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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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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.
Der Morgen im Kiefernwald
27 Min., Experimentalfilm , KurzfilmDER MORGEN IM KIEFERNWALD approaches a familiar phenomenon of our modern, ageing society: the loss of sight. Alongside the physical process of blindness, the film subtly evokes the geopolitical transformations that accompanied the end of the Cold War.
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.
Habitat
79 Min., DokumentarfilmAlong the shores of Germany's largest artificial lake, HABITAT enters the worlds of former miners, women observing nature and asylum seekers from different backgrounds.
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.
Nasim
85 Min., DokumentarfilmStranded in Moria, the EU's largest refugee camp, Nasim battles her own fears and the camp's brutal conditions in pursuit of a self-determined life. When Moria burns to the ground in September 2020, every glimmer of hope seems extinguished.
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?
We wanted to kill all nasty ones
91 Min., DokumentarfilmA deadpan, reality-based satire about the improbable purchase and impossible sale of a bunker hill — a film poised between rigorous documentary observation and dryly comic science fiction.
