prus: »I‘m afraid of exerting my influence on your life. It was nice to be able to help you […]
Talleres Clandestinos
Catalina Molina
Juana, a young Bolivian woman, leaves her husband and child to earn some money working as a seamstress in neighbouring […]
Tante Elfi bastelt. Der Kolibri
Lia Juresch
A young woman speaks to the camera non-stop until the end. The scene is a cellar. She is trying to […]
Tarpaulins
Lisa Truttmann
Termites offer Lisa Truttmann an unusual way of approaching the city of Los Angeles. The visual framework for this film […]