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Germany 2019, 115 min
by Barbara Wallbraun

UFERFRAUEN – Lesbian life and love in the GDR is a documentary which tells the life stories of six lesbian women in the GDR – in the big city as well as in rural areas – and how they lived and loved in same-sex relationships. These six very different biographies are representative of untold lesbian history, ranging from intimate love stories to accounts of state repression. Shaped by socialism, how did these mothers, workers and warriors, often "invisible" lesbians, live? UFERFRAUEN illustrates

Germany 2018, 88 min
by Asteris Kutulas

DANCE FIGHT LOVE DIE is an exuberant visual epic: a poetic road movie from the cosmos of composer Mikis Theodorakis (Z, CANTO GENERAL, SERPICO, ZORBA THE GREEK). He is the ingenious enfant terrible of our recent European musical history, a man who made history.Director Asteris Kutulas captured countless moments of the composer’s life over 3 decades, 4 continents, 100 locations, and 600 hours of footage. For this exceptional film, Kutulas spliced extremely personal moments with treasures from the

2015, 113 min
by Nicolas Steiner

Far, far away and out of sight, that’s where April, Dave, Cindy, Rick and the Godfather are creating life on their own terms. From the depths of the flood channels under Sin City, to a reclaimed military bunker in the middle of the dusty, heated Californian nowhere land to beyond the stratosphere where Mars now lives on earth. Each individual has been flung into periling circumstances on this rollercoaster ride called life. Through the hustle, pain, and laughter, we are whisked away to an unfami

Germany 2013, 94 min
by Jochen Hick

In 1968, paragraph 175, which made homosexual behavior punishable by law, was abolished in the German Democratic Republic. At first homosexuality was considered a negligible, somehow suspicious issue in real existing socialism. The nuclear family constituted the center of social society.“Out in East Berlin” tells the various, impressive-to-absurd personal histories of gay men and lesbians during socialistic GDR until the fall of the Berlin Wall. Their experiences on the path to a self-conscious,

Germany 2013
by René Schöttler

Perceived 'too big' in her home country and currently confronted with the relevance of 'body' and 'beauty', author Tine Wittler travels to Mauritania – a country in the Sahara desert where fully-figured women are considered especially beautiful and force-feeding of young girls is still practiced. But how can this be? How can anything like an 'ideal' emerge in the first place, and what is it influenced by? How can I deal with the conflict of wanting to be 'beautiful' and wanting to be 'free'? And

Germany, Switzerland 2017, 100 min
by Jan Gassmann

Europe on the verge of social and economic change. A close up into the shaken vision of four couples, daily struggles, fights, kids, sex and passion. A movie about the politics of love.Four couples struggle on the edge of mother Europe. In countries troubled by economic and social crises they stumble through life with charme, sex and plenty of passion. A movie about the politics of love. In Sevilla JUAN, 21, and CARO, 23, experience the wonder of a young love. However, Juan is without a plan for

Switzerland, Germany 2016, 119 min
by Heidi Specogna

It all started with a small school exercise book. But instead of being full of vocabulary, the pages were checkered with the courageous testimonies of 300 Central African women, girls and men. They reveal what Congolese mercenaries did to them between October 2002 and March 2003 in the wake of armed conflict. On their own initiative, they gathered together their testimonies in this book to record the crimes committed against them.As a result of rape, Amzine, a young Muslim woman, gave birth to a

2024, 88 min
by Günter Atteln

Recognized early on for her exceptional talent, Joana Mallwitz was Europe’s youngest general music director before becoming chief conductor of the Konzerthausorchester Berlin, one of Germany’s leading classical orchestras, in August 2023. Over two years, the film follows her as she embarks on a decisive phase of her international career – with debuts in Munich, Paris, Salzburg, and Amsterdam. At the same time, she and her husband have to reorganize their lives after the birth of their first chil

France, Germany 2023, 93 min
by Tuki Jencquel

Paris, Summer 2018. Jacqueline Jencquel (74) lives a comfortable life in a splendid apartment in Saint-Germain. Apart from a few age-related ailments, she's in good health. And yet Jackie has decided to die. A mother, grandmother and dedicated right-to-die activist, she sparks a media frenzy by announcing that she will end her life in January 2020.As the clock ticks, she faces the camera of one of her three sons. Taboos are broken in an honest exchange about death, love, desire and motherhood. T

Germany 2022, 79 min
by Marita Stocker

The world out there on stages is a man’s world. Or is that just what they want us to believe? What if the true King of Rock and Roll is a Queen?Listen closely and you hear Memphis Minnie’s guitar in Chuck Berry and Eric Clapton, Sister Rosetta’s unbridled spirit in Jerry Lee Lewis, Big Mama Thornton’s growl in Elvis. Still the fact that women rocked the stages from the1950s on has been successfully pushed out of the collective memory. Time to pull out the roots and tell the other side of the sto

Switzerland, Germany 2021, 110 min
by Heidi Specogna

Nardos, an Azmari singer from Addis Ababa, dreams of telling stories about the lives of ordinary people through her music. In her search of stories for her songs, she meets Gennet, a poet who lives on the streets with her children. As Nardos puts the lives of Ethiopian women, their visions and power at the centre of her creation, we dive deeper and deeper into a rapidly changing country.

2021, 62 min
by Asteris Kutulas

The Liquid Staging project, ELECTRA 21, consists of four films, played simultaneously on four different screens that are placed around the audience area, showing different dance scenes, rehearsals, and fictional fantasies based on the Electra ballet performance by choreographer Renato Zanella. The four films are played synchronously to the same recording of the Electra opera music by Mikis Theodorakis. Electra – a timeless thriller. The father sacrifices the eldest daughter for power and fame. H