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13 Min., Dokumentarfilm , Experimentalfilm , KurzfilmA ghost-train ride through the former industrial region of Halle/Bitterfeld, a place trying to shed its reputation. Just beneath the newly polished surface, the recent past remains deposited. The subjective camera of the filmmakers, born in “Dark Germany,” stumbles in search of the right distance.
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Autobahn
85 Min., DokumentarfilmA vast construction project is set to transform Germany's most notorious traffic bottleneck forever. Filmed over eight years, AUTOBAHN observes the people of Bad Oeynhausen as a building site reshapes their lives—a film about Germany, ordinary citizens and the great motorway.
BITING THE DUST
13 Min., Experimentalfilm , KurzfilmThe second chapter of the LAST THINGS trilogy examines Christian ideas of the afterlife, asking which living beings are admitted to heaven—and which are shut out.
Boy
30 Min., Dokumentarfilm , Kurzfilm»BOY« narrates through pictures of urban environments and close observations the lives of a girl which is raised as a boy in Afghanistan and a young afghan singer, who now lives in London but wore boys clothes to be more free in afghan society.
The Effect of Cannonry on Thunderclouds
30 Min., Dokumentarfilm , Experimentalfilm , KurzfilmIn 2016, Germany recorded more potential tornados than ever before. At the same time, weather tropes flooded screens and feeds: shit storms, data floods, refugee waves. The film reads images as documents, fictions and instruments of control — where fear, manipulation and prediction begin to merge.
Farah
75 Min., DokumentarfilmFARAH follows an Afghan teenager raised as a boy under the “Bacha Posh” tradition as she searches for her identity in Germany.
Hamburger Gitter
78 Min., DokumentarfilmBurning cars, twenty governments and 31,000 police officers leave a city traumatised. Years after the G20 summit, police still pursue hundreds of suspects by every available means, politicians demand severe sentences, the courts comply, and the few critical voices fade beneath a general clamour for law and order.
La Duna
93 Min., DokumentarfilmBeginning with the rumour that Silvio Berlusconi stole a sand dune from Sardinia's southern coast, LA DUNA circles a single question: who owns the land? A collection of strange, fairytale-like, absurd and true stories unfolds around power, property and resistance.
Lichter der Straße
86 Min., DokumentarfilmSearching for women who live on the move, the filmmaker encounters a travelling craftswoman, a woman living in a van and two Yenish women. Through poetic words and images, she follows their paths—and discovers hidden spaces of transit amid Germany's ordered landscapes.
RISE UP - Haunted bei nigthmares, looking for dreamers
89 Min., DokumentarfilmAcross four continents and four decades, RISE UP revisits political upheavals as a fiery plea against the growing sense of political powerlessness in an age of deepening crises.
Starting with Fragments
80 Min., DokumentarfilmTamer Alawam risked his life to capture images of the war in Syria and move the West to intervene. But how does German society respond to images such as these?
Una Primavera
80 Min., DokumentarfilmA daughter follows her mother with a camera on a deeply personal journey that leads them both through the contradictions of family.
