…hab ich euch nicht glänzend amüsiert?
Gabriele Stötzer
In the backyard of a squatters’ house in Erfurt in the summer of 1989, when it was still not clear […]
…Remote…Remote…
Valie Export
Sitting right in front of the camera, Valie Export motionlessly cuts into the cuticles around her fingernails with a knife. […]
’Ricerche: Three’
Sharon Hayes (Artist)
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 […]
[TUNIS] / [ تونس ]
Lia Sáile
Every word, every syllable, every nuance is discussed, interpreted, rejected and translated anew. Translating a poem into another language and […]
& 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 Angry Lebanese
Zeina Daccache
»Others made fun of us for coming to work with Zeina, but I felt I suddenly had a reason to […]
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 […]
2 or 3 Things I Don’t Know About Her
Sabrina Idiri Chemloul
Eighteen-year-old Lila is torn between her Islamic faith and her first sexual experiences. To her parents’ dismay, she wears a […]
2 Sisters, 1 Closet
Inga Dievulyte, Mahmoud el Safadi
Two sisters – one lesbian, one heterosexual – are having their coming out and they discuss whether they should reveal […]
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
9 Lives
Maria Speth
No fewer than 9,000 young people live rough on the streets of Germany, either temporarily or permanently. 9 Leben (9 […]
9 to 5
Colin Higgins
»Workin’ 9 to 5, what a way to make a livin’ | Barely getting’ by, it’s all takin’ and no […]
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 Handy Tip for the Easily Distracted
Miranda July
Miranda July hat für die Videoplattform Nowness eine nicht verwendete Szene aus ihrem Spielfilm The Future neu arrangiert. Protagonistin Sophie […]
A Hasty Renovation
Roméo Bosetti
Léontine helps her friend Rosalie to clean the flat of her boss Baron von Hummen, who suddenly announces that he […]
A Joy – Four Tet
Jodie Mack
A Lady and her Maid
Norma Talmadge (Artist), Florence Radinoff (Artist)
Two comic ugly ducklings, Belinda and Miss Ophelia, turn into gorgeous swans. Norma Talmadge, who would later become a dignified […]
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 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 […]
Two married men, Toni and his father-in-law Fritz, meet unexpectedly at a party given by their lovers Lea and Lizette. […]
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 Month of Single Frames
Barbara Hammer, Lynne Sachs
A Month of Single Frames is a poignant dialogue between film-maker Lynn Sachs and her late friend Barbara Hammer. Barbara […]
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 Place of Rage
Pratibha Parmar
»To see this boy that I idolised, who belonged to us, in the sense of our block and all of […]
A Portrait of Ga
Margaret Tait
Small movements, gentle yet resolute. Smoking at the window, walking along a country lane, unwrapping a sweet. Margaret Tait films […]
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 Road Not Taken
Christina Hemauer, Roman Keller
»(…) a generation from now, this solar heater can either be a curiosity, a museum piece, an example of a […]
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 Trance
Jordan Chanetsa
The film is a collage of images and sounds—direct and sincere. Different layers of life intertwine: activism, longing and intimacy. […]
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 Woman Escapes
Sofia Bohdanowicz, Burak Çevik, Blake Williams
»Dear Blake, I never appear, but all I see is me there.« Gloomy days in a Paris apartment: Cracking an […]
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 […]
Absences
Tatiana Huezo
Lulú is now just a shadow of her former self since the day four years ago when her husband and […]
Abwertungskit
Margit Czenki
»If applied systematically, and by lots of tenants, the Devaluation Kit will trigger a price downward spiral. The rich will […]
Women conductors working for the Bochum-Gelsenkirchen Tramway Company during the war.
Act of Dishonour
Nelofer Pazira
Mena lives in a village in rural Afghanistan. She has always accepted the conservative basis of her life, hidden behind […]
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 […]
Adam
Maryam Touzani
Abla is a widow, mother of 8-year-old Warda and a baker. She sells pastries from the window of her apartment […]
Adoption
Márta Mészáros
Kata is a working woman from the country, a widow in her early forties. To escape from her loneliness and […]
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 […]
Aerobicide – Julie Ruin
Kathleen Hanna, Sadie Benning
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 […]
Age of Panic
Justine Triet
»What was exciting was that the activists in the Rue de Solferino thought that Laetitia’s enacted ›news‹ was genuine and […]
Age of Stupid – Warum tun wir nichts?
Franny Armstrong
»We calculated the film‘s carbon footprint (…). Overall, it added up to 94 tonnes of CO2 – equal to the […]
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
»I search for a narrative that evokes strong feelings by telling only a few things, by showing just the tip […]
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 […]
Alice Schwarzer
Sabine Derflinger
In contemporary documents and currently filmed material, we experience Alice Schwarzer, icon of the German women’s movement, at work and […]
Not being part of this world – this is a feeling many adolescents share when spots suddenly start to appear, […]
All About Love
Ann Hui
»One day I was trying to gather stories about the young women of Hong Kong to make a series of […]
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, […]
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
Laura Poitras
In a Rorschach psychological test, Nan Goldin’s sister, who is undergoing psychotherapeutic treatment, sees something that she sums up in […]
All Water Has a Perfect Memory
Natalia Almada
At seven months old, filmmaker Natalia Almada lost her two-year-old sister, Ana Lynn, in a drowning accident at her childhood […]
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 […]
Alles wird gut
Angelina Maccarone
This film will also be available online on our VoD platform from April 18 to April 30, 2023. Please note: […]
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 […]
Amanita Muscaria
Hajdi Đukić Grba
The three old women sense something sinister is about to happen. Ominous forces are threatening to destroy the peaceful existence […]
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 […]
A crane’s wings, snow-covered mountain peaks, a spectral army: Hanna Noh’s 3D graphic animation on the DMZ border area between […]
An-sisters
belit sağ
A glimpse into the future: We conclude this programme with a film that the artist is currently working on: a […]
ANAL JUKE～anal juice～Seinosuke Saeki
Sawako Kabuki
and the image gazes back
belit sağ
An essayistic reflection on image production: from the first tentative black-and-white shots of a human being to present-day image politicisation. […]
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 […]
Angry Annie
Blandine Lenoir
Provincial France in the mid-1970s, a place where people rise early, crochet accessories adorn windows and brown and orange are […]
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 […]
Animalia
Sofia Alaoui
In a village in the Atlas Mountains, newly-wed and heavily pregnant Itto lives in the home of her wealthy in-laws. […]
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 […]
Apolonia, Apolonia
Lea Glob
Pictures of Apolonia – they’re everywhere: from videotapes of her birth to oil-painted self-portraits. Rarely has it been so hard […]
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 […]
Ariane
Paul Czinner
»Elisabeth was the peerless embodiment of a figure that was neither woman nor man. The short hair and the Bergner […]
Aribada
Simon*e Jaikiriuma Paetau, Natalia Escobar
In the middle of a Colombian coffee-growing region, Aribada, the resurrected monster, meets Las Traviesas, a group of indigenous transwomen […]
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 […]
Attenberg
Athina Rachel Tsangari
»I made a film about four people who happen to be at the same place for a short period of […]
Attentate
Tania Parovic
Tania Parovic‘s film Attentate links found footage of documented attacks, whose victims were not necessarily selected as private individuals but […]
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 bald, deine Clara
Clara Hüneke
What would my 15-year-old self have liked to know that I know now, as an adult? For example, about classroom […]
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 […]
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 […]
Ayhan and me
belit sağ
The film tells the story of Ayhan Çarkın, a leading member of a death squad responsible for the murder of […]
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 […]
Backe Backe Kuchen
Kyne Uhlig and Nikolaus Hildebrand
To the melody of a popular German children’s song, a vacuum cleaner conducts the untidiness in a children’s room. The […]
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 […]
»Every movie is an immense adventure of initiation, every experience of writing, of shooting and editing is a prototype. But […]
A tranquil lake in summer: Four young women arrive on bicycles, undress, and freshen up in the cool water. Following […]
Ballad of the Infernal Grove
Emily Vey Duke, Cooper Battersby
»If there is ever real peace,« Mother joked once, »they’ll have to gas me like a war dog.« It’s funny […]
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 […]
Beastliness
Deborah Kelly
A woman is transformed into a fox, a naked woman with six breasts and a wolf-like person perform pirouettes, jump […]
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 […]
Before, Now & Then
Kamila Andini
Nana lost her husband and her father in the West Java War and narrowly escaped a forced marriage. Years later, […]
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 […]
Betty and Jane at the Theatre
Sarah Duhamels (Artist), Léontine (Artist)
Plump Jane (Sarah Duhamel) and cheeky Betty (anonymous) go to the theatre and behave badly – to the disapproval of […]
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 […]
Between Two Fires
Agnieszka Lukasiak
»I want to make films that make statistics real. I was struck by a news headline that said that one […]
Between Two Worlds
Emmanuel Carrère
Author Marianne is investigating the subject of precarious working conditions. She wants to find out what it’s like to do […]
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
If dogs could fly, this is probably what they would look like. Man’s best friend is liberated from the force […]
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 […]
Birthday
Jenifer Malmqvist
Sara loves her wife Katarina. She’s making a surprise for her birthday. Katarina has a surprise for Sara as well. […]
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 Ocean
Marion Hänsel
»I want to make a film as fragile as the breath of a child, but charged with an ever-present latent […]
Black Panthers
Agnès Varda
In the summer of 1968, the Black Panthers held a series of rallies in Oakland, California, to draw attention to […]
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 […]
Black Symposium
Katia Sepúlveda
A group of Afro-Caribbean women meet on a remote beach and debate affectation, sexuality, sensuality, love, care, joy and memory. […]
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 […]
Blooming on the Asphalt
Coraci Ruiz, Julio Matos
This film will also be available online on our VoD platform from April 18 to April 30, 2023. Please note: […]
Blooming on the Asphalt
Coraci Ruiz, Julio Matos
Coraci Ruiz depicts her child’s queer circle of friends before and after the right-wing, anti-queer Bolsonaro government took office in […]
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.« […]
Blutclip
Pipilotti Rist
Pipilotti Rist’s work characteristically depicts lustful female desire and audiovisual sensuality. Her 30-year-old film Blutclip is still fresh and topical […]
Boat Dreams
Sasha Andrews
What happens when the dream of owning your own boat turns into the albatross around your neck? Well, Boat Dreams […]
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.)
Boreas
Belma Baş
Living with elderly relatives in a remote old house in the mountains, the Child guardedly observes the daily routine of […]
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
Breaking the Ice
Clara Stern
Mira (Alina Schaller) lives with her mother and grandfather on an estate. They work in the winery. Every day, Mira’s […]
Bridges go round – Bebe & Louis Barron
Shirley Clarke
Brownian Movement
Nanouk Leopold
Brownian Motion refers to the aimless movement of particles in fluids and gasses, a consequence of collisions between atoms and […]
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’ […]
Burial of Life as a Young Girl
Maïté Sonnet
Axelle is experiencing one of the worst weekends of her life: She’s still caught up in dealing with the pain […]
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 […]
Butch Tits
Jen Crothers
Butch women discuss the sometimes complicated but affectionate relationship they have with their breasts.
Butch Up
Yu-Jin Lee
At first there is the comment by her ex-girlfriend, who says: »Stop being miserable!« Then the protagonist Mi-hae suffers another […]
Bye Bye Tiberias
Lina Soualem
A mother and daughter look at photographs of the past together. A complex family history is viewed in the Paris […]
C-TV (Wenn ich Dir sage, ich habe Dich gern…)
Cordula Thym, Eva Egermann
Tremors hit a TV studio. The world slips and slides out of control, props aren’t where they should be. The […]
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 […]
Identical routines in a mechanical world – Everyone starts their day with coffee. At a certain point in a typical […]
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 […]
Camping du lac
Éléonore Saintagnan
»I’d like to tell you about an odd thing that happened.« This is the opening line of Camping du lac, […]
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 […]
Through intimate and personal stories, five women share their experiences in relation to the body, from childhood to old age.
Cartonera
Maria Goinda
Marlen is eight years old. Every day she travels with her brother Roberto, her sister Tamara and her boyfriend Polaco […]
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.
Celeste Rosa
Sarita Bonilla Barahona
Three trans women talk about what it means to be a trans woman in Costa Rica. Sarita Bonilla Barahona uses […]
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 […]
Chained!
Betsy Kalin
From Victorian pocket watches to zoot suit style to motorcycle necessity, wallet chains have evolved over the years to become […]
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
Chuck Chuck Baby
Janis Pugh
In a small town in North Wales, Helen lives together with her husband, his new partner, their child and her […]
Churchill, Polar Bear Town
Annabelle Amoros
In northern Canada, a young woman was attacked by a polar bear. She tells the story. The press is interested […]
City of Wind
Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir
Roughly half of Mongolia’s 3.2 million people reside in the capital Ulaanbaatar, a sprawling maze of roads and jagged skyscrapers. […]
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 Combat
Sarah Duhamels (Artist)
A husband moans about his meal and thus sparks a furious row between the couple, its violence and intensity making […]
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. […]
Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same
Madeleine Olnek
»Sweet, funny, clever comedy seeks crossover …« – Variety Review This enormously likable movie keeps sexual politics on the back […]
Collage
Gülce Besen Dilek
»Every line on your face is a memory« says the young narrator. She herself is living proof of this. But […]
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
Color-less
Estefanía Piñeres Duque
Violet lives in a world divided into ›us‹ and ›the others‹. Her mother tells her she should never look ›someone […]
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 […]
Construction Beyoğlu
Meral Candan
»Taksim has turned into a massive construction site. Because of the Topçu Kışlası project, Taksim Gezi Park will be destroyed. […]
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
Copa 71
Rachel Ramsay, James Erskine
»Why haven’t I seen this before?« In the first scene of Copa 71, American international footballer Brandi Chastain stares at […]
Copy City
Denise Hauser
An experimental exploration of marginal worlds.
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 […]
Crushed
Ella Rocca
Head over heels in love? That’s nothing new for Ella. She researches the subject of all-consuming crushes online and boldly […]
Crystal Lake
Jennifer Reeder
A group of young girls take over a skate park. Behind the big fence that surrounds the concrete field around […]
Cunégonde Has Visitors
N.N. (Artist)
Whilst the master of the house is away, the maid Cunégonde (anonymous) gets a visit from her family. Together, they […]
While the master of the house is away, housemaid Cunégonde gets a visit from her family. The great spring clean […]
Cut Piece
Yoko Ono
Yoko Ono sits on stage, a pair of scissors in front of her. She asks the audience to cut open […]
cut-out
belit sağ
The video provides a look at the photos in the police files of the victims of the National Socialist Underground […]
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. […]
Dämmerung
Awa Moctar Gueye
A suburb of Dakar, Senegal. Binta draws a white marble and becomes the new leader of her group. The others […]
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 Cierta Manera
Sara Gómez
Yolanda, a young teacher, works in Havana in the new district of Miraflores, which was built in 1962 to resettle […]
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 […]
Death to the Bikini!
Justine Gauthier
Ten-year-old Lili loves to swim with her friends, all of them boys. For a school trip to a water park, […]
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 blaue Tiger
Petr Oukropec
The old botanical garden is like a forgotten island in the middle of town. Johanna lives there with her mother […]
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 Maulwurf an der See
Anna Kadykova
Everyone’s off to the beach. By car, truck or rail. Even the mole is digging his way through. When he […]
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 feige Schönheit
Greta Isabella Conte (DoP)
Statement of the Jury (Yoliswa von Dallwitz, Antonia Kilian, Agnesh Pakozdi): Greta Isabella Conte’s camera work for the film Die […]
Die Flieger-Trilogie #2: Ein Hoch auf das Bügeln
Rotraut Pape
»At the time, I wanted movement, development, change, and in the second semester, I immediately signed up for the first […]
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.“ – Elfriede Jelinek, The Children of the Dead Holiday […]
Die Moritat vom Kriegsminister Theodor Graf Baillet de Latour
Pascale Osterwalder
6 October 1848. Revolution in Vienna and the Minister of War is lynched by an angry mob.
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 sehen ja nur, die wissen ja nichts
Silke Schönfeld
In this documentary portrait, 16-year-old Thai boxer Aleyna Asya Akgün from Dortmund’s northern district lets us in on the physical […]
Die Sendung mit der Maus: Streiten
Katja Engelhardt, Inka Friese
Why do people argue? What does it feel like to have an argument and how do you resolve it? What […]
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 […]
Difret
Zeresenay Berhane Mehari
A dramatic court case from 1996 that ended with an acquittal and which fundamentally changed the situation for women in […]
Dildotectonic for Beginners
Slavina
Selma gives up her ordinary, romantic idea of love for a reality of ‘queer’ experiences and deep friendship. Inspired by […]
Dilim Dönmüyor – Meine Zunge dreht sich nicht
Serpil Turhan
»Dilim Dönmüyor – Meine Zunge dreht sich nicht is a search into my family’s past and present. In fragments from […]
Ding-A-Ling
Luke Biggins, Stefflon Don
Diploma
Yaelle Kayam
Hebron. The night of the Jewish settlement Masquerade. Fifteen-year-old Samer insists on taking his older sister Ayat to collect her […]
Dissonance
Anne Leclercq
She wants to fit in, but she also wants to preserve her integrity. A young woman finds herself unexpectedly thrust […]
Seventeen-year-old twin sisters Zahia and Fettouma Ziouani, who come from a suburb of Paris, have ambitions to become professional musicians. […]
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 […]
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 Blow It Up
Alžbeta Mačáková Mišejková
Two girls play with a ball. After a petty quarrel erupts between the two, they literally take to the air […]
Don’t Let It All Unravel
Sarah Cox
Don‘t pull the end of the thread, darn it … Awards for ›Don‘t Let It All Unravel‹ (Selection) Beste Animation, […]
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 […]
Dounia & The Princess of Aleppo
Marya Zarif, André Kadi
Aleppo is a city full of secrets and wonders, and home to six-year-old Dounia. She loves the vibrant atmosphere in […]
Draw for Change: We are Fire
Karen Vázquez Guadarrama
Mexico is a country firmly in the grip of patriarchal violence. With around ten femicides every day, women in this […]
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 girl aged about twenty, lives with her parents. She is increasingly subject to many fantasies and sees her […]
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
Dry Ground Burning
Joana Pimenta, Adirley Queirós
Fresh out of prison, Léa returns to the Sol Nascente favela and joins a formidable gang of women led by […]
Du soleil en hiver
Samuel Collardey
Winter on a farm somewhere in East France: the cows don’t want to go out into the cold, wells freeze […]
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: […]
Dusty Stacks of Mom: the Poster Project
Jodie Mack
Interweaving the forms of personal filmmaking, abstract animation, and the rock opera, this animated musical documentary examines the rise and […]
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 […]
Earth Quake (Kim Gordon)
Loretta Fahrenholz
Surveillance creates seductive images. The private becomes public. The video celebrates the pixelated materiality produced by security camera.
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 […]
Echo of You
Zara Zerny
Older people hold their hands in front of their eyes and visualise their loved ones. They try to remember them […]
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 […]
Ednas Day
Bernd Sahling
New in the class and only recently in Germany anyway, Edna finds lessons in a foreign language rather difficult. Since […]
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 […]
Ein Junge namens Weihnacht
Gil Kenan
Eleven-year-old Nikolas lives with his father Joel, a widowed woodcutter, in a wooden house in the forest, when one day […]
Eine Fliegenjagd oder die Rache der Frau Schultze
Eugen Skladanowsky
Mrs Schultze wants to get to sleep. Her neighbour is a composer and plays his trombone and piano at all […]
Eine gute Idee – Heißwasser
Erik Wernicke
The persuasion of a husband who had resisted his wife’s household being converted to electricity.
Einzelkämpfer
Sandra Kaudelka
»November 1989 – this was not only the day the (Berlin) wall fell but also the day I was finally […]
Elbow
Aslı Özarslan
Hazal is 17 and lives in Berlin. Her greatest wish is to have a life, a real future! Despite writing […]
Ella and the Great Race
Taneli Mustonen
Nowhere do such strange and exciting things happen as in Ella’s school – thanks to her classmates Hanna, Timo, Pekka, […]
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 […]
Eneris
Julie Daems
It’s the summer holidays and there’s nothing to do. Time drags and it’s so hot. Nine-year-old Manon is spending the […]
Enough
Anna Mantzaris
This film centers around impulses we all can feel but never act upon. Emotional anarchy and moments of lost self-controll. […]
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 ging Tag und Nacht, liebes Kind
Katrin Seybold, Melanie Spitta
In the documentary, Melanie Spitta accompanies Rom*nja and Sinte*zze survivors and their children to Auschwitz: “This is not a film […]
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 Nervt – Die Goldenen Zitronen feat. LaToya Manly-Spain
Oloruntoyin LaToya Manly-Spain, Ted Gaier, Christopher Radke
A musical and visual change of perspective that confronts the double standards of the benevolent white left. It navigates an […]
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 […]
Eskape
Neary Adeline Hay
This film will also be available online on our VoD platform from April 18 to April 30, 2023. Please note: […]
Ethel
Beatrice Jäggi
On a frozen lake, Ethel revives the memories of her deceased mother, who was a figure skater. There she meets […]
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
Even the Rain
Icíar Bollaín
Sebastián is an idealistic and slightly naive director who is planning to make a film about Christoph Columbus, debunking the […]
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 […]
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, Bunny Love (Artist)
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 […]
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 […]
Familie Sonnemann
Dieter Zeppenfeld, Ulrike Bartels
»I didn‘t tell them in the Kindergarten, they really don‘t know that I live somewhere else. They think I live […]
Family Time
Tia Kouvo
Christmas time is family time. The children arrive. Doors open. Doors close. For Ella and Lasse’s daughters, sons-in-law and grandchildren, […]
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 […]
A voice-over accompanies us on a cinematic journey through landscapes. It determines whether the film pauses or continues. The voice […]
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 […]
Filibus
Mario Roncoroni
»Filibus’s trim suit and newsboy cap give gender boundaries a fairly forceful push […]; but still more radical is the […]
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 […]
Finish Line
Gina Pei Chi Chen
Angeni, a young female track star, who dreams of becoming the fastest woman in the world, is forced to undergo […]
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 […]
Flare
Kate Blamire
A life divided between hospital waiting rooms and the merely virtual presence at the Dyke March: The disability caused by […]
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: […]
Forbidden
Amal Ramsis
»When I began filming Forbidden, we still lived in a dictatorship in which almost all political rights and activities were […]
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 Christmas
Andrea Eckerbom
It’s just before Christmas and in a tiny village in Norway absolutely NOTHING is happening! The villagers forget everything, even […]
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 […]
Fortress
Kirsi Marie Liimatainen
»Violence in the family occurs at the point of greatest protection – home. Yet home is no longer a place […]
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 […]
Four Women
Julie Dash
Dancer Linda Martina Young embodies the four female characters in Nina Simone’s ballad Four Women.
Fragile
Vidi Bilu
Jerusalem, 1966. The year before the outbreak of the Six-Day War. In a crumbling old building in the centre of […]
FragMANts
NEOZOON
The artist duo NEOZOON keeps discovering new, sometimes disturbing phenomena on the net. The video is a collage of YouTube […]
Frailer
Mijke de Jong
What does it mean to die well? What is friendship in the face of death? When Muis learns that she […]
Framing Agnes
Chase Joynt
A group of queer people from the arts and academia explore a study that contains fragments of the lives of […]
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 […]
Frauenzimmer
Eva Maschke (DoP)
Christel, Paula and Karolina work in the oldest trade in the world and are considered to be »ready for the […]
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 […]
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 as a Bird
Annelies Kruk
Twelve-year-old Ariana loves nothing more than to dance. On the dance floor, she is a bundle of energy and life. […]
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 […]
Fremde Kinder: Kiran
Bettina Timm und Alexander Riedel
Kiran wants nothing but normality: to go to an ordinary school, to learn to read and to do homework. With […]
From That Moment On, Everything Changed
Eef Hilgers
What do you do when your entire life is suddenly turned upside down? Eight children remember the moment their parents […]
Based on a true story. Helke Sander pulls out all the stops and delivers a bold and breath-taking performance born […]
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 […]
Fun Days with Jake
LeAnn Erickson
An animation film by LeAnn Erickson made up of drawings that look like they were done by children tells of […]
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 […]
Gassi Gassi
Solmaz Gholami
In keeping with the Islamic ideology that dogs are unclean, keeping pets is not allowed in Iran. Walking dogs in […]
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 […]
Genderbusters
Sam Berliner
»My goal as a filmmaker is to provide a positive voice for the trans, gender-queer, androgynous & gender-fluid folks not […]
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 […]
Generations
Barbara Hammer, Gina Carducci
Seventy-year-old acclaimed director Barbara Hammer hands her camera to Gina Carducci, an aspiring queer filmmaker. The women, each shooting their […]
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
Gett – The Trial of Viviane Amsalem
Shlomi Elkabetz, Ronit Elkabetz
Viviane Amsalem wants a divorce from her husband Elisha. They’ve been living apart for years. But in Israel, marriages and […]
getty abortions
Franzis Kabisch
How is abortion visualised? What images are used in articles about abortion? The director explores these motifs and finds them […]
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 […]
Girl Power
Sadie Benning
When she was 19, Sadie Benning made Girl Power with a PixelVision camera from Fisher-Price. She rebels loudly against school, […]
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 […]
Glistening Thrills
Jodie Mack
A shiny otherworld of holographic reverie pairs dollar store gift bags and haunting resound, unfolding an effervescent melancholy in three […]
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. […]
Good Stuff
Niina Suominen
»For me the property of the material itself is important, the structure and changeability of surfaces.« – Niina Suominen Everyday […]
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 […]
Guitar String Marked Fingerprints
Marlene Rudy
Guitar String Marked Fingerprints is an animated Music-Clip for the band Dust Covered Carpet and was produced as a Group-Project […]
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 […]
Gutter Pirates
Christina Schindler
A little boy folds a paper ship and lets it sail in the gutter. But when it starts to rain […]
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 […]
Hartz 4 Betrüger
Antonia von Smirowski
Hartz 4 Betrüger expands the concept of ‘social welfare fraud’.The short animated film is the final project created in a […]
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 […]
Heading West
Nicole van Kilsdonk
A year in the life of a resident of a European city. A year in the life of a single […]
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, […]
Heavy Pockets
Sarah Cox
A film about a girl who loses her sense of gravity. Awards for ›Pocedi Trymion/Heavy Pockets‹ Besondere Erwähnung, Tricky Women […]
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 … […]
Helke Sander: Cleaning House
Claudia Richarz
This film will also be available online on our VoD platform from April 18 to April 30, 2023. Please note: […]
Hellbender
Toby Poser, John Adams, Zelda Adams
Izzy lives with her mother in an isolated location in the mountains. The 16-year-old spends most of her time roaming […]
Hello Dankness
Soda Jerk
In a stunning collage of hundreds of borrowed film clips, Soda Jerk dissect American society and politics between 2016 and […]
Hematic Cultures
Anaís Córdova-Páez
Hematic Cultures is about interspecies relationships, light experimentation and the ability to use the body as a territory. »After coating […]
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 […]
Heroes
Carolina Hellsgård
Linnea yearns for something, though she doesn’t really know what exactly. She often goes to the stables on the edge […]
Herzsprung
Helke Misselwitz
Ein von Massenentlassungen erschüttertes Dorf in der Nachwendezeit. Alles ist in Auflösung. Johanna (Claudia Geisler) betrachtet ungläubig das Geschehen um […]
Hezurbeltzalk, A Common Grave
Izibene Oñederra
The Basque word »hezurbeltzak« is used to describe invisible groups of people on the margins of society. Its literal translation […]
Hier kommt Lola
Franziska Buch
After Lola‘s Brazilian father is subjected to racist abuse and attacks, the patchwork family moves from the small-village confines of […]
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.
Homeshoppers’ Paradise
Nancy Mac Granaky-Quaye
Punk meets teleshopping. Lisa (Jane Chirwa), a rebellious black punk, lives with her gang in a construction trailer on an […]
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 am, How You are
Alexandra Kurt
A passionate encounter in a storeroom. The desire to get involved with one another but also a slight insecurity about […]
How I Lost Myself
Marie Zahir (DoP)
P has lost confidence in language. She expresses her insecurity about language with her girlfriend; people speaking in different languages […]
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 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 […]
Hungry Baby – Kim Gordon
Clara Balzary
I (heart) Jack LaLanne: A Cartoon Memoir
LeAnn Erickson
One of film-maker LeAnn Erickson’s earliest childhood memories is of rushing home after kindergarten to watch Jack LaLanne’s TV show […]
I Am a Girl!
Susan Koenen
Every 13-year-old girl dreams of that nice, but hard-to-get, boy. And Joppe is no different, conferring with her friend on […]
I Am A Horse
Chaerin Im
Where are the girls? Unable to find girls in the diverse artwork of the Korean artist Lee Jung-seob, Chaerin Im […]
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 Leo
Tajo Hurrle
Romping in the autumn forest, building dens with cousin Emil – there’s nothing better for Leo. Until everyone says something […]
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 trans*
Marcel-Jana Urban
Looks in the mirror, day-to-day routines and talking about oneself and one’s own body. Clothes and beard grooming are part […]
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 Loved So Much
Dalila Ennadre
»I wanted to live and love, like all modern women«, says Fadma, who is now 75 years old. When she […]
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 Was Crying out at Life. Or for It
Vergine Keaton
During a hunt, a herd of deer turn on the pack of dogs pursuing them, turning the hunted into the […]
When Chloé Galibert-Laîné enters the word “anger” into the GIF folder of her texting app, the first 20 results are: […]
I’m Not Afraid!
Marita Mayer
In their imaginations, Vanja and his big sister turn their apartment into a jungle. But dangers and scary monsters lurk […]
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 Been Here
Sarasvati Shrestha
»You don’t always have to be like the others,« says Tyra. The 13-year-old loves to march to a different tune […]
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 sehe was, was du nicht siehst
Alexandra Nebel
The imaginative Mia persuades the shy Ingo to play »I spy with my little eye« in the kitchen. Slowly but […]
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, […]
Idodo
Ursula Ulmi
How did reef fish get their bright colours? An old legend from the Ziag-Zagaz clan from Papua New Guinea provides […]
if you say it forty times…
belit sağ
Former Turkish police officer Ayhan Çarkin used to be part of an unofficial paramilitary wing of the Turkish security forces […]
Il Palazzo
Katharina Copony
Te protagonist of this film is a building. Standing on the outskirts of Rome – like a monolith in the […]
Illusions
Julie Dash
The time is 1942, a year after Pearl Harbor; the place is National Studios, a fictitious Hollywood motion picture studio. […]
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. […]
Im Spiegel der Bilder. Die Filmemacherin Birgit Hein
Karin Jurschick
This biopic film about Birgit Hein opens on a train: Hein looks out of the window, pulls a camera out […]
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
The film-maker Beryl Magoko grew up in a village in Kenya. As a young girl she underwent the initiation ritual […]
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 […]
In Your Face
Anika Schäfer
A face is projected onto a face. The everyday reflections focused on In Your Face are the projections of other […]
»Would you have imagined, when looking at this lovely Japanese lady, how much work was involved before she could attire […]
Infinite Jest
Mirella Drosten
Time is out of joint and we are in the middle of the bubble of the greatest joke staging of […]
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 […]
Intrigue and the Ronches – The Sonics
Kurdwin Ayub
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 […]
Jane and the Spiders
Roméo Bosetti
Chambermaid Rosalie finds a spider while she’s cleaning: a spider in the morning brings grief and worry. She kills the […]
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 […]
Job and the Dutch Free State
Rosemarie Blank
»Even in the rather anarchistic world of the Conradstraat, Job had the reputation of being a weirdo. He was certainly […]
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 […]
Junost Bang
Kerstin Honeit
Visitors to a senior citizens’ club re-dub the male roles in the action film Dead Bang (1990). The B-movie was […]
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. […]
Kauwboy
Boudewijn Koole
»The original idea for Kauwboy grew out of one of my childhood memories. One spring when I was young, a […]
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 […]
Kicken wie ein Mädchen
Karin de Miguel Wessendorf
»Girls can’t play football« – how often have they heard this! Pauline, Chayenne, Eriona and Liv from the Ruhr region of […]
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, […]
Kikkerdril – Frogs & Toads
Simone van Dusseldorp
Max‘s big brother Jannus is in hospital following an operation on his tonsils. Jealous that Max is free to go […]
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 […]
King Coal
Elaine McMillion Sheldon
Why does coal remain a key point of identification for many people when mining is seemingly an outdated phenomenon? In […]
Kis
Svetlana Bolycheva
A cat is the best friend of the Orthodox priest in the Russian provinces. Two soul mates in a life […]
Kitchen Sink
Alison Maclean
A single hair in the kitchen sink sets the stage for the birth of a black-and-white feminist horror fable. To […]
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
Koundi & the National Thursday
Ariane Astrid Atodji
With its 1200 inhabitants, Koundi is one of the larger villages in the province of East Cameroon. Its residents secure […]
Kriegsbilder
Birgit Hein
The war during which the film-maker was born is always there, under the surface. Birgit Hein aims to somehow depict […]
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 […]
When Madame Plumette gets her period, her husband says goodbye and goes fishing. All this makes her very, very angry. […]
La glu
Alice Guy
A boy smears glue on benches, staircases, ladders, bicycles – much to his delight and that of the audience. Except, […]
La Grogne
Alisi Telengut
By all means, a child tries to win the affection of his father. The family dog, however, proves to be […]
La paresse de Polycarpe
Ernest Servaès
Polycarpe’s wife is livid with him for his incredible laziness. Every morning she has to kick him out of bed. […]
La revanche des esprits
Émile Cohl
A spiritualistic séance: three ladies in rapt concentration make contact with supernatural beings that actually physically manifest themselves. A man […]
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 […]
Laura’s Star
Joya Thome
Laura is a happy, contented child, until one day she moves to a big city with her family. She misses […]
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 […]
Le Tigre: On Tour
Kerthy Fix
»They call it climbing and we call it visibility They call it coolness and we call it visibility They call […]
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 […]
Lea and the Ball of Wool
Lea Giunchi Guillaume (Artist)
When her parents go out for the evening, teenager Lea (Lea Giunchi) is supposed to spend the time diligently knitting […]
Leaf
Aliona Sasková
The giant sailor prepares for his next voyage, shovelling more coal into the boiler, and scrubbing the deck. As he […]
Lemon and Berry
Ilenia Cotardo, Piotr Ficner
Two hummingbird siblings find an egg while playing on the beach. Could it be a dinosaur egg maybe? The two […]
Leones
Jazmín López
»Leones is an essay about death from the point of view of a mortal being, death seen as a beautiful […]
Oscar Sanzatoux notices the young Suzanne in an omnibus, but she isn’t interested in him. He follows Suzanne to the […]
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: […]
»One of the most sensational acts: the six wonderful Dainef sisters; truly unique the world over with their Icarian games, […]
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 […]
Lesser Apes
Cooper Battersby, Emily Vey Duke
An experimental narrative about a primatologist who falls in love with a bonobo ape. Together, they start a new political […]
Lesvia
Tzeli Hadjidimitriou
The story of lesbian tourists and residents in Eressos on Lesbos. The director was born on the island and is […]
Negar Tahsili explores the conspicuous absence of horror movies directed by female-identifying Iranian film-makers. Drawing inspiration from Carol J. Clover’s […]
Let Your Light Shine
Jodie Mack
The ultimate photo-kinetic stroboscopic spectacle for spectacles. (Requires prismatic glasses)
Let’s Do This Differently
Annette Ernst
I searched for and found Pedi und Anny. In 2009, I was allowed to film the birth of their third […]
Letters from the Edge of the Forest
Jelena Oroz
Squirrels, tigers, hedgehogs and elephants love letters, but sadly, they can’t write them. Apart from the owl, who demands a […]
Lichtwelle
Julia Rublow, Xenia Lesniewski
Liebmann
Jules Herrmann
»There’s a magical place in Picardy, where the peacock calls and wondrous things seem to occur all on their own. […]
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 […]
Life Is Not a Competition, But I’m Winning
Caroline Spreitzenbart (DoP)
Statement of the Jury (Yoliswa von Dallwitz, Antonia Killian, Agnesh Pakozdi): The film Life Is Not a Competition, But I’m […]
Life Unrehearsed
Jieun BANPARK
The two protagonists in this film met and fell in love many years previously during a retreat. They both came […]
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 Lucifer – Go! Go! Gorillo
Kurdwin Ayub
Kurdwin Ayub dances her way through Vienna in a black chador and explores public spaces. She receives amused as well […]
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 […]
Look, Stranger
Arielle Javitch
»My intention with this film is to tell a story that narrates the physical drama of a displaced person. But […]
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 […]
Gifted scientist Max Pledge invents a futuristic film-telephone device and his research causes him to neglect his fiancée Daisy. So […]
Love Island
Jasmila Žbanić
»We, the people from the Balkans tend to take our past way too seriously and are experience it in a […]
Love, Barbara
Brydie O’Connor
With over 100 films to her name, Barbara Hammer was a pioneer of lesbian experimental film. Hammer’s incredible influence on […]
Lovertits – Peaches
Peaches
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 […]
Mambar Pierrette
Rosine Mbakam
It’s the rainy season and the new school year is about to begin. From dawn ’til dusk, Mambar Pierette sews […]
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 […]
Manchmal möchte man fliegen
Gitta Nickel
»I always want to know as much as possible, and in great detail, about what the other person has done, […]
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 […]
Mark Lombardi – Death Defying Acts of Art and Conspiracy
Mareike Wegener
On October 17th 2001, Joe Amrhein, director of a small gallery in Brooklyn, received an alarming call. While investigating the […]
Marock
Laïla Marrakchi
Casablanca at the end of the 1990s: a clique of young people, all with rich parents, live through wild times, […]
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 […]
Mary Bauermeister – eins und eins ist drei
Carmen Belaschk
Mary Bauermeister is considered the mother of the Fluxus movement. In an attic in Cologne’s Lintgasse, she created art history […]
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 […]
Mediterranean Fever
Maha Haj
Palestinian writer Waleed hasn’t published a book in years. Instead of writing, he takes care of his two children and […]
Megatrick
Anne Isensee
»I’ve heard such a killer trick how to draw a straight line …« In just two minutes, Anne Isensee’s animated […]
Mein Name ist Angst
Eliza Plocieniak-Alvarez
Whether in the dark, when a dog barks at us, or when we have to speak in front of a […]
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 […]
Menses
Barbara Hammer
Never before had cinemas shown films about the unpleasant aspects of menstruation. Barbara Hammer addresses the subject in a blend […]
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 […]
Mike Says Goodbye!
Maria Peters
After a serious illness, the ten-year-old Mike is finally discharged and allowed back home. But when his mother shows up […]
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 […]
Milk
Stefanie Kolk
Seldom does a feature film explore the profound significance of breast milk production, a symbol of nurturing life. However, when […]
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 […]
Miracle Whip [Befreit]
ELA EIS
The emancipatory potential of the film develops in an assertive act of liberation, which ELA EIS celebrates in a performance, […]
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 […]
Mit Pferden kann man nicht ins Kino gehen
Anna Wahle
Life objectives, dream jobs: What will work mean in the future? To find out, the director asks some of those […]
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 […]
Mobile
Verena Fels
Excluded from society, a cow takes charge of her own fate and makes quite an impact …
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
Mommy Is Coming
Cheryl Dunye
»Legendary US underground director Cheryl Dunye has a weakness for sex, fun, gender-bending and breaking taboos. Her lusty and humorously […]
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 […]
Mondmann
Fritz Böhm
The Man in the Moon (Michal Tregor) is lonely and bored. He dreams all the time of being on Earth […]
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 and Son
Léonor Serraille
1989. Rose, a single mother, has immigrated to Paris from the Ivory Coast with her young sons Jean and Ernest. […]
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 […]
Motherhood
Pilar Palomero
Can you identify as a mother if you’re still a child yourself? Carla has a fraught relationship with her own […]
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: […]
Ms. Thing
Karen X. Tulchinsky
Ms. Thing is about Jill, an open-minded lesbian, who looks for love in all the wrong places. Just when Jill’s […]
Munic – Tehran
Narges Kalhor
»My friends and family show me via Webcam places in Teheran with which I associate pleasant memories together with them […]
Music
Angela Schanelec
This modern adaptation of the Oedipus myth takes us from Greece to Berlin, from the 1980s to the present day. […]
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 […]
Muttitelefon
Dagie Brundert
Electricity poles without cables in a field, filmed in grainy Super 8 quality. »These poles here—where are the lines, the […]
Muttitelefon
Dagie Brundert
Electricity poles without cables in a field, filmed in grainy Super8 aesthetics. »These poles here – where are the lines, […]
My 20th Century
Ildikó Enyedi
As a member of this year’s jury for the International Debut Feature Film Competition, Hungarian director lldikó Enyedi (Body and […]
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 camera seems to recognize people
belit sağ
What happens when we engage in a dialogue with the images we create and question them about their motives? What […]
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 Name is Fear
Eliza Plocieniak-Alvarez
We all know fear, and none of us like it. High time, then, that it introduced itself personally and cleared […]
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 […]
Anyone who really wants to understand the world of this versatile and abstract artist will want to watch this film […]
Naomi’s Journey
Frieder Schlaich
Mariella, the older sister of 20-year-old Naomi, has been murdered by her German husband. Naomi reluctantly accompanies her mother on […]
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 […]
Nations of Defects – SEWICIDE
Stephanie Müller, Klaus Erika Dietl
Naturwissenschaft: Können Dinosaurier wieder auferstehen?
Cathrine Marchen Asmussen
Jurassic Park in real life – this is what Elliot and Liam dream of. But how can dinosaurs be brought back […]
NavelFable
Mara Mattuschka
How does a face change beneath a mask? What associations does this trigger in viewers? Mara Mattuschka’s initial idea led […]
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 Fancy Foils
Jodie Mack
Paper sample books discarded and dumpstered by longgone businesses undergo a series of sequential experiments in pattern, rhythm, color, and […]
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 […]
Night Cries: A Rural Tragedy
Tracey Moffatt
On an isolated, surreal Australian homestead, a middleaged Aboriginal woman nurses her dying white mother. The adopted daughter’s attentive gestures […]
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 […]
Should women earn the same as men? That was unheard of in the 1970s! Until the »Heinze women«, employees of […]
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 […]
Nobody’s Home
Deniz Akçay Katıksız
»I tried to show with this scenario that big dramas can find their place in the small, ordinary situations lived […]
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 […]
Notre Corps
Claire Simon
This documentary provides an insight into everyday life in a women’s clinic in France. With a grand gesture that is […]
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. […]
The film is based on the following true story: a woman in Hamburg climbs, with her two children, up a […]
Nuit #1
Anne Emond
Clara is 28, a teacher, and lives in Québec. At a rave she meets the Ukrainian artist Nikolai and lands […]
Ob Scene
Paloma Orlandini Castro
The film starts with a picture of Tracey Emin pressing coins and notes between her open legs against her vulva. […]
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
Ole
Hanne Klaas (DoP)
18 years after the suicide of her brother Ole in 1991, Hanne Klaas decides to make this film, thus breaking […]
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 fire
Jana Bauch
Statement of the Jury (Yoliswa von Dallwitz, Antonia Kilian, Agnesh Pakozdi): Jana Bauch’s film reveals her exceptional talent as a […]
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 Outskirts
Aysun Bademsoy
»Today, almost every documentary film brims over with commentary, leaving the images to limp after. I want viewers see something; […]
On the Sly
Olivier Ringer
Cathy’s parents drive from Paris to their house in the country every weekend. Otherwise, they hardly take any interest in […]
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 Careful Owner
Bernabé Rico
Man makes plans, and God laughs. Because nothing ever turns out the way you hope it will. When Sara has […]
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 of Us Now
Maya Steinberg
Maya Steinberg, herself a secular Israeli, spends a few weeks in an Orthodox community in Galilee in order to trace […]
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 […]
One Thousand Ways to Skin It – Nirvana/Destiny’s Child
Jennifer Reeder
One Way – A Tuareg’s Journey
Fabio Caramaschi
»Papa, when you left … did you want to come back?« »When I arrived, I thought I’d go back immediately. […]
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 […]
Open House
Diane Nerwen
In the Brooklyn district of Williamsburg some forty apartment towers are being built that will drastically change the face of […]
Open Sky
Iñès Compan
»Kollas thus become victims of the globalization with this new mining boom associated to the decreasing metal exchange rate, essential […]
Orchids – My Intersex Adventure
Phoebe Hart
»I have Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome (AIS). I am a woman with 46,XY (male) chromosomes. In my life, I have struggled […]
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 […]
OS·MO·SE
Alissa Sophie Larkamp, Emma-Mathilda Lipphaus
Osmosis refers to the penetration of a solvent through a permeable, fine-pored septum into a similar but more concentrated fluid. […]
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 […]
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 […]
Pandora’s Box
Yeşim Ustaoğlu
»Two entities meet up on equal terms without memory, but also without fear of contact; a utopia, briefly lived out […]
Paradies! Paradies!
Kurdwin Ayub
Kurdwin Ayub fled to Austria from Iraq with her family in 1991. Nearly 25 years later, she accompanies her father […]
Paradise Hotel
Sophia Tzavella
Young Demir dreams of getting married. But his Roma tower block on the outskirts of a provincial town in Bulgaria […]
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 […]
past forward
belit sağ
A historic moment in Turkey’s parliament in 1991: Kurdish MP Leyla Zana declares in Kurdish: »I take this oath for […]
Patouillard a une femme jalouse
Roméo Bosetti
Sarah Duhamel, one of France’s first female film comedians, delivers a captivating performance as a cross-dressing, jealous wife. When her […]
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?
Pennyless Decadence
Julia Keller
!WowoW! is a London artists collective whose members squat in empty houses, where they live and work. Their residential concept […]
Perception
Sam Berliner
An experimental animation exploring the disconnect between one’s own perception of self and how one is seen by the rest […]
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 […]
Perforated Memory
Sandra Madi
»The real events that form the collective memory have been deformed. How can the political project eliminate the collective memory […]
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 […]
Perpetrator
Jennifer Reeder
Jonquil Baptiste (known as Jonny) makes a living from burglaries and petty crimes. Her single father suffers from a strange […]
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
Maša 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. […]
Pétronille Wins the Grand Steeple Chase
Roméo Bosetti, Georges Rémond
Prétronille is convinced of what she’s doing: She pawns her furniture and bets all the money on her jockey husband […]
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 […]
Picture a Scientist
Ian Cheney, Sharon Shattuck
Women scientists face an ongoing struggle for recognition, respect and equality. They fight against harassment, discrimination and prejudice. This film […]
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 […]
Pink Saris
Kim Longinotto
»If you‘re shy you‘ll die.« – Sampat Pal Devi In the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, Sampat Pal Devi […]
Pink, Black and Blue
Claudia Lopez-Lucia
»Rugby’s not for girls!« – how many times have they heard this statement? Aicha, Kim and Nell, however, are living […]
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 […]
Players
Pilvi Takala
Jaakko talks about himself and his friends Ville, Mathias, Hans, Nick and Henrik. They are a clique of online-poker professionals […]
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. […]
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 […]
Plutonium Blonde
Sandra Lahire
As penetrating as X-rays and as colourful as fireworks: Sandra Lahire’s film about female workers at a nuclear plant in […]
Pokerface
Becky Lane
A rowdy »girls’ night out« poker game takes an unexpected turn when a woman receives a call from relatives about […]
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 […]
Popov
Christina Keilmann
Popov lives with his alcoholic mother in a prefabricated housing estate. To preserve his own identity in his toxic environment, […]
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, […]
Possibly in Michigan
Cecilia Condit
It all begins in a shopping mall. Two women sing about their favourite items, only to find themselves being pursued […]
Postcards
Ana Hušman
Among the methods a textbook for learning Croatian as a foreign language recommends are: role playing, reading aloud, the staging […]
POWER!
Christina Ebelt, Mischa Leinkauf
The return of slavery, or reducing world starvation levels? Five young entrepreneurs taking part in a five-day seminar are confronted […]
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, […]
Present Tense
Belmin Söylemez
Mina’s having problems. Divorced, she has no contact with her family and is about to be evicted from her apartment. […]
Prevenge
Alice Lowe
»Pregnancy is traditionally a world in pastel. Softness, lightness, inherent kindness. And yet here I was experiencing an unexpected vividness […]
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 […]
Private Properties
Lilli Carré
A living room shrinks to expand again transforming. The skillful lines of this animation reveal pieces of furniture but also […]
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 […]
Pufferfisch
Julia Ocker
Wie treibt man als kleiner, friedliebender Kugelfisch große, bedrohliche Fische in die Flucht? Indem man sich selbst noch größer und […]
Pushing Boundaries
Lesia Kordonets
This film will also be available online on our VoD platform from April 18 to April 30, 2023. Please note: […]
Pussy
Renata Gąsiorowska
A young girl spends the evening at home alone. She decides to indulge in some sweet solo pleasure – it […]
Pussy
Renata Gąsiorowska
A young girl spends the evening alone at home. She decides to have a sweet solo pleasure session, but not […]
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 […]
Two young women in Nairobi fight for their shared future despite all the discrimination. The film is based on the […]
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 […]
Real Snow White
Pilvi Takala
»My daughter thought she was the real Snow White.« – A Mother Pilvi Takala comes up against the Draconian regulations […]
Reas
Lola Arias
Set in a former prison in Buenos Aries, this film tells the story of a group of cis and trans […]
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 […]
Reservation
Clara van Gool
Leaves rustle. Foxes stir. Cracked brick walls beguile. Black and white frames flicker, leap, and shudder as two women, clad […]
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 […]
Retaliation
Hanna Ljungh
Vedergällning, which translates as retaliation, is a filmic performance based on a scene from The Virgin Spring by Ingmar Bergman. […]
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 […]
Right Body
Jennifer Norton
Antonia from Florence knows that she is a boy, and that she needs to do something because she was born […]
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 […]
Rohfilm
Birgit Hein, Wilhelm Hein
Uncooked, raw, rough – Rohfilm wasn’t made in the industrial mould of Hollywood cinema, nor was it tenderised using the […]
Roma Boys – The Love Story
Rozálie Kohutová
The wish to share his complicated story with the world led to gay Roma activist David writing a screenplay about […]
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 […]
Rosalie and Léontine Go to the Theater
Roméo Bosetti
Rosalie and Léontine Go to the Théâtre shows us the audience at a vaudeville theatre. It is refreshing to see […]
Rosalie Moves In
Roméo Bosetti
When she moves into her new flat, Rosalie gets busy. She planes the floor as she scrubs it, until it […]
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
Rule 34
Julia Murat
During the day, 23-year-old Black law student Simone rigorously discusses the role of women in Brazilian society in the lecture […]
Rule 34
Julia Murat
Of everything that exists on the Internet, there is also a pornographic variant. Thus the titular Rule 34 of Júlia […]
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 […]
Saint Omer
Alice Diop
Saint-Omer court of law. Young novelist Rama attends the trial of Laurence Coly, a young woman accused of killing her […]
Salata Baladi
Nadia Kamel
»If we had not confronted the taboos of our present, my mother’s stories would have been reduced to self-indulgence and […]
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 […]
Sardine
Ashley Hans Scheirl, Ursula Pürrer
An anarchic mini-film consisting of a wildly assembled chain of associations, in which everything glibbers and glistens. We are served […]
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 […]
Schatten fressen
Ulrike Korbach
Anke Ame’s attitude to life is one of love: people, music, ideas. This is how the violist, author and illustrator […]
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
Scrapper
Charlotte Regan
A »scrapper« may embody improvisational determination and a fighting spirit in the face of adversity. Other meanings refer to dealing […]
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 […]
Secrets of a Sister
Anne Siegel
Self-proclaimed sister Vicious Power Hungry Bitch of the Order of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence spills the beans.
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 […]
Semra Ertan
Cana Bilir-Meier
Semra Ertan left Turkey to join her parents in West Germany in 1972. She worked as a draughtswoman and interpreter, […]
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
Cizre is a town in northern Kurdistan, inside Turkey’s borders with Syria. Cizre was under curfew from 4 to 14 […]
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
Seven Winters in Tehran
Steffi Niederzoll
Transcripts, sketches, voice recordings and a reconstructed model of Shahr-e Rey prison in Tehran: as the camera moves through the […]
Seven Winters in Tehran
Steffi Niederzoll
Transcripts, sketches, voice recordings and a reconstructed model of Shahr-e Rey prison in Tehran: as the camera moves through the […]
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. […]
Sex Fish
Shu Lea Cheang
Water is the connecting element in this erotic mix of images of nature and explicit sex. It drips, flows and […]
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 […]
Sie ist der andere Blick
Christiana Perschon
This film will also be available online on our VoD platform from April 18 to April 30, 2023. Please note: […]
Sientje
Christa Moesker
Wütend, wütender, am wütendsten – Sientje ist nach einem Streit mit ihrer Mutter außer sich. Wände, Betten, Kuscheltiere: Vor nichts macht […]
Şifa (Hümeyra, Rangin, Maral)
belit sağ
The film shows migrant women from Turkey living in the Netherlands. Hümeyra, Rengin and Maral selected songs that accompanied them […]
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 […]
Silent Sun of Russia
Sibylla Tuxen
»Do you think we could have changed something if everyone had stayed?«, asks one of the film’s characters. A direct […]
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 […]
Slow Burn
Christine Chew
In this hyper-stylized western set against a winterscape, a mysterious girl with a criminal past wants to make a fresh […]
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. […]
Snowworld
annette hollywood
The seduction scene in The Hunger (1983) between Catherine Deneuve and Susan Sarandon is legendary. A young woman (annette hollywood) […]
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 Blue
Rebekah Fortune
While a family prepare for their eldest daughter’s wedding, a young boy struggles to claim his true identity. Paul is […]
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 […]
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 […]
Somni
Sonja Rohleder
A small monkey sets off for the land of dreams. Swinging from one green leaf to the next, it slides […]
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 […]
Sonne
Kurdwin Ayub
An afternoon hanging with besties: Yesmin, Nati and Bella sing along to REM’s »Losing My Religion« and pose in front […]
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« […]
Sort of Grown Up
Marlena Molitor
»I can’t wait until we’ve finished school.« But then what? Between chilling, working part-time and enjoying nights out on the […]
Sort of Grown Up
Marlena Molitor
Two friends chill out above the rooftops of the city. What will they do after graduation? Unclear. »Many others don’t […]
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 Quite a Lot of Things
August Joensalo
Curiosity about a world without gender leads from jellyfish to liberated dancing to disco music in your own room, to […]
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.« – […]
Spin & Ella
An Vrombaut
From instruments to houses and trampolines: Ella the fairy and her friend, a spider, can create anything they can imagine […]
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 […]
Star Catch
Pelageya Generalova
It takes time and patience to catch a fish. No wonder the fisherman falls asleep from boredom in his boat. […]
Stay Woke
Chelsea Odufu
Coupledom has its own dynamics. Her professional obligations do not tick by the clock, his cooking and love are extraordinary, […]
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 […]
Stop-Zemlia
Kateryna Gornostai
»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 […]
Stromsparen
Kyne Uhlig and Nikolaus Hildebrand
Children reflect on how to cut back on power consumption. Or put another way: can the Loo Monster help to […]
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
Suicide Room
Jan Komasa
With only a hundred days to go, Dominik is about to graduate from the poshest school in the country with […]
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 […]
Summer Holiday (Vaginale VII)
Kurdwin Ayub
Alone in a room. A curtain blows in the wind, the bride’s dress is voluminous, something big is about to […]
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 […]
Sun Under Ground
Mareike Bernien, Alex Gerbaulet
Special Screening at the Recklinghausen training mine Departure Shuttle: 6 pm from Schauburg Meeting point Recklinghausen training mine: 7 pm […]
Super Amir Country
Transnationales Ensemble Labsa
Super Power
Diane Busuttil
The mouth moves but nobody is listening. Beneath the weight of patriarchy, the pussy, a woman’s vital source and as […]
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 […]
Survivor Manifesto – The Art of Making Kin
Dan Dansen
The film moves with the images in a plane, a train, through the forest, stops at the water: we see […]
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 […]
Sweet Bean
Naomi Kawase
Dorayaki pancakes is the name of the pastry that is so beloved by the Japanese and is filled with a […]
Swing to the Moon
Joint Project
To the moon and back? Unlikely prospect for a spider. Or is it? After a trip with the fireflies falls […]
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 […]
Tarapaty – Goose Trouble
Monika Dovnar
Gustav Gans, a goose, heads into the depths of the forest for the first time. With a bit of luck […]
Tarpaulins
Lisa Truttmann
Termites offer Lisa Truttmann an unusual way of approaching the city of Los Angeles. The visual framework for this film […]
Tasnim
Elite Zexer
Tasnim, a strong and opinionated 10-year-old girl, lives with her mother and siblings in a Bedouin village in the Negev. […]
Tattoo
Miranda Pennell
Soldiers march in unison across a wide-open stretch of land. Director Miranda Pennell’s Tattoo acts as an overview of the […]
Tauchmetamorphing
Judith Lewis
Teaches of Peaches
Judy Landkammer, Philipp Fussenegger
In 2022, Peaches went on tour to celebrate the anniversary of her album ›Teaches of Peaches‹. This film accompanies her […]
Teat Beat of Sex: Episode Three: Trouble
Signe Baumane
Teat Beat of Sex is a series of one-minute animated films that talk about sex exclusively from woman‘s point of […]
Tell Me Nothing From The Horse – AFD
Thelma Buabeng (Artist)
TMNFTH is Thelma Buabeng’s own online comedy format. »As a black actor in Germany I’ve had to listen to a […]
Tell Me Nothing From The Horse – Homosexuality
Vladimir Burlakov, Thelma Buabeng (Artist)
Thelma Buabeng produced her online comedy format as a response to dangerous racist, misogynist and otherwise narrow-minded views and perspectives. […]
Tell Me When You Die
Amber Bemak, Nadia Granados
A video work exploring the juxtapositions between physical limitations and freedom in political and corporal contexts. Here, porn is thought […]
Tempest
Tatiana Huezo
A young mother and several other innocent victims are accused of human trafficking and thrown into a jail run by […]
Terror of the District
Claudia Narrisch
Tess
Meg Rickards
Tess is twenty and a sex worker in Muizenberg, a coastal suburb of Cape Town. She gets through day-to-day life […]
The 727 Days without Karamo
Anja Salomonowitz
»Up until now, I’ve always allocated each of my films a specific colour. So for The 727 Days Without Karamo, […]
The ABC of Love
Asta Nielsen (Artist)
Lis, daughter of a Count, is due to meet her future husband. She gazes in joyful anticipation at a drawing […]
The Aegean or the Anus of Death
Eleni Gioti
A mysterious man appears at various locations in Athens where racist attacks have taken place over the last few years. […]
The Alphabet of Feeling Bad
Karin Michalski
The Alphabet of Feeling Bad shows an experimental interview with the theorist and activist Ann Cvetkovich. Cvetkovich’s performance, which is […]
The Amazing Catfish
Claudia Sainte-Luce
»There’s actually quite a lot of me in the various characters figured in Los peces insólitos gato. I left home […]
The Art of Beeing Human
Helene Granqvist, Hampus Lindner
Are our standards, conventions and social values really such that they make it easier for people to live together, or […]
The Ball
Katja Roberts
Amy likes playing football, and is considered strange by the other children because of it. Jack is deaf and dumb […]
The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye
Marie Losier
»My project is not about gender. Some feel like a man trapped in a woman’s body, others like a woman […]
The Beast in the Jungle
Clara van Gool
»It was the truth, vivid and monstrous, that all the while he had waited, the wait was itself his portion.« […]
The Belle Starr Story
Lina Wertmüller
The Belle Starr Story is considered to be the »only feminist Spaghetti Western ever directed by a woman« and, according […]
The Bengali Night
Narcisa Hirsch
The film is the artistic result of a workshop given by experimental film-maker Werner Nekes, who died in January 2017, […]
The Big Rot
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 […]
The Black Box
Tamara Trampe, Johann Feindt
»What lay behind the headlong rush into a ›New Society‹ that forbade any questions whatsoever?« Tamara Trampe Cramped interior spaces. […]
The Body Beautyful
Ngozi Onwurah
This bold, stunning exploration of a white mother who undergoes a radical mastectomy and her Black daughter who embarks on […]
The Burden
Niki Lindroth von Bahr
»I have no-one. I don’t know why. Well, actually I do know why. I have bad skin. Nobody wants to […]
The Cancer Journals Revisited
Lana Lin
Film-maker Lana Lin examines Audre Lorde’s Cancer Journals, also from the point of view of her own experience of breast […]
The Capacity for Adequate Anger
Vika Kirchenbauer
A return to where the director grew up marks the point of departure for this examination of social class and […]
The Child
Amy Neil
While out shopping one evening, Zoe finds a mysterious child in her trolley. Leaving the supermarket with more than she […]
The Classmate’s Frolic
Ralph Ince
A group of lively schoolgirls are under the strict diktat of their teacher. When one of them gets bored while […]
The Connection
Shirley Clarke
»She really wanted to break moulds. She really wanted to break rules. And with The Connection, she broke just about […]
The Cup is Already Filling Up
Debora Elgeholm
Three different events are joined together: the apparitions of Our Lady in Fátima (1917), in Garabandal (1961-1965), and in Medjugorje […]
The Dairymaid’s Revenge
Frank S. Armitage
A milkmaid is being severely harassed by a man. The maid is capable of defending herself though and shows no […]
The Daughters of Fire
Albertina Carri
A lesbian-feminist road movie about self-determination, lust and sex. After a period of separation, two lovers meet up again and […]
The Day I Disappeared
Atousa Bandeh Ghiasabadi
The Day I Disappeared is a film essay based on the personal story of the film-maker who fled from Iran […]
The Dead and the Living
Barbara Albert
Sita is 25, lives in Berlin and is studying German literature. One night, she ends up in the studio of […]
The Divine Order
Petra Volpe
Nora is a young housewife and mother who lives with her husband, two sons and her disgruntled father-in-law in a […]
The Doll’s Revenge
Lewin Fitzhamon
A young woman is thrilled with her new doll. Just a quick twist of the screwdriver and she breathes life […]
The Dreamed Ones
Ruth Beckermann
»A word from you, and I can live.« – Paul Celan Almost 25 years of powerful, eloquent correspondence between Ingeborg […]
The Eclipse
Nataša Urban
This film will also be available online on our VoD platform from April 18 to April 30, 2023. Please note: […]
The Egg
Katharina Lüdin
A film about a film about an egg. Or: a film about short films, coincidences and mishaps, and a host […]
The Face of the Jellyfish
Melisa Liebenthal
One night, Marina’s face suddenly changed. Otherwise, she has the same body, the same life. »I don’t know what to […]
The Fever
Maya Da-Rin
The Fever addresses the dramatic changes to the habitat in Brazil’s Amazon basin. 45-year-old Justino (Regis Myrupu), a member of […]
The Flies (The Birds II)
Susann Maria Hempel
Susann Maria Hempel visits the ruins of her former home in Greiz and explores the beauty of decay. Her film […]
The Fly in the Ashes
Gabriela David
The two young women Nancy and Pato leave their village in the northwest of Argentina in the belief that they […]
The Forest Is Like the Mountains
Christiane Schmidt (DoP)
»In the summer of 2004, Elena and Aron Lingurar asked us whether we would like to be the godparents of […]
The Fourfold
Alisi Telengut
Based on the ancient animistic beliefsand shamanic rituals in Mongolia and Siberia, The Fourfold is an exploration of the indigenous […]
The Galactic Pot Healer
Shana Moulton
Lost in her beauty routine, Cynthia accidentally breaks a pot. To get it repaired, she seeks out the mysterious character […]
The General Store
Chantal Briet
Ali’s grocery store is the only store in the »La Source« neighbourhood that has remained in business since the shopping […]
The Girl Bunnies. Big Tree
Françoise Doherty
Mimi and her chainsaw accidentally slice through a really cute girl bunny’s tree. With the help of a hockey stick, […]
The Girls
Mai Zetterling
Over-the-top feminist comedy: At the theatre, rehearsals are taking place for Lysistrata, Aristophanes’ ancient Greek play. Lysistrata incites the women […]
The Grand Bizarre
Jodie Mack
Textiles and the craft of weaving attracted renewed attention in the fields of art and philosophy a few years ago. […]
The Ground Beneath my Feet
Marie Kreutzer
»Our capitalist society would no longer function if we didn’t feel this constant need to compare ourselves and as a […]
The Heart
Fanni Metelius
It’s quite obviously a good idea that photographer Mika and musician Tesfay become a couple. They’re young, good-looking, talented and […]
The Highest Mirror on Earth / Touch the Red Nothing
Dagie Brundert
This Super 8 production is actually two films in one, as we can see in the very first title card. […]
The House
Zuzana Liová
Imrich has a present for his youngest daughter Eva: Almost singlehandedly he is building a house for her, right next […]
The Houses that Are Left
Shelly Silver
New York at the start of the 1990s. Chris and her three friends manage to get by, working on jobs […]
The Imp
Wanda Treumann (Artist), Dr. R. Portegg (Rosa Porten, Franz Eckstein)
Self-reflexive storylines that dealt with film-making, visiting the cinema and the film industry itself were popular material in the early […]
The Indian
Ineke Houtman
»Most children come out of their mother‘s belly«, says the eight-yearsold Koos, »I come out of an aeroplane.« Yes, Koos […]
The Infernal Grove
Emily Vey Duke, Cooper Battersby
We watch plants blooming, withering and disintegrating in time-lapse mode – a disturbingly beautiful staging of the process of decay. […]
The Inside Out
Lola Calvo
The Inside Out tells the story of two women living next to each other. It is a journey inside the […]
The Invisible Life of Eurídice Gusmão
Karim Aïnouz
Sisters Eurídice and Guida have lots of dreams: Eurídice wants to become a concert pianist, Guida dreams of freedom and […]
The Language of Rage
Alison Peirse
A dense, fast-paced multilingual video essay featuring excerpts from over ten international horror films by female directors and a soundtrack […]
The Last Day of Autumn
Marjolaine Perreten
Winter’s on its way, and the animals of the forest are organising one last race to say goodbye to autumn.
The Last Knit
Laura Neuvonen
When knitting becomes an obsession … Awards for ›Kutoja‹ Tricky Women Award, Tricky Women, Wien 2007 | Publikumspreis und spezielle […]
The Last Male on Earth
Floor Van Der Meulen
Sudan is the last of his kind. A northern white rhino of which there are only three left – two […]
The Latest Star from Vaudeville
Dr. R. Portegg (Rosa Porten, Franz Eckstein)
Stella Orlanda is a young variety artist who can stand her ground like the next man – and not only […]
The Law of the Jungle
Pascale Hecquet
A splendid, big banana hangs from a huge tree in the middle of the colourful jungle. A little monkey is […]
The Lie of the Land
Molly Dineen
»When I started to make the film I really thought it would be more about fox-hunting than agriculture. What I […]
The Little Nazi
Petra Lüschow
The Wölkel family wants to celebrate Christmas with Grandma, as they do every year – but there are some shocking […]
The Little Red Paper Ship
Aleksandra Zaręba
The little red paper ship wants to discover new territory. Or: a poetic story about the courage to venture out […]
The Lollipop Generation
G. B. Jones
After a bad argument with her father, Georgie (Jena von Brücker) runs away from her homophobic home. Hitch-hiking, she ends […]
The Magical Dimension
Gudrun Krebitz
»You can always be in two places at once, did you know? The real world and the magical world.« The […]
The Magnetic Tree
Isabel Ayguavives
»The Magnetic Tree tells the simple story of someone returning to the place to which they belong – or at […]
The Man Who Sold His Skin
Kaouther Ben Hania
To escape the war raging in Syria, the impulsive Sam Ali flees to neighbouring Lebanon. By chance he meets successful […]
The Man Who Sold His Skin
Kaouther Ben Hania
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie. You […]
The Man Woman Case
Anaïs Caura
Sydney, 1920: The police discover the body of a woman. There is little evidence to prove it, but Police Inspector […]
The Masked Monkeys
Anja Dornieden and Juan David González Monroy
The masked arts of Indonesia are thousands of years old. It is believed that they originated from tribal death rites, […]
The Mechanical Man
Valentina Frascaroli (Artist)
»Engineer Dell’Ara’s amazing invention consists of a machine in human form built out of pure steel and extremely resistant. The […]
The Mechanical Man
André Deed, Valentina Frascaroli (Artist)
»The incredible invention of the engineer Dell’Ara is a machine in human form, made of pure steel and exceptionally robust. […]
The Miseducation of Cameron Post
Desiree Akhavan
»The only mainstream queer female stories have been directed by men – it disgusts me.« – Desiree Akhavan After the […]
The Mokélé-Mbembé Hypothesis
Marie Voignier
The mokélé-mbembé is said to live somewhere in the African rainforests. And so, over the years, Michel Ballot, a French […]
The Moon and I
Nancy Biniadaki
A little boy can’t sleep. He sees the moon outside his window and spontaneously starts to dance with it.
The Mosquito Pieks
Maria Steinmetz
It’s winter and little mosquito Pieks is freezing. Shivering with cold, she sets out in search of a warm overcoat.
The Mushroom Speaks
Marion Neumann
This film will also be available online on our VoD platform from March 29 to April 10, 2022. Please note: […]
The Name Of The Son
Martina Matzkin
Thirteen-year-old trans boy Lucho knows exactly who he is. When he spends a few days at the beach with his […]
The Name of the Son
Martina Matzkin
Thirteen-year-old trans boy Lucho knows exactly who he is. When he spends a few days at the beach with his […]
The New Children of Golzow
Simone Catharina Gaul
The Brandenburg village of Golzow was made famous by The Children of Golzow, one of the most ambitious long-term documentary […]
The Night of the Factory Girls
Geonhee Kim
At the start of the 20th century, when cinema was emerging, Korea was under Japanese occupation – a violent colonisation […]
The Non-Toed Fur-Coatie
NEOZOON
Zoos reveal the human relationship to nature. They offer various settings in which the animal becomes an image in which […]
The Not so Subtle Subtext
Sarah Rotella
In The Not so Subtle Subtext, Sarah Rotella examines TV series Xena: Warrior Princess to see if there might be […]
The Nymphs of Hindu Kush
Anneta Papathanassiou
»Nymphs are generally regarded as divine spirits who animate nature and are usually depicted as beautiful, young, nubile maidens who […]
The Off Hours
Megan Griffiths
You’re awake when everyone else is asleep. You’re standing still as traffic is whipping by at 70 mph. Your off […]
The Old Song
Ula Stöckl
It is Christmas in Dresden, 1990. The steady camera movements reveal the dark brown walls whose apparent fragility seems to […]
The One – Sandra Hüller
Nanouk Leopold, Daan Emmen
The One Who Walks
Eli Cortiñas
›The One Who Walks‹ is a key female character in Carlo Lizzani’s contribution to the Neorealist anthology film L’amore in […]
The Orphanage
Shahrbanoo Sadat
15-year-old Quodrat lives in the streets of Kabul, without family or a roof over his head. He usually spends his […]
The Other Side of the River
Antonia Kilian (DoP)
Special Mention Statement of the Jury (Isabelle Casez, Birgit Guðjonsdottir, Sabine Panossian) »›I have lived without a man for 20 […]
The Park
Randa Maroufi
The camera glides through a deserted amusement park in Casablanca where youngsters are killing time. Maroufi portrays the teenagers in […]
The Party
Sally Potter
Sally Potter opens her star-studded social satire with a frontal shot of a pistol barrel: The party can begin. The […]
The Path Of Thousand Gates
Varvara Obedkova
Two monks set out on a pilgrimage path inhabited by evil spirits. The younger one disobeys his mentor, leaves the […]
The Perfect Candidate
Haifaa Al Mansour
Haifaa Al Mansour (Wadjda) portrays a young woman in Saudi Arabia who struggles to achieve her goals with courage and […]
The Plague
Neus Ballús
»Because of this feeling of loneliness and uncertainty, I’ve always thought of La plaga as a contemporary western. Also because […]
The Political Flapper
Marie Dressler (Artist), Marion Davies (Artist)
Patricia, known as Patsy, is the one who gets browbeaten in the family – particularly by her mother and her […]
The Priestess Walks Alone
Hui-chen Huang
Anu is a tomboy. Although, as was conventional in Taiwan of the 1970s, she married young and had two children, […]
The Private Life of Fenfen
Leslie Tai
»I decided to liberate myself from the traditional modes of documentary altogether.« – Leslie Tai The 23-year-old Fenfen reports in […]
The Punk Singer – A Film about Kathleen Hanna
Sini Anderson
»In her kiss, I taste the revolution! Rebel girl rebel girl Rebel girl you are the queen of my world« […]
The Queen of Silence
Agnieszka Zwiefka
The Queen of Silence tells the story of 10-year-old Denisa, a deaf Roma girl who lives in an illegal settlement […]
The Queen of Versailles
Lauren Greenfield
»You couldn’t invent a better metaphor for America’s economic insanity.« – Peter Keough, Boston Phoenix »Nothing is really normal about […]
The Queer Umbrella
Rosa Middleton
The Queer Umbrella is an animated short film that answers the question of what the word queer means in today’s […]
The Realm of God
Claudia Sainte-Luce
This film will also be available online on our VoD platform from April 18 to April 30, 2023. Please note: […]
The Red Spectre
Segundo de Chomón, Ferdinand Zecca
In his weird and wonderful burlesque film The Red Spectre, Segundo de Chomón creates a feast of spectacular optical illusions. […]
The Remembered Film
Isabelle Tollenaere
We find ourselves in an endless forest. Young soldiers appear in the uniforms of Soviet troops, the Wehrmacht and the […]
The Return
Türkân Şoray
The great actress Türkan Şoray is is revered as the Sultana of Turkish cinema. In 1972, in the feature film […]
The School by the Sea
Solveig Melkeraaen
During the breaks, Thorvin can hear the sea roaring. »The best thing about our school is that there are not […]
The School by the Sea
Solveig Melkeraaen
During breaktime, Thorvin can hear the roar of the waves. #»The best thing about our school is that it’s so […]
The Sea Runs Thru My Veins
Zara Zandieh
Four protagonists talk about their ideas of happiness, which are closely linked to perspectives of queerness and experiences with migration. […]
The Second Attack
Mala Reinhardt
»In Der zweite Anschlag I felt it important to give the protagonists the opportunity to present their own perspectives. Much […]
The Separate System
Katie Davies
Facilitated by a workshop programme with veterans, The Separate System explores the divisions and links between three clearly defined areas […]
The Shore
Rüya Arzu Köksal
»…The historic pier [was] torn in two and all the nearby beaches destroyed. People lost access to the sea. We […]
The Silences of the Palace
Moufida Tlatli
»From the perspective of a child I have tried to present the world of oriental princes and the injustices emanating […]
The Sinking of Titania
Mara Mattuschka
Blending various techniques such as animation and live stop-start action, Sinking of Titania moves through several levels of reality. »Yes […]
The Sitting Duck
Jean-Paul Salomé
She has made herself unpopular after exposing the secret dealings of France’s nuclear industry with China and taking the case […]
The Sled
Olesya Shchukina
A young squirrel discovers a sled in the snow. Ignoring a group of scornful birds, it sledges down a pile […]
The Snow Queen in Sign Language
Britt Dunse
Once upon a time there was a mirror made of ice that made everything beautiful look ugly and everything ugly […]
The Sole, Between Water and Sand
Angèle Chiodo
Over 45 million years ago, a fish now known as the common sole took an asymmetric shape … and nobody […]
The Stars (Are Out Tonight)
Floria Sigismondi
David Bowie’s und Tilda Swinton’s middle-class suburban life goes off the rails after they went to the supermarket one evening.
The Stopover
Delphine and Muriel Coulin
At the end of their tour of duty in Afghanistan, two young military women, Aurore and Marine, are given three […]
The Stowaway
Maria Brendle
After running away from an orphanage, eight-year-old Emma believes she has found the perfect hideaway in the apartment of a […]
A housewife dreams of a world where gender roles are reversed. She attends a feminist rally where protesters formulate radical […]
The Ties That Bind
Su Friedrich
In The Ties That Bind, Su Friedrich analyses her mother’s memories of her youth in Germany between the 1920s and […]
The Time of a Slime Mold
Leena Pukki
We see a luminous, colourful kaleidoscope of slime mould cultures. The emerging patterns of spreading cells are reminiscent of Karelian […]
The Tiniest Place
Tatiana Huezo
»A few years ago, I visited my grandmother in San Salvador and she took me to the town where she […]
The Trace of the Butterfly
Amal Ramsis
»I filmed The Trace of the Butterfly for three years. The circumstances changed more than once, and sometimes I felt […]
The Turnip
Piret Sigus, Silja Saarepuu
A seed that is planted in the soil grows into a turnip. But what actually happens underground during this process? […]
The Turtle’s Rage
Pary El-Qalqili
»When I was 12 years old, my father left us to return to Palestine. His dream to build a house […]
The Violators
Helen Walsh
The 16-year-old Shelly lives with her brothers Andy and Jerome on a council estate in Cheshire – more a mother […]
The Visitor
Katarina Schröter
»A strange myth of our information society suggests that it’s suffcient to be informed in order to take part in […]
The Visitors
Veronika Lišková
Czech anthropologist Zdenka moves with her husband and three sons to Svalbard, Norway, to study the impact of globalisation on […]
The Waldheim Waltz
Ruth Beckermann
»No to Waldheim, no to Waldheim!« chants a crowd of people in the centre of Vienna in 1986. Ruth Beckermann […]
The Wall Fell on Our Heads
Diane Izabiliza
Die Perspektive von Frauen of Color auf die Wende: Lucía Muriel, Nivedita Prasad, Katja Kinder, Peggy Piesche und Nasrin Bassiri […]
The Watermelon Woman
Cheryl Dunye
»Black people, more specifically black women, even more specifically queer black women have been kept anonymous in the archives, unaccredited […]
The Wednesday Child
Lili Horváth
»You were born on a Wednesday and a Wednesday’s child can achieve in life anything it wants,« were the last […]
The White Elephant
Shuruq Harb
»When you take something apart, how in the world do you remember how it’s supposed to go back together?« Using […]
The White Space
Francesca Bertini (Artist), Francesca Comencini
»Since adolescence I have had to (…) defend the right of women not to have children. And this was mainly […]
The Wind Carries us Home
Udval Altangerel
»When you feel bad, visit the place where you were born,« we’re told at the beginning of the film. In […]
The Wind Is Taking Them
Ann Carolin Renninger
What will life actually be like in a few thousand trillion years’ time? For a boy in the north German […]
The Woman Who Talks to the Animals
Dana Budisavljević
Hela has always dreamed of a farm of happy animals. Three years ago, she quit her job as a nurse […]
The World in Stillness Clouded
Susann Maria Hempel
»The world in stillness clouded, And in the twilight shroud. So familiar and so fair! Like a chamber of silence, […]
The Yes Men Are Revolting
Laura Nix
They are the superstars of the protest movement in the USA. For 15 years now, these infamous activists known as […]
The Yo-Yo Gang
G. B. Jones
Rivalries constantly escalate between the Yo-Yo-Gang and the Skateboard Bitches, two lesbian girl gangs always up for a scrap. This […]
Their Algeria
Lina Soualem
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie. You […]
Themba – A Boy Called Hope
Stefanie Sycholt
The eleven-years-old Themba lives with his mother Mandisa and his younger sister Nomtha in dire poverty in a small Eastern […]
There Once Was An Island: Te Henua e Nnoho
Briar March
Sea levels are rising slowly but inexorably. Again and again the Polynesian island of Takuu is submerged, and Teloo, Endar […]
They Say
Alauda Ruiz de Azúa
Dana and Griffin are outsiders at their school in New Jersey. Griffin would like to be friends with Dana and […]
Thirst
Svetla Tsotsorkova
»Thirst is a film about the kind of love that comes upon us when we least expect it [and] forces […]
A head on a screen. Like a planet it moves in the emptiness of space. It speaks. Its words appear […]
This Summer Mosquitos Will Be Worst than Ever
Silvia De Gennaro
»The most used words by media and politicians are: alert, danger and catastrophe.« – Silvia De Gennaro What happens when […]
Those Who Kept the Light
Nastja Säde Rönkkö
Poems entwine images: seaweed pledges of love, longing for rocky landscapes, mermaid mourning and recurring maritime facets of light. Video […]
Those Who Remain
Eliane Raheb
Haykal lives in Al Shambouk, in one of Lebanon’s highest mountain regions, just a few kilometres from the Syrian border. […]
Thoughts Are Free
Urte Zintler
An elderly woman sings a traditional German folk song about the freedom of thought but has problems with her memory. […]
Three Centimetres
Lara Zeidan
In the oldest amusement park in Beirut, four cheerful female friends decide to squeeze into the cabin of a Ferris […]
Threshold
Coraci Ruiz
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie. You […]
Threshold
Coraci Ruiz
This is an autobiographical film told from the perspective of a mother who follows the gender transitioning process of her […]
Through the Eyes
Victoria Franco, Michel Franco
Single mother Mónica works as a social worker in Mexico City. Her job is to help homeless and often drug-addicted […]
Tiger Stripes
Amanda Nell Eu
Twelve-year-old Zaffan leads a carefree existence, despite the constraints imposed on her by her strict teachers and parents. She likes […]
Tilly Bébé, die berühmte Löwenbändigerin
Mathilde Rupp (Artist)
»Tilly Bébé« wears a white dress with flounces, has dark curly hair and looks like a nice young lady. She […]
Tilly in a Boarding House
Alma Taylor (Artist), Chrissie (Ada Constance) White (Artist)
Tilly and Sally go on a nocturnal joy ride dressed as men. As usual, at the end of the film, […]
Tilly’s Party – Gonca Feride Varol
Lewin Fitzhamon
Time of Darkness and Silence
Nina Gladitz
Josef Reinhardt gazes out over the expansive field. The farmer next to him glances down or to the side most […]
Time of Darkness and Silence
Nina Gladitz
Josef Reinhardt gazes out over the expansive field. The farmer next to him glances down or to the side most […]
Time Suspended
Natalia Bruschtein
86-year-old Laura Bonaparte, the director’s grandmother, fought against the Argentine military junta from the late 1970s to the early 1980s. […]
Time’s Up
Marie-Catherine Theiler, Jan Peters
»(…) is it even possible to lose or win time?« – Marie-Catherine Theiler & Jan Peters When pregnant film director […]
To Be Sisters
Anne-Sophie Gousset, Clément Céard
Two sisters bonded by love grow up together but with great disparities. Despite all the wondrous, funny and everyday experiences […]
To Break Water
Iris Sang
A young diver struggles with the traumatic consequences of a lost competition. Will she manage to overcome her fear and […]
Today
Su Friedrich
This film will also be available online on our VoD platform from April 18 to April 30, 2023. Please note: […]
Tomboy
Céline Sciamma
»I didn‘t want to fit into any genre, I just wanted to present a period of time from my childhood. […]
Tomorrow and Tomorrow And Tomorrow – Let Them Swing
Margaret Raspé
Taking a cup in your hand, emptying it, holding it under water, scrubbing, rinsing, putting it on the draining board, […]
Tongue Cutters
Solveig Melkeraaen
»And up in the north of Norway, there are even world championships in codfish tongue cutting.« »That’s weird.« Cutting tongues […]
Tongues – Tanja Tagaq
Caitlin Veitch, Omar Rivero
Tanya Tagaq is a visual artist, author, songwriter and Inuk throat singer. The song Tongues is an explicit and poetic […]
Tonight We’ll Become Women
Josefien Hendriks
Thirteen-year-old Ismini often goes to her friend Komal’s place for sleepovers. The duo has pretty much shared everything in life […]
Too Strong for Fantasy
Liza Ambrossio
»I have the suspicion that in order to be truly free it is necessary to see your father die and […]
Top Girl oder la déformation professionnelle
Tatjana Turanskyj
Part Two of Tatjana Turanskyj’s trilogy about women and work deals with prostitution as a profession, as a modern service […]
Toto Bona Lokua – Ma Mama
Katy Wang
Two friends discover a colourfully patterned jungle and on their way there meet lots of animal friends.
Touch
Shelly Silver
»I want to focus on the act – particular, yet open-ended – that entrances my protagonist: an act that we, […]
Tower XYZ
Ayo Akingbade
A journey through London’s concrete jungles. Gentrification and social cleansing are creating a vacuum and peripheral regions in which pressure […]
Toxic
Pauline Boudry, Renate Lorenz
Toxic shows two protagonists in an undated time, a punk figure in glitter (Ginger Brooks Takahashi) and a drag queen […]
Traces
Naomi Kawase
»Family gives me the clearest idea of human bonds. […] My parents were living separately before my mother gave birth […]
Tracing Aleida
Christiane Burkhard
Five years ago, 31-year-old Aleida Gallangos discovered her true identity. Brought up by her adoptive family, at the age of […]
Tracing the Rope – Eva Hesse
Marcie Begleiter
To create art on the verge of the uncontrollable, that was Eva Hesse’s passion. For 1970, for example, she had […]
Tram
Michaela Pavlátová
Tram depicts the surreal and sexual fantasies of a woman tram driver who lets herself be stimulated by the juddering […]
Trans – I Got Life
Imogen Kimmel, Doris Metz
Trans – I Got Life takes a close look at the wide spectrum of trans-identity through the lense of seven […]
Trio A
Yvonne Rainer
Yvonne Rainer’s criticism of the conventions of watching in her films are based on her work as a dancer and […]
Troublers
Young Lee
»I tried to weave the raging storm of chauvinism in with the life of those who are marginalised in society. […]
Trying to Forget You
Aérea Negrot, Simon*e Jaikiriuma Paetau
A spontaneous performance brimming with confrontational energy and beauty in the streets of Berlin. In the middle of the night, […]
Tula
Bea de Silva
Tula works as a cleaning lady at a private school for girls. One day, she encounters the headmaster’s 14-year-old daughter […]
Twice as Wise
Piet Eekman
»Fuck off, n***! Get lost, Pollack!« Serge from Ruanda and Filip from Poland, both eleven-years-old, live in the north part […]
Two Bodies on a Beach
Anna Paavilainen
A woman wakes up on a beach wrapped in plastic, half naked and wearing high heels. »Not again«, she sighs […]
Two Lives
Martina Liebnitz (Editor)
In line with the purpose of SFD film material, Zweimal Leben (Two Lives) highlights the film’s scientific character in the […]
UFO in Her Eyes
Xiaolu Guo
Kwok Yun, thirty-something, is having an affair with the married villageschool teacher. But it does not fill the emptiness in […]
Trude gets a new kitchen, bathroom and state-of-the-art washing machine. Film Series New Archives
Unapologetic
Ashley O`Shay
Janaé and Bella are the two protagonists of the film. They want to investigate the shootings of Rekia Boyd and […]
Unapologetic
Ashley O`Shay
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie. You […]
Uncanny Valley – Sandee Chan
Sandee Chan
Und sie dreht sich Doch!
Milena Gierke
Under the Clouds
Vasilisa Tikunova
Walter, the lamb, wants more than anything to be a beautiful cloud. His favourite pastime is leaping about and staring […]
Under the Starry Sky
Dyana Gaye
»It’s not my intention to try and establish an African or Senegalese identity but more to understand a movement – […]
Undertone Overture
Jodie Mack
A study of tie dye swims out to the cosmos and back again.
Unearthing. In Conversation
Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński
An empty auditorium. A stack of photo boxes. A colonial flashback. Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński’s performance video centres around a series of […]
Unerhört
Emma Bading
There’s a knock on the door. A woman in a red dress is outside. She wants to visit Jette, but […]
Unit
Anna Ansone
»Thomas’s cat has died.« »What, again?« The group of people living together in Unit are a phlegmatic bunch. A clock […]
Unorthodox Daughter
Manny Bonett
Unterm Sternenhimmel
Dyana Gaye
Young male and female window dressers work together to design a large shop window. Film Series New Archives
Friendship, love and care in old age. A tribute to staying together. Film Series New Archives
Untitled (Trashcan)
Klara Lidén
A scenery that many of us know quite well: you sit in your studio or work space and you try […]
Untitled Sequence of Gaps
Vika Kirchenbauer
In this essay film composed of short vignettes of varying technique and materiality, the non-visible spectrum of light – what […]
Up in the Sky
Petter Lennstrand
»Excuse me! Where are the ponies?« »Ponies? I have no idea!« Pottan was supposed to be spending the holidays at […]
Upside Down
Dace Rīdūze
A baby bat suddenly becomes active in the daytime. So much to see and experience on a spring day like […]
Upstream
Marion Hänsel
Homer and Joé, two taciturn men aged around fifty, sail a small boat up a river in Croatia. Until recently, […]
Utopia Ltd.
Sandra Trostel
The stuff other young bands only dream of: Anton Spielmann (18, vocals and guitar) and his younger friends Basti Muxfeldt […]
Vakha and Magomed
Marta Prus
Vakha and his ten-year-old Magomed have emigrated from Chechnya to Poland. Left to their own devices, they have to deal […]
Variety
Bette Gordon
Christine takes a casual job selling tickets at one of the numerous sex cinemas on New York’s 42nd Street. The […]
Vatersland
Petra Seeger
Vatersland starts with the traumatic early death of the director’s mother. With great sensitivity, the film chronicles her personal journey […]
Venus
Die Sandgeborenen (Dagi Brundert und Ramona Welsch)
Verfolgt
Angelina Maccarone
»In artistic black-and-white images, the director narrates a bold, sadomasochistic story in mercilessly hard tones. Maren Kroymann fascinates as a […]
A little girl is sent out begging by her violent and drunken parents. A rich couple climbs aboard a cab, […]
Via Karelia
Elian Mikkola
The search for a lost identity, hidden in the woods of a deserted war zone. How is trauma transmitted from […]
Vibrancy of Silence: A Discussion with My Sisters
Marthe Djilo Kamga
Film as dialogue: Director Marthe Djilo Kamga and four other Cameroonian female artists discuss their views on cultural heritage, historical […]
Victoria
Sofie Benoot, Liesbeth De Ceulaer, Isabelle Tollenaere
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie. You […]
Victory Day
Alina Rudnitskaya
In June 2013, the Russian Duma passes a new anti-gay bill. What’s it like to live in a country of […]
Video 1
Kurdwin Ayub
»Hey! It’s me again!« A young woman is creating a new video blog entry. She straightens her T-shirt, runs her […]
Vienna Hit
Anna Vasof
“Vienna Hit” is part of a larger project by Anna Vasof entitled “Hitting my Head on the World”. Hitting one’s […]
Vierzehn
Cornelia Grünberg
»Vierzehn was definitely not designed as a sex education film. Except perhaps to make the one point: that the saying […]
Violently Happy
Paola Calvo
For her documentary Violently Happy, Paola Calvo accompanied the former dancer Felix Ruckert, whose choreographies coused irritation in the art […]
Virgin Blue
Niu Xiaoyu
This film can’t be trusted: clocks stop suddenly and reflections of light are up to mischief. While Yezi spends a […]
Virgin Machine
Monika Treut
In this lesbian cinema classic, Dorothee Müller leaves her bourgeois life in Hamburg behind and moves out to San Francisco’s […]
Virtuos Virtuell
Maja Oschmann, Thomas Stellmach
Maja Oschmann and Thomas Stellmach use Virtuos Virtuell to illustrate the overture to the opera The Alchymist by the composer […]
Vlog #8998 I Korean Karottenkuchen & Our Makeup Routine
Ji Su Kang-Gatto
The artist returns with her sister to a town in Lower Saxony where they spent part of their childhood and […]
Voices of Finance
Clara van Gool
Voices of Finance is a docudrama based on the eponymous banking blog by Joris Luyendijk in the British newspaper The […]
Voltage
Samira Ghahremani
»That’s so typical. If something doesn’t suit you, you just go mad!« Lizzy’s in love with techno DJ Bernhard. He […]
Vom Bäckermeister Quarkgebäck
Elisabeth Wilms
We see children playing and then running to a table covered with a variety of pastries. Children and mothers eating […]
Vreme
Dragana Jovanović
The daily routine of 87-year-old Vida is turned on its head when her one neighbour foretells the imminent arrival of […]
Vulva 3.0 – Between Taboo and Fine-Tuning
Claudia Richarz, Ulrike Zimmermann
»›Showing the vulva scares off bears and lions, makes wheat grow higher, calms storm tides and demons fear it. The […]
W O W (Kodak)
Viktoria Schmid
Back in the days, the Kodak company’s industrial site in Rochester (USA) used to produce analogue film material. Viktoria Schmid […]
Waiting for August
Teodora Ana Mihai
»I made the movie because I felt like history was repeating itself. My parents left the country for political reasons. […]
Wajib
Annemarie Jacir
»Humans must fight tirelessly to protect their rights and limited resources, but they are an admirable species, humans, full of […]
Walchensee Forever
Janna Ji Wonders
A house near Walchensee is the setting for this autobiographical reappraisal that spans five generations. The storyline – from the […]
Wallah Be
Pia Bovin
»My daughter was in the same class as a boy who converted to Islam when he was eleven years old. […]
Wanda’s Trick
Dr. R. Portegg (Rosa Porten, Franz Eckstein)
A young woman working in a cigarette factory is hoping to marry the director but he’s not interested in a […]
War and Love in Kabul
Helga Reidemeister
»Right from the start, Afghanistan and the people there moved me very much. (…). The most impressive thing about them […]
Wartezeit
Clara Stern
The last bus comes later than expected. Anna waits. But she’s not alone. The street is silent and dark and […]
was brennt
Jana Bauch
The two protagonists of this film, Indigo and Ronni, are followed while building tree houses, cooking, and reflecting on political […]
Was da lebt
Kyne Uhlig and Nikolaus Hildebrand
What else co-inhabits a household where four children live? Well, without seeing the humans that live here, we get to […]
Was mann ist
Sarah Brömmel, Jana Hanrieder and Katharina Grote
»It’s important that someone has found himself, that he has found out who he is and that he can live […]
Wash Day
Kourtney Jackson
An intimate exploration into how private, domestic acts, such as washing your hair or putting on makeup, become a significant […]
Wasp
Andrea Arnold
Watching, reading, listening … and writing Films Dortmund school students present their own subtitles Early evening in the middle of […]
Waste Land
Lucy Walker
»Waste Land questions our prejudices about people living on the edge of society. The film presents its protagonists as people […]
Wasteland
Kathleen Quillian
»(…) and it‘s something that most people just don‘t think about, even though food is right there in front of […]
Wasteland no. 1: Ardent, Verdant
Jodie Mack
Trash to treasure – From alternating 16-mm shots of disused circuit boards and fields of bright red poppies, Jodie Mack […]
Wasteland No. 2: Hardy, Hearty
Jodie Mack
»›Can it be true,‹ said the first leaf, ›can it really be true, that others come to take our places […]
Watchtower
Pelin Esmer
»Once the watchtower and the bus station appeared in my mind, the characters appeared too. … [The locations] are like […]
Water Makes Us Wet: An Ecosexual Adventure
Beth Stephens and Annie Sprinkle
This film will also be available online on our VoD platform from March 29 to April 10, 2022. Please note: […]
Waterproof
Daniela König
Humorous portrait of three female plumbers from Jordan who have discovered a gap in the market they can fill. Khwala, […]
We Are the Pirates of the Roads
Marjut Komulainen
Ten-year-old Vilja is bored: thee summer holidays don’t promise the exciting trips that she yearns for. Instead, it’s the same […]
We Are Tomorrow
Betty Schiel, Lisa Domin
We Don’t Want to Marry
Coral Short
Masha Nehls does unspeakably delicious things to a giant wedding cake while the New York City Drag March chants in […]
We Need to Talk about Kevin
Lynne Ramsay
»As testosterone gets more and more of the blame for everything from crime to the banking collapse, this set-up resonates. […]
Weeks of Sand, Months of Ash, Years of Dust
Rita Macedo
This is a film about retrospection. Rita Macedo looks at whether film can change perspectives, and links a personal narrative […]
Welcome Visitors!
Penny Siopis
The film revolves around »Skokiaan«, an illegal brew made by Africans during the colonial era. It was outlawed by the […]
Well, Well, Well
Elisabeth Subrin
Wenn du Rausgehst
Nuria Gómez Garrido
Whether they’re at football, at home or in school, mobile phones are their constant companion. For Jana and her friends, […]
The film weaves through a mixture of stop-motion animation, found footage and interviews, documenting the journey of a film-maker making […]
Westerwald: A Visitation
Sandra Schäfer
The two-channel video installation by international artist Sandra Schäfer shows, on the left screen, an essay film on August Sander’s […]
Whacker
Stanya Kahn, Harry Dodge
»Under a cloudless Los Angeles sky, Kahn − dressed in incongruous heels and a summery dress − runs an electric […]
What a Wonderful World
Anja Plaschg, Timo Schierhorn
»I see trees of green, red roses too I see them bloom, for me and you And I think to […]
What a Wonderful World
Anja Plaschg, Timo Schierhorn
»I see trees of green, red roses too I see them bloom, for me and you And I think to […]
what remains
belit sağ
what remains looks at the question of what remains after the war. Again, footage from the Kurdish city of Cizre, […]
What Time Is Love?
Anna Franceschini
»Jochen, turn on the reindeer, will you?« – The testing facilities at the headquarters of the TÜV inspection association in […]
What We Do not See
Anna Katharina Wohlgenannt
»We are not supposed to be aware of the electromagnetic world. Indeed, it’s as though someone is operating a policy […]
A citizen survey sheds light on vehicles of Neonazis.
What You Don’t Put in the Soup Goes Down the Loo
Kirsten Burger, Laura Vogel
Kirsten Burger and Laura Vogel combine dance elements with texts from Aglaja Veteranyi, the Rumanian author and actress who took […]
What’s Going On?
Jocelyne Saab
»I’m not asking the viewer to understand everything, but just to dream for a while.« – Jocelyne Saab Beirut, 2010. […]
What’s Up with the Sky?
Irene Iborra
The sun and moon live contentedly in the sky and watch the goings-on of people on earth. But the humans […]
When the Andorgynous Child
Melina Pafundi
Melina Pafundi allows the androgynous child to speak. The child switches between yesterday and today, and represents a character who […]
When words fail us – Women talk about new beginnings
Cornelia Bartlau
In 2015, thousands of people came to Germany from Syria. A particularly large number of women, children and young adults […]
Where Is The Friend’s Home?
Amina Maher
In search of the creation of an autonomous body, the trans woman director, Amina Maher reveals her unspoken desires which […]
Where Shapes Come From
Semiconductor (Ruth Jarman, Joe Gerhardt)
In the laboratory of the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. mineralogist Jeffrey Post explains how the smallest […]
Conjuring up memories of the nail bomb attack at the Keupstraße in Cologne.
Whispering Pines 10, Chapter 1
Shana Moulton
Shana Moulton’s alter ego Cynthia has been searching for the meaning of life and fulfilment in her video series Whispering […]
Whispering Pines 10, Chapter 1
Shana Moulton
Shana Moulton’s alter ego Cynthia has been searching for the meaning of life and fulfilment in her video series Whispering […]
Whispering Pines 4
Shana Moulton
In this episode of the ongoing Whispering Pines series, Moulton’s hapless protagonist Cynthia seeks a cure for an ailment via […]
White Tape
Michal und Uri Kranot
The film is based on five seconds of footage from »Shooting Back«, a project initiated by an Israeli human rights […]
White Trash Girl: The Devil Inside
Jennifer Reeder
This is the filmic creation of the legendary superheroine and first part of the series Clit-o-matic: The Adventures of White […]
Who Dares?
Sanni Lahtinen
Telegraph 21: »What do you want viewers to take away from the film?« Sanni Lahtinen: »I want all viewers to […]
Who‘s Afraid of Sibylle Berg
Wiltrud Baier & Sigrun Köhler
»Before Sibylle Berg became Sibylle Berg, nobody knew that she is Sybille Berg.« Sibylle Berg, celebrated novelist, playwright and columnist […]
Why is Mrs. B. Happy?
Erika Runge
»Well, our economic miracle stopped at our front door if you look at the state our staircase is in.« – […]
Widerstand
Dagie Brundert
Widerstand. Jägerstand. Rieselsand. … A kind of poem about Resistance.
A guide to gender untangling that gradually overrides itself. A humorous commentary on heteronormative gender classifications.
Wild Yout
Duncan Loudon
winterlieb – libawka
Julius Günzel, Maja Nagel
Wintergreen (›Winterlieb‹ in German) is a very rare type of plant. Edith and Kito Penk know all about it and […]
Wintertochter
Johannes Schmid
»With his second feature film, director Johannes Schmid has come up with more than a children’s film. It’s a road […]
Wir können nicht den hellen Himmel träumen
Carmen Tartarotti
A convent in South Tyrol which now accommodates only the two nuns: Sister Angelika and Sister Benvenuta. When the two […]
Wistful Wilderness
Digna Sinke
An unusual experiment began in 2006 on the Dutch island of Tiengemeten, to the south of Rotterdam. The island, which […]
With Your Eyes Closed
Renata Gąsiorowska
Wo der Wind so kalt weht
Janina Jung
Preview For this, her graduation piece, Janina Jung returned once again to the people of her home village – Emmerichenhain. […]
Wo stehst Du?
Bettina Braun
»Live has become more seriously.« – Bettina Braun Their home is Germany, their view of the world is marked by […]
The Spot recalls the demonstration in Kassel after the murder of Halit Yozgat and Mehmet Kubaşik
Wolf
Julia Ocker
A wolf prowls through the forest at night to secretly pursue its hobby. If only it wasn’t for that cheeky […]
Wolf and Dog
Cláudia Varejão
This film will also be available online on our VoD platform on April 24 and April 25, 2023. Please note: […]
Wolf’s Hole
Věra Chytilová
A group of eleven young people have been picked to take part in a special ski course, but their excitement […]
Wolves from Above
Demelza Kooij
A pack of wolves filmed from above in a single shot. The wolves go about their business, calmly and intently. […]
Woman
Nina Lassila
Woman shows the protagonist’s attempt to be a »fucking real woman« in the world’s most beautiful city, Paris.
Woman of Africa
Milja Viita
A quiet and attentive film portrait of women in the Gulf of Guinea.
Women Acting Like Staubsaugerroboter
Marion Pfaus
Women Acting Like Vacuum Robots is part of an ongoing series of short films in which women embody iconic phenomena […]
Women of My Family
Alissa Sophie Larkamp
Exploring a family history from a female perspective, told as a fragmentary, personal stream of memories. Great-grandmother, grandmother and mother […]
Woolly Wolf
Vera Neubauer
A charming »woolly« cartoon variation on the tale by Brothers Grimm. Little Red Riding Hood does not let herself be […]
Word Is Out
Peter Adair
»So I asked what was a lesbian, and everybody laughed. ›That‘s a girl who likes other girls instead of boys‹, […]
Words of Negroes
Sylvaine Dampierre
The Grand Anse sugar refinery on the tiny island of Marie-Galante is the setting for the re-enactment of a 1842 […]
Words of Negroes
Sylvaine Dampierre
The Grand Anse sugar refinery on the tiny island of Marie-Galante is the setting for the re-enactment of a 1842 […]
Working on it
Karin Michalski, Sabian Baumann
A film about gender and sexual identity. With the help of interviews and enactments, the discourse on gender and identity […]
Working to Beat the Devil
Chu-Li Shewring, Adam Gutch
»There must have been some strange error in these experiments, the solution must have been too strong.« An ageing scientist, […]
Writing with Flaming Fingers
Shabnam Azar
February 11, 2016: It was shortly after midnight when emergency services received a call about a car fire. We went […]
WTC A Love Story
Lietje Bauwens, Wouter De Raeve
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie. You […]
Wulkania (Mary Ocher, Felix Kubin)
Mariola Brillowska
The Fabric with which we work / Is the fabric of men’s minds / The all seeing / All knowing […]
Wunderkammern
Hanna Nordholt and Fritz Steingrobe
In the early museums of the late renaissance, researchers would gather objects from all over the world. Hanna Nordholt and […]
Yes, We Are
Magda Wystub
»Berlin, April 2006: at an event organised by myself about the current situation of lesbian and gays in Poland, a […]
Yikásdáhí – Awaits the Dawn
Gabriela Clar
Just as a Navajo god is about to fill the sky with stars, a cunning coyote comes along and makes […]
Yksi Kaksi Kolme
Dagie Brundert
»The last time I travelled the world, I couldn’t leave for a long time because the portals were too flat. […]
You Are Boring!
Vika Kirchenbauer
Following the service industry boom in the first decade of the 21st century, the concept of work in the new […]
You Can’t Mess With Me
Gabrielle Le Bayon
A dance between a woman and a gorilla leads to the moulting of the beast, to the incarnation of the […]
You Were an Amazement on the Day You Were Born
Emily Vey Duke, Cooper Battersby
You Were an Amazement on the Day You Were Born is a visually rich and darkly comic film that follows […]
You’ll Know What to Do With Me
Katina Medina Mora
»It was clear to me that this was about two people who have different fears about living, either from physical […]
Yound and Wild
Marialy Rivas
»Daniela’s problem is a contemporary issue common amongst teenagers: anonymity. They blog vulgarly, vigorously hitting the keyboard whilst alone in […]
Yours in Sisterhood
Irene Lusztig
Middletown, Connecticut: A young girl reads a poem out loud. A bit hesitantly, awkwardly – the text is not hers, […]
Yours Truly
Maddi Barber, Christopher Murray, Charlotte Hoskins
Yours Truly follows the trail and stories of preserved animal bodies collected by Manchester Museum. Historic correspondence between museum directors, […]
Yulia & Juliet
Zara Dwinger
Yulia and Juliet are serving sentences in the same juvenile detention centre. They chat secretly through air vents and hide […]
Zephyr
Belma Baş
»The film’s title literally means “soft breeze blowing from the west.” It is the mythological name for the god of […]
Zibilla
Isabelle Favez
The little zebra Zibilla has been adopted by horse parents. When the family moves to a new home and little […]
Zohra
Albert Samama Chikli
A shipwreck leaves a young French woman stranded on the coast of Tunisia, where she is taken in by a […]
Zukunft
Kyne Uhlig and Nikolaus Hildebrand
An intriguing look at how children tend to imagine their future.
Zurura, Zurura: The Smile Blooms
Marthe Djilo Kamga
Zurura, Zurura: The Smile Blooms is a poetic visual philosophical essay. In this film, the director Marthe Djilo Kamga revisits […]
Zurura, Zurura: The Smile Blooms
Marthe Djilo Kamga
Zurura, Zurura: The Smile Blooms is a visually poetic and philosophical essay. In this film, director Marthe Djilo Kamga revisits […]
Zustand und Gelände
Ute Adamczewski
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie. You […]
