Film Archive

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

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

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

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

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

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

»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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 […]

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

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

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

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

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

»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 […]

Organische Texturen aus dem Naturraum Mexikos werden in makroskopischer Ansicht »abtastend« fotografiert. Die Einzelbildfolgen morphen ineinander, wodurch die Texturen gleitend […]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

In 2014, the district court of Dortmund sentenced midwife Anna Rockel-Loenhoff to six-and-a-half years’ imprisonment for manslaughter, plus forced her […]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 […]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Claudia practices carnival choreographies in the living room, Grandma watches.

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

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

With a concept of art that intermediates between private and public life, »Club Fortuna« takes pleasure in causing perplexity. Their […]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 […]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

»Asked about the openness and emotional power of the interviews, one of the participants said: ›We’ve been waiting all these […]

A group of jungle animals look beyond the horizon and discover that something wonderful is hiding beyond the eerie forest.

What does it mean to identify oneself as trans*? In six personal portraits, FtWTF explores backgrounds and reasons of living […]

Gabi looks after everything. Her father, her sister, and everything at work. She’s the best master tiler her apprentice Marco […]

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

Lisa, Anne, Dennis, Lashawn and Selm are gender benders. They don’t fit into the binary gender categories, they are »nothing […]

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

Shot at the Vancouver Aquarium but based on an infamous popular YouTube, this film enthusiastically loves on the magical and […]

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

Giant was filmed in Romania at the famous, communist-era gymnastics schools of Onesti and Deva where people still train fanatically. […]

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

In the gang wars of Ciudad Juárez, the mother of teenagers Jade and Caleb is seriously wounded. A journalist takes […]

»Petrunya, an everyday woman, has the force to change something, to make a change for all of us together.« Teona […]

Petrunya has moved back to her small home town in Macedonia, but is unable to find a job. After an […]

What sounds like a feminist utopia is reality in Rwanda: Since 2008, the country has been led by a majority-female […]

Nurse Gana trades the ID documents belonging to her dementia patients on the black market. Driven by the temptation of […]

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

Goodbye Fantasy is about two bodies in relation to each other enacting different constellations of social and political power.

»One step at a time – even if the case seems difficult and there are lots of suspects to question. […]

»Dammit! There’s no signal. Mum, can we leave?« A deserted beach, it’s off-season, grey and dirty. Grandma prays, Mum yells, […]

In the 1960s, Fritz Hürlimann worked in the telephone exchange of the Swiss Post Office in Zurich-Hottingen. But when working […]

The other children call him ›the bookworm‹. Which annoys Guillaume, while also making him swell with pride. The boy from […]

This experimental music video is based on a poem by Yin Ni that satirizes and celebrates a local custom in […]

Imagine a world in which cultural appropriation was a virus: white people, appropriating black culture with a vampiric intent, infect […]

Made in the »fishes« group of the FABIDO nursery school Kuithanstraße Dortmund.

A group of geese performs a graceful yet awkward choreography, torn between the desire to express themselves individually and to […]

»Happy Profiling is an answer to letters and emails I got from the Postbank two years ago. The film is […]

Lilly persuades her best friend René to accompany her on a nocturnal adventure. The two young women break into a […]

»In cinema, we do not see different types of bodies, especially for women we only see slim, with perfect bodies, […]

One sofa, three couples, a lot of possibilities. A get-together turns into a rollicking partner swap.

The dream of no longer being a housewife becomes true. In this film, work is done on its own …

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 presents itself as a message from the future, as narrated by a cat and a rabbit, spirit […]

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

In her poetic research documentary film Hinterland, Marie Voignier portrays the leisure world of Tropical Island, Europe‘s largest indoor rainforest. […]

Manila, Philippines. Jay wakes up from a dream about a place where he’s never been. A nightmare in which he […]

»Self-portrait. In 1998 our family came under armed attack. We were able to escape and we fled Grozny. We have […]

The young film-maker Nanfu Wang accompanies activist Ye Haiyan, also known by the name of Hooligan Sparrow, to the south […]

In 1946, the white actress Jean Simmons was cast for the character of the silent dancing girl Kanchi in the […]

P hat das Vertrauen in die Sprache verloren. Mit der Freundin bringt sie ihre Unsicherheit über die Sprache zum Ausdruck, […]

After the NSU claimed responsibility for the crimes in 2011, the German state intelligence agency shredded numerous files of Secret […]

These are the rules of how to adapt as a human to the contemporary world. In cooperation with Tricky Women […]

»I don’t feel like I’m Turkish anymore, actually, but I have to …«

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

Security cameras are watching us, impassively. They produce pictures unconcerned about the misfortune of humanity. In Humanité, année zéro, director […]

Pinocchio goes on a quest to find the good fairy that will turn him into a real boy. However, a […]

Whose eyes look at the images captured by a security camera? In her video work, Azar analyses and re-enacts the […]

»I remember as a teenager being told that there was a masculine and a feminine way of striking a match. […]

Eight-year-old Shula is roaming about unsuspectingly when a woman crosses her path and suddenly falls. In this remote part of […]

34-year-old April makes her money illegally as a prostitute in the city centre of Tbilisi. With her upright gait, she […]

Su Friedrich takes up her camera again in her ongoing quest to film the battleground of family life. Her sprightly […]

Pioneer of feminist cinema, experimental film-maker, nomad: Chantal Akerman left behind over forty films. Films that reinvented cinema. At the […]

Ivanka lives in rural Eastern Serbia and spent most of her life falling into a trance to enter the realm […]

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

»Ruth R. is a 42-year-old woman. I got to know her years ago when I came to Berlin. She was […]

One of the first works by Pipilotti Rist using the video medium. Rist edited the tape and created a luxury-boxed, […]

Moco hates the icy landscape in which he lives. He’s always freezing cold and his nose won’t stop running. The […]

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

Te protagonist of this film is a building. Standing on the outskirts of Rome – like a monolith in the […]

Im Ernstfall nicht verfügbar (»Unavailable in an emergency«) is the eighth part of an episodic film made by nine film-makers. […]

Laila (Mouna Hawa), Salma (Sana Jammalieh) and Nour (Shaden Kanboura) live together in an apartment in trendy Tel Aviv. During […]

Hedi doesn’t seem to be what you’d call the average grandma. She’s quite happy breakfasting with her granddaughter with nothing […]

A dirty little elephant doesn’t feel like taking a bath, but a little imagination and lots of bubbles make the […]

As a young girl growing up in a rural village in Kenya, Beryl thought that all women in the world […]

A self-titled »narrative resistance group« buries the finest porcelain they claim belonged to an entirely fictional civilisation. The group’s aim […]

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

Marie Voigner sets off on a group tour of North Korea and visits museums, artists’ studios, film studios and chemical […]

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.

«This six-minute film requires all your attention.» Pictures flash staccato-like across the screen, abruptly, fragmentarily. They are accompanied by an […]

In January 2012, Lisa Domin is looking for an apolitical place in Cairo; the result is a work featuring 16-mm […]

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 […]

Berlin, 2018. Maryam is a single working mum who has both feet firmly on the ground. Then she meets Jibril, […]

»What remains are moments of great emotional power and ultimately a plea: do everything with love and devotion. Then you […]

Elected Minister of State for General Women’s Issues in 1979 under Bruno Kreisky and from 1990 until her involuntary departure […]

Juck is a feminist intervention in public space and a visual documentary about a dance group who pushes the limits […]

In Junkanoo Talk, Rhea Storr dissects the colour codes, rhythms and body language of the folkloric Junkanoo, a carnival of […]

Having fled the civil war in Afghanistan and the persecution of his people, the Hazara, by the Taliban, Ismail now […]

A baby is bathed and dressed in a christening robe: The baby turns into a girl.

Karmok is the fourth instalment of Cycle, a series of experimental shorts that sets out to examine the phenomenon of […]

Just in time for the kick-off for the Women’s World Cup in France 2019, Marwa Zein presents her impressive and […]

Yuki’s older sister has died. The seven-year-old is sad and angry. Her parents don’t want her to lay a place […]

Day after day, Andi and his older brother Florist sell bottled milk in a desolate village in Kosovo. There’s not […]

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 […]

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

A cat is the best friend of the Orthodox priest in the Russian provinces. Two soul mates in a life […]

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.

The documentary Kumbia Queers: More louder please! shows six Latin-American musicians touring through Germany in 2011. The sound of the […]

»The cow is the symbol of our country,« says Luis, a herdsman. Anyone in Cuba who slaughters a cow can […]

Humanity has always been in search of paradise. A Guarani mythology looks at things from a completely different perspective: What […]

A few kilometres outside Paraguay’s capital city of Asunción is one of the poorest slums in Latin America. Cateura is […]

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

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

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

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.« Maya Angelou Lapse of Honour is a film […]

»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 […]

I’d like to pick you up and see you melt. The dissolving of your form should expose and deform you. […]

Der Lehrer Antek Liebmann fährt ins sommerliche Nordfrankreich. Nach einer erschütternden Erfahrung, die ihn aus der Bahn geworfen hat, will […]

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

Eight-year-old Rose believes a family is like a stellar constellation – even if some stars died millions of years ago, […]