Film Archive

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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PLEASE NOTE: Becoming Animal runs only on June 17 at 8 p.m. at Schauburg Dortmund. You can’t buy tickets for […]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Coral Short’s Genderless Jellyfish, shot in an aquarium in Vancouver, might seem a misfit for our film programme. It’s based […]

PLEASE NOTE: Gendernauts runs only on June 19 at 6 p.m. at Schauburg Dortmund. You can’t buy tickets online for […]

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Gölge by Sema Poyraz is one of the first feature films of what would later be called German-Turkish cinema. The […]

Ein von Massenentlassungen erschüttertes Dorf in der Nachwendezeit. Alles ist in Auflösung. Johanna (Claudia Geisler) betrachtet ungläubig das Geschehen um […]

Human Radio by Miranda Pennell, from 2002, could just as easily have been shot in 2020. The short film is […]

I Like Tomorrow is a sci-fi comedy musical that combines live action and animation. This short hybrid film is set […]

Gui lives on the Algarve coast of Portugal, where the sea, surf and sandy beaches are the best playground ever. […]

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A self-deprecating sense of humour and an aversion to any form of self-pity characterise these women who manage to keep […]

Early hours of the morning in Jackson in the US state of Mississippi. Someone with a dress pulled on over […]

A flock of sheep filmed from the air trying to find their way in a strange setting. Are we already […]

Kimya (Swahili for »silence«) is a story about the first moment of silence in the life of Josephine. Josie is […]

The artist’s memories of her childhood in the GDR. Astonishing as it may seem, the title Kind als Pinsel (child […]

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»I am only interested in the form once everything else is in place. The contradictory. Suspense. Tension. The beauty in […]

»Now, they are coming together.« (Nina Yuen) Off-screen we hear antlers crashing against each other: two deer are fighting. On-screen […]

The giant sailor prepares for his next voyage, shovelling more coal into the boiler, and scrubbing the deck. As he […]

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»Meine Liebe came about on the spur of a moment when I […] had to pick the only tomato fruit […]

Set against the backdrop of Turkey’s stunning Black Sea coastline, the director highlights the cruelty of social norms and portrays […]

»I saw my castles fall today And crumble into dust beneath my feet.« –Ray Price, I Saw My Castles Fall […]

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

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Weed, alcohol, speed, coke: this is how street-wise yet naïve teenager Kevin sums up his life in Germany. Classed as […]

»Are we smart consumers or just slaves to technology? […] This film is about a woman living in a world […]

PLEASE NOTE: Petite Maman runs only on June 18 at 8 p.m. at Schauburg Dortmund. You can’t buy tickets online. […]

Bosnia, July 1995. Teacher Aida works as an interpreter for the UN at the Srebrenica camp. When the Serbian army […]

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The location for this essayistic film is the area around a small suburban airport. Since the control tower is now […]

Rejoice Resist is a film that celebrates and shows Black joy and Black pleasure as the ultimate form of resistance. […]

A seahorse swims upright in the water and can’t sink. Part of the human brain is named after it, the […]

How do we accept our own bodies, our hair and skin colour, figure, muscle form and fat, things we can’t […]

»In principle there was 5 sqm for each person plus kitchen and toilet.« In the impressively named district of »Sorge« […]

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»I had a miscarriage while attending a film festival in 2016. This is a story about bad timing, ignorance, public […]

»The film proposes new vocabularies and visual performative translations of the maternal experience with the goal of integrating intergenerational knowledge, […]

Swinguerra is all about self-empowerment. The film’s immensely strong and positive portrayal of BIPOC and the queer community, especially trans […]

Termites offer Lisa Truttmann an unusual way of approaching the city of Los Angeles. The visual framework for this film […]

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

Susann Maria Hempel visits the ruins of her former home in Greiz and explores the beauty of decay. Her film […]

We watch plants blooming, withering and disintegrating in time-lapse mode – a disturbingly beautiful staging of the process of decay. […]

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Thirteen-year-old trans boy Lucho knows exactly who he is. When he spends a few days at the beach with his […]

Thirteen-year-old trans boy Lucho knows exactly who he is. When he spends a few days at the beach with his […]

15-year-old Quodrat lives in the streets of Kabul, without family or a roof over his head. He usually spends his […]

Haifaa Al Mansour (Wadjda) portrays a young woman in Saudi Arabia who struggles to achieve her goals with courage and […]

Die Perspektive von Frauen of Color auf die Wende: Lucía Muriel, Nivedita Prasad, Katja Kinder, Peggy Piesche und Nasrin Bassiri […]

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Trans – I Got Life takes a close look at the wide spectrum of trans-identity through the lense of seven […]

Janaé and Bella are the two protagonists of the film. They want to investigate the shootings of Rekia Boyd and […]

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In this essay film composed of short vignettes of varying technique and materiality, the non-visible spectrum of light – what […]

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An intimate exploration into how private, domestic acts, such as washing your hair or putting on makeup, become a significant […]

»›Can it be true,‹ said the first leaf, ›can it really be true, that others come to take our places […]

This is a film about retrospection. Rita Macedo looks at whether film can change perspectives, and links a personal narrative […]

»I see trees of green, red roses too I see them bloom, for me and you And I think to […]

In the laboratory of the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. mineralogist Jeffrey Post explains how the smallest […]

Shana Moulton’s alter ego Cynthia has been searching for the meaning of life and fulfilment in her video series Whispering […]

A pack of wolves filmed from above in a single shot. The wolves go about their business, calmly and intently. […]

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Yours Truly follows the trail and stories of preserved animal bodies collected by Manchester Museum. Historic correspondence between museum directors, […]

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