Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg GmbH

Germany 2024, 90 min
by Denis Pavlovic

Mañana Sol is a film about searching for meaning in retirement.Circa 1986, Jadranka and Aleksandar Pavlovic crossed paths in the Canary Islands and quickly fell in love, soon to be married. After a lifetime of shift work and self-employment in Germany, they washed back ashore along the Spanish island cliffside. There, where they met, they also parted ways. Living as friends now, on two separate islands they both find themselves combating the boredom of retirement alone. Jadranka decides to open

Germany 2024, 97 min
by Clara Stella Hüneke

"Germany has so much bling, why not let everyone in? Why 'women's push-ups' and 'not bad for a girl'?"Over three transformative years, Jamila(9), Rachel(11) and Faseeha(12) of the rapcrew SISTERQUEENS challenge societal norms and battle gender expectations. They live in the center of Berlin and spark poignant questions about what self-determination means to them. Faseeha confronts artistic boundaries, Rachel explores self-empowerment and Jamila questions the role of the police. Together, they cr

Germany 2023, 28 min
by Julius Gintaras Blum

Chemnitz used to be an East German industrial metropolis and for the young people the path to adulthood was usually well defined - they obtained their training and sometimes remained in the same company for decades. Nowadays, the young generation has big dreams and all the possibilities, at least in theory - but they also have parents who experienced the exact opposite back in their youth. So it's very easy for both generations to feel misunderstood. Chemnitz is no longer what it once was, but t

Germany 2023, 30 min
by Paul Drey

13 years after his civil service in a hospital in Thiès, Senegal, Paul challanges his memories and traumas. With old video footage, interviews and animations he questions his role as a volunteer within the German system of development aid.

Germany 2023, 90 min
by Nele Dehnenkamp

When Michelle married her friend from her youth on a prison visiting floor, she was determined to prove his innocence and share a happy family life with him and her children in freedom. Seven years later, her long-awaited dream could finally become reality. "For the Time Being" is an intimate long-term observation of love, devotion and female resilience.

Germany 2023, 79 min
by Lotta Pommerien

Pictures of destroyed houses, crying children, injured soldiers – the terrible news of our time appear on our phone screens, on television or in the newspapers. But who delivers them? This film accompanies three female journalists at their work in crisis areas. India/Afghanistan, Belarus/Ukraine, Uganda/Congo – these are the countries from which the women report. They must deal with patriarchal structures, dictators and terrorist organizations. How do they manage to constantly commute between ex

Germany 2023, 62 min
by Julia Groteclaes

By accident Micha gets trapped three days in a hollow behind a waterfall. He was sucked in by strong currents while mountain climbing. Through the veil of water in front of his eyes, he sees the mountain rescue team withdraw on the second day of an unsuccessful search. Micha is invisible. Eight people retell his story, enriching it with their own extreme experiences. The waterfall becomes a symbol of absolute powerlessness and the narrators grow into an ensemble of a collective experience of sel

Germany 2023, 61 min
by Samira Najafian

Three students, one goal: to become professional dancers. They are being trained for this at the world-renowned John Cranko School in Stuttgart.After graduating from the Cranko School, they all hope for a career in dance. It's a tough struggle, because training at the ballet school is difficult. 2023 marks the fiftieth anniversary of John Cranko's death. The famous former ballet director of the Stuttgart Ballet had a lasting influence on dance in Stuttgart. Young talents are promoted in the trai

Germany 2023, 18 min
by Laura Heinig

Every sentence about grandma is like a loss. She didn't talk much - certainly not about what moved her. It is only after her death that I use this film to search for how war and violence affect relationships and create silence. In everyday life, in the household and in the family. A tender portrait that takes us back to that time, which still resonates with us today.

Germany 2023, 93 min
by André Krummel, Pablo Ben Yakov

A retired gay sex worker wants to get into politics. Leading a cosmopolitan and queer life, he is not the typical 'little man', but an intellectual without a university degree and bon vivant with addiction problems. Born a German Christian, he now lives as a Jewish Israeli in Tel Aviv and Berlin, in a relationship with a young Shanghainese man whose seemingly endless wealth provides for his dissolute lifestyle. GOLDHAMMER looks behind the facade of a millennial on his way to becoming a populist

Germany 2023, 88 min
by Clarissa Eysell

The search for self-acceptance and self-love is an intimate process. It means entering into an inner dialogue with oneself. Andreas, Amelie and Patricia were forced into this inner dialogue by their bodies. For them it is difficult to accept themselves as they are, because shadows from the past and insecurities about the medical transition often remain. But one thing is clear to all of them: The medical transition helps them to be able to live their dream as Andreas, Amelie and Patricia and they

2022, 29 min
by Kevin Koch

While car fans are driving laps at the Nürburgring, people not far away in the Ahr Valley are hovering between confidence and hopelessness half a year after the flood disaster.

Germany 2022, 74 min
by Joscha Bongard

Jamie Young and Nico Nice aka 'Youngcouple9598' aka Andreea and Nico made a fortune as wholesome Verified Couple on porn websites. Now they live their dream under palm trees at the tax haven state Cyprus. But how does it look off the stage?Joscha Bongards Documentary starts off as a sex-positive portrait and turns into a multilayered exploration of love, shame, influence and success.Andreea and Nico are a couple and have been shooting porn together since 2018. When we first meet them, they are 2

Germany 2022, 19 min
by Philipp Schaeffer

THE UNICORN IN SNOWPANTS SUDDENLY RAN OFF explores the clash between blind children's fantasy worlds and the reality they live in. The film draws us into the worlds of three confident children, for whom blindness is not a disability but rather a different kind of normal. Larks, telephones and short stories each play a role.With: Mia und Max Sutter, Julian Schiering, Quirin Prinz, Martha, Maike und Karl Limpbrecht

Germany 2022, 23 min
by Julius Gintaras Blum

Yasin El Harrouk is Yonii is actor, rapper, singer, Swabian, Moroccan. This portrait presents him as a lively shifter between life and creative cultures, between the roles he plays in the studio and in front of the camera, and the expectations that family and community have of him. Yonii has two languages and even more worlds – and enjoys this wealth. But on the sofa in his mother’s Stuttgart living room, it becomes clear that this range of different worlds also means a constant balancing act. [

Germany 2022, 30 min
by Jonathan Brunner

In November 2021, people tried to enter the EU via Belarus and Poland, but the route turned out to be a death trap. All access points to the border region were blocked in order not to create an escape corridor. Men, women and children were stuck in no man’s land – in the middle of winter, in the middle of the forest, for weeks. The film follows Polish activists on their mission. They learn that humanitarian aid, just like the refugees themselves, comes up against borders. [65 DOK Leipzig, Luc-Ca