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 […]
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. […]
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, […]
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 […]
Aurora
Paz Fábrega
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie. You […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Blind Date | MAMA
Catrine Val
Blind Date | MAMA portrays the intimate relationship between internationally acclaimed dancer Andrius Strakele and his blind mother. We watch […]
Buried
Françoise Ellong
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie. You […]
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 […]
Centauress
Deniz Şimşek
A defining childhood experience gets the mind going and poses the question: How does memory work? At home, the TV […]
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 […]
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 […]
Der kleine Vogel und die Bienen
Lena von Döhren
High up in the maple tree, the little bird delights in its beautiful blossoms. Intrigued by a mysterious humming sound, […]
Der natürliche Tod der Maus
Katharina Huber
These are catastrophic times: climate collapse, the waste from today’s civilisation, contaminated fruit, not to mention the social pressures. The […]
Diamond Belly
Anni Puolakka
»If I sometimes feel lonely, I think about all the microbes who live inside me and across my skin and […]
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 […]
The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is sacred land to the indigenous First Nations community of Canada; it is also an […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Genderation
Monika Treut
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie. You […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Human Radio
Miranda Pennell
Human Radio by Miranda Pennell, from 2002, could just as easily have been shot in 2020. The short film is […]
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. […]
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie. You […]
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 […]
Kimya
Amira Duynhouwer
Kimya (Swahili for »silence«) is a story about the first moment of silence in the life of Josephine. Josie 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 […]
Lea
Nina Yuen
»Now, they are coming together.« (Nina Yuen) Off-screen we hear antlers crashing against each other: two deer are fighting. On-screen […]
Leaf
Aliona Sasková
The giant sailor prepares for his next voyage, shovelling more coal into the boiler, and scrubbing the deck. As he […]
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 […]
Meine Liebe
Clara Jost
»Meine Liebe came about on the spur of a moment when I […] had to pick the only tomato fruit […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie. You […]
Spontaneous
Lori Felker
»I had a miscarriage while attending a film festival in 2016. This is a story about bad timing, ignorance, public […]
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 […]
Tarpaulins
Lisa Truttmann
Termites offer Lisa Truttmann an unusual way of approaching the city of Los Angeles. The visual framework for this film […]
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 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 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 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 […]
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 […]
Threshold
Coraci Ruiz
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie. You […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Wash Day
Kourtney Jackson
An intimate exploration into how private, domestic acts, such as washing your hair or putting on makeup, become a significant […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
